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.
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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
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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Isolde |
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Siriol Jenkins |
Renate |
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Eleanor
Bron |
Lynne |
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Rebecca
Smart |
Susan |
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Amanda Horlock |
Michael |
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Paul Humpoletz |
Wolfi/young
Michael |
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Kenneth Collard |
Patterson/Paul |
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Alan Moore |
Frau Meier |
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Jennie Stoller |
Young Paul |
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Andy Henderson |
Lennie
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Susie Fugle
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Schoolchildren |
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Alice Crook,
Joshua Boyden, Olivia Crook, Sarah Kenyon and Ellen
White |
Music by Elizabeth Purnell |
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Radio
Times |
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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
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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Jess |
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Maggie Tagney |
Jacob |
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Cornelius
Garrett |
May |
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June Barrie |
Brenda |
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Pameli Benham |
Nathan |
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Peter Copley
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Peter |
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Stewart Clapp |
Hazel |
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Dee Sadler |
Minibus
driver/doctor |
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David Lloyd |
Nella |
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Rosie Giaratana |
Children
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Camilla and
Joshua Fry |
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Radio
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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
... is a triumph for writer and actors.
Linda Adams, New Welsh Review No.
54 Vol XIV/II (Autumn '01)
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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Hannah |
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Lynne Seymour |
Isabel
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Becky Hindley
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David Lyngard
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Jimmy Chisholm
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Father/Mayor/Gaoler/Man in Market |
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Crawford
Logan |
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BBC Copyright
© 2001 |
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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. |