For the interlekkchuls

[french frank]

Somewhere, milling about on Platform 3, are people interested in drama and literature. Can I flag up my (so far) lonely post about tonite's Drama on 3 - The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig . Be there, listen, report back what you thought of it... Please

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I did read the post, french frank, and may well listen to it. But I'm particularly looking forward to the Boxing Day treat.

[french frank]

But I'm particularly looking forward to the Boxing Day treat.

Indeed, Beaumarchais's The Marriage of Figaro. Drama on 3 is a mixed bag, but when it's good, it's very, very good. Quite worth spending an occasional evening with the spoken word now and again, rather than music.

[vinteuil]

Somewhere, milling about on Platform 3, are people interested in drama and literature. Can I flag up my (so far) lonely post about tonite's Drama on 3 - The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig . Be there, listen, report back what you thought of it... Please

o come now, French Frank - anyone who thinks Zweig is for the intellectuals is the sort of person who thinks Tom Stoppard and Stephen Fry are "intellectuals"...

Now if it were Szentkuthy...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

o come now, French Frank - anyone who thinks Zweig is for the intellectuals is the sort of person who thinks Tom Stoppard and Stephen Fry are "intellectuals"...

Now if it were Szentkuthy...

Well, compared with Simon Cowle, Jonathan Ross, Chris Evans.........

[Simon]

Somewhere, milling about on Platform 3, are people interested in drama and literature.

Indeed there are. And poetry.

So maybe a small, clearly-entitled and easy-to-find section entitled "Drama, Poetry and the Spoken Word" might encourage the footsteps of these millers towards the stones through which our wonderful language may be ground, and later sifted into sacks full of goodness and wholesome sustenance?

[french frank]

o come now, French Frank - anyone who thinks Zweig is for the intellectuals is the sort of person who thinks Tom Stoppard and Stephen Fry are "intellectuals"...

Oh, yeah! You just step over to Arts &n Ideas and say that!

Although, isn't there a difference between an intellectual and an interlekkchul?

[2LO]

The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig. . . Be there, listen, report back what you thought of it:

As requested, French: Well if Stefan Zweig isn't intellectual, anyone who's heard of him and read his (in my opinion) not too wonderful stories, probably is, sort of. Anyway, er, yes, THE ROYAL GAME. Plays about chess and chess players are awfully common on radio, but this was the best one I've heard.

Despite my nodding off in the middle and losing the plot somewhat, I found Dr Berg's totally internal appropriation of numerous game strategies while in confinement fascinating. His 'going nuts' at the end was maybe a trifle melodramatic and it's either my ears or the voices seemed a little unclear. But such an unusual play well deserved its airing - and as ever a good length strengthened it. THE ROYAL GAME could have easily been condensed into a R4 Afternoon Play's 45mins but would've passed by unnoticed, I'd say.

[greenilex]

What does one call an intellectual who can't remember which book is where?

No, when the builders have finished I really will sort them once and for all....

Enjoyed the Royal Game except for the shouted ravings, which nearly made me turn off, being a bit sensitive.

[verismissimo]

"What does one call an intellectual who can't remember which book is where?"

Normal?