[Swprograms] BBCWS: Plays of the Week, Nov Sats+

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** U K. BBCWS PROGRAMME PREVIEWS --- Play of the Week --- International
Playwriting Competition 2005 Winners [Sats from Nov 5]

The BBC World Service/British Council?s ninth biennial International
Playwriting Competition attracted more than 800 entries, with ten entries
shortlisted.

The panel of judges decided on The Hard Way by Gino Dilorio and Straight Town
by Desmond Ntshalintshali.

The winners were flown to London in October to participate in the recording of
their plays, both broadcast this month.

International Radio Playwriting Competition 2005:
Winner: English as a First Language
[however, online listings show Nov 12 as an ESL, not EFL winner]

The Hard Way by Gino Dilorio
Producer / Rosalynd Ward

In The Hard Way on Saturday 5 November, Mary lives in a root cellar on a farm
in mid-west America, her outlet to the world barred by a locked grille.
[listing not received before this date; maybe available ondemand?]

Her brother Ty breaks in horses for a living and when his friend Dwight goes to
the farm for help with a difficult horse, he discovers Mary and begins to form
a relationship with her.  He learns she has been malformed from birth, brings
her biscuits and opens his heart to her. But when Mary?s brother Ty is killed
in an accident with a horse, Dwight returns to the farm, determined to steal
the money he knows is buried there.  He seems however, to have underestimated
Mary.

Straight Town by Desmond Ntshalintshali
Producer: Anne Edyvean

Zweli is a taxi driver in Johannesburg.  He falls for Queen, a teenage
schoolgirl, but only discovers she has AIDS after they sleep together in
Straight Town on Saturday 12 November.  Zweli is furious and as a result Queen
tries to kill herself.  But while the lovers fight it out, Zweli?s friend JaJa
decides he wants to steal his identity and hires a hitman to kill his buddy.
The plot is foiled and love conquers all in the end.

Nuremburg by Richard Norton-Taylor
Producer / David Hitchinson

In 1945, at the end of World War Two, an international Tribunal was set up to
try the perpetrators of the Holocaust.  The Nazi regime was also accused of war
crimes against the civilian population of those occupied countries, and, for
the first time in history, individuals were put on trial for sending their
people to war and ordering them to commit atrocities.

Now sixty years on from the verdicts being given on the 22 defendants, Richard
Norton-Taylor presents a reconstruction of some of the events in the trial in
Nuremburg on Saturday 19 November.  

Using the original transcripts from the trial, actors recreate the roles of
several infamous members of the Nazi regime, including Rudolf Hoess, who talks
quite calmly about the efficient killing of millions in his concentration camp,
Auschwitz.

Nuremburg was compiled and edited by Richard Norton-Taylor.

Exclude Me by Judith Johnson
 
Ken has been sacked from his job as a teacher after hitting a disobedient
pupil. On the day that Jessica, a privileged and overachieving white girl, and
Wayne, a black boy from the wrong side of the tracks, collect their GCSE
results, Ken points a gun at them and locks them away in a secluded detention
room. 

In Exclude Me on Saturday 15 January the wayward child and the middle class
girl suddenly become the mature voices of reason in the hostage situation,
while the science teacher becomes the immature and petulant one because he
can't get his way. Jessica still formally calls Ken 'Sir', while pointing out,
in the politest possible way, the irrationality and futility of his actions.
Wayne's sarcastic attitude is barely kept in check, despite Ken's various
threats. 

Exclude Me premiered at London?s Chelsea Centre Theatre in 2003.  
This production was recorded on location by Jonquil Panting    

Play of the Week:  2 x 60 minute and 2 x 90 minute programmes 
Saturday 5, 12, 19 & 26  November, 
[European stream and webcast]: 1830, GMT Sun 0201
[American stream and webcast]: 2201, GMT Sun 0201
Listen online http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/index.shtml 
(BBC Press Office via Richard Cuff via Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)



		
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