One of the world’s most internationally acclaimed and most-staged playwrights, Tom Stoppard has also written for TV, radio, and film, and has won an Academy Award and four Tony Awards for his work. To mark his seventy-fifth birthday in July of 2012, the British Library has released, for the first time, the original BBC broadcasts of four of his most important radio plays in this five-disc audio set. Dating from 1967 to 1991, the plays collected here are Albert’s Bridge, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, and In the Native State. The actors featured include Peggy Ashcroft, John Hurt, Penelope Keith, and Felicity Kendal. Revealing the humor and humanity characteristic of his works for the stage and film, this sample of Tom Stoppard’s original plays for the radio will heighten any fan’s interest in and appreciation for the writer’s complete oeuvre.
Radio Plays
ISBN: 071235123X
ISBN 13: 9780712351232
Publication Date: July 03, 2012
Publisher: The British Library
Pages: 6
Authors: Tom Stoppard, Nigel Anthony, Alexander John, Geoffrey Wincott, John Hurt, Victor Lucas, Ian Thompson, Anthony Jackson, Ronald Herdman, Betty Hardy, Alan Dudley, Barbara Mitchell, Haydn Jones, Stephen Murray, Rolf Lefebvre, Carleton Hobbs, Fiona Walker, Michael Spice, Peter Egan, Dinsdale Landen, Charles Gray, Kenneth Cranham, Peter Tuddenham, Penelope Keith, Katherine Parr, Betty Marsden, John Le Mesurier, Noel Howlett, Maurice Denham, Lockwood West, Felicity Kendal, Sam Dastor, Peggy Ashcroft, Lyndam Gregory, Emma Gregory, Simon Treves, Amerjit Deu, William Hootkins, Renu Setna, Brett Usher, Saeed Jaffrey, Mark Straker, Auriol Smith
