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This week only

Shameless plug.

For this week only you can cacth my radio play, Patent Breaking Life Saving, for BBC World Service on internet playback on this link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/world_drama.shtml

or directly on this link.

The website blurb is:

Patent Breaking, Life Saving
By Ben Yeoh

This week’s BBC World Drama takes a wry look at world health, in the comedy Patent Breaking Life Saving.

Ernest is the lazy President of a small African state, from a long family line of lazy Presidents. He likes the uniform, and the fireworks displays. The widespread sickness in his country is distasteful but hardly his problem. And then one day, he is hit on the head during a game of crazy golf, and starts to care. His first act, as visionary leader, is to break all the international patent agreements, for the sake of his people’s health.

From fat cats to fat rats, international treaties to crazy golf, Patent Breaking, Life Saving stars Danny Sapani as Ernest and Tanya Moodie as Grace.

Directed by Jessica Dromgoole

December 7, 2006 | Filed Under  

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One Response to “This week only”

  1. Andrew Field on December 14th, 2006

    Hey Ben,

    Alack I managed to miss the show. Any chance of getting an mp3 or some such off you?

    Andy

  • About me

    I'm a playwright and investment analyst. I have a broad range of interests: food, gardening, innovation & intellectual property, sustainability, architecture & design, writing and the arts. I sit on the board of Talawa Theatre Company and advise a CIS investment trust on socially responsible investments.

  • Recent Work

    Recent plays include, for theatre: Nakamitsu, Yellow Gentlemen, Lost in Peru, Lemon Love. For radio: Places in Between (R4), Patent Breaking Life Saving (WS).

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