Tales from the collection A Spot of Folly by Ruth Rendell.
The Haunting of Shawley Rectory
There have long been rumours of ghosts at the rectory and these are given fresh impetus when the new rector and his family move out after only a couple of
Read more…First performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957, A Resounding Tinkle has been described as both "unstageable," and "absurd."
There is no plot to speak of: Bro and Middie Paradock (Deryck Guyler, Alison Leggatt) are sitting at home drinking nectar
Read more…Two criminals on the run from the police decide to lie low in an ordinary family house, holding the occupants hostage.... after all Humphrey Bogart did it in The Desperate Hours. However, what appears simple on film is seldom so in real life, parti
Read more…Dramatised by Jeremy Front
Europe in the 1930s. A dangerous place to be. As the Orient Express rattles its way towards Constantinople, a motley group of people find themselves threatened by intrigue, skulduggery and murderous politics
Directed by Mar
Read more…The Diary of Samuel Pepys:
Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways star as Mr & Mrs Pepys in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the world famous diaries.
Samuel Pepys was 26 when he decided to start keeping a diary, in January 1660. For the next 10 years
Read more…Howl's Moving Castle
Drama
In the land of Ingary, Sophie Hatter is resigning herself to an uninteresting life working in a hat shop, when a castle appears above the town of Market Chipping and refuses to stay still.
Visiting the shop one day, the dre
Read more…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
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2010-05-11 - AP - Sunday
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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,
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