Radio Catchup: Noel Coward, Vic Galloway and Chart the Week

This week there's pre-war drama, a 1980s indie disco and a bang up-to-date news reviewRadio 7 gave a welcome airing of Noel Coward pastiche Design for Murder this week (listen again here). The play's author, Marcy Kahan, has capitalised on the gap in Coward's diaries between world wars to create a quintet of comic dramas speculating about what he may have been up to. The idea that Coward may have been a spy is not a new one and he is cast in that light in two of the following pieces, but in Desi...

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