The story of a soft, domesticated intellectual named Humphrey van Weyden, forced to become tough and self-reliant through exposure to cruel brutality. Onboard a San Francisco ferry when it collides with a ship in the fog and sinks, Humphrey is resc
Read more…Award-winning author, journalist, and playwright, Mark Leech spent much of his early life in care and, latterly, in prison. His autobiography A Product of the System, was published in 1992 and won first prize in the Chambers Cox Literary Awards. He h
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
BBC Radio R4/World Service
Broadcast: 14 September 1986
One episode x 90 minutes @ 128kbps - 44.1KHz - stereo - mp3
All My Sons is based upon a true story, which Arthur Miller's then mother-in-law pointed out in an Ohio news
Read more…The police refuse to continue providing personal protection for Wallace Starshine – much to his disgust. After all, he’s a Very Important Person, with a string of chart-toppers to his credit, and a faithful fan-base in the Benelux countries. But th
Read more…The action of A King's Speech takes place on Coronation Day, 12th May 1937, and deals with King George VI's preparations for his evening BBC Radio broadcast to the Nation - a terrifying prospect for perhaps the most notable Briton to have suffered fr
If you want to create a tangled web, it isn’t always necessary to PRACTISE to deceive. Here, an off-the-cuff white lie about a smear of blood and a garage door leads two young twins to alarming assumptions about their well-meaning but not entirely b
Read more…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
Read more…By Michael Gilbert
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
Read more…The Day It Happened
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
