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Radio

All radio drama should be as good as this Conrad adaptation

Plus: a Bloomsbury satire that, in its silliness, heralds a comic genius

7 March 2015

9:00 AM

7 March 2015

9:00 AM

The aching hum of crickets. The susurrus of reeds. The lapping of waves. The unmistakable noise of a sound technician ripping a duster in two as the heroine’s dress was torn, thuggishly, by a character in the heat of passion… The sound effects for Harold Pinter’s adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Victory (which started life as a screenplay and has now been dramatised by Radio Four, Saturday)transported us to a private island in the Java sea.

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