While The Sun Shines
by Terence Rattigan [1943]
adapted by Cynthia Pughe
with Ronald Lewis, Lockwood West and Warren Stanhope
produced by Archie Campbell
Broadcast 24 May 1969 (Saturday Night Theatre)
On the eve of his marriage, the Earl of Harpe
Trelawny of the Wells
by Arthur Wing Pinero
SNT 1961-04-02
128K
This play was performed for the first time at the Court Theatre London, shortly after it was written in January 1898. It was made in to a film in 1938. Pinero wrote Trelawny of the W
The Milk of Paradise
from the 1913 novel 'Le Grand Meaulnes' by Henri Alain-Fournier
translated, adapted and produced by Barbara Bray
First broadcast 12 January 1959, Home Service
This recording: 21 July 1975, 20.00, The Monday Play
Re-broadcast 27 July
By Where The Old Shed Used To Be
by Craig Warner
Music by Simon Jeffes. Played by members of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
Directed in Bristol by Andy Jordan.
Broadcast on Radio 3, 12 Dec 1989
Winner of a Giles Cooper Award for 1989
192/44; 135.
To Strangle a Parrot
adapted by Anthony Keary
from 'The Adventure of the Kind Mr Smith' in the collection 'The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol' (1912) by William John Locke
Broadcast on Tuesday 5th July 1994, Thirty Minute Theatre
160/44; 33
Thanks Katy for all the Mrs. Gaskell - great writer - missing link between Jane Austen and George Eliot & thanks again Rick for M&M - not with standing the fact that I havent yet fully memorized the Russian alphabet let alone the language, Bulgakov i
Read more…Ethan Frome (Woman's Hour Drama)
Broadcast on BBC Radio 4
Monday 16 to Friday 20 January 2012
by Edith Wharton, Dramatised by Lin Coghlan. Ethan Frome is one of Edith Wharton's most enduring and powerful stories. Set against the cold, grey, bleakne
Possession
by A.S.Byatt
Dramatised by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
Monday 19 December 2011 to Friday 06 January 2012
Omnibus edition broadcast weekly from 24 Dec 2011 to 7 Jan 2012
160/44; 231 MB total; sound quali
Drama on 3 - Wuthering Heights
A new adaptation by Jonathan Holloway of Emily Bronte's great novel of violent obsession. Heathcliff and Catherine have entered the world's imagination as great lovers. Yet they kiss once only. Dante Gabriel Rossetti de
Anna of the Five Towns
by Arnold Bennett
dramatised by Helen Edmundson
Broadcast Sun 6 and 13 March 2011, Classic Serial
160/44; 131 MB total; sound quality excellent
A powerful story of love, tyranny and rebellion set against the vitality and harshness
Baiju Bawra
Music by Niraj Chag, Lyrics by Melissa Baten, Script by Philip Qizilbash.
Broadcast Wed 6 Apr 2011, 18:10, BBC Asian Network
A programme from Asian Network Presents
Duration 40 minutes
160/44; 42.6 MB; sound quality excellent
A young talented
The Cairo Trilogy by Mahfouz Naquib
"The trilogy recounts, with Tolstoyan assurance, the lives, marriages and disruptive extramarital passions of a Muslim family of the middling merchant class.(...) For the American reader, Mahfouz's writing pro
Woman's Hour Drama - Chronicles of Ait - Echo Beach
Written by Michael Butt.
The remote east coast settlement of Ait is reckoned to have siren-like powers to entrap and enthral its visitors - and that, at least, is how it appears to disaffected writer
Far Pavilions:
128K
M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy Catherine. Following the 1857 Mutiny, Ashton, a young English orphan, is disguised by his ayah (maid) as her Indian son, Ashok. And so, as he forgets his true identity, his de
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Dramatized by Michelene Wandor
Directed by Chris Wallace
BBC Radio 4 1997
Length 1hr 28mins
Coded from tape at 128/44.1
Published in 1765 and acknowleged as the first "Gothic" novel.
The initial 1764 edition was t
Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederi
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Read more…James Marsters and Joanne Whalley lead an all-star cast in She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith's classic and uproarious comedy of manners. Strangethings are afoot at an idyllic country mansion in rural England: Young Kate Hardcastle and her cous
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