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Dunsinane by David Greig

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Dunsinane

A sequel to Shakespeare's Macbeth
by the award-winning playwright David Greig

Broadcast Sun 30 Jan 2011, Drama on 3

160/44; 103.2 MB; sound quality excellent

Under cover of night, an English army has swept through the landscape, killed the ty

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Young Victoria By Juliet Ace.

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Woman's Hour Drama - Young Victoria

By Juliet Ace.

 

128K

 

Ten-part serial based on the letters and diaries
of the young Queen Victoria

Episode 1: Clipped Wings.

Episode 2: Looking for Love.

Episode 3: The Young Queen.

Episode 4: The Learning Process.

E

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The Family Retainer by Alan Drury

BBC R4 - Alan Drury's 'The Family Retainer'
Directed by Michael Early
Broadcast July 17, 1995
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

Fake kidnapping goes badly wrong.

Cast
Timothy West
Tessa Worsley
Steven Boxer
Lapatia Pine
David Antrobus
Linda Reagan
Sam Dale
Beckly Hindl

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So Much For That by Lionel Shriver

Woman's Hour Drama  -  So Much For That

A dramatisation of Lionel Shriver's unflinching new novel which portrays the economic and emotional fall-out of serious illness.

Shep Knacker has been saving all his working life for 'the Afterlife' - his retirem

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Anna Karenina

E1: A bored high society wife embarks on a love affair - set in 19th century Russia. Stars Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens.

 

E2: Anna's affair with young officer Vronsky has begun, but her pompous husband will not acknowledge it.

 

E3: Anna becom

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The Vanishing by Tim Krabbe


The Vanishing


Tim Krabbe's cult novella dramatised by Oliver Emanuel.

Rex and Saskia stop at a petrol station. Saskia goes in to buy drinks and is never seen again.
Eight years later, Rex is so haunted by her disappearance that he sets out to discov

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His Masterpiece by Émile Zola



Émile Zola  -  His Masterpiece

BBC Radio 4: Classic Serial

Set in the 1860s and 1870s, "His Masterpiece" is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris only to be conquere

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Barnes' People

Barnes' People on BBC7

Written for and broadcast on Radio 3 in the 1980s 
Some episodes are missing.  Fills are requested

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s1e1 - Confessions Of A Primary Terrestrial Mental Receiver And Communicator

   With Alec Guin

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