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Radio Five
Radio 4 Extra, 10.30pmBy 1973, when this
programme was first
broadcast, Eric Idle, above,
was one of the most famous
men in Britain. As one of
the members of the Monty
Python team, he had been
delighting audiences for
four years on BBC TV. Here,
in one of his most notable
early solo starring roles,
the genial Idle takes to
the radio in his own BBC
Radio 1 show, called Radio
Five (18 years before the
real Radio 5 was born).
Over two seasons he played
nearly all the roles. In this
episode from May 1973
the comedy ranges from
Pieces of Wood and How to
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsImagine: My Name is Kwame
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magine: My Name is Kwame
kicked off with Alan Yentob
demanding to know why Kwame
Kwei-Armah, born Ian Roberts,
had changed his name.
“Are you just playing the part?” he
queried, peering through his black-
rimmed specs. Kwei-Armah, with
quiet eloquence, explained.
He had watched a scene in the
1977 TV series Roots (which I also
remember seeing and, with a child’s
naivety, thought so horrific that I
couldn’t believe such things weretrue). It was when Kunta Kinte refused
to accept the name “Toby” that his
slave-master had given him and was
publically whipped until he did.
They showed the clip: horrendous.
The 12-year-old Ian turned to his
mother and vowed to trace their
ancestry in Ghana and give them
back their African name, “Roberts”
being a slave name. He has now been
Kwame longer than he was Ian and is
a creative powerhouse, actor, writer
and director, and the artistic director
of the Young Vic.
In his earlier life he had only
wanted to be the next Lionel Richie.
We heard some of his recorded songs:
not a bad voice. At the age of 24 he
realised, as so many hopefuls do, that
it wasn’t going to happen. If this
documentary showed us anything,
though, it is that he exudes positivity
and is a “can-do” person.
He turned his hand to acting and
soon became paramedic Finlay, a
long-running character in Casualty.
When working in the US, he took his
actors out on the streets during the
riots in Baltimore to sing Bob Marley
songs. “He brings joy with him
wherever he goes,” a colleague said.
We didn’t hear anything about his
personal life save for a vague mention
of his eldest child, but we did learn
that he is a man who wants theatre
and the arts not to be the preserve of
the elite. His job, he said, was “tomeet people where they are, and
then gently nudge them to places”.
To judge from his run of sold-out
shows, including Tree and Fairview,
nudging is working.
How on earth did annoying
Ophelia get to Cambridge University
in The Deceived when she was too
thick to see what was in front of her
eyes? Never mind evil plagiarist
Michael with his “I’m a baddie” beard.
Didn’t she think it suspicious that
Mary had got over the death of her
daughter in five minutes flat, then
welcomed her cuckolder with open
arms? And that only she could hear
that knocking? I know she was being
gaslighted and fed Temazepam,
but really?
I guessed (spoilers alert) that
you-know-who was still alive back in
episode two, but I hadn’t anticipated
the extra twist of the dead student
who — surprise, surprise — had her
brilliant novel stolen by mediocre
Michael and his “fragile little ego”.
The finale got very silly, but what can
I say? I enjoyed it.
It felt fresh and darkly cheering,
even though there wasn’t a funny
moment in it and they wasted Paul
Mescal. I liked that not a single person
was likeable, yet as a drama it was
moreish. There was an obvious lunge
for a second series in the final scene,
which I sense would be a mistake. But
Kwame Kwei-Armah, the artistic director of the Young Vic possibly an entertaining one.How ‘can-do’ Kwame is nudging us into the theatre
LEON PUPLETTCarol
Midgley
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