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Mincemeat on BBC Radio 3
13 November 2011Cardboard Citizens' award-winning production of Mincemeat by Adrian Jackson and Farhana Sheikh has been adapted for radio by BBC Radio 3.
Mincemeat is based on the extraordinary story of a second-world-war deception, through which the Allies made the Germans believe that they would open a second front in Europe in 1943 through Sardinia. The deception involved a corpse whose identity was a state secret, known only to the originator of the operation, who took the secret to his grave. It was only in 1997 that the true identity of the corpse came to light.
Mincemeat unravels the story of the mission and its final revelation, through the eyes of that corpse, mixing in on its way - tongue never far from cheek - Hitler, Chaplin, kidnap, meditations on memory, the Goons, the real undertaker, and a secret war which never made the history books.
Mincemeat will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 13th November 2011 at 8.30pm.
Read Ben Smithes' blog reflecting on his experience recording Mincemeat. Join the facebook event here.
In memory of Linda Dobell.
- Major Martin/Glyndwr Michael: Ifan Meredith
- Charlie: Robert Gillespie
- Head Angel: Ester Escolano
- Pam: Jo Galbraith
- Lieutenant Commander Montagu: Nick Khan
- Squadron Leader Cholmondley: Jake Goode
- Churchill: Neil Boorman
- Fred Shrieve: Patrick Onione
- The Body: Dave Rogers
- The Foreman: Ben Smithies
- Maureen: Sylvia Larry
- Ivor Leverton: Ivor Leverton
- Original music by: David Baird
- Directed by: Adrian Jackson
- Sound design by: Pete Ringrose
- Produced by: Jonquil Panting
Mincemeat, by Adrian Jackson and Farhana Sheikh, very successfully fools you into thinking it’s simply entertaining. It’s a tale about a Second World War deception but just as you grasp that idea and think this is going to be one kind of story, the cast start debating whether this was a good start or not. It is. It’s essential, because it sets up a tale that plays with time, making us question what we think and what we expect along the way.
This could have felt contrived, but it puts us in the same position as the lead character trying to work out what’s happened to him: he’s piecing together a puzzle but the pieces mean more to him. So, as we deeply feel his disappointments and his triumphs, the pieces mean more to us too.
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