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Audio Books : Literary : Other quality : English
     
The Dog It Was That Died by Tom Stoppard

Directed and produced by
John Tydeman

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jnhb

first broadcast - BBC Radio 3, Thursday 9
December 1982
rebroadcast - BBC Radio 4 Extra, July 2012

Rupert Purvis - Dinsdale Landen
Giles
Blair - Charles Gray
Pamela Blair - Penelope Keith
Hogbin - Kenneth Cranham
Chief - Maurice Denham
Doctor Seddon - John le Mesurier
Slack - Peter Tuddenham
Mrs Ryan - Katherine Parr
Arlon - Stephen
Murray
Matron - Betty Marsden
Vicar - Noel Howlett
Wren - Lockwood West 

The Dog It Was That
Died was commissioned for the BBC’s 60th anniversary and won the Giles Cooper Award in 1982.

Duration
- 1 hour 5 minutes

Format : MPEG Audio, Version 2.5, Layer 3
Bit rate mode : Constant
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16.0 kb/s
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 11.025 kHz

NOTE: The file plays ok, but the volume
is lower than usual. As the original recording was only 16kb/s the audio file hasn't been amplified and reencoded.

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http://www.radiodramareviews.com/id1109.html

Radio Drama
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The Dog it was That Died... by Tom Stoppard

BBC Radio 4 Extra, 1 July 2012


To celebrate Sir Tom Stoppard's seventy-fifth birthday, Radio 4 Extra broadcast two plays from the archives.


The Dog it was That Died was written in 1982 to commemorate the BBC's sixtieth anniversary. Rupert Purvis
(Dinsdale Landen), tries to commit suicide, but only succeeds in falling on top of a dog, which was travelling up the
Thames on a barge. It turns out that Purvis is a spy who wants to kill himself on account of the fact that he no longer
knows which side he's on; having spent his life playing games of bluff and double-bluff, he has lost all sense of right
and wrong.
 
The play is a product of the Cold War era, when the concept of 'us' and 'them' was very much part
of the spy's lingua franca. Its structure reminded me very much of the old Olsen and Johnson film Hellzapoppin, in the
sense that incident piled upon incident with little or no logical connection between them. Purvis' boss Blair (Charles
Gray) pretended to investigate Purvis' case, but was more interested in maintaining the status quo. He employed Hogbin
(Kenneth Cranham) as his chief investigator, but took little notice of what the investigator discovered. Other
characters included the Chief (Maurice Denham), who preferred smoking opium to running a department, Blair's wife Penny
(Penelope Keith), who kept donkeys in her house, and a lunatic doctor Seddon (John le Mesurier) working in an asylum who
transposed consonants in sentences just for the sake of it.
 
Parts of John Tydeman's production were
extremely funny, especially when Purvis was consigned to the asylum under Seddon's crazy jurisdiction. But there was a
serious point to the play: Stoppard shows how the world of espionage deprives all language of meaning: people are so
engaged in deceiving one another that they no longer understand the relationship between language and thought. Words
become a means to obfuscate rather than explain. Purvis eventually comes to understand this, but sees no other way out
other than to kill himself.

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An amusing and
skillful spoof on the school of spy story writers headed by John Le Carre: but this is Stoppard and underneath all the
characteristic wit and verbal dexterity, lies a serious moral dilemma. Through the character of Rupert Purvis (the spy
who has been knowingly recruited by both sides) and his increasing inability to unravel his true loyalities from those
he has assumed. Stoppard investigates the natures of "official truths" and dogma and treads the ethical
minefiels between truth and expediency.

Rupert attempts to solve his dilema by jumping into the river, but
his suicidal fall is broken by a barge-dog, and the dog dies instead. After a series of totally improbable and extremely
funny events (that could only occur in sound drama) Rupert finds an answer, not through logic but through the
realization that he feels at home when surrounded by a houseful of mad English people. Rupert's boss Giles Blair
believes all is now well and is dismayed to learn of another and successful suicide bid by Rupert. The subsequent
discussion reveals that Rupert was an expendable pawn in a complex game.

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http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/STOPP.HTML

Tom Stoppard Radio Play

"The Dog It Was That
Died was broadcast in 1982 and was available for a time as a commercial BBC tape. It's a very funny play in which a
disenchanted spy seeks to escape from his work with Intelligence by committing suicide. Dinsdale Landen plays him
beautifully, and the exceptional cast includes Charles Gray as the smoothie from Q6; Penelope Keith as his horsey wife;
Kenneth Cranham as the sad spy in the mackintosh; Maurice Denham as the Chief, all pipe and pomposity; and John le
Mesurier, Stephen Murray and Betty Marsden as assorted inmates of a "funny farm" on the east coast."

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http://tinyurl.com/zkowwct - Wikipedia

"The Dog It
Was That Died is a play by the British playwright Tom Stoppard. Written for BBC Radio in 1982, it concerns the dilemma
faced by a spy over whom he actually works for. The play was also adapted for television by Stoppard, and broadcast in
1988. The title is taken from a speech by Wormold, the lead character in Graham Greene's 1958 novel Our Man in Havana,
also an entertaining tale of Cold War espionage. 'I have come back', he said to Beatrice, 'I am not under the table. I
have come back victorious. The dog it was that died.' This is itself a quote from Oliver Goldsmith's poem 'An Elegy on
the Death of a Mad Dog'... which ends -

But soon a wonder came to light,
That showed the rogues they
lied:
The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died. 

...Stoppard may have borrowed the
idea to use this quotation from British novelist W Somerset Maugham's 1925 'The Painted Veil', in which the
protagonist's husband, bitter at her infidelity, brought her to cholera-stricken China in hopes that she would take ill
and die. When he catches cholera instead, he dies with the quotation 'The dog it was that died' on his lips."

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