Damaged Language: Radio Plays

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Damaged Language contains four radio plays by Richard Nelson:

LANGUAGES SPOKEN HERE
Giles Cooper Award winner

a morally ambiguous comedy…an American in London thinks he’s translating a novel by a penniless Polish emigre, only to find, after befriending and patronizing him, that the Pole has ditched his benefactor for another hack… True and funny as well.

Paul Ferris, The Observer

A neat, beautifully written, serious comedy about translation, exile and betrayal–one of the very best on Radio 3 last year.

Nigel Andrews, The Listener

A rare sort of treat…a very funny play, delicate in its touches, but sharp as a needle.

Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph

EATING WORDS
Giles Cooper Award winner

Totally enthralling… Richard Nelson is God’s gift (or at least America’s) to English radio drama.

Nigel Andrews, The Listener

A thoroughly absorbing account of two writers on a drunken tour of London.

Plays and Players

ADVICE TO EASTERN EUROPE

A masterly short play–a post-Cold War romance that is witty [and] technically bold–examines how one woman’s Utopia may be another person’s capitalist nightmare.

Quentin Curtis, The Independent on Sunday

THE AMERICAN WIFE

A reminder that Nelson is the sharpest observer around of the gulf separating Britain and America.

Michael Billington, The Guardian