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Private Lives (Classic Radio Theatre)

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 This sharply funny play of reversals focuses on Elyot and Amanda, a passionate but feuding couple who divorced five years before. Now, on the first night of their honeymoons with their new partners, they find that they are all staying in the same hotel on the French Riviera. Fireworks are inevitable... The roles of the two ex-spouses are brilliantly recreated by Paul Scofield and Patricia Routledge, while Coward's scintillating repartee epitomises all the glamour and sophistication of life between the wars for society's spoilt darlings. Drama & Plays Entertainment & Performing Arts European Family Life Genre Fiction World Literature Funny
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

If you like the play, this is a great version.

What did you like best about this story?

The wit and performances.

Have you listened to any of Paul Scofield and Patricia Routledge ’s other performances? How does this one compare?

Patricia Routledge was great, but I couldn't help picturing Hyacinth Bouquet occasionally.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Can't live with each other, can't live without each other.

Great adaptation

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Private Lives is so funny. The exs love and hate each other at the same time!

So funny

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This is a good radio production of a classic Coward play. It's no accident that this is a Classic title - the recording dates back to the early 1980s - but since the play dates back fifty years further there is no shame in that!

A classic period production of a classic period play.

An oldie but a goodie

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Lovely little Coward play (currently performing to rave reviews in London) I'm afraid this version was too twee and saccharine for my tastes though. That said, my grandmother has this same production on CD and she adores it.

Quite good but very twee

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Just terrible! Poorly cast and woodenly acted - don't touch this with a barge pole!

Terrible!

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