Afternoon Plays XIII
  
  

Afternoon Play - Mountaineering by Nick Walburton
******Well-crafted comedy.   Dr Burns gets a panic call to treat young Jan Woodhouse, who has had 
an extreme allergic reaction to a pineapple yoghurt. He develops a strong suspicion that she is 
looking for more excitement in her life and, when he persuades her to admit it, is almost as shocked 
as his patient. The 14-year-old has developed a passion for climbing but can find few opportunities 
for it in Surbiton. So she spends her nights swinging across the surrounding suburban gables.

Afternoon Play - Penny Dreadfuls Present - Guy Fawkes by David Reed, Humphrey Ker and Thom Tuck.
******What exactly is it that we’re asked to remember on the 5th of November? As the nation prepares 
for Bonfire Night; highly acclaimed comedy trio, The Penny Dreadfuls, take a fresh and timely look 
at a familiar story with a comedic, stirring and sometimes graphic exploration of the build-up to and 
aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot for The Afternoon Play.

Recorded in front of an audience at the Radio Theatre in London, there's plenty of laughs in places 
where you least expect them – from the boisterously optimistic meetings of the conspirators through to 
Fawkes' internment in the Tower of London.

Afternoon Play - Belongings by Dominique Moloney. 
******Two brothers breaking and entering face an awkward dilemma when they find the wife of their intended 
                                 victim dead; with a suicide note by her side.


Afternoon Play - Ben Sees It Through by J Jefferson Farjeon
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Afternoon Play - Best Friends by Clara Glynn
******When Charlotte is convicted of killing her baby, her best friend Sam begins 
                              a campaign to clear her name and find out the truth.

Afternoon Play - Before the Flood by Graham White
******A family is grieving over a lost son for whom there can never be a substitute - or can there?

Afternoon Play -  Better to Have Loved - Stone Trees by Jane Garden
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Afternoon Play - The Recall Man - s03e03- Best Forgotten
******Forensic pathologist Joe Aston uncovers information about an unsolved robbery many years ago. 
                           But it's Joe's elderly uncle and his friend who are implicated.

Afternoon Play -  Bodies And Souls by Martyn Wade
******"One of the joys of radio drama is having one of those ideas which couldn't possibly work 
in any other dramatic form. Bodies and Souls, one of the most popular afternoon plays of recent years, 
was written by Martin Wade. The theme of this domestic black comedy is revenge; one of the main roles 
is that of the talking mynah bird who is bought by the husband to annoy his very irritating wife. 
She has become obsessed by the idea of reincarnation, convinced that everything around them, 
even the plants in the garden, have been taken over by the souls of various famous personalities. 
The husband plans his revenge with a visit to the local pet shop. 
David Horovitch and Marsha Warren join forces with Gerard McDermott as the bird in this entertaining comedy"..... 

Afternoon Play - Blunt Speaking  by Corin Redgrave
******Written and performed by Corin Redgrave
In November 1979 Sir Anthony Blunt had his knighthood revoked. This personal portrait speculates 
on the hopes, fears and regrets of the art historian and fourth member of the Cambridge circle of spies.

Afternoon Play - Blue Sky Thinking by Ben Lewis
******Psychological thriller about love and identity. Karen is preparing for her wedding. 
But when a scrawny-looking stranger turns up, her life begins to fall apart.

Afternoon Play - Blue Moon Over Poplar by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
******Love, lust heartache - five girls and one boy. 

Afternoon Play - Blue Air, Love and Flowers by Charlotte Jones
******Sophie takes David to a Chagall exhibition, in a last-ditch attempt to kick-start their relationship, 
                                  and finds the paintings full of Russian romance.

Afternoon Play - The Birthday by Stephen James. 
******To celebrate Michelle's birthday, Roger takes her to a romantic hotel in Dorset. 
                                        But he can't shake the shadowy presence of his wife and children.


Afternoon Play - The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov
******Short story about a troubled young professor of philosophy who escapes to a house deep 
in the Russian countryside, only to be tormented by visions of a black monk. With Paul Rhys


Afternoon Play - The Block by Alex Lowe. 
******Paul's 15 minutes of fame arrive when a documentary crew attempts to make a feature about his 
management of the local residents' association. 
                       But it soon becomes apparent that the task is becoming too much for our hapless hero.


Afternoon Play - Blinded by Science by Paul Viragh.
******Research scientists Prof. Mike Hart and Dr Chris Murray don't like each other. 
What is more, they are competing to become the new government advisor on genetics. 
As they both strive to impress the new goverment minister, natural selection must prevail.

Afternoon Play - Black Queen to King's Castle by Peter Wolf
******On the anniversary of the night of her execution, it is rumoured that Anne Boleyn still haunts 
her family home in Norfolk. Is it possible that her ghost is trapped within the walls, trying to escape? 
                                     Anne tells her own story of events leading to her execution.

Afternoon Play - Blood for Britain by Michael McMillan
******revealed the difficulties in World War II of getting enough blood to treat bomb casualties in the UK. 
Charles Drew was a blood pioneer who had worked out that blood plasma has a much longer shelf life 
than whole blood and could therefore be imported from America. He was surrounded by bureaucrats 
more interested in red tape than saving lives; one official actually said that it would be an admission 
that the war was going badly for the Allies if plasma was obtained from the States. This was in a situation 
where thousands of people were literally bleeding to death after, for example, the flattening of Coventry, 
because of a lack of bottled blood. Nevertheless, he showed great perseverence in overcoming scientific 
and other obstacles and eventually received official recognition. He improved the administration, labelling, 
storage and use of samples, and enabled tens of thousands of lives to be saved. His skin colour didn't help; 
being black, he was actively discriminated against, and there were numerous people at that time who insisted 
they would "rather die than receive plasma from negroes".

Afternoon Play - The Railway Siding by Jonathan Holloway
******When struggling architect Jack is forced to take the overnight train from Haverfordwest to Paddington, 
he encounters a garrulous guard and a spookily familiar young woman. All is not quite what it seems.

Afternoon Play - The Understanding by PG Morgan
******PG Morgan's drama gets inside the emotional realities of dealing with an ethical dilemma.

A young woman is urgently admitted to hospital and prepared to deliver her baby by Caesarian section. 
What happens in the next few minutes will test the judgement - and the understanding - of everyone in the room.

Afternoon Play - The Loop by Nick Perry
******When a young boy toys with his dad's mobile phone, middle-aged Englishman Nick Perry finds himself 
speaking to a young stranger called Jim in New York - in 1959. As they talk, they discover that they are both writers: 
Nick is struggling with his first radio play and Jim's just started on an ambitious new TV show, The Twilight Zone.


Afternoon Play -  A Dangerous Thing by John Sessions
******May 1744: Alexander Pope is on his deathbed in Twickenham; Jonathan Swift is losing his wits in Dublin. 
The two friends have not seen each other in 17 years, although each is very much on the other's mind.

In his final hours, Pope talks to his emotional and intellectual soulmate, Martha 'Pattie' Blount, 
about his relationship with Swift and the events that have conspired to keep the two friends apart 
for most of their lives. He also recalls Swift's last visit to London, when an unexpected encounter 
with a young burglar put the divergent philosophies of the two friends to the test.


Afternoon Play - Grey Expectations by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran
******You can have too much money. Graham Slater has 200 billion pounds to get rid of, 
since most of the world's toxic loans have materialised in his office - which happens to be in a parallel universe.

Afternoon Play - Headliner by Neil Brand
******Important elections are on the horizon in the eastern European state of Khovakhia when up-and-coming 
stand-up comedienne Katya Kalugin is befriended by US comedy legend Doug Stokowski.

Afternoon Play - Right Place, Wrong Time by Don Webb
******Alan Morgan is a salesman; he spends a lot of time away from home. A series of violent crimes 
is committed across the north. The only lead is a photo-fit reconstruction of the robber's face
                                                  - it is the spitting image of Alan.

Afternoon Play - The Night Manager by Dermot Bolger.
******When a particular guest checks into Finbar's Hotel on the last night of Johnny Farrell's management, 
                                      his past life comes back to confront him.

Afternoon Play - No 1 Ladies Detective Agency - s00eSP - 
                           The Miracle At Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
******Precious Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, 
is preoccupied - by the absence of postboxes in Botswana, by an anonymous letter 
and by an adopted child's poignant search for her true family. 
Meanwhile Mr JLB Matekoni pursues an expensive cure for their foster daughter Motholeli.


Afternoon Play - Getting to Four Degrees by Sarah Woods
******What if we can't limit global warming to two degrees? What if it reaches four degrees - or more? 
Three real-life climate change experts spin one average family into the future, to look at life on a warmer planet.

With Professor Kevin Anderson, Mark Lynas and Dr Emma Tompkins.

Afternoon Play - One In a Million by Peter Kesterton
******Crime thriller about guilt, mathematical proof and statistics.

Maths lecturer Jonathan is arrested for an attempted assault on a young woman. 
The case against him is overwhelming: the attacker's DNA has been found on the victim 
and the forensic scientists show that there is a million to one chance that the DNA is Jonathan's. 
Can Jonathan use his statistical knowledge to get himself off the hook?

Afternoon Play - Winter Storm by Bernard MacLaverty
******On a Midwinter's day in Iowa in 1996, Scottish poet Andrew Younger steps from his office 
on a university campus and is engulfed by a severe blizzard. Lost and disorientated, 
Andrew muses upon the events which have led to him being stranded alone, so far away from home.

Afternoon Play - Zero Degrees of Separation
******Three community writing groups from the Isle of Mull, Northern Ireland and London perform their own short plays.

The Bank Van, by Carla Lamont, Derek Crook, Kirsty Lamont and Colin MacIntyre.
With Stewart Cattanach, Christopher Barlow, Andrea McKenna, Roddy Wyness and Mary-Jean Devon.

Crosswords, by Ballycastle Writer's Group.
With Daire Buckley, Arlene Brown, Michael Duffin, Rab Coyles, Harry McKeirnan.
Guitarist: Lee Cartwright.
Directed by Lou Stein

Shame on You, by The Original Writer's Group, Battersea.
With Zoe King, Christine Brennan, Becca Thackery and members of the group, with Rebecca Noon and Liam Clarke.


Afternoon Play - Black Hearts in Battersea 1.2 by Joan Aiken
Afternoon Play - Black Hearts in Battersea 2.2
******Simon, hero of "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase", comes to London to study painting. 
He finds it a sinister place seething with plots, a town of dark alleys, mysterious meetings 
and still odder disappearances, of the grandeur of eccentric dukes and the evil of conspirators.

Afternoon Play - Three Knots by Linda Cracknell
******Drama about faith and the supernatural set in 19th-century Scotland. 
Two men stranded on a mountain on a stormy December night meet a mysterious old woman 
                                     who believes she can control the elements.

Afternoon Play - Guilty Until Proved Innocent by Deborah Davis. 
******When Dina and Jake rush their baby daughter to hospital, little do they realise that it is 
the beginning of a Kafkaesque nightmare from which it seems there is no escape.


Afternoon Play - Dead Men Tell No Tales by Kelvin Segger
******In Kelvin Segger's version of three tales by Emile Zola, a dead man watches in horror as 
everyone around him prepares for his funeral, another man is killed by advertising, 
                                                                          and a third postpones his dream for too long.



Afternoon Play - The Man Who Knew Everything - s01e01 - by by Robin Brooks - Madame Rachel and the Waters of Life
Afternoon Play - The Man Who Knew Everything - s01e02 - The Dilke-Crawford Imbrogilo
Afternoon Play - The Man Who Knew Everything - s01e03 - The Pimlico Poisoning
Afternoon Play - The Man Who Knew Everything - s01e04 - The Ghastly Mordaunt Affair
******George Lewis was the great 19th century criminal lawyer of Ely Place, Holborn. No man had so wide 
a criminal experience as Lewis; he was involved in every great murder case from 1868 up to the Whitechapel 
murders, and before him, his father had owned the largest criminal practice in England. It was said by some 
that Lewis never went outside his lair for anyone less than a royal duke.

Afternoon Play - Songs That Houses Sing 1.4  - DIY by Hattie Naylor
******Daniel is into DIY, and wants to create the right decor for Frances, even if the house 
has to be ripped apart. But the house itself has a story to reveal..

Afternoon Play - Songs That Houses Sing 2.4 - The House in Tamworth Park by Josephine Corcoran. 
******Alice, a writer, lives in a flat in a big old house. All the tenants receive an offer to move out, 
but Alison stays and begins to trace the story of a couple who lived in the house nearly 100 years ago
                                                        - a story of buried treasure

Afternoon Play - Songs That Houses Sing 3.4 - The Currs by Kate Clanchy. 
******The third of four plays set in houses which sing their secrets. Tasmania, 1832. Edward Curr, 
master of the Van Diemen's Land Company, tries to gain control of his wife, his convict stonemason 
and the wild landscape in this harsh outpost of the Empire


Afternoon Play -  Songs That Houses Sing 4.4 - Kissing Shadows by Rachel Joyce. 
******The last of four plays set in houses which sing their secrets. Following a painful separation from her husband, 
Holly and her sister Frankie rent a country cottage where she can recuperate. 
They discover that the house has a story of its own.


Afternoon Play - How to Leave Badenweiler by Michael Butt 
******Chekhov-related. The famous author has just been chucked out of a better-class hotel 
because he can't stop coughing. The waiter is an aspiring author. 


Afternoon Play - The Bridge at Cookham by Sheila Goff.
******Three couples from three different generations spar in three simultaneous plays - 
`Ice Cream', `Swans' and `Sunburn' - all set in the vicinity of the bridge over the Thames at Cookham.


Afternoon Play - Life of Penguins by Katie Hims. 
******Merle's sister Beth has been abducted by aliens - not for the first time. 


Afternoon Play - Cattle Market by Shane Connaughton
******Deep in rural Northern Ireland, cows are two a penny; sadly, for one farming community, 
finding love and the perfect partner is proving more elusive. 
                                If only these eligible farmers could find a way to advertise themselves.

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