The Elephant Man
The Elephant Man
Bernard Pomerance's touching drama stars Gerard Murphy.
BBC radio 7
2 pts
Pt 1
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The Elephant Man
The Mouse that Roared
Mark McDonnell and Steven McNicoll's dramatisation of Leonard Wibberley's famous comic novel. It is 1956, and the Cold War is at its chilliest. But one European country is blissfully detached from the
struggles of the Supe
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By Mark Lawson.
When Alex and Gemma are alerted to a picture of their daughter performing a sex act posted on the internet, they unite in adversity.
But far worse is yet to come.
Alex Spring....Alex JenningsGemma Spring....Haydn Gwyn
Mouche
By Guy de Maupassant.
A group of young men lead a care-free life, idling away their summer in a sailing boat on the Seine. Events take an unexpected turn when one of them introduces a girlfriend into the group.
Read by Bill Nighy.
Produced by Sas
David Golder
by Irene Nemirovsky
translated by Sandra Smith
adapted for radio by Ellen Dryden
Broadcast Monday 29 March to Friday 2 April 2010 (Woman's Hour Drama)
160/44; 80 MB total; sound quality excellent
David Suchet stars in David Golder, a portrai
A Dry White Season
by Andre Brink [1979]
Dramatised by Barry Campbell
Directed by Jane Morgan
Broadcast: Monday 28th February 1983, Monday Play.
128/44; 83.6 MB; sound quality good (minor radio noise)
Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Joha
Stone Memories
By Rebecca Bartlett.
With Brid Brennan, Kathleen Bradley, Owen Roe and Dessie Gallagher.
It is 1950s Donegal and the man of the house, while working in England, has met someone else. The deserted wife struggles with her own anger as she
Historical thriller by Ian Curteis that charts the fortunes of the future Charles II in the immediate aftermath of his father's defeat.
After the execution of his father, the young Charles flees England.
Over the course of a 40-day journey, he must lea
Between Two Worlds
by Adrian Bean and David Hendy
Broadcast Sun 25 Jul 2010, Drama on 3
160/44; 103.2 MB; sound quality excellent
Sir Oliver Lodge is a strange and forgotten figure from the Edwardian era: an Establishment scientist, the unacknowledged
The Mysteries is a version of the medieval English mystery plays presented at London's National Theatre in 1977. The cycle of three plays tells the story of the Bible from the creation to the last judgement. The third is
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"One does not build a dike, my precious, after the water is gone. Get up, appraise the king,
and see to your own welfare!"
- from The Ramayana of Valmiki, Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: V