Evening Conversations on Audible
“You’re the one with the identity crisis mum, not us!”
Acclaimed actor and writer, Sudha Bhuchar (Mary Poppins Returns, Mogul Mowgli) presents, Evening Conversations. Middle class, middle aged, multicultural mother of millennial sons, Sudha lives a ‘squeezed middle’ life in Wimbledon. As she navigates her career, family and returning to India as a NRI (Non-Resident Indian), she is prompted to investigate her own sense of home and place in the world. Evening Conversations is a warm-hearted monologue inspired by Sudha’s banter with her dual-heritage (Pakistani/East African Indian) millennial sons who have grown up in leafy Wimbledon while her life has spanned three continents. She invites her boys to ‘crack open a cold one’ and share their views on life. Will her fiercely British sons see their heritage as a source of strength or an unwelcome inheritance? Inextricably shaped by Sudha’s cross-continental childhood, a far cry from her sons’ upbringing in leafy Wimbledon, Evening Conversations is warm hearted, humorous, and truthful.
Written and performed by Sudha Bhuchar and directed by Kristine Landon-Smith, with music by Arun Ghosh.
Produced for Radio 4 drama between 1995 and 1998. This includes:
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand adapted by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith
House of the Sun by Meira Chand adapted by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith
Women of the Dust by Ruth Carter - Kristine Landon-Smith won CRE Race in the Media awards for this production
A Yearning, an adaptation of Lorca's Yerma by Ruth Carter. Won CRE Race in the Media award for this production
Series of Balti Kings ( 5 epidodes) written by Sdha Buchar and Shaheen Khan
Fourteen songs , Two Weddings and a Funeral (Bollywood musical) adapted for radio by Rehan Sheikh and John fletcher
The tiger by John Flectcher
Cocaine by Max Hillman
Three Series of Girls by Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan
The Bounty Hunter by Tanika Gupta
Good Person of AJmer by Bertolt Brecht, adapted by Kristine Landon-Smith
House by the River by John Fletcher
Dancing Girls of Lahore by Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan
Indian short story season for 50year marking of partition of india
Kristine has directed many epsidoes of The Archers for radio
Capricornia by Louis Nowra, adapted for radio by Ruth Carter. co pro with ABC Australia
Cheese Makes You Dream by Kara Miller
Shooting Star by Philip Osment
Goodbye Renee by Max Hillman