Radio 4 Extra celebrates the centenary of the BBC’s first ever original radio drama. Written by Richard Hughes, ‘Danger’ or ‘The Mine Play’ is regarded as the BBC’s first ever radio drama. First broadcast live in January 1924, the radio audience wa
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First broadcast: Fri 30th Jun 1967, 19:00 on BBC Home Service Basic
The novel by H. G. Wells adapted as a serial for radio in six parts by JON MANCHIP WHITE with Paul Daneman as Professor J
Read more…Alan Ayckbourn’s award-winning comedy classic, with a glittering cast directed by Martin Jarvis. Written and set in 1975. Before mobile phones. Devastatingly funny - marriage, partnerships, differences.
Elderly Ernest and Delia in their bedroom. Wo
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Saturday-Night Theatre
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Sat 24th Jun 1972, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
The Heiress: a play by RUTH and AUGUSTUS GOETZ based on the novel Washington Square by HENRY JAMES with Kate Binchy , Robert Harris
Ursula Jeans , Michael Spice
Dr Sl
By Rumer Godden, dramatised by April de Angelis.
A group of nuns establish a remote mission in the Himalayas and the breathtaking environment produces a crisis of faith, leading to murder.
Cast:
Sister Clodagh .... Sinead Cusack
Sister Ruth .... Les
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The Man in Black introduces a story of insanity featuring a woman who has been in an asylum for 30 years. What is her story?
Cast:
The Storyteller .... Valentine Dyall
Gerald Madilon .... Ralph Truman
Adela Madilon .... Grizelda H
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Shaun McKenna’s gripping historical drama about the young Eleanor of Aquitaine - wife and mother to Kings, crusader, prisoner and formidable political operator.
Despite
A pacey thriller about a Dr Matt Gallagher who is delighted to discover that his old friend has returned to Northern Ireland and wants to help him get the promotion he so desperately craves.
However, property developer, Devlin Harker, has other reas
Read more…The conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physician, a chic French art dealer and a charming English lord. They have one thing in common. Overnight, each novice investor lost his life's fortune to one man.
The con: Harvey Metcalfe. A brilliant, se
Read more…This ‘Edwardian’ romance is set in 1912 Boston, then Paris, Rome and beyond. We hear that penniless young fortune hunter James, having borrowed money, is setting out to court homely charitable-worker Julia, daughter of a tyrannical, rich Bostonian.
Read more…By E Nesbit, dramatised in four parts by March Kahan.
The Railway Children is the story of a family’s upheaval when they move from London to the countryside, after their father, who works with the Foreign Office, is falsely accused of spying and is
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George, a dock worker in post-war Yorkshire, has his first story 'The Snowfield' accepted by Dorothy, a BBC radio producer.
Its broadcast has a startling effect on George's life.
Written by Chris Hawes
Dorothy .... Celia Imrie
George ...
By Peter Tinniswood
Winifred Leslie, the Grande Dame of radio drama, lives alone and thinks she’s been forgotten.
But when she’s offered a part by a young producer at the age of 80, her memories come flooding back:.
She recalls her three marriages,
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Former countess, Christine, asks a medium to contact her dead husband. But the consequences spark a night of terror in the foreboding Crithin Castle in Wales.
A ghost story by Emlyn Williams.
Dewar .... Glyn Owen
Bill .... A
By Agatha Christie, writing as Mary Westmacottmm adapted by Malcolm McKay.
The insatiable hunger of the genius (the giant) will devour everything around him to feed his voracious appetite for art.
Vernon Deyre is lost. He cannot afford to live in th
Read more…Philip Levene - Findings Keepings
A rookie blackmailer is taught the ropes, but learns the pitfalls of the business.
Cast:
David Penrose .... Gerald Flood
Smith .... Cyril Shaps
Marian Haynes .... Margaret Robertson
Clerk .... Carole Boyd
Pr
Read more…"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."
Bored
Read more…By Edith Wharton, adapted for radio by Melissa Murray
World premiere of a newly discovered play by Edith Wharton from 1901.
Introduced by Laura Rattray, Reader in American Studies, University of Glasgow
Long before she achieved fame with her novel,
Read more…Classic Serial: North and South in 3 parts
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First broadcast: Sun 29th Jun 1997, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
By Elizabeth Gaskell , dramatised in three parts by Charlotte Keatley.
1: Departures and Arrivals. A young woman used
By Barbara Vine (a pen name of Ruth Rendell ), adapted by Nick Fisher.
1:You Left Your Baby, But Took The Violin
For Jarvis and Busker Tom , the attraction of the old school house is that it's near the underground. For Alice, it's an escape from a
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