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
Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti
BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama - 2014-07-19
160K
Adrian Lester stars in a radio version of the Tricycle Theatre's award-winning production about the first black actor of note to play Othello.
The Theatre Royal, Cove
It's Christmas in the year 1183. King Henry the Second and Eleanor of Aquitaine are locked in a heated chess game for the future of the kingdom, using their three sons as pawns in a vicious battle of wits.
Starring Alfred Molina as Henry II and Kathl
Marley Was Dead
By John Nicholson and Richard Katz
Broadcast Fri 24 Dec 2010, 20:00
160/44; 65.2 MB; sound quality excellent
A Christmas Carol, but not as you've ever heard it before. A surprise all-star cast gather to bring Dickens' timeless classic
Chris Martin's Lex Talionis
by Nigel Baldwin
With Bill Nighy as Chris and Harriet Walter as Charlie/Linda.
Directed by Richard Wortley.
Broadcast on 2nd June 1987, Radio 3.
105 minutes
Chris Martin is a screenwriter who doesn't believe in revenge and is
Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin - Almost The Truth
by Wally K Daly
Notes:
Broadcast 1996.02.19 on BBC Radio 4.
Repeated 1996.11.30 on BBC Radio 4.
Repeated on BBC 7 2005.
Wally K Daly's thought provoking drama stars Robert Glenister as the charismatic monk w
Adapted by Stephen Wyatt
The life and adventures of charming rascal Tom Jones, a foundling born to a serving wench who grows up in privileged surroundings.
Episode 1:
Wealthy Squire Allworthy steps into bed and finds an infant wrapped between his sh
Read more…Adapted by Diana Griffiths
The Crowded Street is the story of a Muriel Hammond, a young girl--and then woman--who seems destined right from the start of the novel to be a spinster. At the age of eleven, she commits a major social faux pas--and her
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Monsieur Grandet, who has amassed a considerable fortune, is a miser who feigns poverty and runs his household along miserably frugal lines. This all changes with the arrival from Paris of his nephew, Charles Grandet. Charles has brought with
Read more…Mind's Eye is a series of BBC radio dramas set in Dublin, concerning the effect of apparent paranormal phenomena on two psychotherapists, Lorcan Molloy and his daughter Aoife. Lorcan is mourning the recent death of his wife Jennifer, and also wishing
A Radio Full Cast Dramatizarion adapted from the novel by Lew Wallace.
Ben Hur is the fictional story of Judah Ben-Hur, a Judean aristocrat who, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius, is enslaved through the betrayal of his Roman friend Mes
La Peste by Albert Camus
Dramatised for radio by Guy Meredith
Produced by Cherry Cookson
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R3 28-Oct-1986
R4 Classic Serial
Part 1 - 1992-07-11
Plague breaks out in a French port on the
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http://www.mediafire.com/folder/7cl7ce07uay2v/BBC_2000_Tales
Episode 5 of 6 may resurface yet or I will have to upload it another day as MediaFire keeps saying it is there but it does not show tonight
inspired by Riklaa's recent Chaucer suggestions
Read more…C. P. Snow - Strangers and Brothers, 2003
BBC Radio 4: The Classic Serial
Lewis Eliot's story is about power and the exercise of power. How men, whether at the highest pinacle of authority at Westminister or mearly in a clerk's office play the strings
First broadcast from 20100628 to 20100709. Much loved by those who have discovered it, it now comes to Radio 4 as one of the Open Book listeners' Neglected Classics. Juliet Stevenson reads F M Mayor's unfairly Neglected Classic, the story of a plai
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