{"id":107685,"date":"2019-08-27T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/27\/lost-airtime-bbc-radio-4s-search-for-prousts-masterpiece\/"},"modified":"2019-08-27T15:35:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:35:20","slug":"lost-airtime-bbc-radio-4s-search-for-prousts-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=107685","title":{"rendered":"Lost airtime? BBC Radio 4\u2019s search for Proust\u2019s masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vast scope of \u00c0 la R\u00e9cherche du Temps Perdu was always going to make 10 hours seem too short \u2013 but there were highlights to savourLast week in the Guardian, I commended those of a bookish turn of mind to surrender themselves to the BBC\u2019s 10-hour adaptation of Marcel Proust\u2019s In Search of Lost Time, broadcast over the bank holiday weekend on Radio 4. I had reckoned without the cricket, but even so, long weekends are, well, pretty long. So did the series deliver on its promise to transport us, like the narrator himself, back to the riverside at Combray and the salons of Paris?One of the central issues that faced dramatist Timberlake Wertenbaker and director and producer Celia de Wolff was how to balance the unparalleled sense of longueur of Proust\u2019s vast roman-fleuve and the recollection of dramatic, frequently fruity incident. It is easier \u2013 and perhaps especially so in the grammar of radio \u2013 to convey dinner-party repartee than moments of reflection, even when they are performed by the measured, deliberate Derek Jacobi. Thus the ear was drawn more naturally to, for example, Frances Barber\u2019s conspiratorial Madame Verdurin as she gossiped and plotted and decided who was in or out of her social circle. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/aug\/27\/lost-airtime-bbc-radio-4s-search-for-prousts-masterpiece\" target=\"_blank\">Lost airtime? BBC Radio 4\u2019s search for Proust\u2019s masterpiece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vast scope of \u00c0 la R\u00e9cherche du Temps Perdu was always going to make 10 hours seem too short \u2013 but there were highlights to savourLast week in the Guardian, I commended those of a bookish turn of mind to surrender themselves to the BBC\u2019s 10-hour adaptation of Marcel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}