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…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
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…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…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…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…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
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…Apparently, this program is only available in the UK. (6 April 2015)
Is anyone capping it?
Read more…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…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…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…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…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
Read more…The Norman Conquests are considered the masterworks of Alan Ayckbourn, Britain's foremost comedy dramatist.
Julian Rhind-Tutt and Helen Baxendale lead a stellar cast through the intricacies of these three interlinked comedies, depicting the event
Read more…Coral Browne
Virginia Maskell
By N.C. Hunter, adapted for radio by Mollie Hardwick
Just before New Years Eve, in the English countryside near Dartmoor, the Lancasters skid their Rolls Royce into a ditch during a severe snowstorm. They seek she
Read more…Xhensila has lost a child. Leona has lost a child. The two women are very similar. They could not be more different. As Kate Clanchy's nail biting and bitterly funny play uncovers the where, the how and the why of their missing children, we discov
Read more…The true story of the 1976 discovery of the deadly Ebola virus in the jungle of Zaire. Can the outbreak be stopped before it reaches the country's capital, Kinshasa?
The arrival in Antwerp of a thermos flask containing the blood of a dead Belgian
Read more…Mr and Mrs Nobody is an adaptation of George and Weedon Grossmith’s comic novel the Diary Of A Nobody and Mrs Pooter’s Diary. First performed at theYvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford.
By Keith Waterhouse, adapted by Gordon House.
It is the Spring
Read more…The play is set in Paris in 1954. The famous painter, Paul Sorodin, has died. His relatives and hangers-on converge on his studio, hopeful of financial gain, and are stunned to learn from his valet, Sebastien, that Sorodin has left a letter in whi
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