The play bears a glancing relation to the transcript of the trial and
to the newspaper reports on file in the Rice Library of Marlborough
College. It makes a free creative use of other historical details, in
the part it gives to the young woman journalist and so on.
I didn't very much care for it as a play but others may have enjoyed it
more - it sounds as though you did, Bryan.
Mary Hamer
On Sep, 21, 2010, at 15:38, Bryan Diamond wrote:
> Eric Thompson mentioned the Radio 4 play 'The White Man's Burden'
> based on the stage play by Paul Theroux. I listened to the broadcast,
> found it powerful. [It is available on Listen Again until Friday.]
> Noone has commented on its accuracy or relation to the stage play..
> Has the latter -rarely performed - had attention? How did Theroux come
> to chose the subject and the BBC to revive it? Any answers?
>
> Bryan Diamond
>
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