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| |  In today's edition, we rock and roll! The lead singer of The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, was in the audience for the recent opening night in London of writer Tom Stoppard's latest play, Rock and Roll. Tom Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia in 1937 and he came to live in England at the age of 8. Rock and Roll is partly about his life. Listen to Tom Stoppard talking about writing the play, which is set during the period from the Russian invasion of Czecholslovakia in 1968 to the Velvet Revolution more than twenty years later, and includes plenty of pop music from the period. You can download the complete programme and the script at the bottom of this page.
Words and expressions from the programme dissident a person who publicly disagrees with and criticises their government in a country where this is punished banned if something is banned in a country it is not officially allowed an underground group a secret and illegal group a piece of prose a piece of written language in its ordinary form rather than poetry diagram a simple drawing or plan go back to your roots if you go back to your roots, you focus on where you were born Extras   Programme script (pdf - 21k) | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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