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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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
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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
