Claudia Roden ... A Book of Middle Eastern Food

[suffolk]

Claudia Roden's biography is being serialised on Radio 4 at 10:45 every morning this week.

[StokeySue]

She's speaking at the British Library on Friday night, can't go
I'll add the R4 prog to My Radio, thanks

[StokeySue]

Hmm - didn't realise it is a drama not a reading. I'll try it but not hopeful. Bizarrely they list the writer, producer etc. but not the cast

[suffolk]

Oh I thought the trailer said Tracy Ann Obermann 'reading' .... one of their 'dramatised readings' perhaps ... I'll try it and see ...

[StokeySue]

The full programme pagedoesgive a cast, including Tracey-Anne Obermann. It is the 15 minute drama slot
Cast just wasn't in th iPlayer app
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09xjb5v

[suffolk]

Well, there's some good names there ... we shall see ... I may 'listen again' later tho as OH is in the studio and he'll be doing Pop Master with Ken Bruce

[Ratatouille]

Listened this morning while I was cooking. rather good I thought but somewhat intrusive music.

[KC2]

Great, thanks for the
CR is one of our favourite cooks/writers.
We have 3 (! don't ask) copies of her Food of Italy (I used to have 4 but gave one to my sister) and I have the Penguin M E food from way back when, and we also have Arabesque which we use a lot.

[scullion]

the book of the week is interesting, too. 'factfulness' by the global health statistician, hans rosling.

[PatsyMFagan]

the book of the week is interesting, too. 'factfulness' by the global health statistician, hans rosling.

I enjoyed that too

[StokeySue]

I ought to listen to that tooo....so much stuff, so little time

[suffolk]

I listened to the first CR episode yesterday evening ... it was interesting although in a different way to how I expected ... the way different cultures engage with their own and each other's cooking is important.

[scullion]

I ought to listen to that tooo....so much stuff, so little time

i'm afraid r4 is a permanent fixture in our house so we hear everything (except when the tv goes on) - unless we're out.

[suffolk]

I ought to listen to that tooo....so much stuff, so little time

i'm afraid r4 is a permanent fixture in our house so we hear everything (except when the tv goes on) - unless we're out.

I received most of my education (well, most useful stuff anyway) since my early teens via R4 .... it's on most of the time here too

[StokeySue]

I really can't listen to things like a book reading while doing something else, I need to pay attention properly to enjoy it. A few things, like folding laundry and ironing are OK - I listened to all the Living with Gods podcasts either while ironing or on public transport. And I will not listen to the Archers or most of those drawn out afternoon dramas, so utterly tedious

[StokeySue]

Before you all jump on me about the Archers - it's all radio drama I find tedious, I may try to get into it a bit more, I can do Hitchhiker's Guide, but that's as far as I've got

[suffolk]

I've enjoyed soooooooo much radio drama over the years ............ I remember with great affection The Barchester Chronicles which, IIRC were broadcast on Sunday afternoons back in the 80s.

[Ratatouille]

She, Claudia Roden, was on Kitchen cabinet this morning.

[StokeySue]

I'm doing quite well with the dramatisation, though if anyon else says "oh, that smells so good" I may scream. Merciful lack of overly intrusive sound effects.

I think two things put me off radio drama, Nrs Dale's Diary and some made for schools. When I started trying to listen to them again they seemed to have bought a load of unnecessary sound effects cheap, which grated, and a lot of the dramatisations are based on books, and I seldom really enjoy an adaptation of a book I've read