Rachael's Week in BBC Radio Vol. 17
Listened to this week highlights included The Browning Version and a couple of detectives.
Next week I'm most looking forward to several book dramatizations and tons of repeats with favorite actors including Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, Roger Allam, and Derek Jacobi.
( Intro material for anyone new )
Next week I'm most looking forward to several book dramatizations and tons of repeats with favorite actors including Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, Roger Allam, and Derek Jacobi.
( Intro material for anyone new )
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I understand your reasoning very well. *goes and subscribes to that*
I really really love Will Smith but from the three radio-comedies he wrote and starred in (Mr. & Mrs Smith and The Tao of Bergerac are the other two) Midlife Crisis is probably my least favourite. I still enjoyed it (and Roger Allam) but Smith's comedy-persona is this die-hard geek who is rather too full of himself and in MC he is very full of himself and he passes the line from 'in an amusing way' to 'in an annoying way' a bit to often. As said, still enjoyable but not his best work.
Apart from the usual panel shows I immediately listened to 'How does that make you feel?' and loved it. Of course there's Roger Allam and his character is hillarious (he did remind me of a much worse version of his character in The Thick of It) but I also really enjoyed the other patients. Too bad only the 3rd season is available at AudioGo as I'd love to hear the whole series at some point.
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I don't think I'm familiar with much if any of Will Smith's work. If I'm unimpressed by the midlife crisis one I'll keep in mind what you said and give one of the others a chance should they pop up.
Interesting with the older Les Mis. I love that book but it is one that for a modern audience needs a great deal of editing. I'm not sure leaving in the narration in an audioplay does it much justice. Either reading the book itself or an adaptation that heavily edits sound like the two best options to me with this maybe just somewhere in the middle.
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Second Holmes sounds interesting, will probably download it! I listened to The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes which wasn't that bad... but wasn't that great (I admit sometimes I found it hard to grasp some of the jokes, but still). I listened to the first two eps of The Beekeeper's Apprentice but I don't think I'll listen to the rest. I actually found the premise of the story quite interesting but the character of Mary Russell was SO obnoxious (maybe it's just me, I don't know) and I couldn't stand all those little digs at Watson, Holmes basically said that it was nice to work with a true partner for a change and Watson was just a useful pair of hands, which was so out of character for him, I mean. Ah, no.
The Unbelievable Truth Ep5 was hilarious, I had it on my iPod and I was laughing out loud as I walked ( ... )
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Would be delighted to send you this, and would myself be very interested in the Rattigan, as well as Alan Bennet & Julian Mitchell when you have them....
(Also, have you got Warhorses of Letters? If not, I have it for you. It is BRILLIANT.)
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In addition to The Browning Version, I have two other Rattigans as audioplays if you're just a general fan of his. I've got The Winslow Boy (LOVE!) and Flare Path (haven't listened to it nor experienced the play in any other format so can't say much). Oh, wait. I just checked and the version of The Winslow Boy I have is purchased from AudioGo so if you do want that one and can buy it, I'd encourage that as the first option though I could still share it with you as a secondary option if you can't buy it right now or want to give it one listen to decide if you want to buy it or not. I'm pretty sure I originally snagged it with Radio Downloader and then loved it so much after one listen that I bought it ( ... )
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