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  • Published: 1 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781408425756
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 0 hr 57 min
  • Narrator: Becky Simpson
  • RRP: $8.99

Spoonface Steinberg




The listener response to this play when it was first broadcast as part of the 'God’s Country' series was overwhelming and it has gone on to become an audio bestseller.Performed by Becky Simpson, Spoonface is a young autistic Jewish girl who, learning that she is terminally ill, contemplates the meaning of life and death in a dramatic monologue interwoven with operatic extracts from the magical voice of Maria Callas.It was awarded Best Drama and Talkie of the Year at the 1997 Talkie Awards and was described by Gillian Reynolds in the Daily Telegraph as ‘Funny, intense and poetic’. By the author of Billy Elliott.Written by Lee Hall. Lee Hall has asserted his moral rights (including the right to be identified as the author) in the Work. All rights reserved. Applications for performance or other use should be made to Judy Daish Associates Limited, 2 St Charles Place, London W10 6EG.

  • Published: 1 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781408425756
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 0 hr 57 min
  • Narrator: Becky Simpson
  • RRP: $8.99

About the author

Lee Hall

LEE HALL is a paleontologist at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. Lee has loved geology since childhood. His passion was encouraged by his mother, who bought him minerals and fossils in rock shops, and by his father, who took him to bookshops and libraries for geology and paleontology books.

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