Radio Plays XI
Radio Plays XI
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A Field-Marshal's Memoirs by John Masters
******Lieutenant Colonel John Masters, DSO was an English officer in the
British Indian Army and novelist. His works are noted for their treatment of
the British Empire in India.
Chameleon by Vicky Meer
Chameleon in Town by Vicky Meer
******Comedy thriller by Vicky Meer. A London drug dealer, relocated under
a witness protection scheme, becomes a vegetarian postman living in a former
council semi in Gretna.
Dippers by Ben Travers
******Travers' first play "The Dippers" was produced in 1922 by Sir Charles Hawtrey.
On Travers' 90th birthday, when asked in a radio interview whether he didn't feel that at 90 he was a bit old to be
writing sex romps, he replied quick-as-a-flash "Ah but you see, I have an awfully good memory".
The Fever Tree by Ruth Rendell
Dreadful Day of Judgement by Ruth Rendell
******Two of Ruth Rendell's great horror stories.
Faithful Departed 1.6 by Christopher Fitz-Simon
Faithful Departed 2.6
Faithful Departed 3.6
Faithful Departed 4.6
Faithful Departed 5.6
Faithful Departed 6.6
******When Frances Butler receives a windfall from a deceased aunt in County Cork,
she thinks her financial worries are over. But then she discovers the truly
unusual nature of the legacy that awaits her.
Family Retainer by Alan Drury
The San Rocco Mob 1.2 by Bruce Stewart
The San Rocco Mob 2.2
Far From Home by Michael Butt
******A completely riveting and somewhat disturbing play, Far from Home by Michael Butt, looked
at the difficulty of giving evidence in a murder trial. Terry has lived in a corner of London all his life
and has no intention of moving. But his wife has the misfortune to see a murder being committed.
Will she give evidence? What about reprisals? And if the family has to start life somewhere else
under a new name, will it be safe?
Far From The Madding Crowd 1.6 by Thomas Hardy
Far From The Madding Crowd 2.6
Far From The Madding Crowd 3.6
Far From The Madding Crowd 4.6
Far From The Madding Crowd 5.6
Far From The Madding Crowd 6.6
******Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury
to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold
presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood,
soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak.
Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life,
and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community.
The first of his works set in Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow
courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes,
and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.
Far North by Louis Nowra.
******A boy and his young mother take to the road across Australia in search of the freedom and love she craves.
Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer
******A comedy of manners set in 18th-century London,
following the lives of young men and women of the Regency period.
Father Valentine's Day by Raymond Fitzsimons
Fear and Loathing in Crouch End by Malcolm Burgess
******Estonian au pair Monika discovers that paradise might not exist in Crouch End,
especially in the Christmas period.
Feather by Rachel Joyce
******Fern believes in magic, Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy. She is collecting feathers
because they can make wishes come true, and Fern has a very big and important wish.
Felix Holt, the Radical 1-3 by George Eliot
Felix Holt, the Radical 2-3
Felix Holt, the Radical 3-3
******Felix Holt, the Radical (1866) is a vivid portrayal of political ferment
and corrupt electioneering in a small Midland borough at the time of the
Reform Bill of 1832. Austere, idealistic, and passionate, Felix Holt is
pitted against the self-satisfied local landowner Harold Transome, both
politically and in his pursuit of Esther Lyon. At the heart of the novel is
George Eliot's conviction that 'men's lives are as thoroughly blended with
each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease'.
Festen by Thomas Vinterberg
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Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
******To Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, the house
in the country promises a summer of freedom and play. But when they
accidently uncover an accident Psammead--or Sand-fairy--who has the
power to make wishes come true, they find themselves having the holiday
of a lifetime, sharing one thrilling adventure after another.
Asleep since dinosaurs roamed the earth, the ill-tempered, odd--looking
Psammead --with his spider-shaped body, bat's ears, and snail's eyes --
grudgingly agrees to grant the children one wish per day. Soon, though the
children discover that their wishes have a tendancy to turn out quite differnetly
than expected. Whatever they wish whether it's to fly like a bird, live in a mighty
castle, or have an immense fortune --something goes terribly wrong, hilariously wrong.
Then an accidental wish has horrible consequences, and the children are faced
with a difficult choice: to let an innoncent manbe charged with a crime or to lose for
all time their gift of magical wishes. Five Children and It is one of E. Nesbit's most beloved tales of enchantment.
Five Days in July 1.5 by Mike Walker
Five Days in July 2.5
Five Days in July 3.5
Five Days in July 4.5
Five Days in July 5.5
******Series of short plays by Mike Walker focusing on a London family during the first week of July 2005.
Solo Behind The Iron Curtain
******Tracy Spottiswoode's thriller is based on real events in 1968.
Actor Robert Vaughn, famous at the time as TV spy Napoleon Solo, is making a movie in Prague
with several other Hollywood stars. Filming stops abruptly, however, when Russian tanks roll into
Czechoslovakia. Cast and crew find themselves trapped. The Man from UNCLE must find a way to
escape, and quickly.
Five Kinds Of Silence by Shelagh Stephenson
******Encompassing the themes of incest, patricide, guilt and domestic abuse, this surrealistic presentation
of Stephenson's one-act leaves the audience, not to mention the cast, emotionally drained.
Five Summers and Johnny Onion by Dave Sheasby
Flare Path by Terence Rattigan
******Chris Hearn directs Terence Rattigan's Second World War drama about an affair
between a film actor and the wife of an RAF flier. Starring Becky Perfect, Peter French and Margaret Hey.
Flashman At The Charge 1.2 by George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman At The Charge 2.2
*******The illustrious Flashy gets up to his old tricks in another
installment of The Flashman Papers.
'Forward the Light Brigade' Was there a man dismayed? Indeed there was.
As the British cavalry prepared to launch themselves against the Russian
guns at Balaclava, Harry Flashman was not so much dismayed as terrified.
But the Crimea was only the beginning: beyond lay snowbound wastes of the
Great Russian slave-empire, torture and death from relentless enemies,
headlong escapes, savage tribal hordes to the right of him, passionate and
beautiful females to the left of him, and finally that unknown but desperate war
on the roof of the world, when India was the mighty prize and there was nothing
to stop the armed might of Imperial Russia but the wavering sabre and terrified
ingenuity of old Flashy himself.
Flight of Eric Strapp by Ronnie Smith
******Eric Strapp is on the run, despite his being innocent of any crime.
Flight Of The Arrow 1.2 by Michael Davis
Flight Of The Arrow 2.2
Flight To Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
******Flight to Arras (French: Pilote de guerre) is a memoir by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Written in 1942 it recounts his role in the French air force as pilot of a reconnaissance plane
during the Battle of France in 1940.
Footprints in the Jungle by Somerset Maugham
Frame of Deference 1.2 by Rod Beacham
Frame of Deference 2.2
Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
******Georgette Heyer's Regency tale of true and lasting love.
Rejected by the incomparable Miss Milborne for his unsteadiness of character,
wild Lord Sheringham is bent on avenging fate and coming into his fortune.
But the very first woman he sees is Hero Wantage, the young and charmingly
unsophisticated girl who has loved him since childhood.
Fridays When It Rains by Nick Warburton
******A girl on a late night train journey meets a man with a strange tale to tell.
Frogs' Legs and Laver Bread by William Ingram
Fuhrer 1.2- Adolf by Allan Prior (4 hours)
Fuhrer 2.2- Hitler
******In 1995 the BBC broadcast many programmes to mark
fifty years since the end of WWII in Europe. Radio 4's
flagship programme was Allan Prior's two part dramatisation
of his biographical novel "Fuhrer", about Hitler's rise to power
(Part 1 - Adolf), and exercise of that power (Part 2 - Hitler).
Full Blown by Katie Hims
******a play about AIDS and its consequences. Roz is 30 years old,
middle-class, clean living and healthy; just like you or me.
But one day she develops a nasty cough which will not go away. Two weeks later,
she is fighting for her life. Make no mistake - AIDS doesn't just affect the promiscuous. The plot sounds
dire and depressing; to my surprise, it was anything but, and showed what a good playwright can do with
difficult material. Drama has come a long way since its low point in the mid nineties; the SMs, the writing,
and the acting have never been better.
Furniture Play
******most of the speaking parts are taken by pieces of furniture
Journey into Space - Frozen in Time by Charles Chilton
******This is a brand new BBC Radio 4 sequel to Charles Chilton's iconic
radio sci-fi series. Between 1953 and 1958, "Journey Into Space" attracted
millions of listeners, gripped by the mystery and promise of space exploration
in weekly cliffhanging instalments. In this thrilling new episode, the spaceship
Ares has been heading back to Earth for 30 years, with the crew in suspended
animation - except Captain Jet Morgan, whose sleeper pod failed.
Jumbo by James Follett
******When Transatlantic Airlines flight No TA 510 leaves Kennedy airport for London
it seems just another routine flight, but many tricks of fate are in store.
The Fast Girl by Jerome Vincent
******Dorothy Levitt (born 1882) was possibly the assumed name of
Elizabeth Levi/Elizabeth Levit a motorina and 'sporting motoriste' in
the early part of the 20th Century. On 4 July 1903 she was reported as
the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'. Levitt was a
renowned pioneer of motor racing, the most successful female competitor
in Great Britain, victorious speedboat driver, holder of the Ladies World Land
speed record, motoring writer, journalist and activist. In 1905 she established
the record for the 'longest drive achieved by a lady driver' by driving a De Dion-
Bouton from London to Liverpool and back. In 1906 she wrote a book
The Woman and the Car: A chatty little handbook for all women who motor or who want to motor which noted that
women should "carry a little hand-mirror in a convenient place when driving"
so they may "hold the mirror aloft from time to time in order to see behind while driving in traffic"
therefore inventing the rear view mirror before it was introduced by manufacturers in 1914.
The Far Country by Kathryn Heyman
The Farm by Nell Leyshon
The Fatherland 1.5 by Robert Harris
The Fatherland 2.5
The Fatherland 3.5
The Fatherland 4.5
The Fatherland 5.5
******Unveils the living nightmare of a world planned
by the Nazis in reality, but never achieved. It illuminates
the trail taken by the loner March, leading him to the
discoveries of wartime corruption, Swiss bank vaults, love, danger,
and - most terrifying of all - the black heart of the Nazi state.
The Flower Room 1.5 by Shaun MacLoughlin
The Flower Room 2.5
The Flower Room 3.5
The Flower Room 4.5
The Flower Room 5.5
The Fountain Overflows 1.6 by Rebecca West
The Fountain Overflows 2.6
The Fountain Overflows 3.6
The Fountain Overflows 4.6
The Fountain Overflows 5.6
The Fountain Overflows 6.6
******The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded
by their father's genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs
promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin.
Mrs. Aubrey, a former concert pianist, struggles to keep the family afloat,
but then she is something of a high-strung eccentric herself, as is all too
clear to her daughter Rose, through whose loving but sometimes cruel eyes
events are seen. Still, living on the edge holds the promise of the unexpected,
and the Aubreys, who encounter furious poltergeists, turn up hidden masterpieces,
and come to the aid of a murderess, will find that they have adventure to spare.
In The Fountain Overflows, a 1957 best seller, Rebecca West transmuted her
own volatile childhood into enduring art. This is an unvarnished but affectionate
picture of an extraordinary family, in which a remarkable stylist and powerful
intelligence surveys the elusive boundaries of childhood and adulthood,
freedom and dependency, the ordinary and the occult.
Of Rats and Men by Richard Bean
Richard Bean, born in East Hull in 1956, is an English playwright.
******His first full-length play Of Rats and Men, set in a psychology lab, was mounted at the
Canal Cafe Theatre in 1996 and went on to the Edinburgh Festival. He adapted it for
BBC Radio, starring Anton Lesser,
and it was nominated for a Sony Award.
It's a pretty unnerving play.
Vidocq and the Last Right by R J Gallagher
******PARIS, 1821. Former convict Eugene Vidocq is hired by the police to invent the science of detection.
When a priest dies mysteriously in prison, all of Vidocq's skills are put to the test.
WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin 1.2 (2 hours)
WE 2.2
******n the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals,
only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision,
a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have
been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the
Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation
of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are
to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason.
One number, D-503, chief architect of the Integral, decides to record his
thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced
societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an
unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself
and the One State. The discovery -- or rediscovery -- of inner space...and that
disease the ancients called the soul.
A page-turning SF adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that
accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian
novel. Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the end of the twentieth century as it was at the beginning.
Zero by Olivia Hetreed
******A woman who was raped during the Balkan conflict is in turmoil when her husband returns from fighting
five years later and is faced with the child who was conceived as an act of war.
Waters of the Moon by NC Hunter
******''Waters of the Moon,'' written by N. C. Hunter, was a popular success in London
during the 1950's, in those seemingly unruffled days just before John Osborne and a
host of other angry young men began vandalizing the theater's traditional British drawing
room. Mr. Hunter placed his characters in a small, shabby-genteel hotel in Devonshire,
an establishment catering to permanent guests who are, in different ways, down on their luck.
The hotel is run by hard-working Mrs. Daley and her two children, feisty Evelyn and consumptive
Johnny. Johnny has dreams of running away on a polar expedition. ''I believe we all should live
dangerously in some way,'' he says. Unlike most of the hotel's other inhabitants,
Johnny is not yet resigned to his fate.
Zorba The Greek 1.2 by Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba The Greek 2.2
******A fiftieth anniversary edition of the famous novel that inspired the film
tells the story of Zorba, a philosophizing, larger-than-life mine owner who
confronts life with exuberance and wit.
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
*******The date is 15 December 1979. Karen Ann McNeill goes into a deep
coma after a teen party and remains in it until 1997. When she wakes up,
the voices in her head keep telling her the world is about to end,
but Karen doesn't believe them.
Good Soldier Svejk 1.2 by Jaroslav Hašek
Good Soldier Svejk 2.2
******The novel is set during World War I in Austria-Hungary,
a multi-ethnic empire full of long-standing tensions. Fifteen million
people died in the War, one million of them Austro-Hungarian soldiers.
Jaroslav Hašek participated in this conflict
and examined it in The Good Soldier Švejk.
Many of the situations and characters seem to have been inspired, at least in part,
by Hašek's service in the 91st Infantry Regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army.
However, the novel also deals with broader anti-war themes: essentially a series
of absurdly comic episodes, it explores both the pointlessness and futility of conflict
in general and of military discipline, specifically Austrian military discipline, in particular.
Many of its characters, especially the Czechs, are participating in a conflict they do not
understand on behalf of a country to which they have no loyalty.
A funny play.
The Golden Triangle
******Three plays about the lives of the Pre-Raphaelite artists,
1.3 - The Awakening Conscience
******William Holman Hunt meets Annie Miller, a young beauty who works behind the local bar.
He resolves to turn her into the perfect model and woman.
2.3 - The Order Of Release
******John Ruskin is insistent that Millais should paint his portrait while he is on holiday with his wife, Effie Gray.
The beauty and innocence of Ruskin's wife make it an almost impossible task.
3.3 - Love Among The Ruins
******As Edward Burne-Jones looks back over a long and successful career, he is tormented by the memory
of Maria Zambaco, the wild and fascinating woman who became his model and his first and only love.
Going Naked Is The Best Disguise by Steven Jacobi
******Mother has been known to take her clothes off while doing the hoovering.
Father is often "away on business". Growing up, their son views his parents' eccentricities
with amused tolerance, until the discovery of a love affair from the past
forces him to confront adult realities.
Going Troppo by Mervyn Stutter
******'Going Troppo' is an exclusively Australian slang term for 'going crazy'.
The popular understanding about it's origin is that it comes from stories of the
tropical heat in the northern parts of Australia driving people crazy.
The Golden Ass by Apuleius (BBC 1945)
The Golden Ass by Apuleius (BBC 1987)
******Apuleius's Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable
Latin novel--the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived from antiquity.
It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and
magic results in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials
and humiliations, he is ultimately returned to human shape by the kindness of the
goddess Isis. Simultaneously a blend of romantic adventure, fable, and religious
testament, The Golden Ass is one of the truly seminal works of European literature,
of intrinsic interest as a novel in its own right, and one of the earliest
examples of the picaresque.
Gold's Fool by by Paul Mendelsohn
******The year is 1929. Two sixteen year-old migrant boys, Charlie Griffin and
Emerson Moore, find a huge gold nugget while working in South Carolina
on the world's biggest earthen dam. Charlie is killed when the tunnel they
are digging caves in. Emerson survives and keeps their discovery a secret.
Seventy-three years later Blake Lubeck, a greedy and ambitious businessman,
hears the legend of Lake Murray's gold. The earthen dam undergoes
reinforcement because it lies on an earthquake fault. During construction the
lake is lowered, exposing buried villages and Emerson's secret. With the help
of a cruel hit man and a callous woman, Lubeck begins his campaign to become rich.
In order to salvage the gold, he must dig under the dam without anyone
knowing. Inevitably, someone finds out. Lubeck resorts to blackmail and murder
to keep his secret.
Two hurricanes and a ghost upset Lubeck's plans. Monsoon rains fill up the lake
and threaten to breach the weakened dam. Will the courage of a young boy and
his great-grandfather's spirit be enough to save a city from Gold's fool?
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