Oates After His Fingers is a radio play by Steve Walker. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 01 December 1991, as an installment of the Monday Play. The running time is 45 minutes[1].
Plot[]
Captain Oates is thawed out in the year 2065.
Cast[]
- Captain Oates - Stephen Dillane[2]
- Archie - Vincent Marzello
- Europa - Lorelei King
- Hendrix; Edward VII - David Graham
- Ma - Pauline Letts
- Lloyd George - Sam Dastor
- Dr Coombs - Charles Millham
- Scott; Manfred - Nigel Carrington
- Dr Fitch - Peter Penry-Jones
- Strangler - Norman Jones
- Jailer - Tom Watt
- Parrot - David Bannerman
- Hungry Fred - Colin McFarlane
- Snooty woman - Irene Sutcliffe
Directed by Peter Kavanagh
Critical Reception[]
"This fantastic comedy about a promiscuous wife who thaws out -- in more ways than one -- a fingerless, toeless, spotless Captain Oates after 153-post Scott years in the Antarctic ice and thereby sets him on the road to the gallows, would have overtaxed the imaginative powers of most playwrights. Not, however, those of a writer who has already (in The Pope's Brother) created a Devil who planned to exchange his toasting fork for the pontiff's crook. Steve Walker has got radio fantasy down to a fine art. By the time he has finished with us, we are almost persuaded that it is the most natural thing in the world for a horse to crack puns such as "I can't get enough of Oates!"" - The Times[3]
References[]
- ↑ http://www.swalks.com/radio.html
- ↑ http://fp.enter.net/~purrfect/oates.htm
- ↑ The Times 02 December 1991