Jean-Paul Sartre - Huis-clos
BBC Third Programme
Broadcast: Tuesday 8th October 1946
"Huis-clos" is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for eternity, and is the sou
Investigative journalist Tom Mangold journeys inside the Bermuda Triangle to try to get to the truth about this mysterious area.
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10/10 Tom visits Bermuda itself to experience first-hand accounts of seemingly strange events.
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Translated by Alistair Beaton
Gogol's landmark nineteenth century satire on corruption and sleaze. A penniless clerk is mistaken for a Government official by a corrupt town council. S
Capital Gains - Series 01 & 02 - Audio Comedy
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Capital Gains originally aired from 1994 to 1997. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and starred Peter Jones and Justin
Read more…Afternoon Play: Brief Lives - Series 2 03-11-2008 24-11-2008
Series of plays by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly, set in a Manchester legal practice.
From The Telegraph
New serial, by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly, about legal representatives. They’re not exactl
Series 1
1/4 When Dee Dee's estranged son is arrested for shoplifting, only his stepfather Frank Twist can come to the rescue.
Frank........................................David Schofield
DeeDee..........................................Denise Welch
Ben
John Grisham has a new hero . . . and she’s full of surprises
The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer’s career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track—until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building.
Offbeat thriller by Alastair Jessiman. Police call in a psychic to help find a missing woman. Thomas Soutar is adept at solving crimes – but is his extraordinary gift a blessing or a curse?
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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
The Voyage of the Demeter
By Robert Forrest
A chilling tale of the supernatural, set on a schooner sailing from Bulgaria to England in 1897. Something very unpleasant is lurking aboard the ship, and the voyage becomes a terrifying ordeal.
Ripelsk
The classic story of Captain Ahab and his obsession with vengeance.
Oscar-winning actor F Murray Abraham stars in David Zane Mairowitz's three-part adaptation of Herman Melville's novel.
With Fritz Weav
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Directed by Pauline Harris
Broadcast December 9, 2000 ( also repeated on Friday Play 20010420 )
Coded from tape at 128/44.1
A psychological thriller by Peter Whalley , set in the suburbs of Manchester. Wh
BBC R4 - Eric Williams' 'The Wooden Horse'
Adapted by Mark Power
Directed by Adrian Bean
Broadcast in six parts September 16 to October 21, 1992
Coded mono from tape at 128/44.1
One of the best known WWII PoW escape stories. Three men, Michael Codnor, Eri
BBC R4 - Alan Bennett's 'An Englishman Abroad' 2005
Matthew Compton and David Carrol
Produced by Susan Roberts
Broadcast September 17, 2005
Coded from tape at 128/44.1
Alan Bennett's moving play about a meeting between actress Coral Browne and Englis
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On The Waterfront by Budd Schulberg. It's fifty years since the cameras first rolled on this classic story of love, corruption and courage on the New York waterfront. An outstanding American cast stars in this anniversary production, specially reco
Robinson Crusoe
Dramatization of Daniel Defoe's castaway classic stars Roy Marsden
1/2 Ignoring his family's advice, the castaway ends up shipwrecked and arrives on an island.
2/2 Solitude on the desert island gives way to cannib
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First broadcast in 10 daily episodes in Woman's Hour Drama
BBC Radio 4, Monday 15th to Friday 26th October 2007
Repeated BBC Radio 7, Monday 28th Feb
By Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
The School for Scandal is one Sheridan’s most performed plays and a classic of English comedic drama. It was produced at Drury Lane Theater, London, May 8, 1777. Sheridan’s phrase “school for scandal” is a grand metaphor
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