We know what you’re thinking: Whatever happened to Part One?
Well, if you remember, in the beginning the earth was without form and void - and you try putting that across on radio!
Part Two (trust us!) is where the story really gets going. It’s t
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Will Lynne realise her greatest ambition and play Lady Macbeth in the local Am Dram production? Or will svelte, sophisticated rival actress, Serena Vello, return from Kathmandu in time to dash her dreams? And what are husband Les and his twin br
Read more…Rosemary has come home. Her new retirement flat overlooks a garden that she once knew very well, but the garden isn’t the only reason why she chose that particular flat. There’s also the man who looked after it all those years ago – the man who died
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In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories, Dr Watson drops tantalising hints about other cases of the great detective. Here we attempt to reconstruct two of these unpublished exploits.
In "The Long Man", while Holmes investigates an insuranc
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If you’re middle-aged (and who isn’t these days?) you’ll know what it’s like. After a tiring day at work, and a busy evening fixing extra security locks on the doors – there have been three burglaries in your street this week, and you don’t want
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He didn’t really do his act naked, of course. Charlie Walker just went a little further than most magicians to prove that there was nothing up his sleeve. Charlie was good – very good. And famous. But then his wife died, and everything changed for
Read more…Being an account of the great Anglo-French Mangle War of 1903 and of the patriotic role played in its outcome by a popular Music Hall song.
The words and music were composed for your pleasure by aging matinee idol Mr William Farrow, and performe
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Julie's not having a good day. Her husband Ben spends most of his time mending clocks and tinkering with the kitchen appliances. Their daughter Kate calls round now and then, usually when she wants something. The only one Julie can rely on is Fur
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While rewriting Conan Doyle's script, the American actor William Gillette famously asked, "May I marry Holmes?" The reply was, "You may marry or murder, or do what you like with him!" The resulting play was first staged in 1899 and has lasted for
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BELLY LAUGHS By Angela Neville
Wendy's life is about to be changed, and for the better. Mind you, yesterday she wouldn't have thought it possible. In her late forties and still single, Wendy still lives with her elderly mother, and she's worked
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MAKE MINE A PINT series one By Dennis Rookard
Read by John Glasscock.
Brentwood in Essex isn’t a particularly distinguished place, and Dennis Rookard’s local, the Traveller’s Rest, is not much to look at from the outside. A bit down at heel, in
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At the age of six she'd wished that she was a fairy. Nothing happened, of course - but she hadn't realised then that these things take time. So it was rather a shock when she woke up one morning, prepared for just another day at the office, and fo
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Dr Charles was a quiet man, but when he took a room in Mrs Musgrave's house fear moved in with him. And murder. They called it the Miracle of Marlborough Road - the case of the shot without a gun.
Who killed Dr Charles?
And how...?
"Room to Let"
Brave Gilbert Trubshawe has gone abroad to fight for Queen and Country, leaving his young wife Priscilla in charge of their country estate. But Gilbert’s wicked uncle Jasper has designs on the property, and even perhaps on the beautiful (but somew
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Essex has always had more than its fair share of eccentrics, from the reclusive millionaire Bayard Brown to Vivian Stanshall of blessed memory. The inhabitants of the little town of Coggeshall were long notorious for their eccentric ways:
"The s
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Evening classes have begun at the local adult education centre. Linda, Tracy, Jo and new student Helen are ready for the second week's lesson in DIY - but someone is missing. Gordon, the teacher, has had an accident.
"Typical man!" says Jo. Who
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It's been a stressful day at the office, but Katie's home now and looking forward to a fun evening with her new date.
Her cat Scheherazade knows all about stressful days. In fact she knows a lot more than Katie imagines.
Where her winning lott
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More than sixty years on, an old airman is visited by dreams of the Second World War. A Lancaster bomber returns from a top-secret mission, badly damaged and almost out of fuel. With heroic skill, the pilot manages to bring it down on a stretch
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There's a New Broom at the Job Centre, and she's determined to sweep away all the little irregularities that make life just that much more comfortable for the local layabouts - sorry, "the long-term unemployed". Needless to say, they aren't too ha
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This, in brief, is the story of English fairs, through songs, readings, and interviews with fairground people. The musicians are Jeff Giddings, Mike Studd and Colin Cater. The voices you'll hear are those of Dennis Rookard, Annie Harding, Peter Bil
