BBC Drama I
F:\BBC Drama ================================================ 29 Worst Minutes of Raymond Hej. - A wonderfully funny and touching play about the son of the only Norwegian in Barnsley, written by poet Ian MacMillan. Raymond's father tells him "although life is a matter of years, the bad things that happen to you are just a matter of minutes...". Raymond therefore decides to give his autobiography, the twenty-nine worst minutes of his life, in one-minute bursts. Introducing each minute is a "fanfare" on the bass tuba. The form varies; one minute is presented as a Philip Marlowe mystery; another as a George Formby song, and minute 22 describes " the evenings of my married life, an extremely long minute, presented as a Samuel Beckett monologue". 84 Charing Cross Road - a 1970 book by Helene Hanff, later made into a stage play and film, about the twenty-year correspondence between her and Frank Doel of Marks & Co., antiquarian booksellers located at the titular address in London, England.
Hanff, in search of obscure classics and British literature titles she had been unable to find in
New York City, noticed an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature and first contacted the shop in
1949, and it fell to Doel to fulfill her requests. In time, a long-distance friendship evolved, not only
between the two, but between Hanff and other staff members as well, with an exchange of Christmas
packages, birthday gifts, and food parcels to compensate for post-World War II food shortages in
England. Their letters included discussions about topics as diverse as the sermons of John Donne,
how to make Yorkshire Pudding, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Hanff postponed visiting her English friends until too late; Doel died in December 1968 from
peritonitis from a burst appendix, and the bookshop eventually closed. Hanff did finally visit
Charing Cross Road and the empty but still standing shop in the summer of 1971, a trip recorded in
her 1973 book The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street. A circular brass plaque on the building that now
stands on the shop's former site acknowledges the story.
84 Charing Cross Road 1.2.
84 Charing Cross Road 2.2.
A Bullet At Balmain's - A Noel Coward Murder Mystery. By Marcy Kahan. Noel Coward in Post-Liberation
PARIS, 1948: haute couture, existentialism, jazz... and death. The celebrated playwright/ actor/ composer/
amateur detective returns to Radio 4 in a new adventure. Coward is in PARIS to play the lead in his own play,
Present Laughter, in French. But the murder of a promiscuous mannequin provides a stylish distraction.
A City Full Of Swindlers - Cassandra Austen, played by Lucy Black, narrates the shocking story of her aunt's
arrest and imprisonment for stealing a piece of lace. In 1799, a scandal surrounded Jane and Cassandra's rich
and respected aunt, Mrs Leigh-Perrot. Aunt Jane was in her late fifties when she was accused of stealing a piece
of lace in Bath. She was arrested, refused bail and imprisoned for six months in the gaoler's house in Ilchester,
where she was followed by her devoted husband.
The crime she was accused of could carry the death sentence or transportation to Australia for 14 years, and the
very real threat of Botany Bay hung over her until she was tried in a packed court, acquitted and returned in triumph
to Bath. Her story intersects briefly with that of her famous niece: while she was in prison, Jane and Cassandra were
volunteered by their mother as companions to their aunt in prison and at the trial. However, Mrs Leigh-Perrot refused
to let "these elegant young women be inmates".
Jenny Howarth's lively and witty drama not only brings to life a little-known episode in the Austen family history, but
also paints a more sombre picture of the draconian laws of Georgian England. It's a place in which the dividing line
between respectability and disgrace is a narrow one, and all too easily crossed.
A Clown on God's Stage - A celebration of the life of Woodbine Willie - aka Reverend Geoffrey Anketell
Studdert Kennedy, the inspirational preacher and poet who became an icon during the First World War. God
gave him the gift of words. But was anybody listening?
A Confidential Agent Retired 1.5 - Another adventure for Nick McCarty's former private investigator Liz Parker,
now retired in France. Liz is determined to enjoy her freedom, but circumstances intervene.
A Confidential Agent Retired 2.5 - Alarm bells start to ring when a businessman fails to show up for a meeting.
A Confidential Agent Retired 3.5 - Penelope's husband is missing and she asks Liz to track him down.
A Confidential Agent Retired 4.4 - Liz and Gloria set out for Brussels to find the missing husband.
A Confidential Agent Retired 5.5 - Liz discovers that Nicholas has some loyal friends and some frightening enemies.
A Conspiracy At Sevres - The play explores the illicit pact which ignited the Suez crisis. Prejudice, secrecy,
plotting and misdirection lie at the heart of Britain's actions in the Middle East.
A Coup - Annie Caulfield's play is based on a true memoir by Bruce Chatwin, caught up in a revolution as the
small African republic of Benin erupts into chaos
A Cuckoo in the Nest -
A Dance to the Music of Time 1.6 - Sex - In their final years at school, Nick
Jenkins and his friends make life difficult for the misfit Kenneth Widmerpool,
unaware of the slow-burning reaction that they are provoking.
A Dance to the Music of Time 2.6 - Friends - Nick's attempts to maintain the
closeness of his school friendships begin to founder in the unpredictable whirlpool of real life.
A Dance to the Music of Time 3.6 - Marriage - Nick and a number of his friends embark upon
the voyage of married life, without universal success.
A Dance to the Music of Time 4.6 - War - When Nick joins his regiment in Wales, old acquaintances reappear.
A Dance to the Music of Time 5.6 - Peace - Nick is drawn into the unpredictable universe of the formidable
Pamela Flitton.
A Dance to the Music of Time 6.6 - Last Dance. An unexpected meeting in Venice leads Nick to a new
perspective.
A Quick Killing in the City 1.2
A Quick Killing in the City 2.2
A Series of Murders
A Shocking Crime
A Very Meticulous Death 1.2
A Very Meticulous Death 2.2
An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson - March 1934. Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is
traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her celebrated play Richard of Bordeaux.
But joy turns to horror when her arrival coincides with the murder of a young woman she had
befriended on the train ride, and Tey quickly finds herself plunged into a mystery as puzzling
as any of those in her own works.
An Expert in Murder 01.10 - A grisly murder has been committed at King's Cross. The
clues lead Inspector Penrose reluctantly to his old acquaintance Josephine Tey.
An Expert in Murder 02.10 
An Expert in Murder 03.10
An Expert in Murder 04.10
An Expert in Murder 05.10
An Expert in Murder 06.10
An Expert in Murder 07.10
An Expert in Murder 08.10
An Expert in Murder 09.10
An Expert in Murder 10.10
Bloody Sunday 1.2 - Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola) is the term used to describe an incident in Derry,
Northern Ireland, on 30 January 1972 in which 26 civil rights protesters were shot by members of the 1st Battalion
of the British Parachute Regiment during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in the Bogside area of
the city. Thirteen people, seven of whom were teenagers, died immediately, while the death of another person 4½
months later has been attributed to the injuries he received on the day. Two protesters were injured when they were
run down by army vehicles.
Many witnesses including bystanders and journalists testify that all those shot were unarmed. Five of those wounded
were shot in
the back.Two investigations have been held by the British Government:
* The Widgery Tribunal, held in the immediate aftermath of the event,
largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame, but was
criticised by many as a "whitewash" including former chief of staff to
Tony Blair, Jonathan Powell.
* The Saville Inquiry, established in 1998 to look at the events again
(chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate), has yet to report as of June 2008.
Bloody Sunday 2.2
Hold Back the Night 1.4 - Billy Rucker has been asked to trace Lucy
Bradley, a runaway on the streets of London. But when he finds her, she has been
strangled and stabbed and abandoned in a disused house. On the entreaties of her
father he agrees to track down her killer.
Hold Back the Night 2.4
Hold Back the Night 3.4
Hold Back the Night 4.4
Killing 1.2
Killing 2.2
Leviathan 99 by Ray Bradbury - Leviathan 99 is sometimes described as Moby
Dick in space - and with justification, since Bradbury here transposes Melville's tale of ships
and whale to a tale of rocketships and a great white comet. This radio production was the first
public outing of this play, which would subsequently be adapted for stage.
Misery 1.2
Misery 2.2
Missing
Night Falls On The City 1.2 - by Sarah Gainham - An intense tale of
love and betrayal set in wartime Vienna.
Night Falls On The City 2.2
Nightmare World by Wally K. Daly (1 hour)
Pet Sematary 1.3 - (3 Hours)
Pet Sematary 2.3
Pet Sematary 3.3
Proof 1.8 by Dick Francis - "At an annual party to celebrate the success of the racing season
everything seemed to be running well to form. Until a runaway horsebox ploughed into the
marquee. Witness to the terrible death and destruction, wine merchant Tony Beach knows it
is just one of those tragic accidents. But when his expert advice is called on by the police over
sub-standard alcohol in a local night club, connections start to click. In helping Gerard McGregor,
a corporate investigator, Tony finds himself up against a cruel and chilling adversary."
Proof 2.8
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Proof 6.8
Proof 7.8
Proof 8.8
Rope - On a late afternoon, two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw and Phillip
Morgan murder a former classmate, David Kentley, in their apartment. They then hide his
body in a large antique wooden chest. Brandon's and Phillip's idea for the murder was
inspired years earlier by conversations with their erstwhile prep-school housemaster,
publisher Rupert Cadell. While at school, Rupert had discussed with them, in an apparently
approving way, the intellectual concepts of the Übermensch and the art of murder, a means
of showing one's superiority over others.
After committing the murder, Brandon and Phillip host a dinner party at the Shaw apartment which
has a beautiful panoramic view of the city skyline. The guests include the victim’s father and aunt
(his mother is not able to attend), as well as his fiancee, Janet Walker and her former lover Kenneth
Lawrence, who was once a close friend of David's. The chest containing the body is used as a buffet
for the food. Rupert Cadell also turns up since Brandon in particular feels that he would very likely
approve of their so-called work of art. "Now the fun begins," Brandon says when the first of the guests
arrives.
Secret Agent 1.2 by Joseph Conrad -
Secret Agent 2.2
Spies
The Terror - About the animal kingdom turning on humanity during WW I, but the
government is doing a coverup.
Three Days That Shook the World - It was a summer's day in 1991
when the Soviet Union's diehard communists decided they could take no more of
perestroika. On 19 August, the tanks rolled in to the centre of Moscow. Emergency
decrees were issued declaring the death of perestroika and a return to Soviet glory.
Gorbachov was arrested. But the plotters had reckoned without Boris Yeltsin and
without the tens of thousands of people who turned themselves into a human shield
around the Russian parliament building, the White House. BBC News Online's Sheila
Barter tells the story of the three days that changed world history.
Witness - Five Plays from the Gospel of Luke - by Nick Warburton -
1.5 - Witness - Witnesses - Peter and his brother, Andrew, tell how Jesus was baptised and began to
teach in Galilee, and how they were inspired to leave their lives as fishermen and follow him.
2.5 - Outsiders - Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Simon and an unnamed woman tell how Jesus's teaching began to
embrace outsiders and outcasts, and also to challenge the authorities.
3.5 - Jerusalem - Judas Iscariot tells the story of Jesus's growing reputation, his dramatic entry into Jerusalem
and Judas's own decision to betray him.
4.5 - Tested - Jesus's trial and crucifixion are seen through the eyes of Pilate, Caiaphas, Peter and Jesus's mother,
Mary.
5.5 - Beginnings - In the days following Jesus's death, his grieving mother ponders on the story of his birth, while
Peter, Mary Magdalene and the disciples are witnesses to Jesus's resurrection.
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