Saturday, March 25, 2006
Food for Thought?
I've just been listening to BBC Radio 4's Friday Play. It was a radio adaptation of Thea von Harbou's prophetic novel "Metropolis". Thea's husband Fritz Lang made the classic 1927 silent movie of the novel. The novel was taken by Peter Straughan and adapted into a radio play. The feelings of fear and foreboding ran through me as I listened to Ms von Harbou's vision of what life would be like in the year 2000 AD. Edward Hogg plays Freddy to perfection and Maria is vibrant in the voice of Tracy Williams. Enough weird sound effects are introduced to make just the right feeling of subversion against the Big Brother state. It's worth listening to. You can do that until 9.0 pm British Summer Time on Friday, April 1, 2006. Listen and be scared. Listen and receive real food for thought. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml and select The Friday Play from the list of programmes. Sit back and wallow in an hour of some of the best radio drama heard on the airwaves ever. Then think about what life is like in 2006 and compare ...
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