Unmade Movies: Dennis Potter’s The White Hotel Audiobook Libro.fm

Description

Dennis Potters unproduced screenplay of D M Thomass awardwinning novel plus bonus documentary

Incendiary Radio Times

The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures spectacular scripts from worldrenowned writers that could have been classics had they only been made Now for the first time some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life fully realised as vivid cinematic radio productions Scripted by major 20th Century writers including Harold Pinter Arthur Miller Alfred Hitchcock and Dennis Potter they star a host of Alist actors and feature richly evocative atmospheric soundtracks

The White Hotel one of seven unmade movies available on audio centres around circus performer Lisa who visits famous Berlin psychoanalyst Dr Probst to discover the cause of her mysterious breast and pelvic pains Reading her sexuallycharged journal Probst concludes that the answer lies in her past But then Lisa reveals her unsettling premonitions I see what is going to happen And what is going to happen cannot be endured Is her trauma really the result of childhood memories or a dark vision of the future

Lauded for his groundbreaking TV dramas Dennis Potter also wrote several acclaimed screenplays including Gorky Park The White Hotel was taken up by numerous directors from Bertolucci to David Lynch with actors including Barbra Streisand and Meryl Streep slated to star but the project defeated them all Now directed by Jon Amiel who worked with Potter on The Singing Detective this haunting hallucinatory drama has finally found an audience AnneMarie Duff His Dark Materials stars as Lisa with Bill Paterson Fleabag as Probst and Simon McBurney Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as the narrator It is preceded by a 15minute documentary The Long Road to the White Hotel telling the story of the many failed attempts to film Thomass novel and the making of the radio production

NB Contains strong language and sexual scenes

Production credits
Written by D M Thomas
Original screenplay by Denis Potter under licence from Briarpatch Limited LP
Directed by Jon Amiel
Produced by Laurence Bowen and Peter Ettedgui
Sound design Wilfredo Acosta
A Dancing Ledge production for BBC Radio 4

Cast
Lisa AnneMarie Duff
Probst Bill Paterson
Narrator Simon McBurney
The Lover David Gyasi
Victor Nigel Lindsay
Aunt Magda Morwenna Banks
Vera/Old Woman/Wife Jasmine Jones
Various Wayne Forester
Officer/Captain/Maitre d/Old Man Nick Underwood
Koyla Felix Jamieson
Little Lisa Tillie Murray

First broadcast BBC Radio 4 8 September 2018

The Long Road to the White Hotel
With DM Thomas Amanda Bale and Jon Amiel
Produced by Philippa Geering and Geoff Bird
An Overtone Production for BBC Radio 4

First broadcast BBC Radio 4 8 September 2018

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