Joe O' Byrne What Next For Hedy Lamarr


What Next For Hedy Lamarr   Written and Directed by Joe O'Byrne Science, Silver Screen and Hedy Lamarr!.. This play is a sonic treatment of the real-life story of Hedy Lamarr, whose biography reads like a one-woman history of the 20th century. Born in Vienna, she emigrated to America where she became a movie screen idol as well as an inventor, registering a patent for a process called frequency hopping. This patent proposed a means of radio-guidance for weaponry, that would hop frequencies, making the radio guidance impossible to jam via enemy transmissions. This pre-dated a related technology that is used in Wi-fi. Featuring Olwen Fouéré as Hedy Lamarr Mario Rosenstock played Fritz Mandl. Gistav Machaty, George Antheil, The General and other voices Roger Gregg played the police officer and other voices Hugh O’Conor was the reporter Original music by Denis Clohessy Sound Supervision Mark Dwyer Producer Kevin Brew RTÉ Drama on One: RTÉ Radio 1 April 2012

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.