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Sophie Thompson
Burns And The Bankers

Burns And The Bankers

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2012
  • 1 episode

Afternoon Play about a woman in a law firm who attends a corporate Burns Supper which ends in an unexpectedly climatic way. Stars Sophie Thompson, John Sessions, Greg Wise, Peter Forbes, David McKay and more.

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Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
2012
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
1
Stars
Sophie Thompson, John Sessions, Greg Wise, Peter Forbes, David McKay, Angela Darcy, Siobhan Redmond and Gemma Goodman
Writers
Helen Simpson and Liz Lochhead
Director
Amber Barnfather
Producer
Amber Barnfather
Company

Liz Lochhead, Scotland's Makar (national poet), adapts Helen Simpson's poignant short story for the radio.

When English law firm partner Nicola Beaumont sits down to a long-winded corporate Burns Supper, she sweeps us up in her private account of the evening's events.

At first impatient with all the whisky-fuelled pomposity around her, Nicola finds herself surprisingly moved as the traditional rituals of a Burns Night unfold. What she comes to learn about the eighteenth-century Scots poet, Robert Burns, brings new self-knowledge which will help her through the night's violent emotions and climactic events.

Helen Simpson's story Burns and the Bankers is part of her collection Hey Yeah Right Get a Life, published in 2000.

Additional details

Production
Studio
Soundtrack
Violinist is Sam McGregor.

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Wednesday 25th January 2012 at 2:15pm on BBC Radio 4
Episode length
45 minutes
All previous repeats
  • Wednesday 25th January 2017 at 9:15pm on Radio 4 Extra
  • Wednesday 25th January 2017 at 11:15am on Radio 4 Extra

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