A Leap in the Dark review – hilarious recreation of the BBC’s first radio drama

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A Leap in the Dark review – hilarious recreation of the BBC’s first radio drama

New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeA top cast directed by Caroline Wilkes revel in Ron Hutchinson’s laugh-out-loud, if overlong story charting the corporation’s first wireless playIn the early 1920s, the British Broadcasting Company, forerunner of today’s corporation, is smugly enjoying its monopoly of the airwaves. Not everyone, though, is happy. Lady Hartley’s firm produces wireless sets. Sales are slow: the “stuck-up idiots” at the BBC are churning…