Live for Radio December 5-11 ; Complete Seven-Day Guide
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The Long Walk Sunday, Radio 4, 1.30pm
Peter Weir is one of those film directors who seems incapable of producing a duff movie. From 1975's eerie Picnic At Hanging Rock, the hits just kept coming with Gallipoli, Dead Poets' Society and The Truman Show to name but three. Now, as The Way Back starring Colin Farrell is set for release, Tim Whewell attempts to separate the truth from the myth in the real-life story that inspired the film. In 1956, Polish officer Slavomir Rawicz caused a sensation with the account of his escape from a Soviet Gulag prison camp and his subsequent 4,000-mile trek to India across the Siberian tundra, the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas. But, wonders Whewell, might the amazing tale not quite be all that it seems?See the full content of this document
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Live for Radio December 5-11 ; Complete Seven-Day Guide
Drama On 3 Sunday, Radio 3, 8pm
Melissa Murray's thoughtful drama posits an all-too-believable near-future scenario in which widow Barbara (Sian Thomas) creates an interactive avatar of her dead husband William and has it uploaded onto a cyberspace memorial site. But as she spends more and more time with him, daughter Rachel (Claire Price) c...See the full content of this document
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