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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 Read more…Smiles Of A Summer Night by Ingmar Bergman
Smiles Of A Summer Night by Ingmar Bergman Adapted by Shaun McKenna With Nicholas Farrell, Samantha Spiro, Samuel West, Sarah Kesselman, Rebecca Johnson, Claire Carrie, Maxine Peak, Sean Baker, Joanna Monro, Carolyn Pickles, Directed by Marion Nanc Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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 Read more…Scummow - Things Washed Up By The Sea
Scummow - Things Washed Up By The Sea by Annamaria Murphy Comedy about faith, love and redemption by Annamaria Murphy. When a delirious Irishman arrives in a Cornish harbour, baker Mary Kneebone takes him in, and soon the sick and gullible are queui
Read more…What happened with St George by David Cregan
What happened with St George by David Cregan
Globe Theatre '92 - R4 1992-03-22
The reality behind the myth of St George - Defender of Christ,
slayer of the dragon, trained as a soldier by the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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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
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 ......
Classic Serial - Daughters of the Vicar
By DH Lawrence, dramatised by Jane Beeson. For Louisa and Mary, daughters of the impoverished vicar of Aldercross, marriage is the only possible means of escape from their routine lives, so the arrival of a new young curate fills them with anticipati
Read more…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
Read more…Classic Serial - Lady Audley's Secret
A three-part dramatisation by Bryony Lavery of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's book. The secrets that surround Audley Court and its new mistress, the mysterious Lady Audley, are hunted out by Robert Audley, the handsome young barrister turned amateur detect
Read more…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.
Read more…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
Classic Serial - The Song of Hiawatha
By Henry Wordsworth Longfellow. Timothy West tells the legendary story of Native American hero Hiawatha. With Timothy West, Chris Garner, Burt Caesar and Sam Fry. Abridged by Tom Holland.
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Classic Serial - The Bell
By Iris Murdoch, dramatised in three parts. Sex and religion come into conflict in this story of a lay community which is seriously disturbed by the arrival of an errant wife who has decided to return to her husband.
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Classic Serial - The Grand Hotel
By Vicki Baum, dramatised in two parts by Malcolm McKee. The best hotel in Berlin entertains the famous and infamous. Grusinskaya, a prima ballerina, blames her diminishing audiences on the pearls that up to now, have been her talisman. But someone i
Read more…Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 2008 BBC 3
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond RostandTranslated from the French by Anthony Burgess
Drama on 3 - 2008-03-23
Set in 17th century France, Rostand's play features the eponymous poet-
swordsman with a misshapen nose who falls in love with the beautiful
Roxa Read more…
Cyrano de Bergerac - 1996
Cyrano de Bergerac- 1996 BBC-4
With Alex Norton, EMMA FIELDING, Jonathan Cullen and Lorcan Cranitch. Director Hilary Norrish. Music by Matthew Scott. Director Hilary Norrish....
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