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Tom Stoppard’s Pink Floyd play gives Radio 2 a dark side

31 August 2013

9:00 AM

31 August 2013

9:00 AM

How many listeners, I wonder, actually tuned in to Darkside as it went out on air on Radio 2, after dark, curtains closed against the pale moon waning? One listener for sure at 10 o’clock on Monday night was David Gilmour, Pink Floyd’s guitar man and co-creator of the band’s mega-successful ‘concept album’ The Dark Side of the Moon, which inspired the play.

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