Tag: BBC

What are we teaching our teens?

As loud, hard-edged stage musicals go, where the characters are dwarfed by massive technological sets, the lyrics are profoundly superficial and the lights set to penetrate your eyelids, Dear Evan Hansen presents technical competence. There are some beautiful moments of harmony between singers. Stuart Brown opposite Michael Stray collaborate compellingly.

To be, above all, decent

WHAT DOES IT mean to be a hero? Ask British novelist Lee Child and he will present the classic loner, a man with no ties who fixes the world and goes back to wherever he came from once the baddies are vanquished. Another English professional, stockbroker, Sir Nicholas […]

Guys and dolls

OCCASIONALLY, YOU FIND a radio play which has the wisdom to splay open a socially controversial issue by engaging your intellectual muscle as well as all your funny bones. Doller as kopaf is a hilarious  and brilliant spot of social commentary, crisply focused and beautifully constructed around the […]