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
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
Read more…EMMA FIELDING
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
Read more…SATURDAY-NIGHT THEATRE
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
Read more…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 Vincent Mclnerney
Detective Inspector Crust is on the trail of one of the bridge bells saved during the sinking of the Titanic.
The bell is a rare collector's item and is to be part of Elizabeth Bright's dowry but Tarrant, a psychotic criminal,
Read more…A Matter of Honour
BBC Radio 4
First broadcast: Sun 9th Nov 1986, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM
by JEFFREY ARCHER dramatised in seven episodes by BRIAN SIBLEY
The Kremlin - 10 May 1966 The Tsar's Icon is a fake. It is imperative that the original be found
Radio 4 Extra celebrates the centenary of the BBC’s first ever original radio drama. Written by Richard Hughes, ‘Danger’ or ‘The Mine Play’ is regarded as the BBC’s first ever radio drama. First broadcast live in January 1924, the radio audience wa
Read more…THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
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BBC Home Service
First broadcast: Fri 30th Jun 1967, 19:00 on BBC Home Service Basic
The novel by H. G. Wells adapted as a serial for radio in six parts by JON MANCHIP WHITE with Paul Daneman as Professor J
Read more…Alan Ayckbourn’s award-winning comedy classic, with a glittering cast directed by Martin Jarvis. Written and set in 1975. Before mobile phones. Devastatingly funny - marriage, partnerships, differences.
Elderly Ernest and Delia in their bedroom. Wo
Read more…20:30
Saturday-Night Theatre
BBC Radio 4
Sat 24th Jun 1972, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
The Heiress: a play by RUTH and AUGUSTUS GOETZ based on the novel Washington Square by HENRY JAMES with Kate Binchy , Robert Harris
Ursula Jeans , Michael Spice
Dr Sl
By Rumer Godden, dramatised by April de Angelis.
A group of nuns establish a remote mission in the Himalayas and the breathtaking environment produces a crisis of faith, leading to murder.
Cast:
Sister Clodagh .... Sinead Cusack
Sister Ruth .... Les
Read more…By Monckton Hoffe
The Man in Black introduces a story of insanity featuring a woman who has been in an asylum for 30 years. What is her story?
Cast:
The Storyteller .... Valentine Dyall
Gerald Madilon .... Ralph Truman
Adela Madilon .... Grizelda H
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