BBC Radio Drama Collection - Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

Category: Full Cast

Tags: Full Cast, Radio Productions, Plays & Theater, Adults

Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. His writing career spanned over 50 years in which he produced 29 original stage plays, 27 screenplays, many dramatic sketches, radio and TV plays, poetry, one novel, short fiction, essays, speeches and letters. He appeared as an actor in productions of his own work on radio and film, and directed nearly 50 productions for stage, theatre and screen. In 2006 he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize and, in 2007, the highest French honour, the Lgion dHonneur., Presented here is a selection of Pinters best works, broadcast by BBC Radio across 6 decades. The plays feature such notable actors as David Warner, Michael Gambon, Harriet Walter, Simon Russell Beale, Olivia Colman, Jeremy Irons, Anne Reid, Andrew Scott, Peggy Ashcroft, Penelope Wilton, Olivia Williams, Mark Strong and Harold Pinter., A Kind of Alaska A middle-aged woman named Deborah, who has been in a comatose state for 29 years awakes with a mind still that of a sixteen-year-old. She must