ELAINE FEINSTEIN RADIO PLAYS

ELAINE FEINSTEIN RADIO PLAYS

Elaine Feinstein is a poet, novelist and playwright. Radio drama is not her main activity, but she has written some excellent plays, details of which are given below. She also has to her credit a biography of Ted Hughes, books of poems, and novels.

Broadcast on BBC radio 4:

1980 Echoes
1981 A late spring
1983 A day off
1985 Marina Tsvetayeva: A Life
1987 If I ever get on my feet again
1990 The man in her life
1992 The temptation of Dr. William Fosters
1993 Foreign Girls (trilogy)
1994 A winter meeting
1996 Women in Love (adaptation of David Lawrence's novel)
1996 Lady Chatterley's Confession (ad): Book at Bedtime
1998 Cloudberries (based on the life of Pushkin)

Compiled from information supplied by Elaine Feinstein.

Elaine's website can be found at www.elainefeinstein.com

NOTES

A LATE SPRING....1981
A moving story about a bachelor don who has an unexpected encounter.

THE TEMPTATION OF DR. WILLIAM FOSTERS....1992
Dr. Fosters is a molecular biologist whose laboratory is running out of funds. Lucifer Jordan appears and makes a very tempting offer. A contemporary morality play with music by John Harle. Stars Paul Jones as Lucifer, with Edward Petherbridge, Ronald Herdman, Timothy Carlton, Petra Markham, James Greene, Colin McFarlane, Joanna Myers, Alan Barker, James Simmons, Fraser Kerr, Richard Pearce. Director - Penny Gold.

Nigel Deacon / Diversity website.

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