The Old Spies (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play)

Nov 25, 2024 4:24 PM

Author:Jonathan Holloway,Full Cast

A new BBC Radio 4 drama by Jonathan Holloway about three former spies in an old peoples' home. First broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 3 March 2011. They talk and remember their old missions and rage against the dying of their lights. And now with nowhere else to go, they hold on to the stories of their adventurous lives, as they feel their own minds, memories and personalities shifting.

Reviews

An enjoyable end to what’s overall been the best of the three AudioGo Baker adventures.

—— Paul Simpson , http://scifibulletin.com

a satisfying and elegant end to this current run of stories, the best that producers Audio Go and writer Paul Magrs have concocted so far... The show... belongs to the wonderful Tom Baker and Susan Jameson who have made this pairing one of the funniest in Doctor Who history.

—— Gypsy King , http://theblogofdelights.blogspot.co.uk

Smoothly written...Stock clearly knows her onions

—— Time Out

Her passion for the medium is evident...It would be fascinating to see Stock programme her own film season

—— Metro

As a book to stimulate discussion as well as inform on the history of the subject, this lively account passes all the tests

—— Bookbag.co.uk

The text is refreshingly free of the jargon that mars much academic film studies, and Stock writes brilliantly on the allure of the movies

—— David Evans , Independent on Sunday

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