A series of five radio plays by Frank Cottrell Boyce.
Bands are continually reuniting, but in the punk Spirit of '76, we are having an audience reunion. If you were one of the 27 people at the Adverts gig at the Police Social Hall in Camberley, we wa
Suggs stars in a drama set in the music industry. Once Carl was the tragic suicidal poet of the band LostYouth. Fourteen years earlier Carl feigned a mysterious disappearance.
If he com
It's late June, in 1953. Two weeks ago, despite the torrential rain, the Coronation went off perfectly. Now, the skies are blue, the grass is green, and the sun is shining. This is Midsummer the way it should be - M
Episode 1 : The Cuckoo Soon after Karen Blixen relocates to East Africa, she finds herself alone in a foreign land with the enormous responsibility of trying to operate a successful coffee plantation. In o
Samuel Beckett's radio play, originally commissioned by the BBC in 1957. This version 1972. Ostensibly an anecdote set in a rural community in Ireland, the play is a careful synthesis of speech, sound a
I'll Never Be Seven by Gilbert Leautier (J'ai failli avoir sept ans, Radio Suisse Romande, Lausanne, 1980) translated by Kitty Black Directed by Martin Jenkins
Woman's Hour Drama - Chronicles of Ait - Echo Beach
Written by Michael Butt.
The remote east coast settlement of Ait is reckoned to have siren-like powers to entrap and enthral its visitors - and that, at least, is how it appears to disaffected write
Rosemary has come home. Her new retirement flat overlooks a garden that she once knew very well, but the garden isn’t the only reason why she chose that particular flat. There’s also the man who looked after it all those years ago – the man who di
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Englands famous seducer of other mens wives lays siege to his sister-in-law in the first battle of Ayckbourns celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests. In Table Manners, the action occurs in the dining room of Mothers house, where a conventional middl
The Messiah of William Hamlet by Geoffrey Parkinson with William Nighy, Mary Wimbush, Anthony Jackson, Steve Hodson, John Bott, Joan Matheson and Eva Stewart Directed by Cherry Cookson
The Autonomous Murder Complex by Frederick Bradnum with Robin Ellis, Bridget Turner, Catherine Wilmer, William Nighy, Frances Jeater and Pauline Letts Directed by Jane Morgan
Broadcast 5th December 1981, Saturday Night Theatre
It's the first ever meeting for Harvey and Sandeep. With their families waiting expectantly in the next room the following thirty minutes could decide their future. Harvey's been coached by his broth
Written by Willy Russell, Shirley Valentine tells the story of a middle aged housewife who undergoes life changing experiences while on vacation in Greece.