OK Computer Radio Play to Debut on BBC This Friday
Narrator: Time had come for the next world war. The earth, a jackknifed juggernaut. A neon sign buzzed through the rare stillness of the night. A man wakes, recognizing not where he is or where he comes from. He is born again.
Clearly, going a bit overboard with all things Radiohead is par for the course this month. And, if you're already tired of talking about just how much you ratedpaid for In Rainbows, lent out all your other discs to that younger sibling of yours, and worn holes in your crunk/reggae/lullaby tributes to the band, you'll want to keep an ear to your radio this Friday. That's when-- according to Ateaseweb.com-- a new twelve-part radio play based on Radiohead's watershed 1997 LP OK Computer debuts on BBC Radio 4.
According to the description on the BBC Radio 4 website, the play is "a celebration of Radiohead's seminal 1997 album OK Computer which draws on themes from each of its 12 tracks." The plot: "a man wakes up in a hospital in Berlin. He has no memory of who he is, or where he comes from. Once the details of his life are recovered, he is repatriated to Britain and into his former life. But he is haunted by the suspicion that this is not his real life at all."
The play was written by Joel Horwood, Chris Perkins, Al Smith, and Chris Thorpe, and it debuts October 19 at 21:00 BST.
In other Radiohead news, In Rainbows is (maybe) very very popular, and some members of the White House press staff proved themselves just slightly hipper than one might think, while others did not.
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