BBC Drama XVII
BBC Drama XVII
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BBC Drama - A City Killing by Mike Walker
**********After a foolhardy trade in the City almost wipes out Harry Towers' hedge fund,
he turns for help to family friend Bob Glass, probably the most successful trader that
Wall Street has ever seen. Confidence is immediately restored and Harry's investors
seem inclined to give him a second chance - until he hears some alarming news on TV.
BBC Drama - A High Wind in Jamaica 1.2 -
The Innocent Voyage by Richard Hughes
BBC Drama - A High Wind in Jamaica 2.2 - An Ordinary Little Girl
**********The Bas-Thornton children are raised on a plantation
in Jamaica during the late 19th century. A hurricane destroys
their home and the parents decide the children must leave the
island to return back to their original home in Europe.
Accompanied by other children from Jamaica, they leave on a
ship that is soon seized by pirates. The ship is ransacked, the
children are kidnapped, and the pirates release the ship back
to its captain. Even though the children are shot at they quickly forget and the
pirate ship becomes their new home.
BBC Drama - A Painful Case by James Joyce
**********In some ways, “A Painful Case” is the most sophisticated
and complex Dubliners story yet, as it achieves its powerful effect
through a deft combination of storytelling techniques and symbolism.
BBC Drama - A Short Ride To Dusseldorf by Janice Okoh
**********A chance meeting in a job centre offers Alison some easy money.
All she has to do is fly to Germany and marry a complete stranger.
BBC Drama - Across The Narrow Water 1.2 by Tom Kelly
BBC Drama - Across The Narrow Water 2.2
**********Crime/thriller Drama - It is the bad old 1970's. Sectarian murders in
Belfast are rife. Amidst scores of young menmurdered, James McCoy, an RUC detective
spots something unusual. Beneath the radar of sectarian mayhem, a serial killer is
targeting young men.
BBC Drama - Adventure Story by Terence Rattigan
**********A faithful portrayal of Alexander the Great; his great ambitions, his insatiable
conquering desires, exploration into his phsycolgy and his relationships with his family,
his desperate longing for his father's love, anxiety self doubt
BBC Drama - All My Sons by Arthur Miller
**********All My Sons is based upon a true story, which Arthur Miller's then
mother-in-law pointed out a story in an Ohio newspaper. The story described how
a woman informed on her father who had sold faulty parts to the U.S. military
during World War II.
BBC Drama - Ann Veronica 1.3 by H G Wells
BBC Drama - Ann Veronica 2.3
BBC Drama - Ann Veronica 3.3
**********Headstrong,reckless and fiercely independent, Ann Veronica Stanley
is determined to be a 'Person', to work, love and, above all, to live. Walking
away from her devoted father and the social conventions and obligations of
her time, she embarks upon a course of study and encounters an unknown
world of suffragettes, Fabians and free love. But it is only when she meets the
charismatic Capes that she truly confronts the meaning of her new found freedom.
Ann Veronica caused a sensation, damned in the press and preached against
from the pulpits when it was first published in 1909 due to Wells' groundbreaking
treatment of female sexuality.
BBC Drama - Back 1.2 - The Colour of Her Hair by Henry Green
BBC Drama - Back 2.2 - Just a Tale
**********One-legged Charley Summers is finally home from the war,
after several years in a German prison camp, only to find he must
now deal with the death of his lover Rose. A shell-shocked romantic -
slow, distant, and dreamy - he begins to have trouble telling Rose's
half-sister Nancy apart from Rose herself, now buried in the village
churchyard. Coping and failing to cope with the quiet realities of
daily life, Charley's delusions elevate his timid courtship of a practical
and unremarkable young woman into an amnesiac love story both
comic and disturbing. A contemporary of Anthony Powell and
Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green was one of the greatest English novelists
of the twentieth century, and Back is his most haunting and personal work.
BBC Drama - Book Of Love 1.2 - A Little Less Than An A by William Hazlitt
BBC Drama - Book Of Love 2.2 - The Iron Has Entered My Soul
**********The artist, admirer of Napoleon, theatre and literary critic and
essayist William Hazlitt was forty three when he fell passionately and
obsessively in love with his London landlady's daughter, a young
woman half his age. He became paranoid, jealous and totally single
minded in pursuit of her.
BBC Drama - Bring Me the Head of Philip K Dick by Gregory Whitehead
**********Gregory Whitehead's dark, surreal and satirical drama, set in contemporary
America, centres on a deadly futuristic weapon in the shape of the android head of
science-fiction writer Philip K Dick. Invented by a shadowy research unit inside the
Pentagon, the head - which believes it actually is Dick himself - is wreaking havoc on
society and must be stopped before it finds its body.
BBC Drama - Cardamom by Leila Aboulela
***********A couple go to Egypt for a holiday. They return with an ancient bottle containing
a female genie which has been trapped for 900 years, along with some cardamom seeds.
What will happen if she gets out?
BBC Drama - Committed to Paper by Ellen Dryden
**********Barbara doesn't want to leave London for a life in the middle of nowhere with her
aunt and uncle. She finds her aunt glamorous, her uncle disagreeable and baby Robert adorable.
Then the trouble begins."
BBC Drama - Cruel Sunset by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
**********Mary Jane Cooper, from Appleton, Alabama, wins a trip to 50s Hollywood to meet her
favourite film star. But Mary has a secret that threatens to eclipse both of them.
BBC Drama - Cry Babies by Kim Newman
**********Busy, successful couple Angela and Barty Flitcroft want a child but do not
have the time to look after it. The solution is a genetically-enhanced daughter, Joy,
birthed by a surrogatemother and reared to adulthood in a cryogenic chamber.
Joy experiences brief moments 'out of the machine', and as time passes each opening brings
shocks and surprises as her parents and their society undergo incredible changes. And for Joy,
stuffed with education by the machine but denied everyday experiences, life is not just a strange
new country, but a frightening, confusing and often funny one, too.
BBC Drama - Curtain Call
BBC Drama - Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman (90 mins)
**********This play is set in the period immediately after the Chilean dictatorship.
The events take place at a beach house on the night that the lawyer, Gerardo,
is asked to investigate the crimes of the recent past.
Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden is a moral thriller about a woman, Paulina,
who believes that a stranger who comes to her home is the doctor who, under a
military dictatorship, tortured and raped her many years before.
BBC Drama - Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (2006)
**********Miller's play represents a democratization of the ancient form
of tragedy. Interestingly, the play's protagonist is himself obsessed with
the question of greatness, and his downfall arises directly from his
misperception of himself as someone capable of greatness.
BBC Drama - December Bride 1.2 by Sam Hanna Bell.
BBC Drama - December Bride 2.2
**********Sam Hanna Bell's classic novel of County Down.
BBC Drama - Dutch Mariner by Judith French
**********A creepy re-working of the tale about the phantom ship which prowls
the southern oceans after a captain commits a terrible crime
and pays for it with his soul.
BBC Drama - Esmond in India 1.2 by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
BBC Drama - Esmond in India 2.2
**********This novel was the author's third book, first published when
the independence of India was still quite recent. It deals partly with the
people who fought to win that independence, and partly with those -
and they are not the same - who are enjoying its fruits of political and cultural power.
BBC Drama - Farewell the Tranquil Mind by John Graham
BBC Drama - The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness
**********"A poet's imagination and a poet's gift."-- The New York Times
BBC Drama - Five Days in July 1.5 by Mike Walker.
BBC Drama - Five Days in July 2.5
BBC Drama - Five Days in July 3.5
BBC Drama - Five Days in July 4.5
BBC Drama - Five Days in July 5.5
**********Series of short plays focusing on a London family during the
first week of July 2005....
BBC Drama - Gertrude Stein and the Liberation Fruitcake by Patricia Hannah
**********a mesmerising monologue set in France in 1944 as Ms Stein follows Alice B Toklas's
recipe for a cake. The play was performed by Angela Pleasence.
BBC Drama - Getting To Zero by Sarah Woods
**********An expert panel sets an average family the task of eliminating their carbon footprint in just six weeks
- and living with the consequences.
BBC Drama - Hawksmoor 1.2 by Peter Ackroyd
BBC Drama - Hawksmoor 2.2
**********Eighteenth-century London, and architect Nicholas Dyer
is commissioned to build several new churches. Two hundred and
fifty years later the legacy of the past lives on, as CID Detective
Nicholas Hawksmoor investigates a series of macabre murders
on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches.
BBC Drama - Heartburn 1.5 by Nora Ephron
BBC Drama - Heartburn 2.5
BBC Drama - Heartburn 3.5
BBC Drama - Heartburn 4.5
BBC Drama - Heartburn 5.5
**********Out of analysis and seven months pregnant, cookbook writer
Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband is into analysis and an
affair and suffers six weeks of intense heartburn.
BBC Drama - Hill of Rains by Colin MacDonald
**********Cathy travels 3000 miles from Staten Island to Argyll, to look for the truth in an old story.
She leaves her heart there, but discovers that real love follows you home.
BBC Drama - His Natural Life 1.3 - the Sea Voyage by Marcus Clarke (3 hours)
BBC Drama - His Natural Life 2.3 - Marooned
BBC Drama - His Natural Life 3.3 - Redemption
**********N 1822, eight men escaped from the most isolated
and brutal prison on earth, Sarah Island in Van Diemen's Land.
Only one man survived and his tale of betrayal, murder and
cannibalism shocked the British establishment to the core.
Alexander Pearce was Marcus Clarke’s inspiration in
For The Term of His Natural Life
BBC Drama - House by Sheila Goff
**********Emma buys a doll's house very like the house in which she grew up.
The model is made by a local craftsman. This is a creepy, atmospheric play.
BBC Drama - In a German Pension 1.5. by Katherine Mansfield
BBC Drama - In a German Pension 2.5
BBC Drama - In a German Pension 3.5
BBC Drama - In a German Pension 4.5
BBC Drama - In a German Pension 5.5
***********At the age of 20, Katherine Mansfield left England
for the Bavarian spa town of Bad Worishofen. Alone and
detached, she coolly observed the absurd posturings and
affectations of the German bourgeoisie at leisure.
There she began to write the stories that appeared in this, her first collection.
BBC Drama - John Brown's Body by John Graham
**********Set: a drawing room in Balmoral Castle, Scotland, 1871
The Prime Minister, WILLIAM GLADSTONE, visits QUEEN VICTORIA to try to persuade her
to take more interest in affairs of state.
The Queen’s personal servant, JOHN BROWN, is hated by all the courtiers because of his
close relationship with the Queen, who, since her husband’s death has become interested in spiritualism,
as is Brown, who claims to have the gift of "second sight".
BBC Drama - Rendezvous with Rama 1.2 by A C Clarke (2 hrs)
BBC Drama - Rendezvous with Rama 2.2
**********In 2130, a new celestial body is discovered heading
toward the Sun. Earthlings name this object "Rama" --
a vast cylinder, about 31 miles long and 12 miles across,
with a mass of at least ten trillion tons. The spaceship Endeavor,
directed by Commander Bill Norton, lands on Rama and has
three weeks to explore its hollow interior. Inside the vessel they
discover a completely self-contained world -- a world that has been
cruising through space for perhaps more than a million years.
BBC Drama - The Return of the Native 1.3 by Thomas Hardy
BBC Drama - The Return of the Native 2.3
BBC Drama - The Return of the Native 3.3
**********Hardy's classic novel of two people caught up in their passion
for each other and conflicting ambitions.
BBC Drama - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1.2 by Tom Stoppard
BBC Drama - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 2.2
***********Two minor characters from "Hamlet" offer a novel view of
the melancholy Dane.
BBC Drama - The Bookmaker by Sarah Woods
BBC Drama - The Charterhouse of Parma 1.2 by Stendhal
BBC Drama - The Charterhouse of Parma 2.2
**********The Charterhouse of Parma tells the story of the young Italian
nobleman Fabrizio del Dongo and his adventures from his birth in
1798 to his death in 1829
BBC Drama - The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan
**********THE DEEP BLUE SEA was originally performed in 1952 and this classic British play
by Terence Rattigan is considered to be one of the greatest pieces of British theatre ever written.
BBC Drama - The Gibson 1.6 by Bruce Bedford
BBC Drama - The Gibson 2.6
BBC Drama - The Gibson 3.6
BBC Drama - The Gibson 4.6
BBC Drama - The Gibson 5.6
BBC Drama - The Gibson 6.6
**********Saul, an aspiring poet from Bath, gets drawn into a web of dark and mysterious forces.
A thriller.
BBC Drama - The Go Slow Club by Tracy Aston
BBC Drama - The Gorty's Triangle by Rod Beacham
**********A Murder mystery in Crete.
BBC Drama - The Group 1.2 by Mary McCarthy
BBC Drama - The Group 2.2
**********a sexually outspoken depiction of eight Vassar graduates in the 1930s.
It followed the group of friends through their first sexual experiences, marriage,
and domestic duties. Intended to be a partial parody, it portrays women as they
embrace or oppose ideas of political and social progress fashionable in the 1930s and 1940s.
BBC Drama - The Hanged Man by Alastair Jessiman
***********In Alastair Jessiman's second play about Thomas Soutar – a psychic who uses his gifts to
help police solve difficult cases – unsettling connections emerge between a young boy's murder and
the death of Thomas's own uncle, the ebullient Reverend Rory Soutar.
BBC Drama - The Hunting of The Snark by Lewis Carroll
***********Carroll claimed that the inspiration for
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK (1876)
sprang from 'one line of verse - one solitary line of verse -
"For the Snark was a Boojum, you see"',
that came to him one day in 1874 while he was
out walking. To questions asking whether the poem was an allegory
or a political satire or contained some hidden moral,
he claimed to have 'but one answer,
"I don't know!"' (The Theatre, 1887).
BBC Drama - The Purging by George Feydeau
BBC Drama - The Time Machine by H G Wells (New version)
**********This is the tale of a Victorian time traveler who creates a machine
which takes him 800,000 years into the future,
to a divided world of innocence and knowledge.
BBC Drama - The Inexperienced Ghost by H.G. Wells
**********We had all come down to the Mermaid Club that Saturday morning,
except Clayton, who had slept there overnight--which indeed gave him the
opening of his story. We had golfed until golfing was invisible; we had dined,
and we were in that mood of tranquil kindliness when men will suffer a story.
When Clayton began to tell one, we naturally supposed he was lying. It may be
that indeed he was lying--of that the reader will speedily be able to judge as well as I.
BBC Drama - Thistlewood. by Stewart Conn (90 mins)
**********Influenced by Peterloo, a group of radicals conspire to assassinate the government.
Stewart Conn's historical drama from 1976.
BBC Drama - Torquemada 1.2 by Benito Perez Galdos
BBC Drama - Torquemada 2.2
**********Torquemada "the Worse," a miser and parvenu whose late marriage into
an impoverished noble family creates intolerable conflict between his native character
and his social pretensions, is materialism personified. Given over to "the fury of losing,
the sadness of making only a little, the delirium of making a killing," Francisco de Torquemada
is as cruelly usurious in 19th-century Madrid as another Torquemada was infamously inquisitorial four centuries earlier.
BBC Drama - Trilby 01.10 by George du Maurier
BBC Drama - Trilby 02.10
BBC Drama - Trilby 03.10
BBC Drama - Trilby 04.10
BBC Drama - Trilby 05.10
BBC Drama - Trilby 06.10
BBC Drama - Trilby 07.10
BBC Drama - Trilby 08.10
BBC Drama - Trilby 09.10
BBC Drama - Trilby 10.10
**********"Trilby" tells the tale of a beautiful artists' model and her sinister mentor, Svengali.
It is a story of bohemian Paris that is evocative, funny and poignant as it describes Trilby's
rise to musical stardom under Svengal's influence.
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