BY ANDREW REYNOLDS – FEBRUARY 29, 2012
Fresh from his Best Actor gong for Kafka: The Musical at this years inaugural BBC Audio Drama Awards David Tennant is set to star in Waiting for the Boatman – a BBC Radio Four drama by Stephen Wakelam about mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Italian painter Caravaggio as told through the eyes of his former apprentice and model Mario Minniti.
Caravaggio’s demise has been the subject of many wild theories since he drew his last breath some 400 years ago in Naples – conflicting reports place the painter of The Martyrdom of St Martin dying alone from Malaria on a Tuscan beach, cut down by the Knights of Malta or, less interestingly and more likely for such a hell raiser dying in a hospital bed.
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