Afternoon Plays VII
Afternoon Plays VII
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Afternoon Play - Envy by Anita Sullivan
******One day on the beach, Clare impulsively steals the handbag of a glamorous executive
and sets about stealing her dream life. But there is a fine line between a dream and a nightmare.
Afternoon Play - Going for Broke by Mike Yeaman
****** With their pension scheme in collapse and debts mounting up, a husband and wife decide to play the system.
plotting their own bankrupcy after a trail of carefully planned reckless spending;
Afternoon Play - 12 Shares by Dennis Kelly
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Afternoon Play - A Fire in the Sun by Robin Mukherjee.
******A woman visits her elderly parents in Spain.
Afternoon Play - A Pattern in Shrouds by Christopher Lee
******In August 1979, after the IRA assassinate Lord Mountbatten and kill 18 British soldiers,
three Whitehall grandees discuss the implications of the tragedy.
Afternoon Play - Accolades by Christopher William Hill
******In 1973, AL Rowse published Shakespeare The Man, in which he claimed to have decoded
Shakespeare's sonnets. But was it simple misreading?
Afternoon Play - Carmella's Island by Jean Binta
******Lyrical drama set on the Caribbean island of Maracou, a place where the power of masquerade
can even reach out to an unhappy schoolteacher.
Afternoon Play - Chloe by Mike Stott
******A darkly comic tour de force by Mike Stott. From the cell where she stays at Her Majesty's pleasure,
Chloe Temple-Carstairs shares her story. With Alison Steadman.
Afternoon Play - Close Your Eyes, Raise Your Arms by Ewa Banasckiewicz
******Elsa goes on holiday with her mum for what is intended to be a new beginning.
But the past soon catches up with them.
Afternoon Play - Dog Dazed Afternoon by Ben Crompton.
******Liam and Mickey's dog-walking scheme looks set to fail when, amid stolen cars and local gangsters,
They lose their first client. With their friendship at breaking point, their only hope is Mickey's skill in kung fu.
Afternoon Play - Expand This by Mark Lawson
******a rather unsettling 45 minutes about the power of the internet. A man is giving a lecture about
what happened to his son and daughter, after his daughter was unknowingly photographed
performing a sexual act at a party. The photo ends up on a website, Dad's job is affected,
and the situation escalates as the picture is duplicated and circulated around the world.
And in spite of the consequences, including the breakup of a family and a death, no-one
had done anything illegal. I had doubts about it as a radio drama, but it was a reminder
about what can happen if the wrong material gets onto the web or, for that matter, into an email.
More than one employee has lost his job by making online comments about his boss.
Afternoon Play - Fire Of The Dragon by Meic Povey
******Holed up in Harlech Castle; the bowed but unbeaten Owain Glyndwr determines to fight Henry IV
to the last drop of Welsh blood. But Huw ap Dafydd; a reluctant recruit; has ideas of his own.
Afternoon Play - How to Remember the Dead by Jemma Kennedy.
******When an old Polish man drops dead in the street; John's life is thrown out of kilter.
Trying to make sense of it all raises major questions about his own life.
Afternoon Play - Joseph and Joseph by Oliver Emanuel
******Identity theft is something that happens to other people; but the person who stole Joseph's life
seems to be having a lot more fun with it than he is.
Afternoon Play - Mateo Falcone by Prosper Mérimée
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Afternoon Play - Mela Mania by Anjum Malik
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Afternoon Play - Memorials to the Missing by Stephen Wyatt
******Stephen Wyatt's play follows moves during World War I to establish an Imperial War Graves Commission
to record the graves of those killed in action.
Afternoon Play - Messages to a Submariner by Nick Walker.
******Deep below the ocean, two submariners are desperate to make a timely return home. Jerry wants to see his baby
being born and Brian is hoping his marriage can survive. But on dry land, Janine thinks her pregnancy is too quiet and
Cath is ignoring the urgent knocking on her front door.
Afternoon Play - Mike and Muriel Are Getting Married by Nicholas Meiklejohn. ...
******Andy and Rebecca decide that their respective best mates are not suited.
The problem is that they are getting married.
Afternoon Play - Mind Out by Jonathan Myerson.
******A whole family are undergoing self-help cognitive therapy - without admitting it to each other.
But will the therapist inside their head take over their lives?
Afternoon Play - The Minute When Your Life Stops by Jude Hughes
******A woman and her three teenage children attempt to find a new normality after her husband takes his own life.
Afternoon Play - Miss Anya by Joan O'Connor
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Afternoon Play - Murder in the Afternoon 1.3 - Fall and Rise of Danny Clark by Andrew Chappell
******A gangster thriller. After his dad dies doing a job for gangland boss Frankie Weems; young Danny Clark vows
never to get involved in crime. But now Frankie comes knocking on his door; wanting his help.
And Frankie's not a man you say no to...
Afternoon Play - Murder in the Afternoon 2.3 - Mixed Messages By Yvonne Antrobus.
******A compromising message left on the wrong answerphone stirs up ghosts from the past; with tragic;
and deadly; results.
Afternoon Play - Murder in the Afternoon 3.3 - The Longest Journey
******A man picks up a female hitch-hiker. They are both concealing a secret. A murder has been committed;
but who is the victim and who is the murderer?
Afternoon Play - The McKinnon Extradition by John Fletcher
******the true story of Gary McKinnon, a British citizen who is fighting extradition to the US on suspicion of
hacking into government computers.
Afternoon Play - The Andy Warhol Syndrome by Jenny Eclair and Julie Balloo.
******Carol's dreams come true when she finds fame in a reality TV show.
But how much will her celebrity status cost her?
Afternoon Play - The Haven by Dawn Lowe-Watson
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Afternoon Play - The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
******On a moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley packs up his kayak
and goes exploring on the flats of Puget Sound. Miles loves looking for starfish,
snails, crabs and clams, but as he forages he comes across a startling sight.
His heart pounds as he moves closer to an enormous breathing beast.
Then he realises that he is looking at something remarkable: a giant squid.
Miles becomes a celebrity and is pursued by TV crews who hope that this intelligent
boy can make sense of the phenomenon. Meanwhile the sea continues to throw out
mysteries from its depths, and his psychic friend Florence predicts that even more
amazing discoveries will precede the highest tide in fifty years, and that this will hold
life-changing events for Miles. But Miles has earth-locked problems. He fears that ageing
Florence will be put in a home, that the passion for his dreadlocked ex-babysitter Angie
will go unrequited, that his arguing parents will divorce, and that everything, even the bay,
is shifting away from him. His goal this summer is to stop things from changing. This gripping
story of obsession, beauty and the wonders of the sea intoxicates the reader with its humour
and tragedy as a young boy comes of age in a summer never to be forgotten.
Afternoon Play - The Invention of Dr Cake by Andrew Motion
******What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral,
is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid?
Andrew Motion, poet laureate, has wriiten a novel about poets and their afterlife.
Afternoon Play - The Last Tsar by Ian Curteis
******Ian Curteis's drama examines an enduring mystery of the First World War -
the apparent refusal of King George V to give sanctuary in England to his cousin
Tsar Nicholas and his young family after the Tsar had been forced to abdicate
following the Russian Revolution.
Afternoon Play - The Mecklington Miracle by Hannah and Rachel Mcgill
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Afternoon Play - The Torture Warrant by Jonathan Myerson
******Effectively claustrophobic reconstruction by Jonathan Myerson of true events in 2002
surrounding the kidnap of a young boy.and the 36 hours of the suspect's arrest.
Afternoon Play - Three Wishes by Ben Moor.
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Afternoon Play - Thrift by Rebecca Trick-Walker
******Gwen sits on a cliff-top in Pembrokeshire, trying to paint a flower. Instead,
she finds herself thinking about her 40-year marriage and its recent end.
Afternoon Play - Tiny Chaos by Lizzie Nunnery
******Alison's neighbour's daughter has helped her mother care for her for years,
but now her mother has gone. It is time to take action.
Afternoon Play - Waterloo Bridge by Mike Walker
******A woman is about to jump off Waterloo Bridge when a middle-aged man makes her an offer...
Afternoon Play - Where Waters Meet by Yvette Z'Graggen
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Afternoon Play - Zauberjackl by Charlie Boucher
******Lukas and Emil are surviving on their wits, but when they become involved with a gang
that is terrorising Salzburg their lives are put in danger.
Afternoon Play - Country Life by Sheila Delaney
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Afternoon Play - Diamond Lil by Linda Wilkinson
******Linda Wilkinson's play is based on the story of a real-life transvestite double act
who delighted audiences in pubs all over the East End during the 40s.
Afternoon Play - First Bite of the Air by Stephanie Dale
******Drama-documentary about a colliery in Coventry
Afternoon Play - Heifers and Bulls by Elizabeth Lewis.
******An actress sets up a matchmaking agency for lonely Welsh farmers.
Afternoon Play - Higher - Inspection by Joyce Bryant
******Satire on tertiary education by Joyce Bryant, chronicling the chaos of the Geography department
at the fictional Hayborough University, ranked 132nd in the academic league table.
In these straightened times there have to be cuts. So it does seem a bit of a coincidence that when
David Poll is earmarked for disciplinary measures leading to possible dismissal,
the Quality Assurance Inspectorate should turn up.
Afternoon Play - Higher - Partners by Joyce Bryant
******The buzzword is 'partners' - get out into the real world and work with industry. This will develop money
spinning initiatives and share costs. That's the theory, at least. So when neurotic and emotionally-stunted
lecturer David Poll is delegated the task of finding partners, he blunders into a scheme which
doesn't quite benefit the department.
Afternoon Play - Hindenburg by Christopher William Hill
*******Helen Ashbourne, a reclusive English former photographer living in New York,
is approached by gallery owner Josh, who hopes to display her collection of
photographs taken aboard the airship Hindenburg. But as arrangements for the
exhibition progress, suspicions are aroused about her past and exactly what
she was doing in Germany in 1937, before she boarded the fated airship.
Afternoon Play - The Incomplete Works of Dave McCabe by Nick Underwood.
******Romantic comedy, with music,
Singer-songwriter Dave is given the opportunity to meet his muse
and woo her with a song. But he has a problem: he cannot get past the opening lines.
Afternoon Play - In Form, Rondo by David Huckvale and Lousie Ramsden
******Drama-documentary in which musicologist David Huckvale explores Saint-Saens's Introduction
and Rondo Capriccioso, while Louise Ramsden's drama reflects the playfulness of the music.
Afternoon Play - In Form, Variations by John Lill and Tim Jackson
******John Lill explores Beethoven's Variations while Tim Jackson's drama reflects the music.
Afternoon Play - What is Missing from Your Life - The Men
******Two years ago, Stephanie Dale asked the women of Birmingham to answer the question,
'What is missing from your life?' Now she asks the men.
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