Murray in Popular Culture
Robin Soans used an interview with Murray and Alieva as a character for his Verbatim style play Talking to Terrorists. The interview is used as the dialogue for the character "Ex-Ambassador". The play had a very successful run at the Royal Court Theatre and has since been widely produced worldwide. Soans used Murray again as a verbatim character in his later play "Life After Scandal".
On 20 February 2010 BBC Radio Four broadcast a radio play Murder in Samarkand, written by David Hare, based on Murray's book of the same name. Actor David Tennant portrayed Craig Murray and the director was Clive Brill. In a review of the radio play in The Independent, Chris Maume said that the 'no-nonsense script' told how "evidence" gleaned from torture and human-rights abuses helped to build a fraudulent case for invading Iraq, as well as telling of Murray's threefold passions, for justice, whisky and women.
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