Listen to one of these BBC radio dramas.
While listening complete some research about the show.
Leave a comment.
Include some research results...
and obviously some thoughts and opinions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01cw7kn/HR_Series_3_Gambled/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01cw5nl/Count_Arthur_Strongs_Radio_Show!_Series_7_Arthurish/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01cw5nn/The_Archers_06_03_2012/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007jpdn/Old_Harrys_Game_Series_2_Episode_5/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007k23t/Cadfael_Dead_Mans_Ransom_Hostage/
Happy Listening
The Archers began in 1950 as five pilot episodes, hopeing that farmers would listen to the stories it now reflects modern life in the countryside. It changed from an education programme in 1972.
ReplyDeleteIt is set in the fictional English village of Ambridge and follows the lives of those within the village. Stories are based in the characters of the village and their day to day lives.
Episodes are discussed two months before transmission, then four writers have fourteen days to create a weeks worth of scripts.
I found it slow and relaxing but still kept my attention, I particularly enjoyed the use of sound as it really set the scene. If you wish to listen a omnibus is on every Sunday 10am on radio 4. Also there has been 1600 episodes as of 2nd of January 2011. All information from the BBC website
COUNT ARTHUR STRONG - started on late December 2005. - when the show started it had critical reviews
ReplyDelete- 'The series hears a confused and muddled 'day in the life' of the one time Variety Star, Count Arthur Strong'
- the first 3 shows were recorded in komedia entertainment in Brighton and the 4Th show was recorded in dancehouse theatre in Manchester.
- COUNT ARTHUR is a man in his old age who has selective hearing and confuses other people and sometimes himself by the way he talks but in the end blame other people for all the confusions he has caused himself!
I found the show very long because it took along time to understand what he was talking about, but it was very funny for most of the part.I the way his voice and accent compliment to the show.
-the website I used was countarthurstrong.com
* I like the way his voice and accent compliments to the show*
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ReplyDeleteA radio comedy based on the premise of the 2007 BBC Four TV sitcom pilot of the same name.
Cast
Nicholas Le Prevost ... Sam
Jonathan Pryce ... Peter
Writing Team
Nigel Williams ... Writer
Production Team
Peter Kavanagh ... Producer
Sam, a lazy HR (personnel) officer, and Peter his equally indolent subject, realise the skids are under them. Peter for lateness and abusive phone calls to clients and Sam for his over-relaxed attitude to errant staff members like Peter. Soon their worst fears are realised when they learn that one of the abusive phone calls made by Peter has been intercepted.
During Series 1 they inflict disastrous injuries on their boss on a practice climbing wall on an away-day; profoundly insult his successor on a train. Finally they end up in a queue for their Freedom passes, considering the many new destinations in life open to them, from Ongar to Osterley.
The British comedy guide reviews of the show:
An amusing enough look at office politics and getting old. However, the episodes in Series 1 would probably have benefited from being 15 minutes long, rather than the 30 minutes each that they were.
all information was:
http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/radio/hr/
JAMIE SAYS THIS- (as it wont let her post)
ReplyDeleteDead Man's Ransom is a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters.
Brother Cadfael is a Benedictine monk at Shrewsbury Abbey (ahh shrewsbury boss words to say). Of Welsh origins and formerly a widely travelled soldier and seaman................, he is content in middle age to have charge of the Abbey's herb and vegetable gardens. He is also skilled as a physician and apothecary.
England is in the grip of civil war, as King Stephen and the Empress Maud are contending for the throne. Shrewsbury and the county of Shropshire are loyal to King Stephen, and a contingent from the county has gone to fight for him at the Battle of Lincoln. Cadfael's friend Hugh Beringar, Deputy Sheriff for the county, returns with the survivors and brings news of a disastrous defeat. Stephen has been captured, and the future of England is uncertain. Gilbert Prestcote, Sheriff of Shropshire, has also been taken prisoner by Welshmen allied to Maud under Madog ap Maredudd, Lord of Powys in Mid Wales, and Cadwaladr ap Gruffydd, the brother of Owain Gwynedd, ruler of Gwynedd in North Wales (jess likes wales)
Like all of the Cadfael Chronicles, the book describes events in England and Wales at the time of The Anarchy(>.<), the civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud for the throne of England. The Battle of Lincoln was real and took place as described in the novel, including the defeat of Stephen's forces, the capture of Stephen, and the involvement of a Welsh force under Madog and Cadwaladr.
all info was found on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man's_Ransom
(forgot to add his to mine oooops)-
ReplyDeletei found the show funny and at firdt i didnt really understand it but then as the show went on i reliazed wat was going on and it was much clearer to me after that point.
I was going to listen to 'Old Harry's Game' but it was taken down before I had the chance.
ReplyDeleteLike Jamie, I listened to 'Dead Man's Ransom'. I suppose the idea of crime-fighting, ex-crusader/soldier/sailor who travels Ye Olde England, spreading the word of god through pragmatism and what not really piqued my interest. The idea of a spiritual man grounded in reality is an intriguing concept, and I wonder, if such members of the clergy truly existed; perhaps not going around solving mysteries, but straying from this idea of the zealot sequestered in the unseen world and in his scriptures.
I was initially very confused about his name; "Cadfael". I presumed it pronounced 'Cad-fell', yet the characters in the drama pronounce it as 'Cad-vile'.
As was made obvious through further research, it is because Brother Cadfael himself is from Wales, hence the stereotypically hard-to-pronounce name.
The drama itself was quite interesting, as was mentioned by Jamie it had a strong, solidified historical basis, perhaps altered somewhat in the pursuit of enrapturing listening. Regardless, the blend of what can be described as education and story made it worth listening to.
It's probably also something to mention that the novels by Ellis Peters (In actual fact a pseudonym; actually penned by Edith Mary Pargeter, an exponent of the historical fiction genre,) have been presented through different mediums as time proceeded, multiple radio broadcasts, and a television series that aired for four years, staring Derek Jacobi as the eponymous Cadfael.
Well I listened to Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show, purely for the reason it - unlike the other links - had an exclamation mark in the title.
ReplyDeleteI'm not exactly sure what to make of it to be honest.
I wasn't overly keen on it but I don't know whether that's and age thing or that it just wasn't funny, I could count on one hand the amount of times I laughed at it.
"Lawrence of Arabia there, with me, in the psoriasis chair." Count Arthur Strong is screening clips of his 50-year TV career. There's a Face to Face with Lawrence of Arabia - sorry, Olivier - and Doctor Who with the Count as a grumbling Cyberman. Steve Delaney (the comic behind the cult Radio 4 character) has spliced himself, Zelig-style, into footage from telly's early years to establish that Count Arthur didn't degenerate into incompetence. He's been like that all along.
The clips are among the show's highlights: there's a precious one in which he presents 70s game show Ask the Family. Otherwise, The Man Behind the Smile sees the confused old soak look back in mounting anger at his career.
Delaney's performance is airtight. The wrongness of the malapropisms is word-perfect, as Arthur tacks ever wider from a courtly script and an aristocratic persona. We hear about Longleat, where the Count was banned from sitting in a little teacup, and backstage at Just a Minute, where Nicholas Parsons bagged the best vol-au-vents and "Clement Freud went home with three pounds of hummus in his cupped hands".
If the show isn't as brilliant as the character, it's because we experience the same frustration he does. His senility derails every train of thought before its conclusion, so we're led up dramatic dead ends. What's left is the Count, tilting at windmills - that "bastard Melvyn Hayes on The South Park Show", for example - as his show, and his vainglory, disintegrate around him. It's a painfully precise comic performance. Olivier, I suspect, would love it."
taken from a review of the show in The Guardian
*http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/feb/24/count-arthur-strong-review