The True Story of Bonnie Parker
By Beatrice Colin
15 Minute Drama, 26 to 30 August 2013
Omnibus version, 31 August 2013, Radio 4 Extra
A new look at the story of Bonnie and Clyde that uses historical sources to illustrate how a series of often disastrous decisions led the former waitress from Cement City to end up as one of America's most wanted criminals. It reveals how the press first celebrated and then reviled Bonnie Parker as her notoriety grew. Even during their lifetimes, the depiction of the couple in the press was at considerable odds with the reality of their life on the road. But most of all, this is about a doomed love affair, a twentieth century Romeo and Juliet, with guns.
Bonnie .... Melody Grove
Clyde ..... Finn den Hertog
Mr Dove ... Robin Laing
Other parts played by Liam Brennan, James Anthony Pearson and Rosalind Sydney.
Produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.
160/44; 78.2 MB; sound quality excellent
26 Aug 2013
1/5 Having dropped out of high school and married at 16, the young Bonnie Parker is working as a waitress. Her life is about to change-when she meets Clyde Barrow.
27 Aug 2013
2/5 Bonnie has embarked on a life on the road with Clyde - and things soon start go to wrong.
28 Aug 2013
3/5 The photographs have been discovered and the Barrow Gang is now wanted - dead or alive.
29 Aug 2013
4/5 Bonnie is recovering after the car accident, and the law is closing in on the Barrow Gang.
30 Aug 2013
5/5 Bonnie and Clyde know that time is running out and commit increasingly desperate crimes.
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I was hard pressed to make a distinction of whether this was Historical Fiction or a Docudrama. As I understand it a docudrama sticks right to what is known for certain and Historical fiction deviates either to fill in what is not certain or actually embark on a Line of thought that is purely fiction. From what I have read this appears to be a docudrama so I am posting it as a Docudrama/Biodrama. If anyone disagrees with this labeling of the post please tell me why on this thread. ------------------------------ R
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Thanks, look forward to listening.
Thanks for THIS!!
I live 7 miles from Rowena, Texas.
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) was born in Rowena, Texas, the second of three children. Her father, Charles Parker, a bricklayer, died when Bonnie was four.[7] Her mother, Emma Krause, moved with the children to her parents' home in Cement City, an industrial suburb of Dallas, where she found work as a seamstress.[8] Her maternal grandfather, Frank Krause, came from Germany.[9] Parker was one of the best students in her high school, winning top prizes in spelling, writing, and public speaking.[10][11] As an adult, her fondness for writing found expression in poems such as "The Story of Suicide Sal"[12] and "The Trail's End" (known since as "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde"[13]).