New radio play on Bush from the writer of MASH: 'Abrogate'

[muriel_volestrangler]

I don't know how many radio stations in the US broadcast plays that last an hour, but maybe it will be picked up there. This will be broadcast in the UK (and on the net) this coming Friday.

Friday Play – Abrogate
9.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 4

Mash creator Larry Gelbart’s new political satire, Abrogate, is set
during an imaginary congressional hearing investigating the
abrogation of human rights under the Bush regime.

One of America’s funniest and most penetrating modern satirists,
Gelbart’s new play for BBC Radio 4 deals acerbically with the
shifting value of the notion human rights under the presidency
of George W Bush.

Mastergate was Gelbart’s satire on the Iran Contra hearings, an
imaginary congressional tribunal exposing the folly and vice of
those in the Reagan administration. Abrogate is an examination of
the many established rights eroded or abrogated under the Bush
administration. It is set in an imaginary congressional hearing in
Washington DC at a time described as “inevitable”.

The satire deals head on with the Iraq war, its abuses and its
consequences, but Gelbart avoids the pitfalls of agitprop and
soapbox theatre to make his points through comedy, often
outrageous and surreal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/pdfs/radio/week21/bbcradiowk21_fri.pdf

[eleny]

1. That would be airing in the afternoon in the US

Can we listen to it on the web?

Edit: Looks like a fun station - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/