A new translation by Philip Vellacott arranged and produced by Raymond Raikes. With Elsa Verghis as Medea. Incidental music composed by Christopher Whelen and played by a section of the New Symphony Orchestra conducted by the co
The Garrick Fever
by J.R. Planche [1839]
adapted and directed by David Blount
with Ben Crocker, Jonathan Lermit, Moira Buffini, Valerie Boothman
2 Oct 1990 (Thirty Minute Theatre)
rpt 12 Jan 1992 (Afternoon Play)
In an Irish provincial theatre in 17
Wednesday 2 May 2007 on BBC Radio 4. Afternoon Play
Dickens Confidential ~ Railway Kings
By Mike Walker
Series of six plays which explore how Charles Dickens, as the head of a daily paper, would have brought news to the masses.
1. Railway Kings.
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Flight by Mikhail Bulgakov
Sunday Play: Radio 3 1998-02-22
Translated by Michael Glenny
Adapted and directed by Don Taylor
In 1920, the Russian Civil War is ending with the triumph
of the Bolsheviks. For the defeated White officers and the
refuge
Way Upstream by Alan Ayckbourn First performed 2nd October 1981, Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round Adapted for radio by Richard Wigmore Directed by Gordon House
The classic melodrama by Henry Arthur Jones (written with Henry Herman and first staged in 1882) Adapted by Adrian Bean. With John Duttine, Frances Barber, Frank Middlemass and Ian Hogg. Pianist: Trevor Allen. Produced by Adrian Bean.
The White Guard
Mikhail Bulgakov's classic Ukranian novel
dramatised in two parts by D.J. Britton.
160/44; 130 MB total; sound quality very good
the opening minute of part 2 was patched from a lower quality source
Part 1: Betrayal 20010401
In the w
The Screwtape Letters is a Christian apologetics novel written in epistolary style by C. S. Lewis, first published in book form in 1942. The story takes the form of a series of letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, a junior t
Cyrano de Bergerac, the man whom the play is named for and based upon. Written by Edmond Rostand Characters Cyrano de Bergerac Roxane Christian Date premiered 1897 Original language French Genre Romance Setting France, 1640 Cyrano d
Hunters
By Malcolm Lynch
with David Ashford, Norman Bowler, David Jackson and Caroline Blakiston
Directed in Bristol by Brian Miller
52 minutes
Broadcast 28 Dec 1979 (Afternoon Theatre)
Two men on a mackerel boat off Devon snare a pair of mines
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The Prison Graduates
by Efo Kodjo Mawugbe
Broadcast Saturday 28 November 2009 - World Drama
The prize-winning plays from the BBC World Service and British Council International Radio Playwriting Competition 2009 in the English as a second language
The story of the play concerns the working class Gibbons family between the end of World War I and the outbreak of World War II. It is one of a very few Coward plays to deal entirely with domestic events outside an upper class or u
Sunday 6 December 2009 on BBC Radio 3. Drama on 3 The Hairy Ape
by Eugene O'Neill
A classic American expressionist drama from 1921. It tells the tragic tale of Yank, a stoker whose whole world is turned upside down when a young heiress ventures into