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Different Truths. Image shows left to right: Other (Jim Broadbent), Man (Ian McDiarmid)
Different Truths

Different Truths

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 3
  • 2024
  • 1 episode

Two satirical short plays by Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Also features Ian McDiarmid, Jim Broadbent, Michael Moreland and Ian Dunnett Jr.

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Different Truths. Image shows left to right: Other (Jim Broadbent), Man (Ian McDiarmid)

Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
2024
Channel
BBC Radio 3
Episodes
1
Stars
Ian McDiarmid, Jim Broadbent, Michael Moreland and Ian Dunnett Jr
Writers
Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Ian McDiarmid
Director
Emma Harding
Producer
Gaynor Macfarlane

Two satirical and macabre short plays about the place of the writer in society by Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt. In new versions for radio and featuring Ian McDiarmid.

A Conversation At Night

A prominent liberal writer in an unnamed European dictatorship comes face-to-face with the state assassin assigned to kill him. The writer has long awaited his visitor and - as they wait for the inevitable - the writer defends his right to freedom of expression.

An Incident At Twlight

A Nobel laureate is confronted in his luxurious hotel room by a shabby retired bookkeeper. All of the author's novels have centred on the death of a character - and the bookkeeper believes that these deaths have been real - not fictional. Can he possibly be right?

Catch-up

Additional details

Also known as
  • An Incident At Twlight
  • A Conversation At Night
  • Drama On 3: Different Truths

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Sunday 17th November 2024 at 8pm on BBC Radio 3
Episode length
75 minutes

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