12 October 2008

This week in the Listener: TV & Radio - October 18-24 2008 Vol 215 No 3571 Radio Week by Fiona Rae

SUNDAY OCTOBER 19

The Sunday Drama, Radio New Zealand National, 3.04pm. RNZ National has had a root around the drama archives and come up with Peter Bland's play One Hell of a Day, which recalls the all-too-familiar share market crash of '87. Bland plays George Lust, an actor whose wife leaves him, whose agent dies and whose world goes crazy. Lucy Lawless plays his wife, Rachel.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sundaydrama

Coming Up
Sunday 19 October 2008 3.04pm
One Hell of a Day
By Peter Strauss

An actor's wife leaves him, his agent dies and the world goes crazy around him.

Peter Bland stars in the play he wrote himself about the heady days of the 1987 share market boom - and crash.

Cast:
Peter Bland - George Lust
Lucy Lawless - Rachel, his wife
Gilbert Goldie - Julian
Anthony Grosser - Ralph
Ken Blackburn - the bank manager
Derek Payne – Agar
Merv Smith - the burglar

Produced by John O'Leary of Word Pictures for Radio New Zealand National

News contributed by Barbara Davies