(June 1999)

To Hear Your Voice Again

by Gordon Ridout

To Hear Your Voice Again was a winning play in the Woolwich Young Radio Playwrights' Competition in 1998.

A young woman comes back from the dead to say her last goodbyes, only to find that the one person she really wants to communicate with is not listening to her, or cannot hear her. This leads to a series of one-way 'conversations' with the boyfriend she has left behind. He seems to spend most of his time on the telephone talking to other people and this device builds up a picture of his life and of how he is determined to get on without her. Only one person is able to 'hear' what she has to say.

Click here for a picture of Gordon Ridout receiving his Woolwich Young Radio Playwright Award from Aden Gillett at the Criterion Theatre in London in May 1998.

You can also find out more about Gordon Ridout and To Hear Your Voice Again, and about the other winning plays in the 1998 Woolwich Young Radio Playwrights' Competition by visiting our Competition winners page.

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Directed and produced by Richard Shannon

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