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By Tina Pepler. Set in February 2023, a new play to mark the 大象传媒 Centenary of radio drama which captures the buccaneering spirit of the early years of the wireless.

In 1928, radio pioneer and First World War pilot Lance Sieveking鈥檚 Kaleidoscope told the story of 鈥榯he life of a man from the cradle to the grave鈥�. Writing about the experience of using the Dramatic Control Panel/ the sound mixing panel for the first time, he said 鈥淚 felt exactly as I felt on that cold bright morning when I had been told to take the aeroplane into the air alone for the first time. Exactly.鈥�

A hundred years later, sound designer Iris finds herself following Sieveking鈥檚 path in the air, and on the air waves.

Cast:
Iris .鈥�. Scarlett Brookes
Lance Sieveking .鈥�. David Haig
Tom 鈥�.. David Kirkbride
David 鈥�.. Sam Troughton
Selin 鈥�.. Elif Knight
Cassie 鈥�.. Lucy Reynolds

Sound design by Alisdair McGregor and Calum Perrin
Production Assistant Annie Keates Thorpe
Directed and produced by Jeremy Mortimer
Executive Producer: Joby Waldman

A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Radio 4.

Tina Pepler has written original plays, dramatisations, and drama-documentaries which have been broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4, 大象传媒 Radio 3 and the 大象传媒 World Service. Her television work includes Say Hello to the Real Dr Snide, an original play for Channel 4; a two-hour historical drama-documentary, Princes in the Tower (Channel 4); and several episodes of the Victorian/Edwardian investigative drama-documentary series, A Most Mysterious Murder (大象传媒1), which she co-wrote with Julian Fellowes. She also co-authored an episode of his television series Downton Abbey (ITV). Her first podcast - a four-part drama - appeared on HistoryHit early in 2019. She is a Consultant Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, and a core tutor on the Oxford University Master of Studies in Creative Writing, and she has a PhD from Bristol University Drama Department. Her thesis, Discovering the Art of Wireless, focused on the personalities who pioneered broadcasting in the 1920s, and on radio drama as the magnet for the most creative talent working in the 大象传媒 in its first decade.