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BBC Drama - A Plague Of Goodness by Wally K Daly 



BBC Drama - Blind Man's Beauty 1.5 by Peter White - A Walk On The Wild Side  
BBC Drama - Blind Man's Beauty 2.5 - The Lift Bell Always Rings Twice  
BBC Drama - Blind Man's Beauty 3.5 - London's Tube Stations
BBC Drama - Blind Man's Beauty 4.5 - Street Life  
BBC Drama - Blind Man's Beauty 5.5 - Beauty In Unexpected Places 
******Peter White tackles Mother Nature's rain and birdsong in his exploration of how blind people experience 
the concept of beauty.


BBC Drama - Call for the Dead 1.5 by John Le Carre
BBC Drama - Call for the Dead 2.5  
BBC Drama - Call for the Dead 3.5  
BBC Drama - Call for the Dead 4.5  
BBC Drama - Call for the Dead 5.5  
******George Smiley had liked Samuel Fennan, and now Fennan was dead 
from an apparent suicide. But why? Fennan, a Foreign Office man, had been 
under investigation for alleged Communist Party activities, but Smiley had 
made it clear that the investigation -- little more than a routine security check
 -- was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed. The very next day, 
Fennan was found dead with a note by his body saying his career was 
finished and he couldn't go on. Smiley was puzzled...



BBC Drama - Change At Oglethorpe 1.6  by Peter Morfoot  - Off The Rails
BBC Drama - Change At Oglethorpe 2.6 - The Thin Controller 
BBC Drama - Change At Oglethorpe 3.6 - The Brew That Is True  
BBC Drama - Change At Oglethorpe 4.6 - Remember Remember The Fifth Of September 
BBC Drama - Change At Oglethorpe 5.6 - The Unquiet American
BBC Drama - Change At Oglethorpe 6.6 - Foreign Parts 
******Oglethorpe station's ticket sales are at an all time low. Could passengers be put off by Points's Platform 1 
FM punk Rock Show? Or is it June's seances in the cafe? Or perhaps it's Rocket's refusal to sell anyone a ticket 
to Barnsley? David Clare, the new station manager, has a challenge on his hands.



BBC Drama - The Confidante by Elizabeth Bowen 




BBC Drama - Cuba by Liz Lochhead
******Scots poet and playwright, Liz Lochhead, remembers vividly the events of the time, 
and depicts a very personal betrayal between two young girls.

Barbara Proctor and Bernadette Griggs are best friends. They both believe the world is about to end, 
suddenly everything pales into insignificance beside their highly imaginative fears. Daring each other on, 
they decide to spend their last days taking on the establishment and making a stand for women and peace. 



BBC Drama - Dancing with the Dead  by James Whyle 
******..An autobiographical play about James Whyle's research into the life of his father, who died when he was three. 



BBC Drama - England, Their England 1.6  by A. G. Macdonell - 
           Young Donald Cameron Retires Injured From The Great War
BBC Drama - England, Their England 2.6 - Donald Cameron Learns About The Eccentric English  
BBC Drama - England, Their England 3.6 - Co-Opted Into A Game Of Cricket  
BBC Drama - England, Their England 4.6 - The English Approach To Diplomacy
BBC Drama - England, Their England 5.6 - To The Hustings
BBC Drama - England, Their England 6.6 - Attending A Fox Hunt 
******Set in 1920s England, this book chronicles the life of a young man forced to live 
among the English, rather than in his native Scotland. What follows is a series of 
interesting and satirical observations about English life, including fox hunting, 
domestic politics, and most famously, village cricket. This classic book remains 
a hilarious look into everyday British life in the interwar years.



BBC Drama - Hong Kong by Night by In-Sook Chappell
******Locked out of her apartment, Poppy can either wait in the lobby for morning or 
accept Arthur's invitation to explore Hong Kong by night.



BBC Drama - Like Confessing A Murder - Letters of Charles Darwin 
******Drama based on the correspondence of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries, 
showing a very different man from the popular image.
Emma was not without her own concerns about the spiritual implications of some of her 
husband’s ideas, fearing they would undermine his Christian faith. How could he reconcile 
these apparent contradictions – which, years before the publication of the book, when 
outlining the theory to a friend, Darwin had said felt “like confessing a murder”. 
The letters recreate the domestic context from which one of the world’s most influential ideas arose.




BBC Drama - Monsieur Monde Vanishes by Georges Simenon  
******Wealthy, Respectable And Apparently Content, Monsieur Monde Is 
A Pillar Of The Parisian Bourgeoisie. One Day He Simply Vanishes, 
Leaving His Spoilt Children And Cold Wife For Marseilles. In An Underworld 
Of Drug-takers And Dance Hostesses, Monde Finally Realizes His Lifelong Ambition - 
                       To Be Unrespectable And Anonymous.






BBC Drama - Queen Lucia 1.5  by E.F.Benson - The Guru
BBC Drama - Queen Lucia 2.5 - Lucia's Garden Party
BBC Drama - Queen Lucia 3.5 - Burglary
BBC Drama - Queen Lucia 4.5 - Un Po di Musica  
BBC Drama - Queen Lucia 5.5 - Spirits 
******Introduces the irrepressible Mrs. Emmeline Lucas and 
paints a fascinating portrait of the 1920's British upperclass.



BBC Drama - Reading Between the Lines 1.5 by Mark Lawson
BBC Drama - Reading Between the Lines 2.5
BBC Drama - Reading Between the Lines 3.5
BBC Drama - Reading Between the Lines 4.5
BBC Drama - Reading Between the Lines 5.5
******When a celebrated writer leaves clues in his final novel implying that his 
recently-deceased wife was murdered, DCI Kate Duncan investigates



BBC Drama - Scoop 1.4  by Evelyn Waugh - The Stitch Service
BBC Drama - Scoop 2.4 - Stones, Twenty Pounds  
BBC Drama - Scoop 3.4 - Lush Places
BBC Drama - Scoop 4.4 - Banquet 
******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 - Snobs 1.5 by Julian Fellowes 
BBC Drama - Snobs 2.5  
BBC Drama - Snobs 3.5  
BBC Drama - Snobs 4.5  
BBC Drama - Snobs 5.5  
******SNOBS is the story of Edith Lavery, who earns a living answering 
the telephone in a Chelsea-based estate agents. She is the attractive 
only child of a comfortably-off accountant. When she attends Royal Ascot 
as a guest of friends, she meets bachelor Charles Broughton, who as 
Earl Broughton and heir to the Marquess of Uckfield, is a gossip-column 
favourite. He proposes, she accepts - and here is the crux of the story: is 
she really in love with Charles or with his title and all that goes with it? 
The story is narrated by a journeyman character actor who comfortably moves 
among the upper and middle classes, while observing their foibles. 
Superbly observed, the story includes a fabulous character in Charles's mother, 
Lady Uckfield, known as 'Googie', who wants for her son the daughter of a peer 
from the old, familiar world she knows and trusts. She perceives Edith to be a 
young woman on the make, and is vindicated when Edith, now Countess Broughton, 
falls for a blonde good-looking actor. Fellowes resolves his story with twists and 
turns aplenty. This is a tale worthy of a contemporary Jane Austen with a dash of Evelyn Waugh. 



BBC Drama - The Climb by Lance Whitman




BBC Drama - The Freeway  by Peter Nichols




BBC Drama - The Invasion - Arab Chronicles of the First Crusade 1.2 by Jonathan Myerson (2 hours) 
BBC Drama - The Invasion - Arab Chronicles of the First Crusade 2.2 
******The story of the First Crusade, re-imagined from the Arab point of view, using the chronicles of the period.
Antioch is under siege from the Crusaders and the local Christian men have been expelled from the city 
for fear of betrayal. But, with a little collaboration, The Stitch has a plan to end the siege.



BBC Drama - The Nature Of Vikings by Jonathan Hall
******A powerful love story between two men, Chris, a young British fascist, and Eric, a German doctor, 
set in a Second World War internment camp on the Isle of Man.



BBC Drama - The Pretenders by Henrik Ibsen  
******The play opened at the old Christiania Theatre on the 19th of January 1864 and evolves around the 
historical conflict between Norwegian King Håkon Håkonsson and his father-in-law; Earl Skule Bårdsson. 
It is one of Ibsen's lesser known plays.



BBC Drama - The Prospect 1.3  by Avie Luthra
BBC Drama - The Prospect 2.3 
BBC Drama - The Prospect 3.3 
******A newly-elected Asian MP is embroiled in controversy when his cousin is arrested on a charge of terrorism



BBC Drama - The Steps by Mike Bartlett
******This programme contains some strong language.
A new play, specially written for Radio 3, which follows an elderly lady, Rosie, who lives in an old people's home. 
She escapes into the wintry landscape outside with a reluctant teenager tagging along behind her. On her journey, 
she meets a woman in her 30s and a nine-year-old girl and discovers some interesting coincidences: 
they are on the run too and are also both called Rosie.



BBC Drama - The Wyndham Case  by Jill Paton Walsh 
******In a fictional Cambridge college, an undergraduate is found dead in 
the Wyndham Case, a most peculiar private library which just happens to be 
worth a fortune to the college. It is not until another student is found dead in a 
fountain that Imogen Quy, the college nurse, uncovers the murderers.



BBC Drama - This Repulsive Woman By Christopher Reason  
******Probation officer Tony is sent to assess Deborah, a mother who has been convicted of 
an appalling crime under the 1978 Protection of Children Act. As Deborah awaits sentencing, 
Tony must decide if she is depraved or just deprived.



BBC Drama - Towards the End of the Morning 1.2 by Michael Frayne 
BBC Drama - Towards the End of the Morning 2.2 
******Frayn's 1967 novel about Fleet Street portrays a newspaper world 
long since gone. Stuck in a sleepy newspaper department, covering 
nature notes and crosswords, Dyson dreams of liberation and recognition. 
When a chance occurs to appear on TV, he eagerly prepares to 
greet the celebrity life.



BBC Drama - Visiting Julia 1.6  by Peter Tinniswood - Next Time I'll Kiss Her
BBC Drama - Visiting Julia 2.6 - If the Truth Be Known  
BBC Drama - Visiting Julia 3.6 - Other People  
BBC Drama - Visiting Julia 4.6 - I Should Have Had Sausages
BBC Drama - Visiting Julia 5.6 - Complications 
BBC Drama - Visiting Julia 6.6 - Ouch 
******Another product of the fertile mind of Peter Tinniswood, once again dealing with human eccentricity 
as manifested in strange conversations and even stranger soliloquies.  The main character was Roger (Keith Barron), 
a children’s writer, who made periodic visits to his wife Julia (Liz Goulding) in hospital.



BBC Drama - Watcher In The Rye  




BBC Drama - Water  by Winsome Pinnock 




BBC Drama - Water Babies 1.3  by Charles Kingsley 
BBC Drama - Water Babies 2.3 
BBC Drama - Water Babies 3.3 
******The protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river 
after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out 
of her house. There he dies and is transformed into a "water baby", as he 
is told by a caddis fly — an insect that sheds its skin — and begins his 
moral education. The story is thematically concerned with Christian 
redemption, though Kingsley also uses the book to argue that England 
treats its poor badly, and to question child labour, among other themes.



BBC Drama - Way Out West 1.3- Goats  by Ian Wild  
BBC Drama - Way Out West 2.3- Sex, Druds and Rock n Dole
BBC Drama - Way Out West 3.3- Bottoms



 
BBC Drama - West Pier 1.2 - The Handbag by Patrick Hamilton
BBC Drama - West Pier 2.2 - The Car
"The best novel written about Brighton." Graham Greene
******It is the first of the Gorse Trilogy, about professional conman, and all-round thoroughly 
unscrupulous piece of work, Ernest Ralph Gorse.



BBC Drama - What I Think of My Husband 1.5 by Stephen Wakelam 
BBC Drama - What I Think of My Husband 2.5  
BBC Drama - What I Think of My Husband 3.5  
BBC Drama - What I Think of My Husband 4.5  
BBC Drama - What I Think of My Husband 5.5  
******Stephen Wakelam's dramatisation of the story of Thomas Hardy's romance with his secretary, Florence Dugdale.



BBC Drama - When the Snow Lay Round About 1.3  by James Forsyth  
BBC Drama - When the Snow Lay Round About 2.3  
BBC Drama - When the Snow Lay Round About 3.3  




BBC Drama - When Tiger Woods Comes to Tiger Bay by Leonora Brito 




BBC Drama - Whitlock's Walk by John Burrows 
******Hitler planned the 1936 Olympic Games in BERLIN as a vast propaganda exercise. 
In John Burrows' thriller, two British athletes lift the lid on one of the 20th Century's greatest confidence tricks.



BBC Drama - Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton
******Middleton based the plot of his play on actual events. Bianca Cappello was first the mistress 
and then the second wife and Duchess of Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. 
The story of Bianca's elopement with her first husband, her affair with the Duke, her first 
husband's death and her marriage to the Duke, is adapted by Middleton for his play.



BBC Drama - Women of An Uncertain Age by Rony Robinson  
******Rony Robinson's funny and touching play about surviving the menopause. 
When a mutual friend dies, Clare, Heather and Kat throw caution to the winds.



BBC Drama - Wyrd Sisters 1.4 by Terry Pratchet 
BBC Drama - Wyrd Sisters 2.4 
BBC Drama - Wyrd Sisters 3.4 
BBC Drama - Wyrd Sisters 4.4 
******Kingdoms wobble, crowns topple and knives flash on the magical 
Discworld as the statutory three witches meddle in royal politics. 
But Granny Weatherwax (of Equal Rites) and her fellow coven members 
find it's all a lot more difficult than playwrights would have you believe . .

Everything you'd expect is here - hunchbacked kings, lost crowns and 
disguised heirs. And they are joined by things you haven't heard of yet, 
like a stage-struck thunderstorm and the first recorded instance of the 
in-flight refuelling of a broomstick.

Through it all the wyrd sisters ("This cauldron's got all 'yuk' in it!") battle against 
frightful odds to put the rightful king on the throne.

At least, that's what they think. . .

"Wyrd Sisters" is the sixth of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, which are now 
well-established as the funniest fantasy series ever - and among the funniest 
novels of any kind currently being published.



BBC Drama - Yeats And Margot compiled by Cicely Herbert 
******A portrait of the three year relationship between WB Yeats and Margot Ruddock 
told through their letters and poetry. 



BBC Drama - You and the Night and the Wireless  by Hugh Leonard  




BBC Drama - Zeitgeist Man  by Ian Heggie 



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