BBC Drama XIV
BBC Drama XIV
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BBC Drama - A Bullet in the Ballet by Caryl Brahms
****Introduces the phlegmatic Inspector Adam Quill and the excitable members of
Vladimir Stroganoff’s ballet company.
BBC Drama - A Miracle In No-Man's Land by Alex Jones (90 minutes)
****A soldier deserts his regiment in battle. He tells the Court Martial that he saw a vision of
Christ on the battlefield. The officers don't believe him.........will he be shot?
BBC Drama - A Night In The Ukraine by Dick Vosburgh
****A Night in the Ukraine, is loosely based on Anton Chekhov's one-act play
The Bear, and is presented in the style of a Marx Brothers movie.
BBC Drama - A Number by Caryl Churchill
****Family Tragedy in a Petri Dish. How might a
man feel to discover that he is
only one in a number of identical copies.
And which one of him is the original. . . ?
BBC Drama - A Right Royal Rip-Off by Wally K Daly (90 minutes)
****The gang plan to steal the crown jewels.
BBC Drama - Avoid London...Area Closed..Turn on Radio by Mike Walker (90 mins)
****focusing on how a family coped with the real and terrible events of 7/7 and how
they set about rebuilding their lives.
BBC Drama - Burglar's Bargains 1.2 by Wally K Daly
BBC Drama - Burglar's Bargains 2.2
****A gang of crooks rob Harrod's. But they're not ordinary crooks.
BBC Drama - Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (2 hours)
****It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village
of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging
from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack,
a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after twenty-five years,
and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of
this menage, Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human
beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape, interior and exterior,
Christian and pagan, of which they are nonetheless a part.
BBC Drama - Four Joneses And A Jenkins 1.6 by Sue Limb
BBC Drama - Four Joneses And A Jenkins 2.6
BBC Drama - Four Joneses And A Jenkins 3.6
BBC Drama - Four Joneses And A Jenkins 4.6
BBC Drama - Four Joneses And A Jenkins 5.6
BBC Drama - Four Joneses And A Jenkins 6.6
****Following the Jones family who live on a farm in rural Wales before the
widespread arrival of electricity and before Jesus College Cambridge
accepted female students. It’s an everyday story of sheep, sin and scholarship
under the shadow of the Long Mynd. Geoffrey Whitehead, Lisabeth Miles,
Rebecca Front, Matthew Morgan, Michael Fenton Stevens and Nickolas Grace
star in Sue Limb's six-part story of sheep, sin and scholarship under the shadow
of the Long Mynd.
BBC Drama - Fox at the Manger by P.L. Travers
****tale of a fox meeting the Messiah at Christmas, and offering up his cunning.
BBC Drama - Genevieve by William Rose
****Genevieve is a Darracq roadster vintage of 1904. A nice young fellow
who owns this antique car enters it, as has been his custom, for the
annual London-to-Brighton Commemoration run. Along with half a
hundred other veteran car maniacs in England, he anticipates the
festive outing with bounding enthusiasm and joy. So does his pal—
a jovial peacock—who owns a Spyker of the same year. But the wife
and the ladyfriend of these fellows—well, they have a different point of view!
BBC Drama - Grand Babylon Hotel 1.2 by Arnold Bennett (2 hours)
BBC Drama - Grand Babylon Hotel 2.2
****The Grand Babylon Hotel in London is an exclusive establishment.
Mr Theodore Racksole, an American millionaire, visited with his daughter
and bought the place. Events then take an unexpected turn as Theodore
and Nella Racksole play detective.
BBC Drama - Homecoming by Harold Pinter
****In an old and slightly seedy house in North London there lives a family of men:
Max, the aging but still aggressive patriarch; his younger, ineffectual brother Sam;
and two of Max's three sons, neither of whom is married-Lenny, a small-time pimp,
and Joey, who dreams of success as a boxer. Into this sinister abode come the
eldest son, Teddy, who, having spent the past six years teaching philosophy in
America, is now bringing his wife, Ruth, home to visit the family she has never met.
BBC Drama - Hopes and Desires 1.4 - Vongole by Michael Butt - Professor Swann's favourite pastime is
seducing female students. But what is he really after?
BBC Drama - Hopes and Desires 2.4 - The Non-Entity by Marcy Kahan - Why has a young publisher flown
all the way from London to Moscow to meet an out-of-date writer?
BBC Drama - Hopes and Desires 3.4 - Toad Squad by Nick Warburton - The sight of a squashed toad
in the road gives Reg a mission in life.
BBC Drama - Hopes and Desires 4.4 - The Anniversary Waltz by Jeremy Front -
****Series of comedies about unconscious yearnings.
BBC Drama - How Many Miles to Basra by Colin Teevan
****Southern Iraq, April 2003: four British soldiers,
a BBC reporter and their Iraqui translator embark
on an unauthorised mission deep into the war-torn
country's desert in a disastrous attempt to make
amends for the death of three Bedouin at a checkpoint.
BBC Drama - In the Absence of Geoff by Charlotte Jones (90 minutes)
****Geoff is in his 40s and facing ruin: his small business is about to collapse,
his marriage is failing and his child hates him. He pretends to suffer from
amnesia, becoming a media hero and bringing in money. But his daughter
become suspicious and his cover finally cracks.
BBC Drama - Jesus Hopped the A-Train by Stephen Adly Guirgis
****The man's tongue seems to be growing -- filling his mouth, thwarting
language, subverting thought -- and his voice expands with frustration,
scraping upward into a scream. It's one word that's the roadblock. What
is it anyway? Howard? Howling? Actually, it's hallowed. But by the time
Angel Cruz stumbles upon it, he can't hear himself for the shouting from
other cells. Reciting the Lord's Prayer is not, under the circumstances,
a remotely easy thing to do.
BBC Drama - Keys of the Kingdom 1.4 by A J Cronin
BBC Drama - Keys of the Kingdom 2.4
BBC Drama - Keys of the Kingdom 3.4
BBC Drama - Keys of the Kingdom 4.4
****Francis Chisholm is a compassionate and humble
priest whose vocation emerged from a crucible of suffering.
His parents were murdered in anti-Catholic riots in Scotland,
his guardians mistreat him, and his sweetheart commits suicide.
He is sent to China where he establishes a flourishing Catholic
mission amid desperate poverty, civil war, plague, and the hostility
of his superiors. Recognized as A.J. Cronin's best novel, The Keys
of the Kingdom is a gripping and thoughtful tale of a man called to
do good in an imperfect world.
BBC Drama - The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker
****The Lair of the White Worm is a camp horror tale from an acknowledged
master of the genre. Originally published in 1911, and out-of-print for many
years, this enticing tale comes to you from the pen of the man who brought
Dracula to life. Spooky. Shuddery.
BBC Drama - Laughter In The Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
****In Berlin there lived a man called Albinus. He was rich,
respectable and happy but one day he abandoned his wife
for the sake of a youthful mistress he loved. He was not loved
in return, however, and his life ended in disaster.
BBC Drama - Laughter When We're Dead by Sean O'Brien
****a political tragedy in verse
BBC Drama - Laura by Saki
****the title character is a dying woman who believes in reincarnation. After her death,
she returns in various successive animal forms for the purpose of tormenting her
brother-in-law, who---failing to recognize her----kills her repeatedly.
BBC Drama - Lawn Wars by Nick Warburton.
****Alice is a single middle-aged woman devastated after the recent loss of
her mother. To fulfil a promise she made to herself on mother's deathbed, Alice
takes on a gardener to improve the lawn that helped bond the two women.
BBC Drama - Left in Trust by Sarah Daniels.
****When a young woman decides to write a play about the founder of the
National Trust, it leads her to discover secrets about her own family.
BBC Drama - Light of a Thousand Suns by James Follett
****Bizarre coincidences spark a British nuclear sub's preparations for all-out attack.
BBC Drama - Little White Bird by J M Barrie (90 minutes)
****The Little White Bird is a series of short episodes, including accounts of the narrator's
day to day activities in London of its day, and fanciful tales set in Kensington Gardens
and elsewhere. Here also, we get a glmpse of Barrie's future friend Peter Pan.
BBC Drama - Long Lonely Voyage of U-395. by James Follett
****The Southern Atlantic, 10th November 1941: U-boat 395 has been patiently waiting
for a month to torpedo a British cargo ship, the Southern pearl, due out of Rio de Janeiro.
Things do not go according to plan and eventually the U-395 undertakes an epic journey
of 2,500 miles, towing six lifeboats to the safety of Brest.
" It was and will remain for many years, the longest rescue operation in maritime history" (KARL DONITZ)
BBC Drama - Loot by Joe Orton
***A black comedy.
BBC Drama - Lost in Plain Sight by Donna Franceschild
****A teenager struggling to stay sane turns a corner when emails
promising to change his life get mysteriously personal.
BBC Drama - Lucky 13 by Peter Simpkin
BBC Drama - Magic Mountain 1.3 by Thomas Mann
BBC Drama - Magic Mountain 2.3
BBC Drama - Magic Mountain 3.3
BBC Drama - Making Space 1.3 The Language of Flowers by Mary Paulson-Ellis
BBC Drama - Making Space 2.3 Earth Song by Nicholas Mckenna
BBC Drama - Making Space 3.3 The End of Time by Nicholas Mcilhenny
BBC Drama - The Man Who Was Thursday 1.4 by G K Chesterton
BBC Drama - The Man Who Was Thursday 2.4
BBC Drama - The Man Who Was Thursday 3.4
BBC Drama - The Man Who Was Thursday 4.4
****A nightmare. The seven members of the Central Anarchist Council
call themselves by the names of the days of the week. But events soon
cast a doubt upon their real identities, for Thursday is not the passionate
young poet he appears to be, but a Scotland Yard detective.
Who and what are the others?
BBC Drama - Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
****Mary Poppins is a magical nanny who sweeps into the Banks home of
Cherry Tree Lane and takes charge of the four Banks children. She never
openly acknowledges her strange and magical powers, and feigns insult
when one of the children refers to her previous adventures.
BBC Drama - More Mr. Mulliner 1.4 - The Bishop's Move
by P G Wodehouse
BBC Drama - More Mr. Mulliner 2.4 - The Ordeal of Osbert Mulliner
BBC Drama - More Mr. Mulliner 3.4 - The Knightly Quest of Meryvn
BBC Drama - More Mr. Mulliner 4.4 - The Truth About George
****Fisherman stories are notoriously economical with the truth,
but tales even taller than "the one that got away" enliven the bar
parlour of the Anglers' Rest when Mr Mulliner holds court to a
fireside audience. This is a collection of some of these stories.
BBC Drama - Needle by Christina Balit.
****Creating the Bayeux Tapestry for their Norman conquerors is a bitter task for
the women of Canterbury.
BBC Drama - Odd by Robert Sherman
BBC Drama - Resurrection 1.2 by Leo Tolstoy
BBC Drama - Resurrection 2.2
****Serving on a jury at the trial of a prostitute arrested for murder,
Prince Nekhlyudov is horrified to discover that the accused is a
woman he had once loved, seduced and then abandoned when
she was a young servant girl. Racked with guilt, he determines to
appeal for her release or follow her.
BBC Drama - Rush 1.2 by Annie McCartney
BBC Drama - Rush 2.2
****A Medical Thriller. Dr Louisa Maxwell brushes off a call from a former patient, Sophie Patterson,
in the middle of a busy shift, only to discover the next day that Sophie has been admitted to the
hospital, having taken a second overdose, and tragically died. Racked with guilt Louisa refuses to
believe that Sophie intended to kill herself - all the signs indicated Sophie was getting her life back
on track - and begins to suspect foul play.
BBC Drama - Safe by Tracy Spottiswoode
****Ansh is only 13 when she witnesses a murder. Taken into a safe house under police protection,
she has to learn to grow up fast.
BBC Drama - Shell Shocked by Gregory Burke
****Gregory Burke's moving story of two brothers who are separated in the trenches of the
First World War and whose lives take very different paths.
BBC Drama - Slow Fuse by R D Wingfield (credits clipped)
BBC Drama - Smokescreen by John Lawson
****When glib criminal Adrian Lucas discovers that the body at his uncle's cremation
isn't the right one, he puts a job on hold and uses his contacts to find out the truth.
The quest involves complications and peculiar characters that wouldn't be out of place
in a Dashiell Hammett thriller
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BBC Drama - Spellbound by Hilary Saint George Saunders
****The basis for Hitchcock's masterpiece Spellbound,
Francis Beeding's The House of Dr. Edwardes is a
chilling mystery set in an asylum in France. A study of
good and evil that owes some of its brooding, portentous
atmosphere to the Gothic fiction of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, Beeding's novel is also a classic
page-turner, a gripping work of suspense and intrigue.
BBC Drama - Stakeout
BBC Drama - The Bigger They Are by Wally K Daly
****the last in a trilogy of Wally K Daly plays. There's a Mafia plot to defraud the
Bank of England which is foiled by two city gents, a gang of prisoners and a Prison Governor.
BBC Drama - The Day They Wouldn't Take It Any More by Sue Rodwell
****Sue Rodwell's play is based on real events. A peace celebration organised by
Luton's Mayor Henry Impey in 1919 turns into a riot as former soldiers demand recognition.
BBC Drama - The Greatest Story Ever Told by Patrick Barlow
****Barlow has combined comedy with compassion, and makes sure we laugh
not at the characters in the story, but the two doomed thespians and their sorry attempts to tell it.
BBC Drama - The League of Gentlemen by John Boland
****The League of Gentlemen is a sardonic crime drama in which an
embittered retired army officer who recruits seven fellow ex-soldiers
to carry out a bank raid with military precision. The film presents an
England between post-war austerity and the more liberated 1960s
where traditional moral certainties were rapidly being discarded; a
London where ex-officers left on the scrapheap at war's end could
justify turning their military experience to armed robbery.
BBC Drama - The Long Weekend by Jeremy Front
****Former schoolfriends Gemma and Sophie reunite after 20 years for a weekend at
Sophie's country estate. The idyll takes a turn for the unexpected.
BBC Drama - The Mouse That Roared by Leonard Wibberley
****this classic cold war satire-cum-parable-cum-political farce
was first serialized in the Saturday Evening Post almost 50 years
ago, appearing under the title The Day New York Was Invaded.
At the time, the U.S. was afraid of a nuclear attack by Russia -
the idea of an attack by a small country was so absurd as to seem
comical. Wibberley's tiny European nation is furious about unfair
U.S. trading practices, so they send an army to invade New York
City, march up Broadway, and accidentally capture the world's
newest and most destructive bomb. Then they have to figure out
what to do with it. A whimsical cross between Kubrick and Kafka,
The Mouse That Roared is a quirky classic of world literature, a
poignant tale of political morality, and a hilarious, ultimately triumphant
portrait of international relations from the perspective of the little guy.
BBC Drama - The Possessed by Dostoyevsky
****Famous for accurately predicting twentieth-century totalitarianism,
Dostoevsky’s The Possessed is an emphatic howl of protest against
the fervor of revolution and terrorism that gripped Russia toward the
end of the nineteenth century.
BBC Drama - The Powder by Adam Thorpe
****A young soldier returns from the war to the family farm in Derbyshire,
only to find that things have changed and not, in his view, for the better.
BBC Drama - The Scrap Iron 1.6 by Johnny Quarro
BBC Drama - The Scrap Iron 2.6
BBC Drama - The Scrap Iron 3.6
BBC Drama - The Scrap Iron 4.6
BBC Drama - The Scrap Iron 5.6
BBC Drama - The Scrap Iron 6.6
BBC Drama - The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Judith French
****The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the English name of a poem
by Goethe, Der Zauberlehrling, written in 1797. The poem is
a ballad in fourteen stanzas.The poem begins as an old
sorcerer departs his workshop, leaving his apprentice with
chores to perform. Tired of fetching water by pail, the
apprentice enchants a broom to do the work for him — using
magic he is not yet fully trained in. The floor is soon awash
with water, and the apprentice realizes that he cannot stop the
broom because he does not know how.
Not knowing how to control the enchanted broom, the apprentice
splits it in two with an axe, but each of the pieces takes up a pail
and continue fetching water, now at twice the speed. When all
seems lost, the old sorcerer returns, quickly breaks the spell and
saves the day. The poem finishes with the old sorcerer's statement
that powerful spirits should only be called by the master himself.
BBC Drama - The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson
****Gripping story about a club for people who wish to end their lives.
The tale introduces the characters of Prince Florizel of Bohemia and
his sidekick Colonel Geraldine. In this cycle they infiltrate a secret
society of people intent on losing their lives.
BBC Drama - Unwritten Law - s01e01 - A Case of Blasphemous Obscenity
presented by Helena Kennedy
BBC Drama - Unwritten Law - s01e02 - A Bunch of Twigs
BBC Drama - Unwritten Law - s01e03 - The Case of the Ladies' Directory
BBC Drama - Unwritten Law - s01e04 - Burglaries and A Phone Tap
BBC Drama - Unwritten Law - s02e01 - Only Just Learned to Cry
BBC Drama - Unwritten Law - s02e02 - Only a Phase
BBC Drama - Unwritten Law - s02e03 - Breaking the Chain
****Helena Kennedy QC presents four dramatised features about trials that brought about a
change in the law because of changing social attitudes.
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