Playwright Ron Hutchinson sets his tribute to the birth of British radio drama in an odd sort of 1924. This is a time when someone can complain about the profusion of Agatha Christie novels, even though the crime writer has only three books to her name. It is an era when the London stage presents experimental dramas with titles such as Gloom and Doom three decades before Waiting for Godot. And it has characters whose vocabulary stretches to such modernisms as ‘twentysomething’ and ‘midlife crisis’.
Sorry for the pedantry, but the anachronisms are symptomatic of a play that makes it hard to know what to believe.
