Sony's
Above the Title have had two programmes nominated for Sony Awards this year, in the Comedy category: The National Theatre of Brent’s Complete & Utter History of the Mona Lisa, and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase, Episode 3. Results announced 9 May.
Something in the air…
Other programmes to listen out for include Peter Nichols’ personal account of Hitler’s propaganda jazz band, Something in the Air on Radio 3, a new documentary for Radio 2 about legendary band The Byrds, a remarkable behind the scenes recording with a Voodou priest in Haiti for The World Service, and a portrait of comic actor John le Mesurier for Radio 4, Conked Out.
NEW DRAMA
Later in the year listen out for new drama on Radio 4 - two more beautiful JM Barrie plays directed and adapted by Julia McKenzie, Kerry Shale’s adaptation of Budd Schulberg’s boxing classic The Harder They Fall, and Frederic Raphael’s new radio dramatision of his masterpiece The Glittering Prizes.
Panic! The EPIC CONCLUSION TO
The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Following the huge success of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Tertiary Phase, the final two books in Douglas Adams’ masterpiece have been dramatised for Radio 4: The Quandary & Quintessential Phases. The original cast have again been reunited, perhaps for the last time, and several actors connected with Hitchhiker's from its other radio and television incarnations are taking part, including Jonathan Pryce, Bill Paterson, Sandra Dickinson, David Dixon, and Rula Lenska. New stars thumbing a lift include Jane Horrocks, June Whitfield, Stephen Fry, Arthur Smith, Saeed Jaffrey, Miriam Margolyes, and American superstars Jackie Mason and Christian Slater. The programmes are being produced by Bruce Hyman & Helen Chattwell, and adapted and directed by Dirk Maggs. Paul ‘Wix’ Wickens, Paul McCartney’s Musical Director and Douglas’ close friend, has again provided the soundtrack. The next few months are set to see a revival of Hitchhiker-mania. As the movie provides the first instalment of the saga for a new generation, these long-awaited radio episodes will bring the final books back to where the story began, with the original cast...More