Haunted Hospital:
By Trevor Hoyle
A ghost story set in a hospital in Rochdale featuring two parallel storylines, one contemporary and the other set in the late 1800s.
With Jo-Anne Knowles, Michael Begley, Elianne Byrne, David Fleeshman, Mark Chatte
Read more…By Ronald Frame.
In the new immigrant community of 1840s America, Scotsman Allan Pinkerton turns detective when an influx of counterfeit dollars threatens the local economy.
Allan Pinkerton ...... Forbes Masson
Joan Pinkerton ...... Rachel
Vampires, a mad Scots librarian, a handsome Englishman and a Countess of uncertain age - all in Dacia in the 1920s.
Starring Christopher Cazenone as Stephen Hillier, Gayle Hunnicutt as Countess Valvazor and Graham Crowden as Robert McNeill
Dramatised
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious
Ayeesha Menon's dramatisation of Orhan Pamuk's murder mystery set in Istanbul in 1590.
The Sultan brings together the most acclaimed artists in his kingdom to create a secret book of miniatures celebrating the glories of his realm. But when two of th
Bizarre coincidences spark a British nuclear submarine's preparations for all-out attack. Stars Manning Wilson and John Rye.
SNT 1974-07-06 The Light Of A Thousand Suns (James Follett).mp3
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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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I got this email and passing along to see if anyone can help!!
"Dave (83) English, looking for information on detective program, "Spot My Particular Mistake" and Man in Black form 1930-1940 radio in England."
Thanks Robert
Read more…The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
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
Comedy series about Julius Hutch, who spends his retirement as an amateur philosopher
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
Read more…BBC R4 - Peter Whalley's 'The Missing Wife'
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
