1. Comment #434115 by Peter Grant on November 23, 2009 at 12:38 pm

Is there a downloadable link?

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2. Comment #434128 by Art Vandelay on November 23, 2009 at 1:25 pm

Heard this when it went out this weekend.It's an excellent play about this famous pyrrhic victory, and good to hear as I can't afford to pop into London and catch Kevin Spacey in "Inherit the Wind" (spent all my money on tickets for me and my two children to watch Richard debating next weekend).
You could tell it was using the original transcripts because it kept in slips of the tongue which made it more real somehow.It's shocking and shameful that it's still so relevant.

Quite a star-studded cast too, including "Doogie Howser","Q" (Trekies know who I mean), Ed Asner and Stacy Keach

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3. Comment #434129 by FishNChimps on November 23, 2009 at 1:26 pm

You can download most iPlayer radio progs using Radio DL.

http://radio-dl.co.uk/

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4. Comment #434138 by fsm1965 on November 23, 2009 at 2:07 pm

Excellent post:

3. Comment #434129 by FishNChimps on November 23, 2009 at 1:26 pm

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5. Comment #434152 by Thurston on November 23, 2009 at 3:06 pm

That was a really interesting play. It's interesting the parallels in the script between this and Inherit the Wind. I guess that's where both productions used the same original trial transcripts.

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6. Comment #434155 by Rationalist1 on November 23, 2009 at 3:12 pm

No luck with the Radio DL as it says no MP3 file available. Have to listen to something else on the ride home tonight.

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7. Comment #434207 by Rawhard Dickins on November 23, 2009 at 6:31 pm

Starts at 3.25

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8. Comment #434209 by mbannonb on November 23, 2009 at 6:34 pm

I love that the BBC iPlayer volume goes to 11.

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9. Comment #434215 by Mr DArcy on November 23, 2009 at 6:47 pm

Not being much of a techie I'm not sure if this can be downloaded as a podcast. You'll have to go to the bbc site and see. You can listen again for 7 days starting Saturday 21st November.

I heard it on Saturday, whilst it was pissing with rain and half a gale blowing in London. It made me kind of hanker after being in Tennessee on a July afternoon when it was 97F in the courtroom and the judge adjourned to the outside!

It was interesting that the authorities were embarassed even then by the trial. Scopes' conviction was overturned on a technicality, without his having the chance to appeal!

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10. Comment #434230 by sgreilly on November 23, 2009 at 7:24 pm

I would love to find a downloadable version of this. I dont know where to start looking. If someone finds it please post. Thanks guys

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11. Comment #434268 by j.mills on November 23, 2009 at 8:18 pm

Enjoyed this on Saturday, but was a little surprised by the rambling nature of the 'arguments' on either side. The defence lawyer cross-examined the prosecutor on the nonsense in the bible but didn't form any coherent strand from the Qs and As. It seems to have been (judging by this adaptation) more of an airing of the issues than a focussed debate.

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12. Comment #434309 by PaulJ on November 23, 2009 at 9:29 pm

http://rapidshare.com/files/311240166/GreatTennesseeMonkeyTrial_The_BBCR4i-20091121.mp3

An interesting production, which if it was based on the courtroom transcript ought to be more historically accurate than the film. Perhaps that's why it seemed unfocussed, with less of a screenwriter's manipulation to maintain a tight narrative.

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13. Comment #434372 by RightWingAtheist on November 24, 2009 at 1:00 am

It sounds like the judge wouldn't allow them to present an organized and focused case, so they had to dump all of their points on the only witness they were allowed to call.

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14. Comment #434408 by Lucas on November 24, 2009 at 5:41 am

Thanks PaulJ!

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15. Comment #434409 by Aidan on November 24, 2009 at 5:55 am

Anybody else have an "OMG it's John de Lancie!" moment?

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16. Comment #434431 by A on November 24, 2009 at 8:37 am

Thanks PaulJ for the MP3.

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17. Comment #435740 by adrianpatrick on November 27, 2009 at 12:11 pm

Aiden #15 ...yes actually!

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18. Comment #436588 by ChicagoMolly on November 29, 2009 at 11:23 pm

Lawrence and Lee wrote "Inherit the Wind" for the stage in 1950, and didn't really mean it as a documentary of the Scopes Trial. They used Scopes as a framing device to discuss the anti-intellectual, anti-modernity atmosphere in the US going into the Cold War. While they did make use of the trial transcripts, especially in their portrayal of Drummond's cross-examination of Brady, the play as a whole is definitely fiction, not history.

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