Houdini

Posted by Magersfontein on June 22, 2009 at 5:34am
Not a documentary, but a play about Harry Houdini, concentrating particularly on his relationship with the spiritualists - particularly Arthur and Jean Conan Doyle. Michael Moloney plays Houdini, with Graham Crowden as Conan Doyle. The play was written and directed by Bob Sinfield for BBC Radio, but I've been unable to discover when it was broadcast. Roger

Houdini by Bob Sinfield.mp3

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  • abby March 6, 2017 at 7:03am

    Thanks!

  • Bill Hollweg March 4, 2017 at 8:29am

    Many Many THANKS!!

  • Mike Hobart July 30, 2011 at 2:06am

     

    Review in THE INDEPENDENT

    Sunday, 3 November 1996

    A professional magician was the subject of Bob Sinfield's play about the life of Houdini (R2). The great escapologist was married to a woman, played by the brilliant Lorelei King, who couldn't bear the risks he took. As he tore his way out of a straitjacket, she shrieked "Oh Houdini, not wiz ze teece! I cawn't bear ze sought off a dentured spouce!". The story of his determined efforts to discredit the charlatan spiritualists who tried to summon up the ghost of his adored mother was well, if melodramatically, told, in the person of Arthur Conan Doyle, played by a touchingly naif Graham Crowden.

    • Bill Hollweg > Mike Hobart March 4, 2017 at 8:29am

      Thanks for the info!! ;-)

    • Magersfontein > Mike Hobart July 30, 2011 at 2:50pm

      Aha! Thank you, Mike.

       

      Roger

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