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Hindle Wakes By Stanley Houghton
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
SNT HOBSON'S CHOICE 18/05/63 by Harold Brighouse
Here's a classic play to enjoy from Saturday Night Theatre BBC.
Read more…A Taste Of Honey By Shelagh Delaney
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
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
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
Read more…Archaeology by Elizabeth Buchan
An archaeologist is amazed by her nurse's likeness to an Egyptian painting discovered in a tomb.
Read by Janet Maw.
Read more…The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate
"It's the autumn of 1913, and a party of guests has gathered at the country estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby. In addition to the usual lavish banqueting and quaffing of burgundy and port, there is also to be a game shoot; the regular hosting of these Read more…
Classic Serial - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, here dramatised for radio, was composed and first published 200 years ago. It has remained a quotable favourite ever since, while arguments abound over what it all means. Why does the mariner shoot the albatross and is
Read more…The Egyptian Collection by Kate Pullinger
Enquirer
An adaptation of the acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland and London Review of Books production, investigating the current crisis in newspaper journalism here in the UK. Enquirer is based on interviews by Paul Flynn, Deborah Orr and Ruth Wishart.
Read more…The Navy's Here by Kenneth Langmaid from the book by Frischauer & Jackson
The Navy's Here
By: Kenneth Langmaid from the book by Frischauer & Jackson
Starring: Hugh Manning/George Pravda/David Bird/Michael Turner/Keith Williams.
SNT 30 January 1960 Home Service
Listed as Lost by suttonelms
128K
In February 1940, the Ger
Under Pressure by David Baume
Under Pressure
by David Baume
With Neville Smith, Sean Arnold, John Rowe and Michael Deacon
Broadcast 13 Sept 1980 (Saturday Night Theatre)
A dive team on an offshore rig faces a crisis.
128/44; 80 MB; sound quality very good
The Wind Of Heaven By Emlyn Williams
The Wind Of Heaven
By Emlyn Williams
SNT 1980-11-22
Sian Phillips/Freddie Jones/Nigel Stock
128K
Dilys Parry, an inconsolable Crimean Widow, lives alone in a village with no joy and no god in her life. She is gradually reawakened to life once a
The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
The Children's Hour
by Lillian Hellman
SNT 1971-04-24
64K
The Children's Hour is a 1934 stage play written by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie. An angry student, Mar
Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens
Winds of Heaven
by Monica Dickens
SNT 1971-11-06
128K
If Monica Dickens means nothing more to you than horsey books and no-nonsense memoirs of nursing and service, then this eloquent novel about the genteel poverty of a widow shunted between her t
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
SNT 1975-12-27
96K
This is a charming book about a girl named Mary Lennox. She is a spoiled and sickly child who lives in India. When her parents die because of a cholera epidemic, she moves to Misselth
The Soft September Air by Charlotte Hastings
The Soft September Air
By Charlotte Hastings
SNT 1978-07-10
Andrew Branch/Flora Robson
96K
A successful popular Novelist, widowed and childless, who allows herself to be persuaded into boarding students for the local University.
She tries not t
The Girl Richards by Allan Prior
The Girl Richards by Allan Prior
Starring Jill Raymond/Belle Chrystall/Diana Olsson/David March/Alan Tilvern
1961-21-01
BBC Home Service
128K
I cannot find any more information on this play. Information is requested if anyone has any. The play i
Read more…Loyalties by John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy - Loyalties
BBC Home Service: Saturday Night Theatre
Broadcast: Saturday 12th August 1967
"Loyalties" is one of the first plays to deal honestly and openly with anti-Semitism. Set in the aftermath of the First World War, it t
