Cyrano de Bergerac
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 16
Read more…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
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Classic Serial - Beau Geste, Episode 1/2
15:00–16:00 Sunday 4 October 2009
(Source iplayer: aac => wav (Normalize 90%) => mp3)
Dramatisation by Graeme Fife of PC Wren's classic story of honour, love and adventure.
The Geste brothers run away from Engl
This Happy Breed
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
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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
Woyzeck by George Buchner, BBC World Service 1980
Characters Woyzeck, Marie, Andres
Woyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. He left the work incomplete at his death, but it has been variously and posthumously "finished" by a variety of a
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
George Orwell wrote Keep the Aspidistra Flying in 1934/35 while working at a bookshop in Hampstead and it was published in April 1936, just a few months before he left to fight in the Spanish Civil War. It
Fortunes of War by Olivia Manning
Fortunes of War is the collective name given to six novels by Olivia Manning, consisting of The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy. The Balkan Trilogy comprises the books The Great Fortune, The Spoilt City and
Anton Chekhov - Uncle Vanya
Broadcast: Monday 8th October 1951
"Uncle Vanya" is a structurally and psychologically compact drama that takes place on an estate in 19th-century Russia. It explores the complex interrelationships between a retired profe
16 Sep 2007, 8:00-9:30 PM
Drama on 3
After the Quake By Haruki Murakami
Translated by Jay Rubin and adapted for radio by Simon McBurney.
128/44; 81 MB; sound quality excellent
These elegant, touching stories take a surprising look at the lives of peopl
Three Stories by Haruki Murakami
A set of three short stories by the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, from his collection 'Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman'.
Produced by David Roper.
Broadcast Tuesday 03 to Thursday 05 February 2009 (Afternoon Reading)
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Twelve Angry Men
L.A.Theater Works
MP3 #1 is the play. MP3 #2 is an interview with the author's (Reginald
Rose) widow.
Reginald Rose's landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed teleplay,
and went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957
M. Butterfly
LA Theater Works
John Lithgow/B.D.Wong plus cast
Drama -Fiction
Perhaps the chief merit of M. Butterfly is that it preserves a performance of a play widely regarded as a contemporary classic with its original Broadway leads, John Lithgow
Book at Bedtime: Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Louis de Bernieres
Robert Powell reads the epic tale of love, war and music.
Abridged in fifteen parts by Alison Joseph.
Set on the Greek island of Cephallonia during World War II, this is the story of a bea
