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An epic BBC radio drama series set in the Welsh valleys, about medical life before the NHS Based on AJ Cronin’s award-winning 1937 novel of the same name, which partly inspired Nye Bevan to create the NHS, this gripping dramatisation centres on Andrew Manson, a newly trained GP in 1920s Wales. Young and idealistic, he is full of enthusiasm when he first arrives in the small mining village of Drineffy, where he is to work as assistant to the elderly Dr Page. But he soon encounters corruption,…
Read more…A collection of full-cast dramatisations and original radio plays from master storyteller Ted Allbeury Described by Len Deighton as ‘a classic writer of espionage fiction’, Ted Allbeury based his many acclaimed spy novels on his own real-life experiences. In World War II, he served as an intelligence officer with Special Operations Executive, and subsequently ran agents across the border between East and West Germany during the Cold War. He began writing in his fifties, and went on to pen…
Read more…By Alan Le May Dramatised for radio by Adrian Bean Adaptation of the classic western novel, upon which the famous film was based. Texas, 1848. When Comanches attack the Edwards family's settlement on the Texas plains, they kidnap two girls - seventeen year-old Lucy and ten year-old Debbie. So Amos Edwards sets out on the dangerous mission to recover his two nieces, with the help of his nephew Mart and a rag-tag bunch of searchers. Their epic mission will last six years. Alan Le May's 1954…
Read more…Tthree-part dramatisation of Zane Gray 's classic novel of love and violent revenge, the first western to be adapted as a Classic Serial. 1: Utah, 1871. Mormon rancher Jane Withersteen is resisting Elder Tull 's attempts to take her and Cottonwoods for himself, when into the picture rides the avenging angel Lassiter. Dramatised by Ed Thomason Music by Trevor Allan Davies Director Adnan Bea First broadcast: Sun 21st Nov 1993, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4 Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey,…
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