SOS
October 25th, 2007 by Steve Bowbrick
My wife put me on to this one. She’s one of those people who likes to have the World Service on all night. Consequently we dream about Congolese politics and tense UN general assembly sessions… Anyway, it’s a play (you don’t get many plays round here do you?) and it’s a good one. Part of the World Service’s World Drama series.
It’s quite cinematic: the passage of a hundred years, an ironic voiceover, a clever narrative structure and a genuinely engaging story, knitting together the adoption of Morse code in 1906 and a turbulent family history up to the present day (which I kind of think must be based in fact: haven’t done my research on that yet). Don’t ask me why it’s presented by Robin Lustig. (MP3, Real).
Pic by thparkth.