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Afternoon Play: Power Play (2009) BBC Radio (MP3 192kbps) dearleuk

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Afternoon Play: Power Play 22-06-2009 - 23-06-2009

From The Radio Times

Margaret Heffernan is a playwright, producer and director, but she's also an entrepreneur, a CEO and a no-nonsense speaker on the realities of being in business. She has never shied away from talking about what happens to women when they play by the same rules as men in the workplace, a subject that she returns to in the first of her two dramas this week. Vanessa (played by Andrea LeBlanc) is a new-girl in the California offices of the huge American energy corporation that was Enron. She's got the car, the condo and the looks. More importantly, she's got the brains and the cut-throat desire to succeed. She and her contemptible male colleagues race through their lives, charged by a desire to earn their company money that is akin to grubby lust-until Enron goes bankrupt. Tomorrow's play sees Vanessa working as a gardener to Kenneth Lay, the founder and former CEO of Enron. Her pace of life has slowed but, as her increasingly accusatory line of conversation with Lay reveals, she's lost none of her fire.

-- Jane Anderson



1/2 Power Play 1

First of two plays by business writer and broadcaster Margaret Heffernan about the collapse of US company Enron in 2001, combining drama with audio archive from Senate hearings.

It is spring 2000 and new recruit Vanessa, fresh out of business school, joins the aggressive band of traders on the trading floor of Enron's Western Power desk, whose market manipulation, dishonesty and culture of macho ruthlessness is bringing California to its knees.

Vanessa ..................................... Andrea LeBlanc
Karl ............................................... Jin Suh
Hank ...................................... Hilario Saavedra

Produced in collaboration with the Centre for New Performance, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles.

Directed by Sara Davies.


2/2 Power Play 2: Wilful Blindness

Second of two plays by business writer and broadcaster Margaret Heffernan about the collapse of US company Enron in 2001, combining drama with audio archive from Senate hearings.

It is now the summer of 2006. Kenneth Lay, the former chairman of Enron, has been convicted of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud and is awaiting sentencing at his home in Aspen, Colorado.

On the day before Independence Day a new gardener arrives, a young woman with a business background who has made a recent career change. Lay doesn't know her, but she knows him - she once worked for his company. Vanessa is determined to confront her ex-employer, and in the course of one intense day, she demands that he face up to a responsibility he has refused to recognise for four years.

Kenneth Lay ..................................... John Fleck
Vanessa ..................................... Andrea LeBlanc
Linda Lay .................................. Mary Lou Rosato

Produced in collaboration with the Centre for New Performance, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles.

Directed by Sara Davies.

Type : mpeg 1 layer III
Bitrate : 192
Mode : stereo
Frequency : 48000 Hz
Length : 01:08:25
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Source : Freeview

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