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Friday, January 4, 2013

TV & radio reviews: Radio review: The Eustace Diamonds; The Reluctant Spy; Second Body; Clare in the Community by Moira Petty

The best thing about returning to normal after the Christmas and New Year break is that you know what day of the week it is. But before then, festive ennui led to an unusual experiment...

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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Features: Christmas Radio highlights by Moira Petty

A huge array of quality drama and documentaries awaits listeners over the holiday period, writes Moira Petty

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

TV & radio reviews: Radio review: Two Minutes Hate; We are the BBC; Bearing Witness by Moira Petty

The Leveson Inquiry was an artful employer of celebrities and provided easier PR/career enhancement than broiling in the Australian jungle. Whatever Leveson’s conclusions, a radio play in …

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

News: Radio reviews: Country Life; The Mysterious Case of Maria; Beryl – A Love Story on Two Wheels by Moira Petty

The homicidal urge that festers under cover of village fetes, rose-pruning and parish minutes probably translates to every culture, but has been skewered most successfully by the British as …

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Monday, November 12, 2012

TV & radio reviews: Radio review: The Martin Beck Killings – The Man Who Went Up in Smoke; The Torchbearers by Moira Petty

I have become a Scandi-nut devouring Nordic TV series, seduced by the greenish tinge of the picture, the teach-yourself-Swedish potential of the Malmo scenes in The Bridge and the phenomenal…

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Monday, October 29, 2012

TV & radio reviews: Radio review: Midnight Cry of the Deathbird; Bloody Poetry; Frankenstein by Moira Petty

With its sad monsters, brave heroines, fairground-style  charlatans, scientists who are medieval alchemists yet lightning conductors of the latest research, The Gothic Imagination, in all …

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Monday, October 15, 2012

TV & radio reviews: Radio review: A Doll’s House, Dracula, The Air Gap by Moira Petty

Unhappy and unequal marriages exist anywhere there are people. Social realism, as a dramatic genre, can be carted from here to Timbuktu. But can you transpose Nordic gloom to the Indian subc…

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

TV & radio reviews: Radio review: Drama by Moira Petty

When Lee Hall was called upon to update Close The Coalhouse Door, his mentor Alan Plater’s 1968 theatrical history of coal mining in the north-east, he announced with due reverence and sen…

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