The Jinx Element
by Stephen Wakelam
BBC Radio 4: Saturday Play
Duration: 60 minutes
Genre: Drama
Edith Wharton's private life was as dramatic as many of her novels.
An encounter with a journalist was to have a seismic
effect on her marriage a
The Play
The Mumbai Chuzzlewits
By Ayeesha Menon
Sony award-winning writer Ayeesha Menon reworks Charles Dickens 'Martin Chuzzlewit' and sets it amongst the Catholic community in modern-day Mumbai, India.
Broadcast 1 to 15 Jan 2012, Classic Serial
The Last of a Dyin' Race
by Christina Reid
Produced by Susan Hogg
Broadcast 14 January 1986, Afternoon Play
In Northern Ireland, old ways of burying the dead collide with the new.
Cast:
Sarah.................................. Leila Webster
Agnes
5- 45 Minute Episodes at 224K
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
Bomber by Len Deighton
128K
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
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Cast: Flora Robson/Stephen Murray/John Glen
A psychological drama surrounding the theft of a Black Chiffon night-dress.
The last of my SNT plays i downloaded from a web-site some years ago.
Link is : http://www.sendspace.com/file/5fpfdt
David
Read more…The evil supremo meets Dr Faustus. Martin Jenkins' fable adaptation of a man selling his soul to the Devil. Stars Mark Gatiss.
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
Deep Down And Dirty Rock and Roll
By Mark Davies Markham
128/44Suggs 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
Read more…Suffer the Little Children by Wally K Daly
BBC Radio 4 - Friday Play
Original Broadcast: 2003-07-18
60 minutes @ 160k - 44.1Khz - stereo - mp3
Description
A Priest, accused of actively encouraging genocide, has seemingly disappeared. Whilst officials fro
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
Read more…By Karen Blixen.
Dramatised by Judith Adams
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
All That Fall
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
Read more…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
Broadcast 21st August 1982, Thirty Minute Theatre
A family tragedy is narrated from the perspe
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 Read more…
Don Taylor's translation of the savage tragicomedy by Euripides about a war in the Middle East fought for the flimsiest of reasons.
The Trojan War is over and the Greek forces are making their way home. Meanwhile, in Egypt, Helen of Troy is protestin
Read more…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
Read more…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
Broadcast 7th March 1988, The Monday Play
In the village of William H
