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Episode 1
Drama on 4
Libra Episode 1 of 2

Don DeLillo’s fictionalised reimagining of the events surrounding the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy, adapted for audio by Ben Lewis.
Starring Fisher Stevens and Tucker St. Ivany.

A CIA analyst is tasked with pulling together all the facts, theories and suppositions surrounding this founding moment in recent American history. Drawing them together, he tries to imagine how and why JFK was killed. Cutting between the story of Lee Harvey Oswald’s life and two men conspiring to assassinate the president, it builds a picture of a fractured America during the cold war era.

This is a work of fiction inspired by fact. Don DeLillo’s novel - and this adaptation - draw on real events and on some real people. But characters, incidents and dialogue are predominantly works of fiction. Real people have been placed in imagined situations whilst other characters have been created entirely for the purposes of storytelling.

Part of Radio 4’s Story of America - a major collection of dramatisations of milestone American titles marking 250 years since the Declaration of Independence and the foundation of the United States.

Cast:
The Analyst… Fisher Stevens
Lee Harvey Oswald…Tucker St. Ivany
The conspirators…Tyler Collins and Michael Nardone
Marguerite Oswald…Nicole Cooper
The Marine…Michael Guest
Bobby Dupard…Reuben Joseph
Marina Oswald…Holly Howden Gilchrist
George de Mohrenschildt…Grant O’Rourke
David Ferrie…Robin Laing

All other parts were played by the company

BBC Audio Scotland Production
Production Co-ordinators: Bethany Woodhead and Minnie Harrop
Studio Production and sound editing: Andrew Hay and Gav Murchie
Sound Design and original scoring: Danny Krass

Adapted by Ben Lewis
Directed by Kirsty Williams

Archive: CBS Evening News, November 22nd 1963

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Release date:09 August 2026
57 minutes

On radio

Today
15:00
BBC Radio 4

#DonDeLillo #BBCDrama #BBCIssues #BBCOpeningLines #BBCRadio4 #BBCDramaOn4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00301w1

Episode 1
Drama on 4
Libra Episode 1 of 2

Don DeLillo’s fictionalised reimagining of the events surrounding the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy, adapted for audio by Ben Lewis.
Starring Fisher Stevens and Tucker St. Ivany.

A CIA analyst is tasked with pulling together all the facts, theories and suppositions surrounding this founding moment in recent American history. Drawing them together, he tries to imagine how and why JFK was killed. Cutting between the story of Lee Harvey Oswald’s life and two men conspiring to assassinate the president, it builds a picture of a fractured America during the cold war era.

This is a work of fiction inspired by fact. Don DeLillo’s novel - and this adaptation - draw on real events and on some real people. But characters, incidents and dialogue are predominantly works of fiction. Real people have been placed in imagined situations whilst other characters have been created entirely for the purposes of storytelling.

Part of Radio 4’s Story of America - a major collection of dramatisations of milestone American titles marking 250 years since the Declaration of Independence and the foundation of the United States.

Cast:
The Analyst… Fisher Stevens
Lee Harvey Oswald…Tucker St. Ivany
The conspirators…Tyler Collins and Michael Nardone
Marguerite Oswald…Nicole Cooper
The Marine…Michael Guest
Bobby Dupard…Reuben Joseph
Marina Oswald…Holly Howden Gilchrist
George de Mohrenschildt…Grant O’Rourke
David Ferrie…Robin Laing

All other parts were played by the company

BBC Audio Scotland Production
Production Co-ordinators: Bethany Woodhead and Minnie Harrop
Studio Production and sound editing: Andrew Hay and Gav Murchie
Sound Design and original scoring: Danny Krass

Adapted by Ben Lewis
Directed by Kirsty Williams

Archive: CBS Evening News, November 22nd 1963

Show less

Release date:09 August 2026
57 minutes

On radio

Today
15:00
BBC Radio 4

#DonDeLillo #BBCDrama #BBCIssues #BBCOpeningLines #BBCRadio4 #BBCDramaOn4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00301w1

Libra - Episode One

Opening Lines

For the 100th title to be explored in Opening Lines, John Yorke picks up the 1998 novel Libra by the heavyweight American writer, Don DeLillo. The book centres around the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the event DeLillo says marked ‘a turning point in consciousness’ for Americans. He presents a fragmented portrait of the country at the height of the Cold War, following the misfortunes of disaffected loner Lee Harvey Oswald - as well as the large cast of rogue operators planning to use him to bring the President down.

In the first of two-parts, John looks to find what makes this widely acclaimed novel stand out from the hundreds of other books and films spawned by the world-shaking events in Dealey Plaza back in November 1963. He speaks with, among others, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jennifer Egan, a self-proclaimed DeLillo acolyte, who says of Libra that the “sense of the chaos and the noise of contemporary life invading the narrative I was very drawn to, and, you know, have tried to emulate, frankly.”

John Yorke has worked in television and radio for over 30 years and shares his experience as he unpacks the themes of the books, plays and stories dramatised in BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Drama series. As former Head of Channel Four Drama and Controller of BBC Drama Production he has worked on some of the most popular shows in Britain - from EastEnders to The Archers, Life on Mars to Shameless. He created the BBC Writers Academy and trained a generation of screenwriters - now with thousands of hours of television to their names. His acclaimed books Into the Woods and Trip to the Moon explore the structure and power of narrative, and he writes, teaches and consults on all forms of storytelling, including many podcasts for R4.

Libra by Don de Lillo is the 100th title covered by Opening Lines. The series began in January 2023 with Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Since then John Yorke has explored novels from Anna Karenina to Gone with the Wind, plays from Shakespeare to Eugene O’Neill and ground-breaking non-fiction like John Hersey’s Hiroshima. Each episode provides background, context and some expert discussion in advance of Radio 4’s Sunday afternoon drama, and all 100 titles can be heard on BBC Sounds.

Contributors: Pullitzer Prize winning author Jennifer Egan & Professor Jesse Kavadlo.
Sound:
Researcher: Henry Tydeman
Production Hub Coordinator: Dawn Williams
Producer: Geoff Bird
Executive Producer: Sara Davies

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4

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14 minutes

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Today
14:45
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#DonDeLillo #BBCDrama #BBCIssues #BBCOpeningLines #BBCRadio4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00300kp

Libra - Episode One

Opening Lines

For the 100th title to be explored in Opening Lines, John Yorke picks up the 1998 novel Libra by the heavyweight American writer, Don DeLillo. The book centres around the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the event DeLillo says marked ‘a turning point in consciousness’ for Americans. He presents a fragmented portrait of the country at the height of the Cold War, following the misfortunes of disaffected loner Lee Harvey Oswald - as well as the large cast of rogue operators planning to use him to bring the President down.

In the first of two-parts, John looks to find what makes this widely acclaimed novel stand out from the hundreds of other books and films spawned by the world-shaking events in Dealey Plaza back in November 1963. He speaks with, among others, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jennifer Egan, a self-proclaimed DeLillo acolyte, who says of Libra that the “sense of the chaos and the noise of contemporary life invading the narrative I was very drawn to, and, you know, have tried to emulate, frankly.”

John Yorke has worked in television and radio for over 30 years and shares his experience as he unpacks the themes of the books, plays and stories dramatised in BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Drama series. As former Head of Channel Four Drama and Controller of BBC Drama Production he has worked on some of the most popular shows in Britain - from EastEnders to The Archers, Life on Mars to Shameless. He created the BBC Writers Academy and trained a generation of screenwriters - now with thousands of hours of television to their names. His acclaimed books Into the Woods and Trip to the Moon explore the structure and power of narrative, and he writes, teaches and consults on all forms of storytelling, including many podcasts for R4.

Libra by Don de Lillo is the 100th title covered by Opening Lines. The series began in January 2023 with Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Since then John Yorke has explored novels from Anna Karenina to Gone with the Wind, plays from Shakespeare to Eugene O’Neill and ground-breaking non-fiction like John Hersey’s Hiroshima. Each episode provides background, context and some expert discussion in advance of Radio 4’s Sunday afternoon drama, and all 100 titles can be heard on BBC Sounds.

Contributors: Pullitzer Prize winning author Jennifer Egan & Professor Jesse Kavadlo.
Sound:
Researcher: Henry Tydeman
Production Hub Coordinator: Dawn Williams
Producer: Geoff Bird
Executive Producer: Sara Davies

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4

Show less
Download
Choose your file
Higher quality (128kbps)
Lower quality (64kbps)

Available now

14 minutes

On air

Today
14:45
BBC Radio 4

#DonDeLillo #BBCDrama #BBCIssues #BBCOpeningLines #BBCRadio4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00300kp

𝗪𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗿: "𝗠𝗮𝗼 𝗜𝗜" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗟𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼 -

𝟯-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄:

- Brooding
- Dread-full
- Prescient

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲:

How does each scene, however uneventful, mirror the novel's other narrative ideas?

#bookreview #bookrecommendations #readinglist #literature #books #book #reading #bookstagram #frictionalreading #3words #dondelillo #maoii #fiction #modernism #artphilosophy #literaryfiction

𝗪𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗿: "𝗠𝗮𝗼 𝗜𝗜" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗟𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼 -

𝟯-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄:

- Brooding
- Dread-full
- Prescient

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲:

How does each scene, however uneventful, mirror the novel's other narrative ideas?

#bookreview #bookrecommendations #readinglist #literature #books #book #reading #bookstagram #frictionalreading #3words #dondelillo #maoii #fiction #modernism #artphilosophy #literaryfiction

Vince is back with our weekly picks in time for your weekend reading!

Mind's Eye by #DouglasERichards
Every Dead Thing by #JohnConnolly
Most Ardently Yours by #FreyaSampson
Seeing Sunny Again by #PaulClayton
Pillow Stalk by #DianeVallere
The Secret History of Las Vegas by #ChrisAbani
White Noise by #DonDeLillo
Metal Slinger by #RachelSchneider
The Magic of Recluce by #LEModesittJr
Retro by #JessicaMGoldstein
The Arcadian by #StevenPressfield
Neptune's Fortune by #JulianSancton

#bookstodon

Vince is back with our weekly picks in time for your weekend reading!

Mind's Eye by #DouglasERichards
Every Dead Thing by #JohnConnolly
Most Ardently Yours by #FreyaSampson
Seeing Sunny Again by #PaulClayton
Pillow Stalk by #DianeVallere
The Secret History of Las Vegas by #ChrisAbani
White Noise by #DonDeLillo
Metal Slinger by #RachelSchneider
The Magic of Recluce by #LEModesittJr
Retro by #JessicaMGoldstein
The Arcadian by #StevenPressfield
Neptune's Fortune by #JulianSancton

#bookstodon

Don DeLillo’s Funniest Novel Is A 1980 Hockey Sex Romp He Won’t Acknowledge

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/don-delillo-funniest-novel-hockey-amazons

Don DeLillo’s Funniest Novel Is A 1980 Hockey Sex Romp He Won’t Acknowledge

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/don-delillo-funniest-novel-hockey-amazons

3 things about David Cronenberg’s COSMOPOLIS [2012]

1. A slow elevator, soundtracked with Satie.
2. The way Juliette Binoche simply vanishes.
3. Eggplant leftovers for the chauffeur.

#3things #movies #davodcronenberg #dondelillo #cinema

3 things about David Cronenberg’s COSMOPOLIS [2012]

1. A slow elevator, soundtracked with Satie.
2. The way Juliette Binoche simply vanishes.
3. Eggplant leftovers for the chauffeur.

#3things #movies #davodcronenberg #dondelillo #cinema

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗠𝗮𝗼 𝗜𝗜" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗟𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼 -

DeLillo's work drags a reclusive and idealistic artist into the global politics he speaks to and lives against. Setting up to be a devastating story.

https://youtu.be/o4Ywv37gY_w

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #dondelillo #maoii #mao2 #fiction #artists #politics

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗠𝗮𝗼 𝗜𝗜" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗟𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼 -

An artist/writer is pulled out of his seclusion to engage the postmodern world of terrorism and war, a struggle of individual consciences against mob thought. I chose this for the theme and as a follow-up to Alameddine's "Comforting Myths."

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #dondelillo #maoii #terrorism #artists #politicalfiction

Gary Fisketjon, Legendary Editor Fired from Knopf in 2019, On His Next Act

In August 1978, Raymond Carver drove his rattletrap Ford stat…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Books #ashcarter #BretEastonEllis #cormacmccarthy #dondelillo #donnatartt #editor #Entertainment #garyfisketjon #jaymcinerney #knopf #literarybratpack #Literature #morganentrekin #penguinrandomhouse #publishing #richardford #tradepaperbacks #vintagecontemporaries
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/21184/

“I’m also surprised in retrospect that I didn’t pick what’s often referred to as a ‘ #systemsnovel,’ by which I mean the work of authors like #WilliamGaddis, #DonDeLillo, #ThomasPynchon and #DavidFosterWallace - #writers who deal with vast and complex systems..” fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

The Best 20th-Century American...

“I’m also surprised in retrospect that I didn’t pick what’s often referred to as a ‘ #systemsnovel,’ by which I mean the work of authors like #WilliamGaddis, #DonDeLillo, #ThomasPynchon and #DavidFosterWallace - #writers who deal with vast and complex systems..” fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

The Best 20th-Century American...

TBR Pile: 2025 Fiction Preview -

What are the novels I'm most looking forward to reading this next year? Here are some!

https://youtube.com/shorts/u6DexbBW-Mc

#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #2025preview #tbr2025 #fiction #umbertoeco #baudolino #milankundera #paulauster #timbuktu #harukimurakami #thesympathizer #vietthanhnguyen #hankang #thevegetarian #howbeautifulwewere #mohsinhamid #simonjimenez #marlonjames #harlanellison #zadiesmith #whiteteeth #dondelillo

2024: book thirty-two. #bookstodon #books #libra #dondelillo #2024books #books2024

2024: book thirty-two. #bookstodon #books #libra #dondelillo #2024books #books2024

Reading novels about #NYC in order to supervise a senior thesis on the city. #Cosmpolis by #DonDeLillo was very good (though #WhiteNoise remains my favorite of his).

Reading novels about #NYC in order to supervise a senior thesis on the city. #Cosmpolis by #DonDeLillo was very good (though #WhiteNoise remains my favorite of his).

How to make your own Murray from White Noise costume! #1980s #doncheadle #dondelillo #noahbaumbach #whitenoise #cosplay #costume

https://carboncostume.com/murray-from-white-noise/

Great suggestions in this essay about "temporal displacement, time loops, time skips, time slips or parallel timelines." https://www.salon.com/2023/07/25/gotta-get-back-in-time-the-current-explosion-of-time-travel-novels-goes-beyond-sci-fi-and-fantasy/
If #time is of interest, you can check out a volume of essays I edited, published by #CambridgeUP, that takes up this issue in #US #literature from its #indigenous roots to #DonDeLillo, from the #SalemWitchTrials to the #graphic novel, #RichardMcGuire's #Here. I also wrote a book on #tempo(e)rality with, you guessed it, #Poe as the (wobbly) center.

Seems a good time to reread White Noise. I love DeLillo's gentle gear-shifts from the everyday to the transcendent

#books #bookstodon #reading #DonDeLillo #WhiteNoise #family

Seems a good time to reread White Noise. I love DeLillo's gentle gear-shifts from the everyday to the transcendent

#books #bookstodon #reading #DonDeLillo #WhiteNoise #family

Dreams

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams.

~ Don DeLillo

slip:4a1113.

3 things about Noah Baumbach’s WHITE NOISE [2022]

1. Hitler/Elvis fugue.
2. Busby Berkeley garbage.
3. The generic aisle.

#3things #movies #NoahBaumback #AdamDriver #DonDelillo #cinemastodon

3 things about Noah Baumbach’s WHITE NOISE [2022]

1. Hitler/Elvis fugue.
2. Busby Berkeley garbage.
3. The generic aisle.

#3things #movies #NoahBaumback #AdamDriver #DonDelillo #cinemastodon

I am reading #WhiteNoise by #DonDeLillo and find it disturbingly relevant to today. A toxic spill, people wearing masks, conspiracy theories, a real evacuation being used to refine the protocols for a simulated evacuation, a popular Hitler studies program in a college, data models of individual person’s lives assembled from disparate data sources and accessible in an abandoned Boy Scout barracks. Why isn’t everyone reading this book????? #Bookstodon

I am reading #WhiteNoise by #DonDeLillo and find it disturbingly relevant to today. A toxic spill, people wearing masks, conspiracy theories, a real evacuation being used to refine the protocols for a simulated evacuation, a popular Hitler studies program in a college, data models of individual person’s lives assembled from disparate data sources and accessible in an abandoned Boy Scout barracks. Why isn’t everyone reading this book????? #Bookstodon

The best description of the Warren Commission to date:

"This is the megaton novel James Joyce would have written if he'd moved to lowa City and lived to be a hundred.

This is the Joycean Book of America, remember--the novel in which nothing is left out."

#LIBRA #DonDelillo

This song and video are life

#WhiteNoise
#DonDeLillo
#LCDSoundSystem

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nJblPY5hVHI&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

@ghorwood @jacobydave
I just (a couple nights back) watched it and found it to be an enjoyable, absurdly quirky romp…with more than a few laugh-out-loud moments….

I’ve only read a bit of Delillo, and this isn’t one of the few. I’ve put a hold on it at my library but it appears I’m late to the game on that maneuver (60th in line on a handful of copies), stay tuned…

#Books
#DonDelillo
#LoveYourLibrary

@ghorwood @jacobydave
I just (a couple nights back) watched it and found it to be an enjoyable, absurdly quirky romp…with more than a few laugh-out-loud moments….

I’ve only read a bit of Delillo, and this isn’t one of the few. I’ve put a hold on it at my library but it appears I’m late to the game on that maneuver (60th in line on a handful of copies), stay tuned…

#Books
#DonDelillo
#LoveYourLibrary

Time to watch White Noise at last. The book is dear to my heart (and I wrote my first research paper about it, you can read it below if you care, it wasn't good).
Not sure what the film is gonna be like...
https://www.liminalweb.site/hitler-elvis-same-stuff-simulacrum-in-don-delillos-white-noise/

#literature #cinema #DonDelillo #whitenoise

Reading #Cosmopolis has made me want to revisit Cronenberg's film. I didn't care for it on first viewing, though it has some great lines from DeLillo. This one is my open letter to Silicon Valley
#SarahGadon #DonDeLillo #DavidCronenberg #film

Reading #Cosmopolis has made me want to revisit Cronenberg's film. I didn't care for it on first viewing, though it has some great lines from DeLillo. This one is my open letter to Silicon Valley
#SarahGadon #DonDeLillo #DavidCronenberg #film

@Filoffen En fantastisk bog. Jeg læste den kort tid efter den var udgivet, mens jeg var udstationeret på UCI i Californien. Den og Underworld må være DeLillos hovedværker. Hans fiktion er noget af det skarpeste postmodernistiske kulturanalyse, man finder. Jeg har svært ved at forestille mig den filmatiseret, men det må jo komme an på en prøve. #dondelillo #whitenoice

@Filoffen En fantastisk bog. Jeg læste den kort tid efter den var udgivet, mens jeg var udstationeret på UCI i Californien. Den og Underworld må være DeLillos hovedværker. Hans fiktion er noget af det skarpeste postmodernistiske kulturanalyse, man finder. Jeg har svært ved at forestille mig den filmatiseret, men det må jo komme an på en prøve. #dondelillo #whitenoice

"Reputation is a delicate thing. A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable." —Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

Late to this one, but it feels weirdly prophetic. It's a strange kind of fantasia, using gorgeous language to convey gloomy ideas through a protagonist as compelling as he is repellent

#books #reading #bookstodon #DonDeLillo #BookDesign #BookQuotes

Who are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own, etc. #Bookstodon. Here are some of mine: #neilgaiman #paolobacigalupi #paulabrackston #margaretatwood #dondelillo #catsparks #RayBradbury #williamgibson #dancheon

Noah Baumbach’s White Noise gets a new trailer and poster. See them here http://bit.ly/3XiOpy1

New artwork is by @marijatiurina

#WhiteNoise #NoahBaumbach #GretaGerwig #AdamDriver #DonCheadle #Netflix #DonDelillo #LCDSoundsystem #film #art #movie #trailer