Much of the dialogue comes right out of Lessing’s book. Why? Apparently I read Lessing’s books with an American accent! Who knew? But Harker and Woolgar bring exactly the right mix of trust and impatience to this long-standing friendship: they are truthful (to a point) and intense, witty and observant, sophisticated and yet raw. There is a vividness to listening instead of looking at a stage, though the voices of the heroine Anna (Susanna Harker), a blocked writer, and her friend Molly (Fenella Woolgar), an actress, are not as I imagined. If you loved the book, or if you have meant to read Lessing but never gotten around to it, this two-part radio play will inspire or revive your interest. The other night I listened to a brilliant BBC Radio Four adaptation of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, dramatized by Sarah Daniels.
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