Toward the End of the Morning

Toward the End of the Morning is writer Rob Shearman's ("Dalek") latest play for BBC Radio 4, adapted from the comic novel by Michael Frayn. "It's about a lowly crossword editor on a 1960s newspaper suddenly aspiring to stardom when he gets invited on a television chatshow," Shearman tells Outpost Gallifrey. "An awful lot of the play was drawn from my own experiences being interviewed repeatedly for publicity for 'Dalek' earlier in the year!" The play forms two one hour episodes, broadcast at 3 pm on Sunday 4 September and Sunday 11 September, repeated at 9 pm the following Saturdays (10th and 17th), and will be available too on the listen again service at the BBC website. It stars James Wilby and Martin Freeman (star of "The Office" and who also played Arthur Dent in the recent film version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"), and is directed by Martin Jarvis.