BBC DramaXII

BBC DramaXII


F:\B\BBC Drama XII ================== BBC Drama - 2000 Miles by Michael Butt BBC Drama - Apes and Angels by Jim Eldridge BBC Drama - Betrayal - The Trial of William Davidson by Tanika Gupta - 'The Cato Street Conspiracy' was an attempt to murder all the British cabinet ministers and Prime Minister Lord Liverpool in 1820. The name comes from the meeting place near Edgware Road in London. BBC Drama - Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol - 1920. Farnol was one of the best-selling authors of the early part of the 20th century. The book begins: The Frenchman beside me had been dead since dawn. His scarred and shackled body swayed limply back and forth with every sweep of the great oar as we, his less fortunate bench-fellows, tugged and strained to keep time to the stroke. ***BBC Drama - Cleverest Man at Oxford by Geoffrey Parkinson BBC Drama - Death Drop 1.2 by B M Gill BBC Drama - Death Drop 2.2 BBC Drama - Distant Music - Based on James Joyce's 'The Dead' BBC Drama - Flesh 1.5 by Teddy Black BBC Drama - Flesh 2.5 BBC Drama - Flesh 3.5 BBC Drama - Flesh 4.5 BBC Drama - Flesh 5.5 BBC Drama - Gathering Of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines - "In the bayou country of deepest Louisiana, in the late 1970s, a Cajun farmer is found shot dead. At the scene are one young white woman and about 18 old black men, each holding a shotgun. The sheriff is pretty sure who killed the white guy -- hardly any of the old fellows standing around could hit the side of a barn -- but his interrogations, punctuated by slaps and threats, fail to crack or resolve their conflicting and confusing stories. Every single one claims guilt, though the dead man was killed with but one shot, and they promise a riot at the courthouse if the sheriff makes an arrest BBC Drama - Gentlemen, Murder Is Served by Derek Wilson BBC Drama - Great Chocolate Murders by John Fletcher - Obsessive love, poison, bad drains, royalty, murder and chocolate all feature in John Fletcher¹s play, set in 19th-century Brighton and based on a true story. Christiana Edmunds, an eccentric, 40-something spinster, falls madly in love at first sight with the tall and handsome Dr Beard, a married man. She visits him, complaining of abdominal pains which he must examine at once, and they begin a passionate but brief affair ­ an affair he quickly regrets. BBC Drama - Icarus Falling by Jonathan Davidson BBC Drama - King of Shadows by Susan Cooper - Only in the world of theatre can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe travelling to London to perform "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in a new replica of the famous Globe Theatre. Shortly after arriving in England, Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years--to another London, and another production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Amid the bustle and excitement of an Elizabeth theatrical production, Nat finds the warm, nurturing father figure missing from his life--in none other than William Shakespeare himself. BBC Drama - Last Day In Limbo 1.6 (Modesty Blaise) by Morris Travers BBC Drama - Last Day In Limbo 2.6 BBC Drama - Last Day In Limbo 3.6 BBC Drama - Last Day In Limbo 4.6 BBC Drama - Last Day In Limbo 5.6 BBC Drama - Last Day In Limbo 6.6 BBC Drama - Last Days of Gordon Springer by Richard Stevens BBC Drama - Last Days Of Mankind 1.4 by Karl Kraus BBC Drama - Last Days Of Mankind 2.4 BBC Drama - Last Days Of Mankind 3.4 BBC Drama - Last Days Of Mankind 4.4 BBC Drama - Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol (Sequel to Black Bartlemy's Treasure) BBC Drama - The Monkey's Mask by by Dorothy Porter - "Jill" I challenge the mirror "how much guts have you got?..." BBC Drama - Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates 1.3- Black Tuesday by Michael Bond - A humorous, sometimes ironic and at other times farcical mystery, is mostly fun and is filled with mouth-watering, savoring hints of French cuisine. Monsieur Pamplemousse, an inspector at the culinary magazine Le Guide, is asked by the Director to investigate the sabotage of the widely anticipated new edition of the prestigious magazine. As M. Pamplemousse delves deeper into the intricacies of the computer break-in, what started as a prank is beginning to appear as the deadly series plot against both the magazine and its head. Luckily, his faithful canine companion, Pommes Frites, stands ready to help, whether with the delectable dishes or subtle detection. While the communication between the master and the dog are not always perfect, they make one formidable—if often amuzing—team. BBC Drama - Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates 2.3- Grey Wednesday BBC Drama - Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates 3.3- The Final Print-Out BBC Drama - Moonhunter by Peter Tinniswood BBC Drama - Moonmen by Jimmy McAleavey - A space odyssey with a difference, Moonmen centres on a philosophical encounter between two isolated men - an astronaut and a CB radio enthusiast in rural Ireland. Are they polar opposites or kindred spirits locked in a mutual orbit? BBC Drama - Nightmares - A psychological thriller by Dave Simpson BBC Drama - Playing with Fire by David Edgar - BBC Drama - Private Correspondence by Nicholas Stark BBC Drama - The Case of the Cool Canary BBC Drama - The Case of the Substitute Spouse by Sarah Maxwell BBC Drama - The City Speaks 1.2 - A film for radio - The series of six short radio plays has been inspired by a scenario produced by writer Peter Ackroyd. BBC Drama - The City Speaks 2.2 BBC Drama - The Korvack Conspiracy by Paul Fain BBC Drama - The Lotus and the Wind 1.4 A Spy Novel by John Masters - It continues his saga of the Savage family, who are part of the British Raj in India, and is set against the backdrop of the Great Game, the period of tension between Britain and Russia in Central Asia during the late nineteenth century. BBC Drama - The Lotus and the Wind 2.4 BBC Drama - The Lotus and the Wind 3.4 BBC Drama - The Lotus and the Wind 4.4 BBC Drama - The Moonstone 1.6 by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. The Moonstone was published in 1868 and concerns the huge yellow diamond of the title that was once stolen from an Indian shrine. Rachel Verrinder receives the stone as a gift and does not realise that it has been passed to her in a sinister form of revenge by John Herncastle who, it transpires, acquired the moonstone by means of murder and theft. The jewel also brings bad luck. The stone disappears on the very night it is given to Rachel, though, and the tale concerns the unveiling of the culprit after the intervention of Sergeant Cuff, a famous London detective. (6 hours) BBC Drama - The Moonstone 2.6 BBC Drama - The Moonstone 3.6 BBC Drama - The Moonstone 4.6 BBC Drama - The Moonstone 5.6 BBC Drama - The Moonstone 6.6 BBC Drama - The Toff and the Runaway Bride 1.6 Honeymoon For One by John Creasey BBC Drama - The Toff and the Runaway Bride 2.6 The Finger of Suspicion BBC Drama - The Toff and the Runaway Bride 3.6 No Sleep For the Wicked BBC Drama - The Toff and the Runaway Bride 4.6 Death is No Alibi BBC Drama - The Toff and the Runaway Bride 5.6 Motive For Murder BBC Drama - The Toff and the Runaway Bride 6.6 Confrontation in Paris BBC Drama - The Toff on the Farm 1.6 Trouble For Sale by John Creasey BBC Drama - The Toff on the Farm 2.6 Dead On Arrival BBC Drama - The Toff on the Farm 3.6 Destination Danger BBC Drama - The Toff on the Farm 4.6 Cause For Alarm BBC Drama - The Toff on the Farm 5.6 A Step In The Dark BBC Drama - The Toff on the Farm 6.6 The Mystery Of Selby Farm BBC Drama - The Tor Sands Experience by Bruce Stewart - sequel to OMEGAPOINT. Excellent science fiction tale, with hexadodecaphonic sound effects (90 min) BBC Drama - The Trial Of Walter Ralegh by Christopher Lee (Historian This Sceptred Isle) - The Trial of Walter Ralegh was a special Los Angeles production and starred Michael York as the doomed Sir Walter. BBC Drama - The Trials of Marshall Hall 1.5- The Black Trunk by Edward Marjoribanks & starring Tom Baker - Sir Edward Marshall-Hall, KC, (Brighton, 16 September 1858 – 24 February 1927) was an English barrister who had a formidable reputation as an orator. He successfully defended many people accused of notorious murders and became known as "The Great Defender". BBC Drama - The Trials of Marshall Hall 2.5- The Camden Town Murder BBC Drama - The Trials of Marshall Hall 3.5- A Hint of Arsenic BBC Drama - The Trials of Marshall Hall 4.5- A Death at Christmas BBC Drama - The Trials of Marshall Hall 5.5- The Green Bicycle BBC Drama - The Umbrella by Lavinia Greenlaw - Will and Iris are a busy professional couple, married for ten years and still in love. Or so they think until, in the middle of the wettest summer they can remember, the Perfect Stranger comes into their lives. BBC Drama - The Uncertainty Principle by Marcy Kahan - was set in 2099; a world where everyone knows his lifespan. People live at the appropriate pace; short-lifers are frenetic; short-attention-span, beer-swilling hedonists; long-lifers are more laid back: advocates of lifelong learning, retraining for different jobs each decade, and making long term investments. When a short-lifer overstays his welcome by not dying at the right time, why does it have to be kept secret? BBC Drama - The Unexpected Death Of Jimmy Blizzard by Robert Ellison BBC Drama - Theremin by Melissa Murray - A spy thriller - Leon Theremin, gifted inventor and reluctant spy, is forced to find a way to bug the US Embassy in London. Now he has to save himself and his former lover from both the CIA and the KGB. BBC Drama - This Is A True Story by Nick Harrington and Tom Wright - The true story a man with a low IQ who has been on death row in a US prison for 25 years. BBC Drama - Too Many Crooks by Donald E Westlake - Very comical. Two guys dig into a bank vault and meet all the bank employees, held hostage in there by somebody holding up the bank. BBC Drama - Torchwood - Lost Souls by Joseph Lidster - BBC Drama - Underground by Tom Holland BBC Drama - Upside Down and Back to Front. by Lance Woodman.- Set now and in 1913, the story follows a photographer as he travels around Worcestershire. We are taken on a journey through the pictures he creates and the relationships he forms. As he learns his craft we see how this journey changes his life forever. BBC Drama - Vendetta for a Judge by James Follett - " I'm going to ruin that judge's life just as he's ruined ours. I don't know how, but I'll think of something. After all, I've got plenty of time haven't I? Plenty of time. Nine years " Plenty of time for a prisoner with an obsession and sufficient enterprise to prepare the ground for total war.... BBC Drama - Vertical Hour by David Hare - Nadia, an American war reporter-turned-academic, lives a settled life with her English boyfriend, but when she visits his home and meets his womanising father for the first time, her political opinions and her relationship come under great strain. (90 minutes) BBC Drama - Wanted Someone Innocent by Margery Allingham BBC Drama - What Is She Doing Here 1.5 by by Kate Clanchy - Throughout this clever, funny, tragic book, Kate Clanchy lists all the things her Kosovan cleaner can do that she can't: shear, spin, darn, knit, mop, milk, haggle, plant, and many more. There is only one thing she can do, she says, that Antigona can't: write. Indeed she can. Antigona (not her real name) is a lucky person, or she would never have got here. Her luck has held with Clanchy: her story couldn't be better told. BBC Drama - What Is She Doing Here 2.5 BBC Drama - What Is She Doing Here 3.5 BBC Drama - What Is She Doing Here 4.5 BBC Drama - What Is She Doing Here 5.5 BBC Drama - Who Shot Ada Tansey by Peter Whalley BBC Drama - Wolves of Willoughby Chase 1.2 by Joan Aiken - "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase" is the first book in the "Wolves" Saga by Joan Aiken, a series of books set in an alternative 18th century England in the reign of King James III. In this altered history a large number of wolves migrate from the bitter cold of Europe and Russia into Britain via the Channel Tunnel, and terrorise the inhabitants in their continuing hunting. BBC Drama - Wolves of Willoughby Chase 2.2 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Total 0 folder(s); 93 file(s) Total files size: 974 MB; 974305 KB; 997688768 Bytes ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^