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Robinson Crusoe plus Farther Adventures
Dramatization of Daniel Defoe's castaway classic stars Roy Marsden
Episode 1
1/2 Ignoring his family's advice, the castaway ends up shipwrecked and arrives on an island.
Episode 2
2/2 Solitude on the desert island gives way to cannib
Read more…The Pilgrim’s Progress
Dramatization of John Bunyan’s enduring 17th century classic about the adventures of Christian, a pilgrim who embarks on a perilous journey to the Celestial City.
Episode 1
1/3 The epic adventures of pilgrim Christian and his perilous journey to the
Read more…Saturday Playhouse 930624 The San Rocco Mob
Based upon actual events, Bruce Stewart 's play tells the story of an English priest who is sent incognito to discover whether a Franciscan monastery in Sicily has been taken over by the Mafia.
Unknown: Bruce Stewart
Director: Martin Jenkins
Anselmo: J
Anthony Powell - A Dance to the Music of Time
If you understand the term "masterwork," you'll grab this set of dramas.
The BBC has adapted Powell's novels twice. The first, in 1979-1982 spanned twenty-six plays, which represented the twelve novels in Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, done
Read more…Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (Drama on 3: 140601)
Uncle Vanya
by Anton Chekhov
A new production of the version by Christopher Hampton.
160/44; 124.5 MB; sound quality excellent
Drama on 3: Sunday 01 June 2014
Duration: 1 hour, 50 minutes
Life on a provincial Russian estate is thrown into turmoil
Six Country Stories by H.E. Bates
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…Giles Cooper Award Winners
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
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
The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout
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…The love song of miss Queenie Hennessy
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.
128kbps - m4a art work embedded in the files as usual
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Read more…To be a pilgrim
A BBC full cast dramatisation of Rachel Joyce's wonderful book " The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry".
Staring Anton Rodgers as Harold Fry.
128kbps - 40.3MB - Art work embedded in the file.
File located in this groups uploads folder.
Read more…Faust by JW Von Goethe
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
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
Read more…To Sir With Love by ER Braithwaite
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…Choice of Straws
A dramatization of ER Baithwaite's (To Sir With Love) 1968 novel Choice Of Straws. from the BBC
Read more…To serve them all my days
5 part BBC dramatisation of R.F. Delderfields "to serve them all my days".
Read more…Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
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…Denmark Hill by Alan Bennett
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…Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton
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
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