You can find all 26 episodes of the 1979 to 1902 BBC proction of Anthony Powell's A Dance To The Music Of Time.. Even at 26 eps it covers only a third (or perhaps a half) of the original. Particularly missi
I found this a very funny comedy and Elizabeth I never more endearing and Sir Philip Sydney about as I might expect and tennis ... In my Drama on 3 folder - probably the last play dow - havent updated the folder for a while but you may find some oth
A series of three plays by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles, about the early years of the Plantagenet dynasty. Directed by Jeremy Mortimer.
First broadcast from 20100214 to 20100228, Classic Serial
BBC R4 - Tobias Smollett's 'The Expedition Of Humphry Clinker' Adapted by Scott Cherry Produced by Clive Brill Broadcast May 2 - 23, 1992 Coded from tape at 128/44.1
Four part dramatisation of Smollett's boisterous tour by coach and four around Geo
At the link below you will find a substantial collection of the BBC work of Sebastian Baczkiewicz including a complete - so far - run of Pilgrim --the Harry Potter for grown ups. The Old Testament and Arthur stories are also quite powerful.
Sometime in the beginning of 2012 The Woman's Hour Drama was renamed The 15 Minute Drama - anyway - @ the link below organised in sub folders by year - you will find lots of exciting funny and powerful radio plays. Some of my picks with dates of firs
Excedllent suspense drama - possible play on words in title - early in 20th century people used to be in the vanguard of this that or the other but these characters are only in the van
a play about listening - we are listening to the main characters
@ the link below you will find all 20 eps of Shakespeare's Restless World plus various WS themed radio dramas and music shows, It will be updated as more material is presented by the BBC
Vincent Price and The Horror of The English Blood Beast
By Matthew Broughton. In 1967, Vincent Price came to the UK to make the horror movie Witchfinder General. It was the best performance of his career, and the worst few months of his life. This p
Mention of Trevor Peacock in a discussion in the poetry thread (Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner) put me in mind of an excellent series on BBC -four seasons so far - On Mardle Fen -- link belwo
The Devil's Disciple by George Bernard Shaw [1897]
First broadcast Sunday 4th July 1976, Afternoon Theatre Repeated on Sunday 21st November 1976 and Sunday 3rd June 1979 Rebroadcast on BBC7, Saturday 23rd October 2004
Sony award-winning writer Ayeesha Menon reworks Charles Dickens 'Martin Chuzzlewit' and sets it amongst the Catholic community in modern-day Mumbai, India.
Charles Dickens’s novel of love and loss at the time of the French revolution. With Robert Lindsay, Alison Steadman, Andrew Scott and Paul Ready. Dramatised by Mike Walker wi
In 1995 the BBC's Radio 4 broadcast a "real time" dramatisation of Deighton's documentary novel Bomber, covering the novel's action following RAF Lancaster bomber O-Orange's take-off in 1943, life in the German town that
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens
It depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionarie
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