The Isle of Wight is the location for a radio play being broadcast on BBC Radio 4 today (Monday).
The Queen of the Isle of Wight was written by the award-winning novelist and playwright, Barney Norris.
His third play for BBC Radio 4, this tells the story of drugs and violence, after the body of the main character’s best friend is discovered on the beach. The dark underbelly of the Island is revealed as Lin tries to clean up her act and leave the Island for good.
Starring
The Queen of the Isle of Wight features Caroline Catz (Doc Martin), Charlotte Beaumont (Broadchurch), Finlay Robertson (Life Begins) and Claudie Blakley (Lark Rise to Candleford).
Award-winning playwright
As well as winning the Critics Circle Award for most promising playwright for ‘Visitors’, Barney’s debut novel ‘Five Rivers Met in A Wooded Plain’ was published to great acclaim and he has gone on to secure a publishing deal with Penguin Random House.
Barney has an obvious passion for the countryside, as is witnessed in his love and praise for ‘This Country’, focusing on how rural folk are underrepresented in the arts and his theatre company Up in Arms, who champion work that reaches out into forgotten rural communities.
Listen in or listen again
The Queen of the Isle of Wight will be broadcast at 2pm on BBC Radio 4.
If you miss the broadcast, you can listen again via the BBC Sounds App.
You can also follow Barney on Twitter to stay up to sate with his work.
Thanks to News OnTheWight reader, Seb, for the heads-up.
Image: Kevin Lofthouse under CC BY 2.0
