A full-cast adaptation of the classic novel by Nobel Prize-winner Hermann Hesse, starring
Derek Jacobi.
Originally published in 1943, The Glass Bead Game was Hermann Hesse’s last novel. It was
hailed as his magnum opus, and was instrumental in s
1940. France has fallen and the war between England and Germany takes to the skies.
Len is a young Geordie fighter pilot attempting to survive the endless sorties. Katie is a nurse striving to cope with the monotony and the heartbreak.
They meet a
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SNT 1984-11-10 - Almost Time For School
AP 1984-11-12 - Almost Time For School
Neither the deputy head nor the pupils she was accompanying have returned from Brussels. Suspicions are aroused. Could the arrival of a new computer together with the comput
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Slow Fuze
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BBC Radio 4
First broadcast: Sat 22nd May 1976, 15:05 on BBC Radio 4 FM
by R. D. Wingfield
With Richard Caldicot as Major Derry
An unexploded wartime bomb is discovered near the vault of a bank. Major
Read more…By L Frank Baum
Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths
When a tornado strikes her farmhouse in Kansas, young Dorothy is lifted to the magical world of Oz where she embarks upon a perilous journey to find her way back home.
Dorothy: Amelia Clar
Jack Higgins (the pen name of Henry Patterson) was the internationally bestselling author of 85 novels. He shot to fame with The Eagle Has Landed, which sold 50 million copies worldwide and became a hit film. Adapted for radio, it is included here, t
Glass Chair Chair GlassRuss Abbott, Harriet Walter, Emily Bruni, Hugh Ross and Allan Corduner star in a play that imagines a day when Tommy Cooper met absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco. It could have happened.
It's a sunny morning in
GoldfingerToby Stephens returns as agent 007 James Bond in a thrilling dramatisation of Ian Fleming's 1959 novel, with a glittering cast is led by Ian McKellen in the title role.
Auric Goldfinger is not only a cheat at canasta and golf,
The HybernaculumBy Yolanda Pupo-Thompson.
A play depicting a summer's day at The Wakes, the house of 18th-century amateur naturalist the Rev Gilbert White, when White, awaiting the final proofs of his book, is tormented by a form of tinn
My Heart's a SuitcaseDavid Edgar introduces a new production of "My Heart's a Suitcase" by Clare McIntyre.
McIntyre was one of the new generation of women playwrights who emerged with huge impact in the 1980s and this was one of her best
SNT 1983-05-21 - My Brother's Keeper
1983-05-23 - AT - My Brother's Keeper
When Billy is killed in a motorcycle accident. his fiancée, Janey is too distraught to attend the funeral. But not too upset, it seems, to start a romance with Billy's younger b
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1964-12-22 - Tuesday Evening Play - The Most Unhappy Lady
1965-04-15 - AT - The Most Unhappy Lady
An account of three critical years in the life of Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, and later Queen of England
Contributors:
Compi
1959-11-14 - SNT - Jumping Jenny
1959-11-16 - Monday Matinee - Jumping Jenny
The novel by Anthony Berkeley adapted for broadcasting by H. Oldfield Box
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by David H. Godfrey
A mystery dinner theater party thrown by local a
Read more…With a wink at JB Priestley's original, An Inspector Calls
This comedy drama uses the device of an inquisitive visitor bringing out the worst and the truth in a group. Here, that group is a family struggling to run a seaside guesthouse through som
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By Walter de la Mare, dramatised in three-parts by Stephen Wyatt.
A haunting story of love, intrigue and obsession.
1: Miss M
The diminutive Miss M struggles to find her place in Victorian society.
2: Mr Anon
Miss M, already trapped b
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BBC Home Service
First broadcast: Sat 20th Apr 1963, 20:30 on BBC Home Service Basic
The Duke in Darkness by Patrick Hamilton adapted by MOLLIE HARDWICK with The action takes place in the Chateau Lamorre during the period of the F
Read more…Saturday-Night Theatre
BBC Radio 4
First broadcast: Sat 3rd Feb 1973, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
The Governess by PATRICK HAMILTON : adapted by the author from his stage play with Margaret Wolfit as Miss Fry and Hugh Manning as Mr Drew
MISS FRY: What do y
By Chester Himes, adapted for radio by Guy Meredith.
It's a cold New York night and Detective Matt Walker, the worse for drink, searches for his car. He suspects it's been stolen and someone will pay. He spots a black restaurant worker, Luke, putting
Read more…It's a year since Janina's husband died, her son's marriage is in crisis and there's a letter from Poland on her doormat calling her home.... but where is home?
A lyrical play that weaves a delicate atmosphere of longing together with an unsentiment
Read more…New arrival to this site, fantastic archive going back 10 years. First post, so hope this goes ok...
Tony Bagley - The Machine
BBC Radio 3
Broadcast: Tuesday 16th October 1990 @ 9:30 p.m.
"The Machine" imagines the effects of sound recording in Jaco
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