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Ed Harris

Geoffrey Arend

Andre Sogliuzzo

Heidi Dippold

Ed Asner

Nick Toren

Alan Shearer

Kate McAll

Jonathan Holloway

Drama on 4: The Life and Times of Arthur Miller: Episode 3: Sin

The Life and Times of Arthur Miller

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Episode 3: Sin

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Four years after Monroe and Arthur met in LA, they secretly begin to see each other again.

In 1955, Marilyn Monroe moves to New York to study acting. Four years after she and Arthur first met in LA, they secretly begin to see each other again. By Jonathan Holloway.

3. Sin

The third of four plays marking the centenary of the great American playwright, Arthur Miller.

Arthur Miller's play 'The Crucible' opened in New York City in January 1953. The reviews were mixed. The parallels with Senator McCarthy's witch hunt for Communists with the House Un-American Activities Committee were obvious. Few realised, however, that it also portrayed Miller's dying marriage to his first wife and college sweetheart, Mary Slattery. One of Marilyn Monroe's New Year resolutions of 1955 was to improve her acting by taking lessons. She moved to New York later that year to study with Lee Strasberg. Four years after she and Arthur had first met on the West Coast, they began to see each other again, in secret. The secret wouldn't be kept for long. By Jonathan Holloway.

Producer for LA Theatre Works: Susan Loewenberg
Associate Producers: Anna Lyse Erikson and Myke D Wysekopf
Sound by Mark Holden, Wes Dewberry, and Catherine Robinson

A BBC/Cymru Wales and LA Theatre Works Co-Production, directed by Kate McAll


LA Theatre Works is a non-profit audio drama company based in Los Angeles that records classic and contemporary plays. They have been collaborating with the BBC for nearly thirty years, beginning with a production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible that starred Richard Dreyfuss and Stacey Keach.

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