A week today BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting Every Seventh Wave, the dramatised adaptation
of the novel by Daniel Glattauer starring David Tennant and Emilia Fox. The radio drama is the sequel to last year’s Love
Virtually
A special treat for Valentines Day! David Tennant and Emilia
Fox come together to recreate their original roles from 2012's Love Virtually.
With two million copies sold in Germany to date, and bought
by thirty-five publishers around the world, Love Virtually by Austrian novelist
Daniel Glattauer, is well on the way to becoming a global publishing
phenomenon. It's a thoroughly modern epistolary novel with a difference: its
protagonists, Emmi Rothner and Leo Leike, communicate exclusively by e-mail.
They "meet" when Emmi mistakenly sends an e-mail
to Leo's inbox. The romance that follows allows them to live out a shared
secret life far removed from their day-to-day existences. But to what extent
does it rely on fantasy and escapism, and will it survive a real-life meeting?
The problem is - Emmi (a modern Madame Bovary) is
married....
Have email, Facebook and texting created a generation of
isolated young people who prefer to communicate remotely - who may be in fact
afraid to engage in face to face contact to find love? Is it possible to fall
in love with someone you've never met? Does a virtual affair 'count' as
adultery? What are the implications of the fact that we can pretend to be
anyone we want in cyberspace?
Every Seventh Wave sees Leo returning from Boston having
cut-off all email communication with Emmi.
Emmi's husband had found out about the relationship and this
revelation caused their relationship to implode. After repeated attempts to
contact him, Emmi finally receives an answer from Leo.
But it doesn't come with good news.
But it doesn't come with good news.
Can the internet lovers rekindle their romance? Can love
survive though emails alone?
And will they ever meet?
Leo Leike - David Tennant
Emmi Rothner - Emilia Fox
Producer: Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
Listen to Every
Seventh Wave in the Afternoon Drama slot on BBC Radio 4 from 2.15pm GMT on
Thursday 14th February
Listeners outside the UK can hear the programme online via this link. It will also be available for seven days on BBC iPlayer.
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