Delayed from Spring 2022 here at last is part 3
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
Read more…Broadcast today
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,
Read more…SNT 1964-11-21 - Trespass
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
Read more…Tales from the collection A Spot of Folly by Ruth Rendell.
The Haunting of Shawley Rectory
There have long been rumours of ghosts at the rectory and these are given fresh impetus when the new rector and his family move out after only a couple of
Read more…First performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957, A Resounding Tinkle has been described as both "unstageable," and "absurd."
There is no plot to speak of: Bro and Middie Paradock (Deryck Guyler, Alison Leggatt) are sitting at home drinking nectar
Read more…Two criminals on the run from the police decide to lie low in an ordinary family house, holding the occupants hostage.... after all Humphrey Bogart did it in The Desperate Hours. However, what appears simple on film is seldom so in real life, parti
Read more…Dramatised by Jeremy Front
Europe in the 1930s. A dangerous place to be. As the Orient Express rattles its way towards Constantinople, a motley group of people find themselves threatened by intrigue, skulduggery and murderous politics
Directed by Mar
Read more…The Diary of Samuel Pepys:
Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways star as Mr & Mrs Pepys in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the world famous diaries.
Samuel Pepys was 26 when he decided to start keeping a diary, in January 1660. For the next 10 years
Read more…Howl's Moving Castle
Drama
In the land of Ingary, Sophie Hatter is resigning herself to an uninteresting life working in a hat shop, when a castle appears above the town of Market Chipping and refuses to stay still.
Visiting the shop one day, the dre
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