{"id":2657,"date":"2009-11-25T10:50:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T10:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2009\/11\/the_great_monke\/"},"modified":"2009-11-25T10:50:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T10:50:53","slug":"the_great_monke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/the_great_monke\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Monkey Trial of Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saturday Play on Radio 4 this week was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b00nwz36\/Saturday_Play_The_Great_Tennessee_Monkey_Trial\/\">The Great Monkey Trial of Tennessee<\/a> (available until this coming Saturday on the iPlayer), which tells the story of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scopes_Trial\">Scopes Trial<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a good listen and well worth catching. What I can&#8217;t quite work out is the play&#8217;s all-star provenance. The credit is BBC Wales, but with a cast including Neil Patrick Harris and Ed Asner, this probably wasn&#8217;t recorded in a studio in Cardiff.<br \/>\nI think it must be a special commission of an LA Theatre Works production. Ed Asner has appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latw.org\/Audio\/detail.aspx?title=The%20Great%20Tennessee%20Monkey%20Trial\">one of their productions<\/a> of this work previously, although it was a longer version of the play. But looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.co.uk\/aduk\/site\/product.jsp?p=PF_LATW_000129UK&#038;BV_UseBVCookie=Yes\">date on Audible<\/a>, that production seems to date from 2006. Go back a bit, and there seems to be yet another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.co.uk\/aduk\/site\/product.jsp?p=PF_LATW_000038UK&#038;BV_UseBVCookie=Yes\">1994 production<\/a> of this play, <em>also<\/em> featuring Ed Asner!<br \/>\nIn the end, none of this matters. It&#8217;s a terrifc listen, and quite as relevant today in a world of Creationists and scientific illiteracy.<br \/>\n[Sorry &#8211; wrote this a couple of days ago and neglected to put it live. So now it&#8217;s no longer on the iPlayer]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saturday Play on Radio 4 this week was The Great Monkey Trial of Tennessee (available until this coming Saturday on the iPlayer), which tells the story of the Scopes Trial. It&#8217;s a good listen and well worth catching. What I can&#8217;t quite work out is the play&#8217;s all-star provenance. The credit is BBC Wales, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}