A young composer arrives in Northumberland, looking for an old man reputed to have written a hauntingly beautiful love song. The old man only sang it once - after his wife left him - and says he'll it sing it no more.
The composer embarks on a cold-
By Jan Etherington
Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a couple who have been married ‘for ever’. Children of the Sixties, they’re still free spirits, drawn together by their passion for music and each other. Their warm and witty conversations dance
Read more…Once more, we are party to Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam’s Christmas plans, in Jan Etherington’s award-winning, two-hander comedy, produced by Claire Jones.
We join them as Joanna breathily compliments Roger - ‘How do you get it so perfect every tim
Read more…By Jan Etherington
Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a couple who have been married forever. Children of the sixties, they’re still free spirits, drawn together by their passion for music and each other.
We follow their conversations as they prepar
Read more…More years ago than I can remember ; when I was courting, I discovered the romances of Betty Neels.
At this particular time we need something to take our minds, if only for a brief time off of the Coronavirus crisis,
What better than a good old fa
Read more…"First Love" tells the story of a young man who, over the course of one enchanted summer, falls hopelessly in love with his beautiful neighbour, only to find himself desperately entangled in illicit passion and betrayal.
Read by Alex Waldmann.
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Episode 1
Lovelorn romance writer Anna is up against a deadline for her latest pot-boiler, a tale of love, suffering and jealousy. But her creative juices don't seem to be flowing as, after years of having a purely fictional love-life, she's met a r
Read more…A chance encounter in a random phone-call may prove good fortune or bad luck for Jess and Lydia.
A sweet romance about taking control of destiny.
Cast:
Lydia ..... Charlotte O'Leary
Jess ..... Vanessa Schofield
Gary ..... John Dougall
Jess' Mum
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Suzie's never been to Cornwall before, but somehow she finds herself on the Cornish Riviera Express, hurtling from Paddington to Penzance. She sits next to David and over the course of an eventful five hour journey an intense relationsh
Read more…Yvonne's good deed leads to a romantic encounter - thanks to her mother - on the day after Christmas.
Read by Dervla Kirwan
Producer: Sarah Johnson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2000.
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Read more…Fifteen short stories for Valentine’s Day.
From the pens of Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekov, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Frank Justus Miller, Oscar Wilde, Ivan Turgenev, Ernest Dowson, Hans Christian Anderson, Virginia Woolf and Olive Schreiner.
Read more…A young fantasy-fiction fan struggles to communicate in the real world, but when the opportunity to create a new language for an upcoming novel arises she jumps at the chance. However, her dream job takes her on more of an adventure than she origin
Read more…Compiled by Simon Garfield and adapted for radio by Sara Davies.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey tell a World War Two love story in letters between Chris Barker, a soldier in Libya, and Bessie Moore, a Morse code interpreter at the Foreig
Read more…Natalia Power's haunting tale of unrequited love. The elderly Duke of Portland is driven into a life of solitude after an opera singer rejects his proposal of marriage. Years later, she returns - but it remains unclear whether it is the woman herse
Read more…On the seismic register of stress, shopping for Christmas presents is like simultaneously getting married, divorced and selling your house. So when two strangers meet in the mayhem of the high street, the odds seem stacked against romance.
With S
Read more…Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a couple who have been married for over 40 years. Children of the 60s, they’re still free spirits, drawn together by their passion for music - and each other.
The show follows their conversations that take them fr
Read more…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…Abridged by Diana Griffiths
Colette's unsentimental love story, set in 1912 Paris, of an experienced older woman's final romantic affair with a much younger man, offering a poignant perspective of women and the aging process.
Cast:
Narrator.....
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…A Voice from the Past
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
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