Radio Plays IX
Radio Plays IX
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7th Dimension - Space Hacks - s02e01 - Men in Brown
******A viral life form tries to communicate with the team. Sci-fi comedy starring Tim Key, and Prunella Scales.
A Matter of Speculation by Henry Cecil
******The Case of Lord Cochrane
A Mermaid at Zennor by Michael Buff
******The people of Zennor had long wondered at the beauty of a richly-dressed lady who attended
divine service at the church. None knew whence she came, but when she fell in love with Matthew
Trewella and lured him away, tongues began to wag. Neither was seen again for many years, until
one Sunday morning the sailors on a ship anchored near Pendower Cove were surprised to see a
mermaid rising from the water, and recognised her as none other than the mysterious visitor to
Zennor Church. She asked the captain to raise his anchor, as it was barring the entrance to her
house. Her likeness can be seen to this day carved on a pew-end in Zennor Church.
A Minus by Avie Luthra
******Former A-star schoolboy Sandeep turns to drug-dealing to rebel against his parents after getting
an A-minus in his maths exams. But things spiral out of hand when Sandeep's parents become drug dealers too.
A Park In St Petersburg
A Touch Of Brightness by Partap Sharma (2 hrs)
******Invited to tour four theatres in Britain for a commercial run and selected for the first
Commonwealth Arts Festival, the play was banned in Mumbai in 1965 on the grounds
that it was set in the infamous redlight area of the city and therefore ‘dealt with subjects
which should not be depicted on stage’.
To prevent the Indian National Theatre’s troupe of actors from going abroad to present the
work, fifteen passports were impounded overnight. Seven years later, in 1972, the Mumbai
High Court decreed that the censoring authority had ‘exceeded its jurisdiction’
and the ban was revoked.
A Trick to Catch the Old One by Thomas Middleton
******Theodorus Witgood, a ruined gentleman, enters and tells how, after foolishly wasting away
all his money on brothels and drunkenness in the city, he has lost all of his lands to his uncle,
Pecunius Lucre a usurer. According to Witgood, Lucre’s motto is: “He that doth his youth expose /
To brothel, drink and danger /Let him that is nearest kin / Cheat before a stranger.” Witgood says
that he must now find some way to make a living for himself, and hints that he may not be averse
to activities “out of the compass of the law” (i.e., illegal). Witgood’s Courtesan (kept lady) enters.
Witgood scolds her for being the cause of his ruin. The Courtesan replies that the ‘jewel’ she gave
him — her virginity — was worth much more than all the lands he has lost. Witgood lays out a plan
to get his lands back from his uncle. The plan involves going to London (where his uncle is now
located), and passing the Courtesan off as a wealthy widow whom Witgood intends to marry.
The Courtesan agrees to the plan.
Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
*******London, 1958-Soho, Notting Hill . . .a world of smoky jazz clubs,
coffee bars, and hip hangouts in the center of London's emerging youth
culture. The young and restless--the absolute beginners--were creating
a world as different as they dared from the traditional image of England's
green and pleasant land. Follow our young photographer as he records
the moments of a young teenager's life in the capital--sex, drugs, and
rock'n'roll, the era of the first race riots and the lead up to the swinging sixties . . .
A twentieth century classic, Absolute Beginners remains the style bible for
anyone interested in the Mod culture and paints a vivid picture of a changing
society with insight and sensitivity.
Art of Deception 1.5 by Philip Palmer.
Art of Deception 2.5
Art of Deception 3.5
Art of Deception 4.5
Art of Deception 5.5
******Notorious art forger Daniel Ballantyne, newly released from prison but now dying, agrees to help
art critic Jessica Brown to write a book about forgery. So begins a game of cat-and-mouse that will
have deadly consequences.
Blue Wonder by Ronald Frame
******A story of love and deception set during the Cold War in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Throughout this period 'romeo spies' were operating, targeting bright and susceptible young
women. Alice Reeves, a young secretary from London, unwittingly becomes romantically
involved with Otto Hanhart - an East German spy. The encounter leads to unexpected
consequences for both parties, changing their lives forever.
Boar People by Richard Peirce
******Conservationist Richard Peirce explores the feral wild boar situation in Britain by finding out how
they became reintroduced into the country. He also accompanies a tracker in the Forest of Dean and
joins a hunter of wild boar in Sussex.
Brightly Even (90 mins)
Carlingford Chronicles - Miss Marjoribanks 1.4 - Lucilla's Revolution
Carlingford Chronicles - Miss Marjoribanks 2.4 - Skirmishes
Carlingford Chronicles - Miss Marjoribanks 3.4 - Lucilla's Luck
Carlingford Chronicles - Miss Marjoribanks 4.4 - The Battle Lost
******Our heroine resolves to comfort her father and revolutionise Society
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
******Dramatisation of Thomas De Quincey's 1821 autobiographical account of his consumption
of the liquid opiate laudanum and his painful and surreal descent into addiction.
Crane by Joel Burns
Darger and the Detective by Mike Walker
******Written by Mike Walker and starring Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts.
A play drawing on the writings of reclusive artist Henry Darger, imagining his inner life.
It focuses on two obsessions - of the hunter Detective and his prey, and two characters
locked in a conflict that flickers between fantasy and the streets and which unfolds from
1910 to 1970. Recorded in Chicago by actors from the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
Diary of an On-Call Girl 1.5 by Ellie Bloggs - Targets
Diary of an On-Call Girl 2.5 - Tuesday is Nothing Day
Diary of an On-Call Girl 3.5 - Bloggs By Night
Diary of an On-Call Girl 4.5 - The Unfair Sex
Diary of an On-Call Girl 5.5 - The Long Dark Tea-time of the Cells
******Yvonne Antrobus' dramatisation of the blogs and book by 'WPC Ellie Bloggs',
the pseudonymous blogger who is also a serving police officer.
Dignity by Laura McDaid
******Semi-autobiographical drama by Laura McDaid, based on the direct experience of one young couple.
One half of that couple, the writer, gives a raw and unflinching account of the turmoil that led her partner to
pursue assisted suicide.
Dream Maker by Alec Shearer
******a comedy - Stuart and his widowed mother live in a Devonshire village in the middle of nowhere.
A stranger appears, claiming to be able to foretell the future in his dreams.
Fall by Zinnie Harris
******Set in a nation haunted by its war crimes, a drama dealing with politics, justice and revenge.
It asks the question - to make your future, do you have to murder the past?
In the aftermath of a horrific civil conflict, a new country is preparing for the mass execution of its war
criminals. Kate knew one of the guilty men for 15 years and never suspected a thing. As the city burns
and the new government struggles to look credible to the rest of the world, she gets tragically
caught up in their conspiracy.
Turned into an iconic figure, she is asked to decide whether the executions should go ahead or not.
But can any answer she gives be the right choice?
Head by Lucy Gough
******: An urban Gothic comedy about a decapitated head, Lucy Gough discovered Keats' 'Isabella, or the
Pot of Basil' after it had been recommended to her by someone who knew she had a fascination for
decapitated heads. After reading the poem she approached the BBC with the suggestion that they
commission a piece from her about a head in a pot.
In "Head", the head in question is that of the central character's murdered lover, Enzo (Lorenzo), which is
dug out of the earth and finds itself able to communicate, once he has regained control of his tongue.
The head is already in a fairly advanced state of decay, being livid green, and once dug from the earth
and washed in the stream continues to decay despite being put in the fridge and sprayed with hairspray
in order to preserve it and fix the flesh to the bone. It has, however, lost none of its charm for the
central character, Ella .
Hyde Park-on-Hudson by Richard Nelson
****** A play by Richard Nelson, focusing on George VI's visit to the United States in 1939.
No reigning British monarch had ever been to the United States before George VI's visit in 1939,
just on the cusp of a new world war.
History was in the making when the King and Queen arrived at President Roosevelt's upstate New York
home, with a promise of politics, a picnic and hot dogs.
But the private life of the President provided a whole new dimension to an epochal moment, at least
in the memory of his lover...
Journey into Space - The Host by Julian Simpson
******After receiving a distress call from an abandoned freighter, Jet Morgan and his crew must find a way to
defeat the vastly superior Host. If they fail, they will not only all perish, but mankind will become a dispensable
stepping stone to a new chapter in evolution.
Journey into Space - The Return from Mars by Charles Chilton
******Captain Jet Morgan is back in Charles Chilton's full-length adventure based on his 1950s series.
Stars John Pullen.
Lyme Regis Food and Fertility Festival by John Fletvher
******It is set in an era of artistic totalitarianism, when London is patrolled by the Sarah Dunant thought police,
and covered with statues to the Blessed Melvyn. Fred and Deirdre escape this sterile prison for the Festival
at the prompting of the Pink Fairy, a priapic Geordie in a tutu, hoping to save their marriage. At Lyme Regis,
they swim out to the Golden Worm, a maelstrom off the coast which sucks them down and transports them
into mid-air above the Cerne Abbas giant. In the course of their subsequent adventures they are dismembered,
devoured by crows and excreted back to earth; they travel back through geological time in the Dorset substrata,
to be petrified as Purbeck marble in the Jurassic era; are hewn from the rock to become gargoyles in a church;
are reconciled and returned to human shape; and shake Death (Bill Wallis) by the hand. Finally, the Cerne Abbas
giant and Fred are joined to make a new man, who descends on London to destroy this cultural Babylon and
build the New Jerusalem.
Manfred by Lord Byron.
******Manfred is a Faustian noble living in the Bernese Alps. Internally tortured by some mysterious guilt,
which has to do with the death of his most beloved, Astarte, he uses his mastery of language and
spell-casting to summon seven spirits, from whom he seeks forgetfulness. (Some speculate that the
relationship between him and Astarte is incestuous, and/or that Manfred had either murdered Astarte
or that she had committed suicide, but this is not made explicit in the play, though the implicit suggestions
are quite strong). The spirits, who rule the various components of the corporeal world, are unable to
control past events and thus cannot grant Manfred's plea. For some time, fate prevents him from escaping
his guilt through suicide. At the end, Manfred dies defying religious temptations of redemption from sin.
Throughout the play, he succeeds in challenging all authoritative powers he comes across, and chooses
death over submitting to spirits of higher powers. Manfred directs his final words to the Abbot, remarking,
"Old man! 't is not so difficult to die."
Maximum Credible Accident 1.6 by John Howlet
Maximum Credible Accident 2.6
Maximum Credible Accident 3.6
Maximum Credible Accident 4.6
Maximum Credible Accident 5.6
Maximum Credible Accident 6.6
******Thriller about a nuclear accident.
Mr Bensley's Pram by Dylan Ritson
*******Dylan Ritson's play tells the true story of an extraordinary wager accepted in 1907 by Harry Bensley.
Disguised in an iron helmet, Bensley had to push a pram around the world.
O'Rourke's First Case by Vincent McInerney
*******John O'Rourke is made redundant at 40. So he applies to the Enterprise Allowance Board
in Liverpool for a grant to set up in business as a private detective....
Pay Any Price 01.10 by Ted Allbeury
Pay Any Price 02.10
Pay Any Price 03.10
Pay Any Price 04.10
Pay Any Price 05.10
Pay Any Price 06.10
Pay Any Price 07.10
Pay Any Price 08.10
Pay Any Price 09.10
Pay Any Price 10.10
*******
Pillow Book 1.5
Pillow Book 2.5
Pillow Book 3.5
Pillow Book 4.5
Pillow Book 5.5
******
Pillow Book - s02e01 - Fire 1.5
Pillow Book - s02e02 - Fire 2.5
Pillow Book - s02e03 - Fire 3.5
Pillow Book - s02e04 - Fire 4.5
Pillow Book - s02e05 - Fire 5.5
*******Second series inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, the 10th-century Japanese poet
and lady-in-waiting to the Empress Teishi.
It has been nine months since Lieutenant Yukinari and Lady Shonagon solved the crimes in the palace,
and nine months since they parted. A chill wind brings ominous news, and a blood-stained letter from Yukinari.
An earthquake has shattered the Palace walls. Gifts arrive from across Japan, and from the Emperor
of China himself. But Yukinari fears that the gifts are not as innocent as they seem.
Pontypool by Tony Burgess
*******"May be one of the most important novels published this year." —Toronto Star
Salmon of Blackpool by Roger Gregg
******Now the phrase “audio movie” gets kicked around a lot in audio circles, but this work is
by far the first to show just what an “audio movie” can be. Cut-throughs, fades, in-scene sound
effects, stunning performances and the feeling of being in a real room with these people…
“Salmon” does all this and more, propelled along by the cutting words of Roger Gregg,
who shows us his skills as a literary writer are on par of that of his biting satire.
Slide Rule Engineer
Some Mother's Son 1.6 by John Fletcher
Some Mother's Son 2.6
Some Mother's Son 3.6
Some Mother's Son 4.6
Some Mother's Son 5.6
Some Mother's Son 6.6
Summer With Monika by Roger McGoff
******Talking about the enigmatic muse for his 1960s
magical poem of love, Roger McGough reveals
who Monika really was.
Tamburlaine the Great by Christopher Marlowe (3.5 hrs)
******The play opens in Persepolis. The Persian emperor, Mycetes, dispatches troops to
dispose of Tamburlaine, a Scythian shepherd and at that point a nomadic bandit. In the
same scene, Mycetes' brother Cosroe plots to overthrow Mycetes and assume the throne.
The scene shifts to Scythia, where Tamburlaine is shown capturing, wooing, and winning
Zenocrate, the daughter of the Egyptian king. Confronted by Mycetes' soldiers, he persuades
first the soldiers and then Cosroe to join him in a fight against Mycetes. Although he promises
Cosroe the Persian throne, Tamburlaine reneges on this promise and, after defeating Mycetes,
takes personal control of the Persian Empire.
Tartuffe by Moliere
******a comedy in five acts
The Age of Innocence 1.3 by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence 2.3
The Age of Innocence 3.3
******The Age of Innocence (1920) is a novel by Edith Wharton, which won
the 1921 Pulitzer Prize.
The story is set in upper class New York City in the 1870s.
Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's
best families, is happily anticipating a highly-desirable marriage to the
sheltered and beautiful May Welland. Yet he finds reason to doubt his
choice of bride after the appearance of Countess Ellen Olenska,
May's exotic, beautiful thirty-year-old cousin, who had been living in
Europe. Ellen has returned to New York after scandalously separating
herself (per rumour) from a bad marriage to a Polish Count. At first,
Ellen's arrival, and its potential taint to his bride's family, disturbs him,
yet he becomes intrigued by the worldly Ellen who flouts New York society's
fastidious rules. As Newland's admiration for the countess grows, so does
his doubt about marrying May, a perfect product of Old New York society;
his match with May no longer seems the ideal fate he had imagined.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
******"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru
broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated
sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the
towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world.
By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a
quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the
deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death
-- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning
of the human condition.
The Courts of the Morning by John Bucham
******When Richard Hannay is approached by the American military attache
in London to carry out a delicate undercover mission, he immediately seeks
out his old friend Sandy Arbuthnot. They meet at Sandy's country house in the
Scottish Borders, but soon afterwards Sandy disappears in mysterious
circumstances. As it turns out, these events are only the prelude to a dramatic
series of adventures which take place against the backdrop of a small South
American Republic that has fallen under the spell of a ruthless Dictator.
The Dictator is a powerful and charismatic leader, but he is also the mastermind
behind a sinister international conspiracy that threatens the peace and security
of the entire world. He has to be stopped, and Sandy Arbuthnot, master of
disguise and born adventurer, is the man to do it, though revolution and war
may be the price that has to be paid.
The Elder Statesman by T S Eliot
******T. S. Eliot once quipped: “A play should give you something to think about.
When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.”
The Elder Statesman, as a play, is not particularly poetic or dramatic. But it’s written
in powerful verse, which is apt for Eliot’s theme and expression. What Eliot wishes
to tell us is something profoundly true and important: that we cannot flee the past
or ‘retire? from responsibility. At best, we can off-load it by contrition. And that to
find ‘the truth that shall set you free? you must strip yourself of all pretense, all
‘acting? and become again, a little child. Eliot also shows us that to enter into reality
is only possible through others; so that totally shared love is the supreme road
to reality, and that as such, love is capable of being self-sufficient, provided it is
love which is founded on true confession, resignation and trust
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
******A man of many passions, Dostoevsky revealed two of them in The Gambler
--his lamentable love for Apollinaria Suslova and his obsession with gambling.
The Glasgow Climbing Club by David Napthine
******A group of rough-and-ready Glasgow shipyard workers form a climbing club in the 1930s.
One stormy weekend, they set out on a hike and find themselves joined by a mysterious stranger -
but can they trust him? David Napthine's drama, based on real events,
The Stuff of Myth by Roger Gregg
******THE STUFF OF MYTH written, directed and produced
by Roger Gregg, is a musical comedy retelling of the Greek
myth of Orpheus. Adapted for radio from Gregg's hit stage play,
this rollicking adventure bears all the hallmarks of
Crazy Dogs distinctive productions; original music score,
songs and state-of-the-art sound design.
Torchwood - Asylum
Torchwood - Golden Age
Torchwood - Lost Souls by Joseph Lidster
Torchwood - The Dead Line
******Now we get to the character-driven episode of the three audio plays. Phil Ford knows these characters
and it shows, especially with the meatiest audio role yet for Gareth David-Lloyd — and that helps lift this
episode above its standard plot.
Utz by Bruce Chatwin.
******Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of Kaspar Utz,
an enigmatic collector of Meissen porcelain living in Cold War Czechoslovakia.
Although Utz is allowed to leave the country each year, and considers defecting
each time, he always returns to his Czech home, a prisoner of the Communist
state and of his precious collection.
"A triumph." --The Washington Post
"Exquisite. . . One thinks of a Vermeer painting, a luminous miniature
disclosing worlds within worlds." --Newsday
Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
******Considered Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece, and left unfinished
at the time of his death, this novel conveys in theme, style, and tone the power
of Stevenson's creative originality. It is set in Edinburgh at the end of the 18th
century and reflects the author's fascination with the relationship between father
and son and his preoccupation with the battle between good and evil within
every man. Includes Stevenson's projected conclusion and draft material.
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