Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Dramatised by Alan Sillitoe from the screenplay based on his own 1958 novel. Includes an introduction by the author discussing the film and the radio adaptation. Directed by Pete Atkin Broadcast: Monday 27th Novemb
Read more…Doctor Syn Rufus Sewell reads a 10-part audio adaptation combining and abridging Doctor Syn on the High Seas and Doctor Syn Returns for BBC Radio, broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in December 2006 and repeated in June 2007.
The Last of Dr Syn by Russell Thorndike produced and directed by Lawrence Jackson 6-part reading by Rufus Sewell. Broadcast from 4 to 11 January 2010 on Radio 7 128/44; 154 MB total; sound quality excellent saved and shared by OrsonCart A RADIO 7
Read more…We Outnumber You by Ed Hime A hand-held horror, reconstructed from amateur recordings discovered after the event, in which we relive the humiliation of a major oil company at the gala opening of their new zoo in 2013. Cast David ..... Kenneth Cranh
Read more…Monday 14 November 2005 Afternoon Play The Andy Warhol Syndrome By Jenny Eclair and Julie Balloo. What happens when your 15 minutes of fame is up? Plucky market trader Carol Fletcher's dreams come true when she inadvertently shoots to fame in a real
Read more…The Beacon by Susan Hill Dramatised by Anita Sullivan Produced by Kate McAll Broadcast Monday 22 to Friday 26 March 2010 (Woman's Hour Drama) 160/44; 78.9 MB total; sound quality excellent May, Berenice, Colin and Frank all grew up on a remote far
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The Pallisers
BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial
First broadcast from 20040125 to 20040411
12 parts
Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his
John Osbourne - Look back in anger
Radio 4 - April 1st, 2006
First staged in 1956 when the central character, Jimmy Porter,
the original incarnation of the angry young man, both shocked
and charmed his audience. Singled out by Kenneth Tynan, it has
c
Ron Hutchinson - Rat in the skull
Radio 4 - April 29th, 2006
After a week's interrogation in Paddington Green,
Roche, an IRA suspect, is ready to make a statement.
But then Nelson, a "star" interrogator from the RUC
arrives, and things go seriously wron
We've all got out little secrets, haven't we? But you can't keep things hidden forever - so you are now going to hear about the side of me that no one knows.'
Two series of this show were made, The Secret Life
By Virginia Woolf, dramatised in two parts by Eileen Atkins. The story of the Ramsay family holidaying in Scotland before the First World War, which is dominated by Woolf's wonderful portrait of the beautiful Mrs Ramsay. With Vanessa Redgrave, Juliet
Read more…By Marcus Clarke, dramatised in three parts by Joe Dunlop. The epic story of a man falsely accused of murder and sentenced to be transported to Van Diemen's Land, the former name of Tasmania. With Owen Teale, Nicholas Boulton, Terence Edmond and Sara
Read more…This was the Saturday play this past weekend. Enjoy. Dick
Goldfinger:
James Bond returns in this Broadcast Premiere: a dramatisation of the classic 1959 novel. When Bond begins his pursuit of a monstrous international criminal he discovers that a d
By Sam Hanna Bell, dramatised by Carlo Gebler. Sarah Gomartin comes to work as a servant on Andrew Echlin's farm in puritanical 19th-century Ulster. The relationships which she develops with his two sons have dramatic consequences for both herself an
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Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady
by Samuel Richardson [1748]
Dramatised in four parts by Hattie Naylor
Directed by Marilyn Imrie.
A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.
Broadcast 14th March to 4th April 2010, Classic Serial
Tragic tale of a
Nick Fisher's adaptation of Peter Ackroyd's acclaimed 1985 novel, starring Philip Jackson as both Dyer, the 18th-century architect whose work reflects his obsession with the old religion, and the modern detective Hawksmoor, who is investigating murde
Read more…By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, dramatised in two parts by Nandita Ghose. In post-independence Delhi, two influential families now have very different lives. Between them moves Esmond, the enigmatic Englishman, with his love-hate attitude to India.
