BBC Drama VIII


BBC Drama - A Taste for Death 01.10 by P. D. James 
BBC Drama - A Taste for Death 02.10 
BBC Drama - A Taste for Death 03.10 
BBC Drama - A Taste for Death 04.10 
BBC Drama - A Taste for Death 05.10 
BBC Drama - A Taste for Death 06.10 
BBC Drama - A Taste for Death 07.10 
BBC Drama - A Taste for Death 08.10 
BBC Drama - A Taste for Death 09.10 
BBC Drama - A Taste for Death 10.10  



***Strangers and Brothers is a series of novels by C. P. Snow, 
published between 1940 and 1974. They deal - amongst other things - 
with questions of political and personal integrity, and the 
mechanics of exercising power.
BBC Drama - Strangers and Brothers 1.5- A Time of Hope
BBC Drama - Strangers and Brothers 2.5- The Conscience of the Rich
BBC Drama - Strangers and Brothers 3.5- The Masters 1.2  
BBC Drama - Strangers and Brothers 4.5- The Masters 2.2  
BBC Drama - Strangers and Brothers 5.5- The Light and the Dark 



BBC Drama - Strangers and Brothers II 1.5- The New Men
BBC Drama - Strangers and Brothers II 2.5- Homecomings
BBC Drama - Strangers and Brothers II 3.5- The Affair
BBC Drama - Strangers and Brothers II 4.5- The Corridors of Power 1.2
BBC Drama - Strangers and Brothers II 5.5- The Corridors of Power 2.2







***Blood Money by R.D.Wingfield with John Bentley, Jonathan Scott, 
Joanna Wake and Hugh Janes 56 minutes originally broadcast 
26 August 1977 It's the first day with the new manager at Bennington's 
Bank, but that will be far from the only challenge for the staff.
BBC Drama - Blood Money by R.D.Wingfield






***Saturday Night Theatre. The hierarchy in a colony of apes. The "alpha" is the dominant male. 
BBC Drama - Alpha Male 1.2 by Christopher Hedgethorne
BBC Drama - Alpha Male 2.2

***BBC Drama - A Kind of Home - James Baldwin in Paris

***Harry Flashman, the lovable misogynist, blackguard, cheater, liar, adulterer and 
above all coward, has returned in another rollicking adventure by George MacDonald Fraser.

Shanghai-ed aboard a slave ship by his miserly Scottish father-in-law, Flashy soon finds himself 
smuggling "black ivory" across the Atlantic. Caught by the Yankee Navy, he masquerades as an 
abolitionist agent fighting the slave trade from within--and finds himself running slaves once again, 
this time north on the "Underground Railroad" to freedom.
BBC Drama - Flash for Freedom 1.2 by George MacDonald Fraser


***A Stone Woman - A Gothic Tale by AS Byatt - A gothic tale about a woman who develops a mystifying 
and enigmatic condition, in which her body slowly turns to stone. Not just any stone, but all kinds and colors. 
Her reaction to this is beautifully told, as is the relationship that she develops with an Icelandic stonecutter.

Unusual and thought-provoking.

BBC Drama - A Stone Woman 1.3 
BBC Drama - A Stone Woman 2.3 
BBC Drama - A Stone Woman 3.3 


***The Pledge - Detective Jerry Black has made a promise he can't break, 
to catch a killer he can't find. 





***The Laughing Policeman (1968), by Sjöwall and Wahlöö, is the fourth 
police detective novel in the ten-part 'Martin Beck' series. Originally 
published in Sweden in 1968 as Den skrattande polisen, it is the first 
novel in the series to criticize the shortcomings of the Swedish 
welfare state.
BBC Drama - The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo






***Murder on the Leviathan - Paris, 1878: Eccentric antiquarian 
Lord Littleby and his ten servants are found murdered in Littleby’s 
mansion on the rue de Grenelle, and a priceless Indian shawl is 
missing. Police commissioner “Papa” Gauche recovers only one 
piece of evidence from the crime scene: a golden key shaped like 
a whale. Gauche soon deduces that the key is in fact a ticket of 
passage for the Leviathan, a gigantic steamship soon to depart 
Southampton on its maiden voyage to Calcutta. The murderer 
must be among its passengers.
BBC Drama - Murder on the Leviathan  by Boris Akunin



***BBC Drama - Northanger Abbey 1.3 by Jane Austen
BBC Drama - Northanger Abbey 2.3
BBC Drama - Northanger Abbey 3.3










***Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the 
character of Richard Hannay , first published in 1916 by 
Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels 
set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast 
(1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, 
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period 
immediately preceding the war.
(also: see BBC Drama V - Adventures of Richard Hannay)
BBC Drama - Greenmantle 1.2
BBC Drama - Greenmantle 1.2


***BBC Drama - An Alternative Plan - A disposable entry


***BBC Drama - A Very English Deceit by Malcolm Balen









***BBC Drama - Amerika 1.2 by Franz Kafka 
BBC Drama - Amerika 2.2 



***BBC Drama - An Alternative Plan - A disposable item






***BBC Drama - Appleby's End 1.4 by Michael Innes  
BBC Drama - Appleby's End 2.4 
BBC Drama - Appleby's End 3.4 
BBC Drama - Appleby's End 4.4 



***BBC Drama - Barretts of Wimpole Street 1.2 by Rudolph Besier
BBC Drama - Barretts of Wimpole Street 2.2





***A terrifying cult of devil-worshippers makes murder part of its evil ritual. An arrogant lawyer 
cynically defends a woman he's sure is guilty and finds himself helpless to clear one he knows 
is innocent. Here is a chilling story of horror and brutality told in the heavy atmosphere of 
marihuana-filled chapels of the Devil.
BBC Drama - Below Suspicion by J D Carr


***BBC Drama - Black Cat Murder Mystery




***Gene Hawkings must travel to Kentucky, on the orders of his boss, to spend three weeks 
looking for kidnapped stallions. But before he leaves, Gene's survival skills are called on closer 
to home, catapulting him into a maelstrom of blackmail and murder.
BBC Drama - Blood Sport 1.2 by Dick Francis  
BBC Drama - Blood Sport 2.2


***BBC Drama - Cheating the Gallows - Will a surprise bank robbery undo the 
intense friendship of two inseparable lodgers? And what of the missing money?

 
***BBC Drama - Cobwebs - Psychological drama by David Hodgson. - Greg Drake is just 
getting his life back together after the death of his wife. But then his house is broken into 
when he is asleep. Nothing is taken, but his peace of mind is destroyed.

***BBC Drama - Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje 

 
***BBC Drama - Crooked House 1.4  by Agatha Christie  
BBC Drama - Crooked House 2.4 
BBC Drama - Crooked House 3.4 
BBC Drama - Crooked House 4.4 


***BBC Drama - Crowded Street 01.10 by Winifred Holtby - The theme of 
"The Crowded Street" is one that is familiar from other Persephone novels: 
it was then assumed that young women would stay at home while looking for 
a husband. Muriel, who believes that 'men do as they like' whereas women 
'wait to see what they will do', lives in a town in Yorkshire waiting - for what?
BBC Drama - Crowded Street 02.10 
BBC Drama - Crowded Street 03.10 
BBC Drama - Crowded Street 04.10 
BBC Drama - Crowded Street 05.10 
BBC Drama - Crowded Street 06.10 
BBC Drama - Crowded Street 07.10 
BBC Drama - Crowded Street 08.10 
BBC Drama - Crowded Street 09.10 
BBC Drama - Crowded Street 10.10 



***BBC Drama - It's Enough To Believe You're In Danger by Michael Butt - On the 6 March 1988, three members 
of an IRA active service unit were shot by the SAS on the Rock of Gibraltar. Their leader was 30 year old 
Daniel McCann. When he was killed he was holding a copy of Flann O’Brien’s novel “The Hard Life”. It was 
perhaps this last fact that prompted Michael Butt to investigate the character of the three would be bombers, 
and also the characters of the members of British Intelligence services on the ground. 



***BBC Drama - The Last Adventure by John Mortimer - Lord Byron arrives in Missolonghi to fight for Greek 
independence from Turkish rule, leading a small and unruly force of mercenaries and freedom fighters.


***BBC Drama - Paid Servant 1.5 by E. R. Braithwaite (Sequel to and Author of "To Sir, With Love").  
BBC Drama - Paid Servant 2.5  
BBC Drama - Paid Servant 3.5  
BBC Drama - Paid Servant 4.5  
BBC Drama - Paid Servant 5.5 

  
***BBC Drama - The African Queen by C. S. Forester 






***BBC Drama - The Ants by Caryl Churchill - (1962), 
deals with the subject of emotionally violent and 
damaging family relationships. 


***BBC Drama - The Wooden Horse 1.6 by Eric Williams  
BBC Drama - The Wooden Horse 2.6 
BBC Drama - The Wooden Horse 3.6 
BBC Drama - The Wooden Horse 4.6 
BBC Drama - The Wooden Horse 5.6 
BBC Drama - The Wooden Horse 6.6 








***Seven suicides in five years. It's more than coincidence. The Wheatstone Pond is a killer. 
Everyone knows the Pond should be filled in, but first it has to be drained. The beguiling 
Hermione from the City Toy Museum is intent on excavating the wrecks of a hundred years 
of model boats. But there's more down there, under the evil black slime, than they bargained for - 
a hundred years of a city's guilty secrets, and much, much worse.
BBC Drama - Wheatstone Pond by Robert Westall







***Whole of the Moon - The loss of a parent when they are just 50 is bound to be a shock, but for the bright, ambitious 
barrister at the heart of this legal drama it's not her father's death so much as both her parents' lives 
that shake her to her very core. Sorting through her dad's clothes she comes across a slip of paper 
with seemingly random jottings upon it. Her natural instinct to find out what they mean uncovers things 
that you just don't want to imagine your parents ever having been involved in. It's a dark journey.

BBC Drama - Whole of the Moon 1.5 by Colin MacDonald  
BBC Drama - Whole of the Moon 2.5
BBC Drama - Whole of the Moon 3.5
BBC Drama - Whole of the Moon 4.5
BBC Drama - Whole of the Moon 5.5