Afternoon Plays


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Afternoon Play - A Conspiracy At Sevres - How the 1956
'Sèvres Protocol' (the deal struck between Britain, France and
Israel to attack Egypt) came to be, & then shows what happened
as a result of the attack(s). In short, how the 'Suez Crisis' came about. 

Afternoon Play - A Face in the Crowd
Afternoon Play - A Long Time Dead (42 mins,) 
Afternoon Play - A Venture Too Far
Afternoon Play - All Souls Night (90 mins.)

Afternoon Play - Betrayal - Pack of Lies (90 mins.) - Actual events during the Cold War inspired Hugh Whitemore's 
moving drama, which takes place in a London suburb during the winter of 1960. Featuring a distinguished cast. 
The Jackson family slowly becomes aware that their cherished Canadian neighbours may not be quite what they appear.

Afternoon Play - Betrayal - Plenty - David Hare's play contrasts the experiences of an Englishwoman helping the 
French Resistanceduring the Second World War with her life over the following 20 years. The drama offers a unique 
view of postwar history as well as making a powerful statement about changing values and the collapse of ideals 
embodied in a single life.

Afternoon Play - Blackpool Detective
Afternoon Play - Blind

Afternoon Play - Buried by Glass by Mike Walker - When Jay, Mark and Sara meet for lunch at Jay's house in the country, 
they all have something to hide. But somewhere beneath their words lurks the truth.

Afternoon Play - Classic Serial - The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad - What began as an international bombing outrage 
quickly resolves into a domestic tragedy. Conrad's black comedy, written in 1907, takes a wry look at the shabby truth 
behind the news. Dramatised for radio by David Napthine.

Afternoon Play - Cops and Robbers - another excellent play by Katie Hims. A dry cleaner's assistant falls for a customer but 
as he crosses the road outside the shop he is knocked down by a car. As she gets to know him it transpires that perhaps this 
was not an accident.

Afternoon Play - Criminal Conversation by Judith French. In 1738, LONDON was fascinated by a bawdy kiss-and-tell trial. 
In an elaborate blackmail plot, a famous actor had forced his wife to have an affair.

Afternoon Play - Crying in the Crypt (30 mins,) 

Afternoon Play - Dear Doctor Goebbels - Fitting Dr Goebbels with his surgical boots, and sharing nuts with the Führer, do 
not appear to be auspicious beginnings to a young Jew's career. Philip Morgenstern, however, is a resourceful lad.

Afternoon Play - Deptford Wives

Afternoon Play - Duty by Michael Butt. A play to mark the 100th anniversary of Ibsen's death. Norwegian writer 
Henrik Ibsen fears he may have written his last play, until he receives a mysterious letter from a young woman.

Afternoon Play - Forty Years on (90 mins.) - Alan Bennett's acclaimed satirical comedy. The retiring headmaster of Albion 
House is outraged by the school's traditional end-of-year play, which is being produced by his successor. The headmaster 
can only see his own beloved standards being mocked. Yet within the parody lies painful nostalgia for a more peaceful, 
vanished age.

Afternoon Play - Ghost on the Moor by Peter Wolf - A romantic drama, set on the YORKshire moors. Graham has become 
something of a recluse since a dramatic breakup with his childhood sweetheart, the reasons for which continue to haunt him. 
A new and unexpected relationship is to have a cathartic effect on him.

Afternoon Play - Lenny Bruce Is Dead

Afternoon Play - Letters From a Strange Land By John Clifford. The true story of Will Adams who, in 1598, set off from 
Kent in a ship bound for the East Indies. Shipwrecked, he found himself in a country strange beyond his wildest 
imaginings. He had landed in Japan, but it may as well have been the moon.

Afternoon Play - Mission Song 1 of 2
Afternoon Play - Mission Song 2 of 2

Afternoon Play - Monster Man by Bernard Kops. Willis O'Brien could create life from lifelessness using the painstaking 
art of stop-motion animation. By 1933, his work achieved immortality as audiences were enthralled by his greatest 
creation, `King Kong'. Like Kong, O'Brien ruled supreme in his own imaginary kingdom, but he was powerless to control 
the tragic events of his own life.

Afternoon Play - Mother Goose (57 mins,) 
Afternoon Play - Orbital Decay (55 mins,) 

Afternoon Play - Out of Season - Four Blackpool residents seek refuge from the biting wind in an empty promenade cafe. 
Their thoughts reveal what brought them to, and what keeps them in, a tourist town that has lost its sparkle. Each of them 
will be forced to make decisions that will change their lives forever.

Afternoon Play - Rumpole and the Primrose Path
Afternoon Play - Rumpole and the Right to Privacy

Afternoon Play - Shaft by Emma Clarke. A dark comedy in which two strangers are stuck overnight in a lift together.

Afternoon Play - Sherlock Holmes V Dracula

Afternoon Play - Tell Jake to Sleep on the Roof by Alison Joseph - In 1914 the great "Woman Rebel" and campaigner for 
birth control Margaret Sanger had a relationship with eminent Fabian and sexual campaigner Havelock Ellis. It was to shake 
his free-love marriage to Edith forever. Using their letters and autobiographies, the play recreates that year and asks, can 
history ever tell the truth?

Afternoon Play - That Fateful Day - A drama documentary researched, written and compiled by the Royal Court Young 
Writers' Group, which looks at the human stories behind the events unfolding of the world stage on 24 March 1999 - the day 
on which NATO dropped its first bombs on Belgrade.

Afternoon Play - The Accident by Jonathan Davidson - A railway signal box at night in the West of ENGLAND in the early 
1960s. A signalman and his daughter; between them the bells and the levers; ahead of them, the rest of their lives.

Afternoon Play - The Blue Man by Gillian Clarke. An Egyptian grave god who smiles when you turn him is not an 
ordinary gift. But the Finches are not ordinary women, at least not for Catrin.

Afternoon Play - The Disappearing Island (44 mins,)A lakeland fantasy about mid-life crisis and romantic imagination.

Afternoon Play - The Door in the Wall by HG Wells - Kelvin Segger's play brings together three utopian stories by 
H G Wells: a mountaineer gets lost in a valley in the Andes and is surrounded by a race of sightless people; a man is 
transported to fairy land; and a third spends his life searching for a lost world behind a door in LONDON.

Afternoon Play - The Great Escape 

Afternoon Play - The House That Hearst Built - It began as a `little' something on a Californian ranch and ended up as 
`Hearst Castle', one of the most extravagant homes in the world, fruit of a three-decade-long collaboration between 
publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst and architect Julia Morgan. This drama documentary draws on their 
correspondence, charting the growth of the house and its problems.

Afternoon Play - The Hunt for Billy Casper by Jeff Young. A mix of drama, interviews and train journeys in a story of one 
writer's obsession with the fictional creation of another.

Afternoon Play - The Killing of Mr.Toad 1 of 2 (44 mins.) 
Afternoon Play - The Killing of Mr.Toad 2 of 2 (44 mins.)

Afternoon Play - The Lodsell Cod (44 mins.) A magical and moving story of two brothers in love with the same girl in 
1950s Devon.

Afternoon Play - The Man in the Moon - While the Soviet Union is undergoing cultural meltdown, the Irish village of Taree 
remains largely untouched, until Malloney tunes in to a mysterious voice on the equipment in his garden shed.

Afternoon Play - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 

Afternoon Play - The Prince - By Niccolo Machiavelli, dramatised by Peter Wolf. With Ciaran Hinds as Niccolo. This 
classic 16th-century treatise on the nature of power and statecraft is performed for the first time as a monologue with 
dramatised illustrations. Machiavelli, often identified as Satan, uses his brilliance and cunning to explain how power 
can be created and sustained.

Afternoon Play - The Rock (74 mins,)
Afternoon Play - The Sword in the Stone (111 mins,)
Afternoon Play - The Unexpected Guest (50 mins,)

Afternoon Play - The Wendy House by Tessa Hadley (44 mins,) Three close friends at a girls' school, Miranda, 
Jenny and Sarah, are working together in 1970 towards their examinations. They meet in the old Wendy House 
in Jenny's garden, revising and reading to one another from Chairman Mao's 'Little Red Book', imagining they 
are Communists, and plotting the overthrow of the grown-ups. On her fiftieth birthday in 2005, Miranda has to 
disinter painful and buried memories of something that happened then to end 
the innocence of her childhood.

Afternoon Play - Wee Have Also Sound Houses... (48 mins,)

Afternoon Play - What Mummy and Daddy Do by Elizabeth Bairnes. Nick and Rose find themselves unwillingly privy to a 
dysfunctional family's deepest secrets when they are button-holed by a 10-year-old girl at a party.

Afternoon Play - Who Shot Shelley by David Britton. 1812. Tremadoc in north Wales is not ready for the arrival of the 
radical young poet who preaches free love and atheism. And the authorities want him silenced too.

Afternoon Play - Willis Is Barking (86 mins.) A surreal comedy. Willis is a secret Martian. She encounters mortgages, 
homelessness and Morris dancing.


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