{"id":29196,"date":"2018-06-25T06:06:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T05:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=29196"},"modified":"2018-06-30T16:17:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T15:17:01","slug":"toyah-on-the-radio-bbc-r4-extra-the-older-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-on-the-radio-bbc-r4-extra-the-older-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah on the Radio: BBC R4 Extra: The Older Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01sjngn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01sjngn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"tow15a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tow15a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>The first series of <em>The Older Woman<\/em>, the six-part radio drama which was originally broadcast in 1993, begins airing again on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01sjngn\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BBC Radio 4 Extra<\/strong><\/a> from today.<\/p>\n<p>Toyah plays Elsa, alongside Martun Clunes and Zo\u00eb Wanamaker as Roy and Jane in this excellent, and slightly surreal, drama by Tony Bagley. Toyah also performs the theme song to <em>The Older Woman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The series, produced by Paul Schlesinger, also features David Troughton, Geoff McGivern, David Holt, Keith Drinkel and Melanie Hudson in a variety of roles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Monday 25th June: 7am\/5pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra:<\/strong> <strong>Tuesday 26th June: 5am<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra:<\/strong> <strong>Saturday 30th June: 12pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Episode\u00a01 of 6<\/em>. Local hack journalist Roy Hitchcock meets his former English teacher, and sets out on a crusade to win her heart against all odds. Stars Zoe Wanamaker, Martin Clunes and Toyah Willcox. From January 1993.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01sjngn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01sjngn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13736\" alt=\"tow13a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tow13a.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tow13a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tow13a-300x47.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Below are a couple of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tow13ee.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Times<\/a><\/strong> clippings with a little more detail about the series, published\u00a0when <em>The Older Woman<\/em> originally aired in January 1993. (Thanks to Anthony Lewis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tow13ee.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tow13ee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"tow13e\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tow13e.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first series of The Older Woman, the six-part radio drama which was originally broadcast in 1993, begins airing again on BBC Radio 4 Extra from today. Toyah plays Elsa, alongside Martun Clunes and Zo\u00eb Wanamaker as Roy and Jane in this excellent, and slightly surreal, drama by Tony Bagley. Toyah also performs the theme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,1803],"tags":[793,808,791,1819,794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29196"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29262,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29196\/revisions\/29262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}