{"id":758,"date":"2004-07-15T21:02:05","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T21:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/07\/how_many_miles\/"},"modified":"2004-07-15T21:02:05","modified_gmt":"2004-07-15T21:02:05","slug":"how_many_miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/how_many_miles\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Miles to Basra?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although it was broadcast on Radio 3 last Sunday, I&#8217;ve only just listened to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio3\/dramaon3\/pip\/a09cw\/\">How Many Miles to Basra?<\/a> The play&#8217;s about what happens when a small group of British soldiers are out in the desert after hostilities have <i>ceased<\/i>, accompanied by a career-focused radio journalist.<br \/>\nObviously things happen to them, starting with the accidental killing of several Iraqis that they believe to be threatening &#8211; they speak no Arabic, the Iraqis no English. It&#8217;s a great play and well worth a listen before it vanishes off the BBC website on Sunday evening. [NB I found it tricky to reach the audio to work before eventually getting there via the BBC Radio Player]\nGreat use of music throughout by the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it was broadcast on Radio 3 last Sunday, I&#8217;ve only just listened to How Many Miles to Basra? The play&#8217;s about what happens when a small group of British soldiers are out in the desert after hostilities have ceased, accompanied by a career-focused radio journalist. Obviously things happen to them, starting with the accidental [&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\/758"}],"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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}