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Couple of things I caught over the last week - one was May 33rd, a terrific drama about multiple personality disorder (or dissociative personality disorder). The actress playing the woman with the alternates was fantastic - very naturalistic.
I don't want to get sucked into a discussion of multiple personality disorder, which (as far as I can tell) is perfectly real, but I thought the decision to explicitly link the disorder to satanic abuse was probably a mistake, given that the evidence for that is rather poor. Perhaps we were meant to see it as her interpretation of her experience, but to me, putting a camera on the scene made it part of objective reality. Powerful stuff anyway.
The other was Mitch Benn's Crimes against Music on Radio 4. I've heard him on The Now Show and I think there are to be 4 shows in this series. He does a lot of excellent musical parodies - the Smiths one was superb - I actually thought it made a half-decent addition to the Smiths canon. Thursday at 6.30 I think.
Posted by MFreestone at April 26, 2004 10:00 PM