Henry Bell is a 42-year-old executive, divorced and recently fired from his job, and Karen Knightly is 25-years-old, wealthy, very eccentric, and recently abandoned by her lover Anthony Staxton-Billing, who opted to return to his wife Imogen.
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Read more…Commissioned to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of Noel Coward, Mr Bridger's Orphan tells a surprising and little-known story from his life. It's 1968 and Coward is in Dublin to play the chief gangster in the film The Italian Job. But
Read more…Winston Smith is a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania. Everywhere Winston goes, even his own home, the Party watches him through telescreens; everywhere he looks he sees the face of the Party’s seemingly omni
Read more…I went to the RSC in Stratford last night and watched an absolutely superb performance of Shakespeare's As You Like It - but until I got there it wasn't one of the great man's plays I was familiar with. So I bought it whilst I was there.
I've never
Read more…Blackballed
By Chris Thompson
SNT 23rd April 1994
A northern county cricket team are keen for success, but are some memebers too set in their ways - or prejudiced - to accept their young captain's formula for achieving it?
With Dale Rapley [Mike R
Six Characters In Search Of An Author
By Luigi Pirandello
SNT 2.5.1987
Charles Gray/Yvonne Bryceland/Emrys James/Cherie Lunghi
Only 32K but sound is quite good for the bitrate
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italian: Sei personaggi in cerca
A Little Twist of Dahl
A series of stories by Roald Dahl
Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan.
15 Minute Drama, 24 to 29 December 2012
Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre and
Trees Die On Their Feet
by Alejandro Casona [Los arboles mueren de pie, 1949]
Translated and adapted by George Leeson
Saturday Night Theatre, Home Service, 8 August 1964 @ 20:30
Repeated in 1966 to commemorate the author.
In this drama about illu
Miracle At Devil's Bluff
By William Poulson
SNT 24.10.1987
Robert Beatty/Richard le Parmentier/Bill Bailey
160K
A man who owns a mine in the western US calls a NY ad executive because he wants to start a Western Theme Park. The mine is closing an
Adapted by Bert Coules
In 1962, Rosalind Erskine's novel The Passion Flower Hotel caused a sensation and became a bestseller. It tells the story of Bryant House, an exclusive private girls' school whose sixth-formers find themselves unable to meet
Read more…By Neville Watchurst
A German doctor has a dilemma as his wartime patient Heinrich Himmler grows dependent on him. With Martin Jarvis and John Duttine.
Echoes from the abbey - Inspired by a fragment of his writing, Sheila Hodgson provides MR James with a ghostly encounter at Christmas. With David March.
by Andy Merriman
June Whitfield stars as the indomitable actress Margaret Rutherford in a tale of chimpanzees, Jordanian Princes, an adoring husband and falling in love with a musician 30 years her junior.
Director: David Hunter.
A Sense Of Touch
By E.L. Summers
SNT 8.11.1980
Rupert Frazer/Lolly Cockerell
64K - With 2 recordings, one as recorded and one with EQ applied etc.
You decide which one is better.
A new minister comes to an island with 200 inhabitants. There is
Hindle Wakes
By Stanley Houghton
SNT 29.4.1978
Wilfred Pickles/Billie Whitela
128K
A production of the 1912 feminist classic. It's holiday week in the Lancashire town of Hindle, just before the First World War. Fanny Hawthorn, a spirited, determ
Here's a classic play to enjoy from Saturday Night Theatre BBC.
Read more…A Taste Of Honey
By Shelagh Delaney
SNT 1.10.1977
John Halstead/Annette Robertson/Meg Johnson/Ronald Baddiley
256K
A Taste of Honey is the first play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written when she was 18. It was initially intended a
God The Father
By Valerie Windsor
SNT 28.10.1978
Amanda Murray/Anthony Newlands
As with most lost plays there is no information except Title, date and partial cast. We start anew with the process of someone with writing ability listening and writ
Read more…THE BOSS'S SON
by Dave Simpson
SNT 15.4.1978
with Christian Rodska/Sandra Clark/Kathleen Helme/Ronald Baddiley
128K
Yet another Classic Drama with no descriptive text. These plays were missing and being kept secret by private collectors for so lo
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