The History of Production of the Works of Harold Pinter
Voices (2005)
Voices [radio script] (2005)
| Channel | BBC Radio 3 |
| Broadcast Date | 10 October 2005 |
| Broadcast time | 21:30:00 |
| Length (minutes) | 27 |
| Series | Unknown |
| Episode | |
| Description | A collaboration between James Clarke and Harold Pinter, Voices is a radio drama for voices and music. The words are selections from the more political works of Pinter's dramas. First broadcast to mark the occasion of Harold Pinter's 75th birthday in October 2005. The work was broadcast again on Saturday 30 December 2006 on BBC Radio 3 in a Double Bill with a recording of Family Voices made during the Sheffield Crucible Theatre Pinter Celebrations that year. Voices had been played in the darkened studio for the audiences at the Sheffield Pinter Season on 1 November 2006. It was played in similar circumstances for the delegates of the Harold Pinter: Artist and Citizen conference in Leeds early that year, at 9am on 14 April 2007, followed by a Q&A with James Clarke. Voices was then broadcast again on Sunday 15 February 2009 on BBC Radio 3 in a double bill with the 2000 BBC Radio 3 production of Moonlight. The original broadcast was followed by interviews with James Clarke and Michael Billington. See the Work entry to see which extracts of which Pinter plays were used as composite parts of this drama. |
| Language | English |
Linked Productions
Party Time (Premiere: Almeida Theatre) (1991)
Notes:
Linked People
James Clarke (1957)
Creative | Composer
Clarke met with Pinter in 1997 with the ambition of formulating constructing a new work that would make original use of voice against and with music.
Ned Chaillet (1944)
Production | Producer
Eileen Aagaard
Creative | Singer
Fatma Mehralieva
Creative | Singer
Etienne Siebens
Creative | Conductor
Martyn Brabbins
Creative | Conductor
David Porcelijn
Creative | Conductor
Linked Organisations
BBC Symphony Orchestra (Cultural Institution | Est. Unknown)
Characters
Jimmy (Age: young, Male)
There were no character names given in the listings or descriptions of this broadcast. These are identified characters from the original plays.
Performer: Harry Burton (1962)
Rebecca (Age: forties, Female)
There were no character names given in the listings or descriptions of this broadcast. These are identified characters from the original plays.
Performer: Anastasia Hille (1965)
Guard (Mountain Language) (Age: Not specified, Male)
There were no character names given in the listings or descriptions of this broadcast. These are identified characters from the original plays.
Performer: Roger Lloyd-Pack (1944 - 2014)
Elderly Woman (Age: Not Specified, Female)
There were no character names given in the listings or descriptions of this broadcast. These are identified characters from the original plays.
Performer: Gabrielle Hamilton (1923 - 2014)
Prisoner (Age: Not specified, Male)
There were no character names given in the listings or descriptions of this broadcast. These are identified characters from the original plays.
Performer: Gawn Grainger (1937)
Lionel (Age: Not specified, Male)
There were no character names given in the listings or descriptions of this broadcast. These are identified characters from the original plays.
Source: Harold Pinter: Plays 4 [2005], p. 271
Performer: Andy de la Tour (1948)
Des (Age: Not specified, Male)
There were no character names given in the listings or descriptions of this broadcast. These are identified characters from the original plays.
Source: Harold Pinter: Plays 4 [2005], p. 271
Performer: Douglas Hodge (1960)
Nicolas (Age: forties, Male)
There were no character names given in the listings or descriptions of this broadcast. These are identified characters from the original plays.
Performer: Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)
Gila (Age: 30, Female)
There were no character names given in the listings or descriptions of this broadcast. These are identified characters from the original plays.
Source: Harold Pinter: Plays 4 [2005], p. 222
Performer: Indira Varma (1973)
Linked Awards
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Resources
Extract from the broadcast on NPR (Audio)
Type: Extract
External Link: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4957823&t=1591976386033
Article by Alice Jones published in The Independent, 7th October 2005 (URL)
Type: Newspaper article
External Link: http://www.jamesclarke.org/07voices.1.html
BBC press release, 9 October 2005 (URL)
Type: Website
External Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/09_september/13/pinter.shtml
BBC Genome entry (URL)
Type: Website
External Link: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7f7810553e0e411cb0524807021e8bbd
Interview with Indira Varma, conducted by Harry Burton, October 2020 (Video)
Type: Interview
External Link: https://youtu.be/bN32UEGxxoU
Sources
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