LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Richard Littlejohn show

Genre

Interview; News bulletin; Advertisement; Jingle

TX Date

2 Jul 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

01:03:10

Description

Kathryn Holloway (standing in for Richard Littlejohn) interviews Thelma Holt, actress and theatre producer. On the closure of the Round House in Chalk Farm, London where she was Artistic and Executive Director; business relationship with Robert Maxwell; productions of Shakespeare (with Dustin Hoffman); expousing causes including UNICEF; drama teaching. Interview coincides with her production of Shakepeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at the Queen’s Theatre, London, directed by Matthew Warchus, starring Mark Rylance as Benedick and Janet McTeer as Beatrice. She then interviews broadcaster and writer Sarah Dunant coinciding with the publication of her new thriller novel, Fatlands. Also on her role as presenter of the BBC arts programme, The Late Show, her trademark red glasses and problems women face who work in television. Includes news bulletins (read by Jonathan Staples; interviews with Anthony Scrivener QC; Barry Fuge, CPSA; Adam Sampson, Prison Reform Trust; Mary Heffernan, San Francisco Police); travel news (with Martin Lawford); financial news; sports news (with John Anderson and Dominic Allan); weather; advertisements; jingles. On LBC Newstalk.

Contributors

Dominic Allan; Jonathan Staples; John Anderson; Thelma Holt; LBC Newstalk; Kathryn Holloway; Sarah Dunant; Anthony Scrivener; Barry Fuge; Mary Heffernan; Martin Lawford; Adam Sampson

Keywords

Books; Authors; Actors; Writers; Television; Drama; BBC; Women; Charity; Television programmes; Novelists; Novels; Theatre directors; UNICEF; Broadcasters; Robert Maxwell; William Shakespeare; Theatre producers; Dustin Hoffman; Thelma Holt; Fatlands; Sarah Dunant; The Late Show; Matthew Warchus; Mark Rylance; Janet McTeer

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