On Saturday 30th April 2016 BBC Radio Four broadcast a new production of Look Back In Anger. Also that evening David Tennant hosted an episode of Archive On 4 about the same play.

The recording was 90 minutes in length and it starred David Tennant and Ian McKellen. It was directed by Richard Wilson.

David Tennant played the lead role of Jimmy Porter which was the role he played in 2005 when he appeared in a theatre production of the play with Kelly Riley. David won the Critics Award For Theatre in Scotland for that performance.

Look Back In Anger was written in 1956 and it concerns a love triangle involving an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working-class origin (Jimmy Porter), his upper-middle-class impassive wife (Alison) and her haughty best friend (Helena Charles). Cliff, an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.

This BBC Radio Four production celebrates the 60th anniversary of the play. Although at first disliked by critics, the play is now considered the masterpiece that sparked the Angry Young Men movement - and now, almost 60 years to the day - BBC Radio Four has broadcast the latest version.

Cast:
Jimmy Porter - David Tennant
Alison - Nancy Carroll
Cliff - Daniel Evans
Helena - Claire Price
Colonel - Ian McKellen

David Tennant hosted an episode of Archive On 4 on BBC Radio Four the same evening about John Osborne's play Look Back In Anger. The episode was an hour in length.

David Tennant examined the controversy surrounding the play's initial production. It included contributions by writer David Hare, critic Michael Billington and actors Gary Raymonds and George Devine.

The description of the episode was:
'Sixty years ago, one small play shocked British theatre to its core and started a cultural revolution.

John Osborne, a writer from an unfashionable Midlands city, put ordinary lives on stage and made them an extraordinary comment on post-war Britain. As he prepares to star in a new production for Radio 4, David Tennant explores John Osborne's own papers to uncover how he put his own life and relationship into Look Back In Anger.

Along the way, we look back at the anger which greeted the play from many critics. The BBC's theatre critic Ivor Brown called it "unspeakably dirty and squalid. It is difficult to believe that a colonel's daughter, brought up with some standards, would have stayed in this sty for a day." He went on to fume. "I felt angry because it wasted my time." He was one of the many who hated the play.

David Tennant hears interviews with John Osborne, reads his personal letters, as well as archive of critic Kenneth Tynan and director Tony Richardson. He also plays extracts from previous productions, including a classic with Richard Burton as Jimmy Porter.'

MP3 of Look Back In Anger.

MP3 of Archive On 4.