Jess turns up in the seat next to Phil on a flight to Rome, and it soon becomes clear that this arrangement is no coincidence. However, even the best-laid plans can be derailed by mysterious strangers, and a fear of flying.
A Romantic comedy
Ca
Read more…“Passion is in the air, as thick of mustard,” as one of Horovitz’s characters says in Beverley, the story of a 70-year-old former British pilot who decides, after 52 years, it’s time to reclaim the love of his life. Archie Bennett (who is sometimes
Read more…What are the odds on the earnest statistician Liam meeting the impulsive photographer Sadie? What are the chances of starting a family?
A tale of love, surrogacy and statistics.
Cast:
Liam .........Andrew Scott
Sadie .........Jeany Spark
Cath ......
Thomas Hardy's partly autobiographical story about the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. With Janet Maw.
Stephen Smith is a socially inferior but ambitious young man who adore
Read more…The celebrated theatre director Bill Bryden adapts F Scott Fitzgerald's last and unfinished novel. Starring Aiden Gillen, Jack Shepherd and Charlotte Emmerson.
Haunted by the death of his wife, 1930s Studio Head Monroe Stahr works ei
Read more…A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. It was both a critical and box office success.
Widely considered a landmark play, Streetcar deal
BBC Radio 4, 13-27 July 2008
dramatized by Rachel Joyce
The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who in "affronting her destiny", finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequen
Read more…Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious
By Liao Yimei
Translation by Claire Conceison, adapted from a previous translation by Mark Talacko.
A runaway success in China after its first staging in 1999, Liao Yimei's play is a dark romance about a rhinoceros keeper, Malu, who falls in lov
Read more…A glamorous invitation sees Fanny emerge into the 1920s world of an aristocratic family.
Stars Amanda Root and Barbara Jefford.
Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate
By Patricia Highsmith, adapted by Neil Bartlett.
A tender yet unsettling love story about two women who risk everything to be involved romantically with each other.
Cast:
Therese .........Andrea Deck
Carol .........Miranda Richardson
Mrs Robic
Read more…The Awakening
by Kate Chopin [1899]
dramatised by Janice Okoh
15 Minute Drama: 18 to 22 August 2014
Omnibus on Radio 4 Extra, Saturday 23 August 2014
Pippa Bennett-Warner and Petra Letang star in this steamy adaptation of the Kate Chopin novel which s
Eight years ago, young Anne rejected a marriage proposal from a handsome but poor naval officer. Now her former love has returned. Jane Austen dramatization with Juliet Stevenson.
Anne Elliott meets her fiance Fredrick Wentworth again after eight yea
Read more…Marcy Kahan's romantic comedies about two old friends who, having once shared a flat together, decide to rekindle their platonic relationship by meeting for lunch every month.
Cast:
Bill.........Stephen Mangan
Bella.........Claire Skinner
Prod
Read more…Series of dramas by Katie Hims about brides dressing for wedding ceremonies and the significance and symbolism of the dress itself.
True Love
Maggie's dress is so beautiful she can't bear to take it off.
Maggie...... Olivia Colman
Eric...... Trysta
Poster's Note: You may wonder why I placed this post in Romance. The 10 Stories Dramatised here have many different groups they could be put in. There is Murder, Mystery, Drama, Black Comedy, Crime and Suspense spread throughout all the stories
Read more…Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
BBC Radio Classic
128K - One rar 157 Mb total containing 3 mp3 files and 2 jpg files
I have been looking for the version that was requested and cannot find it. Here is a Classic Version. The initial year of broadcast
Read more…By Jacqueline Susann, dramatised by Yvonne Antrobus. The 1960s best seller in which three beautiful young women become best friends as they carve out careers in the entertainment industry.
Valley of the Dolls was an instant success when it was first
Read more…Jonathan Myerson’s dramatization of Boris Pasternak’s epic tale spanning four decades of war, revolution, passion and terror.
"In the grand tradition of the epic novel, Boris Pasternak’s masterpiece brings to life the drama and immensity of the Rus
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Business, ambition and fashion all collide in Zola's colourful love story. Set in the hustle and excitement of the expansion of one of Paris' first department stores.
Episode One
When innocent provincial girl Denise arrives in Paris, she quick
