Dramatised in four parts by Peter Ling.
Arnold Bennett's classic novel, set in the thirties.
1: 1930s: there are new arrivals at London’s luxury hotel, the creation of its director Evelyn Orcham.
2: There is the threat of a takeover at the hotel
Read more…By A L Smith
Carrie is a call handler in an ambulance control room and never knows what the next emergency will be or the effect it might have on her, and sometimes she has to listen hard to find out exactly what's going on.
3 omnibus versions,
Read more…It’s May 1945 and Germany has just surrendered. The country is in chaos – five million former soldiers, foreign nationals and those liberated from the concentration camps, all trying to get home. And hiding somewhere are the top Nazis.
Seen through t
Read more…Saturday-Night Theatre First broadcast: Sat 14th Oct 1989, 19:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM Personal Luggage by CHRIS DENYS. A family gather in their new home. It's to be a fresh start for them all. And then, on the first morning, they're joined by an apparit
Read more…The return of Shaun McKenna’s gripping historical drama about the young Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife and mother to Kings, crusader, prisoner and formidable political operator.
Guilt over the tragic events at Vitry sur Marne is driving a wedge between E
Read more…Mike Dorrell's play about Charles Dickens as the author tries to make sense of things during a walk contrasts idealised scenes of marriage from
Dickens's fiction with bitter reality. October 1857. As problems in Dickens's marriage come to a head, he
Selection of surviving episodes rescued from the BBC archive.
The third series of the adventures of writer Philip Levine’s fire investigating sleuth, Quentin ‘Q’ Barnaby. Levine’s fascination with arson “never waned”, with its “numerous motivations
Read more…The Reluctant Fire-Raiser
Can fire investigator Quentin Barnaby determine if a recent incident had a political motivation?
Cast:
Quentin Barnaby … Robert Beatty
Val ... Gudrun Ure
Inspector Hackett …Duncan McIntyre
Alec Groves … Anthony Hall
Mr Lorr
‘DH Lawrence: Tainted Love’ is a pairing of two novels 'The Rainbow' and 'Women in Love' linked by Ursula Brangwen. Sexual awakenings, transgressive same sex love and internalised repression are explored as his characters try to find happiness and
Read more…I seem to have a play not included in group posted here
So here is
2010-05-11 - AP - Sunday
by Simeon
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/h7ukt9lemvtv9/
Read more…For the first time on BBC Radio 4 Extra, one of radio’s legendary Sherlock Holmes - Carleton Hobbes - stars in Hans Christian Andersen’s timeless story. It’s also a chance to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of animal impersonator extraordinai
Read more…How do you begin again when everything you've spent your life working for has been destroyed?
Broken-hearted and rootless after losing her whisky company in the 2011 tsunami, a Japanese businesswoman arrives on the Scottish island of Islay in searc
Read more…In Roy Apps's comedy, Penelope Keith plays Eleanor Prendergast - the wife of a newly imprisoned Tory MP who's been fiddling his expenses big time! She's driven to crime to make ends meet (she's got her Porsche to run after all, and the mortgage on S
Read more…Here in Britain I have been enjoying two television comedy series – “Waiting for God” & “Keeping Up Appearances”.
The stars of which are the stars of this fine offering.... ENJOY
Interesting biographical play about the later life of Beatrix Potter,
Read more…Specially commissioned stories by outstanding writers to be performed by five actors who have reached 80.
The Saving of Albert Perks
One of our best-loved actors, Bernard Cribbins, will always be remembered for playing Albert Perks in the much-love
Read more…For some strange reason I didn't post series 5,
So here it is along with the final series.
SERIES 5
It's the 1990s and Brian Oldman is still in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
He found a man in jail able to prove his innocence - but that man was
Read more…Radio 4 Extra celebrates the 75th birthday of the actress Maureen Lipman as she takes the starring role in Bernard Kops’ tale of sadness amidst the glitter.
To escape from the cold realities of life in Maida Vale, Sandra lives in the fantasy world
Read more…These podcasts are only available in the Uk
The individual broadcasts may already be posted in the group. I confess I have not checked them out.
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Here's what Caroline Raphael Former Head of Radio Drama says about this.
30 April 2021
Well, it's this announcement. And as a former Head of Radio Drama I need to
say something. This is the first public acknowledgment in a very underhand
way, if you know
A two-part crime thriller inspired by everyday heroism of key workers during Covid.
Part 1: All Routes
On her first day as a bus controller, Marilyn faces severe disruption when a street protest turns violent. Liaising with emergency services and r
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