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Starstruck

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THE AUDIOCOMICS COMPANY: Starstruck

1 -    Prologue: Rec Station News - Mitochondria
2 -    Act One, Scene One: Aboard the Harpy - Galatia and Crew Bump into Trouble
3 -    Act One, Scene Two: On the Sinister Siren 3 - Evil Plans and Unnatural Acts
4 - 

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Sea Fever by Sheila Hodgson

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by Sheila Hodgson           
SNT 1989-05-13
Starring John Moffat
80K

SEA FEVER is a brilliant piece of work, in ingenuity and high spirits far superior to most things on radio 4 nowadays. John Moffat plays a failed financier who

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A Month of June (Whitfield)

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Spray the Grass Green

By Andy Merriman and Peter Morfoot

 The first of four comedies written for the many voices of legendary actor June Whitfield.

 

 It is 1939 and June plays the slightly fading Hollywood star Lana Garfield contracted to Tantamou

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Al Read, a wireless comedian

Al Read b-3 March 1909    d-9 September 1987  a British wireless comedian active throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

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Read was born in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire UK and was a sausage maker and salesman in his father's business. He became known as a p

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Taking Over By Mervyn Jones

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Taking Over
By Mervyn Jones
With Vivian Pickles, Freddie Jones, Yvonne Antrobus, John Hollis, Jon Strickland, Frances Jeater, Maggie McCarthy, Michael Jenner, Peter Acre, Colin Starkey and Henry Stamper.
Directed by Michael Heffernan
SNT 14 April 19

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Scoop By Evelyn Waugh

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Scoop
By Evelyn Waugh
SNT 29.5.1976
John Rowe/Rosalind Knight/Ronald Herdman
160K

Through a series of accidents and mistaken identity, Boot is hired as a war correspondent for a Fleet Street newspaper. The uncomprehending Boot is sent to the fic

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Cabin Pressure

Cabin Pressure is a radio series written by John Finnemore. Its first series was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. 

 

To my mind, this is the best comedy on radio.  As ensemble humor, it ranks

up there with Barney Miller.

 

I'm not sure of the status

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Spanish Gold by George Birmingham

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Spanish Gold
by George Birmingham
adapted by Alan England

With Kieran Cunningham and Stuart Richman.
Produced by Dave Sheasby
SNT 1990.07.07
256K


A farcical tale of a treasure hunt on an Aran island - Inishgowlan - in which the Reverend Meldon

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Present Laughter By Noel Coward

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Present Laughter
By Noel Coward
SNT .30.6.1979.

96K

Paul Scofield, Fenella Fielding and Patricia Routledge.

 Present Laughter is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1939 and first staged in 1942 on tour.  The plot follows a few days in the lif

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Relative Values By Noel Coward

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Relative Values
By Noel Coward
SNT 1976-05-08
Joyce Redman/Bill Fraser/Gwen Cherrell/John Rye

256K

   A man returns home with his bride-to-be, an actress, who turns out to be the sister of his family's maid. The former lover of the Hollywood ac

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