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The Woodlanders

Juliet Stevenson reads Hardy's classic tale of thwarted love and ambition, set amongst the woodsmen and women of Little Hintock. The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsma

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Autumn Sonata by Ingmar Bergman.

Sunday Play: Autumn Sonata by Ingmar Bergman. Radio 3 - 2001-02-18 Following the death of her lover, a concert pianist visits her estranged daughter, and a dark story of a divided family unfolds as the two women start to reveal the sorrow and bit

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Joanna By Neil Brand.

Joanna By Neil Brand. With Haydn Gwynne, Sara Crowe, Dillie Keane, Nicholas Boulton, Martin Hyder and Richard Firth. Piano played by Neil Brand. Directed by Peter Kavanagh First broadcast 20021227. An old piano recalls the hands that have caressed

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Candida by George Bernard Shaw

Candida premiered in 1898 and has played in countless theaters throughout the century since. Candida has proven itself to be a truly modern play with each return. Its timeless humor revolves around confusing interactions between the sexes as Candida

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Peyton Place

Here is a stream of Peyton Place I captured off of internet radio awhile back. Not sure of the date. Peyton Place was a 1956 novel by Grace Metalious. Selling sixty thousand copies within the first ten days of its release, it was publishing's seco

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BBC R4 - Moliere's 'The Miser'

 

 

BBC R4 - Moliere's 'The Miser'
Translated by Miles Malleson
Produced by Peter Kavanagh
Broadcast September 29, 1986
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

Modern translation of Moliere's 1668 French farce: L'Avare.

A miser plots to ruin his daughter's wedding p

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Shakespeares Vortigern and Rowena

Shakespeares Vortigern and Rowena

Comedy by Melissa Murray. In 1796, at Drury Lane theatre, Richard Sheridan
puts on a guaranteed hit: a production of a 'lost' Shakespeare play. What
could possibly go wrong?

Sheridan ...... Lorcan Cranitch
Kemble ......

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Classic Serial - Room At The Top

By John Braine, dramatised in two parts by Gary Brown. A postwar classic about Joe Lampton's ruthless fight out of the backstreets of Northern England and the two women he must choose between to find room at the top. With David Threlfall, Diana Quick

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Classic Serial - Sons and Lovers

By D H Lawrence, dramatised in three parts by Michael Butt. Paul Morel is born into a Nottinghamshire mining family at the turn of the century. His father is a hard-working, hard-drinking miner, his mother a refined woman of middle-class aspirations.

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Classic Serial - Daniel Deronda

George Eliot's novel of love and idealism, dramatised in three parts by Robert Forrest, stars Anna Chancellor as Gwendolen Harleth.
From the first haunting moment when their eyes meet across a crowded gaming room, the young Daniel Deronda is as drawn

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