1: Radio and Language Paul Valgry once wrote, To look is to forget the name of the things you are seeing '. implying that language and reality are at odds. In the first of two programmes about the literature of radio, the writer and critic
Ronald Hayman examines how the best radio playwrights have used the ambiguities of a sightless medium to explore the ability of language to give a name to things.
Readers WENDY MURRAY and SIMON HEWITT
Producer THOMAS SUTCLIFFE (Saturday 11 June: The Radio and Theatre)