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Brothers Grimm - White Snow

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White Snow

31/12/2017

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Brothers Grimm - White Snow

Faced with an upstart stepdaughter, a queen is forced into action over her King.

4 Extra Debut. Faced with an upstart stepdaughter, the Queen is forced into decisive and deadly action over her King. Stars Lizzy McInnerny. From January 2013.

In this re-imagining of the Grimm brother's fairy-tale, we find ourselves at one with a fun loving and light hearted Queen, who having been wooed by an emotionally arrested king, soon finds that her main rival is his somewhat spooky and unhealthily translucent daughter, Snow White. 

It isn't clear what hold this eerily passive child has over the King but the implication is that the trauma of being cuckolded by his first wife, has been transformed into the myth of a flawless child. A child - who keenly aware of her power over him - determines nothing, especially not a mere stepmother is going to come between them. 

By any reasonable assessment of the situation, Snow White has to die...but will she? 

Livia........Lizzy McInnerny 
Mirror........David Horovitch 
King........Richard Dormer 
Snow........Lizzy Watts 
Rumour........Julia Dearden 
Maid........Barri Adair 
Hunt........Chris McHallem 
Dwarf 1........Patrick Fitzsymons 

Dramatised by Frances Byrnes.

Director: Eoin O'Callaghan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.

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