The programme, remade from the surviving script, stars Toby Jones, Caroline Katz and Reece Shearsmith.
That Toby Jones is an industrious fella. No sooner had we digested the trailer for ITV’s The Lengthy Shadow, than we discovered his title main a somewhat particular BBC Radio 4 audio drama. You Should Hear is one in every of quite a few programmes commissioned to rejoice 100 years of audio drama.
Initially broadcast in September 1952,You Should Hear was written by Nigel Kneale, one of the crucial admired English science-fiction writers of the final century. His Quatermass trilogy continues to affect generations of admirers and filmmakers, amongst them Russell T Davies and John Carpenter.
Earlier than his tv profession, Kneale’s radio drama paved the way in which for what was to come back. It explores most of the similar themes that he later addressed in Quatermass, The Stone Tape and The Highway, of the paranormal coming into collision with fashionable science.
For this model, audio producers Bafflegab have returned to Kneale’s unique script – luckily saved by the late author as no recording of the unique play exists.
Right here’s the premise for You Should Hear:
A solicitor’s workplace has a brand new cellphone line related, however the employees maintain listening to a girl’s voice on the cellphone. Engineer Frank Wilson is known as to repair the issue, and progressively the disturbing story of the lady begins to emerge.
This contemporary model stars Toby Jones, Reece Shearsmith, Caroline Catz, Jessie Cave and John Scougall. Additionally within the solid are Jason Barnett, Jacqueline King, Dan Starkey and Becky Wright.
Enhancing and sound design are by Charlie Brandon-King, music by Evelyn Sykes. You Should Hear is produced and directed by Simon Barnard and is a Bafflegab manufacturing for BBC Radio 4.
You Should Hear airs on BBC Radio 4 on twentieth September at 2.15pm, and shall be on BBC Sounds afterwards.
If you happen to’re eager to listen to a trailer, there’s one on the Bafflegab web site.
For info on the opposite specifically commissioned audio drama centenary programming in September, try the BBC Media Centre.