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Peter Pan
1st Broadcast on 24th December 1995 BBC Radio 4
Contents
Writer
Producer
Director
Dramatised by
Produced for
BBC Drama Dept. BBC Radio 4
Synopsis
Yes, it's that story...
Cast
Peter Pan Toyah Wilcox
Wendy Georgina Cates
Captain Hook Ron Moody
Mr Darling Ron Moody
Smee Roy Hudd
Mrs Darling June Whitfield
Starkey Chris Emmett
Bill Jukes Simon Treves
Tinkerbell Polly March
Tiger Lily Eve Karpf
Cecco Graham Hoadly
Noodler Mervyn Stutter
John James Cohen
Michael Justin Webb
Slightly Max Wrottesley
Tootles Freddy White
Nibbs Ken Gordon
Curly James Daley
Jane Carla Prosser
Technical Realisation
Recorded at
Recorded at Studio 7 Maida Vale Studio London England on 26th - 29th September 1995
Music Composed & Arranged
Comment by Dirk Maggs
Adapted by the highly gifted Philip Glassborow. In Peter Pan I tried extremely hard to create ‘camera angles’ so I could cut from shot to shot within scenes. Here in the Lagoon Scene, I recorded the actors from three ‘camera angles’ - one with Hook and the pirates on the island in the lagoon, one with Peter and Wendy spying on them from the waterfall overhead, and one ‘long shot’ overlooking the whole scene.
No pun intended, but in the Lagoon Scene there’s a yell from Hook ‘Pan!’ that we ‘panned’ more onto the surround channels than the front channels. This is risky in Dolby Surround because mono listeners will lose surround information, but I wanted to get a feeling that Hook’s voice was echoing all around the lagoon ...
Running Time
Episode 1
Away to Neverland: London,1904: A strange visitor transforms the Darling household one bedtime.
Episode 2
In the Mermaid's Lagoon: The mischievous boy and the children arrive in Neverland.
Episode 3
An Awfully Big Adventure: Captain Hook turns the tables, as the battle between the Lost Boys.
Episode 4
Spring Cleaning Time Again: Wendy longs for home, but first she and the brothers must be rescued.
4 Episode 30 minutes each 120 Minutes in total
What Others have said
“...spoken word is much more than an inferior way of experiencing books. A producer such as Dirk Maggs (Spiderman, Peter Pan) uses surround-sound and special effects as an artist uses a palette.”
CHRISTINA HARDYMENT New Statesman, October 1997
