BBC R4 - Ray Connolly's 'Unimaginable'
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Broadcast December 8, 2005
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

BBC Blurb
An unusual and highly personal look at a murder that shocked the world.

When John Lennon was shot outside his New York apartment the world's press
were desperate for interviews in order to feed the world's insatiable demand
for anything related to the dead singer. This presented Ray Connolly with
something of a dilemma.

The very day Lennon was murdered, Connolly was scheduled to fly out to interview
him. This would have been Lennon's first interview with a British journalist for
something like 10 years. Although a journalist, Connolly was also Lennon's friend
and this is why Lennon had agreed to be interviewed after such a long silence. It
would have  provided Connolly with a major coup. Instead he finds himself besieged
by his fellow journalists. The play focuses on Connolly's reaction to the singer's
death and the conflict within his own mind between the Lennon's public image and
his private lifestyle. He could clearly sense the creation of the many myths and
legends that have subsequently come to surround the former Beatle.

Cast
Ray Connolly - Robert Glenister
Plum - Jenny Funnell
Louise - Clare Corbett
Dominic - Nicholas Carter
Keiron - Thomas Helm
Sociologist - Ian Masters
Musicologist - Alan Leith
US DJ - Tim Flavin
Taxi driver - Richard Tate
Reporter - Sidney Sloane
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Also included is a short piece broadcast by the World Service to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the murder.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_John_Lennon