Polly Thomas Radio Plays
From Monday 5 April to Friday 9 April, Manchester based Polly Thomas concludes our Producer's Choice season as she selects her favourite 45 minute productions:
Monday - A Higher Education by Lloyd Peters (20/6/00): a fast moving comedy set in a University Drama Department, starring Rik Mayall and Helen Lederer.
Tuesday - Out of the Pirate's Playhouse by Shelagh Delaney (6/3/03): a touching tale all about the trials and tribulations of growing up, starring Daniel Hanbridge and Alexander Slater.
Wednesday - Erskine May by Dan Rebellato (14/7/00): a weird and wonderful tale of two 19th century architects challenged to re-build the Houses of Parliament in 12 hours flat, starring Alex Jennings and Amanda Root.
Thursday - Chin Hair by Rachel Mathews (7/9/01): a surreal story about a woman who discovers a whole new world of sound and the wonders of nature, starring Jo-Anne Horan.
Friday - Bottle Blonde and Beautiful by Vanessa Rosenthal (16/4/02): a tense drama in an unlikely setting starring Emmerdale's Cain Dingle, actor Geoff Hoardley.
NOTES...OTHER PLAYS by POLLY THOMAS
A Summertime....2004
Don Haworth returns to a setting he's used before - in "Challenged" -
an isolated farm run by a woman. It's February 1939, and she is trying to
keep the farm going whilst her husband is away in New Zealand. In the
middle of a blizzard and assorted problems, a stranger arrives
seeking directions. A tale of unforeseen happiness and its passing.
(paraphrased from Radio Times). With Rachel Ibborson, Julia
Rounthwaite, Glenn Cunningham, Stephen Thorne, Christine Brennan.
Director Polly Thomas.
