Jane Morgan Radio Plays
Producer's Choice this week comes from Jane Morgan, who has directed many plays and classic serials for Radio 4. Her choices begin at 11am on Monday 29 Mar 04 with the wonderfully titled Old Ladies at the Zoo, written by David Ashton and starring Peggy Mount and Liz Smith. Here's the full week's offering:
Monday: Old Ladies at the Zoo
Two grumpy old ladies meet at the zoo to discuss the animals, only occasionally letting a truth or two slip out. (09/07/86)
Tuesday: The Perfect Moment
Moll and her husband-to-be Derek are having a meal, hampered by his stomach ulcer and a very loud Betty Marsden, who gleefully informs him that thanks to the suicide rate, males outnumber females. (23/11/88)
Wednesday: Casque d'Or
A tale of revolutionary Paris where passion and ideals become fatally intertwined. With Miranda Richardson. (02/10/91)
Thursday: The Glad House
What's to be done about dad? He talks to his pigeons more than he does his daughters. And he has odd ideas about the dog. (01/07/99)
Friday: Dear Doctor Goebbels
Philip Morganstern enters the world of prosthetics and finds himself in Germany fitting an artificial limb onto the Minister for Propaganda. (30/11/01)
Jane's (possibly) best-known radio drama is the serial
"Lord of the Rings", done over twenty years ago. (see Brian Sibley's
page).
Jane is very keen on cricket, and
has directed a number of plays based on it, including:
Taking us to Lunch, by Peter Gibbs (1991), The Englishman Abroad (the
Bodyline tour of 1930-31), The Champion (about W.G.Grace), and Keeping
the Score (2006), the last being a lovely comedy about a cricket
scorer who is unexpectedly interrupted in his score-box in the off
season by a person who is to alter his life.
Some of these plays are
discussed in detail on the Cricket plays page (go to Radio Plays -
plays by topic - Cricket).
