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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lyn Gardner

Radioplay

Frank is driving the overnight National Express coach from Penzance to London. What with the problems in Camborne where martial law has been declared after it was overrun with feral toddlers, and the long journey ahead, it's not surprising that Frank wants a bit of company.

So he embarks on a story about his great uncle Richard who went into the General Post Office in Dublin in 1916 to post a letter and ended up as an IRA volunteer, before becoming a radio tycoon in America.

This hour is a lot of crazy, good ideas in search of a form, and a massive talent in the shape of Ed Gaughan. It may be a one-man show, but Gaughan has many voices. It is the framing device - enjoyably comic though it is - that seems to have wandered in from another piece entirely, and the segment about the founding of radio in New York doesn't have a strong enough narrative or purpose. Ironically the overall effect is of a bag of tricks and a theatre-maker with a distinctive voice who has not yet found something to say.

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