WednesdayÌý19 March at 2.15pm and Thursday 20 March at 2.15pm
An original scenario by Peter Ackroyd was the inspiration behind six new radio plays and six shortÌýfilms. The City Speaks is a visual and narrative feast celebrating London as a great cosmopolitan city.
The City Speaks
Read and hear the original story: , by Peter Ackroyd (read by Peter Marinker).
The radio plays: The playsÌýwere broadcast in two groups of three on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4 between 2.15 -3.00pm on Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 March 2008. The plays also provided the sound track for the films.
The films: Rights to stream these films have now elapsed.ÌýCredits listed atÌýtheÌý.
'Films for radio'
The six very different films range from humorous to highly emotional, from heart warming to the frankly bizarre, including a depiction of Canary Wharf which resembles the Emerald City in the Wizard of Oz, voodoo goddesses who wander the streets of East London casting evil before them as they go, and a tube station that exists beneath the capital, but doesn’t appear on any map.
** Pushing by Lin Coghlan
Film Produced and Directed by Alnoor Dewshi
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio Drama Director: Jessica Dromgoole
** I Am Not You Are Not Me by Mike Walker
Film Directed and Edited by Joe King and Rosie Pedlow
Produced by Rosie Pedlow
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio Drama Director: Jeremy Mortimer
** Broken Chain by Mark Norfolk
Film Produced and Directed by Inge Blackman
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio Drama Director: Toby Swift
** Yalda by Mehrdad Seyf
Film Produced and Directed by Esther Johnson
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio Drama Director: Sam Hoyle
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Ayshe's Tale by Alison Joseph
Film Produced and Directed by William Raban
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio Drama Director: Steven Canny
** Make Your Way by Nick Warburton
Film Directed, photographed and animated by Sam Brady
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio Drama Director: Conor Lennon
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The creative teamsÌýwere assisted on their projects by composer David Pickvance, Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio Drama DirectorsÌýandÌýsound designers, and Film London’s Production Department.
A Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio Drama and Film London Artists' Moving Image Network Co-Production supported by funding from Arts Council England.
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