Lorna Doone is one of the greatest love stories ever written, and for a long time, it was the most popular. Written in the heyday of the great Victorian novelists in 1869, it proved to be an enduring tale and made its author rich and famous. This is
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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
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
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Sheridan ...... Lorcan Cranitch
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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
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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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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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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
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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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