Chris Martin's Lex Talionis by Nigel Baldwin

Chris Martin's Lex Talionis
by Nigel Baldwin
With Bill Nighy as Chris and Harriet Walter as Charlie/Linda.
Directed by Richard Wortley.
 
Broadcast on 2nd June 1987, Radio 3.
105 minutes

Chris Martin is a screenwriter who doesn't believe in revenge and is writing a film about exactly that. Then his film - and his life - start to go badly wrong and he finds he can't live up to his high moral standards.

Nominee for the Sony Radio Awards for best play of 1987.

(Lex Talionis is the 'law of retaliation', the principle that a punishment inflicted should correspond in degree and kind to the offense of the wrongdoer, as an eye for an eye.)

128/44;  sound quality good

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  • Thanks, Rick, missed this one!!

  • Thank you!

  • An absolutely wonderful drama. Thanks Rick
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