BBC Drama XVIII
BBC Drama XVIII
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BBC Drama - Munchausen by Rudolph Raspe
******THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN
is a tall tale of majestic proportion, like the Baron himself. MUNCHAUSEN
twists wildly and whimsically, playing on the reader, the characters,
and Baron Munchausen himself.
BBC Drama - 2025 1.2 by Mike Walker (2 hours)
BBC Drama - 2025 2.2
******.MIKE WALKER's two-part serial is set in a future when lives are ruled by computers
and the possibility of artificial intelligence has become a reality.
BBC Drama - A Five Year Sentence 1.5 by Bernice Rubens
BBC Drama - A Five Year Sentence 2.5
BBC Drama - A Five Year Sentence 3.5
BBC Drama - A Five Year Sentence 4.5
BBC Drama - A Five Year Sentence 5.5
******From the novel by Booker Prize winner Bernice Rubens. A woman retires from her
factory job and receives a five year diary which changes her life.
BBC Drama - Anaesthesia by Richard Holmes
******Documentary drama telling the story of how 18th-century Bristolian scientist Humphry Davy,
along his eccentric boss Thomas Beddoes, discovered the anaesthetic properties of laughing gas
BBC Drama - Angel by Richard Eyre
BBC Drama - Angel Face by Bruce Stewart (90 minutes)
******The life of Dante's Beatrice
BBC Drama - Antique Silver by Dan Rebellato
******Inspired by a true story, this is the tale of the mysterious Victor Grayson, a politician of incredible
oratorical power who became MP for Colne Valley in 1907. His political career was colourful, with
many a falling-out with the Labour Party. Then he walked out of his life one day in 1920 and was never seen again.
BBC Drama - ANZACS Over England 1.2 by David Goodwin
BBC Drama - ANZACS Over England 2.2
******The stories of the Austraalian and New Zealand Air Forces in WWI.
BBC Drama - Arms and The Man by G B Shaw
******The play was first produced on April 21, 1894 at the Avenue Theatre,
and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume, which also
included Candida, You Never Can Tell, and The Man of Destiny. The play was
one of Shaw's first commercial successes. He was called onto stage after
the curtain, where he received enthusiastic applause. However, amidst the
cheers, one audience member booed. Shaw replied, in characteristic fashion:
"My dear fellow, I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many?"
BBC Drama - Art 1.2 by Yasmina Reza
BBC Drama - Art 2.2
******A philosophical French drama. Marc cannot believe that his friend Serge
has bought an expensive modern painting, and they quarrel, while the play's
third character, a friend of them both, tries to calm them.
BBC Drama - At The Back Of The North Wind 1.2 by George MacDonald (2 hours)
BBC Drama - At The Back Of The North Wind 2.2
******Diamond, a young boy living in nineteenth-century London,
has many adventures as he travels with the beautiful lady North Wind
and comes to know the many facets of her protective and violent temper.
BBC Drama - Catching Up With Clifford by Glenn Mitchell
******Nat Clifford, to use a contemporary expression, was a bit of a card. This 19th-century music-hall performer
spent much of his time escaping creditors and outraged husbands, occasionally by faking his own death.
Glenn Mitchell has written Catching Up With Clifford as a high-spirited vehicle for Roy Hudd and June Whitfield,
to tell the story.
BBC Drama - Curriculum Vitae by David Pownall
******Set in the early 1960s, it concerns an idealistic young graduate who gets a well-paid job recruiting workers
for a new Liverpool car plant. But Dad is a union man and sees his son's job as a betrayal of the shop-floor workers.
Why should the young man have the right to hire or fire those more than twice his age?
BBC Drama - Guiding Lights 1.5 - The Kitchen Child by Angela Carter
BBC Drama - Guiding Lights 2.5 - Let Them Call It Jazz by Jean Rhys
BBC Drama - Guiding Lights 3.5 - Until Such Times
BBC Drama - Guiding Lights 4.5 - Bang Bang You're Dead by Muriel Spark
BBC Drama - Guiding Lights 5.5 - Inside Information by Nicola Barker
******Short stories by leading women writers provide inspiration for new plays by contemporary dramatisers.
BBC Drama - The History of Mr Polly 1.3 by H.G. Wells (3 hours)
BBC Drama - The History of Mr Polly 2.3
BBC Drama - The History of Mr Polly 3.3
******Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife’s
nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman’s
outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the
only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning his shop
to the ground, and killing himself. Unexpected events, however, conspire
at the last moment to lead the bewildered Mr Polly to a bright new future –
after he saves a life, fakes his death, and escapes to a life of
heroism, hope and ultimate happiness.
BBC Drama - Homesick by Anita Sullivan
******Jeff's mundane life changes when he is struck by a bolt from the blue. He starts hearing a voice
in another language, meets a girl and falls in love.
BBC Drama - Kipps 1.5 by H G Wells (5 hours)
BBC Drama - Kipps 2.5
BBC Drama - Kipps 3.5
BBC Drama - Kipps 4.5
BBC Drama - Kipps 5.5
******Artie Kipps is an orphan, raised by his uncle and aunt, and then apprenticed
for 8 years as a draper (based on Wells' own experience). However, his life suddenly
changes when he discovers through reading a newspaper that he is the grandson of a
wealthy gentleman. He inherits his fortune and is abruptly thrown into upper class society,
and struggles to learn about etiquette and the rules of public society; he soon discovers
what it is to be a true gentleman.
BBC Drama - Little Angels by Vivienne Allen
******In the Armstrong household, all ears are tuned to the radio to hear the progress of
Ruth Ellis's appeal against a death sentence for murder. For young Helen, these events
are part of a sinister world that threatens to encroach on a homely Norfolk childhood.
BBC Drama - Man and Superman 1.4 by G B Shaw
BBC Drama - Man and Superman 2.4
BBC Drama - Man and Superman 3.4
BBC Drama - Man and Superman 4.4
******This play, as Shaw explains in the preface, is on the Don Juan theme.
Taking all the ingredients of the legend, Shaw reordered them to write a
four-act play in which he turned the story on its head so the Don Juan
becomes "the quarry instead of the huntsman".
BBC Drama - The Mansell Conspiracy by Jack Gerson
BBC Drama - Mayflies by Mike Maddox
******A retired astronomer receives news of a message from a distant world,
the very sign of life he spent his career searching for. Is it safe to reply?
BBC Drama - My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
******That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will't please you sit and look at her? I said
BBC Drama - New Grub Street 1.3 by George Gissing
BBC Drama - New Grub Street 2.3
BBC Drama - New Grub Street 3.3
******set in the literary and journalistic circles of late-1800s London.
The novel contrasts Edwin Reardon, a congenitally uncommercial but
talented writer, against Jasper Milvain, a selfish and unscrupulous hack
who rejects artistic endeavour for material gain. Milvain's trite,
manipulative work ascends while Reardon's work--and his life
--spiral downward.
BBC Drama - No Problem by Renny Krupinski
******No Problem revolves around being stuck in Delhi airport with no way out of the transit lounge.
India at its most illogical, relationships strained to the limit.
BBC Drama - Oboe at the Embassy by James Follett
******"He's home at 5.20 on the dot. A kiss from the wife as he goes indoors. A meal is waiting.
Then a spot of weeding in an immaculate garden, then television.
A nice cosy, ripple-free routine.
"Tomorrow, someone will declare war on that routine. Her combat-dress will be an indecently
split-skirt, a tight sweater, and no bra."
BBC Drama - The Real Charlotte 1.2 by Edith Somerville
BBC Drama - The Real Charlotte 2.2
******The action in The Real Charlotte is dominated by two women:
the pretty, vulgar, light-hearted Francie; and her guardian, the complex,
heavy-set Charlotte.
"A masterpiece." -- The Daily Telegraph
"The whole thing is delightful." -- The Guardian
BBC Drama - Ruth Ellis Her Son's Story by Vivienne Allen
******After claiming sole responsibility for murdering David Blakely, Ruth Ellis was executed.
Later, her son Andy would die by his own hand.
BBC Drama - She Came to Stay by Vicky Payne
******a love story between the owner of a secondhand bookshop and someone much younger.
But there are sinister overtones as the plot developes, and a surprise twist.
BBC Drama - Smoke and Daggers by Hugh Costello
******Political thriller set in 1997 around the time of Bertie Ahern's election as Taoiseach.
Marrying into Dublin's political elite does wonders for Joe Finnerty's personal fortunes,
but the unexplained death of his ex-partner casts a shadow which threatens all that Joe holds dear.
BBC Drama - St Brice's Day by Tony Coult
******Set in England in the year 1002...."ethnic cleansing" is nothing new; here's how Anglo-Saxons dealt
with "The Danish Problem" in one village all those years ago.
BBC Drama - Success Story by Brett Goldstein
******When Ray's low-budget film is picked up by a major studio his dreams of Hollywood start to become a reality.
But then he finds the past coming back to bite him.
BBC Drama - The Antagonist by Roger Langley
BBC Drama - The Biggest Secret - D Day Story 1.2 by Mike Walker
BBC Drama - The Biggest Secret - D Day Story 2.2
******Mike Walker's play is an epic journey across England poised on the edge of a historical moment.
It is set on June 5th the day before the invasion.
It is a portrait of England waiting for the invasion that will change the course of history, but an invasion only
a very few know that is about happen.
BBC Drama - The Lemon Squeezer by Triona Adams
******A 27-year-old woman swaps her worldly London existence for a life of religious devotion
by joining a convent. However, when the kindly abbess who took her in leaves for a time of
convalescence, the would-be novice is forced to realign herself with an ambitious prioress -
causing her to reconsider her vocation.
BBC Drama - The Man Born To Be King 01.12 by Dorothy L Sayers - Kings of Judea
BBC Drama - The Man Born To Be King 02.12 - The King's Herald
BBC Drama - The Man Born To Be King 03.12 - A Certain Nobleman
BBC Drama - The Man Born To Be King 04.12 - The Heirs to the Kingdom
BBC Drama - The Man Born To Be King 05.12 - The Bread of Heaven
BBC Drama - The Man Born To Be King 06.12 - The Feast of Tabernacles
BBC Drama - The Man Born To Be King 07.12 - The Light and the Life
BBC Drama - The Man Born To Be King 08.12 - Royal Progress
BBC Drama - The Man Born To Be King 09.12 - The King's Supper
BBC Drama - The Man Born To Be King 10.12 - The Princes of This World
BBC Drama - The Man Born To Be King 11.12 - King of Sorrows
BBC Drama - The Man Born To Be King 12.12 - The King Comes to His Own
******In this popular play-cycle, Sayers makes the Gospels come alive.
"Her Jesus can bring tears to your eyes. You will be deeply moved--
a powerful experience."--Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy.
BBC Drama - The Picture Man by David Eldridge
******Neil decides he has been pushed too far by the uncaring and often callous behaviour
he sees around him. But when he begins to intervene in incidents by taking pictures on his
mobile phone, it has disastrous consequences.
BBC Drama - The Sensitive - A Possession by Alastair Jessiman
BBC Drama - The Sensitive - The Hanged Man by Alastair Jessiman
******Psychic Thomas Soutar helps Strathclyde Police to investigate a young music student who has been missing
BBC Drama - The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
******Iain Banks's short fiction includes a novella never before published in Britain
- The State of the Art. A striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore,
it adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast.
BBC Drama - The Waves 1.2 by Virginia Woolf
BBC Drama - The Waves 2.2
******The Waves is considered by many to be Virginia Woolf's masterpiece.
Here, she entirely gives in to her impulse towards experimentalism.
The Waves is unlike any other prose novel in English literature; it pushes the
boundaries of what we can accept as narrative fiction.
BBC Drama - The Weather For Murder by Philip Levine
BBC Drama - The Westward Journey 1.2 by Ellen Dryden
BBC Drama - The Westward Journey 2.2
******During the migration of the wagon trains across America, the women's strength
was tested against their men's ambition and pride.
BBC Drama - The Wonderful Visit by H G Wells
******Most of the inhabitants of Sidderton were asleep that night so they never knew
what had happened. Some might have guessed from the howling wind of the previous
day, one or two heard its noise, but no one actually saw it. If they had they might have
been more prepared for what was to follow. At first they thought those who reported
sightings of the Strange Bird the next morning had gone mad, or were drunk. But they
soon got used to the idea - for since that night, Sidderton would never be the same again.
BBC Drama - Unwieldy Elephant by John Graham
BBC Drama - Vicissitudes of Evangeline by Elinor Glyn
******Cast out into the world to seek her fortune, Evangeline refuses to behave as young women
in the early 1900s are expected to do.
BBC Drama - War and Peace 01.10 by Leo Tolstoy
BBC Drama - War and Peace 02.10
BBC Drama - War and Peace 03.10
BBC Drama - War and Peace 04.10
BBC Drama - War and Peace 05.10
BBC Drama - War and Peace 06.10
BBC Drama - War and Peace 07.10
BBC Drama - War and Peace 08.10
BBC Drama - War and Peace 09.10
BBC Drama - War and Peace 10.10
******A monumental work of fiction, Tolstoy's masterpiece of love and loss, tragedy and
triumph is set against the panorama of the Napoleonic Wars at the dawn of the 19th century.
An unforgettable story of two Russian families whose lives become intertwined amidst a collision
of empires.
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