Title: Basil
Description: Radio 4 Play
IMO - June 14, 2006 06:24 PM (GMT)
This Sunday at 3.00 pm on Radio 4 there's a classic play called Basil in 2 parts.
It says:-
After little more than a glimpse on an omnibus, Basil falls in love with Margaret, daughter of a nouveau riche tradesman. Although she's of a different class, Basil plots to marry her in secret, hoping that he will reconcile his father to the match. But little goes as planned.
Guess what Julian plays the part of Basil. I think we might get to hear his "posh voice".
It's repeated the following Saturday at 9.00 pm, and I assume part 2 will be on the following Sunday as well.
poo on a plate - June 14, 2006 06:26 PM (GMT)
Cheers for that. :)
I read 'Radio 4 play' completely wrong. Feel a wee bit stupid now
PigRescuer - June 15, 2006 05:44 PM (GMT)
lol Poo! slghtly worrying though.
i'm so listening tto that
ElleDoll - June 18, 2006 05:07 PM (GMT)
just found out that our lovely JRT was in a serial thing on radio 4 today, grr and i missed it, but here is the link to it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/classic_serial.shtml IMO - June 18, 2006 05:24 PM (GMT)
Am going to catch up with this tomorrow when I have a spare hour :)
IMO - June 22, 2006 03:53 PM (GMT)
Ohhh just discovered Radio Times had a little write up on this.
The swish of a crinoline, the clash of classes, innocence versus the malignant - the early work from Wilkie Collins plunges us into the sexually repressed world of gothic Victoriana. Basil (a perfect bit of casting in Julian Rhind-Tutt) is a young man born of an ancient family who falls in love at first sight on a London omnibus. Unfortunately, Margaret is not of his class and is therefore deemed an unsuitable match. A plan is hatched to appease Basil's father: the couple should marry but the boy should not bed his wife for a year. Believing his wife to be as chaste as she is beautiful, he readily agrees, but it is a plot he lives to regret. It is easy to see why Collins lived in the shadow of his friend Dickens (there is even a Uriah Heep type charater), but his desire to go that little bit further would have been a little too rich for Victorian stomachs. Ripe with sexual tension, Machiavellian scheming, and murderous revenge, this is hand-rubbing stuff.
IMO - June 22, 2006 03:59 PM (GMT)
CLICK ME and then click PLAY VIDEO for some behind the scenes on the making of Basil - lots of JRT waving his arms around and being dramatic :wub:
Mac'sBestGirl - June 22, 2006 05:05 PM (GMT)
Listening to it right now! JRT's voice is so damn sexy!
*debbie* - June 22, 2006 08:06 PM (GMT)
omg!
that was so cool!
i LOVE IT!
:wub:
IMO - June 25, 2006 11:37 AM (GMT)
Don't forget second part today at 3.00 pm :raiseroof