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BBC Dangerous Visions part 3

Over the next 3 weeks BBC radio 4 will broadcast programs in the Dangerous Vision series.

Dramas that explore contemporary takes on future dystopias. You will be disturbed, as you see the present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future.

Episode 1

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Billy Budd by Herman Melville (BBC)

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Billy Budd by Herman Melville

The playwright Keith Dewhurst adapts Herman Melville's powerful story of persecution and retribution in the aftermath of t

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Queen of the Desert

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By Georgina Howell, abridged by Jill Waters

 

She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder,

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Good Show Clarissa

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Martin Jarvis directs Helen Mirren, Joanna Lumley and Lisa Dillon as 'The Girls' in 'Good Show Clarissa!' from Jarvis & Ayres Productions - a series of three 'jolly hockey stick' stories for Radio 4 - performed by stars. These classic tales repres

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The Waiting Room

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A dramatisation of Julia Darling's web diary. The writer began writing the poignant, honest funny weblog three years before her death in 2005, to chart her battle with breast cancer.

Cast:

Julia Darling.........Charlie Hardwick

 

Featuring poems

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Hammond Innes - The Doomed Oasis

2309820916?profile=original"Quiet Welsh solicitor goes to the Middle East on business and finds himself plunged into the violence and intrigue of a great struggle for oil."

Six episodes of approximately 30 minutes each.

Episode 1: The Journey To Arabia
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