Hilda Tablet: The Complete Plays
Seven Full-Cast BBC Radio Comedy Dramas
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Hilda Tablet: The Complete Plays
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Narrated by:
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Hugh Burden
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Carleton Hobbs
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Mary O'Farrell
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full cast
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By:
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Henry Reed
About this listen
A series of vintage mockumentaries about fictional experimental composer, Hilda Tablet
Hilda Tablet is a fictitious ‘twelve-tone composeress’ created by Henry Reed in a series of radio mockumentaries. She first appeared in the play A Very Great Man Indeed, which follows the quest of a fictional biographer, Herbert Reeve, who is writing the biography of the equally fictional novelist Richard Shewin.
The Hilda Tablet plays were a landmark in radio satire. Presented in the manner of a spoof documentary, the action follows Herbert Reeve as he tries to research his book and is constantly waylaid by the characters he interviews, ultimately being bullied into undertaking a biography of Hilda - 'in not more than twelve volumes’.
This collection of plays includes: A Very Great Man Indeed, The Private Life of Hilda Tablet, Emily Butter, the first performance of Hilda Tablet’s opera; A Hedge, Backwards; The Primal Scene, As It Were, which takes place on a yacht in Greece; Not a Drum Was Heard; and Musique Discrète.
Hilda Tablet is played by Mary O'Farrell, and Herbert Reeve is played by Hugh Burden.