The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Celie is a poor uneducated young black woman in 1930s Georgia who, aged only fourteen, is raped and impregnated twice by the man she calls Pa. Her children both disappear; Celie assumes their father has murdered the
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On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and decides to stay. Furious, her dead husband's family sen
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A car crash. A middle aged woman falls for a younger man. What's the connection?
Emily Steel is a new Welsh radio writer, currently under commission to the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. In her first radio play, developedthrough BBC writersroom, she tak
Love for Lydia Omnibus By H.E.Bates In HE Bates' story of first love, a local reporter is sent to interview a young woman who has come to live with her two aunts.
Pt 1 (1-5) As winter comes to Evensford, a local reporter sets out for an interview.
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or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of
David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (which he never
meant to publish on any account)
Of all Charles Dickens' novels, this is perhaps the most revealing, both
of Dicke
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
Sunday Play: Autumn Sonata by Ingmar Bergman.
Radio 3 - 2001-02-18
Following the death of her lover, a concert pianist visits
her estranged daughter, and a dark story of a divided family
unfolds as the two women start to reveal the sorrow and
bit
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Smiles Of A Summer Night
by Ingmar Bergman
Adapted by Shaun McKenna
With Nicholas Farrell, Samantha Spiro, Samuel West, Sarah Kesselman, Rebecca Johnson, Claire Carrie, Maxine Peak, Sean Baker, Joanna Monro, Carolyn Pickles,
Directed by Marion Nanc
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Juliet Stevenson reads Hardy's classic tale of thwarted love and ambition, set amongst the woodsmen and women of Little Hintock.
The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsma
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BBC Radio 4 - Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master & Margarita"
In the guise of a troupe of travelling stage magicians, Satan and his henchmen
(a gangster, a compère & a cat) cause mayhem in Moscow at the height of The Terror.
A fine account of Bulgako
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Joanna
By Neil Brand.
With Haydn Gwynne, Sara Crowe, Dillie Keane, Nicholas Boulton, Martin Hyder and Richard Firth. Piano played by Neil Brand.
Directed by Peter Kavanagh
First broadcast 20021227.
An old piano recalls the hands that have caressed
This is a radio play produced by Boston's Colonial Radio Theater of the Air.
World-renowned fantasist Ray Bradbury has on several occasions stepped outside the arenas of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. An unabashed romantic, his first novel
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Candida premiered in 1898 and has played in countless theaters throughout the century since. Candida has proven itself to be a truly modern play with each return. Its timeless humor revolves around confusing interactions between the sexes as Candida
Scummow - Things Washed Up By The Sea by Annamaria Murphy
Comedy about faith, love and redemption by Annamaria Murphy. When a
delirious Irishman arrives in a Cornish harbour, baker Mary Kneebone takes
him in, and soon the sick and gullible are queui
