www.rogerdavenport.co.uk roger.davenport@gmail.com REACTIONS The Nuremberg Egg … Radio Choice of the Day, The Times – “a quick moving thriller.”


The Double Life of Saki,  Evening Standard Review 01 05 07

“I was beguiled by EDDIE AND MISS SIMPSON, a well-turned thriller by Roger Davenport: an ingenious plot with a surprise twist at the end.”

 (John Wain, The Listener, Radio Review)


Pieces of the Game …   “an exciting read.”

(Audrey Baker, C.L.A.I.)

 


GROWING PAINS (‘Someone to Watch Over Me’) Pick of the Day, Sunday Times


The subversive comic writer Hector Hugh Munro – better known as Saki – is variously described in this delightful drama/documentary as “the godfather of modern comedy”, the “chronicler of the Edwardian age” and a forerunner of Evelyn Waugh, Noel Coward and Roald Dahl. He had an unhappy childhood (his mother was killed by a runaway cow and he was raised by two nasty aunts), worked as a foreign correspondent in the Balkans and died at the Battle of the Somme. The telling of his life story is neatly based around a magazine interview, letters to his devoted sister Ethel and the observations of admirers such as Will Self and Alexei Sayle. Saki’s personality – haughty, politically incorrect, queeny – proves as intriguing as his work, in which he pithily satirised convention.


TV Choice, The Telegraph 30/04/2007

LOWLAKE … is a book that you can’t put down ...ORTHO’S BROOD (is) very gripping” (Highland News Group)

GROWING PAINS

‘Till the Clouds Roll By’, last night’s episode, was a rich emotional   journey … (Daily Telegraph)


Daily Mail 30 04 07

DOUBLE SAKI WAS ONE TO SAVOUR … (This) quietly compelling drama-documentary … In a recreation of his interview in 1911 with The Bodleian, the author emerged as languid, self-deprecating, wryly amused, yet guarded. How contrarily Scottish Saki was.

 David Belcher, Herald Scotland, 01/05/2007


THE BILL, “Bin-Men”, critic’s choice of the day’s viewing, Daily Telegraph.



WATCH THIS

Neat little take on the neat little (double) life of Hector Hugh Munro; arch harrumpher and ace pointer-outer of the booming pomposity of Edwardian mores.

(Sarah Dempster, the Guardian 30 April 2007)


INDELIBLE EVIDENCE … is putting science on the map in a big way … Tonight’s story about sectarian murders in Northern Ireland is a real cracker.” (The Times) … ‘Windfall’ was the most dramatic of this series and the most chilling … (The Guardian)