Radio Plays XIV
Radio Plays XIV
Something Wicked this Way Comes 1.2 by Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked this Way Comes 2.2
*******"By the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes."
Ray Bradbury has dramatized his literary classic,
Something Wicked This Way Comes,
into this first-class audio drama,
produced by The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air,
complete with a full cast, sound effects, and original music.
"Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show" comes to Greentown, Illinois,
one week before Halloween. Two boys, Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway, soon
discover the evil of this carnival, which promises to make your every wish and
dream come true. But with those wishes and dreams comes a price that must be paid.
Behind the mirrors and the mazes is the nightmare of a lifetime.
Starring Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce.
With Orson Welles as narrator.
Pure Dead Brilliant 1.2 by Debi Gliori
Pure Dead Brilliant 2.2
*******Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories, featuring Pure Dead Brilliant by Debi Gliori
- read by Andrew Mackintosh.
A Red Car In The Fountain by Philip Corker
******The Inspector is the ultimate rationalist. When he's confronted by events which have no logical explanation,
he doesn't know how to react.
The Sport of Angels by Ken Whitmore
******a fantastic comedy, with Miriam Margolyes as an invented character who becomes involved with
her creator (a boy called Godfrey, also known as God)
A Respectable Wedding by Bertolt Brecht
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The Song Thief by Michael Chaplin
******A young composer arrives in Northumberland, looking for an old man reputed to have written
a hauntingly beautiful love song. He embarks on a cold-hearted campaign to make
the old man's daughter fall in love with him.
A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh
*******When a murder takes place at a country house party,
it poses another baffling case for Inspector Alleyn.
The Machine Stops by E M Forster
*******an insight into Forster's interest in paganism, mythology
and the mysteries of nature.
The story describes a world in which almost all humans have
lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth, and most of the
human population lives below ground. Each individual lives in
isolation in a standard 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs
met by the omnipotent, global Machine.
A Second-Class Risk by R.D.Wingfield
*******This isn't the usual petty run-of-the-mill claim. The week he died,
Beaumont insured his life for £50,000.
"I like to see the ink dry on a policy before I pay out".
Tenth Anniversary by R.D.Wingfield
******cleverly resolves an unexplained murder ten years after its commission
The Alternate Plan by R.D.Wingfield
**********A con man gets caught up in an intelligence scheme that forces him to face a nemesis
from his time as a POW
Smiling and Beautiful Death by R D Wingfield
********stands somewhat apart from the bulk of R.D.Wingfield's plays, achieving suspense despite
an element of predictability - for once, we have due warning of what is eventually to happen.
Our West Ladyton Branch by R.D.Wingfield
********Wingfield was 40 when his first radio play, Our West Ladyton Branch, was broadcast in November 1968
on Radio 2's Midweek Theatre (the old Light Programme). It was a funny and acutely observed slice of office life
which also contained an ingenious robbery scheme. Wingfield found he had a natural bent for the medium and
very soon was keeping up a steady stream of entertaining dramas.
Sins of Commission by R.D.Wingfield
*********A security officer made redundant receives a shady proposition from the Post Haste Employment Agency.
Cleft Stick by R.D.Wingfield
*******Rodney Wingfield writes..."Cleft Stick" was a play that nearly did not get bought. I had submitted it and
was confident that it would be accepted. I was in Broadcasting House on an entirely different matter when the
Script Editor for this slot called me in and said that he was afraid they would have to reject "Cleft Stick"
because the Script Reader had given it a poor rating. He showed me that Script Reader's report which said
that he had guessed the ending right from page 1. This was ridiculous, and it was obvious he had fallen for one
of my "red herrings" and had not read beyond the first few pages. I asked the Script Editor, as a favour to me,
to read the play himself. He did, and the next day 'phoned to say he thought it terrific and that they would be buying it.
Balance Brought Forward by R.D.Wingfield
******Another clever Wingfield twist.
Moveable Assets by R.D.Wingfield
******A peculiar employment agency assembles a ring of petty thieves for a big bank job.
Second Sight by R.D.Wingfield
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Credit Risk by R.D.Wingfield
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Death of the Insured by R.D.Wingfield
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Innocent Victim by R.D.Wingfield
*******A hard-luck detective is hired to protect a woman who has been threatened.
Winner Takes the Kitty by R.D.Wingfield (w-Bob Hoskins)
*******some low-lifes stumble into a first-class compartment and browbeat Stanley into a game of chance.
Post Mortem Shock by R.D.Wingfield
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Saturday Roster by R.D.Wingfield
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The Magic City by E Nesbitt
*******An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built
out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.
Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton,
********Perhaps her most Jamesian work, Madame de Treymes was
Edith Wharton's first publication after the widely successful
The House of Mirth. Inspired by her entree into Parisian society in the
spring of 1906, it follows the fortunes of two innocents abroad:
Fanny Frisbee of New York, unhappily married to the dissolute
Marquis de Malrive, scion of a great house of the Faubourg St.
Germain; and John Durham, her childhood friend, who arrives in Paris
intent on persuading Fanny to divorce her husband and marry him instead.
A scintillating picture of American and French culture at the turn of the century,
and a subtle investigation of the role of women in the prevailing social hierarchy,
Madame de Treymes confirmed Edith Wharton's position, as Edmund Wilson
wrote, as "an historian of the American society of her time."
Madam Butterfly's Child by Lesley Ross
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The Maltese Goddess 1.3 by Tom Lopez
The Maltese Goddess 2.3
The Maltese Goddess 3.3
Man in Snow by Israel Horovitz.
******A climber reminisces as he escorts a group of honeymooners up Alaska's highest mountain.
Sins of the Grandfathers by Dan Tetsell
*******comedy show about the perils of having a grandfather who was an officer in Hitler's SS
Wuthering Heights 1.5 by Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights 2.5
Wuthering Heights 3.5
Wuthering Heights 4.5
Wuthering Heights 5.5
**********There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of love
than Wuthering Heights. This is the story of a tormented foundling who falls
in love with the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery
that result from their thwarted longing for each other.
Jane Eyre 1.5 by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre 2.5
Jane Eyre 3.5
Jane Eyre 4.5
Jane Eyre 5.5
******The novel focuses on the romance between Jane and Rochester,
but Bronte clearly reveals a feminist message through a heroine arguing
for sexual equality and refusing to adhere fully to the restrictive expectations
of early Victorian society.
Ruth 1.3 by Elizabeth Gaskell
Ruth 2.3
Ruth 3.3
******A young orphan, Ruth Hilton, is seduced and then abandoned
by the wealthy Henry Bellingham. She is left to bring up her child in
a society that offers her no protection and seems to punish such
innocence. Taken in by a Dissenting minister in the guise of a widow,
she is given a chance to bring up her son whom she loves above
all else. But the condemnation of society always threatens, and despite
Ruth's rejection of his belated offer of marriage, Bellingham's reappearance
precipitates her exposure and rejection. Only her heroic self-sacrifice in the
midst of a cholera epidemic regains her her position, but too late. This was
a crusading novel when it was published in 1853, and aroused almost as much
censure for its shocking scenes as it did sympathy for the heroine.
Trumbo by Christopher Trumbo
******Christopher Trumbo's drama about his father, the American screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo's ordeal
at the hands of the House Un-American Activities Committee and its anti-communist witch-hunt.
Trumbo was one of the original Hollywood Ten - those accused in 1947 and subsequently blacklisted, ostracised
and forced into poverty, obscurity and in some cases exile, because of their beliefs.
The play is based on transcripts of those now notorious HUAC hearings and the extraordinary letters
written by his father during this period, both to his son and to others.
My House in Umbria by William Trevor
******Mrs. Emily Delahunty-a mysterious and not entirely trustworthy former madam-
quietly runs a pensione in the Italian countryside and writes romance novels while
she muses on her checkered past. Then one day her world is changed forever as
the train she is riding in is blown up by terrorists. Taken to a local hospital to
recuperate, she befriends the other survivors-an elderly English general, an
American child, and a German boy-and takes them all to convalesce
at her villa, with unforeseen results.
Literary Misfits 1.5- The Case Of The Scream In The Night by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
******A week of literary chaos as some of our favourite fictional characters stumble into the pages of the wrong book!
When a mysterious Miss Jane Eyre calls at Sherlock Holmes’s Baker Street residence little does he suspect
just how mysterious her case will turn out to be.
Literary Misfits 2.5- The Final Voyage Of Gulliver by John Morrison
******When Gulliver is tempted to make one final journey he inadvertently finds himself washed up
on John Bull’s Other Island. What will he make of its inhabitants and, more to the point, what will they make of him!
A Vampire Vaudeville by Kerry Lee Crabbe
******Lady Bracknell is very surprised when an unexpected visitor, Count Dracula, calls to ask for the hand
of her daughter, Gwendolen. Will Lady Bracknell refute this preposterous request or, indeed, will she find
herself bewitched by the unusual charms of this tall nocturnal stranger?
Casaubon in the Catacombs by Anne Haverty
*******Leaving the town of Middlemarch the scholarly Mr Casaubon and his wife Dorothea embark
on a trip to Dublin, but will they find themselves living the Life of Riley in the Emerald Isle?
Pride and Homicide by Barry Devlin
******When the notorious ‘Butcher Boy’, Francie Brady, arrives in Longbourn and takes up a position
with a certain Bennett family, it can only be a matter of time before pride leads to something
a little more sinister than a fall for one of the local residents.
Life Class 01.10 by Pat Barker
Life Class 02.10
Life Class 03.10
Life Class 04.10
Life Class 05.10
Life Class 06.10
Life Class 07.10
Life Class 08.10
Life Class 09.10
Life Class 10.10
******Pat Barker's poignant study of three young artists trying to find their way in a world ravaged by the Great War.
Lady Windermere's Fan 1.3 by Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan 2.3
Lady Windermere's Fan 3.3
********Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman is a four act comedy
by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James Theatre in London.
The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it is a biting
satire on the morals of Victorian society, particularly marriage.
Lack of Moral Fibre 1.2 by John Antrobus
Lack of Moral Fibre 2.2
******Starring Richard Briers as Wing Commander Teddy Wilmott and Brian Murphy as Dennis,
two men who look after a pub on the moor in Cornwall in 1970. They are visited by a stranger
and have memories of Flare Path Molly.
It's Too Late Now by John Tydeman
*******This play marks the 50th anniversary of the death of A.A.Milne on 31 Jan 1956.
Best known as creator of Winnie-the Pooh, (am I the only one who doesn't like this
odious little bear?) Milne would prefer not to be remembered as a children's writer.
Some of you will be aware that he wrote a series if witty books of anecdotes entitled
The Holiday Round, The Day's Play, etc.
Kathmandu Or Bust 1.6- Dover and Out by David Napthine and Mike Yeaman
Kathmandu Or Bust 2.6- Gut Reaction
Kathmandu Or Bust 3.6- Turkish Delight
Kathmandu Or Bust 4.6- The Truck Stops Here
Kathmandu Or Bust 5.6- A Sticky Wicket
Kathmandu Or Bust 6.6- End of the Road
Island of the Day Before Yesterday by J.Stevenson
*******About Professor Simone Strachey, an academic with a big opinion of himself. He is having to sort out
his dead father's papers, and he employs a secretary to assist. She is dowdy, unimaginative and dull,
but he persuades her to pretend he is part of his colourful past, and sends for a newspaper reporter...
the elaborate joke amuses him, but things develop in a way he had not foreseen.
Lucia's Progress 1.5 by E F Benson
Lucia's Progress 2.5
Lucia's Progress 3.5
Lucia's Progress 4.5
Lucia's Progress 5.5
*******Lucia and Mapp's amusing adventures in Tilling continue in Lucia's Progress.
The redoubtable pair stand unsuccessfully for election to the Town Council.
Lucia enters a too-chaste marriage with Georgie. And after a house swap with the
infamous Miss Mapp, Lucia redecorates, only to discover - and then hide -
the remains of a Roman villa! "These stories are addictive!" - Boston Globe
Little Women 1.6 by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women 2.6
Little Women 3.6
Little Women 4.6
Little Women 5.6
Little Women 6.6
*******The story of a year in the life of the March family. While their father
is away in the civil war, the four sisters and their mother work hard to
maintain a happy and peaceful home. We hear of their troubles and
their joys and come to sympathize with the characters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy.
London Particulars 1.4 The Last of the Bow Street Runners by John Peacock
London Particulars 2.4 A Cuckoo in the Nest
London Particulars 3.4 Out on the Drag
London Particulars 4.4 The Kitten Houser
*****Four Victorian detective thrillers about two crime detecting Peelers,
Pip and Tom, who solve crimes in Victorian London.
Life in London 1.6- In Training for a Swell Job by Pierce Egan
Life in London 2.6 The Fancy
Life in London 3.6 Mr. Lushington
Life in London 4.6 High and Low Life
Life in London 5.6 The Show Folks
Life in London 6.6 An End To Life in London
*******Comedy drama set in early 19th Century London, adapted from the novel by Pierce Egan.
A tour of the sprawling post-Regency metropolis, in the years before the Victorians turned up and
made everything boring, in the company of garrulous narrator Pierce Egan, a journalist and boxing
fanatic; cocksure urbanite Corinthian Tom; his naive Somerset cousin Jerry Hawthorn; and their
drunken compatriot Bob Logic.
From his residence on the Strand, Pierce leads us through London at the hands of Tom and Bob.
Each episode focuses on a different aspect of Life In London. From the white-gloved clubs up West,
to the gin-filled flop houses down East; from Covent Garden, to the Condemned Yard at Newgate;
from brawling with a nightwatchman, to visiting the Fleet debtors' prison; from Tom romancing his
beloved Kate, to Jerry's ill-advised dalliance with the rapacious Lady Wanton.
LIFE IN LONDON - A SLANG DICTIONARY
Taken from Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1823 edition, edited by Pierce Egan, here are a few of the
prime terms from Life in London so that you too can patter the flash like a true Corinthian!
Abigail - a lady's waiting maid.
Bang up - quite the thing. Well done. Complete. Dashing.
Blunt - money
Bosky - in the cant of the Oxonians, being tipsy.
Bottom - a polite term for the posteriors. Also, in the sporting sense, strength and spirits to support fatigue.
Bunter - a low dirty prostitute, half whore, half beggar.
Chaffer - tongue
Chaffing - to talk aloud.
Charley - a watchman
Conk - the nose. Also a thief who impeaches his colleagues.
Corinthian Path - Regent Street
Crib - a house. To crack a crib: to break open a house.
Cyprian - a prostitute. From Venus, the Cyprus-born goddess.
Daffy - gin. Also known as blue ruin, Old Tom, max, flash of lightning, jackey.
Dipper - a pickpocket.
Duce - two-pence.
Dunagen - a privy.
Dustman - to let the dustman get hold of you: to fall asleep.
Fancy - one of the Fancy means a sporting character that is either attached to pigeons, dog-fighting, boxing etc.
Flash - knowing
Flat - an honest man.
Fly - knowing. Acquainted with another's meaning or proceeding.
Fogle - a handkerchief.
Glim - a candle.
Heavy wet - beer.
Holy Land - the well-known region of St Giles parish, London .
Isle of Bishop - port wine and roasted oranges and lemons.
Ivories - teeth. How the swell flashed his ivories; how the gentleman showed his teeth. To sluice the ivories; to drink.
Knight of the Thimble - a tailor.
Knowledge box - the head.
Macaroni - an Italian paste of flour and water. Also, a fop.
Mauleys - boxing gloves.
Miller - a boxer.
Nob - the head.
Ogles - the eyes.
Panny - a house. The prigs frisked my panny and nailed my screws;
the officers searched my house and seized my picklock keys.
Phiz - the face.
Prad - a horse. The swell flashes a rum prad; the gentleman sports a fine horse.
Rattler - a coach.
Scran - food.
Slavey - a servant of either sex.
Spoony - foolish, half-witted, nonsensical.
Swell - a gentleman, but any well-dressed person is emphatically termed a swell.
Tonic - a halfpenny.
Uncle - a pawnbroker.
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