Radio Plays VIII
Radio Plays VIII
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*****A Piece of Justice by Jill Paton Walsh
A second Imogen Quy mystery, involving a mathematician's secret
and a murderous heir.
A Story With Pictures 1.6 - The Proposition
A Story With Pictures 2.6 - The Proposition Accepted
A Story With Pictures 3.6 - Non-Delivery
A Story With Pictures 4.6 - An American Connection
A Story With Pictures 5.6 - Crossman and Friends
A Story With Pictures 6.6 - Coming Home
Adequate Reasons by R.D.Wingfield
******A young child has gone missing. There is a complex interplay between police,
parents and kidnapper ... and a most surprising resolution.
All Souls Night 1.2 by Joseph Tomelty
All Souls Night 2.2
An Ember In The Straw by David Greig
******A small, unnamed country divided by religious and political differences is thrown
into turmoil by the discovery of an injured American pilot in a farmer's field. Tragi-comedy,
An Urnful Of Ashes by Rhuksana Ahmed
Appointment with Venus 1.4 by Jerrard Tickell
Appointment with Venus 2.4
Appointment with Venus 3.4
Appointment with Venus 4.4
n 1940, after the fall of France, the fictitious Channel Island of Amorel is occupied by
a small garrison of German troops under the benign command of Hauptmann Weiss .
He finds that the hereditary ruler, the Suzerain, is away in the army, leaving the Provost in charge.
Back in London, the Ministry of Agriculture realise that during the evacuation of the island,
Venus, a prize pedigree cow, has been left behind. They petition the War Office to do
something urgently, and Major Moreland is assigned the task of rescuing Venus.
Barnstable by James Saunders
******in Barnstable, nuclear destruction is deliberately made remote. Apathy, indifference,
and a refusal to face facts: these are what give the play, with its mysterious character Barnstable, a further dimension.
Bass Saxophone by Ned Chaillet
Barbara Allen
*******David Pownall's tragic tale of unrequited love is inspired by the folk song of the same name.
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Blackout by Laura Rockingham
Bohemians by Henri Murger
Blue Veils and Golden Sands by Martyn Wade
*****Biographical play about the rediscovery of Delia Derbyshire, composer of electronic music,
and famous for her realisation of the "Doctor Who" theme.
Breakfast by Julia Schofield
Coleman & Astor - A Day At The Races by Michael McStay
Coleman & Astor - Death Of A Hooligan
Coleman & Astor - Death of a Mean Cornet
Coleman & Astor - No Harm Done
Crisp and Even Brightly by Alick Rowe
*****In this popular seasonal comedy by Alick Rowe, we find out what is the true story behind
the story of Good King Wenceslas - was it really a PR stunt?
Death Beach by Michael Mcveigh
Exclude Me by Judith Jackson
Fifteen Love 1.6 by Robert Corbet
Fifteen Love 2.6
Fifteen Love 3.6
Fifteen Love 4.6
Fifteen Love 5.6
Fifteen Love 6.6
******Will and Mia, two young teens, feel the spark of attraction, yet are fated to alienate
one another with misunderstandings, thwarted expectations, and gender stereotypes.
Finding Fellows by Nick Fisher
******an interesting speculation on the possibility of connecting a computer directly to the
human brain. With the current pace of technological advance, we may live to see it.
Fontamara 1.2 by Ignazio Silone'
Fontamara 2.2
******The small village of Fontamara in southern Italy is poorly prepared
for the coming of the Fascists in the early 1930s.
Holus Bolus by Steve Walker
*****Graham Baffner, the handsomest, most intelligent man in the world, offers Mr. Placketts,
a Yorkshire businessman, the opportunity not to be himself...
Honk If You Are Jesus by Peter Goldsworthy
*****It is Adelaide in 1994. Infertility expert and gynaecologist Mara Fox is disillusioned
with her work, her life, everything. Mara soon gets a top job that proves to have dire consequences.
In Search Of Oldton by Tim Wright
*****A 90% true digital story about a town that disappeared off the map and a life that never
made it into the digital age. Writer Tim Wright takes us on a personal journey in search of
Oldton, the town of his childhood he lost when his father died.
J'Accuse by Hattie Naylor
******Radio dramatisation inspired by a newspaper article written by Emile Zola in response
to the Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s.
LA Theater Works - Shadow (2 hrs)
******Sir Laurence Olivier. Orson Welles. Vivien Leigh. Joan Plowright. Kenneth Tynan.
When these champions of the theatre get together to rehearse Ionesco's Rhinoceros,
mere mortals best step aside. With lightning wit and scathing insight into the true nature
of genius, Austin Pendleton's new play opens the private worlds of these very public people,
exposing their warmth, their egos, and their glittering madness.
London Vertigo by Charles Macklin
*****The London Vertigo tells the story of Mrs O’Dogherty/Diggerty who is forced to reform her
behaviour by dropping her newly acquired Anglophile habits and language use to transform into
'The Irish Fine Lady'. Her concomitant giving up of colonial mimicry and changing back to 'decent
Dublin domesticity' unwittingly rewrites the original author’s own biography as comedy and farce.
Lost Horizon 1.3 by James Hilton - The Kidnapping
Lost Horizon 2.3 - Shangri-La
Lost Horizon 3.3 - The Inheritance
*****Before returning to England to become the new Foreign Secretary, writer,
soldier, and diplomat Robert Conway has one last task in 1935 China:
rescuing 90 westerners in the city of Baskul. He flies out with the last few
evacuees, just ahead of armed revolutionaries.
However, the pilot is replaced without their knowledge and their airplane
is hijacked. It eventually runs out of fuel and crashes deep in the Himalayas,
killing their abductor. Four people are transported to the dream-like world of
Shangri-La where life is eternal and civilization refined.
Marlowe's Diaries by Roy Kendall
******commissioned by the BBC World Service to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of Marlowe's death.
*****Moonlight by Harold Pinter
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.
******Voices by Harold Pinter
Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse by Patrick Hamilton
******The second book in Patrick Hamilton's 'Gorse Trilogy'
("The West Pier", "Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse", "Unknown Assailant")
Mugsborough 1.2 - 1917 by Robert Tressell'
Mugsborough 2.2 - 1926
******Dramatisation by Andrew Lynch featuring the characters of Robert Tressell's novel
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, picking up the story 10 years on.
The residents of Mugsborough hold wildly differing views of the Great War. The politically
aware favour peaceful solutions, others are determined to avoid being sent to the Western
Front. One returns from Flanders terribly injured and cannot find work and one child is still
unaware of the tragic circumstances of her parentage.
My Place 1.5 by Sally Morgan.
My Place 2.5
My Place 3.5
My Place 4.5
My Place 5.5
My Place is an autobiography written by artist Sally Morgan in 1987. It is about
Morgan's quest for knowledge of her family's past. The book is a milestone in
Aboriginal literature and is one of the earlier works in indigenous writing.
Not a Drum was Heard by Henry Reed
******the war memoirs of General Gland. A satire
NZ Radio Drama - The Orderly by Michael Downey
******Peter is a hospital orderly during the week and a ferocious warrior at the weekend. As he prepares
for the weekend’s big battle against the notorious Vikings, a friend in need changes his life. Time flickers,
empty hospital wards turn into long forgotten battlefields. Everybody fights for their lives.
NZ Radio Drama - The Tutor by Dave Armstrong
******A funny and touching play about education. John Sellers - rich, brash and used to getting what he wants,
enlists the services of school teacher Richard Holton to tutor his son Nathan at mathematics. A straightforward
enough proposition until the characters wants and needs collide head on. The resulting conflict takes each of the
characters out of their comfort zone.
NZ Radio Drama - Yellow Bride 1.2 by Vincent O’Sullivan
NZ Radio Drama - Yellow Bride 2.2
******Jason met Queenie in the Philippines, married her and brought her back to NZ. With her help he has become
rich and is now in line to succeed to a business empire. Things start to unravel when Jason decides to leave Queenie
to Marry Rose, the boss’ daughter.
Scandinavian Dreams by Steve Chambers
******In the last years of the 18th Century, as revolution raged in France, feminist writer and radical pamphleteer
Mary Wollstonecraft embarked alone on a journey to the wilds of Scandinavia to recover her husband's lost treasure
ship. This daring and dangerous journey was undertaken as much for reasons of the heart as for those of commerce,
but her brilliant triumph failed to recover the thing she wanted most of all.
Shadows of Doubt 1.6 by Palma Harcourt
Shadows of Doubt 2.6
Shadows of Doubt 3.6
Shadows of Doubt 4.6
Shadows of Doubt 5.6
Shadows of Doubt 6.6
Shane by Jack Schaefer
*****A mysterious stranger named Shane drifts into an isolated western valley.
It soon becomes apparent that he is a gunslinger, and he finds himself drawn
into a conflict between simple homesteader Joe Starrett and powerful cattle
baron Rufus Ryker, who wants to force him and every other homesteader
in the valley off the land.
The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1.2 by Rudolf Besier
The Barretts of Wimpole Street 2.2
******Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry.
Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning..
The Last Piano Player by Eric Pringle
******It is 2020, and technology rules supreme. One of its successes is `The Simon Swain Show', in which contestants
fight for survival in a desperate bid to justify their existence. Meanwhile, in an empty Norfolk seaside resort, a lone piano
player plays to his dead wife. His life is transformed when he is invited on to the show
The Lucan File by Mike Walker
******The life of Lord Lucan, and the events leading up to his disappearance.
The Police by Slavomir Mrovech
******A fine comical example of the Theater of the Absurd.
The Race To Dover by Jonathan Agnew
******BBC cricket correspondent and keen flyer Jonathan Agnew tells the story
of the competition held 100 years ago in July 1909 to become the first pilot to
fly across the English Channel.
The Royal Baccarat Scandal by Royce Ryton
*****The Royal Baccarat Scandal, also known as the Tranby Croft scandal, was
an English gambling scandal of the late nineteenth century
involving the future King Edward VII.
The Sicilian Expedition by John Fletcher
******Athens. The most extraordinary, the most beautiful, the most terrifying
civilization of all time. The template we all live out.
Effortlessly its drama, its art, its science and philosophy bestrode the world.
But despite its superb democracy, all-powerful economy and a "shock-and-awe"
military the envy of the world -- out of a clear blue sky came sudden, terrifying
and total collapse.
The Athenians had their very own Iraq War -- The Sicilian Expedition.
The Test by Peter Worley
*****Past and present collide when a new DNA test gives more clues not available 20 years ago.
The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt
*****Comedy set in the visiting room of HMP Radford Hill, where the inmates are reunited
with their loved ones once a week under the not-so-watchful eye of the bored prison officers.
The Visit (Der Besuch der alten Dame, 1956) is a grotesque fusion of comedy and tragedy
that creates a superb dramaturgic effect. It is the work best known in the United States.
The-Small Back Room by Nigel Balchin
*****The Small Back Room details the professional and personal travails
of troubled, alcoholic research scientist and military bomb-disposal
expert Sammy Rice , who, while struggling with a complex
relationship with secretary girlfriend Susan, is hired by
the government to advise on a dangerous new German weapon.
Deftly mixing suspense and romance, The Small Back Room is an
atmospheric, post–World War II gem
True West by Sam Shepard
*****True West is the story of brothers to trade lives. Their tragicomic quest to change identity
ends in a stalemate, but along the way this Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes gleeful potshots
at Hollywood, the myth of the frontier, and the escape fantasies that drive the American imagination.
“By far the funniest, truest, and most mesmerizing play on Broadway.” — New York Daily News
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Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
******The bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds
and "vile bodies" in every kind of capricious escapade in this story.
The characters are an assortment of those inhabiting the social
domain that lies between Park Lane and Bond Street.
Vital Flaw by Neville Watchurst
*****A truthful account of the relationship between Heinrich Himmler and Dr. Felix Kersten.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
******When Woolf debuted in 1961, audiences and critics alike could not
get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays
husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun
and games. By the evening's end, a stunning revelation provides a climax
that has shocked audiences for years. With the play's razor-sharp dialogue
and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek keenly foresaw
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as "a brilliantly original work of art-an
excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and
dramatic fire that will be igniting Broadway for some time to come."
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won both the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play
and the 1962-63 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. It was
also selected for the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Drama by that award's drama jury.
However, the award's advisory board—the trustees of Columbia University—
objected to the play's then-controversial use of profanity and sexual themes,
and overruled the award's advisory committee, awarding no Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1963.
Yaxley's Cat by Robert Westall
******Rose, mother of Timothy (13) and Jane, is holidaying with her children
on the Nortolk coast, partly to get away from her too-efficient businessman
husband. They find a disused cottage and rent it for the week, braving the
more and more overt opposition of the villagers, who disliked the previous
occupant Sepp Yaxley, a "Cunning Man" responsible for curing warts,
placing crop blights, and procuring abortions. Eventually Yaxley's elderly
sister is attacked and leaves the village, and the family are cornered in the
house, saved only at the last minute by the police.
You Choose by Jonathan Myerson
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