Radio Plays IV
Radio Plays IV
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A City Called Glory
******A portrait of the enigmatic singer Sam Cooke
- famed for hits like 'Wonderful World'.
A Nightingale Sang in Fernhurst Road 1.5 by Christopher Matthew
A Nightingale Sang in Fernhurst Road 2.5
A Nightingale Sang in Fernhurst Road 3.5
A Nightingale Sang in Fernhurst Road 4.5
A Nightingale Sang in Fernhurst Road 5.5
******A Schoolboy's Journal of 1945
A Normal Life 1.5 by Steven Appleby
A Normal Life 2.5
A Normal Life 3.5
A Normal Life 4.5
A Normal Life 5.5
******The distinctly abnormal life of a cartoonist, who searches for love
when he discovers
his wife having an affair with a kettle
A Room of Her Own 1.5 - Virginia
A Room of Her Own 2.5 - Daphne
A Room of Her Own 3.5 - Dodie
A Room of Her Own 4.5 - Alison
A Room of Her Own 5.5 - Vita
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All At Sea by Colin MacDonald
******David Murdoch is on a post-redundancy cruise in the Indian Ocean. Facing an uncertain future but with a
healthy payoff, he is enjoying the holiday of a lifetime when the ship runs into trouble off the pirate-ridden
coast of Somalia.
All Passion Spent 1.5 by Vita Sackville-West
All Passion Spent 2.5
All Passion Spent 3.5
All Passion Spent 4.5
All Passion Spent 5.5
******Echoing the themes in A Room of One's Own by her great friend
Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West remaps the destiny of the gentle,
gracious eighty-eight-year-old Lady Slane in this classic modern novel.
Having surrendered seven decades of her life to the exemplary, if often
hollow fulfillment of her marriage, to the expectations of her statesman
husband and the demands of her children, Lady Slane finally, in her
widowhood, defies her family. She dismisses the wishes and plans of her
six pompous sons and daughters for her future, and instead retires to a tiny
house in Hampstead, where she chooses to live independently and free from
her past. There she alters, and not without some success, the course of her
personal history. There, too, she recollects the dreams of her youth and at last,
with one last "strange and lovely thing," acts upon the passion she forfeited
seventy years earlier to the narrow conventions of a proper Victorian marriage.
"...Sackville-West has borrowed in her prose writing some ... function of poetry,
the ability to suggest far more than she says."--New York Times "Witty and
charming and graceful and brilliant."--Chicago Tribune
Captain Starlight's Apprentice 1.5 by Kathryn Heyman
Captain Starlight's Apprentice 2.5
Captain Starlight's Apprentice 3.5
Captain Starlight's Apprentice 4.5
Captain Starlight's Apprentice 5.5
******This is the story of two women living very different, heroic lives in two very
different Australias. Jess, circus-raised, is a stunt-rider who can outride any man.
In the early days of film she finds her calling, playing wild outlaw women who
answer to no one. However, when her Chinese circus-owner husband is killed
she is left pregnant and vulnerable and, after suffering the cruellest betrayal of all,
she finds herself closer to the outlaw's life than she had ever imagined. Rose goes
to Australia from England in the 1950s, in search of a new life. But neither the new
country nor motherhood is what she had expected and, very quickly, she finds herself
estranged from those she loves, incarcerated and terrified. Yet Rose is strong, and
she will manage not only to save herself, but also to shed new light on Jess's story
in a moving and deeply satisfying way. With these wonderfully heroic protagonists,
making a world for themselves despite the toughness of their environment and the
cruellest twists of fate, Kathryn Heyman, author of the acclaimed "The Accomplice",
has created a beautifully-written and unusual novel of extraordinary lives.
Double Bill by Harold Pinter
******Moonlight
First performed in 1993, this radio production of Pinter's play was recorded
to mark his 70th birthday.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.
****** and Voices
One of Pinter's last dramatic works, this was first broadcast in 2005. Some of the
tormentors and the tormented so potently etched in Pinter's later plays are
brought together with a musical setting by the composer James Clarke.
Family Tree 1.5
Family Tree 2.5
Family Tree 3.5
Family Tree 4.5
Family Tree 5.5
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Henry VIII by Wm.Shakespeare & John Fletcher (2+ hrs.)
******A rare chance to hear William Shakespeare and John Fletcher's history play depicting the life of
Henry VIII, broadcast to mark the 500th anniversary in 2009 of the king's accession to the throne.
It tells the story of the king's struggle to have his marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled and the
catastrophic fall of the all-powerful Cardinal Wolsey.
LA Theater Works - Nora 1.2 by Henrik Ibsen and Ingmar Bergman
LA Theater Works - Nora 2.2
******Master Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman streamlined Ibsen's classic
A DOLL'S HOUSE, exposing the contemporary heart of this 19th century
masterpiece. Taut with suspense, this critically-acclaimed adaptation focuses
on Nora, a young wife and mother, who exploits her childlike charm to survive
in a man's world. But Nora has a secret that threatens her very existence.
She begins a journey fraught with perils, including a secret admirer who
lusts to be of service, and the dark, icy Norwegian waters
-- which may offer the only way out
Misunderstanding of Glencoe by Alexander McCall Smith
******An Edinburgh couple on holiday in the Highlands discover that centuries-old tensions
are still very near the surface.
On the Cuff 1.5 - The Last Bridesmaid
On the Cuff 2.5 - Rocking Time
On the Cuff 3.5 - The Power Of Skin
On the Cuff 4.5 - Dear Mr Qwerty
On the Cuff 5.5 - Soixante-Neuf
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Orley Farm 1.3 by Anthony Trollope
Orley Farm 2.3
Orley Farm 3.3
******The Great Orley Farm Case arose out of certain irregularities
—and ensuing complications—in the will of Sir Joseph Mason.
Did Lady Mason forge her husband's signature to the codicil
bequeathing the farm to her son? Is she a criminal?
Orley Farm is Trollope at his most penetrating
Plasticine by Vassily Sigarev
******British premiere for extraordinary first play by 24-year-old from
Western Siberia, winner of the Anti-Booker Prize In a faceless city in
the depths of present-day Russia a young boy dies. Women in the street
are drunk, fight and demand sex. Like a latterday figure from Dostoyevsky,
the schoolboy Maksim makes his way through this urban hell, drawn into it
one moment, repelled the next. His only retreat is into a private world moulded
by himself, out of which springs a final act of reckless courage. 'You attempt
your home-grown welfare and the results are like this. Look: drug addicts,
delinquents and the dregs of society...'
Ramayana of Valmiki 01.10
Ramayana of Valmiki 02.10
Ramayana of Valmiki 03.10
Ramayana of Valmiki 04.10
Ramayana of Valmiki 05.10
Ramayana of Valmiki 06.10
Ramayana of Valmiki 07.10
Ramayana of Valmiki 08.10
Ramayana of Valmiki 09.10
Ramayana of Valmiki 10.10
******Ramayana is an epic poem of India which narrates the journey of
Virtue towards vice. Sage poet Valmiki authored it and as with any other
classical poems written in ancient times, dating of Ramayana is still to
be determined accurately by historians. Those in India believe that
Rama lived in Satya Yug (Truth age), millennia BC and many are
presently concerned with what Ramayana tells us, rather than when
it was told. The epic poem Ramayana is passed on to the present age
by word of mouth rendering like a ballad. However, scholars, grammarians,
historians have put all their efforts to standardize the original text, by
verifying various manuscripts available from various parts of India, thus
"stabilizing and saving the text from further encroachment of apocryphal stories."
Requiem For A Wren by Nevil Shute
******A deeply moving story of friendship and enduring love which brings
to a vivid reality the silent tensions of everyday life in England before D-Day.
As the invasion fleet masses, Janet Prentice, a forthright yet deeply sensitive
Leading Wren, meets two young Australians - a commando sergeant and his
elder brother - a much-decorated pilot. The events of those crowded days, and
their aftermath, are told with a compassionate brilliance which shows why
Nevil Shute remains among the world's most popular storytellers.
Restless 01.10 by William Boyd
Restless 02.10
Restless 03.10
Restless 04.10
Restless 05.10
Restless 06.10
Restless 07.10
Restless 08.10
Restless 09.10
Restless 10.10
******I am Eva Delectorskaya,” Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm
summer afternoon in 1976 her daughter, Ruth, learns that everything she ever
knew about her mother was a carefully constructed lie. Sally Gilmartin is a
respectable English widow living in picturesque Cotswold village;
Eva Delectorskaya was a rigorously trained World War II spy, a woman
who carried fake passports and retreated to secret safe houses, a woman
taught to lie and deceive, and above all, to never trust anyone.
Three decades later the secrets of Sally's past still haunt her. Someone is
trying to kill her and at last she has decided to trust Ruth with her story.
Road to Durham by Douglas Livingstone
******Two 80-year-old former Bevin Boys, who have not seen each other for 63 years, go to the
Durham Miners' Gala together and confront their memories of the past.
Rosalind by J. M. Barrie
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Seeing is Believing 1.5 by Sian Evans
Seeing is Believing 2.5
Seeing is Believing 3.5
Seeing is Believing 4.5
Seeing is Believing 5.5
******A man is forced to re-examine everything when he sees a UFO one Saturday night in a pub car park.
Seven Circles Around the Fire by Mahesh Dattani
******The daughter of the deputy commissioner of police for Bangalore investigates the Hijara (eunuch) community.
Seven Floors by Dino Buzzatti
******There are shades of Kafka in SEVEN FLOORSl. Giovanni is sent to hospital even though there's nothing
much wrong with him, and is given a bed on the top floor. But it's not a normal hospital; the patients are housed
on each storey according to the severity of their conditions. When we reach the ground floor there are no doctors,
only priests, and the rumour is that if you go this low, your number is up. A series of bureuacratic blunders starts
Giovanni's descent...
Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell
******The filmscript - specially adapted by Willy Russell into a full-length play.
Shirley Valentine has no one to talk to but the kitchen wall. Surely there's
more to life than egg and chips on Tuesdays and steak on Thursdays?
On a Greek island, husband left behind, her dream of escape turns into reality.
Sixth Column Has Better Legs 1.5 by Sam Boardman-Jacobs
Sixth Column Has Better Legs 2.5
Sixth Column Has Better Legs 3.5
Sixth Column Has Better Legs 4.5
Sixth Column Has Better Legs 5.5
******describes the experiences of four chorus girls in Madrid while the city is under siege.
Synge 100 Years On by J M Synge
******To mark the centenary of the death of Irish playwright JM Synge, Radio 3 presents new productions
of his pivotal short plays The Tinker's Wedding and Riders to the Sea.
The Goddess 1.5
The Goddess 2.5
The Goddess 3.5
The Goddess 4.5
The Goddess 5.5
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The Inn by Guy de Maupassant
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The Risen People 1.2 by James Plunkett
The Risen People 2.2
******The Story of the Fitzpatrick Family's struggle to survive during the 1913 Dublin Lockout.
The Sleepers of Fallows Cross by Rod Beacham
******an Intelligence thriller set at a high-level clinic for mental disorders. The potential for abuse of the
clinical procedures forms the spring for the action, which twists and turns most gratifyingly. But who are
the sleepers? Mr. Beacham lets us know that only when he is ready to tell us.
The Wind Bear by David Ashton
******A wonderful comic detective story, with an absent-minded taxidermist as the main character.
Has he murdered his wife, or hasn't he? And is he really as dozy as he appears to be? An
experienced police inspector and his assistant (not over-endowed with brains) try to prove
him guilty - they don't have any other suspects- but as the plot twists and turns, and the police
excavate a bowl of five-year-old buried tripe from the garden, the plot is gradually revealed.
Excellent writing and casting throughout.
This Book Will Save Your Life 1.5 by A M Homes
This Book Will Save Your Life 2.5
This Book Will Save Your Life 3.5
This Book Will Save Your Life 4.5
This Book Will Save Your Life 5.5
****** "I think this brave story of a lost man's reconnection with the world
could become a generational touchstone, like Catch-22, The Monkey Wrench
Gang, or The Catcher in the Rye. There is a lot of uplift here, but Homes's
deadpan delivery keeps it from feeling greeting-card phony. So does the
novel's ambience, which is 21st-century L.A. weird.
And hey, maybe it will save somebody's life."
Stephen King
Tis Pity She's A Whore by John Ford
******Giovanni, recently returned from University study in Bologna, has developed an
incestuous passion for his sister Annabella, despite their blood relationship, and the
play opens with him discussing this ethical dilemma with Friar Bonaventura.
Bonaventura tries to convince Giovanni that his desires are evil despite Giovanni's
passionate reasoning, and eventually persuades him to try a rid himself
of his feelings through repentance.
Tricks of the Trade by Martin Duffy
******Tricks of the Trade shines a light on the dark side of love in 21st century Ireland.
Does being half of a couple mean losing your own identity? Does it involve making personal and sexual trade-offs?
Uma and the Fairy Queen by Mahesh Dattani
******A murder mystery
Young Coleridge by Martyn Wade
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