Clap hands if you believe in fairies!
Do you believe in them? You know, those precious little creatures with their delicate filmy wings, wearing clothes made from flower petals, and holding magic wands?
You won’t - not after you meet this lot! There
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The headstrong young student Laura Hart is visiting her brother Charles, British vice-consul of Lienz in the Tyrol, when she sees something she shouldn't. There has been increasing tension between the Italian locals and the |
The true story of a remarkable rescue, which took place in 1899 when the Lynmouth lifeboat crew carried their boat over five miles by land to save a ship in distress.
On the evening of Thursday 12th January 1899 a telegram was received for the cox
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An excellent adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's children's novel.
First World War tale of a boy's extraordinary bond with his horse. Stars Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn and Bob Hoskins.
Being an astronomer myself, this appealed to me. Hope you like it too.
Two on a Tower
Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of star-crossed lovers in the West Country.
Episode 1 of 2
When Lady Viviette Constantine discovers the han
Read more…Dreams, Secrets, Beautiful Lies
by Robert Ferguson.
Produced by Richard Imison
First broadcast on Radio 3, 2 April 1986
Pamela and Edward's relationship is in trouble, and honesty is thin on the ground.
Winner of a Giles Cooper Award.
Cast:
Here we have 3 recently broadcast Radio 3 Shakespeare play's.
The Tempest
Romeo & Juliet
Twelfth Night
They're high quality audio & that's reflected in the file size. Hope you like!
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Read more…Resourceful and engaging Fay Cheyney, posing as a wealthy Australian widow at a Monte Carlo hotel, befriends Mrs. Webley with the intention of stealing her pearl necklace, a plot devised by Charles, her butler and partner-in-crime.
Complicating
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1954 UN Radio
128K
A drama on the work of the International Red Cross, featuring actors Madeleine Carroll and Franchot Tone, writer Lowell Thomas, and Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the UN.
The Turner-Wakefield Scandal. In 1826, a Gretna Green wedding scandal enraptured the nation's attention. It involved the abduction of a wealthy mill-owner's daughter by a double-cross |
Tonic Water and Ice
by Jane Beeson
Monday Play, 10 August 1981
Afternoon Theatre, 16 August 1981
Duration: 74 minutes
A man is torn between his mother and his wife with tragic consequences when he visits the family home on the Devon coast.
Cast: Michael
Angel Pavement by JB Priestley
128K
The fortunes of Twigg and Dersingham, Purveyors of Fine Veneers, of Angel Pavement London EC1 were foundering , until the mysterious James Golspie walked through their door.
Bearing a swatch of high quality samp
Incredibly Guilty: A Comic Moral Fable
by Marcy Kahan
Ed Hanson didn't mean to put Penhaligon Rhinehart into a coma;
after all he's a National Treasure. Now Ed's life is about to change
forever.
Directed by Sally Avens
It's an important day fo
The Candlemass Road
by George MacDonald Fraser [1993 novel]
Dramatised by the author
Saturday Playhouse, 8 July 1995 @ 2:30 p.m.
Saturday Night Theatre, 25 June 1996
A drama set in Cumbria on the nearly lawless Anglo-Scottish border in the 1590s.
Young
Death Whistles a Tune
by John Dickson Carr
First broadcast 1st March 1944
An episode from The Silent Battle
Wartime drama set in occupied Amsterdam. The Gestapo tries to find the perpetrators of an attack by the resistance.
80/44/mono; 15.8 MB;
Lie Down Comic by John Mortimer
BBC Radio 4 - Friday Play - 2004-01-02
128K
The heartwarming story of a comedian who befriends one of his female fans. She is dying and raging against it. The two are initially at odds but eventually find inspiration
Ceremonial in Three Flats
by John Mortimer
Afternoon Play: Tuesday 4th June 2002 @ 2:15 p.m.
The play is set at the time of the Coronation when a group of strangers, who all live in flats in the same house, are brought together by
television to
A new (to me) BBC mystery by Marcy Kahan was posted recently in the mystery group.https://timespast.ning.com/group/whodunit/forum/topics/1535737:Topic:25099 Anson Roberts peovided a chorus of praise referencing Kahan's Noel Coward mysteries. @ http:
Read more…When Max Coleman is suspended from work for the alleged verbal abuse of a colleague, he hasn't the faintest idea what he might have said.
When he finally meets his accuser at the tribunal and hears how an historical allusion has been misundersto
Read more…A friend of mine asked if I could share my Philip Pullman CDs, so I thought I'd share here too;
These star (amongst others) Terence Stamp, Kenneth Cranham, Bill Paterson and Emma Fielding is just perfect as Mrs Coulter.
Each play is two and a hal
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