Jane Austen Season - ITV and Classic FM To celebrate the season, Classic FM presents The Jane Austen Season Audiobooks with ITV1 and Classic FM. Join Anne-Marie Minhall, Jane Jones and Lisa Duncombe in the complete and abridged re-telling of these t
Read more…Janet Waldo of Corliss Archer fame plays a college student secretly married in this 1949 sit-com.
Read more…The Iliad Someday I will have to start a group for the Classics, for now, Thank you Katy for starting this group the closest to the classics we have. A very good production of The Iliad went out in two parts as The Classic Serial (R4, beginning 8 Ju
Read more…Tuesday 05 October 2004 Afternoon Play: Isabella and the Pot of Basil By John Keats Isabella loves Lorenzo but her brothers want him dead. Young love turns to gothic nightmare in this classic tale of passion, murder and a pot of basil. With original
Read more…BBC R3 - John Vanbrugh's 'The Provok'd Wife' Adapted by Jim Poyser Produced by Pauline Harris Broadcast December 12, 2004 Bawdy comedy. Shocking - even in restoration times - for saying that maltreated wives should leave their husbands. Cast Sir Jo
Read more…Villette (pronounced /viːˈjɛt/) is a novel by Charlotte Brontë, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled
Read more…A Tale Told by Moonlight By Leonard Woolf. Read by Alex Jennings. Sun Aug 10, 2008, 8:30 PM, Radio 3 (Proms Short Story) An English novelist visiting Ceylon falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful native prostitute and buys her out of the brothel
Read more…Thomas Middleton and William Rowley - The Changeling BBC Third Programme Broadcast: Wednesday 6th April 1960 "The Changeling" takes its title from the fact that several characters go through changes that make them unrecognisable from what they f
Read more…The Gambler (Drama On 3) A comic drama based on Dostoevsky's experiences as a young man, is a portrayal of the power of love and money. Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and adapted by Glyn Maxwell. Patricia Routledge, Nicholas le Prevost, Sam Crane and
Read more…John Ford - 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore BBC Radio 3: The Sunday Play Broadcast: Sunday 4th February 2001 @ 7:30 p.m. Poor Annabella has a number of suitors, but when the quiet, studious, Giovanni declares his brotherly love their lives would seem
Read more…Troilus And Criseyde Sunday 26 April and 3 May 2009 (Classic Serial) 160/44; 137 MB total; sound quality excellent Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde is one of the great works of English literature. A powerful and compelling story, it explores love fr
Read more…Bang Went The Sun By Mark Shand. Eva's mother has gone missing. But with her father sneezing in turquoise and acting high-pitched orange, can Eva and her father find each other, let alone their missing relative? A play about synaesthesia - the mixi
Read more…The better half by Noel Coward BBC Radio 4 - 2009-05-25 Broadcast premiere of a comedy of marital manners, written by a young Noel Coward. Recently rediscovered, it was considered too racy for public performance in 1922. In an unusual psychologica
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