Time
Three old men sit and watch the world go by, but one has a very youthful secret of vitality.
Chaff in the Wind
A lost man needing directions has a chance encounter in a cold, windswept field.
The Maker of Coffins
Every Sunday an awkward,
Read more…Hi everyone,
I thought it would be a great idea to create a thread where we bring together all the Giles Cooper Award winning plays. I have a number of these myself which I will upload over the next few weeks, and if you have any yourself, add the l
Read more…The World According to Garp is John Irving's fourth novel. Published in 1978, the book was a bestseller for several years. It was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 1979, and its first paperback edition won the Award the following
By Glendon Swarthout, adapted by Nick Perry
Brian Cox and Michelle Fairley star in an adaptation of one of the best Western novels, about the last surviving gunfighter in a vanishing American West.
The Shootist is John Bernard Book; he rides i
Read more…Adaptation of Rachel Joyce's new book, a companion novel to her bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Queenie Hennessy reveals the shocking and beautiful truth of her life.
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Read more…A BBC full cast dramatisation of Rachel Joyce's wonderful book " The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry".
Staring Anton Rodgers as Harold Fry.
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Read more…The medieval folk legend of Simon Magus, who makes a pact with the devil, forms the basis of Goethe's famous work. Disenchanted with the limitations of his academic knowledge, Dr Faust decides to study the arts of magic and to master the supernatu
Read more…Paid Servant by E R Braithwaite [1962] Dramatised in 5 parts by Anne Edyvean Directed by Jessica Dromgoole First broadcast from 20080609 to 20080613 (Woman's Hour Drama) repeated on BBC7, 20081020 to 20081024 The drama, set in London in 1958, is ba
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By ER Braithwaite, dramatised by Roy Williams
Part one of two.
A black former RAF pilot gets a job as a teacher in a tough school in post-war London's East End.
Part two of two.
As black teacher Ricardo Braithwaite's relationship stalls, he fac
Read more…A dramatization of ER Baithwaite's (To Sir With Love) 1968 novel Choice Of Straws. from the BBC
Read more…5 part BBC dramatisation of R.F. Delderfields "to serve them all my days".
Read more…By Longus, abridged by Hattie Naylor
The ancient Greek tale of two naive lovers who were attacked by pirates, but helped by supernatural forces and the power of their rapport with nature.
Cast:
Longus .........Adrian Scarborough
Chloe .........
Read more…By Alan Bennett. Adapted by Honor Borwick.
The renowned playwright's idiosyncratic take on Shakespeare's Hamlet, originally written as an uncommissioned screenplay, and previously lost among the writer's papers archived at Oxford's Bodleian Librar
Read more…Thomas Middleton's Jacobean classic in which the women are the worst betrayers.
When Leantio's beautiful wife Bianca catches the eye of the Duke, the worldly Livia arranges an assignation, plunging Bianca into the vice and corruption of the cour
Read more…Written and adapted by Anthony Burgess.
This programme contains strong language, sex and violence.
Teenage thug Alex is brainwashed out of his sadistic pursuits, but the cure has unfortunate side-effects.
With Jason Hughes, Struan Rodger & John M
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky, dramatised by David Blum.
Russia, 1859: The Manor of Stephanchikovo has been thrown into chaos by the activities of a former sergeant who has set himself up as an arbiter of morals and taste. When he interferes in the marr
Read more…Marcy Kahan's dramatization of Mark Twain's classic tale, following Huck and the runaway slave Jim on their journey down the Mississippi on a raft.
Adapted by Marcy Kahan
Directed by Ned Chaillet
Music specially composed by John Roby
BBC Radio 4 -
The Cairo Trilogy by Mahfouz Naquib
"The trilogy recounts, with Tolstoyan assurance, the lives, marriages and disruptive extramarital passions of a Muslim family of the middling merchant class.(...) For the American reader, Mahfouz's writing pro
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSE was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet. Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and
Read more…By John Steinbeck, dramatised by Donna Franceschild
The discovery of the “pearl of the world” appears to be the answer to a family’s problems: it’s so valuable that it will pay for the medical treatment their baby needs.
But while everyone wants th
