{"id":4560,"date":"2013-03-30T08:20:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T12:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=4560"},"modified":"2013-03-30T08:20:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T12:20:48","slug":"bbc-to-air-floyd-inspired-radio-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2013\/03\/bbc-to-air-floyd-inspired-radio-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC to air Floyd-inspired radio drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer BBC Radio will air &#8220;Dark Side,&#8221; a new radio drama by <strong>Tom Stoppard<\/strong> (pictured) inspired by Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;The Dark Side of the Moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled to air in August, the production will star <strong>Bill Nighy<\/strong> (&#8220;Love Actually&#8221;) and <strong>Rufus Sewell<\/strong> (&#8220;Dark City&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The network describes the production as &#8220;a fantastical and psychedelic story based on themes from the seminal album.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stoppard is a noted playwright and screenwriter whose first major success was &#8220;Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead&#8221; in 1966. He also wrote &#8220;Shakespeare in Love,&#8221; &#8220;Arcadia&#8221; and &#8220;The Real Thing.&#8221; His play &#8220;Rock &#8216;n Roll&#8221; drew inspiration from the life of Floyd co-founder <strong>Syd Barrett.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer BBC Radio will air &#8220;Dark Side,&#8221; a new radio drama by Tom Stoppard (pictured) inspired by Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;The Dark Side of the Moon.&#8221; Scheduled to air in August, the production will star Bill Nighy (&#8220;Love Actually&#8221;) and Rufus Sewell (&#8220;Dark City&#8221;). The network describes the production as &#8220;a fantastical and psychedelic story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4563,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions\/4563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}