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The Johnny Cash Show

2309779447?profile=originalThe Johnny Cash Show was an American television music variety show hosted by Johnny Cash. The Screen Gems 58-episode series ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on ABC; it was taped at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. The show reached

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Dolly Parton Radio Special

2309778976?profile=originalDolly Parton and friends talk about her history, songwriting, business savvy and philanthropy. These friends include Kenny Rogers, Charlie Louvin, Laura Cantrell, Holly George-Warren and Janis Ian. You'll also hear a mix of her best-known tunes.

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The Radetzky March By Joseph Roth

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The Radetzky March
By Joseph Roth

Monday Play 1976-03-22
Starring Nigel Anthony/Peter Williams/John Rye

256K

Roth's best-know novel, Radetzkymarsch, portraits the latter days of Habsburg monarch, its multiethnic equilibrium and bureaucratic machin

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The Holy Experiment By William Fox

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The Holy Experiment
By William Fox
SNT 1976-10-16
Richard Pasco/Peter Howell/William Fox

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William Penn, an English Quaker, sought to guarantee religious freedom, fair governance, a peaceful society, and equality for all citizens while foun

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The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan

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The Winslow Boy
by Terence Rattigan
SNT 1965-01-30
adapted by Peter Watts

with Marius Goring, Brian Hewlett and Lockwood West.

160K

Based on an Edwardian cause celebre, The Winslow Boy tells of a father's determination to clear the name of his you

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Scream Queens

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Scream Queens

128K

In this revealing documentary, part of BBC Radio 4's Gothic Imagination series of programmes, Reece Shearsmith meets a coven of female horror stars and charts the development and changing roles in the genre, from the femmes fatal

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South Sea Bubble by Noel Coward

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South Sea Bubble     

by Noel Coward     

SNT 1980-08-02

64K

The South Sea Company was a British joint stock company that traded in South America during the 18th century. Founded in 1711, the company was granted a monopoly to trade in Spain's Sout

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Lord Dracula by Brian Hayles

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Lord Dracula

by Brian Hayles
SNT 1974-04-27

Starring Kenneth Haigh and Nigel Stock

Vlad Dracula ruled a united Wallachia from 1456 until 1462, when the then King of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus (who was also of a
Wallachian nobleman lineage), fell

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Midnight In Peking

Roman Polanski's Chinatown meets Tin-Tin and The Blue Lotus. A true life murder, miserable and sad,  made listenable by the ambience of Old Peking, The Fox Tower (and the possible presence of fox spirits - preferable to most of the Europeans in the s

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@ the link below you will fine a complete to date set of both BBC dramatizations of the Duary Of Mr Pepys. Pepys is very much the same person in both the Classic Serial and the Womans Hour

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The Campden Wonder

The Campden Wonder by Richard Derrington and Roger Hulme With Peter Jeffrey, Richard Derrington and Nigel Anthony directed by Sue Wilson Broadcast 28 April 1994 - Afternoon Play Repeated on Radio 7, 18 Sept 2009 A drama that lays out the unfortunat

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