Radio Plays XXXI
Radio Plays XXXI
Clarissa - The History of a Young Lady 1.4 - The Pursuit by Samuel Richardson.
Clarissa - The History of a Young Lady 2.4 - The Flight
Clarissa - The History of a Young Lady 3.4 - Imprisonment
******Dramatisation by Hattie Naylor of the 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson.
The beautiful young heiress Clarissa Harlowe is dangerously attracted by the wiles
of the notorious libertine Robert Lovelace. Threatened by an imminent marriage arranged
with the odious suitor her family have found for her, Lovelace persuades Clarissa to
flee with him.
Written entirely in letters, this novel conveys the nuances and tensions only present
in personal epistolary form. The virtuous but self-deceiving Clarissa and the charming villain
Lovelace haunt the imagination as fully as Romeo and Juliet or Tristan and Isolde.
The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit-
*******It is 1899 and there are strange goings-on at the Bastable family
home in Blackheath. First, all of the servants leave and Father
explains that they all had other jobs. Then the children are
informed they won’t be going back to school because they “all
deserve a nice, long holiday”. And, to top it all off, some men arrive
and take away all the silver knives and forks, which Father insists is
because they need cleaning and the dents ironing out.
It is plain to the children that their father’s business, which has
been not doing so well since Mother died, is finally failing, so
they decide to restore the family fortunes by becoming
Treasure Seekers.
Miss High Heels by Rob Gittins
******Ex copper PI takes a contract to trail a wandering husband, then uncovers some far
dodgier dealings that put lives at risk.
The Night Of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson
******Anglicized Czech ex-pat becomes unwittingly involved in dodgy
dealings during a visit to Prague.
THE NIGHT OF WENCESLAS, Lionel Davidson's first novel, concerns Nicolas Whistler--
24 years old, debt-ridden and thwarted in his attempts to rise in what was once the
family business. Nicolas is conspired to take a trip from London to Prague, ostensibly
to smuggle out some industrial secrets. But the secrets are, in fact, atomic, and Nicolas
lets himself in for more than he bargained.
Davidson's award-winning novel is a crisp thriller which offers, as the careful plans unravel,
glimpses of the Czech-emigre network in England, and of the inner workings of the
British Embassy in Prague.
Red Letter Day by Shay Linehan
******It’s first thing in the morning on Tom’s wedding-day in the honeymoon month of June 1975,
and Cupid’s arrow seems straight on target for the nuptial service and the shindig after. But the
arrow of time is taking another direction in this radio-play about guilt, vigil, 
and the diligent tug of the buried past.
A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan
******Love story set in 1950s' Paris. Young woman
has an affair with her boyfriend's uncle.
Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness) by Françoise Sagan
******Set against the translucent beauty of France in summer, Bonjour Tristesse
is a bittersweet tale narrated by Cécile, a seventeen-year-old girl on the brink
of womanhood, whose meddling in her father's love life leads to tragic consequences.
Freed from boarding school, Cécile lives in unchecked enjoyment with her youngish,
widowed father -- an affectionate rogue, dissolute and promiscuous. Having accepted
the constantly changing women in his life, Cécile pursues a sexual conquest of her
own with a "tall and almost beautiful" law student. Then, a new woman appears in her
father's life. Feeling threatened but empowered, Cécile sets in motion a devastating
plan that claims a surprising victim.
Deceptively simple in structure, Bonjour Tristesse is a complex and beautifully composed
portrait of casual amorality and a young woman's desperate attempt to understand
and control the world around her.
The Bride's Chamber 1.5 by Charles Dickens
The Bride's Chamber 2.5
The Bride's Chamber 3.5
The Bride's Chamber 4.5
The Bride's Chamber 5.5
********Adapted by Michael Eaton from The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens
(where the story is called "The Ghost in the Bride's Chamber").
Charles Dickens experiences a ghost story while on a walking tour with Wilkie Collins
(in the original the two companions are "Mr Goodchild and Mr Idle").
Jeeves Live 1.2 by P G Wodehouse - Fixing It for Freddie
Jeeves Live 2.2 - Bertie Changes His Mind
******One-man performances recorded at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in which
Martin Jarvis becomes Bertie Wooster, Jeeves and an array of other
PG Wodehouse characters
LA Theater Works - Fake 1.2 by
LA Theater Works - Fake 2.2
******Oscar-winning and Tony-nominated writer and director Eric Simonson explores
the most famous archeological hoax in history. Alternating between 1914 and 1953,
journalists and scientists set out to uncover who planted the Piltdown Man skull.
Everyone's a suspect, including legendary Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
LA Theater Works - This is Our Youth 1.2
LA Theater Works - This is Our Youth 2.2
*******The original cast was reunited for this exclusive L.A. Theatre Works performance.
In 1982 on Manhattan's Upper West Side, three pot-smoking teenagers are resoundingly
rejecting the 1960s ideals of their affluent parents. In hilarious and bittersweet detail,
This is Our Youth follows forty-eight turbulent hours in the lives of three very lost souls
at the dawn of the Reagan Era.
Never Before in the History of Motion Pictures by Patrick Humphries
******With the help of Michael Winner, Invictus star Adjoah Andoh and those both currently
and formerly responsible for bringing us the hyperbole and bombast we've come to expect
from film advertising, writer Patrick Humphries takes an affectionate look at the story of the
movie trailer. He charts its beginnings from simple cinema slide into the
high-octane technological wizardry we're used to today.
RTE Diabolic Playhouse by Roger Gregg.
******a series of six radio plays produced by the Crazy Dog Audio Theatre Company.
The series is produced with lush sound design and comprehensive music scores that
have been crafted to maximise the imaginative power of the audio medium.
Described as 'blockbuster movies-for-the-mind' the six plays are all written, directed and produced by Roger Gregg.
RTE Diabolic Playhouse 1.6 - Demons of the Deep
RTE Diabolic Playhouse 2.6 - The Irishman - Have Troll Will Travel
RTE Diabolic Playhouse 3.6 - Bus 13 - B to Hell
RTE Diabolic Playhouse 4.6 - Press Three
RTE Diabolic Playhouse 5.6 - The Silver Tongued Devil
RTE Diabolic Playhouse 6.6 - Gerry and the Dark Passage
RTE Mini-Series - Suprise 1.4
RTE Mini-Series - Suprise 2.4
RTE Mini-Series - Suprise 3.4
RTE Mini-Series - Suprise 4.4
******'Surprise' tells the story of Shona, a South County Dublin socialite, and Bonnie, who runs a pub in Co Limerick.
The two former friends are both approaching 40 when fate brings them back together.
RTE Mini-Series - The Last Harbinger 1.5
RTE Mini-Series - The Last Harbinger 2.5
RTE Mini-Series - The Last Harbinger 3.5
RTE Mini-Series - The Last Harbinger 4.5
RTE Mini-Series - The Last Harbinger 5.5
RTE Sunday Playhouse - Human Rights 1.4 - Mountain Language by Harold Pinter
******Jeremy Irons heads a senior cast in the radio premiere of Harold Pinter's short and
shocking play about torture. As if recorded on hidden camera, its quick succession of scenes still startles.
First seen at London's National Theatre in 1988, the piece anticipates many of the generic interrogation
and abuse techniques that are practised ecumenically by regimes of the right, left and centre worldwide.
Yet mountain language - the language of the victimised, of Sinai and the Sermon on the Mount -
must go on undertaking antibiotic authority.
RTE Sunday Playhouse - Human Rights 2.4 - Two Men Meet by Roddy Doyle
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RTE Sunday Playhouse - Human Rights 3.4 - Don't Ask by Eugene McCabe
******T.P McKenna stars as the psycho-geriatric Circuit Court judge in the court of the last appeal:
a nursing home for the elderly. As he deteriorates, his memories revert to the handicapped infant
whom he institutionalised at birth. Justice and its closer relatives, revenge and victimisation,
loom large in Eugene McCabe's stark and sombre premiere for radio in the third play in our
four-part Amnesty International drama season.
RTE Sunday Playhouse - Human Rights 4.4 - The Rights of the Child by Frank McGuinness
RTE Sunday Playhouse - Translations
RTE Tuesday Play - Abortive by Caryl Churchill
RTE Tuesday Play - Beckett's Words and Music
RTE Tuesday Play - Cross Purposes by Mike Timms
RTE Tuesday Play - Effigy by Bronagh C. Titley.
******Effigy is the first play written by Brona C. Titley. It is a dark comedy where the main two characters,
Eff and Gee, are lovers. They exist in a world of their own. In living and re-living their lives, they take us
through snapshots of their life that depict the ridiculous state of love. The voice of reason is imposed by
a female GOD, played by Nell McCafferty. Effigy was originally written for the stage and was a winner of the
Judge's Discretionary Award for Best New Writing at the Irish Student Drama Awards in 2002.
RTE Tuesday Play - Epiclesis by Joe O'Donnell
RTE Tuesday Play - Family Secrets by Éanna Brophy
******Family Secrets is a first radio play from Éanna Brophy, although he has been writing scripts
of a more or less comic nature for more years than he is scared to remember. The author warns
that Family Secrets is no bundle of laughs: he describes it as more of a suspense-romance-
mystery-thriller. You could also say that it takes a wryly dark look at how Ireland has changed;
how our smiling exterior belies the hypocrisies beneath the surface - but don't let that put you off!
Family Secrets tells what happens when a young Irish-American woman comes to visit the small
midland town her mother left back in the eighties. She hopes to find her roots. Her mother didn't
want her to go looking for them - and as the 30-minute play unfolds, and layer upon layer of the past
is peeled away, we realise she had very good reason. There are some surprises in store for our heroine
and for you, dear listener: you are strongly advised to pay close attention right up to the final bell.
RTE Tuesday Play - Getting On
RTE Tuesday Play - Here's Johnny 1.5 by Karl MacDermott,
******"Here's Johnny" is a new five part RTÉ radio sit-com about New Jersey mafia informant
Johnny Schillaci who is forced to move to Ireland on a witness protection scheme with his wife Maria.
RTE Tuesday Play - Here's Johnny 2.5
RTE Tuesday Play - Here's Johnny 3.5
RTE Tuesday Play - Here's Johnny 4.5
RTE Tuesday Play - Here's Johnny 5.5
RTE Tuesday Play - Infancy by Maeve Binchy
RTE Tuesday Play - Losing Grace by Jennifer Mooney
******21-year-old author Jennifer Mooney's first radio drama concatenates infidelity and suicide
in a stark yet sympathetic account of an affair that ends in tears. Frank Laverty plays the 'boyo' Bob;
Laura Jane Laughlin the fated woman and Karl O'Neill the bemused bystander in a powerful
half-hour morality play.
RTE Tuesday Play - Mus Musculus by Padraig Denihan
******Darragh Kelly and Dawn Bradfield double-up as mice and men in two parallel plays
about a newly-weds' infested house. But we are pleased to say that no mice were harmed
in the making of this delightful half-hour comedy
RTE Tuesday Play - No Hate Going to Loss by John McManus
RTE Tuesday Play - Not, Not, Not Enough Oxygen by Caryl Churchill
RTE Tuesday Play - Out by Lisa Tierney-Keogh
******RTÉ Radio Drama has commissioned seven leading authors to write a dramatic monologue
based on each of the Seven Deadly Sins. Each writer wrote with a particular actor in mind and
each monologue is introduced by the author.
RTE Tuesday Play - Seven Deadly Sins 1.7 - Pride
RTE Tuesday Play - Seven Deadly Sins 2.7 - Covetousness
RTE Tuesday Play - Seven Deadly Sins 3.7 - Lust
RTE Tuesday Play - Seven Deadly Sins 4.7 - Greed
RTE Tuesday Play - Seven Deadly Sins 5.7 - Envy
RTE Tuesday Play - Seven Deadly Sins 6.7 - Anger (Irish)
RTE Tuesday Play - Seven Deadly Sins 7.7 - Sloth
RTE Tuesday Play - The Darkest Hour by Neil Donnelly.
RTE Tuesday Play - The Fishmonger by Philip Davison
Edward and Bridie have been together now for fifty years. There's just the two of them and they're fishmongers.
But we're an island race that doesn't eat fish so there isn't much trade anymore.
She stands behind the counter dreaming and gazing out through the prices painted on the window. He sits on his
chair outside the shop door opening and closing his mouth like a fish. It's their golden wedding anniversary tomorrow.
I wonder if he'll remember.
******The Guilty Heart is a psychological suspense thriller
RTE Tuesday Play - The Guilty Heart 1.5 by Julie Parsons.
RTE Tuesday Play - The Guilty Heart 2.5
RTE Tuesday Play - The Guilty Heart 3.5
RTE Tuesday Play - The Guilty Heart 4.5
RTE Tuesday Play - The Guilty Heart 5.5
******Infidel is a compelling historical war drama, featuring all the hallmarks of Crazy Dog Audio Theatre's
international award-winning 'audio-movies' including; location recordings, original music score,
state-of-the-art sound design and some of the best voice talents working in Ireland today.
RTE Tuesday Play - The Infidel 1.4 - Knight's Advance
RTE Tuesday Play - The Infidel 2.4 - A Bishop Storms Damietta
RTE Tuesday Play - The Infidel 3.4 - The Pawns Are Sacrificed
RTE Tuesday Play - The Infidel 4.4 - A Final Stalemate
******A series of dramatic monologues in which contemporary writers reflect on the various ages and stages of life.
RTE Tuesday Play - The Seven Ages of Man 1.7 - Infancy
RTE Tuesday Play - The Seven Ages of Man 2.7 - Cuban Cigars and The Missile Cri
RTE Tuesday Play - The Seven Ages of Man 3.7 - The Lover
RTE Tuesday Play - The Seven Ages of Man 5.7 - The Justice
RTE Tuesday Play - The Seven Ages of Man 6.7 - The Lean and Slippered Pantaloon
RTE Tuesday Play - The Seven Ages of Man 7.7 - Traenacha (Irish)
******Lucinda can't stand her husband Bart and doesn't mind him having a series of West Cork Affairs.
But when the husband of Bart's latest paramour offers to sell him a boat Lucinda is furious. The money
is needed to repair the foundations of the house. They are arguing about it when one end of the house
begins to sink into the ground. To Lucinda's shame and humiliation, the house becomes a laughing stock
amongst the locals. She engages a builder - Molloy - to fix the foundations, (An amateur actor who is playing
Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream). When Bart finds Lucinda in bed with Molloy he suffers a fit of jealous
pique that culminates in him skippering a boat which sinks on its maiden voyage.
RTE Tuesday Play - Way Out West 1.3 by Ian Wild - Goats
RTE Tuesday Play - Way Out West 2.3 - Sex, Druds and Rock and Dole
RTE Tuesday Play - Way Out West 3.3 - Bottoms
RTE Tuesday Play - Where Do I Belong? by Nadia Doran
******The tale of 17-year-old Ollie as seen through the eyes of his 14-year-old sister, Daffy. The colour of Ollie's
skin is a problem for him. His father is a Moroccan Muslim and his mother is Irish but he doesn't feel he
belongs to either culture. Nadia Doran looks at Ollie's problem from a humorous point of view which is
informed by first hand experience.
RTE Tuesday Play - Word of Mouth by Belinda McKeon.
******A young woman, Ada, retreats from the world, holed up in her apartment with stacks of newspapers
for company. Her beloved grandmother lies dying in a hospital bed. Ada's ex-boyfriend, Tom, worries
about her state of mind, while her older brother, David, seems merely exasperated by his sister's behaviour.
The second prize-winner in this year's P.J. O'Connor Radio Drama Awards, Belinda McKeon's play is a haunting tale
that traces the impact of a family secret across three generations. Mixing music and memories, and snatches of the
past with events of the present day, this is the story of a granddaughter's grief and the legacy of a love affair.
Story of Is 1.4 - Where Have All the Children Gone
Story of Is 2.4 - A Bad Place to Be Young
Story of Is 3.4 - Hell Underground
Story of Is 4.4 - The Wave
******Fantasy
The Sea by Edward Bond
******Edward Bond’s The Sea opens with a drowning.
The play is set in 1907 in an East Anglian seaside community and begins with a tempestuous storm.
A well known and loved member of the community dies at sea, and the play explores the reactions
of the villagers and the attempts by two young lovers to break away from the constraints of the
hierarchical, and sometimes insane, society. At the same time, the draper of the city gets mad
while struggling with the town's "First Lady" and believing that aliens from another planet
have arrived to invade the city, personified through the best friend of the drowned man.
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen(BBC 2010)
******When Dr. Stockmann discovers that his town's water is poisoned, he does
what any responsible citizen would do: reports it to the authorities. But Stockmann's
good deed has the potential to ruin the town's reputation as a popular spa destination,
and instead of being hailed as a hero, Stockmann is labeled an enemy of the people.
Arthur Miller's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic drama is a classic in itself, a penetrating
exploration of what happens when the truth comes up against the will of the majority.
Royal Court 1.7 - Intro
Royal Court 2.7 - Creative Mind
Royal Court 3.7 - Divine Intervention
Royal Court 4.7 - Amazed and Surprised
Royal Court 5.7 - Something Unspellable
Royal Court 6.7 - Good Times Roll
Royal Court 7.7 - Closing Credits
******Live performances of new plays from writers hailing from the era when the English Stage Company
launched at The Royal Court on April 2, 1956. They include Wole Soyinka, Arnold Wesker,
Timberlake Wertenbaker, Joe Penhall and Laura Wade.
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