The Shootist , BBC Radio 4 by Moira Petty

BBC Radio 4: JB Books, a mythical gunfighter of the fading American West, was never going to take the long, slow road to death, but what is fascinating here is the ethical standpoint made by dramatist Nick Perry in adapting for radio Glendon Swarthout's 1975 novel. This is an elegiac paean to a lost era encapsulated in one lone wolf individualist. Read the full review

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