Stuart Manning

Fact meets fiction as Richard Wilson narrates this personal "radiography", taking listeners on a semi-fictional odyssey through milestone moments in his life. Featuring childhood secrets, a decades-long quest for a lone glove and a cameo from an acting legend of yesteryear, it's whimsical and gently charming.

The wry script is more likely to inspire smirks than all-out laughter, but in Wilson it has a bona fide trump card. Delivered matter-of-factly in his lugubrious drawl, even the most outrageous flights of fancy can seem plausible. He might struggle to convince the listener that he truly coached George Best to football triumph, but for a moment we do wonder - and therein lies the true joy of this play. Like all the best tall tales, it's difficult to tell where the truth really ends.