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Spoonface Steinberg: Directed by Betsan Morris Evans. With Linda Bassett, Ella Jones, Helen McCrory, Becky Simpson. An autistic girl comes to terms with the fact she's dying of Cancer.
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- Drama
- Betsan Morris Evans
- 1998-02
Spoonface Steinberg is a play by British playwright Lee Hall, first broadcast as a dramatic monologue on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 27 January 1997. Such was the popular acclaim that the BBC repeated it on Radio 4 the following Saturday afternoon. It began life as the fourth and final play in the God's Country series of linked radio dramas broadcast ...
Lee Hall’s monologue featuring a seven year-old opera-loving autistic girl dying of cancer elicited an extraordinary response from the Radio 4 audience when it was first broadcast in 1997. Such ...
Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
- Betsan Morris Evans
- BBC Film, BBC
Mar 30, 1998 · Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
Jun 29, 2013 · Spoonface Steinberg made an extraordinary impact in 1997 as a BBC play for radio—a medium where most plays are broadcast and rapidly forgotten. Apocrypha has it that burly truck drivers pulled into lay-bys to weep on hearing this narration by the autistic child (age uncertain) dying of cancer.
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40m. Drama. Cast. Linda Bassett (Mrs. Spud) Ella Jones (Spoonface Steinberg) Helen McCrory (Mother) Becky Simpson (Spoonface Steinberg) Mark Strong (Father) Director. Betsan Morris Evans....
