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Listen online: The History of Titus Groan
Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi
In case you missed The History of Titus Groan in Saturday's Classic Serial slot you have until Sunday afternoon to hear it in its entirety on the Radio 4 website (details at the end of this post). Titus and Muzzlehatch: Image courtesy of the Mervyn Peake Estate In The Guardian radio ...
The History of Titus Groan: Titus leaves Gormenghast
Brian Sibley
Writer and Broadcaster
Editor's note: You can still hear the first four episodes (of six) of The History of Titus Groan on the Radio 4 website. Episode five is on Radio 4 this Sunday at 3pm and on the website soon afterwards. Brian Sibley, who has dramatised Mervyn Peake's classic novels blogs on dealing on the story...
The History of Titus Groan: Radio 4 Classic Serial
Jeremy Mortimer
Producer
Brian Sibley is a bit of a legend in radio. Presenter (Radio 4 arts programme Kaleidoscope and the World Service arts magazine Meridian), contributor and playwright, he paired up with writer Michael Bakewell on the classic dramatisation of Lord of the Rings, he did the complete Narnia series, an...
Robin Brooks on dramatising Robert Graves for radio
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Robin Brooks dramatised 'I, Claudius' for BBC Radio 4. Here, he writes about the pleasures of adapting Graves for radio. His post begins with a clip from the current episode - SB As material for dramatisation, one of the best things about 'I, Claudius' is that it starts very well and then get...
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...
