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Daniel Mays stars as a man, beaten and broken. Tam is coaxed back to life by memories when he hears Bach鈥檚 St Matthew鈥檚 Passion playing over the tannoy in Kilburn underground station.

This complex piece is written by Amy Ng, a writer new to the 麻豆官网首页入口.

It is one of six new short monologues developed and produced by 麻豆官网首页入口 Writersroom for Radio 3 as part of the 麻豆官网首页入口 Music Day celebrations.

Each drama celebrates this year鈥檚 theme 鈥� The Power of Music 鈥� with a monologue about the transformative power of music.

Other monologues are performed by actors including Liam Neeson, Julie Hesmondhalgh and Tamsin Greig.

Tam..... Daniel Mays
Director and Series Producer..... Justine Potter
Assistant Producer..... Usman Mullan
Executive Producer..... Anne Edyvean

Sound Designer and Editor..... Helen Garrison
Music Editor..... Jeremy Evans

Composer..... Johann Sebastian Bach
Music..... The St Matthew鈥檚 Passion

A note from the writer Amy Ng:

I am a musician as well as a writer, so was thrilled by the commission to write a monologue on 鈥榯he power of music鈥�. My excitement grew to fever pitch after the one day workshop with the amazing Writersroom team 鈥� this was my first time writing for radio, and the central role that music plays in radio drama was a revelation to me.

The most powerful piece of music I鈥檝e encountered is Bach鈥檚 St. Matthew Passion, but I was coming out of a period when I couldn鈥檛 play Bach after finding out that the Passion chorales were quite possibly performed and conducted by Bach himself at public executions. This came as a real shock, since Bach is always held up as the religious composer par excellence 鈥� creating 鈥榝or the greater glory of God鈥� 鈥� and seemed to epitomise the hypocrisies and the will to power I found in certain types of organised religion. Then I had the great good fortune to watch/hear the Peter Sellars/Simon Rattle staging of the Matthew Passion, and was awestruck all over again. However, it was only during the writing of this monologue, with constant encouragement from Abigail Gonda, Justine Potter, and Anne Edyvean of the Writersroom to find the redemption in the piece, and listening to both the Rattle and the John Eliot Gardiner versions of the Passion non-stop, that I had an epiphany about what the music actually meant. I won鈥檛 go into details here because it鈥檚 in the monologue, but feel I can re-claim Bach now as a kindred spirit keener on truth than power.

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