Tag: Radio plays
radio play "Monologue / dialogue": Revolted
The composer Juan Allende-Blin relentlessly set texts by Semprún and Beckett to music – and in doing so fought for the dignity of Polish Jews imprisoned in Buchenwald. source site
100 years of radio play: That’s catchy
The radio play is celebrating its 100th birthday: it is more popular with audiences than it has been for a long time, the BR is inaugurating a new studio –…
radio play "Under milk forest": Hell as paradise
The musician Brezel Göring transplants Dylan Thomas’ grotesque radio play madness “Unter dem Milchwald” from Wales to Kreuzberg. The story is tailor-made for the Berlin neighborhood. source site
Radio play: “Folk” by John Burnside – Media
The Brit John Burnside takes radio plays seriously like few other authors. If he writes for the radio, then only for that. And not, as often happens, by adapting a…
Radio play: Mob and power
The storming of the Capitol and the reaction of the US representatives: A documentary radio play about a crucial night for American democracy. source site
Radio play: “The Two Faces of January” by Patricia Highsmith – Media
the novel The two faces of January by Patricia Highsmith won the prestigious British Dagger Award in 1964 as the best foreign crime novel. Possibly precisely because it breaks genre…
Favorites of the week: Yes, I would like spaghetti culture
Poetry: Children’s calendar 2024 “A girl stood in amazement/in front of a chestnut tree,/looked up into the many branches/that were full of fruit,/and exclaimed in amazement:/’I didn’t know that hedgehogs/grow…
radio play "Revolutionary piece": Opponent of state power
What has to happen for someone to become a revolutionary? Nikolas Darnstädt plays this out in a radio play on two real people. source site
Children’s radio plays: finally say what you think!
In two children’s radio plays by Deutschlandfunk Kultur, the adults push around until almost everything is too late. source site
Four radio plays by Otfried Preußler at Christmas on SWR – Medien
There are two little-known Christmas stories by Otfried Preußler that have also been staged as children’s radio plays. Bread for Myra was created for radio in 1963. The donkey and…