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Burns And The Bankers
Afternoon Play about a woman in a law firm who attends a corporate Burns Supper which ends in an unexpectedly climatic way
- AKA:
- Afternoon Play: Burns And The Bankers
- Genre:
- Comedy Drama
- Broadcast:
- 2012 (BBC Radio 4)
- Episodes:
- 1
- Starring:
- Sophie Thompson, John Sessions, Greg Wise, Peter Forbes, David McKay, Angela Darcy, Siobhan Redmond, Gemma Goodman
- Writers:
- Helen Simpson, Liz Lochhead
- Production:
- Goldhawk Essential
Liz Lochhead, Scotland's Makar (national poet), adapts Helen Simpson's poignant short story for the radio.
When English law firm partner Nicola Beaumont sits down to a long-winded corporate Burns Supper, she sweeps us up in her private account of the evening's events.
At first impatient with all the whisky-fuelled pomposity around her, Nicola finds herself surprisingly moved as the traditional rituals of a Burns Night unfold. What she comes to learn about the eighteenth-century Scots poet, Robert Burns, brings new self-knowledge which will help her through the night's violent emotions and climactic events.
Helen Simpson's story Burns and the Bankers is part of her collection Hey Yeah Right Get a Life, published in 2000.
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