BBC Radio Drama has its own style, superb voice actors and spot on plots. I was a child actor with the BBC in Birmingham and these good people molded my - I'm 83 now and still broadcasting - in Palm Springs. Thank you BBC.
Here's a synopsis of the play "The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupied with this question as he pursues wealthy heiress Simona Quick over two continents in the company of braying aristocrats, Greek shipping magnates, American dandies and the dreaded mother-in-law to be. But as he comes closer to his prize other questions present themselves. Is the androgenous Simona really worth it? Why doesn't she like sex? Is it possible to drink all day? With his unerring eye for absurdity and class satire Kingsley Amis shows us what happens when money meets naked ambition. " Cheers from Canada North
Uhm - I can understand a gold digger.... but a gold digger that can even entertain the idea of being intimate with a chronologically 27 yr old adult who repeatedly refers to her mother as "Mummy" is one sick bastard!
With so many conversations taking place between different people and some voices are low volume and others high l find it all a bit bewildering?? Simon a boys name for a girl?? Its a shame as interesting play😮
BBC Radio Drama has its own style, superb voice actors and spot on plots. I was a child actor with the BBC in Birmingham and these good people molded my - I'm 83 now and still broadcasting - in Palm Springs. Thank you BBC.
Palm Springs !?!......you lucky
b#####d ! It's perishing here !
Congratulations on a long career. You’ve missed the snow here, although I once experienced sleet at Easter in Palm Springs!
I enjoy listening to your BBC dramatizations of all available decades. Much fun during trying times. Thank you.
These plays keep my sanity.Thank you so much I can tick Kingsley Amis on my list great novelist. This should have many K thumbs up
Amis was a terrific writer and this is a great production of one of his late 1960s clever, almost satirical novels.
Excellent. . ! A love story told with Amis' acerbic wit.
Here's a synopsis of the play
"The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupied with this question as he pursues wealthy heiress Simona Quick over two continents in the company of braying aristocrats, Greek shipping magnates, American dandies and the dreaded mother-in-law to be. But as he comes closer to his prize other questions present themselves. Is the androgenous Simona really worth it? Why doesn't she like sex? Is it possible to drink all day? With his unerring eye for absurdity and class satire Kingsley Amis shows us what happens when money meets naked ambition. "
Cheers from Canada North
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Many thanks 👍🏼😀
Excellent!
These are wonderful! Thank you. Any chance you have any radio play adaptations of anything by Harley Granville Barker, Howard Barker, or Edward Albee?
Is it just me, or was Simon cut off mid-sentence at the end?
She was cut off. Now we have to imagine the denouement. A frustrating ending to a strange play.
My Favourite decade is the sixties
Listened yo this play 4times
Uhm - I can understand a gold digger.... but a gold digger that can even entertain the idea of being intimate with a chronologically 27 yr old adult who repeatedly refers to her mother as "Mummy" is one sick bastard!
I really hated this. What truly awful people, all of them!
I felt the same way. Moreover, there was too much soliloquy by Ronnie Appleyard. I found this annoying.
" Goody ' types make for
boring drama. ?
With so many conversations taking place between different people and some voices are low volume and others high l find it all a bit bewildering?? Simon a boys name for a girl?? Its a shame as interesting play😮
The mother's accent...Texas via Lancashire
Oh god, awful!