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| Cigarettes And Chocolate | ...ANTHONY MINGHELLA's Giles Cooper Award winning radio play, first broadcast nearly twenty years ago, repeated as a tribute to the author who died recently.... |
| City Of Hands | ...Playwright ANTHONY MINGHELLA introduces the first festival of international radio drama. Over the next six weeks, BBC Radio 4 and other ENGLISH broadcasters are presenting a series of plays from Canada, Hong Kong, South Africa and the UNITED STATES. The first of the series, `City of Hands', by Stephen Bain and Deborah Tucker, was originally broadcast on New Zealand Public Radio. A group of people enter a competition to win a car, the winner being whoever can keep a hand on the car longest. As the days progress, the competition takes on a surreal quality. With Geraldine Brophy and Peter Kaa. Director Carol Dee.... |
| Cold Mountain | ...Charles Frazier's best-selling novel, soon to be ANTHONY MINGHELLA's next film, is abridged in ten parts by Kati Nicholl and read by William Hootkins. Week 1 description: "Inman, badly wounded in the American Civil War, turns his back on the fighting to begin the long journey home - where Ada Monroe may or may not be waiting for him"; Week 2 description: "Inman has escaped execution by the Home Guard and is continuing the dangerous trek home to Cold Mountain."... |
| Fool Who Stays Or The Fool Who Goes Away, The | ...ANTHONY MINGHELLA returns to the Isle of Wight to meet fellow emigrants and residents, who are all drawn to the island's gentle beauty, surrounding sea and remarkable characters.... |
| Front Row | ...Some film music composers enjoy long collaborations with directors, others are drafted in at the last minute. John Wilson reports on the changing role of music in cinema, and talks to leading practitioners, including Gabriel Yared and the director ANTHONY MINGHELLA ... |
| Kaleidoscope | ...Paul Gambaccini talks to ANTHONY MINGHELLA and Michael ONDAATJE about 'The... |
| Late Night Theatre - City Of Hands | ...Playwright ANTHONY MINGHELLA introduces the first festival of international radio drama. Over the next six weeks, BBC Radio 4 and other ENGLISH broadcasters are presenting a series of plays from Canada, Hong Kong, South Africa and the UNITED STATES. The first of the series, `City of Hands', by Stephen Bain and Deborah Tucker, was originally broadcast on New Zealand Public Radio. A group of people enter a competition to win a car, the winner being whoever can keep a hand on the car longest. As the days progress, the competition takes on a surreal quality. With Geraldine Brophy and Peter Kaa. Director Carol Dee.... |
| Late Night Theatre Worldplay - Dragon Island | ...A festival of six international radio plays, introduced by ANTHONY MINGHELLA. First broadcast on Radio Television Hong Kong, `Dragon Island' by Dino Mahoney, tells the story of Jade who, when pursued by two ENGLISH soldiers, a sheep and a love-sick ram, falls down a mining shaft in Wales to emerge in Hong Kong, on the back of a dragon. With Angaharad James, Lizzy Lui and Chow War Keung. Director Jonathan Douglas.... |
| Late Night Theatre Worldplay - Lapse In Behaviour | ...ANTHONY MINGHELLA introduces the fourth of six international radio plays. `Lapse in Behaviour' by Timothy Daly was first broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Harold Carpenter is a piano teacher, middle-aged and mild-mannered. He leads a predictable and ordered life. But his peaceful existence is shattered by the arrival of his new music pupil. With Peter Carroll, Judy Farr and Neil Fitzpatrick. Director David Chandler. Martha Burne, David MacFarlane and Ken James. Director Gregory J Sinclair.... |
| Late Night Theatre Worldplay - March Soldier March | ...ANTHONY MINGHELLA introduces the last of six international radio plays. `March Soldier March', by Richard Nwamba, was first broadcast on SAFM. Six young people, six different cultures and six contrasting visions of the world are united by the fact that they are all new recruits to the South African Defence Force in the new South Africa. With Douglas Bristow, Richard Nwamba and Hannes Potgleter. Director Hilary Keogh. Martha Burne, David MacFarlane and Ken James. Director Gregory J Sinclair.... |
| Late Night Theatre Worldplay - Mourning Dove | ...ANTHONY MINGHELLA introduces the third of six international radio plays. `Mourning Dove' by Emil Sher was first broadcast on CBC Radio, Toronto. Doug Ramsay watches as his daughter, who is stricken with severe cerebral palsy, declines daily. He resolves to put an end to her suffering, but will he commit an act of cold-blooded murder or will he be responsible for the ultimate act of parental love for a helpless child? With R H Thompson, Martha Burne, David MacFarlane and Ken James. Director Gregory J Sinclair.... |
| Music Matters | ...As the English National Opera opens a new production of Madam Butterfly, ANTHONY MINGHELLA makes his operatic directorial debut. Tom Service also talks to Elgar Howarth, now in his 70th year, about his multi-faceted career as a composer, performer and conductor.... |
| Opera On 3 | ...... |
| Stage And Screen | ...Tommy Pearson is in conversation with composer Gabriel Yared. Best known now for his many collaborations with director ANTHONY MINGHELLA (The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley, Cold Mountain), his long and varied career has included work with French pop sensation Johnny Hallyday, legendary arthouse director Jean-Luc Godard, and the score for Betty Blue.... |
| Two Planks And A Passion | ...ANTHONY MINGHELLA's tender and comic account of a provincial Easter six hundred years ago.... |
| Verb, The | ...To celebrate the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth, Hollywood director ANTHONY MINGHELLA joins Ian MacMillan to present a specially commissioned play he has written for The Verb.... |
| Verdi Centenary Stories, The | ...1: Oscar-winning writer and director ANTHONY MINGHELLA reads his own story, `The Lion Whose Stomach Was a Beehive', inspired by Verdi's Requiem.... |
| Whale Music | ...By ANTHONY MINGHELLA ... |
| With Great Pleasure | ...As a tribute to writer and director ANTHONY MINGHELLA who died recently, another chance to hear him discuss his favourite pieces of writing, including works by Beckett, Larkin and Pablo Neruda. Readers include Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman.... |
| Work In Progress - Anthony Minghella | |
| Worldplay - Lapse In Behaviour | ...ANTHONY MINGHELLA introduces the fourth of six international radio plays. `Lapse in Behaviour' by Timothy Daly was first broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Harold Carpenter is a piano teacher, middle-aged and mild-mannered. He leads a predictable and ordered life. But his peaceful existence is shattered by the arrival of his new music pupil. With Peter Carroll, Judy Farr and Neil Fitzpatrick. Director David Chandler. Martha Burne, David MacFarlane and Ken James. Director Gregory J Sinclair.... |
| Worldplay | ...ANTHONY MINGHELLA introduces the fifth of six international radio plays. `Long Ago and Far Away'. In the bizarre and wildly comic world of David Ives, almost anything can happen. What unites these short playlets in their celebration of human foibles and romantic yearning is a fine sense of the absurd. With Arye Gross, Dinah Manoff, Richard Kind, Samantha Bennett, Jane Brucker, Ian Gomez, Nia Vardalos, Tom Virtue. Directed by Ron West. Martha Burne, David MacFarlane and Ken James. Director Gregory J Sinclair.... |