Murder in Samarkand - A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror
Registan.net (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
(via Siberian Light) David Tennant, the British actor most famous for playing the revitalized Dr. Who (which is pretty enjoyably campy, truth be told), has apparently recorded a radio drama about Craig Murray. Recording finished last week on the Hare adaptation of Murray’s book, Murder in Samarkand, for Radio 4. The script had originally been [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
David Tennant is to play Craig Murray, the colourful former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, in a new BBC Radio 4 play.
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 06/02/2010
... there may be a way to go yet. Having pleased the Lib Dems, here are a couple for the Dr Who fans. Craig Murray is to be played by David Tennant in a play for BBC Radio 4. It will be broadcast on 20 February. And Wartime Housewife , another member of the increasingly influential Market Harborough school of blogging, has some fun with a gas mask. "Are you my Mummy?" Finally,...
Diplomatic Blogoir (Free subscription) | 06/02/2010
... Ha ha! Now. Get back in line while I recharge this cattle-prodder..." I'd be interested in Craig Murray's considered views on this conundrum, as he served in a country (Uzbekistan) where torture was horrendous and widespread. It exemplifies the problems we have in dealing with these places, not least at the UN where (apparently) we have to sit placidly as undemocratic countries...
Green Reading - Adrian Windisch (Free subscription) | 04/02/2010
... her superiors that an invasion without UN sanction would be a "crime of aggression". Craig Murray quotes Tony Blair "You would be hard pressed to find anyone who in September 2002 doubted that Saddam had WMD". Craig argues that it wouldn't have been that hard. "If he had asked members of the Near East and North Africa Department of the FCO, the Middle...
The Medium is Not Enough TV blog (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
Doctor Who Sophie Okonedo to appear in episode two of the new series [spoilers'] Bill Nighy to guest star in Richard Curtis's episode David Tennant to play Craig Murray in Radio 4 play Film Orlando Bloom to star in The Good Doctor Next Bourne movie to be a prequel ? International trailer for Clash of the Titans House 's Olivia Wilde to star with Daniel Craig in Cowboys & Aliens...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
Playwright David Hare brings Craig Murray's Murder in Samarkand to life in play for Radio 4 He drank a lot of whisky and had a shamefully leery eye when it came to women but, as our man in Tashkent, Craig Murray also exposed the brutal tyranny and torture of a regime which had little regard for human rights. Now the story of a "flawed hero" – one which does...
