A Dangerous Game Shirley Cooklin 's drama in which British justice is put on hold when a paroled murderer kills after his release. A prisoner caught in a Home Office freeze on new paroles challenges the ruling and demands a psychological profile from a hard-line female psychiatrist. Their meetings prove explosive. Director Ned Chaillet
Contributors
Unknown: Shirley Cooklin
Director: Ned Chaillet
Dr Gayle: Suzanna Hamilton
Mike: Ray Lonnen
Dr Hines: Roger May
Alan: Terence Edmond
Anne: Karen Ford
Vic: David Thorpe
Prof Gully: Geoffrey Whitehead
Simon: Andrew Wincott
minister: Andrew Wincott
Director: Ned Chaillet
Dr Gayle: Suzanna Hamilton
Mike: Ray Lonnen
Dr Hines: Roger May
Alan: Terence Edmond
Anne: Karen Ford
Vic: David Thorpe
Prof Gully: Geoffrey Whitehead
Simon: Andrew Wincott
minister: Andrew Wincott
From 2001
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The Saturday Play: Out of Hours
By Peter Wolf. A middle-aged airline pilot with a drink problem begins receiving mysterious phone calls offering him a job. At the same time he is made redundant and, faced with the medical bills for his disabled son, he is seriously tempted. But when he discovers exactly what the job entails, he is torn between the need for money and his conscience.
Director Cherry Cookson
Contributors
Unknown: Peter Wolf.
Director: Cherry Cookson
Guy: James Laurenson
Penny: Jill Baker
Mariatu Sandra: James Young
Jill: Anna Nygh
Idris: Janice Acquah
Jonah: Juae Akuwudike
DrOb'ng: Ben Onwukwe
Tremain: Peter Marinker
Burton: Peter Darney
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From 2002
Thank you Mike:)
David
The Moonflask
Saturday Drama
by Paul Sellar
When a group of people meet on a back to work course they pool their various skills to steal a priceless Ming vase from an auction house and return it to its rightful owner. But just who is conning who in this action packed drama?
Producer ..... Sally Avens
Director ..... Marion Nancarrow
This is a caper with a conscience, a heist with a smile on its face. But the drama is firmly based in the real world; an elderly couple recently discovered they were using a Ming vase as an umbrella stand, Government plans include making jobless criminals spend one day a week searching for work and fraud in the UK has increased tenfold since the banking crisis. Paul Sellar weaves a fast-paced yarn around these facts to create a plot full of twists and turns.
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From 2014
Our Country's Good
Saturday Drama
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Australia 1789: A young lieutenant attempts to direct a cast of convicts
in 'The Recruiting Officer', the first play ever to be staged in the country.
But one of his cast may be about to be hanged.
The convicts' production of The Recruiting Officer can be heard
on Drama on 3 on Sunday evening..
Captain Arthur Philip ..... Nicholas Le Prevost
Major Robbie Ross ..... Stuart McQuarrie
Captain David Collins ..... Paul Moriarty
Captain Watkin Tench ..... Adam Billington
Captain Campbell ..... James Lailey
2nd Lieutenant Ralph Clark ..... Paul Higgins
Reverend Johnson ..... Simon Bubb
Midshipman Harry Brewer ..... Rikki Lawton
Mary Brenham ..... Francine Chamberlain
Robert Sideway ..... Adam James
John Wisehammer ..... Elliot Levey
Liz Morden ..... Kate Fleetwood
Dabby Bryant ..... Alex Tregear
John Arscott ...... Ralph Ineson
Ketch Freeman ..... Jonathan Forbes
Duckling Smith ..... Adjoa Andoh
Director ..... Sally Avens
Timberlake Wertenbaker's stage play was adapted from Thomas Keneally's novel, 'The Playmaker'.
It tells the true story of Lieutenant Ralph Clark's attempts to put on a production of George Farquhar's 'The Recruiting Officer' using a cast of convicts. It met with high praise when it was first staged at The Royal Court and the play argues eloquently for the redemptive power of theatre. Many of the arguments are still current today as we debate how best to rehabilitate prisoners. At the heart of the play is its language; Wertenbaker celebrates the beauty of language in the slang of the criminal classes and the poetry of the play but she also looks at how language is used as an instrument of power.
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The Lady in the Van
Saturday Drama
The Lady in the Van
by Alan Bennett
Cast
Miss Shepherd ..... Maggie Smith
Alan Bennett ..... Adrian Scarborough
Alan Bennett 2 ..... Alan Bennett
Mam ..... Marcia Warren
Rufus ..... Matt Addis
Pauline ..... Janice Acquah
Underwood ..... Stephen Critchlow
Social Worker ..... Caroline Guthrie
Fairchild ..... Philip Fox
Doctors ..... Jonathan Tafler and Malcolm Tierney
Music composed by Simon Morecroft
Adapted and Directed by Gordon House
The Lady in the Van is the first radio production of Alan Bennett's autobiographical stage play, starring Alan Bennett himself as one of the two "Alan Bennetts" featured in the drama, and reprising the brilliant stage performance of Dame Maggie Smith as Miss Mary Shepherd, the lady who takes refuge in his Camden garden for three months, and ends up staying fifteen years.
When Alan Bennett adapted his short autobiographical memoir The Lady in the Van, into a full length stage play, it received some excellent critical reviews. "One of the saddest, funniest and most distinguished offerings for years" wrote John Peter in the Sunday Times, while Charles Spencer, in the Daily Telegraph, thought it was "without doubt, the best new play of the year. Now Radio 4 brings this wonderfully bitter-sweet comic diary to the airwaves, with Maggie Smith once more playing the eccentric and cantankerous Miss Shepherd, and Alan Bennett and Adrian Scarborough playing the two Alan Bennetts - one in the role of the omniscient narrator, and one experiencing events as they occur.
Miss Shepherd was the genteel vagrant who parked her Bedford van near Mr. Bennett's Camden house in 1971 and eventually browbeat him into pushing it into the mini-driveway leading to his front door. And there she steadfastly remained until her death in 1989, emerging, every so often, to make a complaint, share a loony observation or simply fill Mr. Bennett's tiny garden with "a right Suzie Wong" - stench and filth that he compared to ''the inside of someone's ear."
But the play is as much about the author himself, as Miss Shepherd. What are Alan Bennett's motives in becoming landlord to such a lethally dotty tenant? Is he too feeble to reject her? Is he guiltily compensating for not spending enough time with his own mother (played here by Marcia Warren) Or is he, as his neighbours suggest, a modern-day saint? Was there (he suggests it himself) always part of him that wanted to exploit Miss Shepherd for literary profit? They play invites us both to ponder these questions, and asks what responsibility we ourselves have for the vagabonds who walk our streets and sometimes land up on our doorsteps.
But above all 'The Lady in the Van' is simply hugely enjoyable entertainment, now brought vividly to radio. Simon Morecoft composes original music in a production adapted and directed by the former Head of Radio Drama, Gordon House.
Release date: 21 February 2009
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A WORLD FULL OF WEEPING
JOHN SAYERS
A contemporary and disturbing ghost story set in Primrose Hill and encompassing the human tragedy of baby snatching. Starring Jemma Redgrave & David Threlfall
Cast: John Baddeley, Elaine Claxton, Dean Clinch, Steve Critchlow, Tom Georgeson, Niamh Linehan, Jemma Redgrave & Jonathan Tafler.
Writer: Jon Sayers
Composer: Robert Hartshorn
Director: Andy Jordan
Producer: Bruce Hyman
Broadcast:
R4 28.10.00
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I lived in Primrose Hill for a couple of years - I'm gonna enjoy this! :)
The Saturday Play: Cool Water Murder
A disturbing psychological thriller by Chris O'Connell. In a hotel on a remote and rumbling headland, there is only one guest and everyone has a motive to murder. As kitchen knives go missing, stairs creak and surprises lurk in locked rooms, will there be a victim before the sea takes its sacrifice?
Director Sue Wilson. Music Derek Nesbitt
Contributors
Unknown: Chris O'Connell.
Director: Sue Wilson.
Music: Derek Nesbitt
Heather: Estelle Kohler
Drew: Robert Whelen
Lawrence: Jim Pyke
Lisa: Annabelle Dowler
Danny: Paul Rattray
Griffin: Trevor Harrison
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Raven Black
Saturday Drama
By Ann Cleeves.
Dramatised for radio by Iain Finlay MacLeod.
Atmospheric dramatisation of the award-winning crime novel set deep in a Shetland winter.
When a young woman is found strangled in a snow-covered field, the inhabitants of small Shetland hamlet Ravenswick are thrown into shock. Disbelief soon turns to anger and suspicion falls upon elderly loner Magnus Tait. But Detective Jimmy Perez has a hunch that the case is more complicated than that solution might suggest.
Raven Black was named Best Crime Novel of the Year by the Crime Writers Association in 2006. It's the first in a series of novels set in Shetland, featuring Detective Jimmy Perez.
Cast:
Jimmy Perez ... Grant O'Rourke
Magnus ... John Shedden
Fran ..... Rosalind Sydney
Sally ... Clare Yuille
Robert ..... John Kielty
Duncan ..... Kenny Blyth
D.I. Taylor ..... Robin Laing
Euan ..... Greg Powrie
Annie Perez ..... Sandra Voe
Catherine ..... Melody Grove
Producer/Director: Kirsteen Cameron.
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from 2010
The Saturday Play: Plain Murder
By CS Forester, dramatised by Robin Brooks.
Three men working in an advertising agency are caught taking bribes by their manager. To evade prosecution, the ringleader resorts to murder, drawing his colleagues into a vortex of violence.
DirectorClive Brill
Contributors
Dramatised By: Robin Brooks.
Forester: Clive Merrison
Morris: Nicholas Woodeson
Oldroyd: Geoffrey Whitehead
Wilkins: Will Keen
Mrs Morris: Regina Freedman
Campbell: Denys Hawthorne
Doris Campbell: Rebecca Saire
Harrison: Christian Rodska
Molly: Tilly Vosburgh
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From 1999
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