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Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
******The late Tayeb Salih's wry and sensual masterpiece has been described as the most 
important Arab novel of the 20th century. First published in Arabic in 1966, ten years after 
Sudan's independence, it's a hall of mirrors which conjures poetry and suspense from the 
ambivalence of the colonial legacy. A young man returning from studying in Europe to his 
beloved village 'on the bend in the Nile' unravels a tale which will lead to murder.

Flight, A Play in Eight Greens by Michael Frayne
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Nietzsche's Horse by Lavinia Murray
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Hitched 1.2 by Doug Lucie
Hitched 2.2
******two plays by Doug Lucie which satirise our obsession with weddings 
and happy-ever-afters.

Betrothed couple Emma and Richard have done their best to keep their 
respectivefamilies apart, but as their wedding day approaches it is time for the
 in-laws-to-be to finally meet.




Cloths Of Heaven 1.5 by Sue Eckstein
Cloths Of Heaven 2.5
Cloths Of Heaven 3.5
Cloths Of Heaven 4.5
Cloths Of Heaven 5.5
******It's West Africa in the early 1990s. Isabel Redmond is tiring of her iconoclastic 
husband's penchant for pendulous black breasts; an old English judge wanders 
through the scrub following a tribe of Fulani herdsmen; Bob Newpin is about to 
make a killing in time-shares; and, in a dusty warehouse in the heart of the city, 
a thin white woman is silently measuring out lengths of mauve cloth dotted with 
silver stars. Into this milieu of miscellaneous misfits and mavericks, arrives 
Daniel Maddison. Rebelling against the confines of diplomatic life, Daniel is 
drawn towards the people and places that lie way beyond the experience of his 
High Commission colleagues and their endless round of cocktail parties, golf and gossip.



The Potting Shed by Graham Greene
*******The psychological drama centers on a secret held by the Callifer family for 
nearly thirty years.

The patriarch of the family is dying and James, his estranged son, appears 
unexpectedly. He can remember nothing about a mysterious moment that 
occurred in the family's potting shed when he was 14-years-old. Family 
members who recall the event are unwilling to describe it to him. With the 
help of a psychoanalyst, James tries to recall just what happened that day 
that left him rejected by his father, alienated from his family, and alone in the world.



Saturday Night And Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
******Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings.
A young rebel of a man, he knows what he wants and he's sharp enough to get it. 
Before long his meetings with a couple of married women are part of local gossip.




Saturday, Sunday and Monday by Eduardo de Filippo
******comedy about an extended Neopolitan family who gather together every Sunday 
 for Donna Rosa's legendary ragu



Thackeray 1.3 by Olwen Wymark
Thackeray 2.3
Thackeray 3.3
******...When someone is accidentally killed in re-enacting a medieval battle, Thackeray is pulled in to investigate. 



Pinkerton - by Ronald Frame
******In the new immigrant community of 1840s America, Scotsman Allan Pinkerton 
turns detective when an influx of counterfeit dollars threatens the local economy.
About Pinkertons (from Wikipedia):
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The Pinkerton National Detective Agency, usually shortened to the Pinkertons, 
was a private U.S. security guard and detective agencyestablished by Allan Pinkerton in 1850. 
Pinkerton had become famous when he foiled a plot to assassinate president-elect 
Abraham Lincoln,who later hired Pinkerton agents for his personal security during 
the Civil War. Pinkerton's agents performed servicesranging from security guarding 
to private military contracting work. At its height, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency 
employed moreagents than there were members of the standing army of the United States
 of America, causing the state of Ohio to outlaw the agency due tofears it could be hired 
out as a private army or militia.



Big Slide 1.2 by James Howard Kunstler
Big Slide 2.2 
******a three-act play set in the autumn of an unspecified near-future year, at an 
Adirondack “great camp” where three generations of the Freeman family have 
taken refuge from New York and Boston during a severe national political maelstrom. 
We are never fully apprised of the exact nature of this event, but it appears to involve 
a coup d’etat in the White House and the uprising of local militias all over the nation 
in response. The estate at Big Slide is isolated from these events, but news dribbles in 
by radio. The electricity has stopped working and law enforcement seems to have been 
suspended, making it dangerous to travel even to the nearest town for food and necessities. 
The thirteen members of the family, ranging from the dying patriarch, Clifford Freeman, to his 
grown children and their spouses, to the two teenage step-siblings, Raven and Zach, struggle 
to work out how they will organize themselves for survival in the months ahead against 
a background of old and deep personal grievances with each other.



Some Lizards by Philip Davison 
******Graham’s marriage has marred and aged him, but is big brother Jack a strong support 
in his time of need or a frere fatal who might betray him? Who’s the brother and who’s the keeper 
in this strange fraternal safari to the wilder animals in the Dublin Zoo? Darragh Kelly (Graham) and 
Phelim Drew (Jack) star in Philip Davison’s black comedy about the blues.






Next Man Through The Door 
by John Howlett
******

Rozario Chiana, small-time London criminal, is drinking in a pub. 
Outside a hit-man is waiting. By telephone, the hit-man's accomplice 
inside the pub sets him up as 'next man through the door.' 
But the hit is bungled, and from then on Chiana - who owns a large 
block of property in the heart of London 
that he won't sell to developers - is on the run ...




 The Accident 1.5 by Jonathan Davidson  
The Accident 2.5  
The Accident 3.5  
The Accident 4.5  
The Accident 5.5 
******A railway signal box at night in the West of England in the early 1960s. 
A signalman and his daughter; between them the bells and the levers; 
ahead of them, the rest of their lives.



In the Blink of an Eye by Fergal McElherron
******When Carmel brings her English boyfriend home to visit the family, 
her brother Colm and his boyhood friend, Declan are forced to confront 
an evil deed they committed in the past. 


The Judgment by Franz Kafka
******a short story by Franz Kafka which depicts the conversation between a man 
and his father, where many conflicts arise. The father talks in an accusative way, 
and finally condemns his son to dying drowned. The man immediately runs to a 
nearby bridge, from which he throws himself to the river. The relationship between 
the characters bears some similarities with the one between Kafka and his father, 
which was also very difficult. The story has been analyzed under the scope of 
psychoanalysis. It was written in only two days (September 22-23 of 1912) in a time 
when Kafka wrote some of his best works, such as The Metamorphosis. 




The Club by Gregory Whitehead
******On New Year's Eve, 1905, members of a newly founded
New England social club initiated a '... bizarre,
gory, and disturbing ritual ...'




The Shepherd by Garret Baker
******The Shepherd looks at the successes and excesses of Celtic Tiger Ireland 
through the eyes of a young couple who find that they've overstretched themselves 
in terms of borrowing. Money lender Darragh played by Stephen Rea throws a menacing 
shadow across the suburban life of a young couple played by Katy Davis and Rory Keenan.


Beware of the Trains 1.5 by John Taylor
Beware of the Trains 2.5
Beware of the Trains 3.5
Beware of the Trains 4.5
Beware of the Trains 5.5
Beware of the Trains 6a
******Some time in the 1920s in a compartment of the Glasgow to London sleeping-car express, 
two men and a woman fall into exchanging stories about strange railway crimes. But the travellers 
become aware that another story is emerging - one in which they are all involved and which is hurtling 
towards an extraordinary conclusion.
With Haydn Gwynne, Robert Daws, John McGlynn, Anton Lesser, Desmond Barrit, and Howard Ward.



A Question of Proof by Nicholas Blake
******Nigel Strangeways' first case - drawing on the experiences as a prep-school 
master of the author, the poet C. Day Lewis (1904-1972). 



The Secret Parts by David Edgar
******Romance and political skulduggery combine in David Edgar's 
witty murder mystery starring Celia Imrie

Thirty-five year old ‘Lefty feminist’ counsellor and long time widow, Helena Kerr, 
finds herself personally involved in a series of local murders connected to the 
Gay community. In Helena’s mind, Opposition Conservative counsellor, the vile 
and homophobic John Malcolm, is fully implicated but she and the police, 
in the shape of the “perfect and house-trained” Detective Sergeant Michael Batalocco, 
are consistently frustrated in their attempts to prove it.




The Spanish Package by James Follett
******A retired couple witness their daughter's death in a hit-and-run incident 
and set out to discover who is behind it.  


The Mysterious Mr Quin by Agatha Christie
******Martin Jarvis reads three stories written by Agatha Christie in the 1920s, 
featuring a highly unusual detective team: Mr Satterthwaite, a bachelor in his 60s, 
and the mysterious Mr Harley Quin
The Coming of Mr Quin
1/3. Guests at a house party recall the unexpected suicide of the previous owner. 
Then a mysterious stranger arrives, Mr Quin, who throws new light on the case. 
But there is another mystery - who is Mr Harley Quin himself?
The Soul of the Croupier
2/3. Can Mr Quin assist his friend Satterthwaite to solve a conundrum concerning 
a beautiful Countess and a brash young American, amid the roulette tables of Monte Carlo?
At the Bells and Motley
3/3. Mr Satterthwaite encounters Mr Quin at a country inn. Quin invites his friend 
to re-examine the strange case of a wealthy young local woman and her new husband's 
disappearance. Was it murder, or is there some other game afoot?



The Critic
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville (BBC 1979)
******An epic tale of the conflict between man and his fate. 
Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to destroy the great white 
whale that tore off his leg leadsthe "Pequod" and its crew 
to disaster.


Magnolia Blossom by Agatha Christie
******Mike Walker's revamped whodunit starring Emilia Fox.
Theo is set to leave her husband, when a financial scandal intervenes...


Darkness At Pemberley by T. H. White
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An ingenious locked-room puzzle, first published in 1932. 


Detective Inspector Buller is called upon to solve two mysterious deaths. 
A college professor has been murdered in his room. He was overheard by 
two witnesses starting a record player in his room, but shortly after he does 
not answer his phone, and is later found dead. Nobody entered the room 
in the meantime. Inspector Buller is able to solve the mystery, but cannot find 
sufficient evidence to convict the clever murderer. The murderer then disappears, 
and if you want to know what happens next you know what to do ....



Endless Night by Agatha Christie
******a psychological thriller wrapped around a love story - with a dash of the supernatural. 
Lonely drifter Mike Rogers finally settles down when he meets young heiress Ellie Guteman. 
They build the house of their dreams in a beautiful and remote area, ignoring rumours of a 
curse. With their arrival, however, the curse seems to come to life, and they find themselves 
in grave danger.

From The Radio Times: 

If it's drama based upon an Agatha Christie-penned story then there's got to be 
a mystery and at least one suspicious death. No surprises so far, but then in comes a curse, some 
possible haunting and enough psychological twists and tumbles to upset a stable Saturday afternoon.
The crucial facts reveal the true nature of the murderer and the victims' deaths are slowly released. 
The pace is measured, but intensely sinister, with Jonathan Forbes turning in a particularly convincing 
performance as the rough diamond who marries an heiress.



The Man In The Dark 
by John Ferguson

******Murder on a foggy night at Ealing in the presence of a 
down-and-out war veteran who couldn't see the crime sends 
the blind man in flight with the assassin's accomplice.








Three Act Tragedy 1.5 by Agatha Christie
Three Act Tragedy 2.5 by Agatha Christie
Three Act Tragedy 3.5 by Agatha Christie
Three Act Tragedy 4.5 by Agatha Christie
Three Act Tragedy 5.5 by Agatha Christie
******The Reverend Stephen Babbington seldom imbibes, but at a gala thrown by 
actor Sir Charles Cartwright, he indulges in a cocktail and falls over dead. 
Since there is no trace of poison or foul play, the case is closed . . . until an identical 
death at a London party arouses the suspicions of Hercule Poirot. 
Also published as Murder in Three Acts.


 Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia Pt 1 (Petherbridge-Peart)  
Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia Pt 2 (Petherbridge-Peart)  
Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Scarlet Pt 1-4 (Petherbridge-Peart) (2 hours, 40 mins) 
Sherlock Holmes - Silver Blaze Pt 1 (Petherbridge-Peart) 
Sherlock Holmes - Silver Blaze Pt 2 (Petherbridge-Peart) 
Sherlock Holmes - The Five Orange Pips (Petherbridge-Peart) 
Sherlock Holmes - The Greek Interpreter Pt 1 (Petherbridge-Peart) 
Sherlock Holmes - The Greek Interpreter Pt 2 (Petherbridge-Peart) 
Sherlock Holmes - The Man with the Twisted Lip (Petherbridge-Peart)  
Sherlock Holmes - The Speckled Band (Petherbridge-Peart) 
******This is a set of Sherlock Holmes Radio dramas produced in the early 1990s and 
broadcast in the U.S. starring Edward Petherbridge as Holmes and David Pert as 
Watson.



Mrs McGinty's Dead 1.5 by Agatha Christie
Mrs McGinty's Dead 2.5 by Agatha Christie
Mrs McGinty's Dead 3.5 by Agatha Christie
Mrs McGinty's Dead 4.5 by Agatha Christie
Mrs McGinty's Dead 5.5 by Agatha Christie
******Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell 
immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bently, whose clothes revealed traces of 
the victim's blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: 
                                                                   Bentley just didn't look like a murderer.



Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie
******Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' 
her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the 
great Belgian detective couldn't help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. 
After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at 
exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her 
motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?


The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1963)
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1980)
******These are really old documentaries but seemed to belong here nonetheless.


Hallowe'en Party 1.2 by Agatha Christie
Hallowe'en Party 2.2
******At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she 
once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. 
But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-
bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the 'evil presence'. 
But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer .


After the funeral 1.2 by Agatha Christie
After the funeral 2.2 by Agatha Christie
******When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made 
the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral, suddenly takes on a chilling significance.


The Adventures Of Ukridge 1.6 by P G Wodehouse - The Accident
The Adventures Of Ukridge 2.6 - The Long Arrival
The Adventures Of Ukridge 3.6 - The Debut
The Adventures Of Ukridge 4.6 - The Dogs
The Adventures Of Ukridge 5.6 - The Return
The Adventures Of Ukridge 6.6 - Ukridge Routine
******One of the greatest English comic writers of our time, P.G. Wodehouse represents 
an antic high point in the world of farce and social satire. His characters and settings 
have entered our language and our mythology. Best known for the creation of two 
fictional worlds based on Blandings Castle and the Wooster -- Jeeves duo, Wodehouse
is appreciated the world over for his exceedingly clever and comically savvy send-ups 
of the idle rich in twentieth-century England.


Cyanide at Five O'Clock by Pavel Kahout
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The Beacon 1.5 by Susan Hill. - An Author in the Family
The Beacon 2.5 - Taking Flight
The Beacon 3.5 - Alone
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Playing With Trains 1.2 by Stephen Poliakoff
Playing With Trains 2.2 
******The play tells the story of the rise and fall of Bill Galpin, a flamboyant entrepreneur 
who pools his fortune into backing risky inventions which are concerned with safeguarding 
the environment, while at the same time having a very tempestuous but poignant relationship 
with his two children Roxanna and Danny.

Beginning in the heady days of the late 1960s, Playing With Trains deals with the fact that 
Britain invents so much, yet manufactures so little. Galpin makes a fortune from a brilliant 
development in gramophone technology, and then turns himself into a self-appointed patron 
and champion of inventors and innovators everywhere, clashing with the establishment through 
the libel courts, speeches to captains of industry, Civil Service offices and even TV shows.

Parallel to his relationship with industry is his even more tempestuous relationship with his children. 
Roxanna - whom he expects to become a great engineer - drops out of Cambridge and becomes 
an art student in an attempt to escape her father's grip. Danny, meanwhile, turns into the very thing 
his father despises - a financial expert, but in so doing recognises the shortcomings of his father's enterprises.

Playing With Trains is a moving family drama set over two decades, charting a "love affair" between 
father and daughter. It's Poliakoff at his very best, telling an intensely private story within a sweeping public drama



Milosevic in Black and White by Peter Morgan
******Playwright and reporter Peter Morgan revisits Belgrade after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, 
combining documentary interviews with the confessions of a fictional henchman of the deposed dictator.



The Man Who Knew Everything - s02e01 - The Extraordinary Case of Serafi by Robin Brooks
The Man Who Knew Everything - s02e02 - The Balham Mystery
The Man Who Knew Everything - s02e03 - Darling Daisy
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The Dance of Death by August Strindberg
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The Dare Game by Jacqueline Wilson
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Double Negative by John Penn
******Detective Thorne investigates


Foreign Bodies - Letter To Lorenzo by Amanda Prantera
Foreign Bodies - Murder Repeats Itself
Foreign Bodies - Offside in Bohemia
Foreign Bodies - The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
******A series of Euopean Detective stories


Inappropriate Behaviour by Rob Shearman
******Sensitive play about an awkward vicar and a lonely widow who's just about 
to marry again. Helen is slightly tipsy and accidentally insults the vicar...this is the 
start of a long-lasting and very unusual friendship. Their relationship is funny and 
touching as they try to make sense of their lives.



Double Vision by Annie McCartney
******Meredith is a young widow, grieving for the husband she lost in a road accident. 
Unexpectedly a "twin" brother appears at her door and  gradually to the consternation 
of her friends and widowed father, establishes himself firmly in her life. Is he telling the truth? 
Or indeed is he an impostor taking advantage of Meredith? 


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