Shakespeare's Dramas
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Mouche By Guy de Maupassant.
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
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]
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.
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
Boscobel by Ian Curteis
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
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
DOOMSDAY (THE MYSTERIES) by Tony Harrison
DOOMSDAY (THE MYSTERIES)
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
Read more…The Ramayana of Valmiki (BBC)
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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
The Lark by Jean Anouilh 1952
The Lark
by Jean Anouilh (ÒLÕAlouetteÓ, 1952)
with Emma Fielding, Norman Rodway, Anton Lesser, Geoffrey Whitehead, David Schofield and Doreen Mantle
Music composed and performed by Simon Moorcroft
Directed by David Hitchinson
A World Service Drama produc Read more…
Poor Bitos by Jean Anouilh [?Pauvre Bitos?, 1956]
Poor Bitos
by Jean Anouilh [?Pauvre Bitos?, 1956]
Translated by Lucienne Hill.
Directed by Richard Imison
Broadcast on Tuesday 11th July 1989, Radio 3
Re-broadcast on Sunday 20th January 1991, Radio 3
2 hours
Set in provincial France of the 1950s, "Poor Read more…
Ashenden or: the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham
Ashenden or: the British Agent is a 1928 collection of loosely linked stories by W. Somerset Maugham. It is partly based on the author's experience as a member of British Intelligence in Europe during the First World War.
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A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens - A Tale Of Two Cities - BBC Radio Full Cast Drama 1989
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
The opening words of Charles Dickens' great French Revolution romance set the scene for a heart-stopping historical adventure Read more…
"Be There In No Time" by John Glasscock
More than sixty years on, an old airman is visited by dreams of the Second World War. A Lancaster bomber returns from a top-secret mission, badly damaged and almost out of fuel. With heroic skill, the pilot manages to land safely on a stretch of
Read more…Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus - by Christopher Marlowe - BBC Radio -
Full Cast Drama
Drama on 3 - Sunday 23 September 2007
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story (Faustus is Latin for Faust), in which a man s Read more…
White Jazz by James Ellroy
Black Betty by Walter Mosley
Black Betty by Walter Mosley Dramatized for Radio by Bonnie Greer Directed by Ned Chaillet Executive Producer Andy Jordon BBC Radio 4 American Noir Season Dramatization of Black Betty by Walter Mosley published 1994. With an Introduction by Bonnie
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