31 December 2005
Saturday 31 December 2005 20:45-21:30 (Radio 3)
The crème de la crème – Ian McMillan presents a selection of the best new writing and performances from The Verb over the past twelve months.
Programme Details
It's been an extraordinary year for The Verb, and so over the next two weeks Ian McMillan will be celebrating and savouring some of the best new writing and performances of the past twelve months. In the first programme on New Year's Eve, there'll be a chance to listen again to the Irish playwright, Billy Roche's brilliant monologue evoking love and loss in West London; or to ponder the Malaysian born writer, Tash Aw's wry take on cultural assimilation in his tale about an opera singer's banana phobia. Or what about Tom Paulin's wonderfully creative reading of Seamus Heaney, Jackie Kay's account of meeting her long lost father, or John Burnside's dreams for his newborn son? Not to mention of course, Ken Campbell's manic disquisition on Shakespeare's Macbeth, or Salena Godden's febrile recreation of the pleasures and pains of the one-night stand. And that's only to mention some of what you can expect if you tune in to The Verb this Saturday and next.
Join Ian McMillian at the slightly later time of 20.45 on New Year's Eve, here on BBC Radio 3.
Producers: Emma Wallace & Zahid Warley
