Rediscover radio drama 30+ years later… and spend the afternoon with BBC iPlayer’s BBC Radio 4 drama “Five Wedding Dresses” (five 15-minute plays, including an odd tale of a bride who is so in love with her wedding dress she won’t take it off; another about a girl who mangles her sister’s wedding dress to stop the wedding; and a third about some pretty strange village men).
It takes me back to the days before TV was allowed into South Africa by an apartheid government worried about the influence of foreign (read English-language) programming on the country’s Afrikaans culture. Idiots.
It’s a pleasant enough way to spend an afternoon (no, I won’t be taking up knitting or needlework), but is it a replacement for TV? Hmmm… not really. It is a good alternative though, and this experiment is less about replacements than exploring alternatives. On the other hand, I may have less choice than I would like. StarHub has been deafeningly silent about my DVR for seven days now, which doesn’t bode well. A service that doesn’t work properly compounded by an inability to say what’s gone wrong… hmmm.
P.S. More about Day Four later… and my (failed) quest to wrest value out of the two subscription-on-demand channels i bought in a fit of Day One enthusiasm.
