A series of seven period detective story thrillers featuring the Scotland Yard sleuth Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn, created by Ngaio Marsh. All Broadcast on the BBC Radio, The later episodes are much better quality than the originals due to the recording technology at the time.

DEATH IN ECSTASY Adapted for radio and produced by John Tydeman In the House of the Sacred Flame, where truth and illusion are hopelessly entangled, Death catches up with one of the Initiates – and Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn investigates a murder. Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn: Peter Howell Nigel Bathgate: Gary Watson Fr Jasper Garnette: Peter Pratt Miss Cara Quayne, the Chosen Vessel: Hilda Kriseman Miss Ernestine Wade: Grizelda Hervey Dr Kasbek: James Thomason Mrs Dagmar Candour: Margot Boyd Samuel J. Ogden: Frederick Treves Claude Wheatley: Kerry Francis Lionel Smith: Tim Grant Maurice Pringle: David Spenser Miss Janey Jenkins: Patricia Gallimore Det-Insp. Fox: Alan Dudley Raoul de Ravigne: David March Miss Edith Hebborn, a nanny: Kathleen Helme Mr Rattisbon: John Gabriel Elsie: Hilda Kriseman Saturday-Night Theatre BBC Radio 4 FM 13 September 1969 20.30

DEATH AT THE DOLPHIN The novel adapted for radio by Alison Plowden The rehabilitation of the old Dolphin – once a charming Thameside theatre, now dusty and derelict – seemed a wonderful project to playwright Peregrine Jay and his distinguished cast. But there were emotional – and other – complications no one had foreseen. Produced By: Betty Davies With David Valla, Malcolm Hayes, Frank Duncan, Anthony Hall and Peter Howell as Det-Supt Alleyn. Peregrine Jay: David Valla Jobbins: Bruce Beeby Mr Conducts: Malcolm Hayes Jeremy Jones: Anthony Hall Mr Greenslade: Gerald Cross Marcus Knight: Victor Lucas Destiny Meade: Sonia Fraser Harry Grove: Frank Duncan Gertie Bracey: Betty Baskcomb Charles Random: Leslie Heritage Emilv Dunne: Patricla Gallimore Det-Supt Alleyn: Peter Howell Trevor Vere: David Howe Winter Morris: John Gabriel Hawkins: Patrick Tull Sergeant: Hector Ross Inspector Fox: Edward Kelsey Saturday-Night Theatre BBC Radio 4 FM 6 February 1971 20.30

DEATH AND THE DANCING FOOTMAN Dramatised By: Alan Downer Jonathan Royal is a man rich enough to indulge his somewhat extravagant sense of the theatrical. But when he hits on the bizarre idea of throwing a weekend party with guests who have good reasons to loathe one another, his malicious comedy quickly turns to tragedy. Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON Stereo (R) Contributors Directed By: David Johnston Chief Det Insp Roderick Alleyn: Nigel Graham Jonathan Royal: Laurence Payne Aubrey Mandrake: Steven Pacey Sandra Compline: Avril Clark William Compline: Stuart Organ Nicholas Compline: Stephen Hattersley Chloris Wynne: Jane Leonard Dr Francis Hart: Alan Downer Mme Elise Lisse: Natasha Pyne Lady Hersey Amblington: Margaret Ward Troy Alleyn: Elaine Claxton James Bewling: Peter Tuddenham The Rev Copeland/Caper: Shaun Prendergast Det Insp Fox/Thomas: Brian Hewlett Saturday-Night Theatre BBC Radio 4 FM 8 August 1987 19.00

OPENING NIGHT Dramatised by Michael Bakewell When a leading actor is found gassed in his dressing room, it looks like suicide. But it transpires he was so detested that everyone had a motive for his murder. Director: Enyd Williams Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn: Jeremy Clyde Detective Inspector Fox: Tim Treloar Martyn Tarne: Beth Chalmers Adam Poole: Michael Cochrane Helena Hamilton: Elizabeth Bell [Actor]: John Hartley [Actress]: Gemma Saunders [Actor]: Gavin Muir [Actor]: Ioan Meredith [Actor]: Paul Gregory [Actor]: Tom George [Actor]: Christopher Kelham The Saturday Play BBC Radio 4 FM 26 February 2000 15.00

A MAN LAY DEAD Dramatised by Michael Bakewell When a murder takes place at a country-house party, it poses another baffling case for the glamorous Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn. Director: Enyd Williams CDI Alleyn: Jeremy Clyde Sgt Bunce: Stephen Thorne Sir Hubert: Donald Sinden Nigel: Nick Waring Arthur: John Moffatt Marjorie: Dorothy Tutin Angela: Molly Gaisford Rosamund: Susannah Corbett Charles: Derek Waring Dr Tokareff: John Hartley BBC Radio 4 FM 6 January 2001

A SURFEIT OF LAMPREYS Dramatised by Michael Bakewell The glamorous Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn enters a rarefied atmosphere when the unpleasant head of a spendthrift aristocratic family meets a gruesome end. Director: Enyd Williams CDI Alleyn: Jeremy Clyde DI Fox: John Baddeley Nigel: Nick Waring Lord Wutherwood: Christopher Godwin Lady Wutherwood: Miriam Karlin Lord Lamprey: Charles Kay Lady Lamprey: Thelma Barlow Lady Katherine: Kathleen Helme Henry: Jonathan Forbes Frieda: Sarah Paul Stephen: Peter Damey Colin: Carl Prekopp Roberta: Helen Longworth Tinkerton: Marlene Sidaway The Saturday Play BBC Radio 4 FM 28 September 2002 14.30

WHEN IN ROME Dramatised by Michael Bakewell Rome in the 1970s: the glamorous Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn is incognito and on the trail of a vast drugs syndicate and some exceptionally unsavoury blackmail. But he hasn’t reckoned on murder. Director: Enyd Williams CDI Alleyn: Jeremy Clyde Nigel: Nick Waring Baron: David Swift Baroness: Paula Jacobs Sonia: Pauline Jameson Kenneth: Tom George Barnaby: Sean Arnold Sophy: Annabelle Dowler Major Sweet: Derek Waring Sebastian: Matthew Deveraux Father Denys: James Greene Valdarno: Stephen Critchlow Violetta: Carolyn Jones The Saturday Play BBC Radio 4 FM 12 April 2003 14.30

01 – Death in Ecstacy

02 – Death at the Dolphin

03 – Death and the Dancing Footman

04 – Opening Night

05 – A Man Lay Dead

06 – A Surfeit of Lampreys

07 – When in Rome

ROPE starring Alan Rickman 1983-12-03

Patrick Hamilton’s play inspired by Leopold and Loeb. Two young undergraduates think they’ve committed the perfect murder. To add piquancy to their crime they invite the victim’s father and other guests to a macabre dinner party.

English playwright Patrick Hamilton (1904-62) once explained, “In Rope, I have gone all out to write a horror play and make your flesh creep. It is a thriller. A thriller all the time, and nothing but a thriller”. The play was first staged in 1929 and was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1948.

First broadcast in 1983 on BBC Radio 4 in the series Saturday Night Theatre: Murder for Pleasure.

REBECCA by Daphne du Maurier 1989-12-27

Dramatized by Brian Miller and directed by Cherie Cookson

`Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again… It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me` The new Mrs. de Winter is haunted by memories of her husband’s first wife. Starring Janet Maw, Christopher Cazenove, Nicholas Grace, Rosalie Crutchley, Frederick Treves

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN starring Michael Sheen & Bill Nighy 1996-01-25

By Patricia Highsmith, adapted by Craig Warner and directed by Andy Jordan for BBC Radio 4

Adapted from the classic 1950 Highsmith novel and the 1951 Hitchcock film. Architect Guy Haines wants to divorce his unfaithful wife, Miriam, in order to marry the woman he loves. While on a train to see his wife, he meets Charles Anthony Bruno, who develops the idea to exchange murders: Bruno will kill Miriam if Guy kills Bruno’s father; neither of them will have a motive, and the police will have no reason to suspect either of them.

THE LADY VANISHES by Ethel Lina White 2000-12-24

Dramatized by Neville Teller from Ethel Lina White’s novel “The Wheel Spins.” Directed by Andy Jordan for BBC World Service

It is the late 1930’s and the forthcoming world war casts its shadow across Europe. Iris Carr is travelling alone on the continent, having visited a remote mid-European country, Zabrovinia, and is returning to England on an express train where she meets a pleasant, garrulous, middle-aged Englishwoman in the railway carriage, Miss Froy. Iris drops off to sleep. When she wakes up, Miss Froy has disappeared, and her very existence is denied by the other passengers. Iris is slowly driven towards admitting that Miss Froy is nothing but a delusion. And yet a couple of tiny clues support her insistence that Miss Froy exists and that something sinister has befallen her.

THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS Part 1 & 2 by John Buchan 2001-03-18

Dramatized by Bert Coules from John Buchan’s novel. Directed by Bruce Young

Starring David Robb. When a man is murdered in Richard Hannay’s London flat, he goes on the run pursued by the police and a gang of German spies intent on recovering a secret notebook which could destroy the British naval fleet. Also featuring Tom Baker, Struan Rodger, William Hope, Tracy Wiles and Stuart McQuarrie.

THE LODGER by Marie Belloc Lowndes 2003-10-25

Adapted by Stephen Sheridan from Marie Belloc Lowndes’ story. Directed by David Blount for BBC Radio 4 for The Saturday Play

Inspired by the Jack the Ripper murders. When wealthy Mr Sleuth moves in to the Buntings’ lodging house they think their troubles are over. But they are only just beginning.

SPELLBOUND starring Benedict Cumberbatch 2008-02-16

Adapted by Amanda Dalton from Ben Hecht’s script and the original book – The House of Dr. Edwardes by Francis Beeding. Directed by Susan Roberts for BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Play

The basis for Hitchcock’s masterpiece Spellbound, Francis Beeding’s The House of Dr. Edwardes is a chilling mystery set in an asylum in France. A study of good and evil that owes some of its brooding, portentous atmosphere to the Gothic fiction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Beeding’s novel is also a classic page-turner, a gripping work of suspense and intrigue.

Newly qualified psychiatrist, Constance Sedgwick arrives at Landry House in North Yorkshire, where another new arrival – the handsome, Dr Murchison, author of several books on psychiatry- is giving the great Dr Edwardes a welcome break.

With his special patient locked in a room, Nurse Deeling- Dr Edwardes loyal long term assistant – suspects Dr Murchison might be an imposter….

THE BIRDS by Daphne du Maurier 2010-04-30

Adapted by Melissa Murray from Daphne Du Maurier’s novel. Directed by Sally Avens with music & sound design by David Pickvance

Daphne du Maurier’s classic horror story about the natural world turning on mankind. Nat battles to protect his family as birds begin to ruthlessly attack humans.

TO CATCH A THIEF by David Dodge 2011-01-08

Adapted by Jean Buchanan from David Dodge’s novel. Produced & directed by Sarah Davies

American John Robie is living quietly in the south of France, trying to put his career as a notorious jewel thief behind him. However, when a series of huge jewel thefts begins on the Riviera, targeting rich Americans, the police immediately suspect he has returned to his old ways.

To prove his innocence, and trap the real thief, Robie must resort to subterfuge. But his plans go awry when the daughter of one of the rich American tourists takes rather too close an interest in him, and in his past.

Dramatised by Jean Buchanan, the novel was later made into a classic film by Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.

eff Harding plays John Robie, Jennifer Lee Jellicorse plays Francie Stevens, Laura Brook plays Mrs Stevens, Alun Raglan plays Paul, Simon Armstrong plays Bellini, Aurelie Amblard plays Danielle and Martin Sorrell plays the French extras.

MARNIE by Winston Graham 2011-08-27

Adapted by Shaun McKenna from Winston Graham’s novel. Directed by Marion Nancarrow for BBC Radio 4

It’s 1961 and blonde and stunning Marnie Elmer poses as a secretary in order to steal from her employers and fund her mother’s existence in Torquay. But she’s yet to meet handsome company director, Mark Rutland, whose pursuit of her will ultimately lead to her downfall.

Winston Graham is probably best known for his “Poldark” series, but also wrote a number of taut thrillers, of which “Marnie” (written in 1961) may be the best remembered – having been filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in the early 1960s. This new adaptation for radio returns to the heart of the book itself.

The dramatist, Shaun McKenna’s, many radio credits include “The Complete Smiley”, “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, “The Cry of the Owl” and “East of Eden”.

STRANGERS ON A FILM starring Sir Patrick Stewart 2011-09-29

Written by Stephen Wyatt. Directed by Claire Grove for BBC Radio 4

To accompany Radio 4’s Classic Chandler season, Patrick Stewart plays Raymond Chandler and Clive Swift is Alfred Hitchcock in their famous collaboration on ‘Strangers on a Train’. In 1950, Alfred Hitchcock invited Raymond Chandler to work with him on a screenplay based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel. Chandler was not only recognized as a fine novelist and had also received an Academy Award nomination for his original screenplay, The Blue Dahlia. The omens were good but their collaboration turned out to be a disaster.

THE BLIND MAN starring Hugh Laurie 2015-11-06

Adapted by Laurence Bowen from Alfred Hitchcock & Ernest Lehman’s script. Directed by Mark Gatiss for BBC Radio 4

Part of Radio 4’s UNMADE MOVIE series. Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman’s unfinished screenplay, the follow-up to North by Northwest – completed by Mark Gatiss. Set in 1961, a famous blind jazz pianist, Larry Keating, agrees to a radical new medical procedure – an eye transplant. The operation is a success but his new eyes are those of a murdered man, and captured on their retina is the image of his murderer. Larry and his new nurse, Jenny, begin a quest to track him down – before someone else dies.

E01 – Rope (Alan Rickman) [by Patrick Hamilton]

E02 – Rebecca [by Daphne Du Maurier]

E03 – Strangers On A Train (Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy) [by Patricia Highsmith]

E04 – The Lady Vanishes [by Ethel Lina White]

E05 – The Thirty Nine Steps, Part 1 – The Milkman Sets Out on His Travels [by John Buchan]

E06 – The Thirty Nine Steps, Part 2 – The Coming of the Black Stone [by John Buchan]

E07 – The Lodger [by Marie Belloc Lowndes]

E08 – Alan Parker on Hitchcock

E09 – Spellbound (Benedict Cumberbatch) [by Ben Hecht]

E10 – The Birds [by Daphne Du Maurier]

E11 – To Catch a Thief [by David Dodge]

E12 – Marnie [by Winston Graham]

E13 – Strangers On A Film (Patrick Stewart) [by Stephen Wyatt]

E14 – The Blind Man (Hugh Laurie) [by Ernest Lehman & Alfred Hitchcock]

Selected Dramatisations and readings of the genre-spanning work of HE Bates

HE Bates is probably best known for his comic novel The Darling Buds of May, which introduced the lovable Larkins to the world and sparked three hugely popular TV adaptations. In his 68 years, Bates wrote over 20 further novels, more than 300 short stories, children’s books, poems, plays and non-fiction. This collection brings together three full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations and fourteen excellent readings, rounding off with extracts from HE Bates autobiographies.

His wartime bestseller Fair Stood the Wind for France is a classic tale of danger, suspense and romance, centred around a British aircrew who ditch in Occupied France, and their attempts to survive and escape. This BBC radio dramatisation stars Rory Kinnear, Tom Goodman-Hill and Louise Brealey. Adapted from HE Bates’ semi-autobiographical 1952 novel, Love for Lydia charts the romance between a young reporter and a shy heiress. Tim Pigott-Smith and Juliet Aubrey star in this moving story of first love. Death of a Huntsman, based on Bates’ 1957 novella, is a vintage radio drama about a middle-aged businessman who finds himself strangely drawn to his ex-lover’s daughter. It stars Roger Delgado and Pauline Letts.

Described by Graham Greene as ‘the English Chekhov’, HE Bates was much acclaimed for his short fiction. Included here are 14 of his best tales, beginning with five stories taken from his 1957 collection Sugar for the Horse. Featuring his much-loved character Uncle Silas, they include ‘The Widder’, ‘The Blue Feather’, ‘Queenie White’, ‘The Singing Pig’ and ‘Aunt Tibby’. They are read by David Neal, who also reads six more bucolic tales: ‘Time’, ‘Chaff in the Wind’, ‘The Maker of Coffins’, ‘The Cowslip Field’, ‘Loss of Pride’ and ‘Great Uncle Crow’. A further three stories, ‘The Primrose Place’, ‘The Small Portion’ and ‘The Sun of December’, are read by Kim Hicks, John Rowe and Anthony Hyde.

01 – Intro

02 – Fair Stood the Wind for France

03 – Fair Stood the Wind for France

04 – Love for Lydia

05 – Love for Lydia

06 – Love for Lydia

07 – Love for Lydia

08 – Love for Lydia

09 – Love for Lydia

10 – Love for Lydia

11 – Love for Lydia

12 – Love for Lydia

13 – Love for Lydia

14 – Death of a Huntsman

15 – Sugar for the Horse – The Wider

16 – Sugar for the Horse – The Blue Feather

17 – Sugar for the Horse – Queenie White

18 – Sugar for the Horse – The Singing Pig

19 – Sugar for the Horse – Aunt Tibby

20 – Country Stories – Time

21 – Country Stories – Chaff in the Wind

22 – Country Stories – The Maker of Coffins

23 – Country Stories – The Cowslip Field

24 – Country Stories – Great Uncle Crow

25 – Country Stories – Loss of Pride

25 – The Primrose Place

26 – The Small Portion

27 – The Sun of December

28 – Outro

A comprehensive collection of dramatisations of Daphne du Maurier’s works

Daphne du Maurier was one of the 20th century’s most popular writers. Extraordinarily prolific, she produced a string of bestsellers, many of which were adapted as award-winning films. From romance and adventure yarns to psychological thrillers and supernatural tales, the breadth and imaginative variety of her storytelling continues to thrill us today.

This bumper collection features her most famous works and some lesser-known gems, beginning with full-cast adaptations of seven of her much-loved novels – Jamaica Inn, Rebecca, Frenchman’s Creek, The King’s General, My Cousin Rachel, The Scapegoat and The House on the Strand. With settings ranging from the 19th century to the English Civil War and the Black Death of 1349, these thrilling tales take us from the wilds of Cornwall to Monte Carlo, Italy and northwestern France. Among the star casts are Susannah Corbett, Christopher Cazenove, Lorna Heilbron, Cathryn Harrison, Adam Godley, Hugh Burden and Ian Richardson.

Next up are two of her acclaimed plays, The Years Between, set in the 1940s and telling the story of a woman whose MP husband is reported killed in action, and September Tide, a bittersweet love story centred around a mother, her newly-married daughter and her artist son-in-law. Diana Quick, Roger Allam, Paula Wilcox, Jonathan Firth and Alice Hart star in these twisty, subversive dramas.

We conclude with a selection of Daphne du Maurier’s short fiction. Dramatised by Melissa Murray, ‘The Birds’ stars Neil Dudgeon and Nicola Walker. It is followed by ‘The Blue Lenses’ and ‘The Little Photographer’, starring Bethany Muir and Lucy Boynton respectively; and ‘The Apple Tree’, starring Charles Gray. Also included are full-cast adaptations of ‘Panic’ (starring Dinsdale Landen and Maureen O’Brien), ‘The Chamois’ (starring Christopher Cazenove and Anna Cropper), ‘The Alibi’ (starring Tony Britton and Sarah Badel), ‘Ganymede’ (starring John Le Mesurier and Anthony Daniels) and ‘Don’t Look Now’ (starring Jamie Parker and Aisling Loftus).

01 – Intro

02 – Jamaica Inn

03 – Jamaica Inn

04 – Jamaica Inn

05 – Jamaica Inn

06 – Rebecca

07 – Rebecca

08 – Frenchman’s Creek

09 – Frenchman’s Creek

10 – Frenchman’s Creek

11 – Frenchman’s Creek

12 – Frenchman’s Creek

13 – Frenchman’s Creek

14 – The King’s General

15 – The King’s General

16 – My Cousin Rachel

17 – My Cousin Rachel

18 – The Scapegoat

19 – The Scapegoat

20 – The House on the Strand

21 – The House on the Strand

22 – The Years Between

23 – The Years Between

24 – September Tide

25 – The Birds

26 – The Blue Lenses

27 – The Little Photographer

28 – The Apple Tree

29 – Panic

30 – The Chamois

31 – The Alibi

32 – Ganymede

33 – Don’t Look Now

Herbert George Wells was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and has been called the “father of science fiction”.

In addition to his fame as a writer, he was prominent in his lifetime as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons and satellite television

This collection brings together BBC Radio dramatisations and readings of some of Wells’ most notable works of fiction.

The Time Machine – Transported to the year AD 802701, the Time Traveller encounters the peaceful Eloi, a beautiful elfin race of childlike adults afraid of the dark, and with good reason. Beneath the earth’s surface live the Morlocks, apish troglodytes who torment the Eloi. When the time machine is stolen, the Time Traveller must enter Morlock territory if he ever hopes to return home.

The Wonderful Visit – Everyday life in a small English village is completely disrupted when the vicar accidentally shoots and wounds an angel who’s somehow flown off-course.

The Island Of Dr Moreau – Edward Prendick, the single survivor of a shipwreck, is rescued by Montgomery in a vessel carrying a menagerie of savage animals. Taken to an uncharted island, he meets Dr Moreau – a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments have caused him to abandon the civilised world. It soon becomes clear he has been developing these experiments – with truly horrific results.

The Invisible Man – When a strange man takes shelter at an inn, his skin covered from head to toe in bandages, he causes distrust. Griffin, a scientist, reveals that he has successfully managed to turn himself invisible, but alas without a way of undoing it. Desperate for a cure, his ailment drives him to many sinister actions, including murder.

The War Of The Worlds – When Earth is invaded by Martians in great mechanical tripods, terror ensues. They are equipped with heat rays and poisonous black gas, intent on wiping out the human race. During the destruction, one man’s story details the monstrous invasion and his struggle to find his wife in the devastation.

Love and Mr Lewisham – Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is pursuing former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson passionately, only to find that she hides a dark secret. For she is involved in a plot of trickery, working as an assistant to her stepfather – a charlatan ‘mystic’ who earns his living by deluding the weak-willed with sly frauds.

The First Men In The Moon – A chance meeting between penniless businessman Mr Bedford and absentminded scientist Dr Cavor leads the two on a fantastical journey to the moon. However, they are unprepared for what they find: freezing nights, boiling days and sinister alien life. Will they be trapped forever?

Kipps – Arthur ‘Artie’ Kipps leaves school, and his first love Ann, when he’s apprenticed to a Folkestone draper. His life – and fortune – changes dramatically when he answers an advertisement in a newspaper.

Tono-Bungay – Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless, when the young George Ponderevo is employed by his uncle Edward to help market this ineffective medicine, he finds his life overwhelmed by its sudden success. George …. Neil Dudgeon

Ann Veronica – This witty and lively tale sees Ann Veronica living alone in London in her quest for liberation but it’s an uphill struggle; she has to fight off the sexual advances of a so called friend, discovers the love of her life is married, and gets arrested and imprisoned for a suffragette raid on the House of Commons.

The History of Mr Polly – Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife’s nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman’s outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning his shop to the ground, and killing himself.

In the Abyss – Elstead designs a sphere capable of exploring the seabed for the first time. His deep-sea expedition encounters some strange creatures that inhabit the unknown depths. What he finds amazes him.

The Sea Raiders – After a suspicious-looking object is washed in by the tide, flesh-eating monsters from the deep are soon terrorising residents along the Devon coastline.Performed by Robert Bathhurst

A Dream of Armageddon – A stranger on a train reveals his secret. When he dreams, he enters a future reality of an advanced civilization descending into senseless war.

The New Accelerator – In the name of science, HG Wells agrees to sample a new drug designed to speed up both body and mind.

The Inexperienced Ghost – A man encounters a troubled spirit. But could this meeting lead to tragedy?

01 – The Time Machine

02 – The Wonderful Visit

03 – The Island of Doctor Moreau

04 – The Invisible Man

05 – The War Of The Worlds

06 – Love and Mr Lewisham

07 – The First Men In The Moon

08 – Kipps

09 – Tono-Bungay

10 – Ann Veronica

11 – The History of Mr Polly

12 – In the Abyss

13 – The Sea Raiders

14 – A Dream of Armageddon

15 – The New Accelerator

16 – The Inexperienced Ghost

Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.

Commended by critics for his gritty realism and strong dialogue, Stephen King places Leonard in the same company as John D. MacDonald, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, but Leonard himself felt more influenced by Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck.

This audio collection includes BBC Radio dramatisations of Leonard novels Hombre and The Hot Kid, plus readings of nine of his novellas and short stories.

Hombre – John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he’s on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him. That is, until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell to lead them out of the desert.

The Hot Kid – A criminal odyssey set against the dusty, sun-kissed backdrop of Oklahoma and Kansas during America’s Great Depression. Carl Webster is a rising star in the US Marshals Service, one of the elite man-hunters currently chasing the likes of Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, and Pretty Boy Floyd across America’s Depression-ravaged heartland.
Meanwhile, Jack Belmont, the wayward son of an oil millionaire, wants to be public enemy number one. The lives of the cop and robber criss-cross repeatedly before finally confronting in an inevitable showdown.

When the Women Come Out to Dance – An exotic dancer marries a wealthy Pakistani doctor. A year later, sitting in the lap of luxury, she starts to worry that she’ll meet the gruesome fate of other wives no longer desired by their traditional Pakistani husbands – being burned to death. Her new Colombian maid might be the solution to her problem. Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat.

Hanging Out at the Buena Vista – At the Buena Vista hospice, cancer patients Natalie and Vincent meet each other and decide how to live the rest of their lives. Narrated by Henry Stroger.

Chickasaw Charlie Hoke – A colorful story about how Charlie Hoke lands a job as celebrity greeter for a Las Vegas casino. A prequel to Leonard’s 2002 book, Tishomingo Blues. Narrated by Henry Stroger.

Sparks – The widow of a famous record producer is grilled by an insurance company adjuster following the suspicious destruction of her house during a California brush fire. Narrated by Richard Poe.

Fire in the Hole – Raylan Givens is a US martial, but he used to work in the Harlan County, Kentucky mines, digging coal for a living. A friend from there, Boyd Crowder, has also changed his business: he now heads up a neo-Nazi group that’s threatening to get out of control. When they come head to head, Raylan has to decide how far he’ll go in pursuit of justice. This story formed the basis for the TV series Justified. Narrated by Richard Poe.

Karen Makes Out – U.S. Marshall Karen Sisco has a brief fling with a man who may or may not be a bank robber. Sisco is featured in Leonard’s 1996 novel Out of Sight. Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat.

Hurrah for Captain Early – The tale of a black U.S. Army veteran of the Spanish-American war, and the myth of the Rough Riders. Narrated by Tom Stechschulte.

The Tonto Woman – A woman is kidnapped by Indians who tattoo her face. Many years later, she escapes and makes it back home only to be shunned by her husband – until a crafty and honorable Mexican cattle rustler comes along. Narrated by Henry Stroger.

Tenkiller – A rodeo star turned Hollywood stuntman returns to his tiny hometown in Oklahoma following the death of his wife. He finds a family of white trash thugs have conned their way onto his land and into his house. Narrated by Tom Stechschulte.

01 – Hombre

02 – The Hot Kid -True American Lawman

03 – The Hot Kid -Shoot-out at Bald Mountain

04 – The Hot Kid -Teddy’s on 18th and Central’

05 – The Hot Kid -Public Enemy Number One

06 – When the Women Come Out to Dance

07 – Hanging Out at the Buena Vista

08 – Chickasaw Charlie Hoke

09 – Sparks

10 – Fire In The Hole

11 – Karen Makes Out

12 – Hurrah for Captain Early

13 – The Tonto Woman

14 – Tenkiller

They never came tougher than Marlowe, a cynical, world-weary, wise-cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice.

Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in these powerfully atmospheric BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Raymond Chandler’s novels.

The Big Sleep – General Sternwood’s daughters came in both the colours of trouble – blonde and brunette – and they had all the usual vices. With four million dollars behind them, blackmail was only a matter of time. And blackmail can be murder.

The High Window – Linda Conquest was very tough, very kissable and very missing, along with one very valuable old coin. But soon Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead.

The Lady in the Lake – Blonde, beautiful and wild, Crystal Kingsley had never been the faithful little wife. But when she goes missing for a month, and then a womans body surfaces in an isolated mountain lake, murder-a-day Marlowe is back in business.

The Little Sister – Marlowe is on the case of a missing brother from a two-bit Kansas town, who had the embarrassing habit of knowing guys who finished up on the wrong end of an ice-pick. Until, that is, he did too.

The Long Goodbye – Terry Lennox seemed like a nice guy. Okay, he was a drunk but maybe that could happen to anyone with too much money, too much time and a wife who played the field in a big way. Trouble was, when she ended up dead, it wasn’t money that got Lennox to Mexico. It was Marlowe.

Farewell My Lovely – At six feet five, Moose Malloy is a big man who looks about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food and about as dangerous. His girl Velma disappeared eight years ago, and now he wants to find her.

01 – The Big Sleep

02 – The High Window

03 – The Lady in the Lake

04 – The Little Sister

05 – The Long Goodbye

06 – Farewell My Lovely

07 – Raymond Chandler and Ian Fleming discuss thrillers

he Blandings radio series is a series of radio dramas based on the Blandings Castle stories by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. The stories were dramatised by Wodehouse biographer Richard Usborne. The series ran between 1985 and 1992 on BBC Radio 4.

The 1985 episodes are based on six short stories. The first five of these short stories were featured in the collection Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935), while the sixth, “The Crime Wave at Blandings”, was collected in Lord Emsworth and Others (1937). The later episodes are based on four novels published between 1929 and 1965.

Short stories
The additional cast for the short stories included Michael Goldie as Mr Donaldson (“The Custody of the Pumpkin”), Phillada Sewell as Mrs Twemlow, Fiona Mathieson as Aggie Threepwood, Valerie Colgan as Jane Yorke (“Lord Emsworth Grows a Beard”), Peter Tuddenham as the magistrate, Diana Martin as Angela, and Edward Duke as James Belford (“Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey!”), Sheila Keith as Lady Marshall, Nicholas Courtney as the Rev. Rupert “Beefy” Bingham, Wendy Murray as Gertrude (“Company for Gertrude”), Susanna Dawson as Gladys (“Lord Emsworth and the Girlfriend”), Helen Atkinson-Wood as Jane, Michael McClain as Baxter (“The Crime Wave at Blandings”) and Henry Stamper as McAllister.

Summer Lightning
Adapted from Summer Lightning (1929). In addition to the regular cast, the voice actors included Graham Seed as Ronnie Fish, Royce Mills as Hugo Carmody, Wendy Murray as Millicent, Susannah Fellows as Sue Brown, Christopher Godwin as Baxter, and Roger Sloman as Pilbeam.

Heavy Weather
Adapted from Heavy Weather (1933). Additional voice actors included John Savident as Lord Tilbury, Josephine Tewson as Lady Julia, Royce Mills as Monty Bodkin, Jeremy Nicholas as Hugo, Charles Collingwood as Ronnie Fish, Moir Leslie as Sue Brown, Norman Bird as Pirbright, and Roger Sloman as Pilbeam.

Pigs Have Wings
Adapted from Pigs Have Wings (1952). Additional voice actors included Joan Sims as Maudie Digby, Susannah Fellows as Penny Donaldson, Royce Mills as Jerry Vail, Charles Collingwood as Orlo Vosper, David Graham as Binstead, and Moir Leslie as Gloria Salt.

Galahad at Blandings
Adapted from Galahad at Blandings (1964). Along with the man cast, the episodes featured Elizabeth Spriggs as Lady Hermione, Harold Innocent as Egbert as well as Beach, Jonathan Cecil as Wilfred, Alan Marriott as Tipton, Susannah Fellowes as Sandy, Simon Treves as Sam, Vivian Pickles as Daphne, Colin McFarlane as the US policeman, Moir Leslie as Monica, Richard Pearce as Huxley, and Chris Emmett as Constable Evans.1111111111

S01E01 – Short Stories – The Custody of the Pumpkin

S01E02 – Short Stories – Lord Emsworth Grows a Beard

S01E03 – Short Stories – Pig hoo o o o ey

S01E04 – Short Stories – Lord Emsworth and the Girlfriend

S01E05 – Short Stories – The Crime Wave at Blandings

S01E06 – Short Stories – The Crime Wave at Blandings

S02E01 – Summer Lightning – Trouble Brewing at Blandings

S02E02 – Summer Lightning – Sensational Theft of a Pig

S02E03 – Summer Lightning – A Job for Percy Pilbeam

S02E04 – Summer Lightning – Activities of Beach the Butler

S02E05 – Summer Lightning – Painful Scene in a Bedroom

S02E06 – Summer Lightning – Gally Takes Matters in Hand

S03E01 – Heavy Weather – The Wrath of Lord Tilbury

S03E02 – Heavy Weather – Lady Julia Enters the Fray

S03E03 – Heavy Weather – Gally Manuscript up for Grabs

S03E04 – Heavy Weather – Cheque Books at the Ready

S04E01 – Pigs Have Wings – Tangled Webs

S04E02 – Pigs Have Wings – Love Comes to the Ninth Earl

S04E03 – Pigs Have Wings – Maudie and Tubby Make It Up

S04E04 – Pigs Have Wings – Survival of the Fattest

S05E01 – Galahad at Blandings – New York and After

S05E02 – Galahad at Blandings – Sundered Hearts

S05E03 – Galahad at Blandings – Yoo Hoo, I’m Whipple

S05E04 – Galahad at Blandings – Houdini Galahad

 Brian Matthew presents a documentary about The Beatles

The Beatles Story - 1973 BBC Special

The Grand Ole Opry started as the WSM Barn Dance in the new fifth-floor radio station studio of the National Life & Accident Insurance Company in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on November 28, 1925. On October 18, 1925, management began a program featuring "Dr. Humphrey Bate and his string quartet of old-time musicians." On November 2, WSM hired long-time announcer and program director George D. "Judge" Hay, an enterprising pioneer from the National Barn Dance program at WLS Radio in Chicago, who was also named the most popular radio announcer in America as a result of his radio work with both WLS in Chicago and WMC in Memphis. Hay launched the WSM Barn Dance with 77-year-old fiddler Uncle Jimmy Thompson on November 28, 1925, which is celebrated as the birth date of the Grand Ole Opry.

Some of the bands regularly featured on the show during its early days included the Possum Hunters (with Dr. Humphrey Bate), the Fruit Jar Drinkers, the Crook Brothers, the Binkley Brothers' Dixie Clodhoppers, Uncle Dave Macon, Sid Harkreader, Deford Bailey, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, and the Gully Jumpers.

However, Judge Hay liked the Fruit Jar Drinkers and asked them to appear last on each show because he wanted to always close each segment with "red hot fiddle playing". They were the second band accepted on the "Barn Dance", with the Crook Brothers being the first. And when the Opry began having square dancers on the show, the Fruit Jar Drinkers always played for them.

In 1926, Uncle Dave Macon, a Tennessee banjo player who had recorded several songs and toured the vaudeville circuit, became its first real star. The name Grand Ole Opry came about on December 10, 1927. The Barn Dance followed NBC Radio Network's Music Appreciation Hour, which consisted of classical music and selections from the Grand Opera genre. Their final piece that night featured a musical interpretation of an onrushing railroad locomotive. In response to this Judge Hay quipped, "Friends, the program which just came to a close was devoted to the classics. Doctor Damrosch told us that there is no place in the classics for realism. However, from here on out for the next three hours, we will present nothing but realism. It will be down to earth for the 'earthy'." He then introduced the man he dubbed the Harmonica Wizard - DeFord Bailey who played his classic train song "The Pan American Blues". After Bailey's performance Hay commented, "For the past hour, we have been listening to music taken largely from Grand Opera. From now on we will present the 'Grand Ole Opry'".

As audiences to the live show increased, National Life & Accident Insurance's radio venue became too small to accommodate the hordes of fans. They built a larger studio, but it was still not large enough. After several months of no audiences, National Life decided to allow the Opry to move outside its home offices. The Opry moved, in October, 1934, into then-suburban Hillsboro Theatre (now the Belcourt), and then on June 13, 1936, to the Dixie Tabernacle in East Nashville. The Opry then moved to the War Memorial Auditorium, a downtown venue adjacent to the State Capitol. A 25-cent admission was charged in an effort to curb the large crowds, but to no avail. On June 5, 1943, the Opry moved to the Ryman Auditorium. It was used for Grand Ole Opry broadcasts from 1943 until 1974.
Top-charting country music acts performed there during the Ryman years, including Roy Acuff, called the King of Country Music, Red Foley, Hank Williams, Webb Pierce, Faron Young, Martha Carson, Lefty Frizzell, and many, many others.

Doreen Estall abridges the 1968 novel by Charles Portis, brought to the big screen in the 1969 western starring John Wayne and more recently by the Cohen brothers. Read by Nancy Crane. BBC Radio 4  Book at Bedtime

True Grit.mp3

Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs....

ADULT CONTENT

Devil in a Blue Dress - by Walter Mosley.mp3

"Shane" from Hollywood Radio Theater aired February 22, 1955. Shane tells the story of a gunfighter who comes to a recently settled farm area near a quiet town and fights for the rights of homesteaders against the long-entrenched hard-bitten open-range cattlemen who control the majority of the land. Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Ruth Hussey, Parley Baer and Howard McNear.land.

Hollywood Radio Theater 55-02-22 Shane.mp3

A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense.

The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice-floes of the Arctic Ocean to locate and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice-pack somewhere north of the Arctic Circle.

But the orders do not say what the Dolphin will find if she succeeds – that the fire at Ice Station Zebra was sabotage, and that one of the survivors is a killer.

Performed by Steve Hodson.

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Williams auditions for a show sponsored by Aunt Jemima

Hank Williams Show 51.xx.xx First Song - Why Don't You Love Me

Renowned professor, Otto Lidenbrock, discovers a mysterious, runic cryptogram in a rare manuscript he’s bought.

It’s his nephew, Axel, who accidentally cracks the message, which is by a 16th-century alchemist who claims to have found a pathway to the centre of the earth!

"Descend, bold traveller into the crater of the Jokul of Snæfell, which the shadow of Scartaris touches before the kalends of July and you will attain the centre of the earth."

Lidenbrock decides he must see for himself if such a journey is possible and with the reluctant Axel in tow, and the help of their guide, Hans, the three venture into the heart of a dormant, Icelandic volcano on a dangerous expedition beneath the earth's layers.

Jules Verne's novel is the ultimate adventure story in the best Victorian tradition with plenty of action, science, knowledge, discovery and surprise.

Adapted in two parts by Moya O'Shea.

Starring Joel MacCormack and Stephen Critchlow.

The three attempting this tremendous feat are:

* The somewhat cowardly, dewy-eyed romantic, Axel
* The highly strung and oh, so eccentric, Otto Lidenbrock
* The calm, phlegmatic Danish speaking, Icelandic guide, Hans.

Axel ...... Joel MacCormack
Professor Lidenbrock ...... Stephen Critchlow
Hans ...... Gudmundur Thorvaldsson
Grauben ...... Nicola Ferguson
Martha ...... Elizabeth Bennett
Newspaper Seller ...... Nick Underwood
Porter ...... Sam Rix
Icelandic Man ...... Tom Forrister
Street Vendor ...... Scarlett Brookes

Composer: Neil Brand

Director: Tracey Neale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017.

Journey to the Centre of the Earth By Jules Verne.mp3

A Streetcar Named Desire

In Tennessee Williams's masterpiece set in New Orleans, Blanche Dubois’s tender feelings are destroyed by Stanley Kowalski's brutal desire as they battle for the control of those close to them.

Blanche: Glenne Headly

Stanley: Vincent D'Onofrio

Stella: Amy Brenneman

Mitch: David Selby

Steve: Fred Coffin

Eunice: Rondi Reed

Pablo: Armondo Molina

Doctor: Jamie Hanes

Matron: Lyvingston Holmes

Music by John Roby. Director Martin Jenkins

Sunday Play: A Streetcar Named Desire

Sun 14th Jun 1998

19:30 on BBC Radio 3

A Streetcar Named Desire By Tennessee Williams.mp3

In Beyond the City, the desire for money and romance drives the characters beyond the typical boundaries of their middle class Victorian lives. Lust, deceit, and financial scandals rock their placid world.

Source: Doyle, A.C. (1892) Beyond the City London, England: Simpkin, Hamilton, Kent

Chapter I: “The New-Comers”

Two women, Bertha and Monica, are watching their new neighbors move in. The woman does not act lady-like and her nephew is quite broad. The cabman unloads a good amount of various types of sports equipment.

Chapter II: “Breaking the Ice”

Monica and Bertha visit their new neighbors, Mrs. Westmacott and her nephew, and determine she is a very unpleasant woman.

Chapter III: “Dwellers in the Wilderness”

New characters are introduced, such as Hay Denver and Dr. Walker and his two daughters, all acquainted with Mrs. Westmacott and her nephew. Their relationships are developed through dialogue as they head to the country to get fresh air and exercise.

Chapter IV: “A Sister’s Secret”

Charles Westmacott is in the care of his aunt because his parents were killed in the Mutiny. Clara and Charles have been talking and as Clara leaves she sees her sister conversing with Harold Denver. Clara presses Ida to tell her what happened between them, but Ida will not allow herself to be looked after. Clara has placed herself in the role of a mother to Ida and cares for her future.

Chapter V: “A Naval Conquest”

Mrs. Westmacott convinces the admiral to join the women’s rights platform. It exhibits her use of flattery and cunning to win him over.

Chapter VI: “An Old Story”

Mrs. Westmacott wishes Charles to marry Ida and talks to Clara about arranging it as such. Clara has a conflict between her thoughts of Charles and Harold for Ida, but resolves to let things play out their natural course. Shortly after, Harold approaches Clara and, expecting him to propose marriage to Ida, proposes to her instead.

Chapter VII: “Venit Tandem Felicitas”

Charles sends a clumsily written letter to Ida asking her if she would accompany him on his tandem tricycle. She accepts and as they ride, he asks her to marry him. She pities him and concedes that she will think about it. However, when he grabs her hand, she does not pull away.

Chapter VIII: “Shadows Before”

Mrs. Westmacott becomes more acquainted with the Doctor, until it appears they plan to marry. Clara and Ida decide to convince their father not to marry Mrs. Westmacott by imitating her emancipated dress and liberal beliefs.

Chapter IX: “A Family Plot”

Clara and Ida carry out their scheme. Ida plays with chemicals in the kitchen while Clara reads maps and aspires to be a pilot. Meanwhile, they are learning to smoke and drink, all to their father’s horror.

Chapter X: “Women of the Future”

The two girls get more eccentric in their ways. Clara begins to wear knickers and Ida wears a short skirt. The two girls then throw a dinner party for Harold and Charles. That is the last straw for the Doctor and he realizes the error of his ways.

Chapter XI: “A Blot from the Blue”

Harold faces destruction when his partner, Mrs. Westmacott’s brother, abandons him with a massive debt that he may never be able to pay back. He tries to take a noble stand for his creditors and Clara vows to stay by him.

Chapter XII: “Friends in Need”

Clara wants to help Harold in the only way she can. She offers her money to him which amounts to L5000. However, her father knows Harold will not accept it and gives it to his parents to use in the most prudent way.

Chapter XIII: “In Strange Waters”

The Admiral sets out to go back to sea and instead sees a moneylenders advertisement. He decides to borrow the money to pay the enormous debt and ends up in the shabby office of two scam artists. They try to make a deal and the Admiral refuses with the advice of Charles. Charles resolves to take him to Mrs. Westmacott’s lawyer.

Chapter XIV: “Eastward Ho!”

He goes to the suggested lawyer and he says that he cannot give out a loan to an older man without life insurance. The Admiral is inspected by a doctor and is found to be in excellent help. The Admiral intervenes in a fight on the way to sell his pension.

Chapter XV: “Still Among Shoals”

The Admiral sells his pension and gets £5,000. Harold returns to his parents after meeting with his creditors and tells them the sum owed is less than expected. They rejoice and Harold runs to Dr. Walker to return his cheque. Dr. Walker tells Harold how his father obtained the money and he runs back to the Admiral and demands that he get his pension back.

Chapter XVI: “A Midnight Visitor”

The two sisters witness a man enter through the window of Mrs. Westmacott’s home and see her fall to the ground. They think the visitor was expected, however when she falls they immediately call for help. He hit her on the back of the head with a life preserver, but she is alright.

Chapter XVII: “In Port at Last”

Mrs. Westmacott recounts the story to the Doctor and the Admiral after giving the Admiral his pension papers back. She spent the money that she was going to give to her brother on the Admiral’s papers. Her brother returned to her and was the one who struck her on the head. Harold is able to clear his name, the Admiral does not have to return to sea or move from his villa, both couples get married, and all live a full and happy life.

BBC radio have produced over 70 full cast adaptations of Agatha Christie’s beloved crime stories, including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Hercule Poirot is one of the most famous fictional characters of all time, known for his Belgian accent, waxed moustaches, perfectionism and “little grey cells”. Poirot would be the first to call himself a great man – he has never been known for his modesty – but with such success in his career, it is difficult to argue with him.

Miss Marple doesn’t look like a detective. But looks can be deceiving… this apparently unassuming woman from the small village of St Mary Mead is surprisingly worldly and uses the fact people underestimate her to full advantage when investigating.

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By Mark Twain, dramatised by Marcy Kahan. One of the great American novels comes into rich and multilayered life in the most complete dramatisation yet. This BBC/Canadian Broadcasting Corporation co-production evokes pre-Civil War America, and follows Huck and the runaway slave Jim on their journey down the Mississippi on a raft. Twain's wise and affectionate writing gives voice to Huck's growing understanding of Jim's humanity, and remains controversial. This programme contains language that some listeners may find offensive.

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