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Modern Morality Tales

Moderation by Lin Coghlan

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for 12 months

Eve comes face to face with her Spiritual Estate Agent after her car crashes into a canal.

In a tale inspired by the medieval morality plays, Lin Coghlan takes a comic look at our attitude towards moderation.

In medieval times allegorical plays such as 'Mankind' and 'Everyman' were used to warn audiences that how they lived in the present would affect their afterlife - whether they would end up in Hell, Purgatory or Heaven.

But in a secular age how do we deal with the nature of sins and virtues? Our attitude to good and evil is certainly less black and white. Is it bad to be proud; don't we deserve respect? Can't anger be used to promote change for the better and isn't envy what drives our materialistic lifestyle?

The last of five tales exploring our attitudes to these questions through the character of 'Eve', a 21st century Everywoman, played by Rebecca Front.

Eve ...... Rebecca Front
Isobel ...... Anastasia Hille
Ana ...... Scarlett Brookes
Jerome ...... Ewan Bailey

Directed by Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in February 2016. Show less

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