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Ed Reardon's Week

  Ed Reardon's Week is a sitcom on BBC Radio 4 recorded semi-naturalistically in the style of a radio drama. It concerns the story of a curmudgeonly middle-aged writer described in the show's publicity material as an "author, pipesmoker, consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive email". The names of two central characters, Ed Reardon (played by Christopher Douglas) and Jaz Milvane (played by Philip Jackson), are references to the characters Edwin Reardon and Jasper Milvain, who appear in…

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Atomic Tales

  Six sensational spoofs of classic 1950s American science-fiction stories. BBC Audio present six fantastic tales of twisted futures and times beyond tomorrow.... Their Gaze Was Green: with the Earth under threat from Venusian terrorists, can clean-cut space heroes Jack and Chip thwart their evil tentacled nemeses? And Mother Makes Millions: a dashing male stranger enters a dystopian world where human women have become infertile. Is he really humanity's saviour, or does he have a sinister…

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Barry Hines: Kes, Billy’s Last Stand & more

  Three dramas by Barry Hines and an abridged reading of his classic Kes (A Kestrel for a Knave) Yorkshire-born author Barry Hines is renowned for his 1968 novel A Kestrel for a Knave (later turned into Ken Loach’s award-winning film Kes) and for scripting the BAFTA-winning BBC TV film Threads. The titles in this collection explore his signature theme – working-class life in Northern England – and include a trio of radio dramas alongside an abridged version of Kes, read by Stephen Tompkinson.…

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Bernard Kops: A BBC Radio Collection

  An anthology of plays and original radio dramas from the prolific playwright Born and brought up in the East End of London, Bernard Kops came to fame in the late 1950s as part of British drama’s ‘New Wave’. A lyrical chronicler of Jewish family life, he is often compared to Arnold Wesker and Harold Pinter, though his work is more sentimental and surreal. In a 50-year career, he wrote 10 novels, numerous poetry collections, two autobiographies and over 40 stage, TV and radio plays. Included…

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