This ‘Edwardian’ romance is set in 1912 Boston, then Paris, Rome and beyond. We hear that penniless young fortune hunter James, having borrowed money, is setting out to court homely charitable-worker Julia, daughter of a tyrannical, rich Bostonian.
By E Nesbit, dramatised in four parts by March Kahan.
The Railway Children is the story of a family’s upheaval when they move from London to the countryside, after their father, who works with the Foreign Office, is falsely accused of spying and is
Former countess, Christine, asks a medium to contact her dead husband. But the consequences spark a night of terror in the foreboding Crithin Castle in Wales.
Tales from the collection A Spot of Folly by Ruth Rendell.
The Haunting of Shawley Rectory
There have long been rumours of ghosts at the rectory and these are given fresh impetus when the new rector and his family move out after only a couple of
Europe in the 1930s. A dangerous place to be. As the Orient Express rattles its way towards Constantinople, a motley group of people find themselves threatened by intrigue, skulduggery and murderous politics
In the land of Ingary, Sophie Hatter is resigning herself to an uninteresting life working in a hat shop, when a castle appears above the town of Market Chipping and refuses to stay still.
With a wink at JB Priestley's original, An Inspector Calls
This comedy drama uses the device of an inquisitive visitor bringing out the worst and the truth in a group. Here, that group is a family struggling to run a seaside guesthouse through som
It’s May 1945 and Germany has just surrendered. The country is in chaos – five million former soldiers, foreign nationals and those liberated from the concentration camps, all trying to get home. And hiding somewhere are the top Nazis.
Saturday-Night Theatre First broadcast: Sat 14th Oct 1989, 19:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM Personal Luggage by CHRIS DENYS. A family gather in their new home. It's to be a fresh start for them all. And then, on the first morning, they're joined by an apparit