The Pick of 2006
Saturday 6 January 2007 22:15-23:00 (Radio 3)
The Verb starts the new year by looking back at the highlights of 2006.
Playlist
The Verb starts the new year by looking back at the highlights of 2006. Henry Goodman performs Franz Kafka's A Report to An Academy, in which he takes on the speech patterns and thought processes of an ape that has become human. The ape, now walking upright, talking, smoking, and with a taste for fine wine, reflects upon his sudden evolutionary advance before a group of learned dignitaries. And there's a chance to hear again some of the best new commissioned work, such as Kay Adshead's play Of The End, specially written for the programme as part of its Beckett centenary celebrations. Of The End draws on Beckett's Waiting for Godot to produce something that is true to the spirit of Beckett, whilst still being pure Adshead. Also in the programme, there's fast paced performance from Salena Godden,Sophie Woolley and Shane Koyczan; an Eartoon from Peter Blegvad and David Gaffney's miniature life stories, performed live at Radio Three's Festival of Freethinking in Liverpool.
List of items: Shane Koyczan - live at Hay Salena Godden - performing poem Picked Up Something Dirty
Sophie Woolley - performing an extract from When to Run Kay Adshead - Of the End (play) David Gaffney - live at Freethinking Janice Kerbel - Nick Silver Can't Sleep (play)
Henry Goodman performing Franx Kafka's A Report to an Academy
Colin Teevan - reading his poem about the whale that got stranded in the Thames
Brian Turner - reading his poem Here Bullet
Performance by The Tiger Lillies of Edward Gorey's alphabet
Peter Belgvad's eartoon about the nature of time, from Kay
