Young Jim Hawkins finds himself aboard ship in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story of adventure on the high seas.
Dramatized by John Scotney - one episode of approx 90 minutes.
With:
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Peter Jeffrey.....Long John Silver
Ben Rodska.....Jim
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This short story from Matheson was rewritten by him as the screenplay of the 1971 movie that launched Steven Spielberg's career.
An Audiobook of the Richard Matheson`s 1971 classic read by Nathan Osgood.
Two episodes of approx 30 minutes each in h
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Ben Hur 4 parts Lew Wallace's
BBC Radio 4
Dramatization of Lew Wallace's epic novel which begins with the nativity and ends with the crucifixion.
with Jamie Glover, Samuel West and narrated by Michael Gambon.
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Michael Gambon is Guy Burgess and Penelope Wilton the actress Coral Browne in Bennett's re-telling of a real-life incident. Whilst touring 'Hamlet' Moscow with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1958, Browne is astonished to have Burgess appear in h
Written in 1947 The Green Hills of Earth features in “Forbidden Planet’s” top 100 best Sci-fi stories.
This is the poignant story of Rhysling, a radiation-blinded spaceship engineer crisscrossing the solar system writing and singing some of the best
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Dramatised by Amanda Dalton from the Hitchcock film script by Ben Hecht and the book by Francis Beeding.
Staff at Landry House in North Yorkshire are anticipating the arrival of Dr Murchison, who is to replace the retiring head, Dr Edwardes. The rat
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A contemporary thriller set in the oil fields of the Niger Delta
Written by Andy Walker and Chris Reason - Two episodes of approx one hour each.
Western governments, oil companies and business analysts have long predicted that the "peak", when oil
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The Romans regarded her as 'fatale monstrum', a female Saddam Hussein. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. Shakespeare and Tiepolo (and Elizabeth Taylor) portrayed her as an icon of tragic beauty. But who was Cleopatr
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