What I Heard About Iraq

[Stardark]

As I recall, there's a page for TV on U75, but not radio. I might be wrong about that, but assuming there is no forum specifically created to discuss Iraq, this seems like the best place to post a heads-up about this play (just performed at the Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury), originating in America, but broadcast by BBC Radio 4 last Friday:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/friday_play.shtml

'Eliot Weinberger's long and continuing prose poem draws on reports, newspapers, official utterances and eye-witness accounts to paint a terrifying picture of the war in Iraq.

Adapted for radio by Simon Levy.

With Tony Pasqualini, Bernadette Speakes, Darcy Halsey, Marc Casabani, Ryun Yu.'

Available to 'Listen Again' until next Friday's offering.

 

[moono]

Nice one. Ta.

 

[slaar]

Thanks, I remember reading his second installment in the London Review of Books about 18 months ago and being very moved; there was some dark humour there too, the one that stuck in my mind being:

I heard a man who had been in Abu Ghraib prison say: ‘The Americans brought electricity to my ass before they brought it to my house.’

In fact here's the links:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n03/wein01_.html

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n01/wein01_.html

I'm having to control my urge to quote every single one of those in full.

 

[ska invita]

Thanks, I remember reading his second installment in the London Review of Books about 18 months ago and being very moved; there was some dark humour there too, the one that stuck in my mind being:

In fact here's the links:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n03/wein01_.html

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n01/wein01_.html

I'm having to control my urge to quote every single one of those in full.

What a fantastic, tragic read

 

[yield]

Stardark I hope you don't mind but I started a thread in books, films, TV, radio & writing. I remembered to link to this thread.

The play is great, listened to it twice in the last few days.
Thanks for the lrb links slaar.

 

[Stardark]

Stardark I hope you don't mind but I started a thread in books, films, TV, radio & writing. I remembered to link to this thread.

No worries

 

[ska invita]

What a piss take:

"I heard Richard Perle tell Americans to ‘relax and celebrate victory’. I heard him say: ‘The predictions of those who opposed this war can be discarded like spent cartridges.’

I heard Lieutenant-General Jay Garner say: ‘We ought to look in a mirror and get proud and stick out our chests and suck in our bellies and say: “Damn, we’re Americans.”’

not even funny

this was intersting too:

I heard that the US military was actively recruiting in Latin America, offering citizenship in exchange for service. I heard that Hispanic-Americans make up 9.5 per cent of the actively enlisted, but 17.5 per cent of those given the most dangerous assignments.

 

[ska invita]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/friday_play.shtml

As this link will be dead in a few days I thought id upload it here for prosperity:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/12/4/465751/What I Heard About Iraq.ra
also this way you can download it and listen when you want, or on ipod, rather than bbc player.

 

[Stardark]

Finest kind, niksativa

 

[teqniq]

Thanks Stadark and niksativa

 

[moono]

IOF conducts secret anthrax experiments on its own troops

Oops, thanked already. Wrong thread.