Slipstream
Mar. 31st, 2008 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylAlthough BBC7 doesn't have much of a budget for commissioning new material, the stuff that it does pick is consistantly excellent.
Take Simon Bovey's new series Slipstream. Set in the dying days of WWII, it follows a team of special forces personnel as they try to appropriate a mysterious silver aircraft ahead of the Americans and Russians. The plot featured just the right number of twists and turns, the characters were strong, from the bluff major to endearingly geeky aeronautical engineer, and the cast playing them were uniformly great — I particularly liked Joannah Tincey's superb cut glass 1930's accent.
What with Cold Blood and The Voice of God, not to mention the macabre Ice Man, Bovey is fast becoming one of my favourite radio writers.
Take Simon Bovey's new series Slipstream. Set in the dying days of WWII, it follows a team of special forces personnel as they try to appropriate a mysterious silver aircraft ahead of the Americans and Russians. The plot featured just the right number of twists and turns, the characters were strong, from the bluff major to endearingly geeky aeronautical engineer, and the cast playing them were uniformly great — I particularly liked Joannah Tincey's superb cut glass 1930's accent.
What with Cold Blood and The Voice of God, not to mention the macabre Ice Man, Bovey is fast becoming one of my favourite radio writers.
