Radio Plays XXV
Radio Plays XXV
Earthsearch - Mindwarp - 1.3 by James Follett
Earthsearch - Mindwarp - 2.3
Earthsearch - Mindwarp - 3.3
******James Follett's "Prequel" to his classic Earthsearch novels.
Earth Search 1 - 810106 - 01 - Planet Fall
Earth Search 1 - 810113 - 02 - First Footprint City
Earth Search 1 - 810120 - 03 - Sands of Cairos
Earth Search 1 - 810127 - 04 - The Solaric Empire
Earth Search 1 - 810203 - 05 - The Pools of Time
Earth Search 1 - 810210 - 06 - Across the Abyss
Earth Search 1 - 810217 - 07 - New Blood
Earth Search 1 - 810224 - 08 - Marooned
Earth Search 1 - 810303 - 09 - Star Cluster
Earth Search 1 - 810310 - 10 - Earthfall
Earth Search II - 820425 - 01 - Return
Earth Search II - 820502 - 02 - Flood
Earth Search II - 820509 - 03 - Surrender
Earth Search II - 820516 - 04 - Solaria
Earth Search II - 820500 - 05 - Sun Death
Earth Search II - 820530 - 06 - Supermass
Earth Search II - 820606 - 07 - Death Ship
Earth Search II - 820613 - 08 - Meglomania
Earth Search II - 820620 - 09 - Earth
Earth Search II - 820627 - 10 - Earth Voice
******The "Challenger" crew were all born on their starship, had never set foot
on a planet but knew that Earth was their spiritual home. So when it vanished
from the solar system, their search began to locate the planet that the inhabitants
had taken to find a new sun
- one that would not become a nova.
A Walk to the Paradise Garden by Terence Davies
******an elegiac story of four old people in a hospital ward.
Wakefield by Nathaniel Hawthorne
*******Wakefield is a middle-aged man living in London, in a comfortable home with his wife
of ten years. He has an “inactive mind,” a peculiar “vanity,” a “harmless love of mystery,”
a certain “selfishness” and “strangeness.” One October evening, he tells his wife good-bye
before leaving by coach for a journey into the country. Knowing his love of mystery,
she does not inquire into the details of his trip. He tells her not to be alarmed if he does not
return for three or four days but to expect him on Friday evening.
Brighton Rock 1.4 by Graham Greene
Brighton Rock 2.4
Brighton Rock 3.4
Brighton Rock 4.4
******A masterpiece of psycho-realism, this fascinating study of evil, sin,
and the "appalling strangeness of the mercy of God" withholds easy judgement
as a narrative takes us through the moral question of what is
simultaneously fascinating and repellent.
Well by Jane Bodie
******'Jane Bodie's finely-tuned drama showed how the balance of power between a GP, Robert Glenister,
and a hypochondriac, Katherine Parkinson, in an enjoyably quirky performance, compared with that of
the doctor and his wife, Lia Williams, grieving alone after a miscarriage. There were some pungently 
witty lines in the consulting room but what was most striking was how writer
Jane Bodie climbed inside the heads of her characters.' The Stage
Naked by Luigi Pirandello
******A new version by Nicholas Wright. A nanny, whose charge died in her care,
attempts suicide but fails. She is taken in by a lustful novelist who tries to discover
her real story as men from her past turn up to claim different versions of the truth.
LA Theatre Works Mrs Klein 1.2 by Nicholas Wright
LA Theatre Works Mrs Klein 2.2
******The air is thick with Freud and sex as eminent psychoanalyst Melanie Klein
comes roaring to life in a 1930's drawing room. London offers the witty, overbearing
Mrs. Klein refuge from rising European fascism.
But perhaps her children are still in need of refuge – from her.
Cast: Julie Harris, JoBeth Williams, Lindsay Crouse
That Summer by David Edgar
******During 1984's coal strike, a couple host two miners' daughters.
Lucia in London 1.4 - Lucia Bereaved by E F Benson
Lucia in London 2.4 - Lucia Takes the Town
(episode 3 missing)
Lucia in London 4.4 - Lucia Reclaims Her Crown
******Using her best social-climbing instincts and refusing to be embarrassed, Lucia sets out
to conquer London and mingle with the beau monde. Soon a secret group of "Luciaphiles"
springs up; the social climbers who make up its rank never tire of watching her get
into and out of all kinds of trouble.
South Sea Bubble by Noel Coward
******a light comedy in three acts
The Dark Tower 1.2 by Louis MacNeice
The Dark Tower 2.2
******Described by the author as 'a radio parable play', written in response to the rise of fascism in Germany
and the events of World War II, The Dark Tower stages the debate about free will with reference to the ancient
theme of the Quest, but in modern contexts exporing sexuality, gender, family and geography.
This play is reckoned by those who know to be a landmark in radio drama. Christopher Holme wrote in 1981
that it is his most demanding work. It's about a quest - Roland is the youngest son, and all his older brothers
have gone on the same quest and never been seen again. Roland doesn't see the point of throwing his life away
like the others, but he goes through the same indoctrination. He doesn't know whether to believe in the Tower
or the Dragon which rises from it if not opposed. His doubts are reinforced by the coming of love.
But eventually he sets off........
Jamaica Inn 1.4 by Daphne Du Maurier
Jamaica Inn 2.4
Jamaica Inn 3.4
Jamaica Inn 4.4
******On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept
moors to Jamaica Inn in honour of her mother's dying request. When she arrives,
the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience
cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power,
Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind
its crumbling walls -- and tempted to love a man she dares not trust.
Loving 1.2 by Henry Green
Loving 2.2
*****One of his most admired works, Loving describes life above and below stairs
in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their
employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid
rumours about the war in Europe; invading one another's provinces of authority
to create an anarchic environment of self-seeking behaviour, pilfering, gossip and love.
Sunset Song 1.2 by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Sunset Song 2.2
******Devastated by the First World War, Chris Guthrie must confront life as a widowed
single mother while managing her recently destroyed farm. Sunset Song is a powerful
testament to Scotland's agricultural past and life at the beginning of the twentieth century.
My Cousin Rachel 1.2 by Daphne Du Maurier
My Cousin Rachel 2.2
******Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose.
Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home
as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose
sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love and marries - and there he dies suddenly.
In almost no time at all, the new widow - Philip's cousin Rachel - turns up in England.
Despite himself, Philip is drawn to this beautiful, sophisticated, mysterious woman like a moth
to the flame. And yet . . . might she have had a hand in Ambrose's death?
Vent by Nigel Smith
******The story revolves around an unsuccessful writer named Ben (Neil Pearson),
who is in a coma. While his wife Mary (Fiona Allen) and his mother (Josie Lawrence)
hash out their emotional issues at his bedside, he lives in a fantasy world with his
2-year-old daughter "Blitzkrieg" (Leslie Ash), miraculously grown up,
and remembers incidents from his life.
Three Ring Circus by Gerry Jones
****** A beautiful girl working in a circus, and a champion boxer falls for her...but not everything ends happily. ...
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
****** Chekhov's tragicomedy, replete with the kinds of characters we have now
come to know as "Chekhovian", incorporates unrequited loves and a murder plot,
while exploring the social roles of women and the notion of progress.
This translation and adaptation underscores the contemporary relevance of this prophetic play.
Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat - s01e01 - The Two Ivans
Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat - s01e02 - The Overcoat
Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat - s01e03 - Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt
Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat - s01e04 - The Nose
Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat - s01e05 - The Mysterious Portrait
Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat - s01e06 - The Diary of a Madman
******Comedy set in a sleepy Russian town, starring Griff Rhys Jones.
Based on Nicholas Gogol short stories.
The Forsyte Chronicles 01.23 by John Galsworthy (23 hours)
The Forsyte Chronicles 02.
The Forsyte Chronicles 03.
The Forsyte Chronicles 04.
The Forsyte Chronicles 05.
The Forsyte Chronicles 06.
The Forsyte Chronicles 07.
The Forsyte Chronicles 08.
The Forsyte Chronicles 09.
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The Forsyte Chronicles 11.
The Forsyte Chronicles 12.
The Forsyte Chronicles 13.
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The Forsyte Chronicles 17.
The Forsyte Chronicles 18.
The Forsyte Chronicles 19.
The Forsyte Chronicles 20.
The Forsyte Chronicles 21.
The Forsyte Chronicles 22.
The Forsyte Chronicles 23.
******When The The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful.
The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the The Forsyte family's troubled story
and adapted its activities to suit the next transmission. The The Forsyte Saga comprising
The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let, is here produced by Wordsworth for the first time
in a single volume.Initially, the narrative centres on Soames The Forsyte - a successful solicitor
living in London with his beautiful wife Irene. A pillar of the late Victorian upper middle class,
materially wealthy, his appears to be a golden existence endowed with all the necessary
possessions for a 'Man of Property', but beneath this very proper exterior lies a core of unhappiness
and brutal relationships.The marriage of Soames and Irene disintegrates in bitter recrimination,
creating a feud within the family that will have far-reaching consequences.
David Copperfield 01.10 - I Fall Into Disgrace - With Miriam Margolyes,
John Moffatt and Timothy Spall
David Copperfield 02.10 - I Begin Life On My Own Account
David Copperfield 03.10 - Miss Betsy Trotwood
David Copperfield 04.10 - The Question Of My Future
David Copperfield 05.10 - Good And Bad Angels
David Copperfield 06.10 - The Beginning Of A Long Journey
David Copperfield 07.10 - Wickfield And Heep
David Copperfield 08.10 - Mischief
David Copperfield 09.10 - My Beloved Dora
David Copperfield 10.10 - I Have Loved You All My Life
******the complete and unabridged story of the trials and triumphs of David Copperfield,
growing to maturity in the affairs of the world and the affairs of the heart -
his success as an artist arising out of his sufferings and out of the lessons he derives from life.
Mike Walker's Caesar! s01e01 - Meeting At Formiae
Mike Walker's Caesar! s01e02 - The Arena
Mike Walker's Caesar! s01e03 - Peeling Figs For Caesar
Mike Walker's Caesar! s02e01 - The Glass Ball Game
Mike Walker's Caesar! s02e02 - Citizens in a great city
Mike Walker's Caesar! s02e03 - The Best of Mothers
Mike Walker's Caesar! s03e01 - Empress in the West
Mike Walker's Caesar! s03e02 - The Maker of All Things
Mike Walker's Caesar! s03e03 - An Empire Without End
*******Nine Mike Walker plays about the rulers of Rome.