RADIO AND TELEVISION

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BBC Radio Wales: (10 February 2004). Stevie Davies discusses her novel: Kith & Kin, with Nicola Heywood Thomas.
Channel 5: In Search of Emily Brontë (28 Dec 2003). Produced by Tim Brearley.
RADIO PLAY
The Element of Water
BBC Radio 4 The Saturday Play
Broadcast Saturday 2 August 2003 — 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Producer/Director Sara Davies

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Stevie Davies dramatises her novel, a love story that unfolds against a background of guilt, memory and the legacy of the Second World War. It is 1958 and Isolde takes up a teaching post at a school in Germany, in the building that housed the rump Nazi command at the end of the war. Here she finds not only the new life she is searching for but also disturbing echoes of her own family's past.

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Cast
Isolde .......................
Siriol Jenkins
Renate .......................
Eleanor Bron
Lynne .......................
Rebecca Smart
Susan .......................
Amanda Horlock
Michael .......................
Paul Humpoletz
Wolfi/young Michael .......................
Kenneth Collard
Patterson/Paul .......................
Alan Moore
Frau Meier .......................
Jennie Stoller
Young Paul .......................
Andy Henderson
Lennie .......................
Susie Fugle
Schoolchildren ......................
Alice Crook, Joshua Boyden, Olivia Crook, Sarah Kenyon and Ellen White
Music by Elizabeth Purnell
 
Radio Times
RADIO PLAY
The Web of Belonging
BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
Broadcast Thursday 24 April 2003 — 2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
Directed in Bristol by Sara Davies

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A delicious and poignant comedy adapted by Stevie Davies from her own novel. Jess Copplestone has gladly taken on the care of her husband Jacob's three elderly relatives in the spirit of Christian charity. When Jacob walks out on her for a younger woman Jess's reserves of devotion are sorely tested.

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Cast
Jess ....................... Maggie Tagney
Jacob ....................... Cornelius Garrett
May ....................... June Barrie
Brenda ....................... Pameli Benham
Nathan ....................... Peter Copley
Peter ....................... Stewart Clapp
Hazel ....................... Dee Sadler
Minibus driver/doctor ....................... David Lloyd
Nella ....................... Rosie Giaratana
Children ...................... Camilla and Joshua Fry
 
Radio Times
BBC 4 [TV]: The Readers' and Writers' Roadshow (19 February 2003). With Stevie Davies, Catherine Merriman and Peter Finch.
BBC Radio 4: Not Drowning but Waving (16 September 2002). Poet Stevie Smith's most memorable poem ends with the words 'not waving but drowning'. To mark the centenary of her birth, five writers have turned her bleak phrase on its head. Historian and novelist Stevie Davies evokes a memory of childhood that is part biography, part autobiography and entirely playful. Read by Helen Sheals and produced by Christine Hall.  Radio Times
BBC Radio 4: Cover Stories (27 June 2002). Dr Stevie Davies, Glyn Hughes, Lucy Gough, Jackie Hollis and Mia Scott-Ruddock discuss the impact Emily Brontë's novel: Wuthering Heights has had on their lives.
BBC Radio 4: Adventures in Poetry (21 October 2001). Emily Brontë's poem No coward soul is mine is examined by Stevie Davies and others.
Extracts from Davies' novel Four Dreamers and Emily are also featured.
BBC [TV] Cymru: Double Yellow (16 October 2001). Stevie Davies discusses her longlisted Booker Prize novel: The Element of Water.
Dramatised extracts from the novel accompany the interview.
RADIO PLAY
Unbridled Spirits
BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
Broadcast Wednesday 12 September 2001 — 2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
Directed in BBC Edinburgh Studios by Julia Butt

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... is a triumph for writer and actors.
Linda Adams, New Welsh Review No. 54 Vol XIV/II (Autumn '01)

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A beautifully written play about religious fervour and dissent during the English Civil War. It is a spiritual and political journey told by a fugue of three 17th century voices — two Quaker radical women and a Presbyterian minister. The characters are inspired by real women of the period, and are based on diaries, letters and historical documents. This is Stevie's first radio play. The three characters within the play appear in one of her novels, Impassioned Clay, and are inspired by real Quaker women about whom she wrote in her biography, Unbridled Spirits.

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Cast
Hannah ....................... Lynne Seymour
Isabel ....................... Becky Hindley
David Lyngard ....................... Jimmy Chisholm
Father/Mayor/Gaoler/Man in Market ....................... Crawford Logan
 
BBC Copyright © 2001
BBC Radio Wales: First Hand (15 April 2001), in which Stevie Davies discusses her novel: The Element of Water, with Jon Gower.
BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hour (January 1999). King Charles' Head.
BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hour (May 1998). Revolutionary Women of the Seventeenth Century.
BBC World Service: Good Books (December 1997). Anne Brontë's: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, with Miriam Newman.
BBC Radio 4: Three Writers in Search of a Character (19 September 1997). Programme on Emily Brontë, produced by Rosie Boulton.
BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hour (April 1996). Interview on Stevie Davies' creative fiction.
BBC World Service: Writers and their Work (1995). Contribution to programme about biographical writing, on the poet John Donne.
BBC Radio 4: (23 April and 30 April 1995). Two programmes on the life and sacred poetry of Henry Vaughan, with Sean Street.
BBC World Service: (recorded September 1994). Programme on Emily Brontë.
BBC Radio 4: (December 1992). Contribution to programme on Emily Brontë.

       
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