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Love Me Tender

By Ian McMillan. Comedy verse drama about a radio producer who makes a documentary about trainspotters. All the characters speak in different verse forms.

Love Me Tender by Ian McMillan.
A radio producer meets a group of trainspotters after he is delayed. He decides they will make a good a subject for a radio feature. But are they interesting enough? Comedy verse drama by the 'Bard of Barnsley' where all the characters speak in different verse forms.

Director/Producer
Gary Brown

Ian McMillan is the ever popular 'Bard of Barnsley' and presenter of Radio 3's 'The Verb'. Conrad Nelson is Associate Director of Northern Broadsides and recently played 'Leontes' in their acclaimed production of 'The Winter's Tale'. Bernard Wrigley is a celebrated folk singer and actor and is known in folk circles as 'The Bolton Bullfrog' because of his inimitable bass voice.

45 minutes

Last on

Fri 6 Apr 2018 14:15

Credits

Role Contributor
Roy Conrad Nelson
Phil Bernard Wrigley
Beatty Jonathan Keeble
Alice Kate Coogan
Nigel John Catterall
Director Gary Brown
Producer Gary Brown
Writer Ian McMillan

Broadcasts

  • Fri 12 Feb 2016 14:15
  • Fri 6 Apr 2018 14:15

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