Mark Ravenhill
Chooses the tv series Casanova by Dennis Potter
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Royal Shakespeare Company Writer in Residence 2012. Creator of ITV sitcom Vicious. Plays include Mother Clap's Molly House and Ten Plagues.
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Casanova by Dennis Potter
The writer Mark Ravenhill聽chooses聽Casanova, Dennis Potter's first tv serial. Broadcast on the 麻豆官网首页入口 in 1971, Casanova starred Frank Finlay as the 18th century libertine.
From the Archive
Dennis Potter
Dennis Potter聽on Casanova, and the difference between writing for films and tv.
From聽Scan 25聽Nov聽1971 - 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4
聽The Singing Detective
Dennis Potter's 1986 tv serial The Singing Detective is discussed by playwright Nick Dear, Potter鈥檚 biographer Humphrey Carpenter and historian Kate Dunn.
From聽Night Waves聽2聽Dec聽2004 - 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3
Potter's Politics
Dennis Potter on his early聽political ambitions聽and how he came to聽write for television.
Mark Ravenhill on the run
As the playwright聽exercised聽for the 2013 London Marathon, Mark Lawson joins him to聽discuss his translation of Bertolt Brecht's A Life of Galileo.
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