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Memorials to the Missing
BBC 7 - Drama Memorials to the Missing Synopsis During the First World War, an internal battle is fought for decent burials and graves. Stars Anton Lesser and Michael Maloney. 128kbps 44100khz Stereo Duration : 45 mins Broadcast Thu 12
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BBC Radio 7 - Drama The Doppelganger Synopsis On his second honeymoon, Adam sees his dead mother and is plunged into a dark world of the other self. Stars Nigel Anthony. Duration : 90 minutes Broadcast Mon 23 Nov 2009 01:00 128kbps 44100kh
Read more…The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
The Man in the Wooden Hat Dramatisation by Pete Atkin of the new novel by Jane Gardam. Broadcast Monday 21 to Friday 25 September 2009 (Woman's Hour Drama) This drama spans from Hong Kong in the late Forties, to Dorset in the Noughties as three liv
Read more…'The Double-Dealer by William Congreve
BBC R3 - William Congreve's 'The Double-Dealer' Adapted by Kevin Elliot Music by Purcell Directed by Phillida Lloyd Broadcast May 14, 1995 Coded from tape at 128/44.1 A married woman connives with her ex-lover (The Double-Dealer) to prevent the marr
Read more…The Promise By Aleksei Arbuzov
BBC - Radio 3 Drama On Three The Promise Synopsis By Aleksei Arbuzov. Translated by Ariadne Nicolaeff and adapted by Nick Dear. As Russians fight off the Nazis in the savage 1942 siege of Leningrad, three teenagers are thrown together in a war
Read more…The Lady from the Sea
BBC Radio 3 - Drama On Three The Lady from the Sea . Synopsis A new version of Ibsen's late drama, adapted for radio by Frank McGuinness. Before her marriage to Dr Wangel, Ellida, his second wife, had promised herself to a sailor who then disappea
Read more…James Follett's Ice
BBC Radio 7 - Drama - James Follettt's - Ice In Antarctica, geologist Glyn Sherwood makes an alarming discovery about the polar ice caps. Stars Sean Barrett. Duration : 90 Mins Broadcast Mon 30 Nov 2009 01:00 BBC Radio 7 128kbps 44100khz Mp3
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BBC Radio 3 - Drama The Changeling Synopsis A new radio production of Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's Jacobean classic, set in Alicante, Spain, in the 1920s. Beatrice-Joanna is due to marry Alonzo e Piracquo, until she falls in love with
Read more…Dead City Radio - William S. Burroughs
Dead City Radio is a musical album by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, which was released by Island Records in 1990. The CD is a collection of readings by Burroughs set to a broad range of musical compositions, with musical accompanimen Read more…The Hunchback Of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Hugo began to write Hunchback in 1829. The agreement with his original publisher, Gosselin, was that the book would be finished that same year. However, Hugo was constantly delayed due to the demands of other projects. By the summer of 1830, Gossel Read more…Voyages Of Descent
Stoker Leishman's Diaries (BBC-1981)
Stoker Leishman's Diaries - 1981 By Peter Tinniswood Broadcast 1981.01.24 on Radio 4. Leishman is an elderly ex-Antarctic explorer who kept diaries of his travels. His avaricious family realise that they might be worth something. Will Leishman h Read more…Annapurna
Annapurna By Jod Mitchell. Tension mounts as a young English couple trek their way across a treacherous Himalayan mountain range and realise that a mysterious Nepali is stalking them, getting closer by the day. Tim ...... Ben Crowe Emma ...... Cl Read more…The Book of Job BBC
The Book of Job The 42 chapters of "The Book of Job" as contained in the Authorized Version of the Bible have been shortened and arranged into a philosophical drama by Pamela Gravett. She has assigned a voice to each character in the story for maxim Read more…The Heart Of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott - The Heart Of Midlothian Broadcast 9 and 16 Sept 2007 (Classic Serial) Link to selection: 128/48; sound quality excellent Episode 1: ---------- When a smuggler is executed, a mob storms the Tolbooth Prison where young Effie D Read more…The Book Of Secrets
The Book Of Secrets By M G Vassanji, dramatised by Tanika Gupta. First broadcast 20000503. BBC Radio 4. Afternoon Play The long-vanished world of colonial East Africa is brought to life through the discovery of an old diary. The book belonged to a
Read more…The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Color Purple by Alice Walker dramatised by Pat Cumper Directed by Pauline Harris. Monday 6 to Friday 17 October 2008 (Women's Hour Drama) This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a touching and compelling story set in the harsh segregated world of Read more…Marlowe's Diaries by Roy Kendall
Roy Kendall - Marlowe's Diaries BBC World Service: Play of the Week Broadcast: Sunday 30th May 1993 This week's play has been specially written by Roy Kendall to commemorate the life of one of England's finest poets and playwrights, Christopher
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