Whose Line is it Anyway is a popular improvisational theatre show, best known from the multiple seasons on TV in the UK and USA. However this show with Clive Anderson and the team actually started on BBC radio as a 6 half hour episode series in 1988.
Recognised as the ultimate dramatisation of Conan Doyle’s famous stories, these recordings have been acclaimed since their reissue by Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks in 1995. They have been carefully remastered so that the sound is as good as possible
The history of crime detection has produced no more famous name than that of SEXTON BLAKE…’
Sexton Blake is a fictional detective who has been featured in many British comic strips, novels and dramatic productions since 1893. His adventures have feat
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John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American writer and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception. He has been called “a giant of American lett
Peyton Place
BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour Drama
First broadcast from 20020826 to 20020906.
10 episodes
April De Angelis's dramatisation of the 1950s bestseller by Grace Metalious set in prewar New England.
The notorious 1950s bestseller by Grace Metali
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Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths
When a tornado strikes her farmhouse in Kansas, young Dorothy is lifted to the magical world of Oz where she embarks upon a perilous journey to find her way back home.
Dorothy: Amelia Clar
The Talon and Chantry series by Louis L'Amour consists of eight books,
In another connection
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Jack Higgins (the pen name of Henry Patterson) was the internationally bestselling author of 85 novels. He shot to fame with The Eagle Has Landed, which sold 50 million copies worldwide and became a hit film. Adapted for radio, it is included here, t
Glass Chair Chair GlassRuss Abbott, Harriet Walter, Emily Bruni, Hugh Ross and Allan Corduner star in a play that imagines a day when Tommy Cooper met absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco. It could have happened.
It's a sunny morning in
GoldfingerToby Stephens returns as agent 007 James Bond in a thrilling dramatisation of Ian Fleming's 1959 novel, with a glittering cast is led by Ian McKellen in the title role.
Auric Goldfinger is not only a cheat at canasta and golf,
The HybernaculumBy Yolanda Pupo-Thompson.
A play depicting a summer's day at The Wakes, the house of 18th-century amateur naturalist the Rev Gilbert White, when White, awaiting the final proofs of his book, is tormented by a form of tinn
My Heart's a SuitcaseDavid Edgar introduces a new production of "My Heart's a Suitcase" by Clare McIntyre.
McIntyre was one of the new generation of women playwrights who emerged with huge impact in the 1980s and this was one of her best
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a 1949 American Technicolor Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. It is the second film in Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", along with Fort Apache (1948) and Rio Grande (1950). With a budget of $1.6 million,
New York Times best seller Walter Mosley's sizzling new novel pits Easy Rawlins against his greatest challenge ever, a terrifying murder during the Summer of Love. It is the Summer of Love as Cinnamon Kiss opens, and Easy Rawlins is contemplating rob
Just after devastating riots tear through Los Angeles in 1965, when anger is high and fear still smolders everywhere, the police turn up at Easy Rawlins' doorstep. He expects the worst, as usual. But they've come to ask for his help.
A man was wrench
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Walter Mosley's bestselling and award-winning novels -- from Gone Fishin' to Devil in a Blue Dress, named one of the "100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century" by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association -- have endeared him to legions of readers
Los Angeles: February 1964. Chill winds whisper through the city streets - gusts of racial tension and change. At the heart of the gathering storms is the First Men, a group that some fear wants to whip those winds into a fiery insurrection. Easy Ra
On the road in a “borrowed” '36 Ford, nineteen-year-old Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and his companion, Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, are on a perilous odyssey that takes them from Houston to a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death. Their
Easy finally believes he can lead a simple life and leave his haunted past behind him—until he meets a woman who changes everything.Easy Rawlins is on the verge of losing everything—until he gets an offer from the FBI that he has no choice but to accept.
For most Black Americans, the 1960s were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never mea
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