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
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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
Read more…Two Classic Serial productions of his "Master and Commander" series. I know these have been added to the E-book Readers Group, but these are good BBC dramatisations.
HMS Surprise
Charles Chilton - The Long, Long Trail
Duration: 1 hour
First broadcast: (1961) Not Broadcast again until Sunday 05 January 2014
128K_1_54.1Mb_RAR_Containing TLLT, 4_Ex_Intro_and_Txt_File
Part of BBC Radio 4 Extra's tribute to the remarkable tal
SNT - THE WIND PUMP
by Dawn Lowe-Watson
11.2.95
75min
80K - 43 Mb.
The Wind Pump
by Dawn Lowe-Watson.
After 50 years, a former Japanese POW, now a composer and music master at Cambridge, agrees to be interviewed about his experiences by Maria, a
By JG Farrell dramatised in 3 parts. Young Matthew arrives in Singapore to join the family rubber-producing firm. The threat of Japanese assault seems more remote than the persistent romantic attentions of Joan, his business partner's daughter. With
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Angelic Hosts
Specially commissioned stories about angels for Christmas.
160/44; 49 MB total; sound quality excellent
And We Flew Into Bethlehem
by Michael Morpurgo
Read by Paul Copley and Robert Hastie.
Broadcast 20041220 20061227 20101220 (R
Was a drama series about corporate intrigue and behind-the-scenes maneuvering in the mining and financial sectors in Canada. It aired on CBC Radio One's Monday Playbill in 2000. The series starred Eric Peterson (formerly of CBC-TV's Street Legal seri
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