BBC Drama XVI
BBC Drama XVI
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*****After being invited to a dinner party by the Dearly couple,
where Cruella de Vil expresses her dislike for animals, the family's
new Dalmatian puppies disappear. The Dearly dogs are added to
84 puppies who are kidnapped or legally purchased from various
owners, all of which have been gathered with the intent of skinning
them for their fur, to make a coat. Through a fellowship of animals
and the "Twilight Barking," the dogs are identified as being in Suffolk,
and a rescue ensues.
BBC Drama - 101 Dalmations 1.4
BBC Drama - 101 Dalmations 2.4
BBC Drama - 101 Dalmations 3.4
BBC Drama - 101 Dalmations 4.4
*****Nestor Burma is a witty French crime detector with lots of savoir-faire.
Chief of the Fiat Lux detective agency, he operates in the Paris of the 1940s
and 50s and is assisted by Helen, his secretary. In this mystery, dying men
keep mouthing the same unknown address, 120 Rue de la Gare.
BBC Drama - 120 Rue De La Gare 1.2 by Leo Malet
BBC Drama - 120 Rue De La Gare 2.2
*****A comedy sci-fi satire
BBC Drama - 1994 1.6 by William Osborne and Richard Turner.
BBC Drama - 1994 2.6
BBC Drama - 1994 3.6
BBC Drama - 1994 4.6
BBC Drama - 1994 5.6
BBC Drama - 1994 6.6
BBC Drama - A Night In 54 by Moya O'Shea
*****Partap Sharma's controversial 1964 play, revolving around a spiritually enlightened Indian girl sold into prostitution.
BBC Drama - A Touch Of Brightness 1.3 by Partap Sharma
BBC Drama - A Touch Of Brightness 2.3
BBC Drama - A Touch Of Brightness 3.3
*****Dame Alice le Kyteler was put on trial in Kilkenny, Ireland in 1324, accused of witchcraft (one of the first
"cases" of European witchcraft). She was the wealthiest woman in her town, had inherited substantial wealth
from her four deceased husbands, and enjoyed the wealth of her current husband. The trial of Alice Kyteler
was initiated by the stepsons she had from her former marriages, who believed that they, not a woman,
should receive all of their father's inheritance. There were political interests also; Ireland's Celtic population
had strong matrifocal origins, and this was a threat to Catholic authorities, who believed that "Property is
power that belongs in male hands only".
BBC Drama - Alice of Kilkenny by Ian Rodger
*****The library office of a provincial newspaper is a scene of utter confusion - the cluttered chaos of the room
matching the lives of its staff. It is also a scene of warmth and light-heartedness. In comes Leslie, a new young
assistant with a passion for organisation who transforms the office and the lives of its inhabitants into something
orderly and neat - and also arid and colourless. An announcement that the paper is to close leads to a struggle
between chaos and order.
BBC Drama - Alphabetical Order by Michael Frayn
BBC Drama - An Irish Connection by Patrick J Power
*****David Hare's play contrasts the experiences of an Englishwoman helping the French Resistance
during the Second World War with her life over the following twenty years.
BBC Drama - Betrayal - Plenty by David Hare
BBC Drama - Between Two Worlds by William Stanton
*****While the majority of 'Birdsong' concentrates on Stephen's life
in France before and during the war, the novel also focuses on the
life of Stephen's granddaughter, Elizabeth, and her attempts to find
out more about her grandfather's experiences in World War I.
The story is split into seven sections which cover three different
time periods.The novel came 13th in a 2003 BBC survey called
the Big Read which aimed to find Britain's favourite book
BBC Drama - Birdsong 1.3 by Sebastian Faulks
BBC Drama - Birdsong 2.3
BBC Drama - Birdsong 3.3
*****This play tells, though the flashbacks of Mary Godwin Shelley, of events beginning during
the summer of 1816, when Mary and her lover Percy Byshe Shelley, along with Mary's half-sister
Claire and the infamous Lord Byron, in the midst of a summer at Lake Geneva, take part in a
contest to see who can write the most horrifying story. The play then follows the story of the foursome
to the death of both Byron and Shelley, and beyond to Mary's struggle in understanding why she
wrote the horrifying Frankenstein.
BBC Drama - Blood and Ice by Liz Lochhead
*****a fictionalized account of the relationship between the
eighteenth-century German poet known as Novalis and his
true love, Sophie.
BBC Drama - Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
BBC Drama - Call It A Canary by Peter Tinniswood
*****Actor and amateur sleuth Charles Paris investigates when a studio manager is found dead.
BBC Drama - Dead Side of the Mic 1.4 by Simon Brett
BBC Drama - Dead Side of the Mic 2.4
BBC Drama - Dead Side of the Mic 3.4
BBC Drama - Dead Side of the Mic 4.4
*****A young girl and an alcoholic mother
BBC Drama - Eating Children by Elizabeth Lewis
*****The enthralling international bestseller.
We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building
inhabited by bourgeois families. Renee, the concierge, is witness
to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly
she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous,
addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renee is a
cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese
culture. With humor and intelligence she scrutinizes the lives of the
building's tenants, who for their part are barely aware of her existence.
BBC Drama - Elegance of the Hedgehog 1.5 By Muriel Barbery
BBC Drama - Elegance of the Hedgehog 2.5
BBC Drama - Elegance of the Hedgehog 3.5
BBC Drama - Elegance of the Hedgehog 4.5
BBC Drama - Elegance of the Hedgehog 5.5
*****Erewhon, an anagram of "nowhere" is an unknown civilization in a
remote British colony, is an anti-utopia in which illness is a criminal offence,
children choose their own parents and beauty signifies morality. Butler attacks
ecclesiastical institutions and the moral hypocrisy of Victorian England.
BBC Drama - Erewhon 1.2 by Samuel Butler
BBC Drama - Erewhon 2.2
*****Dramatisation of a short story by Claire Keegan. When Martha accepts
Victor Deegan's proposal, she finds her new life on his farm monotonous
and lonely. But Martha has a secret.
BBC Drama - Forester's Daughter by Claire Keegan
*****Science-fiction crime drama series set in Cardiff. A booby trapped building
explodes and knocks the team unconscious. As their lives flash before their eyes,
we learn how each of them was recruited to Torchwood - Captain Jack's initiation
into a shocked Victorian Torchwood in1899; Toshiko's daring mission to trade alien
technology for her mother's life; how Ianto woo'd Jack with coffee and a flair for
alien-catching and; the medical revelation that changed how Owen saw the world.
BBC Drama - Fragments (Torchwood)
*****The stories of two men from different generations whose lives have been transformed
by war. A young boy, Jakob Beer, is rescued from the mud of a buried Polish city during
World War II and taken to an island in Greece by an unlikely saviour, the
scientist/humanist Athos Roussos.
BBC Drama - Fugitive Pieces 1.2 by Anne Michaels
BBC Drama - Fugitive Pieces 2.2
*****A group of ruthless real estate salesmen try to sell worthless
land in Florida to innocent buyers.
Pulitzer prize-winner for 1984.
BBC Drama - Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
*****A novel of suspence. The dark, good-looking Guy is from a council flat.
Leonora has a mews house in Holland Park, and her mother doesn't care for Guy -
or the way he makes his money. His obsession with Leonora increases, even after
they have grown apart, until eventually it creates in him a murderous madness.
BBC Drama - Going Wrong 1.2 by Ruth Rendell
BBC Drama - Going Wrong 2.2
*****This is James Hilton's classic tale of a gentle English schoolmaster,
known familiarly to three generations of schoolboys as Mr Chips.
BBC Drama - Goodbye, Mr. Chips 1.2 by James Hilton
BBC Drama - Goodbye, Mr. Chips 2.2
*****The Olaudah Equiano Story: To mark the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery,
the story of prominent campaigner and former slave Olaudah Equiano.
BBC Drama - Grace Unshackled - The Olaudah Equiano Story by Paul McCusker
*****Grand Hotel, the translation of Menchen im Hotel, is about a group
of strangers staying at a posh hotel in Berlin. Each of them have their
troubles and become connected throughout the novel.
BBC Drama - Grand Hotel 1.2 by Vicki Baum
BBC Drama - Grand Hotel 2.2
*****Wally K Daly tries to put the story straight about Rasputin, 'The Mad Monk'.
BBC Drama - Grigori Efimovich Rasputin by Wally K Daly
*****"There's something nasty going on at Groosham Grange..."
Sent to Groosham Grange as a last resort by his parents, David Eliot
quickly discovers that his new school is a very weird place indeed.
New pupils are made to sign their names in blood; the French teacher
disappears every full moon; the assistant headmaster keeps something
very chilling in his room... What's the meaning of the black rings everyone
wears? Where do the other pupils vanish to at night? Most important of all,
how on earth can David get away - alive? This Lancashire Children's Book
of the Year will have you gripped and grinning to the last scene.
BBC Drama - Groosham Grange 1.3 - Skull Island by Anthony Horowitz
BBC Drama - Groosham Grange 2.3 - Christmas
BBC Drama - Groosham Grange 3.3 - The Seventh Son
*****The extraordinary story of a battleship made entirely of ice, which was designed
for use in the Second World War, but left to dissolve in a lonely Canadian lake in Northern Alberta
One of the most amazing ideas never to be put to the test during WW2 : the Habakkuk Project -
building battleships out of ice ...or in Churchill's words "cutting a bit off the North Pole and paddling
up the Channel". Churchill was sent a 250- page report on the Habakkuk project but in the words of
the world's Most Important People... "I never read more than one page........I never turn over".
BBC Drama - Habakkuk Of Ice by Steve Walker
*****'Hysteria' is a fictionalised remake of an actual meeting between
Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dali in 1938.
BBC Drama - Hysteria by Terry Johnson (2 hours)
*****Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir,
"The Lady in the Van" tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd,
whom Bennett first came across when she was living in the
street near his home in Camden Town.
BBC Drama - Lady in the Van By Alan Bennett
*****This novel follows four men once close to Jack Dodds,
a London butcher, who meet to carry out his last wish: to have
his ashes scattered into the sea.
BBC Drama - Last Orders by Graham Swift (90 mins)
BBC Drama - Lethal Cocktails by Shelagh Stephenson
*****Look Back in Anger (1956) is a John Osborne play and 1958
movie about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected
young man (Jimmy Porter), his upper-middle-class, impassive
wife (Alison), and her snooty best friend (Helena Charles).
Cliff, an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.
The play was a success on the London stage, and spawned the
term "angry young men" to describe Osborne and those of his
generation who employed harshness and realism in the theater
in contrast to the more escapist fare previously seen.
BBC Drama - Look Back In Anger by John Osborne
*****Sidney's story takes the cult of female distress into the conjugal relationship,
showing the tortures that the virtuous mid-eighteenth-century woman suffers when
she tries to live her life according to the period's laws of proper conduct.
BBC Drama - Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph 1.2 by Frances Sheridan
BBC Drama - Memoirs of Miss Sydney Bidulph 2.2
*****Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought
were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in
"Middlemarch" (1871-2) the quintessential Victorian novel, a concept
of life and society free from the dogma of the past yet able to confront
the scepticism that was taking over the age. In a panoramic sweep of
English life during the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832,
Eliot explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion,
science, politics, self, society, human relationships.
BBC Drama - Middlemarch 1.4 by George Eliot
BBC Drama - Middlemarch 2.4
BBC Drama - Middlemarch 3.4
BBC Drama - Middlemarch 4.4
*****Mission To Marseilles features the adventures of private detective Nestor Burma. This book
finds Burma in wartime France caught between some villains and the Gestapo.
He is soon heading for the unoccupied zone where he discovers the secret of
the mysterious Formula 5.
BBC Drama - Mission To Marseilles by Léo Malet
*****Eight-year-old Siddy and his big sister Frannie search for their father. Armed only with
a newspaper cutting of him at a peace demonstration and a memory of a trip to a beach in
Scarborough, do they have any hope of tracking him down?
BBC Drama - Monkeyface by Linda Marshall Griffiths
*****Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder
investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century
religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of
heretical movements.
BBC Drama - The Name of the Rose 1.2 by Umberto Eco
BBC Drama - The Name of the Rose 2.2
*****an old woman lying in her bed remembers her past as the vivid present.
BBC Drama - Our Lady Of Sligo by Sebastian Barry (2 hours)
*****Plaza Suite is a play by Neil Simon.
It is composed of three acts, each involving different characters but all set in Suite 719
of New York City's Plaza Hotel.
BBC Drama - Plaza Suite by Neil Simon
*****What happens when a victim is also a victimiser? Frank McGuinness's new work for radio negotiates
the precarious space between the prestige of the casualty and the stigma of the culprit with Donna Dent
and Ruth Negga as advocate and client.
BBC Drama - Rights of the Child by Frank McGuinness
*****Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the
Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for
spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the
odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make
another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith,
he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a
promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. One of
Waugh's most exuberant comedies, Scoop is a brilliantly irreverent
satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news.
BBC Drama - Scoop 1.2 by Evelyn Waugh
BBC Drama - Scoop 2.2
BBC Drama - Serpent's Smile by Olga Heskey
*****A six-part horse-racing comedy
BBC Drama - Sharing Fatman 1.6 by Dave Sheasby
BBC Drama - Sharing Fatman 2.6
BBC Drama - Sharing Fatman 3.6
BBC Drama - Sharing Fatman 4.6
BBC Drama - Sharing Fatman 5.6
BBC Drama - Sharing Fatman 6.6
*****Multi-award winner Diana Rigg (Rebecca, The Avengers) stars as stylish sleuth
Mrs. Adela Bradley in this sophisticated 1920s whodunit filled with blackmail,
a shooting, and plenty of devious twists and turns.
BBC Drama - A Speedy Death by Gladys Mitchell
*****A dark-suited man is shot as he runs for a bus in the piazza of a small town.
The investigating officer is a man who believes in the values of democratic and
modern society, and soon finds himself up against a wall of silence and vested interests.
BBC Drama - The Day Of The Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
*****For Spenser, that most unorthodox of private detectives, no case is
ever straightforward and the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript
proves no exception. His investigation soon leads him into organized
crime, dope-pushing, theft, radical politics, adultery and murder.
BBC Drama - The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker
*****The remarkable aspect of THE GREAT TENNESSEE MONKEY TRIAL is
how closely Peter Goodchild's adaptation of the official record of the infamous
court battle in Dayton, Tennessee reflects contemporary arguments. This American
production features a bravura performance by Edward Asner as the fundamentalist
William Jennings Bryan. -
BBC Drama - The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
by Peter Goodchild, Ed Asner, Charles Durning, Tyne Daly
*****Twenty-five years ago, the morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse brought a prosecution
against Michael Bogdanov, Director of the National Theatre production of Howard Brenton's
The Romans in Britain, which included a simulated male rape.
Based on interviews, transcripts and diaries, this drama-documentary reconstructs the events
of this famous freedom-of-speech case from rehearsals to the sensational trial at the Old Bailey.
Peter Sproule and Greg Hicks, the actors who played the original controversial scene, appear
as themselves, with Eleanor Bron as Mary Whitehouse.
BBC Drama - Third Soldier Holds His Thighs
*****The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe,
based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and
knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's
death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play.
BBC Drama - Tragical History Of Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (2 hours)
*****Humans discover and exploit a species of giant, intelligent newt,
until the newts gain enough weapons and skills to challenge them.
BBC Drama - War With the Newts By Karel Capek
*****Leo is about to reluctantly retire as a librarian at Whitechapel
Library when he encounters Aleya, a Muslim girl seeking refuge after
an argument with her father.
BBC Drama - Whitechapel Dreams by Bernard Kops
*****The life at a fictional South Devon animal rescue centre is the subject of a specially
commissioned radio play produced by BBC Radio Devon. Who Let the Dogs Out tells
of the trials and tribulations of the team at the centre.
BBC Drama - Who Let The Dogs Out by Sue Louch and Val Shearer
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