The Friday Play
This one-off, one-hour play charts Ben's gruesome experiences in a rehabilitation unit as he learns to speak and move again. This series is about the problems facing Ben, a newly disabled man, when he returns home. People see Ben differently and he starts to see them differently, too.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 20th November 2009
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
Press
Original drama, for which this Friday slot was invented but has lately felt the cruel pinch of budget cuts, returns with an hour-long play by Nigel Smith. It's a bridge between his last series of the same name and the next (which starts next Tuesday at 11.00pm). All of them fall within the description "black comedy" and funny they are while being based on Smith's own experience of being very ill indeed. His book, I Think There's Something Wrong with Me, explains all but the radio dramas have the huge benefit of a superb cast in which Neil Pearson shines.
Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 20th November 2009
