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Radio Roundup
Jan. 17th, 2020 08:56 pmA Bright Yellow Light - A few years ago, a teenager with a sesame allergy died after eating an unlabelled takeaway sandwich. The story was all over the news for quite a while in the UK, but for the first time her father tells it from his point of view, including a rather odd experience as she was dying, and how that has changed his life.
Soul Music: Coventry Carol - The series about iconic musical pieces and their places in people's lives comes around to that lovely lullaby Christmas carol about slaughtered children.
Fake Heiress - A daughter of Russian immigrants to Germany goes to New York and becomes Anna Delvey, socialite and modern art connoisseur, poised to inherit a fortune. 6-part docudrama about the gold medallist* in Faking It Till You Make It.
*medal since revoked
Chivalry - A short story by Neil Gaiman, semi-dramatised, about the clash between a nice old lady and Sir Galahad for the Holy Grail. A good idea well adapted and performed, but for unexplained reasons the dialogue sounds like it was recorded in a portakabin.
The Whisperer in Darkness - Every so often someone tries a fresh take on Lovecraft, but – despite my initial misgivings – I think this is one of the more successful ones. The framing device of a podcast is the perfect modern way to reflect the journalistic tone of the stories. It took till episode 3 to really grab me, but it was good fun, and the makers clearly know their lore. From the Episodes page you can listen to Series 1, but I did S2 first and didn't suffer for it.
I've been nibbling at this list since Christmas, and that was as far as I got with it before ... this happened.
Magnitsky the Musical - A brash American capitalist. A Russian tax adviser. A vast multi-billion-dollar fraud, and the end of Western Civilisation. WITH SONGS! I listened to this Monday and have not been able to listen to anything else since. I lost count at nine times through – that was Wednesday night. It may have given me superpowers of productivity yesterday. Will it hit your buttons too? You'll just have to find out!
On reflection, 'selfish asshole has an arc and uses his assholery to fight for good' might be one of my favourite genres, or at least delivers something lacking in my narrative diet. And the music is really good! I keep devising a hypothetical stage production in my head. It involves some rewrites and edits, which sounds uncharitable, but I know how fast the turnaround is on radio productions so it's astonishing how well this turned out, all things considered. I should never be put in charge of a theatre with scrims and video projection capabilities, but if that ever happens, I am prepared. The tech crew is going to hate me.
I will probably move on to listening to other things eventually, but Magnitsky still isn't leaving me alone, and this probably won't be the last you see of it. My poor brain!
Soul Music: Coventry Carol - The series about iconic musical pieces and their places in people's lives comes around to that lovely lullaby Christmas carol about slaughtered children.
Fake Heiress - A daughter of Russian immigrants to Germany goes to New York and becomes Anna Delvey, socialite and modern art connoisseur, poised to inherit a fortune. 6-part docudrama about the gold medallist* in Faking It Till You Make It.
*medal since revoked
Chivalry - A short story by Neil Gaiman, semi-dramatised, about the clash between a nice old lady and Sir Galahad for the Holy Grail. A good idea well adapted and performed, but for unexplained reasons the dialogue sounds like it was recorded in a portakabin.
The Whisperer in Darkness - Every so often someone tries a fresh take on Lovecraft, but – despite my initial misgivings – I think this is one of the more successful ones. The framing device of a podcast is the perfect modern way to reflect the journalistic tone of the stories. It took till episode 3 to really grab me, but it was good fun, and the makers clearly know their lore. From the Episodes page you can listen to Series 1, but I did S2 first and didn't suffer for it.
I've been nibbling at this list since Christmas, and that was as far as I got with it before ... this happened.
Magnitsky the Musical - A brash American capitalist. A Russian tax adviser. A vast multi-billion-dollar fraud, and the end of Western Civilisation. WITH SONGS! I listened to this Monday and have not been able to listen to anything else since. I lost count at nine times through – that was Wednesday night. It may have given me superpowers of productivity yesterday. Will it hit your buttons too? You'll just have to find out!
On reflection, 'selfish asshole has an arc and uses his assholery to fight for good' might be one of my favourite genres, or at least delivers something lacking in my narrative diet. And the music is really good! I keep devising a hypothetical stage production in my head. It involves some rewrites and edits, which sounds uncharitable, but I know how fast the turnaround is on radio productions so it's astonishing how well this turned out, all things considered. I should never be put in charge of a theatre with scrims and video projection capabilities, but if that ever happens, I am prepared. The tech crew is going to hate me.
I will probably move on to listening to other things eventually, but Magnitsky still isn't leaving me alone, and this probably won't be the last you see of it. My poor brain!
