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
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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
Read more…May 1749. Grainger's travelling fair develops an astonishing new act, care of Sebastian Fox and his 'electrickery' in a play by Julie Mayhew.
In the courtyard of a country tavern, Mr Francis P Grainger displays the wonders of his menagerie - ani
Read more…It is July 1921, and a production company has descended on Max Gate, Thomas Hardy's house near Dorchester, to make a film of The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Hardy wants his second wife Florence to come and watch the actors at work.
But Florence, worn
Read more…Henry James took as his inspiration for his tale The Aspern Papers the story of a mistress of Byron's who outlived the poet into lonely old age. He transposed the setting to Venice and cast the city he loved as a character in a taut narrative of l
Read more…By Andrew O'Hagan, abridged by Sian Preece
Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows 82-year old Anne Quirk, a forgotten pioneer of documentary photography who lives in sheltered housing on the west coast of Scotland. A planned retrospective stirs long-buri
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Jim Nostrand, proprietor of Cheap Threads, a church-owned clothing firm in Minnesota, becomes the scapegoat when news-reports implicate the company in a child-labour scandal.
Four thousand miles away
Read more…Queen Victoria reigned for 63 years--the longest reign of any British monarch. During those years she was transformed from a shy young bride to the formidable "Mother of Europe", making her mark on the 19th century in a manner that will never be fo
Read more…High up, on Clufton Bay Railway Bridge, young Albert treads the girders, calmly painting the rust-red steel. But his distant perspective soon begins to alter his view of life on the ground.
And then Fraser appears ...
Cast:
Albert......... John Hu
Drama set in 2012, in the run up to the Olympic Games. The lives of three residents of Dagenham in east London are about to change for ever as the event draw closer, and the looming economic impact on their community disrupts their hopes and dreams
Read more…A moving drama by Mike Walker about the most famous British fighter aircraft in history, first broadcast in September 2010 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Framed by recollections from veteran Geoffrey Wellum, the drama features
When a woman decides to write a play about the founder of the National Trust, she begins to uncover secrets about her own family.
With Kenneth Cranham & Sophie Stanton
Directed by Sally Avens
From 2009
Size 40MB. Length 45 Minutes. Bitrate 12
Read more…In 1941 Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane, now regularly voted top in critics' and audience polls, picked up nine Oscar nominations and was already being spoken of as a work of genius. But there were powerful forces lobbying hard against it, not least
By Enid Bagnold, adapted for radio by Margaret Etall.
"Who has tried to grow rhododendrons in a chalk garden?"
Living in the past amid the fading glories of her Sussex garden, Mrs St Maugham rules a household no less eccentric than herself. Th
Christopher Hampton's drama, based on the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
The plot focuses on the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, rivals who use sex as a weapon of humiliation and degradation, all the while enjoying their cru
Read more…By Edmund Gosse, adapted by Nick Warburton
A frank memoir of a Victorian childhood first published in 1907 and subtitled 'a study of two temperaments'.
'Faith is like love; it does not let itself be forced.'
Edmund Gosse was raised in the strictl
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