Radio 4 Book of the Week - and other Alexandrias

 

I had to park by the side of the road to hear Kenneth Cranham read Part One of my Alexandria;The Last Nights of Cleopatra this morning. 

It was a peculiar physical experience to hear a diary  written two-and-a-half years ago in Egypt, about fifty years ago in Essex, by a Wapping pub on the banks of the Thames.

But it was safer than driving. 

Other versions have appeared in The Spectator, The Scotsman, The Times, The Mail on Sunday, The Glasgow Herald, the Literary Review and the elegantly titled Mirabile Dictu which comes from Iowa.

Part Two of the BBC adapatation, by the scrupulous producer and adaptor, Jill Waters, is at 9.45 am tomorrow. 

 

 

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