Radio
The Yaffa Cherry Orchard broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2025
Episode 1
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jgjn
Episode 2
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002js8m
Chekhov’s timeless masterpiece translates easily to Palestine in 1948 as an aristocratic family try to hang on to their estate during partition.
Madame Selma, (Ranevskaya in the original), arrives at her ancestral home in Yafa just as the British are withdrawing from Palestine and the state of Israel is being established. Armed Zionist militia, soon to become the IDF, are roaming the country and will surely turn their attention to Selma’s house and its beloved Cherry Orchard.
Hassan Abdulrazzak’s adaptation retains Chekhov’s story of a family struggling to cope with the change that threatens to sweep them away and is given an urgent resonance by setting the story against the seismic events of 1948, whose consequences echo down the years to this day.
The Yafa Cherry Orchard adapted by Hassan Abdulrazzak
Credits
Selma: Lara Sawalha
Gamal: Sami Abu Wardeh
Yousef: Philip Arditti
Tariq: Ammar Haj Ahmad
Said: Nayef Rashed
Alia: Sara Masry
Widad: Sarah Agha
Colonel Wilson: Joel Samuels
Khalid: Motaz Malhees
Dunya: Sofia Asir
Yassir :Joe Haddad
Salah: Zaydun Khalaf
Firas: Raad Rawi
Original Composition: Kareem Samara
Traditional music performed and arranged by Kareem Samara (Oud and percussion) and Gabriel Polley (Ney Baladi)
Consultant: Gardner Thompson
Production Assistant: Lucie Regan
Sound design by Alisdair McGregor
Produced and directed by Boz Temple-Morris
A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4
Episode 1
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jgjn
Episode 2
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002js8m
Chekhov’s timeless masterpiece translates easily to Palestine in 1948 as an aristocratic family try to hang on to their estate during partition.
Madame Selma, (Ranevskaya in the original), arrives at her ancestral home in Yafa just as the British are withdrawing from Palestine and the state of Israel is being established. Armed Zionist militia, soon to become the IDF, are roaming the country and will surely turn their attention to Selma’s house and its beloved Cherry Orchard.
Hassan Abdulrazzak’s adaptation retains Chekhov’s story of a family struggling to cope with the change that threatens to sweep them away and is given an urgent resonance by setting the story against the seismic events of 1948, whose consequences echo down the years to this day.
The Yafa Cherry Orchard adapted by Hassan Abdulrazzak
Credits
Selma: Lara Sawalha
Gamal: Sami Abu Wardeh
Yousef: Philip Arditti
Tariq: Ammar Haj Ahmad
Said: Nayef Rashed
Alia: Sara Masry
Widad: Sarah Agha
Colonel Wilson: Joel Samuels
Khalid: Motaz Malhees
Dunya: Sofia Asir
Yassir :Joe Haddad
Salah: Zaydun Khalaf
Firas: Raad Rawi
Original Composition: Kareem Samara
Traditional music performed and arranged by Kareem Samara (Oud and percussion) and Gabriel Polley (Ney Baladi)
Consultant: Gardner Thompson
Production Assistant: Lucie Regan
Sound design by Alisdair McGregor
Produced and directed by Boz Temple-Morris
A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4
The Good Listener - Episode 4 'Private Lives' broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.
The Good Listener is a radio series about GCHQ developed by Fin Kennedy and Boz Temple-Morris.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080t87y
Credits
Henry ...... Owen Teale
Gerry ...... Dominic Hawksley
Steve ...... Dominic Hawksley
Jacqui ...... Lucy Phelps
Siddiq ...... Ashley Kumar
Alison ...... Alison Newman
David ...... Richard Maxted
Ethan ...... Paul Chan
Katie ...... Louise-Mai Newberry
Security Officer ...... Niall Ashdown
Home Secretary ...... James Lailey
Writer ...... Hassan Abdulrazzak
Producer ...... Boz Temple-Morris
Director ...... Boz Temple-Morris
Script:
The Good Listener is a radio series about GCHQ developed by Fin Kennedy and Boz Temple-Morris.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080t87y
Credits
Henry ...... Owen Teale
Gerry ...... Dominic Hawksley
Steve ...... Dominic Hawksley
Jacqui ...... Lucy Phelps
Siddiq ...... Ashley Kumar
Alison ...... Alison Newman
David ...... Richard Maxted
Ethan ...... Paul Chan
Katie ...... Louise-Mai Newberry
Security Officer ...... Niall Ashdown
Home Secretary ...... James Lailey
Writer ...... Hassan Abdulrazzak
Producer ...... Boz Temple-Morris
Director ...... Boz Temple-Morris
Script:
| tgl-episode_4-draft_6.pdf |
Baghdad Wedding broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2008
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008qhxf
When members of a wedding party are killed in a random attack in Baghdad, the lives of three friends are torn apart with unimaginable consequences. Using startling poetic imagery together with brutal language and horrific realism, Iraqi writer Hassan Abdulrazzak shows how friendship can survive extreme adversity.
Salim ...... Matt Rawle
Marwan ...... Nitzan Sharron
Ibraheem ...... Emilio Doorgasingh
Kathum ...... Silas Carson
Yasser ...... Cosh Omar
Luma ...... Sirine Saba
Omar ...... Daniel Hart
Melissa ...... Annie Hemingway
Directed by Lisa Goldman.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008qhxf
When members of a wedding party are killed in a random attack in Baghdad, the lives of three friends are torn apart with unimaginable consequences. Using startling poetic imagery together with brutal language and horrific realism, Iraqi writer Hassan Abdulrazzak shows how friendship can survive extreme adversity.
Salim ...... Matt Rawle
Marwan ...... Nitzan Sharron
Ibraheem ...... Emilio Doorgasingh
Kathum ...... Silas Carson
Yasser ...... Cosh Omar
Luma ...... Sirine Saba
Omar ...... Daniel Hart
Melissa ...... Annie Hemingway
Directed by Lisa Goldman.
