Private Lives (Classic Radio Theatre)

Jan 17, 2025 5:00 AM

Author:Noel Coward,Paul Scofield,Patricia Routledge,Full Cast

This sharply funny play of reversals focuses on Elyot and Amanda, a passionate but feuding couple who divorced five years before. Now, on the first night of their honeymoons with their new partners, they find that they are all staying in the same hotel on the French Riviera. Fireworks are inevitable... The roles of the two ex-spouses are brilliantly recreated by Paul Scofield and Patricia Routledge, while Coward's scintillating repartee epitomises all the glamour and sophistication of life between the wars for society's spoilt darlings.

Reviews

The anecdotees alone are enough to recommend this ... intertwined with the shenanigans of these prodigious talents is a fascinating history of the wild side of Sixties and Seventies Hollywood

—— Shortlist

Compared to the slavering slop served up in today's celeb rags, this is industrial-strength juice.

—— Empire

Full of gossipy anecdotes ... great fun

—— Viola Fort , Observer

A definitive, generational work

—— Vanity Fair

First-rate reporting...dense and intimate

—— People

Anthony Summers never writes a book that fails to offer accurate material you will find nowhere else...No surprise then that Sinatra: The Life is one of the very few, bona fide, three-dimensional portraits of an amazingly complex, interesting and sometimes god-awful guy

—— Norman Mailer

Beautifully penned...a heart warming and inspirational read

—— The List

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