Radio Plays XXIX
Radio Plays XXIX
A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
******Morgan Leafy isn't overburdened with worldly success - he is refreshingly
free from it. But then, as a representative of Her Britannic Majesty in tropical
Kinjanja, it was not very constructive of him to get involved in wholesale bribery
with sensitive local politicians.
A Nice Little Trip to Spain - by Don Taylor
******a fictional incident in the Spanish Civil War. Uncle Jack, a young
Cambridge graduate, died a heroic death, according to the family, when
he went to Spain in the thirties. Some strange truths emerge when some
bodies are taken out of a mass grave, sixty years later.
A Summertime
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After the Accident by Julian Armitstead.
****** A couple's young daughter is killed in a head-on car crash. Four years
later the parents summon the courage to meet the young lad responsible.
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
******The unprincipled Mrs Cheveley threatens to reveal
Sir Robert Chiltern's secret past unless he agrees to give his support
in Parliament to a questionable Argentinian venture. Faced with ruin
in the eyes of the country and his wife, he seems to have no
alternative. Wildean wit and the elegance of English society is
woven into this classic drama.
An Insurance Inspector Calls by Justin Moorhouse
******The play is about a Blackpool landlord (Roy Hudd), his wife (Sarah Parks)
and their fantasy-game-obsessed son (Jeff Hordley). They have made a claim for a
new carpet, and the insurance man (Roy Barraclough) calls to make sure their claim
is valid.........but he's not like most insurance men, and he asks the most peculiar
questions. An excellent comedy
Ann Veronica 1.3 by HG Wells
Ann Veronica 2.3
Ann Veronica 3.3
******Headstrong,reckless and fiercely independent, Ann Veronica Stanley is
determined to be a 'Person', to work, love and, above all, to live. Walking away
from her devoted father and the social conventions and obligations of her time,
she embarks upon a course of study and encounters an unknown world of
suffragettes, Fabians and free love. But it is only when she meets the charismatic
Capes that she truly confronts the meaning of her new found freedom.
Ann Veronica caused a sensation, damned in the press and preached against
from the pulpits when it was first published in 1909 due to Wells' groundbreaking
treatment of female sexuality.
Being Brave by Tina Pepler
******This unusual and inspiring drama-documentary by award-winning writer Tina Pepler
(Song of the Forest; Sisters), looks at the way in which horses are being used to help change lives
– from corporate clients to troubled teenagers.
Based around an interview with renowned horse whisperer, Andrew Froggatt - who works
on New Zealand’s beautiful Kapiti Coast
Breaking the Silence by Stephen Poliakoff
******Stephen Poliakoff's modern classic is set in post-revolutionary Russia. A man is obsessed
with finding a way of bringing sound to the movies.
Cause Celebre 1.2 by Terence Rattigan
Cause Celebre 2.2
******based on the 1935 murder of Francis Rattenbury.
The Clerks by Rhys Adrian
****** Two men end up on the streets after working in a hush-hush Government department.
The Critic
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The Dark Horse by Michael Abbensetts
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The Day Daniel O'Donnell Got Married by Rebecca Bartlett
******This is a touching fictional drama about two women Doreen (Sorcha Cusack) and
Trishe (Nicola Stephenson) who share a passion for Daniel O’Donnell’s music and long
to make the trip to celebrate their idol’s “Big Day.”
Dirty Tricks by Alan Stafford
******Hey presto! Neville and Angela join forces again to present their magic show at the
firm's talent contest. But ... abracadabra ... the rabbit in the hat is not the only thing
that is revealed.
The Father by August Strindberg
******One hundred and fifty years since his birth, August Strindberg's drama still finds
resonances today. A mother knows her child, but doubt about paternity can poison a
father's mind. In a society where a husband and father is thought to be the authority
in his family, the Captain, a soldier, a scientist and a wealthy man, has one set of ideas
about his daughter's life and his wife has another. The Captain is used to being obeyed
in all things, and expects that his desires will prevail. Laura, his wife, has other ideas.
With tragic effect, she suggests to him that perhaps he is not the father after all.
The Displaced Person by Christopher Denys
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Ernest's Tower by Don Haworth
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Events on a Hotel Terrace by
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Events on a Hotel Terrace by Alan Ayckbourn
******Celia's torn between her bossy husband and a fixated handyman.
Fairest Isle 1.2 by Stephen Wyatt
Fairest Isle 2.2
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Flight, A Play in Eight Greens
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French Without Tears by Terence Rattigan
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Heft Like the Herdwick
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I'm Still the Same Paul by Annie Caulfield
******Lenny Henry stars as singer and political activist
Paul Robeson. As an outspoken apologist for Stalin
and agitator for civil rights Paul Robeson had many
enemies, including the CIA. His passport was taken away,
his career curtailed and his health threatened.
An FBI agent re-examines his story.
In Praise of Love by Terence Rattigan
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La Princesse de Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
******classic tale of intrigue and love translated and freely dramatised by Jo Clifford.
Set in the 16th Century, the play follows the life of a beautiful young lady newly
presented to Court. It's the reign of Henri II and Mary Queen of Scots is safely
ensconced in France. It's a time of dangerous liaisons when one step out of line
could ruin a woman and her family.
Quickly married off, the naïve Princess finds herself admired and taunted by those
around her. And, whilst they gossip cruelly, she becomes helplessly and dangerously
caught up in matters of love.
Playfully adapted, this radio dramatisation offsets the Princess's painful conflict
between duty and love with characters who delight in the wickedness of their world.
The Last Of Baron Corvo by Peter Luke
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Little Queen of England
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Musique Discrete (1959) by Henry Reed and Donald Swann
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Ploughboy Monday by David Pownall
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
******In this savage and witty parable written in exile in 1941,
Brecht recasts the rise of Hitler as a small-time Chicago gangster's
takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. This prizewinning
translation by Ralph Manheim skilfully captures the wide range of
parody and pastiche in the original - from Richard III to Al Capone,
from Mark Antony to Faust - without diminishing the horror
of the real-life Nazi prototypes.
Return to Naples (1953) by Henry Reed
******Return to Naples is semiautobiographical, a young Englishman's recreating
five visits, over a period of twenty years, to an Italian family in Naples, and reflecting
their vicissitudes between 1930 and 1950. The father, a passionate stamp collector,
and the mother, ample and warm but perpetually harassed by the domestic cares
of bringing up four sons, have marvellously funny discussions in stamp collecting,
or on the incomprehensible mores of the English), while they also reveal their anxieties
and frustrations as attitudes change over the years. The Italian ambience is brilliantly
conveyed by an occasional Italian epithet or a literally translated turn of phrase.
The Shoplifter by A.R. Rawlinson
Swish of the Curtain 1.4 by Pamela Brown
Swish of the Curtain 2.4
Swish of the Curtain 3.4
Swish of the Curtain 4.4
******A group of children all share one dream - to set up their very own theatre company.
Taken By Surprise by David Napthine
******A man is abducted and released only when his employer pays the ransom.
As he continues his work with the Teeside police, Joe Aston resorts to unorthodox
methods to get a positive identification of the main suspect
Teacher's Pet by Robert Sherman
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Vincenzo (1955) by Henry Reed
******A tragi-comedy
Waverley 1.4 by Sir Walter Scott
Waverley 2.4
Waverley 3.4
Waverley 4.4
******This novel springs from Scott's childhood recollections and his desire
to preserve in writing the features of life in the Highlands and
Lowlands of Scotland.
Winnie Holden's Angel by Tony Foytik
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A Day By The Sea by N C Hunter
******N. C. Hunter has been called ‘the English Chekhov’, and this delicate,
poetic, autumnal play captures a Chekhovian sense of loss, shattered ambitions
and personal isolation, but amongst a distinctly English group of characters.
Set in Dorset after the Second World War, A Day by the Sea is both gently
comic and profoundly tragic – this precise and psychological play is a historical
missing link between the well made plays of Rattigan and Coward and the
theatrical revolution of 1956 with John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger.
Happy Days by Samuel Beckett
******Winnie, a woman no longer young, is embedded up to her “big bosom”.
in a mound of earth, “the Mother Earth symbol to end all other mother earth
symbols”. She lives in a deluge of never-ending light from which there is no
escape: even the parasol she unfolds at one point ignites, leaving her without
protection. We learn that she has not always been buried in this way but we
never discover how she came to be trapped so. Beckett’s dramaturgy –
indeed his entire œuvre – takes little interest in causality, e.g. Molloy finds
himself ‘buried’ in his mother’s bed, in his mother’s room, realizes he has not
always been there but demonstrates no particular curiosity as regards the
specifics of how he arrived there.
Perfect Days by Liz Lochhead
******Barbs Marshall is a Celebrity Hairdresser in Glasgow. She is successful,
has her own show on local TV, a nice apartment in a trendy part of the city,
but she is 39 years old and almost deafened by the ticking of her biological clock.
To make matters worse, her mother is a nag, her best friend has been keeping
her in the dark, and her ex-husband has a new girlfriend. Then she meets a
26-year-old stranger who seems more than ready to oblige..."
"Premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Perfect Days is a sharp and poignant
comedy about the different kinds of love - romantic love, mother love and friendship -
affecting one woman as she goes about trying to get what she really, really wants.
Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow 1.4 by Peter Hoeg
Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow 2.4
Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow 3.4
Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow 4.4
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People in Cars 1.3 - Get Away by Simon Brett
People in Cars 2.3 - Miles on the Clock
People in Cars 3.3 - Sat Love
******Series of linked comedies
A Dream Play by August Strindberg
******"A Dream Play" was perhaps the first drama to employ a dream-like reality
as a genre-in-itself. By doing this, Strindberg abandoned conventional perceptions
of time and space. He reduced his original theme, of the man waiting vainly at the
theatre for his fiancee who never comes, to a subplot; his chief character now was
Indra's Daughter, the child of a god who is sent by her father to live among
mortals. She meets and marries a poor man's lawyer, who spends his life vainly
trying to right the wrongs of humanity; so she endures the agonies of human
existence until, at last, she puts off her mortal flesh and returns to her father.
Confessions of a Medium by AL Kennedy
******Dark comedy set in 1870s London and based on a true story.
Mr Parker is a sincere and kind man who, in search of a higher meaning to life,
has moved from conventional religion to seances and spiritualism. He believes
he has met his saviour in the guise of Mr Thomson, a charming, erudite and
utterly mesmerising medium. But, unbeknown to Parker, Thomson is a complete
and utter fake.
Emily's Ghost by Colin Finbow
******A precocious girl finds herself haunted by a ghost.
With: Anna Massey, Ron Moody , Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres
The Dragon Can't Dance 1-3 - Jouvay by Earl Lovelace
The Dragon Can't Dance 2-3 - Mardi Gras
The Dragon Can't Dance 3-3 - Ash Wednesday
******A story of shanty-town life in Trinidad. Calvary Hill is the home of
Aldrick Prospect, who lives for the carnival and his once-a-year chance
to play dragon. Here too live Miss Cleothilda, the ageing carnival queen,
Philo the Calypsonian, and Fisheye, who flaunts his strength in the steel bands.
Gone by Debbie Tucker Green
******A young woman has gone missing. No-one knows what has happened to her. She is described
by an unconnected group of people whose lives she touched in some way on the last day anyone
saw her. One or wo of them knew her, some met her briefly and some just happened to see her,
Joanna by Neil Brand
******An old piano recalls the hands that played her and the love affairs she's seen.
Catholics by Brian Moore
******On a remote isle off the Kerry coast, a group of monks has decided
to take a stand against its masters in Rome - contrary to modem edicts,
the brethren have chosen to retain the old traditions and ceremonies of worship.
Their ancient practices do not go unnoticed however, and as they
start to attract crowds of curious tourists pilgrims even - someone has to
stop them. But when Father James Kinsella arrives with strict orders from
the Vatican, he does not find, as he anticipates, a community united
in defiance, but one riven by dogma and doubt ...
In this masterly evocation of an island brotherhood, Brian Moore explores
the subtle boundaries that shift between duty and faith, between obedience and dissent.
Beyond Black 01.10 - Voices from the Other Side
Beyond Black 02.10 - Colette's Story
Beyond Black 03.10 - An Evil Thing
Beyond Black 04.10 - Death of a Princess
Beyond Black 05.10 - Escape
Beyond Black 06.10 - Alison's Good Action
Beyond Black 07.10 - The Fiends Are On Their Way
Beyond Black 08.10 - Team Psychics
Beyond Black 09.10 - A Violent Death
Beyond Black 10.10 - Alison's Retribution
******The much anticipated novel from the critically acclaimed author of
Giving Up the Ghost and A Place of Greater Safety. There's something
nasty at the heart of Britain. The earth is poisoned: radioactive waste is washing into the water supply,
and Japanese knotweed is choking the grasslands. Ghastly housing estates are proliferating across
the Home Counties and terrorists are hiding in the ditches. This is Britain at the end of the last
century and at the birth of the new. Alison knows what is coming. She foresees the death of
Princess Diana (an annoying presence who is just as confused on the other side as she was
on this). Alison foresees the coming down of the twin towers. Alison Hart is a medium by trade:
dead people talk to her and she talks back. With her flat-eyed, flint-hearted sidekick, Colette,
she tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road, passing on messages from dead ancestors:
'Granny says she likes your new kitchen units.'
But there are messages that Alison must keep to herself. Alison's ability to communicate with
spirits is a torment rather than a gift. Behind her plump, smiling and bland persona is a desperate
woman. She knows the next life holds terrors that she must conceal from her clients. Her days
and nights are haunted by the men she knew in her childhood, the thugs and petty criminals who
preyed upon her hopeless, addled mother. As the spirits become stronger and nastier it becomes
clearer that there are terrible secrets about to be revealed. Who is Alison? Why is she so keen to
perform a good deed in a desperate world? What terrible thing was it that she did as a child?
Why is she drawn to the cutlery drawer even now? This is Hilary Mantel's tenth novel and her first
for six years. Beyond Black is an hilarious and deeply sinister story of dark secrets and dark forces,
set in an England that jumps at its own shadow, a country whose banal self-absorption is shot through
by fear of the coming, engulfing blackness.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 1.3 by L Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 2.3
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 3.3
******The story of Dorothy and her dog, Toto, who are swept off the
Kansas plains by a huge cyclone, and find themselves in the land of Oz.
2000 Tales 1.6 by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
2000 Tales 2.6
2000 Tales 3.6
2000 Tales 4.6
2000 Tales 5.6
2000 Tales 6.6
*******When a group of travellers take shelter from a storm in a motorway service station,
they soon find that everyone has a story to tell. Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz (plays 1-3)
and Steve May (4-6), the six plays tell the tale of Arthur, a powerful tribal leader who brings
political stability to 5th century Britain but fails to deliver a golden age. The action takes place
in Britain between 493 AD and 515 AD.
The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene
******The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games
that adults play. Left in the care of the butler, Baines, and his wife, Philip realizes
too late the danger of lies and deceit. But the truth is even deadlier.
Songs That Houses Sing 1.4 - DIY by Hattie Naylor
Songs That Houses Sing 2.4 - The House in Tamworth Park by Josephine Corcoran
Songs That Houses Sing 3.4 - The Currs by Kate Clanchy
Songs That Houses Sing 4.4 - Kissing Shadows by Rachel Joyce
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Weird Tales - s02e01 - Connected
Weird Tales - s02e02 - Split The Atom
Weird Tales - s02e03 - The House on Pale Avenue
Trelawny of the Wells by Arthur Wing Pinero
******the story of a theatre star who attempts to give up the stage for love,
but is unable to fit into conventional society.
My Mad Grandad 1.5
My Mad Grandad 2.5
My Mad Grandad 3.5
My Mad Grandad 4.5
My Mad Grandad 5.5
******Touching and funny tale of family quarrels and misspent old age,
drawing on Scott's own childhood in Lancashire.
After being moved away from bad influences to live in a quiet village,
12-year-old Gil finds his new best mate is the oldest, blackest sheep in
his family - his grandad, just released from the asylum, who thinks boys
need catapults and stink bombs and sips of beer
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