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Trevor Eve on Front Row
Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi
Actor Trevor Eve came into Broadcasting House yesterday to chat to Mark Lawson about his life and career and how age (Eve's 60 later this week) changes the roles you can plausibly play: Eve: "How old is Clint Eastwood?" Lawson: "Oh, he's far older than you! He's 82." Eve: "I'm still 59 unt...
Elizabeth Taylor, 27 February 1932 - 23 March 2011
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Elizabeth Taylor, perhaps the last of the movie icons of the golden era, has died, aged 79. She was a troubled person but an undisputed star. Philip French, The Guardian's film critic, said in a profile: ...she was exploited by every gossip columnist and patronised by virtually every film revi...
Throwing caution to the wind in 'I, Claudius'
Tom Goodman-Hill
Editor's note: this post by the lead in Radio 4's new Classic Serial, 'I, Claudius', starts with a clip from the drama - SB. I was eight when 'I, Claudius' first aired on the BBC in 1976. It remains burned on my brain as the first televisual event that I recall. Of course I was far too young to...
Weird Tales: recording episode two
Emma Stansfield
I have only done a few radio plays and still feel very much like a novice but I have to say all my experiences so far in the recording studio have been thoroughly enjoyable. I think the reason I enjoy it so much is because you aren't being watched. The director, producers and sound engineer are...
Being Nic
Becky Wright
I was in the studio yesterday recording two episodes for December. The first episode was at 0915 and the second at 1445, leaving me with a chunk of time in the middle to catch up with cast members I haven't seen in ages. It was great to see Ros Adams (Clarrie) as we haven't been in an epidode to...
Acting in Our Mutual Friend
Jessica Dromgoole
Editor, Home Front
I asked members of the Our Mutual Friend cast four questions: what appealed to them about their character, why Dickens is so enduringly popular, what they best remembered about the recording, and why they enjoyed radio acting (if they did). Here's a recording of Carl Prekopp and Daisy Haggard ta...
Producing and directing Our Mutual Friend
Jessica Dromgoole
Editor, Home Front
Editor's note: the second instalment of our series about this year's big Christmas adaptation, Our Mutual Friend, is by producer/director Jessica Dromgoole: 5 May 2009. Behold London! Behold Oxford Circus tube station! Behold Broadcasting House! Behold 60a! The studio is primed for nine days of...
