November 1933. Gregory Roberts is a young British spy on his first mission. Under the alias of a ball-bearings salesman, he heads to Vienna. But, in neighbouring Germany, Hitler has recently come to power and the Nazis are infiltrating Austria.
Ca
Read more…Three short stories about computers finding their voice and talking back to their human counterparts.
Vox Humana
By Timothy X Atack.
A woman lies comatose in a hospital bed. A father yearns to hear his daughter's voice again. A computer begin
Read more…A play about the scandalous opening night of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion - the first time that the word `bloody' was used on the British stage.
The production also created a passionate love-hate triangle of Shaw, his leading man, Sir Herbert
Read more…The new UK Prime Minister appoints a former spook to control her untrustworthy spy network and protect a Russian dissident under threat. Bob Trench is a veteran of international undercover missions, cool under pressure, wise, wry and lac
Read more…Bob Trench is charged by the Prime Minister to track down and confront a bitter former soldier who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Now she will stop at nothing to publish the truth as she recalls it and Bob faces a danger
Read more…Denise is a hairdresser and single mum who gets more than she planned for when a man comes into the salon and asks to go blonde.
Cast:
Steve.......Jeff Hordley
Denise.......Jo Joyner
Mrs Howden.......Judith Davis
Leanne.......Ann-Marie Fraser
As
Read more…By Eoin O'Connor.
Weary of life in the bustling Rwandan border town of Rusumo, Modeste, a blind and sickly homeless man resolves to return to his home village of Kibuye on the far side of the country with the help of his companion, Innocent, a cheek
Read more…By Agatha Christie as Mary Westmacott, adapted by Malcolm McKay
The Rose and the Yew Tree is set in a Cornish seaside town, during the election of 1945 when it was assumed Churchill would be re-elected as Prime Minister. It’s the story of an enig
Read more…The Great Impersonation
by E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM dramatised for radio in five parts by BARRY CAMPBELL with and Leopold von Lagastein 1: Old Friends Meet
Early in 1914, two men met in the wilds of German East Africa-one a German, the other an Englishm
By William Somerset Maugham, dramatised by Neville Teller
Narrated by Dirk Bogarde
The Creative Impulse: An authoress is horrified when her husband runs off with the cook.
Cast:
Mrs Forrester.......Sylvia Syms
Albert Forrester.......Desmond
Read more…Three Journeys by Gary Brown
Maureen and Jasper Britton play a mother and son who've always had a special relationship. Now she needs to persuade him it's time to strike out on his own - and she has three journeys to do it in.
Cast:
Molly ....
Read more…Agatha Christie’s Absent in the Spring
Drama
Famous for her ingenious crime books and plays, Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart under the name of Mary Westmacott. Absent In The Spring, written under that name, is the book that Chris
Read more…By Mary Stewart, dramatised by Marcy Kahan
Set in the South of France in the early 1950s, the heat is intense, roads are dusty and parched, cicadas are noisy, the coffee is strong and une omelette aux fines herbes at the local café is almost exot
Read more…The drama was adapted for radio from Agatha Christie's stage play by Martin Lewton and Julius Green.
Trapped in an unhappy marriage and provoked by her husband's obsession with her younger sister, Nan disappears from the family home for a night –
Read more…By E. F. Benson , dramatised by Aubrey Woods
Narrated by Aubrey Woods
The action is set in Durham Square, an exclusive Bloomsbury enclave ruled over by Mrs. Mantripp, a pious humbug in the great tradition.
A Most Desirable Address
A Most Desirable
Read more…The Voyage of the St. Louis
Drama
Several months before the outbreak of the Second World War, an ocean liner, the St Louis, leaves Germany with over 900 Jewish refugees on-board, all hoping to escape persecution. The incredible true story of that jou
Read more…Dramatised for radio in 5 parts by Constance Cox
Arthur Conan Doyle’s historical drama, set to the backdrop of the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685.
1: The Messenger from the Lowlands
In 1685 England is once again threatened by Civil War as rumours fl
Read more…The Brothers Karamazov
by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY translated by DAVID MAGARSHACK dramatised in eight parts by MICHELENE WANDOR. With and 1: A Family Reunion
Dostoevsky's last great masterpiece commences with the three brothers Karamazov brought together fo
Claire is a dedicated and highly successful secret agent, charged with the surveillance of potential terrorists. Her work is challenging but dangerous and, on a mission, she ignores instructions - with almost fatal consequences.
Suffering acute a
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