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It took Johnny Cash 12 years to record one of his live prison shows, but it wasn't easy. He was threatened against doing it, warned it would ruin his career, but Cash's instincts were dead on. He just went ahead and recorded at Folsom Prison in 1968 and never sounded so raw and alive. The live album was a huge hit, and followed by the even bigger "Johnny Cash at San Quentin" - his first #1 album on the pop charts.

In this hour we explore how Cash's concert at San Quentin came about, went down and the wake it left behind. Your listeners will hear Johnny Cash on the edge, plowing through well-known songs and premiering new ones that stated, "San Quentin, I hope you rot and burn in hell." Needless to say, he almost started a riot in a room full of very bad men. The program also features a few songs from the show not included on the original live album.

For an inside view, we'll hear about prison life from the prisoners and prison guards, taken from the documentary "Johnny Cash in San Quentin." The original producer, Bob Johnston, speaks about the excitement and fear, as does Jim Marshall, photographer of the famous "Johnny flipping the bird at San Quentin" photo. We'll also hear about Johnny Cash's views on the lock-up from bassist Marshall Grant, son John Carter Cash, singer/songwriter Larry Gatlin and music writer Anthony DeCurtis.

Johnny Cash Live at San Quentin Documentary.mp3

In 1987 freelance writer Bert Coules approached the BBC with the proposal to dramatise Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was given the go-ahead as a two-part serial with Roger Rees and Crawford Logan as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.

Roger Rees and Crawford Logan as Holmes and Watson
The show went down well with the public and the press and Coules suggested doing two more of the novels. The BBC agreed but insisted on recasting, and Clive Merrison and Michael Williams were offered the roles.

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams as Holmes and Watson
When A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four were also a success, Coules proposed a six-part series of the best short adventures. The BBC though had other ideas: they would produce the entire canon of fifty-six short stories and four novels, the first time it had ever been done in any medium with the same two actors in the leads.

With Bert Coules as the head writer of a small and changing team, and with the same two producer-directors responsible for the entire remaining run of shows, the aim throughout was to go back to the original stories and characters and place the relationship between Holmes and Watson at the centre of the drama.

The project was launched in January 1991 and ran for the next nine years, attracting large audiences and guest stars of the calibre of Dame Judi Dench, Brian Blessed, Sir Donald Sinden and many others.

Four further series of brand new mysteries followed, with Andrew Sachs taking over as Watson after the untimely death of Michael Williams. The new shows were based on some of Conan Doyle's tantalising throwaway references to other cases which he never wrote up in full, culminating in one of the most famous, the strange affair of the politician, the lighthouse and the trained cormorant.

1. Revenge (64.7Mb)
2. The Country of the Saints (64.5Mb)
3. Timbertoe (65.5Mb)
4. The Great Agra Treasure (65.2Mb)
5. The Powers of Evil (64.7Mb)
6. Death on the Moor (64.7Mb)
7. The Scowrers (65.2Mb)
8. The Tragedy of Birlstone (65.3Mb)
9. A Scandal in Bohemia (49.3Mb)
10. The Red-headed League (50.9Mb)
11. A Case of Identity (50.5Mb)
12. The Boscombe Valley Mystery (50.4Mb)
13. The Five Orange Pips (48.7Mb)
14. The Man with the Twisted Lip (50.6Mb)
15. The Blue Carbuncle (48.3Mb)
16. The Speckled Band (50.8Mb)
17. The Engineer's Thumb (49.6Mb)
18. The Noble Bachelor (50.6Mb)
19. The Beryl Coronet (50.6Mb)
20. The Copper Beeches (50.6Mb)
21. Silver Blaze (50.8Mb)
22. The Yellow Face (50Mb)
23. The Stockbroker's Clerk (49.8Mb)
24. The Gloria Scott (50.3Mb)
25. The Musgrave Ritual (50.1Mb)
26. The Reigate Squires (50.4Mb)
27. The Crooked Man (50.8Mb)
28. The Resident Patient (47.8Mb)
29. The Greek Interpreter (50Mb)
30. The Naval Treaty (50.7Mb)
31. The Final Problem (50.5Mb)
32. The Empty House (50.9Mb)
33. The Norwood Builder (50.6Mb)
34. The Dancing Men (49.6Mb)
35. The Solitary Cyclist (48.7Mb)
36. The Priory School (50.5Mb)
37. Black Peter (50.2Mb)
38. Charles Augustus Milverton (50.6Mb)
39. The Six Napoleons (49.2Mb)
40. The Three Students (49.4Mb)
41. The Golden Pince-nez (50.4Mb)
42. The Missing Three-quarter (50.5Mb)
43. The Abbey Grange (49.4Mb)
44. The Second Stain (50.5Mb)
45. Wisteria Lodge (50.6Mb)
46. The Cardboard Box (50.7Mb)
47. The Red Circle (50.6Mb)
48. The Bruce Partington Plans (50.4Mb)
49. The Dying Dectective (50.6Mb)
50. The Disapperance of Lady Frances Carfax (49Mb)
51. The Devil's Foot (50.8Mb)
52. His Last Bow (50.5Mb)
53. The Illustrious Client (48.7Mb)
54. The Blanched Soldier (49.2Mb)
55. The Mazarin Stone (49.4Mb)
56. The Three Gables (50.5Mb)
57. The Sussex Vampire (49.1Mb)
58. The Three Garridebs (50.8Mb)
59. The Problem of Thor Bridge (50.5Mb)
60. The Creeping Man (50.9Mb)
61. The Lion's Mane (50.9Mb)
62. The Veiled Lodger (50.8Mb)
63. Shoscombe Old Place (49.7Mb)
64. The Retired Colourman (50.6Mb)
65. The Madness of Colonel Warburton (40.3Mb)
66. The Star of the Adelphi (40.1Mb)
67. The Peculiar Persecution of Mr John Vincent Harden (39.9Mb)
68. The Singular Inheritance of Miss Gloria Wilson (40Mb)
69. The Saviour of Cripplegate Square (40.5Mb)
70. The Abergavenny Murder (39.5Mb)
71. The Shameful Betrayal of Miss Emily Smith (39.8Mb)
72. The Tragedy of Hanbury Street (39.9Mb)
73. The Determind Client (40Mb)
74. The Striking Success of Miss Franny Blossom (39.8Mb)

Waylon Jennings became a country star doing it Nashville's way. But he became a legend doing things his way. In the early 1970s, his and fellow Texan Willie Nelson's successful fight for creative control of their records launched country?s Outlaw movement. From a career that began in 1958 with a single produced by rock icon Buddy Holly until his death in 2002, Waylon created edgy, timeless, straight-talking music like "This Time," "Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)" and "Good Hearted Woman" (with Willie). WAYLON JENNINGS: NASHVILLE REBEL looks back on Waylon's whole career - from the first Holly-produced single (Jole Blon), a tune from his early ?60s days in Phoenix (Stop the World), his early RCA hits, all the Outlaw masterpieces, and "I Do Believe" as part of the Highhwaymen. Host Cowboy Jack Clement tells the story with help from Waylon's wife Jessi Colter, musicians and collaborators Kris Kristofferson, and Richie Albright, and writers Lenny Kaye and Anthony DeCurtis.

Waylon Jennings Nashville Rebel.mp3

A Radio Play by John Fletcher - one episode of approx 90 minutes.

Almost 2500 years ago, a confident young general persuaded Athens to launch an attack on Sicily. Alcibiades was a member of the Athenian baby boomer generation, whose elders had fought to give their children a society of justice, wealth and education. The baby boomers explored every sexual avenue, took drugs to excess, and became the greatest consumers of the most exotic products in human history. Then it all went wrong. In the words of the author:

"Athens. The most extraordinary, the most beautiful, the most terrifying civilization of all time. The template we all live out. Effortlessly its drama, its art, its science and philosophy bestrode the world. But despite its superb democracy, all-powerful economy and a "shock-and-awe" military the envy of the world -- out of a clear blue sky came sudden, terrifying and total collapse. The Athenians had their very own Iraq War... The Sicilian Expedition.

With: ----- Socrates....James Laurenson Alcibiades....Julian Rhind-Tutt Callias....Richard Nichols Theodote....Mia Soteriou Nicias....Jonathan Nibbs Taureas....Matthew Morgan Agathon....Richard Mitchley Spartan Soldier....Nathan Sussex Bagoas....Brendan Charleson Mantitheus....Jonathan Floyd Mother....Christine Pritchard Music by John Hardy Director Kate McAll.

The Sicilian Expedition by John Fletcher.mp3