{"id":41194,"date":"2024-05-16T15:15:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=41194"},"modified":"2024-05-24T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:01:34","slug":"toyah-on-the-radio-bbc-r4-extra-the-older-woman-eps-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-on-the-radio-bbc-r4-extra-the-older-woman-eps-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah On The Radio: BBC R4 Extra: The Older Woman (Eps 1&#038;2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01sjngn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01sjngn noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-21383 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tow15a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>The first series of\u00a0<em>The Older Woman<\/em>, the six-part radio drama which was originally broadcast in 1993, begins airing again on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01sjngn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BBC Radio 4 Extra<\/strong><\/a> from next Friday.<\/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\u00a0<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> <strong>Friday 17th May: 7am<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra:<\/strong> <strong>Friday 17th May<\/strong><strong>: 12pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra:<\/strong> <strong>Friday 17th May<\/strong><strong>: 6pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra:<\/strong> <strong>Saturday 18th May<\/strong><strong>: 2am<\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01sjngn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01sjngn noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13736 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tow13a.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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><strong>The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra:<\/strong> <strong>Friday 24th May: 7am<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra:<\/strong> <strong>Friday 24th May<\/strong><strong>: 12pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra:<\/strong> <strong>Friday 24th May<\/strong><strong>: 6pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra:<\/strong> <strong>Saturday 25th May: 2am<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Episode\u00a02 of 6<\/em>. Can Roy impress Jane by joining a green pressure group? Meanwhile, Pavarotti appears in his dreams with some invaluable advice. Stars Zoe Wanamaker, Martin Clunes and Toyah Willcox. From January 1993.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Below are a couple of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tow13ee.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radio Times<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0clippings with a little more detail about the series, published\u00a0when\u00a0<em>The Older Woman<\/em>\u00a0originally 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 noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"tow13e\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tow13e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first series of\u00a0The Older Woman, the six-part radio drama which was originally broadcast in 1993, begins airing again on\u00a0BBC Radio 4 Extra from next Friday. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,3187],"tags":[792,793,791,794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41194"}],"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=41194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41245,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41194\/revisions\/41245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}