By Oscar Wilde
Social outsider Mrs Erlynne and respectable Lord Windermere share a secret; many suspect them of having an affair. When Lord Windermere is confronted by his young wife Margaret, he denies it, but she remains unconvinced, and decides
Read more…By Anthony Burgess, adapted for radio by Anjum Malik.
The story of Napoleon's climb to power in the early years of the French Revolution, set against his tumultuous relationship with Joséphine.
Cast:
Napoleon.........Toby Jones
Josephine.........Je
Read more…Two girls are involved in a peculiar educational experiment to create the perfect wife during the 18th century, which is carried out by the philanthropist and intellectual Thomas Day.
Drama, based on true events.
Cast:
James Keir.......Rory Br
Read more…Jane Thornton's story, inspired by real events, about how far a father is prepared to go to make his child happy.
When Dan and Lori adopted Amber as a baby, Dan knew he'd never stop loving her. Now he's pulling out all the stops for her 18th bir
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Harry Starks, club owner, racketeer and porn king, is trying to jump the queue into legitimacy. This swinging sixties novel reveals the seedier side of London where the low life met the high life in the city's dark underbelly.
Craft
By Guy Meredith.
Disillusioned with the world of art, Adam Bax decides to embark on a little nefarious infamy.
Cast:
Bax.........Norman Rodway
Robert.........Geoffrey Collins
Quartermain.........James Grout
Tessa.........Carole Boyd
Consta
Read more…The Oresteia: Agamemnon
Aeschylus’s tragic trilogy about a family that cannot escape its own vicious cycle of bloodshed opens with Agamemnon in a new version by playwright Simon Scardifield.
The eponymous hero — or villain, depending upon which side
Read more…Most famous for his Hornblower series, Forester wrote three seminal psychological thrillers at the start of his career that took crime writing in a new direction, portraying ordinary, desperate people committing monstrous acts.
In Payment Deferred,
Read more…The Poetry of Mathematics
Thinking Machines
Georgina Ferry presents part one of the correspondence of Ada Lovelace, dramatized by an all-star cast. Uninterested in Ada the feminist icon or crazy fantasist, she reveals the intense inner world of a
Read more…The Gifts of war: Worlds collide over a birthday present in this 1970 entry from the author's collected stories. Read by Julia Ford and Kirsty Oswald.
A Success Story: A night out leaves playwright Kathie Jones contemplating relationships and su
Read more…James Purefoy stars as Sir Percy Blakeney in Jonathan Holloway's new adaptation of Baroness Orczy's classic tale, set in the French Revolution.
Holloway's political interpretation is brought to life by an ensemble cast includi
Graham Greene’s masterful tale of suspense. When Edgar Dominguez is sent to England on a mission to arrange a supply of coal for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War it seems a straightforward business negotiation; but no sooner does he set foot
During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the ‘whisky priest’, is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along th
Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Alison Hindell
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/dramaon3/pip/r3a1d/
first broadcast - BBC Radio 3, Drama on 3, Sunday 8 July 2007
Stoppard's play about loyalty, compromise, love and a time when music helped to
By Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Catherine Lucy Czerkawska
Meg moves to London in the swinging 60s In search of excitement and ' Mr Right '. Her next step towards independence is to buy a second-hand car. but she very quickly discovers that
Read more…Radio 4 extra today broadcast a new to me SNT
Saturday Night Theatre 1977-07-23 - The Linden Tree [JB Priestley]
England, 1947: Rationing and austerity seem to have fostered opportunism, escapism and confrontation within the Linden family.
Professor
2 part Monday Play from 1959
1959-10-12 - MP - Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak-part 1 Moscow-The Advent of the Inevitable
1959-10-19 - MP - Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak-part 2 Siberia - Death & Resurrection
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/
Read more…John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and Edith Mary Bratt first met in 1908. They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Birmingham. Despite the difference in their ages and religions - she was 19 and Protestant, he was 16 and Catholic
Sadsack has posted a new to me Monday Play
The Man-Eater of Malgudi
by R K Narayan [novel, 1961]
Dramatised by William Ash
The Monday Play, 4 November 1991, 19.45
Sunday Playhouse, 11 October 1992, 14.30
Duration: 1 hour, 25 minutes
In the small Indi
