Winslow Boy, The (Classic Radio Theatre)

Nov 16, 2024 7:28 PM

Author:Terrence Rattigan,Michael Aldridge,Pauline Letts,Sarah Badel,Michael Maloney,Full Cast

‘It is easy to do justice - very hard to do right.’ When he is accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order, fourteen-year-old Ronnie Winslow is expelled from naval college. But his father believes his claim of innocence and, determined to clear his name, engages the most famous barrister in England to fight his case. It is up to Sir Robert Morton to take on the Establishment in order to ‘let right be done’... Adapted as a famous British film starring Robert Donat, The Winslow Boy is a moving story about fairness and fighting for a principle. This gripping BBC Radio adaptation from 1981 features a distinguished cast including Michael Aldridge, Pauline Letts, Sarah Badel and Michael Maloney.

Reviews

Goodall has a prodigious gift for gathering information. People who know nothing about music will learn a lot here

—— Sunday Tribune

Intelligent, infectious

—— Observer

Writing a breezy history of music is a tough nut to crack, but Goodall manages it

—— Independent

a highly compelling and involving tale of an actor at work.

—— Film Review

Whether taken on its own or with the first volume, this is a magnificent work of biography... A stunning achievement

—— Simon Heffer , Literary Review

Walsh's scrupulousness (also evident in this volume's predecessor) in contextualising and considering quotes, hearsays and other evidence reveals a more complete, complex picture... But what emerges most powerfully is a penetrating vision of a creative mind, of how it made its decisions and adopted its stances, of how, often, it didn't quite understand itself

—— Stephen Pettitt , Sunday Times

Walsh's eloquence, clarity and grasp of the composer's cultural milieu mean that this book is always gripping

—— Telegraph

"Must never end up like Bobby Gillespie" It's not a bad strategy for life, and happily one the ferociously talented Luke Haines continues to adhere to in his follow-up to Bad Vibes. Resuming from where that excoriatingly brilliant book left off...Grimly amusing.

—— Word

The angrier Mark Kermode gets, the funnier he is; good news then that this book is FURIOUS

—— Empire

[A] laugh-out-loud account that will tickle the funny bone of any film fanatic

—— Star

Witty and incisive

—— Choice

Cutting and witty

—— Loaded

[Kermode] clearly has a profound love of film and the depth of knowledge to go with it

—— Jeff Dawson , Sunday Times

An angry blast about the state of cinema-going

—— Christopher Fowler, Books of the Year: Cinema , Independent

Kermode sits in the stalls peeking through his fingers at what we’re served up on the silver screen and motormouthing about bad cinema in a frank and funny counterblast to all the Hollywood hype

—— Saga

The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex is the film critic’s anguished cri de coeur against overpriced 3D film tickets and soulless cinemas ... often very funny and enlivened with wonderful digressions borne out of a lifetime’s movie-going

—— Books of the Year , Metro

Difficult to ignore

—— Good Book Guide

a spritely, spirited tome ... with welcome doses of spicy self-deprecation and fascinating cultural history.

—— The Big Issue in the North

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