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Music and Sound Effects

Discussion about the music and sound effects for stage plays and silent films

• 4 mins

Play Not Known

An unnamed Irish dramatist discusses her work

• 4 mins

Radio Drama in Front of an Audience

"The audience really listens to a reading - for certain plays this works wonderfully"

• 4 mins

Salome

"The piece deals with five incredibly lonely people"

• 4 mins

The Golem

Discussion of the Golem of Jewish folklore - and how the story was turned into a musical

• 4 mins

The Cyclist

Discussion of the play by Vijay Tendulkar

• 4 mins

The Snow Palace

Pam Gems talks about her play about the Polish writer Stanislawa Przybyszewska

• 4 mins

Duane Hanson

Realistic sculptor Duane Hanson's exhibition

• 4 mins

The House Swap

Penelope Wilton discusses a play about a couple swapping life in the US for the UK

• 4 mins

Mary Guterson

International Radio Playwriting competition winner Mary Guterson

• 4 mins

The Tempest

Playing Prospero in Shakespeare's play

• 3 mins

Olivier Messiaen

Discussion about Olivier Messiaen's use of birdsong to inspire music composition

• 4 mins

Singing Opera

Discussion with Italian female opera singer and recording artist

• 4 mins

Brutality of Fact

Discussion of Keith Reddin's play about women

• 4 mins

The Use of Recorded Effects in Stage Plays

Sound engineer talks about sound effects used in a production of Henry IV, part 2

• 4 mins

Sound Effects in Radio Drama

Sound engineer talks about sound effects used in a production of Henry IV, part 2

• 4 mins

The Power of The Dog

Ellen Dryden talks about her play The Power of The Dog

• 4 mins

Wilkie Collins

Discussion of the author of The Moonstone, Mr Percy and the Prophet and The Woman in White

• 4 mins

Bernard-Marie Koltes

Discussion of the French writer who wrote In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields

• 4 mins

Semele

Discussion on John Eccles's opera Semele

• 4 mins

Play Not Known

"How do you feel when you watch someone who has never been loved?"

• 4 mins

Candide

Candide was Volitaire's way of saying what he wanted to say about man

• 4 mins

Play Not Known

Discussion of obsession, Sinatra and people who live their lives through others

• 4 mins

Frank Lloyd Wright

Discussion about Frank Lloyd Wright, the iconic organic architect

• 4 mins

Walking Around Britain

"To travel alone, on foot is the most efficient way of gathering material"

• 4 mins

Rupa Lucian, Child of Romania

Christopher Templeton talks about the radio play Rupa Lucian, Child of Romania

• 4 mins

The Gods Are Not to Blame

A reworking of Sophocles tragedy Oedipus Rex, The Gods Are Not to Blame by Akassa Youmi

• 4 mins

Lights Out

Discussion with playwright Manjula Padmanabhan about her play Lights Out

• 4 mins

The Bolshoi Ballet

Discussion of the Bolshoi's production of Spartacus

• 4 mins

Frederick Ashton

Discussion of the the English ballet choreographer Frederick Ashton

• 4 mins