A Leap in the Dark review – drama paying homage to the dawn of radio falls flat

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A Leap in the Dark review – drama paying homage to the dawn of radio falls flat

New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeRon Hutchinson’s comedy marks 100 years since the first radio play but succumbs to cliches and jarring humourPlaywright Ron Hutchinson sets his tribute to the birth of British radio drama in an odd sort of 1924. This is a time when someone can complain about the profusion of Agatha Christie novels, even though the crime writer has only three books to her name. It is an era when the London stage presents experimental …