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May 23 11 6:48 AM
Exclusive: BBC announces star-filled Terence Rattigan season Published Wednesday 18 May 2011 at 17:51 by Matthew HemleyRory Kinnear, Ruth Wilson and Rupert Penry-Jones are to appear in a special BBC Radio season celebrating the centenary of Terence Rattigan’s birth, which will also include a broadcast version of the Old Vic’s Cause Celebre starring Anne-Marie Duff, writes Matthew Hemley. The centenary will be marked across BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3 in June, and will feature new productions of The Browning Version, Flare Path and In Praise of Love, as well as the radio transfer of Cause Celebre. The season starts on June 5 with Flare Path on Radio 3, starring Kinnear, Wilson and Penry-Jones. It will go out in the Drama on 3 slot at 8pm and is being produced by Catherine Bailey. Jeremy Herrin will direct. This will be followed by Radio 4’s The Browning Version, broadcast on June 11 at 2.30pm. It will star Michael York, Joanne Whalley, Ioan Gruffudd and Ian Ogilvy. It is being produced by independent company Jarvis and Ayres, and directed by Martin Jarvis. The broadcast will be followed with The Rattigan Version, in which Jarvis reveals some behind the scenes background to the play. Jarvis will also appear in Radio 4’s production of In Praise of Love, which will be airedon Radio 4 on June 18. PierProductions is making this drama, which will also feature Sarah Badel and Kerry Shale. Cause Celebre completes the season on June 25. The stage version is being adapted for radio and brought to the BBC by Sparklab. It is produced by Polly Thomas and Melanie Harris. The cast has not yet been confirmed, but it is expected that the radio production - being recorded in a studio - will feature all the actors from the current Old Vic staging.
Published Wednesday 18 May 2011 at 17:51 by Matthew Hemley
Rory Kinnear, Ruth Wilson and Rupert Penry-Jones are to appear in a special BBC Radio season celebrating the centenary of Terence Rattigan’s birth, which will also include a broadcast version of the Old Vic’s Cause Celebre starring Anne-Marie Duff, writes Matthew Hemley.
The season starts on June 5 with Flare Path on Radio 3, starring Kinnear, Wilson and Penry-Jones. It will go out in the Drama on 3 slot at 8pm and is being produced by Catherine Bailey. Jeremy Herrin will direct.
This will be followed by Radio 4’s The Browning Version, broadcast on June 11 at 2.30pm. It will star Michael York, Joanne Whalley, Ioan Gruffudd and Ian Ogilvy. It is being produced by independent company Jarvis and Ayres, and directed by Martin Jarvis. The broadcast will be followed with The Rattigan Version, in which Jarvis reveals some behind the scenes background to the play.
Jarvis will also appear in Radio 4’s production of In Praise of Love, which will be airedon Radio 4 on June 18. PierProductions is making this drama, which will also feature Sarah Badel and Kerry Shale.
Cause Celebre completes the season on June 25. The stage version is being adapted for radio and brought to the BBC by Sparklab. It is produced by Polly Thomas and Melanie Harris.
The cast has not yet been confirmed, but it is expected that the radio production - being recorded in a studio - will feature all the actors from the current Old Vic staging.
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