Et in arcadia ego

[sawyl]

I loved yesterday's broadcast of Arcadia — part of the Beeb's celebration of Stoppard's 70th — so much that I listened to it again today. The production was quite sublime, with the past and present sections delimited by clever sound effects or, when the action begins to overlap, a palimpsest of effects. Sheer delight. It certainly knocked the usual daily radio play, as parodied by Mitchell and Webb in The Unreasonably Cheerful Postman, into a cocked hat.