{"id":934,"date":"2004-11-29T11:04:58","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T11:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/11\/radio_plays\/"},"modified":"2004-11-29T11:04:58","modified_gmt":"2004-11-29T11:04:58","slug":"radio_plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/radio_plays\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Plays"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a bit of a radio plays catchup at the weekend and was hunting around for a good site that regularly reviews radio plays. To be honest I was pretty unsuccessful. I regularly visit Off the Telly<\/a> which has some excellent TV reviews and features, but I can’t find anything similar for radio.
\nI did stumble across this site<\/a> which has a few radio reviews published every few months. And through that I discovered that Radio 4 had broadcast a play back in May called Einstein in Cromer<\/a>. This caught my attention because Cromer’s a town on the North Norfolk coast near where my parents live and I’ve known the town for as long as I can remember – but I never knew that Einstein had visited. It turns out that he visited<\/a> in 1933 when he was fleeing Germany. He stayed there for a month or so before heading off to a new life in America where his fame would increase even more so.
\nMy radio recording regime, and the fact that I rarely delete stuff, meant that even though this play was broadcast back in May, I still had it sitting, unlistened to on my hard drive. It’s quite an entertaining fictionalised account of what Einstein might have been doing as he stayed in his small hut\/chalet, with David ‘Poirot’ Suchet playing Einstein.
\nAnd in case you don’t believe me about radio plays, read this article<\/a> by Adam Thorpe published a year or so ago, and then revel in the fact that Radio 3 has just recorded<\/a> Neil Gaiman’s Mr Punch<\/a> for broadcast next March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a bit of a radio plays catchup at the weekend and was hunting around for a good site that regularly reviews radio plays. To be honest I was pretty unsuccessful. I regularly visit Off the Telly which has some excellent TV reviews and features, but I can’t find anything similar for radio. I […]<\/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\/934"}],"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=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}