Radio Plays VII
Radio Plays VII
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Broken English by Frank Deasy
******This play tells the story of the Ay family from the Kurdish area of Turkey, who were
detained in Dungavel (a Scottish detention center) for over a year and living under the
constant threat of deportation. Their plight became a cause celebre in Great Britain in 2002,
raising questions in the Houses of Parliament, the House of Lords and beyond. Despite
several pleas, plus a petition submitted to the government with over 20,000 signatures,
the family had to leave the country. Currently they are living in Germany, with the threat of
enforced repatriation to Turkey continually hanging over their heads.
Falco - Poseidon's Gold 01.10 by Lindsey Davis
Falco - Poseidon's Gold 02.10
Falco - Poseidon's Gold 03.10
Falco - Poseidon's Gold 04.10
Falco - Poseidon's Gold 05.10
Falco - Poseidon's Gold 06.10
Falco - Poseidon's Gold 07.10
Falco - Poseidon's Gold 08.10
Falco - Poseidon's Gold 09.10
Falco - Poseidon's Gold 10.10
******This Marcus Didius Falco novel is set in Ancient Rome.
Shipping scams, crooked antiques auctions and hired thugs -
what could be worse for a hired detective trying to clear
his own family's name?
Isabella, The Real Mrs. Beeton by Tony Coult
******Interesting biographical play about the famous gardening and cooking expert Mrs. Beeton;
her life and marriage, and the way she compiled her books. Her books of "Gardening Management"
and "Household Management" are still in print. They still give reliable information and a view of the
world of the well-off Victorian lady.
Kidnapped 1.4 by Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped 2.4
Kidnapped 3.4
Kidnapped 4.4
******The classic adventure story of kidnap, shipwreck, murder
and pursuit as young David Balfour tries to claim the inheritance
he has been cheated out of.
Present Laughter by Noel Coward
******The plot follows a few days in the life of the successful and self-obsessed
actor Garry Essendine as he prepares to travel for a touring commitment in Africa.
Amid a series of events bordering on farce, Garry has to deal with women who
want to seduce him, placate both his long-suffering secretary and his estranged
wife, cope with a crazed young playwright, and overcome his fear of his own
approaching fortieth birthday and, by implication, his impending mid-life crisis.
Private Lives 1.2 by Noël Coward.
Private Lives 2.2
******Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners by Noël Coward.
It focuses on a divorced couple who discover that they are
honeymooning with their new spouses in the same hotel.
Professional Foul by Tom Stoppard
******The play is set in Prague and follows the character of Professor Anderson, a Cambridge don,
on a weekend visit to a philosophical colloquium. What should be a fairly uneventful trip is complicated
by the intervention of the Communist government, leading to an ethical dilemma for the professor
of philosophy, a situations explored by Stoppard through the opinions of several characters.
Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler
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Promises to Keep by Vivienne Allen
******A psychological mystery. A serial killer haunts the parklands of Norwich
and an attractive young lady exhibits bizarre behaviour; are the two connected?
Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
******Joseph Roth's 1932 novel, The Radetzky March, starts with an accident
that creates a dynasty. When an infantry lieutenant steps in front of a bullet
intended for the young Franz Joseph, the Austro-Hungarian emperor rewards
him with wealth, promotion, and a knighthood. Almost overnight, Joseph Trotta
is "severed" from his ancestors, and his family is transformed from unremarkable
soldiers and peasants living in the outer reaches of the empire to barons and
high-ranking officials living near the imperial palace. As long as Franz Joseph
is the Kaiser, their status is secure. But when Trotta happens upon a schoolbook
account of the event that exaggerates his heroism, he is shaken:
He had been driven from the paradise of simple faith in Emperor and Virtue, Truth,
and Justice, and, now fettered in silence and endurance, he may have realized that the
stability of the world, the power of laws, and the glory of majesties were all based on deviousness.
Reconstructing Louis by John Sessions
******At Vailima, his home in Western Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson attempts to dispel
some of the romantic myths which have built up around him, as he looks back over his life.
This play marks tomorrow's 150th anniversary of Stevenson's birth.
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
******It is considered one of the most influential works in American
literature. The novel, in which a young recruit in the American Civil
War is faced by the cruelty of war, made Crane an international
success. Although he was born after the war and had not at the time
experienced battle firsthand, the novel is considered an example of Realism.
Red Rock, Gray Rock by Jeff Young
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Red Star Belgrade by Peter Wolf
******In 1941, as the Nazis begin their invasion of the Balkans, half of the Belgrade football team is wiped out
as the pitch is bombed. In prison camp, the survivors form a new team to play a match against the prison guards,
but the price of winning will be their lives.
Red Story by Hattie Naylor
******Hattie Naylor's deliciously dark version of the fairy tale of `The Red Shoes'.
They were made at night, cursed by a candle, touched by sulphur and placed
in the shop window: glistening red shoes, to tempt a lonely child.
Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer
******A novel set in Regency London and Brighton. The beautiful Judith Taverner
and her brother Peregrine agree that Julian St John Audley is an insufferably
arrogant dandy. Unfortunately he is also the 5th Earl of Worth, a friend of the
Regent and, quite by chance, their legal guardian.
Relative Values 1.3 by Noel Coward
Relative Values 2.3
Relative Values 3.3
******A comedy of manners in which an American movie actress is preparing to wed a British earl.
Smack in the middle of a sedate dinner in the English mansion comes Miranda's former flame and
current Hollywood sensation, Don. Miranda is furious at the intrusion and would send Don packing
except that the wary and wise Countess, knowing that the actress is no match for her son,
blithely invites Don to stay for the evening.
Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn
******We are in the realms of farce, here, not of the drop your trousers,
flash some flesh variety. It is more sophisticated than that – and hugely enjoyable.
Resident Alien by Quentin Crisp and Tim Fountain.
******Americans first met Crisp in the 1976 documentary based on his
autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant. In 1979, proving his theory of
the "survival of the glibbest," he began to tour America in his one-man
show, An Evening with Quentin Crisp. In 1981 he became a resident
alien living in New York. This is a journal of his life on Manhattan's
Lower East Side. Told in his usual charming style by a man who says
that "personality is the greatest power in the world," this work shows
that Crisp can live beyond his income of dreams. Whether playing himself in
Philadelphia or Elizabeth I in Orlando, Crisp does it with a style all his own,
which is certain to charm most readers.
Return of the Prodigal by St. John Hankin
******The prodigal of the title is Eustace Jackson, the son of a wealthy manufacturer. Five years earlier Eustace
was packed off to Australia to make his fortune, but he only succeeds at failing in everything he attempts.
Desperate and destitute, he returns home, a charming loser
Return To Go by Jim Slater
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Ripples
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Rivals 1.2 by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Rivals 2.2
******The Rivals was first performed at Covent Garden, London, on the 17th of January in 1775.
It was roundly vilified by both the public and the critics for its length, for its bawdiness and for the
character of Sir Lucius O’Trigger being a meanly written role played very badly. The actor, Lee,
after being hit with an apple during the performance, stopped and addressed the audience, asking
“By the pow'rs, is it personal? — is it me, or the matter?” Apparently, it was both. Sheridan immediately
withdrew the play and in the next 11 days, rewrote the original (The Larpent manuscript) extensively,
including a new preface in which he allowed:
For my own part, I see no reason why the author of a play should not regard a first night’s audience as
a candid and judicious friend attending, in behalf of the public, at his last rehearsal. If he can dispense
with flattery, he is sure at least of sincerity, and even though the annotation be rude, he may rely upon the
justness of the comment.
The play is now considered to be one of Sheridan's masterpieces, and is credited
with popularizing the term malapropism.
(Norm Crosby, a comedian with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame known as
the "Master of the Malaprop", based a large portion of his act on malapropisms.)
River's Up by Alex Jones
******the story of a Worcester couple who are swept away from their Severn-side home
by a food of Biblical proportions.
Riverside Villas Murder by Kingsley Amis
******A classic armchair mystery, THE RIVERSIDE VILLAS MURDER
has for its hero a 14-year-old boy, Peter Furneaux.
Like all 14 year olds he is hovering hopefully on the brink between sexual
inexperience and initiation, and in this book, under our very eyes,
Peter suddenly becomes an adult!
A crime, truly murderous, is committed by an unknown and almost unidentifiable
assailant. Only Peter begins to guess at the truth--a dangerous truth--which leads
him to the river bank by moonlight. A delightful book, and
as with all works by Kingsley Amis, guaranteed to please.
Road to Normandy by Douglas Livingstone
******Aftermath of the second world war: there are different ways of looking back...
Robinson Crusoe 1.2 by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe 2.2
******'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat,
I was exceeding surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot
on the Shore, which was very plain to be seen in the Sand:
I stood like one Thunder-struck ...'
Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous adventure stories
ever written. The account of a sailor shipwrecked on a desert
island for twenty-eight years, it is also a tale of mythic proportions,
an allegory, and a spiritual autobiography.
Robinson Crusoe and His Farther Adventures 1.2 by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe and His Farther Adventures 2.2
******Daniel Defoe's faith-filled The Farther Adventures
of Robinson Crusoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity
and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island
he left many years before. Along with his trusty servant and
companion, Friday, he embarks on a harrowing high-seas
adventure that takes them to China, over the Russian steppes,
and into Siberia. Readers will find themselves captivated by
this sequel, which is every bit as engaging as the original.
Rocking Horse by Arnold Wesker
******A new 75 minute radio play commissioned by BBC World Service to commemorate
their 75th anniversary. Transmitted 2nd December 2007. CAST: Clive Swift, Prunella Scales,
Amanda Root, Sheila Steafel, Alex Lanipekun. Music by Benjamin Till. Directed by David Hitchinson.
Roots by Arnold Wesker
******Opened at The Manchester Royal Exchange 30th January and ran until 1st March 2008.
Ross by Terrence Rattigan
******Lawrence of Arabia as Aircraftsman Ross seeking anonymity, recalls his past during a night of fever
Rossum's Cyber Cafe by Jeffrey Robinson
******A science fantasy about a world in which our lives are dominated by the internet, inspired by
Czech playwright Karl Capek's 1921 play `RUR' (for Rossum's Universal Robots), in which robots
had similarly insinuated themselves into every facet of human life.
Rudolpho's Zest by Tanika Gupta
******Rudolpho has a secret - he cannot age beyond mid-life. But when Rudolpho tells Mel about
his immortality, he finds his powers no longer work.
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders 1.2 - Old Unhappy Far-Off Things
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders 2.2 - Alone and Without a Leader
******In Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders, John Mortimer tells
the story of Rumpole's very first case. Looking back a half century into a
very different world, Rumpole recalls a man accused of murdering his
father and his father's friend with a pistol taken from a dead German pilot.
It was this trial and its outcome that put Rumpole on the map and began to
shape him into the eccentric and cantankerous defender of justice and reciter
of poetry readers know and love. Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
is a must read for every Rumpole fan and a compelling invitation to new readers
to get to know Mortimer's addictive barrister.
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror 1.2
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror 2.2
******While defending a mind-numbingly dull theft charge, Rumpole finds that the
new terrorist laws have hamstrung his beloved courts. Meanwhile, a Pakistani
doctor has been imprisoned without charge or trial under suspicion of aiding
al Qaeda in its plans for a terrorist attack. With the doctor's wife begging him
to help her husband, the Great Defender is determined to bring the case before a jury.
Trouble is also brewing at home as Hilda--She Who Must Be Obeyed--sits down to
write her own memoirs describing her view of Rumpole and her own love life. Rumpole's
battle on the home front threatens to derail his case but where there's a Rumpole, there's a way!
Salome 1.3 by Lizzie Hopley
Salome 2.3
Salome 3.3
******Set on the brink of a new era - while a young carpenter is travelling across Israel propagating his
new religion - this story revolves around a girl on the threshold of womanhood, who has been torn from
her father and the world she knows, when her mother falls in love with Salome's Uncle, Herod Antipas.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1.2 by Murial spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 2.2
******She was a schoolmistress with a difference. Proud, cultured, romantic,
her ideas were progressive, even shocking. And when she decided to transform
a group of young girls under her tutelage into the "creme de la creme" of
Marcia Blaine school, no one could have predicted the outcome.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 1.3 by Robert Tressell
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 2.3
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 3.3
******The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of
working men who are joined one day by Owen, a journeyman-prophet
with a vision of a just society. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and
dishonesty of the capitalist system rouse his fellow men from their political
quietism. A masterpiece of wit and political passion and one of the most
authentic novels of English working class life ever written.
The Reith Affair by Michael Hasting
******He believed that the BBC should be granted the "brute force of monopoly" and insisted that it run
foreign-language broadcasting, observing the differences between news and propaganda. This became
the BBC World Service and has often been referred to as "the richest of his legacies".
But with this came the rejection that democracy should be served by democratic means. Lord Reith maintained
that the BBC must also have a monopolistic leadership, which would be vested in his role as the corporation's
first Director-General.
The Revengers Comedies 1.2 by Alan Ayckbourn
The Revengers Comedies 2.2
******It was inspired by the playwright's love of films and references many notable movies,
particularly the Alfred Hitchcock classic Strangers on a Train.
The plot focuses on two disparate characters. Henry Bell is a 42-year-old executive,
divorced and recently fired from his job, and Karen Knightly is 25-years-old, wealthy,
very eccentric, and recently abandoned by her lover Anthony Staxton-Billing, who opted
to return to his wife Imogen. Both are intent on committing suicide by leaping from the
Albert Bridge in London. When neither succeeds, they strike a bargain whereby each
agrees to exact revenge on behalf of the other.
The Ringer 1.2 by Edgar Wallace
The Ringer 2.2
******An underhanded solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are
called in to protect him.
The Riot Act by Tom Paulin
******a version of Sophocles' Antigone
Thebes has endured a ruinous civil war as a result of the rivalry between two brothers - Polyneices and Eteocles.
Each sought absolute power at the other's expense and each found death at his brother's hand. Creon, ruler and
uncle of the two dead warlords, issues an edict that Eteocles be buried with military honours and that Polyneices
be denied a final resting place. He makes a proclamation that anyone found burying Polyneices will be put to death.
Antigone, sister of the two dead brothers, is prepared to pay that price. She is caught red-handed and sentenced
to death by live entombment. She takes her own life and Haemon, her lover,
crazed by her death, falls on his sword beside her.
The Road to Gretna Green by Peter Hunt
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The Road to Lisdoonvarna by Douglas Livingstone
******'Most people who go to the match-making fair in County Clare protest that they're
just there for a good time. But things happen there...'
The Road, the House, the Road by Howard Barker
******Scholar Johannes Aventinus hurries home to his newborn child when he encounters an aristocratic lady
who identifies something sinister about him, and requests he commit a terrible crime.
The Rock by Jonathan Wosnan
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The Rose And The Ring 1.2 by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Rose And The Ring 2.2
******Between the kingdoms of Paflagonia and Crim Tartary, there lived a
mysterious personage, who was known in those countries as the Fairy
Blackstick, from the ebony wand or crutch which she carried; on which she
rode to the moon sometimes, or upon other excursions of business or
pleasure, and with which she performed her wonders. When she was young,
and had been first taught the art of conjuring by the necromancer, her father,
she was always practicing her skill, whizzing about from one kingdom to
another upon her black stick, and conferring her fairy favors upon this Prince or that.
The Tenderness of Wolves 01.10 by Stef Penney
The Tenderness of Wolves 02.10
The Tenderness of Wolves 03.10
The Tenderness of Wolves 04.10
The Tenderness of Wolves 05.10
The Tenderness of Wolves 06.10
The Tenderness of Wolves 07.10
The Tenderness of Wolves 08.10
The Tenderness of Wolves 09.10
The Tenderness of Wolves 10.10
******1867, Canada - As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River,
a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead
man's cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such
violence, people are drawn to the township - journalists, Hudson's Bay Company men,
trappers, traders - but do they want to solve the crime, or exploit it? One-by-one the
assembled searchers set out from Dove River, pursuing the tracks across a desolate
landscape home only to wild animals, madmen and fugitives, variously seeking a murderer,
a son, two sisters missing for 17 years, a forgotten Native American culture, and a fortune
in stolen furs before the snows settle and cover the tracks of the past for good. In an astonishingly
assured debut, Stef Penney deftly weaves adventure, suspense, revelation and humour into a
panoramic historical romance, an exhilarating thriller, a keen murder mystery and ultimately,
with the sheer scope and quality of her storytelling, one of the books of the year.
The Tin Drum 1.2 by Gunter Grass
The Tin Drum 2.2
******The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 launched Gunther Grass
as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers
a scathing dissection of the years from 1925 to 1955 through the eyes
of Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his
retarded childhood fantastically counterpoints the accumulating
horrors of Germany and Poland under the Nazis.
Thicker Than Water 1.2 by Paul Sutton
Thicker Than Water 2.2
******A Dr. Who play
Three Japanese Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyoka (90 mins)
******a fascinating and frightening journey into a world of supernatural and nightmarish
occurrences. Some have compared Izumi to E.T.A. Hoffman. This comparison is an apt
one. Both writers create eerily serene landscapes and backgrounds. Both sketch bizarre
characters and scenes. And both write with hypnotic power.
Treasure Island 1.2 by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island 2.2
******Perhaps the greatest of all adventure stories for boys and girls,
Treasure Island began, a brave boy who finds himself among pirates,
and of the sinister pirate-cook Long John Silver
holds children as entranced today as it did a century ago.
Unfortunate Fursey by Mervyn Wall
******a blend of satire, comedy and fantasy set in the 10th century where Fursey
encounters sorcery, demons, witches, Vikings and the wealthy Festus Wisenuts.
Unknown Assailant by Patrick Hamilton
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Unofficial Rosie 1.6- Down These Mean Streets by Alan McDonald
Unofficial Rosie 2.6- Following From In Front
Unofficial Rosie 3.6- Back Against The Wall
Unofficial Rosie 4.6- If Looks Could Kill
Unofficial Rosie 5.6- Count Your Blessings
Unofficial Rosie 6.6- In Dreams
******Rosie Monaghan is 39 and redundant again. So what to do? Become a private eye, of course.
Up Against It by Joe Orton
******A Screenplay for the Beatles, who turned it down.
Martin Comesby's Vengeance
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