Mark Lawson gives us a thought about radio plays that has been rattling around in our brains for a while. Audio drama is a testing ground for plays and movies. It gives writers a chance to practice dialogue and concepts to far flung audiences in ways that never would have seen the light of day before. Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard are two names that come up immediately when thinking about great British Playwrights.
Of course in this Guardian article, when Spielberg came knocking, legend has it that Stoppard had a message for him.
I tell people if there’s one thing they should know about what fashioned my love of radio it always was the CBC.