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Mark Ravenhill

Chooses the tv series Casanova by Dennis Potter

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Royal Shakespeare Company Writer in Residence 2012. Creator of ITV sitcom Vicious. Plays include Mother Clap's Molly House and Ten Plagues.

Casanova by Dennis Potter

The writer Mark Ravenhill聽chooses聽Casanova, Dennis Potter's first tv serial. Broadcast on the 成人快手 in 1971, Casanova starred Frank Finlay as the 18th century libertine.

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Dennis Potter

Dennis Potter聽on Casanova, and the difference between writing for films and tv.

From聽Scan 25聽Nov聽1971 - 成人快手 Radio 4

聽The Singing Detective

Dennis Potter's 1986 tv serial The Singing Detective is discussed by playwright Nick Dear, Potter鈥檚 biographer Humphrey Carpenter and historian Kate Dunn.

From聽Night Waves聽2聽Dec聽2004 - 成人快手 Radio 3

Potter's Politics

Dennis Potter on his early聽political ambitions聽and how he came to聽write for television.

Mark Ravenhill on the run

As the playwright聽exercised聽for the 2013 London Marathon, Mark Lawson joins him to聽discuss his translation of Bertolt Brecht's A Life of Galileo.

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