Falling Heads
by Colin Haydn Evans
Broadcast 25 March 1995, Saturday Night Theatre
In 1918, Noel Pemberton Billing MP published a review of Maud Allan's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" accusing the leading actress of treason. The resulting libel
Johnnie Walker's Long-Players episode 1 (BBC Radio 2) 2nd Feb 2012 *****************************
In the first of five programmes, Johnnie Walker looks at some favourite classic albums. This week it's David Bowie's Hunky Dory and the follow up to Z
Read more…Tom Heap tucks into a portion of locusts and asks if eating insects is good for his diet and better for the planet than a piece of steak.
Bugs such as crickets and caterpillars can convert food into protein at a more efficient rate than livestock,
Read more…The BBC has produced two separate offerings which dramatize the famous diaries.
The first was a six-part series, dramatized by Neville Smith, with each play being one hour in length.
The second offering was (is?) actually multiple series of short p
Read more…Pepys: Fire of London
128K
London in 1666 was a health and safety nightmare. It was illegal to
build with wood and thatch but people did it anyway. Foundries were
forbidden in the city but that didn't stop them operating. Charles II
had banned dan
The Enfield Poltergeist
presented by Rosalind Morris
Produced by Sally Thomson
Broadcast in 1978
64/44/mono; 18.1 MB; sound quality good
In an ordinary house in a London suburb, the furniture has taken to moving itself around. When the same hidde
Three Wishes
First broadcast: Monday 05 December 2011
160/44; 32.5 MB; sound quality excellent
The genie - or jinn, to give it its original name - has been a key player in some of the world's oldest stories. Compared to similar beings from c
That Cunard Woman
by Edgar White.
The Monday Play, 20 February 1989
The story of Nancy Cunard, one of the most glamorous and outrageous figures of the 20's, and her enduring love for the black musician Henry Crowder.
Cast List:
Jane Lapotaire..
Something Rotten in Mayfield
Broadcast Tue 8 May 2012, 20:00
160/44; 39.5 MB; sound quality excellent
In August 2000, in Mayfield Kentucky, 19-year-old Jessica Currin was brutally murdered. When the local police failed to find her killer, a local wom
The Voice of Angels
By David Goodland
17 May 2003, 14:30, The Saturday Play
Based on a true story. The Liverpool Poisoning Case in the summer of 1889 made international headlines when beautiful 28 year old American Florence Maybrick was tried for the
The Underwater Gendarme
The Brigade Fluviale, the Paris River Police, know the Seine better than anybody else. They understand its moods, the dangerous currents which can suddenly pin a diver to the bottom or sweep them far downstream. They know th
Black Maria
By John Fletcher
Saturday Play, 28 July 2001
Friday play, 21 June 2002
The true story of the most famous murderess of
the Victorian era, Maria Manning.
A seamstress, turned outlaw, Maria Manning's
sensational trial mesmerised the n
As we approach 'solar max', when the Sun is at its most active and ferocious, astronomer Lucie Green investigates the hidden dangers our nearest star poses to us on Earth.
In March 1989, a solar superstorm brought down Quebec's power grid. Six m
Read more…Fake by Eric Simonson
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Length: 01:58:00
128K
A detective story about the infamous Piltdown Man hoax.
Oscar-winning and Tony-nominated writer and director Eric Simonson explores the most famous archeological hoax in history. Alt
Of course there is no real George Orwell - it was the pen name of Eric Blair - but he was a writer and political commentator who is very hard to pin down. Ever since his early death in 1950, he has been at one and the same time the darling of some on
Read more…And The Academy Award Goes To ...
Paul Gambaccini returns with the series about how some of the greatest Best Picture Oscar winning films were made, and what they tell us about the history of the time.
160/44; 129 MB total; sound quality excellent
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Wilde's West Coast Collection
First broadcast: 25 November 2012, Radio 3 Sunday Feature
160/44; 50.8 MB; sound quality excellent
Oscar Wilde expert Thomas Wright spent several years examining the books that were auctioned off for next to nothing from
Little Richard: A Whop Bop A Lua A Whop Bam Boom
First broadcast: Wednesday 05 December 2012, Radio 2
Duration: 57 minutes
To mark Little Richard's 80th birthday, Radio 2 celebrates one of the most outrageous performers in the history of rock 'n
The Curse of Pendle
First broadcast: Friday 23 November 2012, 11:00
160/44; 32.5 MB; sound quality excellent
Novelist Jeanette Winterson is fascinated by the Pendle witch trials of 1612. 400 years on, in this programme recorded in and around the
