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J.B. Priestley's Private Rooms


J. B. Priestley
J. B. Priestley


A One-Act Comedy in the Viennese Style performed around 1953. Ralph Richardson stars as Max Talley, an ageing Austrian actor who invites a lovely young ballerina to dinner in a private room at a Viennese restaurant. His motives are

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Elspeth Sandys - Who Killed Stephanie

Unknown-1.jpegA 60-minute original play for the BBC. Broadcast November, 2000

Elspeth Sandys was born in Timaru, New Zealand, and now lives in Wellington. She started as an actress in Auckland's Mercury Theatre Company and then went to England, working in radio an

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NPR Playhouse - Raffles

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NPR Playhouse was a series of radio dramas from National Public Radio. The series was a successor to the NPR series Earplay and was discontinued in September 2002

Arthur J. Raffles is a British fictional character – a cricketer and gentleman thief –

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My First Planet (BBC Sitcom)

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My First Planet

I was particularly disappointed by My First Planet. What a waste of a talent like Nicholas Lyndhurst...  It seems like no one's heart is really in it, it's being done with half an eye on the clock (it's almost five o'clock, we can

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Charles Paris Series by Simon Brett

51DJHD8VMDL._SL300_.jpg Charles Paris, an unhappily separated (but not divorced, more than 30 years on), moderately successful character actor with a slight drinking problem who gets entangled in various crimes, and finds himself in the role of unwilling amateur detective.

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Times Past Renewal Time for 2018

It is time for our annual renewal with Ning. If anyone can help out with a donation it would be  appreciated. Our renewal comes up in April.

The Ning performance plan is 49 per month, but paid for a year as we do it is around 539 which is less expens

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Sugarfoot - S01E01 - Brannigan's Boots

p495630_b_v8_aa.jpg?width=154Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired for sixty-nine episodes on ABC from 1957-1961. The Warner Bros production stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Ela

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Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) 720p

Two_Mules_for_sister_Sara_Poster.jpgTwo Mules for Sister Sara is an 1970 American-Mexican western film starring Shirley MacLaine (billed above Clint Eastwood in the film's credits, but not on the poster) set during the French intervention in Mexico. The film was released in 1970 and di

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Louis L'Amour - Hondo

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He was a man etched by the desert's howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and ways of staying alive. She was a woman raising a young son on her own on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe

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Graham Greene - The Confidential Agent

2309842092?profile=originalGraham Greene’s masterful tale of suspense. When Edgar Dominguez is sent to England on a mission to arrange a supply of coal for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War it seems a straightforward business negotiation; but no sooner does he set foot

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Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory

2309842235?profile=originalDuring a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the ‘whisky priest’, is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along th

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Louis L'Amour - Matagorda

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Title: Matagorda: A Novel (Unabridged)
Author: Louis L'Amour
Read By: Ari Fliakos
Copyright: 2017
Audiobook Copyright: 2017
Publisher: Random House Audio
Duration: 5 hours, 8 minutes, 28 seconds
Chapters: 16


Book Description
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Tap Duva

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Louis L'Amour - The High Graders

2309842202?profile=originalThe story was that Eli Patterson had died in a gunfight, but Mike Shevlin knew it couldn’t be true: the man who’d been like a father to him had been a Quaker. But when Shevlin rides back to Rafter Crossing to uncover the truth, he finds that the quie

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