Some audio clips to enjoy. Not all of them feature Zoë, however they are (somehow!) Zoë-related!
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Zoë performed in one of the BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Plays, that was broadcast on the channel on Wednesday 19th January 2011 at 14:15.
The play is called Haunted and was written by Sally Griffiths.
Professional illusionist, Will Morgan, is to front a TV show in which he exposes spiritualist mediums as frauds. Hayley Taylor is the spiritualist medium who refuses to back down under Will's scrutiny - a challenge Will can't walk away from. Both are to have their belief systems sorely tested when a voice from one of their pasts refuses to keep silent.
Starring Steffan Rhodri (Gavin and Stacey) as Will and Zoë Tapper as Hayley.
Sally Griffiths is half of a screenwriting partnership (with Rachel Cuperman) which has produced 4 commissioned/funded scripts. They are currently working on a UK Film Council/Bright Films funded project for Samuelson Productions. She is Senior Script Reader for Working Title and CinemaNX and has worked as a script consultant on films that include 'Tom and Viv', 'Wilde', 'Gabriel and Me' and 'Stormbreaker.' This is Sally's radio debut.
Haunted [43:59]
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Zoë plays Roxanna Galpin in a new two-part radio adaptation of the Stephen Poliakoff play Playing With Trains, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 20th\27th March 2010.
The play tells the story of the rise and fall of Bill Galpin, played by Spall, who is a flamboyant entrepreneur who pools his fortune into backing risky inventions which are concerned with safeguarding the environment, while at the same time having a very tempestuous but poignant relationship with his two children Roxanna (Tapper) and Danny (Streatfeild).
Beginning in the heady days of the late Sixties, Playing With Trains deals with the fact that Britain invents so much, yet manufactures so little. Galpin makes a fortune from a brilliant development in gramophone technology, and then turns himself into a self-appointed patron and champion of inventors and innovators everywhere, clashing with the establishment through the libel courts, speeches to captains of industry, civil service offices and even TV shows.
Parallel to his relationship with industry is that with his children. Roxanna – whom he expects to become a great engineer – drops out of Cambridge and becomes an art student in an attempt to escape her father's grip. Danny, meanwhile, turns into the very thing his father despises – a financial expert – but in so doing recognises the shortcomings of his father's enterprises.
Other cast members include Helen Longworth (Frances), Joseph Kloska (Mick), Nigel Hastings (Vernon Boyce), Michael Fenton Stevens (Gant) and Bruce Alexander (QC).
Producer/Peter Leslie Wild
Part 1 [56:53]
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Part 2 [56:57]
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Zoë's Voice Artist sample clip. [1:57]
The Theme from Demons. ("Eyes of the Night" by The Starlight Mints). [2:53]
The Theme from Survivors. [1:08]
The Theme from Desperate Romantics. [0:30]