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In article <2017042711383529562-noone57@excitecom>,
PAF <noone57@excite.com> wrote:
> The Progress of the Soul of Lizzie Calvin
> written by Michael Symmons Roberts
>
> Sound producer Steve Brooke
>
> Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts
>
> BBC Radio 4, 26 April 2017 45 minutes
>
> In poet John Donne's great unfinished work of the same name , he plays
> with the ancient idea of the transmigration of souls, that a spirit
> might be reincarnated in many different lives. For contemporary poet
> Michael Symmons Roberts, the idea of making a new 'Progress of the
> Soul' has long been an ambition. Both poets have serious fun with this
> idea, imagining a soul passing, dissatisfied with each successive form
> of life, through a fantastical range of insects, plants, fish, animals
> and on, trying to reach its ultimate fulfilment as a human being.
>
> The soul , played by Glenda Jackson is the driving voice of the drama -
> key narrator and storyteller. Beginning in the body of Lizzie Calvin, a
> minister in waiting , the soul journeys through different forms of
> life, from a flea on a dogs back to a mandrake . This is a new radio
> poem that is irreverent and serious, lyrical and disturbing, witty and
> heart breaking . It ultimately questions the idea of the soul, what its
> relevance is in contemporary society .
>
>
> The Soul ..... Glenda Jackson
> Lizzie ..... Deborah McAndrew
> Flea/ Chef ..... Mark Heap
> Dog/ Seagull ..... Louis Labovitch
> Songbird/ Rat/ Girl ..... Angela Lonsdale
> Mandrake/ Whale ..... Russell Dixon
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