Drama based on real events, by Kelvin Segger.
A poor Ipswich tailor whose business is dying finds himself sucked into the web of duplicity and bribery surrounding the world of politics when election fever grips the town in 1835 and the local Tory c
Read more…By Graham Swannell
A young man, dying of an incurable disease, persuades an old school friend to accompany him on a journey to the sun. He knows it is the last journey he will take.
But his motives are not as selfish as they would seem - he gives
Read more…Written by A.M. Burrage, adapted for radio by Michael and Mollie Hardwick.
In search of a story, a journalist spends the night in the Murderers’ Den at the waxwork museum.
Cast:
News Editor.......DonaldMcKillop
Hewson.......WilliamEedle
Waxworks
Read more…An evening of new drama to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the touring theatre company. James Grieve and George Perrin, joint artistic directors, introduce three short plays recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Radio Theatre.
All three are
Read more…By Peter Tinniswood.
Dame Judi Dench plays Enid, the wife of a man addicted to cricket.
She shares with us her private thoughts - many of which she has while taking walks - on cricket, kitchen units and life with her husband.
Directed by John
Read more…Alun Armstrong and Deborah Findlay star as the ex-Durham miner and the University philosopher who, together, bring human compassion and philosophy to bear in facing up to some of life’s hardest dilemmas.
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Read more…A young married couple, Tessa and James, hire a caravan for a week's holiday on the wind-swept Northern Irish coast with their two young children. It's make-or-break for their relationship – James is in love with someone else and wants a separation
Read more…A story of secret passion set in a remote Welsh valley during the 1950s. A man arrives at a holiday cottage owned by a farmer whose wife takes a shine to the newcomer - but suspicions are soon aroused.
Starring Philip Madoc, Alan Moore, Manon Edwa
Read more…Reedbeck Hall was once an artists' colony, now it is run as a museum. One afternoon, when the Hall is closed, a young man turns up asking to be shown around. The curator, Sally, is apprehensive but he is very persuasive. Sally lives to regret her
Read more…Alexander MacKendrick's Mary Queen of Scots
Drama
Unmade Movies
The world premiere of Alexander Mackendrick’s unproduced screenplay on the most turbulent year of Queen Mary's life. Starring Glenda Jackson, Ellie Bamber, Mark Bonnar, Emun Elliot, Edwa
Read more…The Saturday Play: A Bird of Paradise
Belle Elmore was an unsuccessful music hall artiste who would have done almost anything to become famous. In fact she succeeded beyond her wildest dreams. Her name was splashed across newspaper headlines around t
The Saturday Play: A Voyage Round My Father
BBC Radio 4 FM, 21 April 2007 14.30
Synopsis
John Mortimer 's funny and touching memoir of his early life and career, in which Derek Jacobi plays the author's blind barrister father. A Donmar Warehouse prod
Pomegranate
"With such an enormous task sometimes artistry had to be abandoned in favour of completion." At the top of her ladder, painting her mural, an artist is adding detail to the robes of a priest: "a pomegranate and a bell. And a pomegranat
Read more…Abridged by Elizabeth Burke
The story of Emma Jung, her marriage to Carl and the early years of psychoanalysis.
Emma Jung was clever, ambitious and immensely wealthy, one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland, when she met and fell in love with
Read more…A series of stories about some rather Special Deliveries, commissioned to mark the anniversary of the Royal Mail, 500 years after Cardinal Wolsey appointed the first Master of the Posts in 1516.
How Lovely on the Mountain
By Lucy Gannon
A curious
Read more…A hilarious depiction of the English abroad!
Bet and Al are ordinary Yorkshire folk who live a quiet life, until Bet wins a 'Romantic Breaks' competition in a magazine. The prize, a trip to Paris, is their first experience of life abroad and thei
Read more…Mrs Joyce Pickwick, roving commissioner for local government has been a thorn in the side of the civil service for years and try as he might, Mr Scrope, can’t seem to get rid of her. But now, as Mrs Pickwick gets in too deep in an investigation into
Read more…Middle-aged and recently-divorced Denise falls passionately in love with an enigmatic Polish émigre, Karol. But Karol, a man full of secrets, is in flight from the realities of his own life - a life that had been lived, for the most part, behind th
Read more…In 2006 newspaper reports that a young Scottish girl had been abducted by her father and taken to Pakistan created headlines around the world. The story seemed to represent a clash of religious and cultural values between East and West. But the pro
Read more…Internationally acclaimed Australian author Elizabeth Harrower's novel was written in 1971.
This tale of love, class and freedom, set among the grand houses and lush gardens of Sydney Harbour just after WWII, follows the lives of Zoe and Russell H
