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The Number of the Dead - by Mark Lawson - NEW BBC Radio Drama - cheops

A new dramatic work written for Radio 3 by presenter, journalist and playwright Mark Lawson.

Contains strong language

Timothy Freeman, newscaster and voice of the nation's major news network, is facing a crisis, seeing himself overlooked by younger colleagues.

His teenage son Tom is holding up a bank at gunpoint and demands to speak to him live on air, broadcasting Timothy's failings as a father and a man to a million-strong audience who listen aghast...

One episode of approximately one hour.

With:
Tim McInnerny
Leah Williams
Amy Marsden
Tom Freeman
John McAndrew
Pamela Myles
Paul Panting
Michael Elwin

Produced and directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.

About the Author:
Mark Lawson is one of the regular presenters of BBC Radio 4's daily arts programme, Front Row. He has written several radio plays for the network, including St Graham and St Evelyn (2003) on the friendship between the Catholic novelists Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh and The Third Soldier Holds His Thighs (2005) on Mary Whitehouse's campaign against the Howard Brenton play The Romans in Britain. He has also written episodes of the television version of the BBC sitcom Absolute Power appearing as himself in the series 1 episode 2, Pope Idol, and is one of many celebrities impersonated by the Dead Ringers team, referred to as "Britain's brainiest potato" and "the thinking woman's potato" because of his baldness. In 2002, Viz ran a spoof of his Newsnight Review programme, featuring Mr Lawson engaged in a desperate search for hard-core pornography, entitled "The Artful Podger".

First broadcast in 2009 on BBC Radio Three.
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