Radio Plays XV
Radio Plays XV
The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius
******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.From 1987 Starring Richard Griffith
Kings 1.5 by Sebastian Baczkiewicz - True Anointed
******Eleazar, King Saul's chief of staff, has been sent to find a shepherd boy.
Kings 2.5 by Sebastian Baczkiewicz - Hazar's Chicken
******A young shepherd boy is persuaded to act as David's spy.
Kings 3.5 by Sebastian Baczkiewicz - The Loved One
******King Saul is on the brink of defeat at the hands of the Philistines.
Kings 4.5 by Kate Clanchy.- Michal, Saul's Daughter
******In David's harem, three of his wives fight over their relative status.
Kings 5.5 by Kate Clanchy - Abishag, The Virgin
******David is dying in a fetid room, tended by his latest wife Abishag.
Let's Murder Vivaldi by David Mercer
*******New radio production of David Mercer's 1968 play. Monica and Gerald are not happy together.
Nor are Ben and Julie. Gerald and Julie decide to try to resolve everything - somehow.
Lila by Katie Hims
******Lila's husband has died, and her two brothers-in-law start to fall in love with her.
The King's Commissar 1.2 by Duncan Kyle
The King's Commissar 2.2
******A respectable merchant bank in London is found to be paying vast sums of money
into a numbered Swiss account each year. The trail of mystery winds back to the downfall
of Imperial Russia in 1918.
The King's Coiner by Philip Palmer
******True life detective drama about Isaac Newton
Little Cinderellas by Hattie Naylor
******an English mother adopts a Chinese baby girl.
The Little Photographer by Daphne du Maurier
******The local photographer becomes captivated by the young, beautiful and bored Madame
la Marquise when she calls in to be photographed whilst on holiday,
This is a mixture of passion, disappointment, and murder.
Llama Lashes And Grumpy Old Gits devised by Anne Edyvean and Jonathan Myerson
******Verbatim extracts from real blogs tell the story of how isolated individuals found each other
on-line and laughed, and raged, and cried together through the highs and lows of treatment
for the potentially life-threatening virus, Hepatitis C.
The Lodestone by Sheila Hodgson
******A young graphic artist finds himself under a compulsion to draw repeatedly a headstone
commemmorating a 17th-century witch. The fantasy writer M. R. James is the narrator and main character in this story.
Little Words by Amy Rosenthal
******In January 1923, Katherine Mansfield died in a sanatorium in the French Alps, after a life-long struggle for health.
At the same time, Dorothy Parker made her first serious suicide attempt in a NEW YORK hotel bathroom.
One night, years later, the lives of these two troubled writers come together.
The Lovers Of Viorne by Marguerite Duras
*******A dismembered corpse scattered over a railway network and an unemotional confession
leads a police interrogator to try and understand a woman's life and marriage in a provincial French town. (75 minutes)
Lullaby by Francis Turnly
******Kate and Patrick move into their newly renovated house but soon discover that its history has a terrifying
impact on their present. A thriller.
The Magic Cottage 1.2 by James Herbert
The Magic Cottage 2.2
*******A tale of the occult. A couple buy a house in the country and everything seems fine.
Then Midge becomes friendly with some odd neighbours.
The cottage seemed perfect - charming, maybe a little run-down, but so peaceful.
That was the first part of the magic. But it had an alternative side - the Bad Magic.
The Man who Built Tunnels by Natalia Power
*******A haunting play of unrequited love - in which the 79-year-old Duke of Portland receives
a visitation from a once-famous opera singer.
The Man of Letters by Tim Sanders
******about American architect Alfred Butts. Forced onto the breadline by the Great Depression,
Butts's fortunes changed when the chairman of Macy's department store liked his idea for Scrabble,
a word game he hoped would elevate both the mind and spirit.
Mapp and Lucia 01.10 by E F Benson
Mapp and Lucia 02.10
Mapp and Lucia 03.10
Mapp and Lucia 04.10
Mapp and Lucia 05.10
Mapp and Lucia 06.10
Mapp and Lucia 07.10
Mapp and Lucia 08.10
Mapp and Lucia 09.10
Mapp and Lucia 10.10
******This hilarious study of 1930s manners and pecking order begins
when Lucia Lucas rents a summer place - the home of Miss Elizabeth Mapp -
in the English village of Tilling. Between Miss Mapp's penchant for spying on
neighbors and Lucia's fussy sidekick, Georgie, the stage is set for a battle of wits.
Maps for Lost Lovers 01.10 by Nadeem Aslam
Maps for Lost Lovers 02.10
Maps for Lost Lovers 03.10
Maps for Lost Lovers 04.10
Maps for Lost Lovers 05.10
Maps for Lost Lovers 06.10
Maps for Lost Lovers 07.10
Maps for Lost Lovers 08.10
Maps for Lost Lovers 09.10
Maps for Lost Lovers 10.10
******In an unnamed town in England, Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared -
and Chanda's brothers have been arrested for their murder. What follows is
an unravelling of all that is sacred to the family, as the pious Kaukab tries
desperately to square the traditional justice of her culture with the more
personal consequences of their murder. 'Maps for Lost Lovers' opens
the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, community, nationality and
religion and expresses their pain and desire in a language that is arrestingly poetic.
Mary Barton 01.20 by Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Barton 02.20
Mary Barton 03.20
Mary Barton 04.20
Mary Barton 05.20
Mary Barton 06.20
Mary Barton 07.20
Mary Barton 08.20
Mary Barton 09.20
Mary Barton 10.20
Mary Barton 11.20
Mary Barton 12.20
Mary Barton 13.20
Mary Barton 14.20
Mary Barton 15.20
Mary Barton 16.20
Mary Barton 17.20
Mary Barton 18.20
Mary Barton 19.20
Mary Barton 20.20
********Mary Barton, subtitled 'A Tale of Manchester Life',is the first novel
by Mrs Gaskel. The entirely working-class cast of characters in this novel
was then an innovation.The background story is Manchester in the 'hungry
forties'and the acute poverty of the unemployed mill-hands. Mary Batson,
daughter of an embittered worker, wins the attention of Henry Carson,son
of one of the employers. But a group of workmen plot his murder as a
warning to his class, and it falls upon Mary's father to perform the deed.
Suspicion lies with Mary's working class admirer, Jed, who is tried for his life.
Finally,John Barton is driven by guilt to confess.
Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe
******The Massacre at Paris is an Elizabethan play by the English dramatist
Christopher Marlowe. It concerns the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre,
which took place in Paris in 1572, and the part played by the
Duc de Guise in those events.
Melford's Axe by Roderick Graham
The Mayor Of Casterbridge 1.3 by Thomas Hardy
The Mayor Of Casterbridge 2.3
The Mayor Of Casterbridge 3.3
******In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter
for five guineas at a country fair. Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the
heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is an intensely dramatic work, tragically
played out against the backdrop of a close-knit Dorset town.
Mcnaughton by Steve Gooch
******a one-man show about the would-be assassin of a British Prime Minister,
which won the Writers Guild Best Radio Play of 2007 award.
A Meeting in Seville by Paul Mandelson
******An extraordinary little play. A middle aged couple return to where they spent their honeymoon
and encounter their former selves, eerily present in a nearby hotel. This is a refreshingly different 'timeslip' play;
no temporal paradoxes or other cliches; a really excellent drama.
Mercury Sulpha And Salt by Beatrice
The Merry Wives of Windsor 01.06 by William Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor 02.06
The Merry Wives of Windsor 03.06
The Merry Wives of Windsor 04.06
The Merry Wives of Windsor 05.06
The Merry Wives of Windsor 06.06
*****"The Merry Wives of Windsor" was almost certainly
required at short notice for a court occasion, the Garter Feast of 1597.
The Messenger
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
******Gregor Samsa awakes one morning in his family's apartment to find
himself inexplicably transformed overnight into a gigantic pest. Gregor
does not immediately recoil from his insect form, but instead chooses
to lament his job by saying, "How am I going to get to work?" and the
general misery of the rainy weather outside. Indeed, the narrative
establishes the poor conditions as the cause of his bed-ridden state.
Gregor works as a traveling salesman, and, as it is usual for traveling
salesmen to move constantly from place to place, he is accustomed to
waking up in unfamiliar surroundings and various circumstances.
The Midnight Folk 1.2 by John Masefield
The Midnight Folk 2.2
******Talking paintings and animals help Kay in his attempt to
outwit the witches and locate his great-grandfather's buried treasure.
Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker
*******When Norman Huntley and Henry Beddow, sheltering from the rain
in a dismal Irish church, placate the sexton by telling him that they knew
of his beloved pastor (now departed), there is no reason to suppose that
there is any harm in the invention. It is purely for their own amusement that
they create a fictional mutual friend: an elderly lady, Miss Hargreaves.
The sexton does not doubt her existence. And she gradually assumes a
fully-rounded character in the imaginings of the two young men as they while
away their holiday in expanding the details of her life. It is merely a continuation
of their little joke when they write to invite her to visit them back in their hometown.
It is something of a surprise when Miss Hargreaves accepts their invitation.
And their disbelief turns to confusion and horror as, one evening soon afterwards,
her train pulls into the station.
Milk In The Coffee by Sam Selvon
Miss High Heels by Rob Gittins
******The story of a rich but girlish young gentleman under the control of
his pretty step-sister and her aunt: written by himself at his
step-sister's order, with an account of his punishments, the dresses he
was made to wear, his final subjection and his curious fate.
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
******When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge,
they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where
he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart
of the magic that binds them - Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone of
Brisingamen - has been lost. The Wizard has been searching for the stone for more
than 100 years, but the forces of evil are closing in, determined to possess and
destroy its special power. Colin and Susan realise at last that they are the key to
the Weirdstone's return. But how can two children defeat the Morrigan and her
deadly brood?
White Open Spaces 1.5 - by Several Authors - Joy's Prayer
White Open Spaces 2.5 - The Management Reserves the Right
White Open Spaces 3.5 - Two Men in the Fog
White Open Spaces 4.5 - Mountain Knows Me
White Open Spaces 5.5 - Letting Yourself Go
******Is there an apartheid in the UK?
‘An utterly absorbing collection which manages, despite its serious subject matter, to be amusing as well as
thought provoking… essential plays and essential viewing.’ The List
A white man blanks his black girlfriend at a society wedding. A black landlord pins a 'no travellers'
sign to his pub door. A farmer's wife rams her shopping trolley into a stranger in the village:
‘Everyone just turned around and stared like I was from Mars or something.’
Ignited by Trevor Phillips’ (Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality) suggestion that the countryside is
guilty of a ‘passive apartheid', seven writers explore our attitudes towards race, environment and identity.
The Trial & Death of Socrates by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
******A play focusing on the mystery surrounding Socrates's trial and subsequent execution, the reasons for which have
long puzzled historians. Socrates has been found guilty of blasphemy and corrupting the youth of the city. On the eve of
his execution his chief accuser Meletus is murdered. Josias, newly returned to Athens, is given the task of
investigating the murder.
A Tiny Light In The Darkness by Ursula Rani Sarma
******A disparate group of strangers find themselves thrown together when their train on the London Underground
is plunged into darkness. Racial, cultural, professional and class tensions emerge as they try to find different
ways of coping.
The Young Lady from Midhurst by Frederick Bradnum
Weatherwoman by Bruce Bedford
******The plot concerns a guy who is designing a dam to go across a remote valley. He stays at a nearby hotel,
where there are two very odd individuals - an unmarried lady of about 40, who runs it, and who is looking for a man,
and her brother who is mentally handicapped.... it's only fairly late into the play that we realise why the title is
"Weatherwoman".........there are supernatural overtones; a killing, and a surprising twist, but no happy ending....
this is an excellent production, but you are warned - the play will not be to everyone's taste.
Miss Morison's Ghosts 1.2 by Ian Curteis
Miss Morison's Ghosts 2.2
******Curious tale based on real events concerning the principal of a woman's college in Oxford.
Miss Morrison and her successor, Miss Lamont, go to Paris and experience some odd events.
They write a book describing what happened. But the publication triggers doubts about their integrity,
and there is an action in the High Court.
Mind's Eye 1.5 - Virtuoso
Mind's Eye 2.5 - Faith
Mind's Eye 3.5 - Whispers
Mind's Eye 4.5 - Prophet
Mind's Eye 5.5 - Lodgers
******Series about a pair of psychotherapists investigating paranormal phenomena
Von Ribbentrop's Watch by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran.
********A snobbish wine merchant with a failing business finds that has watch, inherited from his father,
once belonged to a world famous Nazi. He's torn between selling it and using the money to save his business,
or keeping it and watching his business disappear
Two on a Tower 1.2 by Thomas Hardy
Two on a Tower 2.2
*******First published in 1882, Two on a Tower charts the tragic romance
of Lady Viviette Constantine and Swithin St. Cleve, who is both Lady Viviette's
social inferior and ten years her junior. Together in a monastic tower that has
been converted into an astronomical observatory, the two lovers
"sweep the heavens."
Science and romance are destined to collide, however, as work, ambition,
and the pressures of the outside world intrude upon the pair. In what Sally
Shuttleworth calls a "drama of oppositions and conflicts," Hardy's story
sets male desire against female constancy and "describes an arc across
the horizon of late nineteenth-century social and cultural concerns: sexuality,
class, history, science, and religion." Two on a Tower is a moving depiction
of modern love and a superb novel of ideas.
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