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becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6814

On Radio 2 last night

A new drama from legendary playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. The album topped the charts on its release in 1973, and it remained in the charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. With an estimated 50 million copies sold it is the band's most commercially successful work and is frequently ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Sir Tom Stoppard was first approached with the suggestion of writing a play based on the album by a friend in 1973. Now, 40 years later, he's created a fantastical story about fear, philosophy and madness, which is woven together with the original music.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038xr3n

I started listening to this but dozed off a couple of times ....not sure what this says about it ...if anything.

Did anybody listen (to all of it) and enjoy it?

littlepieces · Joined: 10 Jan 2010 Posts: 1098 Location: Lowestoft

I listened to the first hour and will listen to the play later
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becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6814

Did you enjoy the first hour,littlepieces?

R2Icon · Joined: 10 Sep 2009 Posts: 1444

I didn't listen to that one , although , Alex did a Dark Side of Buffoon show on Monday, which was brilliant.