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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by Evelyn Waugh
Dramatised in seven episodes by Jeremy Front
Evelyn Waugh's satirical WW2 masterpiece.
Classic Serial, 29 September to 10 November 2013
160K
Waugh's trilogy of WWII novels mark a high point in his literary c
Adapted by Michael Butt
1/6. Swann's Way, in which the writer begins a retrospective journey through the memories of his early years. He recalls his own childhood romances, as well as the doomed relationship between Charles Swann and Odette de Cr
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you can find a copy of the recent Drama On 3 Bix: Singing The Blues as well as 2f zip files (Bix & Lewis) of recordings by Bix Biederbeck and Lois Armstrong. Although I did not emerge from listenin
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Peter Shaffer's award-winning play combines fiction and history to detail the final years of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Antonio Salieri, an older composer, propelled by jealousy, plots the tragic downfall of his brilliant rival.
Sir Peter Hall'
Fifty years ago, on November 22nd, 1963, President John F Kennedy was assassinated by a sniper while riding in an open-topped limousine in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
What happened immediately after the assassination?
Theories explored in Lee
Read more…Adapted by Richard Wortley
A media tycoon's lust for power threatens to leave a trail of destruction in its wake.
Do newspapers tell the truth? In the programme for the original 1985 production of Pravda - written by David Hare and Howard Brenton
Read more…Afternoon Play: Not the End of the World By Simon Smith. Broadcast 23 Jan 2002 When Paul's marriage breaks down, unable to talk to his son about what is happening, Paul pretends he is going off into outer space as he leaves the family home. 32/22/mo
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Five Old Testament stories revisited and set in present day London - Creation in the mind of a coma victim, The Flood in a DIY warehouse, Exodus in an Old Folks Home, Samson & Delilah in a hairdressers, David & Goliath in the world of young gang
Charlie Nicholson has writer's block, but when he is offered a commission he sees a way to escape his debts. Merlin Foster, an actor, has specific needs: Charlie's script must contain the perfect method and alibi for the murder of Merlin's wife, on
Read more…The inside story of the lives and deaths of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, from the reign of the first Emperor Augustus to the fifth, Nero, told through the secret memoirs of their obscure relation, Claudius. Born a drooling, stammering weakling, Claudi
BBC Radio 4 recently broadcast an excellent two-part dramatisation of Jerome K Jerome's great picaresque comic novel "Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog", written by Chris Harrald and starring Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and Julian Rhind-T
Read more…WHERE ARE YOU, JULIET?
by Jill Hyem
SNT 10/10/87
160K
A woman moves into rented rooms... but the previous occupant doesn't seem to have moved out; at least, not fully. Where Are You Juliet?.......
This play has an Eery Noir feel to it. Quite well
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by Peter Francis Browne
Broadcast 22 May 1993, Saturday Night Theatre,
Set in Scotland in the early 1700s, the play explores what could have happened if an eskimo, found adrift off the northeast coast, had survived.
Cast: Juliet Prew [Ma
