This is a wonderful collection, but for my taste has been ruined by some deranged person cutting the bitrate down to 64K. I cannot fathom why someone would do this. If it is for the sake of space all I se
Unknown: Jane Austen Conducted By: Sidney Sager Conducted By: Brian Miller Elizabeth Bennet: Elizabeth Counsell Darcy: Frank Barrie Mrs Bennet: Eleanor Summerfield Mr Bennet: Robert Sansom Narrator: Madi Heod Lydia: Sheridan Fitzger
On 15 June 1920, the Marconi Company broadcast the world’s first live recital by a professional musician - the legendary Australian diva, Dame Nellie Melba. In a makeshift studio in the company’s factory at Chelmsford, using a microphone created wit
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,
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
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.
BBC Radio 4; February 1999 Producers: Vanessa Whitburn and Peter Leslie Wild
Mist rising over the fens. The haunting cry of the nesting bittern. But not everything is as pristine as it appears to be. The protection of nature and the pursuit of progres
Love on the Dole by RONALD GOW and WALTER GREENWOOD with and Ronald Gow enters his 90th year this month and this new production is a celebration of that event. It is 1934 in Hanky Park, Salford - unemployment and poverty are rife. The Hardcastle fami
OurRomanCousins byBRUCE STEWART with Duncan Lamont Timothy West and Aubrey Woods In 1766 Charles Stuart was no longer the ' Bonnie Prince ' of the 45 but a boisterous tippler whose manners and morals were the despair of his younger brother Henry, a
LonelyBeat by William Keenan adapted by David BRAMLEY ' To succeed where 200 of the best detectives in the country have failed? Of course it's a tall order. But you have two things on your side. You are new to the case, and bring a fresh outlook to i