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Hear thisHarold Jackson, Guardian, Friday November 17, 2000Peter Straughan's play Wainewright The Poisoner (9pm, Radio 4) was inspired by the poet laureate's biography of the 19th-century forger and judicial exile. Andrew Motion decked out his research with fictional speculation about the little-known life of this artist and man-about-town. Straughan's play, with Nigel Hawthorne in the main role, combines poetry, prose, fact and fancy to portray the plausible villain who apparently murdered any relation who came between him and his grandfather's legacy. |
