BBC Drama XV
BBC Drama XV
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BBC Drama - 1985 1.2 by Guy Meredith
BBC Drama - 1985 2.2
******Crime mystery by Scott Cherry, featuring police family liaison officer Jacqui Hartwell.
It soon becomes apparent to that the death of Professor Leonard Hines was no accident.
BBC Drama - A Small Town Murder 1.5 by Scott Cherry
BBC Drama - A Small Town Murder 2.5
BBC Drama - A Small Town Murder 3.5
BBC Drama - A Small Town Murder 4.5
BBC Drama - A Small Town Murder 5.5
******Musical and prosaic idiosyncrasy and whimsy from the inimitable Ivor Cutler.
BBC Drama - A Wet Handle 1.5 by Ivor Cutler
BBC Drama - A Wet Handle 2.5
BBC Drama - A Wet Handle 3.5
BBC Drama - A Wet Handle 4.5
BBC Drama - A Wet Handle 5.5
BBC Drama - All That Caper by Kate Perry (1 hour)
******Ancient Enemies is quick-paced and provides some compelling reading
on an age-old subject: strained relationships in familial settings.
BBC Drama - Ancient Enemies by Elizabeth North
******You're live on air on a radio phone-in, enthusing about cars. The lines go
down and you're left speaking to the nation. How long before you stop talking
about cars and say something you'll sorely regret?
BBC Drama - Are We Driving Ourselves Crazy by Ezra Hjalmarsson
******Kirsty is having an affair with a married man, Adrian. When his wife Lucy returns
unexpectedly from a business conference, Kirsty hides in the attic. In a panic, she falls
down the back of the attic into the cavity wall.
BBC Drama - Cavity by Sean Grundy
******the story of a father's painful path to recovery two years after his daughter goes missing.
BBC Drama - Child in Time 1.5 - Stolen by Ian Mcewan
BBC Drama - Child in Time 2.5 - A Time Apart
BBC Drama - Child in Time 3.5 - He Remembers What Suits Him
BBC Drama - Child in Time 4.5 - It Will Give Faith to Her Existence
BBC Drama - Child in Time 5.5 - She Was A Lovely Child
******Otis takes babies and money off desperate mothers, promising to
deliver them to the Coram Foundling Hospital in London. Instead, he
murders them and buries them by the roadside, to the helpless horror
of his mentally ill son, Mish. When Melissa, beloved of Alexander Ashbrook
and daughter of his governess becomes pregnant by him, her mother
arranges for the Otis to take the child, telling Melissa it was stillborn.
Alexander, not knowing Melissa's condition, has fled his home for a career
in music. But Mish manages to save Melissa's baby, Aaron, and he grows
up with Toby, the son of an African slave, inseparable friends. Toby is a
plaything at the house of rich Mr Gaddarn, who is, in fact, Otis. When Mish
sees Aaron and Alexander together, and realises the family link, he takes
Aaron and Toby to Otis, who rejects them. A way must be found to rescue
them, but a great friend must die before the family can be reunited.
BBC Drama - Coram Boy 1.2 by Jamila Gavin
BBC Drama - Coram Boy 2.2
BBC Drama - Crossing the Line by Terry Cafola (1 hour)
******Exasperated by her husband's obsession with the writings of Mr Spectator,
Gilbert's wife Kitty decides to see what all the fuss is about.
BBC Drama - Dear Mr Spectator 1.5
BBC Drama - Dear Mr Spectator 2.5
BBC Drama - Dear Mr Spectator 3.5
BBC Drama - Dear Mr Spectator 4.5
BBC Drama - Dear Mr Spectator 5.5
******Alexis Zegerman's drama tells the story of a love affair between
a woman from London and a Paris-based French Algerian. When
Claire and Ahmed meet, it is language that stands between them.
But when Ahmed is stopped and searched in London under section 44
of the Terrorism Act, the seed of a much larger difference is sown.
BBC Drama - Deja Vu by Alexis Zegerman
******A drama specially created for Radio 3, exploring the
loose ends left by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Hugh,
a Protestant Belfast music band teacher, is in hospital
following a car crash. After his daughter was killed by the
IRA during the peace process, he has become bigoted
and disillusioned. Following a visit by Charlie, a volatile
but talented pupil, the play goes back in time to discover
how their relationship and views changed over the previous
two decades…
BBC Drama - Echoes of War by Gary Mitchell (90 minutes)
******the story of a 14th century Irish woman, Dame Alice Kyteler of Kilkenny,
who was the first in Europe to be put on trial for witchcraft in 1324.
BBC Drama - First Witch 1.5 by Edel Brosnan
BBC Drama - First Witch 2.5
BBC Drama - First Witch 3.5
BBC Drama - First Witch 4.5
BBC Drama - First Witch 5.5
******Psychological thriller by Trevor Preston. Thomas's dreams are like thriller plots,
even if his daily life is anything but.
BBC Drama - Flaw in the Motor, Dust in the Blood by Trevor Preston.
BBC Drama - Fully Harmonious and Unauthorised History of the MCC by Peter Tinniswood
******interesting science fiction story.
BBC Drama - Goodnight Mr Zero by Michael Wall
BBC Drama - Hecuba by Euripides
******On a flight from Moscow, writer David Pownall sat next to an
elderly English diplomat who had been in Russia in 1948 and
heard a rumour that Stalin offered to give Prokofiev a piano lesson.
Master Class grew out of that rumour. The atmosphere is tense as
Stalin conducts a deadly game of psychological warfare with his
musical guests who are summoned from a musicians' conference,
to help him compose his own anthem that will be sung by 'thousands
of voices'. Not knowing whether he is genuinely befriending them or
playing them like a cat does a mouse before it pounces, the composers
are initially hesitant to engage with the leader's requests, but slowly the
tables begin to turn- although we still have to get to the surprising and
shocking conclusion.
BBC Drama - Master Class by David Pownall
BBC Drama - MOGS by Hugh Leonard
******Murder in the Cathedral is a poetic drama by T. S. Eliot
that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket
in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. Eliot drew heavily on the writing
of Edward Grim, a clerk who was an eyewitness to the event.
BBC Drama - Murder In The Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
******Monica Dickens is the granddaughter of Charles. In this one she tells about her time as a reporter.
BBC Drama - My Turn to Make the Tea 1.4 by Monica Dickens
BBC Drama - My Turn to Make the Tea 2.4
BBC Drama - My Turn to Make the Tea 3.4
BBC Drama - My Turn to Make the Tea 4.4
******Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel,
written between 1956-1957 and first published
in 1961, is the story of an impoverished, retired colonel, a
veteran of the Thousand Days War, who still hopes to receive
the pension he was promised some fifteen years earlier. The
colonel lives with his asthmatic wife in a small village under
martial law. The action opens with the colonel preparing to go
to the funeral of a town musician whose death is notable because
he was the first to die from natural causes in many years. The novel
is set during the years of "La Violencia" in Colombia, when martial
law and censorship prevail.
BBC Drama - No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
******Another humorous parody -The title refers to a navigational error made by Odysseus
in travelling from one part of Europe to another - he went too far south. This is the story of
Odysseus's return after twenty years of trying to find Greece, and comfronting his wife's
112 suitors. Homer describes the scene : '... so did Odysseus' party chase the suitors
pell- mell through the hall and hack them down. Skulls cracked, the hideous cries of dying
men were heard, and the whole floor ran with blood.....' Alick Rowe's version is more plausible;
listen to this and learn what really happened.
BBC Drama - Odysseus on An Iceberg 1.2 by Alick Rowe
BBC Drama - Odysseus On An Iceberg 2.2
******PACK OF LIES is a sensitive study in how repeated lying can
undermine even the closest of friendships.
BBC Drama - Pack of Lies by Hugh Whitemore.(90 minutes)
******A stark and shattering play capturing Britain as it crashes from the euphoria and promise
of the 2012 Olympics announcement into the devastation of the London bombings of 7 July 2005.
It follows eight people on those fateful days. They seem unremarkable lives, but each of them is 
touched and changed in some indelible way by the events.
BBC Drama - Pornography by Simon Stephens
******In a pub in a rural village in Hungary, the regulars look forward to the annual funfair
and the prospect of a visit by a famous football team. Nick, a stranger from Budapest
on his way to Portugal, appears and triggers mayhem, capturing the heart of the landlord's
daughter and provoking intense jealousy in her fiance.
BBC Drama - Portugal by Zoltan Egressy
******The drama starts in medias res. Samson has been captured
by the Philistines, had his hair, the container of his strength, cut off
and his eyes cut out. Samson is "Blind among enemies, O worse
than chains"Samson Agonistes is a blank verse play by John Milton
heavily indebted to Greek tragedy, but with a Biblical hero. This mix
of two different cultures presents Samson as a tragic hero who, rather
than raging against the Olympian deities, supplicates himself to the
one true Christian God whom he calls upon to save him. Samson's
blindness has led many to see him as a character who Milton, himself
blind in later life, identified with strongly.
BBC Drama - Samson Agonistes by John Milton
******the tale of a young autistic Jewish girl who is dying of cancer.
This monologue aroused unprecedented listener response when it
was broadcast in 1997 on BBC radio and was subsequently voted
one of the ten best radio dramas of all time by readers of the magazine
Radio Times.
BBC Drama - Spoonface Steinberg by Lee Hall
******As war swirls around them, three of the most important figures in the history of the
Middle and Near East are brought together in fierce debate: how can a successful society
be built, and what does it need to do to endure?
BBC Drama - Tamburlaine, Shadow of God by John Fletcher
******Set in Ballybeg Hall in County Donegal, the decaying home of District Justice O'Donnell,
where those who congregate for a wedding stay to attend a funeral. Aristocrats chronicles
the lives of three sisters and their 'peculiar' brother and reveals the way 'in which the ache of
one family becomes the microcosm for the ache of a society'.
BBC Drama - The Aristocrats by Brian Friel
******The Awakening is a short novel by Kate Chopin, first published
in 1899. It is widely considered to be a proto-feminist precursor to
American modernism.
Immediately after its publication, reviewers frequently denounced the
"unwholesome" content of this book, while simultaneously acknowledging
that the writing style was outstanding. It was also condemned due to its
sexual openness. The harsh reaction to the book probably was the determining
factor in the publisher's decision to stop publication after only a single printing.
BBC Drama - The Awakening 1.2 by Kate Chopin
BBC Drama - The Awakening 2.2
******The plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and return England to Catholic rule.
BBC Drama - The Babington Plot by Michael Butt
******The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde written after
his release from Reading prison on 19 May 1897. Its main theme is the
death penalty. Wilde was incarcerated in HMP Reading, in Reading,
Berkshire, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and
sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment
a hanging took place.
BBC Drama - The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
******A harrowing train journey set against an exotic background of spies
and intrigue, a beautiful and accomplished heroine, dramatic surprises
and distinguished and extraordinary characters; this book has it all. The
main plot revolves about the political complexities developing in Europe
and Russia around 1901, and while the action takes place chiefly in France,
the main protagonist, Laura, is a well-born Englishwoman still too young
to have been presented at court. From her British father she inherits
down-to-earth common sense, and from her Russian mother an instinctive
love of Russia and sympathy with the Russian soul. Whenever we are in
danger of being carried away by extravagant idealism and lofty
speculation, Laura jumps in and effectively pricks the bubble.
BBC Drama - The Birds Fall Down 1.2 by Rebecca West
BBC Drama - The Birds Fall Down 2.2
******Chekhov's great tragicomic eulogy for a passing way of life
is superbly adapted to make a powerful and beautifully playable
drama.
Chekhov originally intended the play as a comedy (the title page
of the work refers to it as such), and in letters noted that it is even
more like a farce. When he saw the original Moscow Art Theatre
production directed by Constantin Stanislavski, he was horrified
to find that the director had molded the play into a tragedy. Ever
since that time, productions have had to struggle with this dual
nature of the play (and of Chekhov's works in general.)
BBC Drama - The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
******Sir Claude Mulhammer, a wealthy entrepreneur, decides to
smuggle his illegitimate son Colby into the household by employing
him as his confidential clerk. He hopes that his eccentric wife,
Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer, will take a liking to the boy and allow
him to live as her adopted son. She in fact becomes convinced that
Colby is actually her own son. Meanwhile Lucasta Angel wants to marry
B. Kaghan, but neither seems to have any parents at all. A drama of
mistaken identity and confusion ensues.
BBC Drama - The Confidential Clerk by T S Eliot
******Exploration of the onset of dementia by Anne Devlin.
Alarming lapses of memory lead to Bee losing her home and career. She returns home to her family
and ageing mother, increasingly isolated and frustrated with herself. Then she meets a strange creature
in the park who calls himself The Forgotten. Can he help her?
BBC Drama - The Forgotten by Anne Devlin.
BBC Drama - The Night Lords by Nicholas Wheeling
******Although his first book was about English romance,
Newton Booth Tarkington, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes,
for The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, came
to be known for his comical (and almost cynical) style of the
Lost Generation that characterized the 1920's. The book begins:
Out of the north Atlantic a January storm came down in the night,
sweeping the American coast with wind and snow and sleet upon
a great oblique front from Nova Scotia to the Delaware capes.
BBC Drama - The Plutocrat 1.2 by Booth Tarkington (w-Leslie Caron,
Stacy Keach and Elizabeth McGovern
BBC Drama - The Plutocrat 2.2
******The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the events
experienced by a mariner on a long sea voyage. The Mariner
stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony, and
begins to recite his story. The Wedding-Guest's reaction turns
from bemusement to impatience and fear to fascination as the
Mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style:
for example Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as
personification and repetition to create either a sense of danger,
of the supernatural or serenity, depending on the mood of each of
the different parts of the poem.
The Mariner's tale begins with his ship departing on its journey.
Despite initial good fortune, the ship is driven south off course by
a storm and eventually reaches Antarctica. An albatross appears
and leads them out of the Antarctic, but even as the albatross is
praised by the ship's crew, the Mariner shoots the bird - (with my
cross-bow / I shot the albatross). The crew is angry with the Mariner,
believing the albatross brought the South Wind that led them out of the
Antarctic - (Ah, wretch, said they / the bird to slay / that made the
breeze to blow). However, the sailors change their minds when the
weather becomes warmer and the mist disappears: ('Twas right, said they,
such birds to slay / that bring the fog and mist). The crime arouses the wrath
of spirits who then pursue the ship "from the land of mist and snow"; the south
wind which had initially led them from the land of ice now sends the ship into
uncharted waters, where it is becalmed.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
BBC Drama - The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
******In this imaginative and mysterious drama by Christopher Cook, one of Poe’s own early
creations, the detective C. Auguste Dupin investigates the bizarre and strange death of the writer.
BBC Drama - The Strange Case of Edgar Allan Poe by Christopher Cook
******A classic of modern African writing, this is the tale of
what happens to tribal customs and old ways when white man comes.
BBC Drama - Things Fall Apart 1.2 by Chinua Achebe
BBC Drama - Things Fall Apart 2.2
******Rugby League football in an industrial northern city is
a life of grime, mud, sweat and intrigue. The story follows the
fortunes of the hero Arthur Machin, from the day of his inclusion
in the local team to the match when he first feels age creeping
up on him.
BBC Drama - This Sporting Life 1.2 by David Storey
BBC Drama - This Sporting Life 2.2
******A decapitated body, a missing tinner, a disgruntled band of miners and a mad
Saxon intent on destroying all things Norman. How on earth can Crowner John sort
all this out when his wife hates him, his mistress has spurned him for a younger man,
and his clerk is in the grip of a suicidal depression? Only Gwyn, Crowner John's
indispensable right-hand man seems to be of any help at all -- until he is arrested for
murder and put on trial for his life.
BBC Drama - The Tinner's Corpse by Bernard Knight (1 hour)
******a reconstuction of the 1972 Old Bailey trial of the urban guerrilla movements of the period
BBC Drama - Trial Of The Angry Brigade by Graham White
BBC Drama - Troy 1.6 by Andrew Rissik
BBC Drama - Troy 2.6
BBC Drama - Troy 3.6
BBC Drama - Troy 4.6
BBC Drama - Troy 5.6
BBC Drama - Troy 6.6
******A drama series about a busy railway station in the fictional Midlands town of Bridgeford at the end of
the 19th century. It follows the hectic lives of the station-master and his staff and a colourful assortment
of travellers and passers-by. There is a running story throughout which links the individual stories.
BBC Drama - Victoria Station - s01e01 - Signal Failure
BBC Drama - Victoria Station - s01e02 - Tunnel Vision
BBC Drama - Victoria Station - s01e03 - First Class Distinction
BBC Drama - Victoria Station - s01e04 - Fog Warnings
BBC Drama - Victoria Station - s01e05 - Over the Points
BBC Drama - Victoria Station - s02e01 - Goods Perishable
BBC Drama - Victoria Station - s02e02 - Tickets Please
BBC Drama - Victoria Station - s02e03- Express Desire
BBC Drama - Victoria Station - s02e04 - Silent Night Train
******Andrew Motion brings all his lyricism and inventiveness to bear
in this fictional autobiography of the great swindler, Thomas Griffiths
Wainewright. A painter, writer, and friend of Blake, Byron, and Keats,
Wainewright was almost certainly a murderer. When he died in a penal
colony in Tasmania, he left behind fragments of documents and a beguiling
legend which Motion uses to create an imagined confession laced with facts,
telling the story as no straightforward history could.
"Brilliantly innovative, gripping, intricately researched, Motion's biography does
justice to its subject at last."--John Carey, The Sunday Times
"Engaging and convincing. . . . The trajectory of this character-from neglected
and resentful child to arrogant and envious London dandy to sociopathic
murderer on to an enfeebled, frightened prisoner-is indelibly imagined and
drawn."--Edmund White, Financial Times
"[A] fascinating look at an evil artist, a charmer still having his way with us. We can hear
him being economical with the truth, telling us and himself just what he
wants to hear."--Michael Olmert, New Jersey Star Ledger
BBC Drama - Wainewright the Poisoner by Andrew Motion (1 hour)
******Set in Ukraine, beginning in late 1918, the novel concerns the fate of
the Turbin family as the various armies of the Russian Civil War - the Whites,
the Reds, the German Army left over after Russia left the First World War,
and the peasants of Ukraine fight over the city of Kiev. Real historical figures
such as Petlyura and Skoropadsky feature as the various Turbins are caught up
in the turbulent effects of the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War
on their lives.
BBC Drama - White Guard 1.2 - Betrayal by Mikhail Bulgakov
BBC Drama - White Guard 2.2 - Survival
******In 1682, three women from Bideford were hanged - their crime was witchcraft. They were the last women
in England to be executed for this crime. More than 300 years later, their story is told in a radio play produced by
BBC Radio Devon.
BBC Drama - Witches of Bideford by Heidi Stephenson
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