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RTE radio dramas

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  • 07-11-2016 6:33pm
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    Most weekends, radio drama on RTE is utter dirge, outdoing even the likes of Fair City in terms of bad acting, bad writing, and cheap production.

    Last night, however, I heard perhaps the best radio drama I have ever heard on RTE, and I'd encourage anyone to listen to it. It's dubbed as a 'radio musical' version of the Playboy of the Western World, but it's actually got very little music, and the music that I did hear was of surprisingly good composition. The drama itself was well-written, funny and was spectacularly untrue to the period, with microphones and crooners that sounded like Elvis impersonators.

    The acting is very good too.

    http://www.rte.ie/drama/radio/plays/2015/1218/754864-the-playboy-of-the-western-world-a-radio-musical/

    It's very unusual to come across a production of this calibre on RTE. If anyone knows anything else worthwhile, let us know please!


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    lukegriffen
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    I agree, 80 to 90% of radio drama is either average or poor. But RTE do put a lot of effort into it. BBC radio drama can also be bad most of the time, it seems to be a hard medium to write in. and it's hard to appeal to everyone all of the time.

    in recent years , RTE is adapting a lot of fringe stage plays. i really enjoyed the Hugh Travers one about gerry ryan "Lambo" a year or so ago.
    These were pretty good stage plays. i don't know how they sound on radio - the man in two pieces , charolais, small plastic wars, the wickedness of oz
    A Galway Girl is also worth a listen if you can find it.

    i just noticed Behan's A Quare Fella is available to listen to from 2013, so must listen to that during the week.


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