Radio Plays III
Northern Lights, known as The Golden Compass across North America, is the first novel in 
English novelist Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. Published in 1995, the fantasy novel is set in 
a universe parallel to our own and tells of Lyra Belacqua's journey north in search of her missing friend, 
Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned father, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a 
mysterious substance known as Dust. Winner of the Carnegie Medal in 1996, the novel has been adapted 
into a Hollywood feature film, released in 2007 as The Golden Compass along with an accompanying video game. 
Both the trilogy and the film adaptation have faced controversy, as some critics assert that the story presents 
a negative portrayal of organized religion and religion in general.  
Book 2 in the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy is The Subtle Knife and Book 3 is The Amber Spyglass.

This set of plays includes dramatizations of all three 'His Dark Materials' novels.


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The Women's Room 01.15 by Marilyn French
The Women's Room 02.15  
The Women's Room 03.15  
The Women's Room 04.15  
The Women's Room 05.15  
The Women's Room 06.15  
The Women's Room 07.15  
The Women's Room 08.15  
The Women's Room 09.15  
The Women's Room 10.15  
The Women's Room 11.15  
The Women's Room 12.15  
The Women's Room 13.15  
The Women's Room 14.15  
The Women's Room 15.15  
******"Couargeous...Honest...Powerful."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
The classic feminist novel that awakened both women and men 
speaks to everyone about the deep feelings at the heart of love 
and relationships. A biting social commentary of an emotional 
world gone silently haywire, THE WOMEN'S ROOM is a modern 
allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted 
so blindly and revered so completely.



A Higher Education by Lloyd Peters  
******a comedy set in a university drama department. A depressed lecturer locks himself in a studio 
with a shy student, and a gun which may or may not be the real thing. Then a drunk parent turns up, 
                                        followed by the police.



A Small Family Business by Alan Ayckbourn 
******award-winning 1987 play about a family's descent into corruption. When Jack McCraken 
takes over his family's furniture business, he intends that it be an honest endeavour. However, 
his relatives' various dishonest actions soon come to light and threaten the company's future. 



A Surfeit Of Lampreys by Ngaio Marsh
******Ngaio Marsh's most popular novel begins when a young New Zealander's 
first contact with the English gentry is the body of Lord Wutherford -- with a meat 
skewer through the eye... The Lampreys had plenty of charm -- but no cash. They 
all knew they were peculiar -- and rather gloried in it. The double and triple charades, 
for instance, with which they would entertain their guests -- like rich but awful 
Uncle Gabriel, who was always such a bore. The Lampreys thought if they jollied him 
up he would bail them out -- yet again. Instead, Uncle Gabriel met a violent end. And 
Chief Inspector Alleyn had to work our which of them killed him...



Alone Together by Byron Rogers
******A portrait of the curious marriage and lives of poet RS Thomas and his wife artist Elsi Eldridge, 
inspired by Byron Rogers's biography The Man Who Went into the West. Thomas was an unpublished 
poet when he met Elsi, but she already had the makings of a successful artist. After winning the Royal 
College of Art's Prix de Rome scholarship and selling several paintings at the Royal Academy Summer 
Exhibition, she abandoned this to retreat with him to a small cottage in a remote part of North Wales.



Asha  
******



Babel's Tower by Mike Walker  
******Mike Walker's play imagines the Jewish-Russian writer Isaac Babel being interrogated 
after his arrest by the Soviet secret police in 1939. As Stalin's henchmen beat and bully Babel, 
scenes from his two great collections of stories come to him: the Jewish gangsters fighting over 
Odessa, Babel's hometown, and the Red Cavalry, with which he had ridden as a war correspondent, 
slaughtering Poles at the edge of the new Soviet Union.



Camille 1.5 by Alexander Dumas, Jr. 
Camille 2.5 
Camille 3.5 
Camille 4.5 
Camille 5.5 
******the instantly-famous story of passion versus class that remains 
                                      as timeless as love itself.




Casual Slaughters by Perry Pontac
******A send-up of the classical whodunit. An interesting and very funny pastiche of a 1930s 
Detective Story. Lord Bavidge has been receiving death threats written in his own blood and 
amateur sleuth Sir Nicholas Ovalmere rushes into action to clear up the mystery.



Island Blue 1.5 by Gerda Stevenson - Brave New World  
Island Blue 2.5 - Grandmother's Footsteps 
Island Blue 3.5 - Ronald
Island Blue 4.5 - A Place in the Rain  
Island Blue 5.5 - Looking After Billy  
******A tale of family relationships and deception, set on a remote Scottish island.



La Bete Humaine 1.3  by Emile Zola  
La Bete Humaine 2.3  
La Bete Humaine 3.3 
******the story of a train engineer who witnesses the murder of the 
stationmaster by the husband of a woman with whom the stationmaster 
has been sleeping with. After the train engineer develops a fixation with 
said woman himself, sex and violence - and trains - are the order of the day.


 
LA Theater Works - Adam's Rib 
******A romantic comedy with Adam Arkin, Anne Heche, Annabelle Gurwitch, David Rambo. 
Prosecutor Adam Bonner is assigned the case against a woman 
who tried to scare her adulterous husband and his lover by shooting at them repeatedly, 
hitting him in the shoulder. Bonner's wife, Amanda, also a lawyer, decides to defend the 
woman in court. As the two use every technique they know to win the case, the courtroom 
tension carries over into the couple's household.




Moonlight by Harold Pinter 
******A man - Andy, a middle aged civil servant -- lies in his bed, dying.  
His wife tries desperately to bring his estranged adult sons to his side.  
Bridging these two worlds is the haunting presence of the daughter they have lost.



Mum by Ronnie Barker 
******The main character is an office cleaner whose life was so lonely that 
                         she talked constantly to her dead mother. 



Nana 1.2 by Emile Zola  
Nana 2.2 
******Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker 
to high-class cocotte during the last three years of the French 
Second Empire. Nana first appears in the end of L'Assommoir (1877), 
another of Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, in which she is portrayed 
as the daughter of an abusive drunk; in the end, she is living 
in the streets and just beginning a life of prostitution.



Naught Happens Twice Thus  




Neuromancer 1.2 by William Gibson
Neuromancer 2.2
******The Matrix unfolds like neon origami beneath clusters and 
constellations of data. Constructs, AIs, live here. Somewhere, 
concealed by ice, Neuromancer is evolving. As entropy goes 
into reverse, Molly's surgical implants broadcast trouble from the 
ferro-concrete geodesic of the Sprawl. Maelcum, Rastafarian in 
space, is her best hope of rescue. But she and Case, computer 
cowboy, are busy stealing data from the almighty Megacorps. If the 
Megacorps don't get them both, perhaps Case will fall prey to the 
cheap treachery of Linda Lee, someone as lost as himself.



Never Come Back by John Mair  
******Crime story



Night of the Wolf by Victor Pemberton (90 mins) 
******Exciting story of a monster in human form. 
                     Vincent Price is the werewolf-hunter.



Nightcap by Laura Watson
******Nine-year old Tom is shaken from his sleep by a ghostly presence 
                             which looks as if it will destroy his while family.



No Fear or Favour by Henry Cecil 
******'If everyone had a perfectly clear conscience, the blackmailer would have no chance'. 
So begins a trial in which the unfortunate judge is himself blackmailed. Unwittingly 'picked up' 
by a 'respectable-looking girl' the judge finds himself put into an impossible situation in which 
an unscrupulous blackmailer threatens his career and personal life in an attempt to steer the 
course of a trial to an acquittal. Can Mr Justice Slaughter save himself from ruin and degradation?



No Man's Land by Harold Pinter
******No Man's Land is about two writers, Hirst, a successful poet and Spooner, a failed poet 
who meet at Jack Straw's Pub on Hampstead Heath and return to Hirst's impressive, 
if impersonal, home for a drink. Hirst, a writer who has not written or published for quite 
some time is unable to unlock his creative powers and is trapped, possibly as a result 
of his own success, in no man's land. His servants, Foster and Briggs appear at times to 
have more control over their employer then he has over them. Spooner, a desperate man 
in need of some sort of haven, tries to awaken Hirst's creative powers thus rescuing them 
both from the no man's land. This alcohol-fueled play leaves Hirst in a drunken stupor and 
Spooner locked in the room for the night at the end of act one. 



Northern Lights 1.2 by Philip Pullman  
Northern Lights 2.2 
******When Lyra's friend Roger disappears, she and her daemon, 
Pantalaimon, determine to find him. Their quest leads them to the 
bleak splendour of the North where a team of scientists are conducting 
unspeakably horrible experiments. But something more perilous awaits Lyra.






Subtle Knife 1.2 by Philip Pullman  
Subtle Knife 2.2  
******Will is 12 years old and he's just killed a man. Determined to 
discover the truth about his father's disappearance, Will steps through 
a window into another world. There, he meets a girl called Lyra who, 
like himself, is on a mission which she intends to carry out at all costs.





The Amber Spyglass 1 of 5 by Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass 2 of 5  
The Amber Spyglass 3 of 5  
The Amber Spyglass 4 of 5  
The Amber Spyglass 5 of 5  
******The Amber Spyglass brings the intrigue of The Golden Compass 
and The Subtle Knife to a heart-stopping end, marking the final volume 
of His Dark Materials as the most powerful of the trilogy.

Along with the return of Lyra, Will, Mrs. Coulter, Lord Asriel, Dr. Mary Malone, 
and Iorek Byrnison the armored bear, come a host of new characters: 
the Mulefa, mysterious wheeled creatures with the power to see Dust; 
Gallivespian Lord Roke, a hand-high spymaster to Lord Asriel; and Metatron, 
a fierce and mighty angel. So, too, come startling revelations: the painful price 
Lyra must pay to walk through the land of the dead, the haunting power of 
Dr. Malone's amber spyglass, and the names of who will live--and who will die--
for love. And all the while, war rages with the Kingdom of Heaven, a brutal battle 
that--in its shocking outcome--will uncover the secret of Dust. Philip Pullman 
deftly brings the cliff-hangers and mysteries of His Dark Materials to an earth 
shattering conclusion--and confirms his fantasy trilogy as an undoubted and 
                                       enduring classic.



 I'm the Boss by Karen Brown
******Successful HR manager Diane's life is turned upside down by a sinister online 
bullying campaign, and when she finally discovers the culprit, her world begins to disintegrate.





Oedipus The King by Sophocles 
******Sophocles' tragedy of patricide and incest.



Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles  
******The events of Oedipus at Colonus occur after Oedipus 
the King and before Antigone. The play describes the end 
                                 of Oedipus' tragic life.




Playhouse 90 (So Afr) - A Question of Disposal  
Playhouse 90 (So Afr) - Dead Man's Shadow 
Playhouse 90 (So Afr) - Keeping in Touch  
Playhouse 90 (So Afr) - Murder By All Means  
Playhouse 90 (So Afr) - The House by the Lake
Playhouse 90 (So Afr) - The Weather for Murder  
Playhouse 90 (So Afr) - xxxxxx - Cassius Touch  
Playhouse 90 (So Afr) - xxxxxx - Ghost Train 
******



Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household 
******The narrator takes it upon himself to stalk - in the manner of 
a big game hunt - a human prey, a man guarded by the best in the land, 
a man with a vested interest in keeping himself out of the sights of any 
assassin. With the dictator in his sights our hero is apprehended and 
tortured almost to the point of death. Left to fall from a cliff to an apparently 
accidentally death he cheats fate by landing in a bog. Here begins his 
flight to freedom. But what kind of freedom? Even back in his native England 
he is hunted down by the agents of the dictator - forced to become an outlaw 
now wanted for actual murder after he finishes off one of his foreign pursuers 
in the bowels of the London Underground. In ROGUE MALE Geoffrey Household 
has written an adventure thriller which has yet to be bettered, and which has 
spawned a thousand imitations including the box office smash hit movie THE FUGITIVE.



Scars by Lennie James




Scientists of the Strange  




Secrets of the Prison House  by Perry Pontiac
******a hapless lawyer is summoned to act for a deranged murderess 



Spider's War  by Andrea Farrell Redman 




The Dark Is Rising 1.4 by Susan Cooper 
The Dark Is Rising 2.4  
The Dark Is Rising 3.4  
The Dark Is Rising 4.4  
******On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of 
the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the 
Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.





The Odyssey of Homer 1.5
The Odyssey of Homer 2.5
The Odyssey of Homer 3.5
The Odyssey of Homer 4.5
The Odyssey of Homer 5.5
******By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character 
and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, The Odyssey 
has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of 
Odysseus' adventurous wanderings as he returns from the long war at Troy to his 
home in the Greek island of Ithaca, where his wife Penelope and his son 
Telemachus have been waiting for him for twenty years. He meets a one-eyed giant, 
Polyphemus the Cyclops; he visits the underworld; he faces the terrible monsters 
Scylla and Charybdis; he extricates himself from the charms of Circe and Calypso. 
After these and numerous other legendary encounters he finally reaches home, where, 
disguised as a beggar, he begins to plan revenge on the suitors who have for years 
been besieging Penelope and feasting on his own meat and wine with insolent impunity.



The Red Balloon  by Anthony Clark
******A musical based on the film classic.



Two Pipe Problems 1.2 by Michael Chaplin  
Two Pipe Problems 2.2
******Feisty thespians William and Sandy, the self-styled Holmes and Watson of their 
retirement community, galvanise the other inmates of The Old Bitches, home for terminally 
resting members of the entertainment industry, as they leave no commode unconquered 
in their quest to solve their own "two pipe problem" – a mystery involving sibling jealousy, 
a lost ventriloquist's dummy and a spot of ill-judged fire-raising. Can they solve the curious 
incident of the doll in the night-time?
Comedy legends abound in this delightfully funny play.


Cider Queens 1.2  by Elizabeth Moynihan
Cider Queens 2.2  



Out Of The Pirate's Playhouse by Shelagh Delaney
******a touching tale all about the trials and tribulations of growing up by the author of A Taste of Honey



Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston
******Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of 
Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who 
                             lived there in the seventeenth century.






Norman Conquests 1.3 by Alan Ayckbourn - Table Manners
Norman Conquests 2.3 - Living Together
Norman Conquests 3.3 - Round and Round the Garden
******Set in the dining room (Table Manners), living room (Living Together) and garden 
(Round and Round the Garden) of an English country house, The Norman Conquests 
follows six characters – assistant librarian Norman, his wife, in-laws and the local vet – 
from Saturday night through Monday morning.  We watch as desperate lothario Norman 
attempts to seduce his sister-in-law Annie, charm his brother-in-law’s wife Sarah and 
woo his estranged wife Ruth, during a disastrously hilarious weekend of eating, drinking 
and misunderstanding.  With his characteristic compassionate humor, Ayckbourn explores 
the disappointments bubbling beneath the surface as his characters’ dreams of love and 
                        fulfillment go amiss. 




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