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Article: Greta Scacchi's voice to seduce listeners to 'Pembroke Arcadia' RADIO DRAMA: Australian author adapts a stunning prose work by Sir Philip Sidney.(Arts)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- November 3, 2001
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Byline: CARL DAVIES
SCREEN star Greta Scacchi features with a strong Welsh cast led by Philip Madoc in a new radio play made in Cardiff by the BBC, which will be broadcast on Radio 3 tomorrow.
Scacchi plays Gynecia in Pembroke Arcadia, written by prizewinning Australian writer DJ Britton, who is now based in Cardiff, and directed by Alison Hindell.
Pembroke Arcadia is drawn from the life of the Elizabethan soldierpoet Sir Philip Sidney.
It incorporates the themes of Sidney's prose work Arcadia, for 200 years the most ...