Man Of The Moment
- Radio comedy drama
- BBC Radio 4
- 2009
- 1 episode
2009 production of Sir Alan Ayckbourn's dark comedy about a career criminal who agrees to participate in a reality TV show filmed at his villa. Stars Tim Pigott-Smith, Alex Jennings, Lisa Dillon, Janie Dee, Damian O'Hare and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Comedy Drama
- Broadcast
- 2009
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 1
- Stars
- Tim Pigott-Smith, Alex Jennings, Lisa Dillon, Janie Dee, Damian O'Hare, Ella Smith, Alan Shearman, John Baddeley and more
- Writer
- Alan Ayckbourn
- Director
- Martin Jarvis
- Producer
- Rosalind Ayres
- Company
As part of BBC Radio 4's tribute to Sir Alan Ayckbourn (who turned 70 in April 2009) the station broadcast this dark comedy set around, and in, the swimming pool of a Mediterranean villa.
Vic Parks is, apparently, the man of the moment - a vicious criminal who, having spent nine years in jail for a botched bank robbery, has written his autobiography and is now a popular television celebrity.
Spending time in his idyllic Mediterranean villa, he has agreed to appear, poolside, on a television reality show called Their Paths Crossed.
The programme's producer, Jill Rillington, plans to reunite Vic with the bank clerk, Douglas Beechey, whose actions unwittingly foiled Vic's robbery and led to his time in prison.
Jill hopes to exploit the irony that, although Douglas had a brief 15 minutes of fame, the man who has found lasting celebrity is the villain. But the proposed documentary starts to free-fall and events take an extraordinary turn around the swimming pool.
Additional details
- Production
- Studio
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Saturday 11th April 2009 at 2:30pm on BBC Radio 4
- Episode length
- 90 minutes
- All previous repeats
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- Sunday 6th April 2014 at 4:00am on Radio 4 Extra
- Saturday 5th April 2014 at 4:00pm on Radio 4 Extra
- Saturday 5th April 2014 at 6:00am on Radio 4 Extra