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
Read more…Cabaret queen Ute Lemper takes a tour of the seductive, smoke-filled cabaret clubs of Berlin, past and present A century after cabaret first arrived in Berlin, the city is still synonymous with the art form. Lemper traces the development of cabaret a
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
Read more…Chris Dolan's dramatisation of Stef Penney's tale of love, mystery and murder set in 1860s Canada.
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
Read more…Uma Rao is the daughter-in-law of Bangalore’s deputy commissioner of police. Her husband is a superintendent. The writer Mahesh Dattani is one of the most respected of Indian playwrights.
Uma Rao 1 - Seven Circles Around the Fire
When she starts res
Read more…1/6 Maverick hack George Cragge fears a serial killer is on the loose.
2/6 Hack George Cragge hunts a serial killer, while the BBC tackles spin.
3/6 Tension mounts as the serial ki
Read more…Satirical political comedy series.
England is hosting the Football World Cup at the Wembley Stadium, a major summit of EU leaders and a general election is imminent. When a body is found in a ball bag it is the chance for disgraced old hack, George C
Read more…It's time for a brand new investigation for George Cragge, BBC correspondent extraordinaire.
A six-part comedy thriller by Mark Tavener, starring Michael Williams as George Cragge, Barry Foster as DCI Frank Jefferson, and Hugh Laurie as the prime min
Read more…1/7 Anarchic BBC reporter George Cragge hunts a murderer of bank ma
Read more…1/3 The epic adventures of pilgrim Christian and his perilous journey to the
Read more… Read by John Rowe.
BBC 7 offered this one-off mysterious tale of a vanished professor, a phantom spider and a secret that could change the face of modern science. Fri 7 Sep 2007 Read by John Rowe.
Rohmer is best known, of course, as the creator
A dangerous enemy agent of British Intelligence has died, taking his secrets to the grave. The only hope of retrieving them is to send someone after him. Raphael volunteers to become a 'revenant', a dead agent. However, once he is dead no one can co
Pick Ups - Series one
Six episodes. First broadcast from 20080110 to 20080214.
Sitcom set around a Manchester taxi company.
Pick Ups is a sharp series set in the run down taxi office of Irwell Cars on the outskirts of Manchester.
Unrequited love; lo
A Hollywood star's bizarre 1963 legal battle. From court records of the actor's fight to protect his name. Stars Stephen Greif.
On Sept. 1, 2008, BBC Radio 4 dramatized the resulting trial in an original play called "Peter Lorre vs Peter Lorre", base
Read more…"The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and was reprinted in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973) and Robot Drea
Two witty tales by master sci-fi storyteller Isaac Asimov. Hell dimensions, time travel and robots are on the menu.
Isaac Asimov - Gimmicks Three and Light Verse.mp3
A unabridged thriller by Keith Ridgway, read by Owen Roe.
Horses by Keith Ridgway, read by Owen Roe is the story of a storm, of grief, of arson and revenge. A doctor, a priest and a policeman, one wild stormy night, struggle with the grief of a teenag
