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Michael Frayn - Clouds

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06/09/2008

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Michael Frayn - Clouds

Coffee and literature or art and sugar? Rival Sunday supplement writers clash.

Coffee and literature or art and sugar? Rival Sunday supplement writers clash under 1970s Cuban skies. Stars Dinsdale Landen.

"They're all the same these places... guided tour of collective farms, National folk-dance company, Kindergarten where they sing you a patriotic song. You go along with it for a couple of days before you put the boot in. Insist on seeing the jails. My name's Owen by the way. I'm doing it for one of the colour mags."

Coffee and literature or art and sugar? Rival Sunday supplement writers clash under 1970s Cuban skies. 

Michael Frayn's drama stars Dinsdale Landen as Owen, Morag Hood as Mara, Don Fellows as Ed, Paul Chapman as Angel and Arturo Venegas as Hilberto.
Originally transmitted as the United Kingdom contribution for the "Globe Theatre" season of six plays from around the world, broadcast simultaneously by BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service.

Director: Matthew Walters 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987.

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