Lesley Bruce Radio Drama
PLAYS:
24.08.96 *Keyboard Skills
23.10.98 *Vox Bopp
24.11.99 *Vanilla
??.??.00 *Thrush Green, (Miss Read, adap.)
20.05.02 *The Closet Princess
17.08.04 *Fighting Shaw's Corner
23.10.07 *An interlude of men
NOTES ON THE PLAYS
KEYBOARD SKILLS....1996
A comedy about the lives of political wives. 90 min. R4.
VOX BOPP....1998
60 min; a wry tribute to the Hale-Bopp comet - the most spectacular astronomical event seen by ordinary people for many years.
VANILLA....1999
24th Nov 1999, R4, rpt. 11 Feb 2004, BBC7 (Producer's Choice- Claire Grove). Wyndham's first love was his mother. As he fed, and fed, and fed at her breast, he was set on a path to obsession. A comic fable about food and love; stars Derek Jacobi. With Adjoa Andoh, Gavin Muir, Alison Pettitt and Ben Crowe.
THRUSH GREEN....2000
Adapted by Lesley Bruce in 6 parts, 30m each.
THE CLOSET PRINCESS....2002
With Eleanor Bron, Alison Pettitt, Lavinia Bertram.
Social story about 4 generations of women in the
same family.
AN INTERLUDE OF MEN....2007
A broken wrist brings together two old friends who have shared difficult experiences: divorce and ending up
alone. But when one of them becomes over-effusive about their friendship, one begins to wonder if it's built
on sand. Stars Deborah Findlay and Barbara Flynn; director Stephen Canny; producer Claire Grove.
Asterisked items known to exist in VRPCC collections.
Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
