Drama on 3: Harold Pinter Double BillSeries 1, episode 0Directed by (unconfirmed) Janet Whitaker Another chance to hear two plays by Harold Pinter, who died in 2008. 8.00pm Moonlight: First performed in 1993, this radio production of Harold Pinter's play was recorded to mark his 70th birthday. A man, Andy, a middle aged civil servant, lies in his bed, dying. His wife tries desperately to bring his estranged adult sons to his side. Bridging these two worlds is the haunting presence of the daughter they have lost. With Harold Pinter performing the lead role, alongside Sara Kestelman, John Shrapnel, Jill Johnson, Douglas Hodge, Harry Burton and Indira Varma. Music by Elizabeth Parker. 8.55 Voices: One of Pinter's last dramatic works, this was first broadcast in 2005. Some of the tormentors and the tormented so potently etched in Pinter's later plays are brought together with a musical setting by the composer James Clarke. Voices: Harry Burton, Anastasia Hille, Andy de la Tour, Douglas Hodge, Gabrielle Hamilton, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Gawn Grainger, Harold Pinter and Indira Varma. Music: Apartment House; Eileen Aagaard; Prometheus Ensemble; Rolande van der Paal; Etienne Siebens; BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins and David Porcelijn; Fatma Mehralieva. Click to see when Drama on 3, Harold Pinter Double Bill is coming up on UK TV |
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