By Erica Jong, dramatised by Annie Caulfield
Please be aware that this abridgement contains language of a sexual nature that might cause offense.
1) Isadora Wing has been married to psycho-analyst Bennett for five years – but she’s restless an
Read more…Somewhere along the way, Geordie and Jane have lost each other. Life has swallowed them up in the daily grind of screaming kids, unpaid bills and a teenage son who hates the world. Whatever happened to them? They were so happy, full of plans for th
Read more…Jess turns up in the seat next to Phil on a flight to Rome, and it soon becomes clear that this arrangement is no coincidence. However, even the best-laid plans can be derailed by mysterious strangers, and a fear of flying.
A Romantic comedy
Ca
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By Penny Vincenzi.
A young girl is enchanted by vivid tales from the past.
Read by Joanna Lumley.
Room Service
By Jojo Moyes.
A surprise weekend away after 14 years of marriage.
Read by Doon MacKichan.
Love in the After
Read more…What are the odds on the earnest statistician Liam meeting the impulsive photographer Sadie? What are the chances of starting a family?
A tale of love, surrogacy and statistics.
Cast:
Liam .........Andrew Scott
Sadie .........Jeany Spark
Cath ......
“Passion is in the air, as thick of mustard,” as one of Horovitz’s characters says in Beverley, the story of a 70-year-old former British pilot who decides, after 52 years, it’s time to reclaim the love of his life. Archie Bennett (who is sometimes
Read more…Thomas Hardy's partly autobiographical story about the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. With Janet Maw.
Stephen Smith is a socially inferior but ambitious young man who adore
Read more…The celebrated theatre director Bill Bryden adapts F Scott Fitzgerald's last and unfinished novel. Starring Aiden Gillen, Jack Shepherd and Charlotte Emmerson.
Haunted by the death of his wife, 1930s Studio Head Monroe Stahr works ei
Read more…A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. It was both a critical and box office success.
Widely considered a landmark play, Streetcar deal
BBC Radio 4, 13-27 July 2008
dramatized by Rachel Joyce
The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who in "affronting her destiny", finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequen
Read more…Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious
By Liao Yimei
Translation by Claire Conceison, adapted from a previous translation by Mark Talacko.
A runaway success in China after its first staging in 1999, Liao Yimei's play is a dark romance about a rhinoceros keeper, Malu, who falls in lov
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Stars Amanda Root and Barbara Jefford.
Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin [1899]
dramatised by Janice Okoh
15 Minute Drama: 18 to 22 August 2014
Omnibus on Radio 4 Extra, Saturday 23 August 2014
Pippa Bennett-Warner and Petra Letang star in this steamy adaptation of the Kate Chopin novel which s
Eight years ago, young Anne rejected a marriage proposal from a handsome but poor naval officer. Now her former love has returned. Jane Austen dramatization with Juliet Stevenson.
Anne Elliott meets her fiance Fredrick Wentworth again after eight yea
Read more…Marcy Kahan's romantic comedies about two old friends who, having once shared a flat together, decide to rekindle their platonic relationship by meeting for lunch every month.
Cast:
Bill.........Stephen Mangan
Bella.........Claire Skinner
Prod
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Last broadcast on Sat, 16 May 2009, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4 (FM only) (see all broadcasts).
By David Edgar. A love story told at the border between memory and fiction, trust and betrayal, East and West.
Soho, 1958. A mysteri
Series of dramas by Katie Hims about brides dressing for wedding ceremonies and the significance and symbolism of the dress itself.
True Love
Maggie's dress is so beautiful she can't bear to take it off.
Maggie...... Olivia Colman
Eric...... Trysta
Benedict Cumberbatch reads from Ian Kelly's fascinating biography of the
world's most famous lover and libertine. Could anything be better to
get your *belated* romantic Valentine fix?
A car crash. A middle aged woman falls for a younger man. What's the connection?
Emily Steel is a new Welsh radio writer, currently under commission to the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. In her first radio play, developedthrough BBC writersroom, she tak
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