“It was lovely. We played games and we laughed. It was just lovely, lovely. I was a bit wary of Johnny at first. I was playing Johnny Depp’s butler and I didn’t know how that would go – big star, big diva. But he was lovely.In the tiny bit I had with him, he had to shout at me and he said to Ken, ‘I can’t shout at Derek Jack-o-bee.’ I fell in love with him immediately.
Derek Jacobi about working with Johnny on Murder on the Orient Express
…Derek Jacobi got a copy of Hamlet from Peter O’Toole …In 1963, Jacobi was Laertes to O’Toole’s prince. One day, O’Toole presented him with a book of Hamlet that once belonged to celebrated Victorian actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson [See below]. Jacobi later passed it on to Branagh who, in 2017, gave it to Tom Hiddleston when he directed him as Hamlet at Rada…
Full Tracklist (Plus story/song explanations!) below the cut
Mars - Sleeping at Last - The overture of sorts. War, loss, and the repercussions afterwards
They’re calling off the war, On account of losing track Of what we’re fighting for”
Sing to Me - MISSIO - The doctor and the master being turned into people they never thought they were (see the parallel audio titles, ‘Only the good’ and 'Only the monstrous’)
Talking to the mirror like I’ve seen him somewhere before He said I look familiar, did we meet the other night?
Moral of the Story - Ashe - Reminiscing on the relationship, the lost contact, the terms in which things ended. Trying to make things feel better by acting like it’s for the better
Some mistakes get made, that’s alright, that’s okay You can think that you’re in love when you’re really just in pain
when the flies fell -Sub Urban - Mainly about Eight, thrown into the war, scared and unsure
I screamed - “I cannot be your saint, I know you can’t be saved”
As the World Caves In -Matt Maltese - Trying to find comfort in the fact that there can’t be one without the other, and that the Master will always be there, he always survives, he has to survive
You put your final suit on I paint my fingernails Oh we’re going out in style babe And everything’s on sale
Me -The 1975 - The Doctor receives the news of the Master’s death.
I got a plane in the middle of the night Don’t you mind? I nearly killed somebody Don’t you mind, don’t you mind?
Put It On Me - Matt Maeson - The War Doctor
You are the cold inescapable proof You’re the evil, the way and the life and the truth You’re revival, beginning and you’re genocide And I watch in wonder
The War - SYML - The Doctor uses the Moment
Here stands a man With a bullet in his clenched right hand Don’t push him, son For he’s got the power to crush this land
Karma -AJR - Ages later, the Doctor is trying to hold onto things that he knows won’t last forever, begging the universe to let him have just this
I’ve been so good, but it’s still getting harder I’ve been so good, where the hell is the karma? I’ve been so good, I’ve been so good this year
Welcome to the End of Your Life -The Driver Era - title about sums it up
Now it’s just me and a mirror Can’t tell if I’m really here I think I’m leaving this body
catch me if you can -EDEN - the Doctor runs and runs and runs, and he will never stop
But I always liked the thought of maybe being a runaway I could be your lover and you could be my heartache I could sing the songs that we used to sing when we were kids Maybe that could bring us back to before we got stuck in this
BBC 3 Radio Drama performed by the Renaissance Theatre Company.
Cast in order of speaking:
Kent - Keith Michel Cloucester - Richard Briers Edmund - Kenneth Branagh Lear - John Gielgud Goneril - Judi Dench Cordelia - Emma Thompson Regan - Eileen Atkins Albany - John Shrapnel Cornwall - Robert Stephens Burgundy - Denis Quilley France - Derek Jacobi Edgar - Iain Glen Oswald - Bod Hoskins Knight - Simon Russell Beale Fool - Michael Williams First Gentleman - Nickolas Grace Curan - Sam Dastor Servant - Harry Towb Old Man - Maurice Denham First Messenger - Bernard Cribbins Second Gentleman - Matthew Morgan Second Messenger - Nicholas Boulton Captain - Sam Dastor Herald - Peter Hall
Yes, excellent. This is good. Can always count on @runecestershire.
