BBC R4 - Thomas Love Peacock's 'Headlong Hall' sp7

BBC R4 - Thomas Love Peacock's 'Headlong Hall' Music by Margaret Harris Adapted by D.J. Britton Directed by Alison Hindell Broadcast December 21, 2003 Coded from tape at 128/48 Christmas house party in North Wales. Guests exchange philosophical diversions while Miss Brindle-Mew seeks to marry off her niece and nephew before the holiday is over. Cast Eiry Thomas John McAndrew Andrew Wincott Bill Wallis Ysthan Jones Mannie Harris Yoller Hughes Mike Povey Richard Mitchley ___________________________________________________ Thomas Love Peacock: 1785-1866. Bon viveur, satirist, and Shelly's literary executor. 'He was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.' Shelly introduced him into the radical literary set; whom he satirised for the rest of his life. He wrote novels of ideas set against guests in country houses. The best are 'Headlong Hall' and 'Nightmare Abbey'. His set pieces and word play were adopted by Tom Stoppard. It's no coincidence if the setting, and lines like: 'I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race', remind you of, say, Stoppard's 'Arcadia'.

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