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Saturday Drama 130202 Boots On The Ground
Boots on the Ground by Don Webb
Danny Marks arrives at a Military Research centre. He's a volunteer for speed reaction testing; trying to improve reaction times under duress. His mate Billy Rogers was on the same course, but he's gone missing. Has he
Old School Ties by Sue Eckstein
Sue Eckstein
Stand-up comedian Kit enjoys satirising his monastic boarding-school days, but the past takes on a different light when he reads the obituary of an old school friend. Fired by guilt at having lost touch, Kit decides to confront the ma
Read more…The Cloths Of Heaven
The Cloths Of Heaven Sue Eckstein's dramatisation of her own novel Broadcast Monday 15 to Friday 19 March 2010 (Woman's Hour Drama) British diplomat Daniel Maddison on his first posting to West Africa, finds himself rebelling against the traditiona
Read more…The Salamander Letter by Dylan Ritson
So successful were the forgeries by the antiquarian dealer Mark Hofmann that they undermined the faith of the Mormon Church and rewrote American history.
Dylan Ritson 's probing new drama examines Hofmann's compulsion to defraud and his transforma
Ronnie Smith - Cherries Hung with Snow
This is the sequel to Smith's Charge of the Boys' Brigade, already posted by William Warren.
The file is in the Classic and Contemporary Drama Uploads folder as
Ronnie Smith - Cherries Hung with Snow
1958. A Korean war veteran revisits his Fulham y
Read more…The Charge of the Boy's Brigade by Ronnie Smith
Ronnie Smith 's affectionate play is set in the early 1950s with a group of friends facing National Service.
He has been a playwright since 1966 & has also written under the names of John Naismith and Robin Smyth.(See A Craving for Gold in Whodunn
Read more…Rare RD Wingfield for you...
Double Entry
by RD Wingfield
BBC Radio 4
7 October 1970
Cummings - Michael Harbour
Parker - David March
Wilkins - Alan Roe
Hyams - Frederick Treves
Brenda - Patricia Galleymore
Graham - Nigel Anthony
Derek - Dennis Waterman
Police Inspector - Kerry
The Searchers by Alan LeMay
By Alan LeMay, adapted by Adrian Bean
It’s Texas, 1848. Comanches attack the Edwards family's settlement on the Texas plains. They kidnap two girls – 17-year-old Lucy, and 10-year-old Debbie. So Amos Edwards sets out on the dangerous mission to rec
Read more…272 Attempts by Bryony Lavery
An isolated house. The discovery of children's graves. A large number of tagged children in the house.
The play concerns the discovery of an isolated establishment conducting genetic experiments in various areas, including GM crops. Among other t
Read more…Sophocles - Electra (Lapotaire BBC WS)
As promised, the earlier Lapotaire production from the World Service
To spend one's days mourning your father and having to live with his murderers is an unendurable way of life. Electra is only sustained by the hope that one day her brother will re
Read more…Electra by Sophocles
Adapted by Frank McGuinness.
A classic tale of power and revenge.
Electra is bound by grief following the murder of her father Agamemnon, unwilling to forgive and consumed by a desire for revenge, her anger builds. On the return of her brother
Read more…Frinton Forever - Richard Wilson
This is a companion piece to The Dog, uploaded by William Warren.
The program is uploaded here at TP to the Classic and Contemporary Drama section
Frinton Forever
Richard Wilson
2014
Frinton Summer Theatre has been staging weekly rep during the Sum
Take a Virtual Girl Like You by Nicholas Pierpan
Alex Tilly is a radio psychiatrist who cures people of cyber addiction. But he's prepared to sacrifice his scruples to get his own TV show, and begins moonlighting for a firm that manufactures virtual girlfriends. Alex's assignment is to make thei
Read more…Neil Brand - A Year at the Races
Apparently, this program is only available in the UK. (6 April 2015)
Is anyone capping it?
Read more…Burning Desires by Colin Bytheway
Between 1914 and 1918, Parisian Henri Désiré Landru proposed to ten women. Always the same method, always the same hideous outcome: The lonely hearts advertisement, the courtship, the proposal, the opening of a joint bank account. Then a trip to h
Read more…Playing With Trains by Stephen Poliakoff
Bill Galpin (Timothy Spall) apparently has it all; a successful career, a high-profile media personality, plenty of money and a happy family. However, as this chronicle of his life between 1967 and the mid-1980s reveals, this is nothing but a faça
Read more…Mary Toft's Rabbit Tale by Colin Bytheway
In 1726, 26 year old mother of three, Mary Toft gave birth to a rabbit. And then another. And then another. All were stillborn - some were just rabbit body parts - but all were the fruit of her loins.
Local surgeon John Howard confirmed the phenom
Read more…The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard
By Elmore Leonard, adapted by Katie Hims.
Carl Webster, the hot kid of the marshals service, is polite, respects his elders, and can shoot a man driving away in an Essex at four hundred yards. Carl works out of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, federal court
Read more…The Holy Experiment by William Fox
William Penn (1644 - 1718) was the founder of Pennsylvania in 1681. He was a Quaker but also a courtier and his determination for a better deal for members of his sect secured a grant of land in the New World from Charles II.
He remains one of t
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