Radio Plays XXXII
  
  



David Golder 1.5 by Irene Nemirovsky
David Golder 2.5 
David Golder 3.5 
David Golder 4.5 
David Golder 5.5 
******Golder is a superb creation. Born into poverty on the Black Sea, he has clawed 
his way to fabulous wealth by speculating on gold and oil. When the novel opens, 
he is at work in his magnificent Parisian apartment while his wife and beloved daughter, 
Joy, spend his money at their villa in Biarritz. But Golder's security is fragile. For years 
he has defended his business interests from cut-throat competitors. Now his health is 
beginning to show the strain. As his body betrays him, so too do his wife and child, 
leaving him to decide which to pursue:  revenge or altruism?



 Easter by August Strindberg 
******starring Maureen O'Brien. The Heyst family have recently been disgraced by an unseen father, 
in prison for embezzlement. Ellis, the son, and a teacher has recently been plagarised and publicly 
snubbed by his best pupil, and another pupil, Benjamin has been taken in as a lodger to repay 
some of the debt that Ellis’s father owes. Eleanora, his sister, has recently returned from the asylum, 
to which he had committed her, while Lundquist, his father’s biggest creditor, lurks in the background, 
seemingly intent to claim back all he is owed, a threat which could bankrupt the whole family.


The Northern Irishman In C S Lewis by Brian Sibley
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There Are Crimes and Crimes  by August Strindberg 
******Maurice is a Parisian playwright on the brink of his first major success in 
August Strindberg’s 1899 play There are Crimes and Crimes. On the day of his 
play’s debut, Maurice is so sure of his future renown as a dramatist that he 
proposes marriage to his mistress, Jeanne. Artistic passion soon gives way 
to more carnal motives when, on the same day, Maurice encounters the 
beautiful Henriette, who happens to be the mistress of a friend. The attraction 
is mutual and overpowering: Maurice and Henriette are soon lost in one another, 
completely swept up in their newfound connection. As they realize all too quickly, 
however, no one is exempt from the consequences of his or her actions, 
and Maurice and Henriette’s relationship will soon be marred by an unthinkable tragedy. 
Heated passions, painful decisions, crimes, and repentance are brought to life in 
There are Crimes and Crimes,making it a satisfying and rich work from a master of modern drama.



An Irish Connection by Patrick J. Power
******Murky doings in Belfast during The Troubles.


The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie
******In an attempt to avert a diplomatic catastrophe, it has been arranged for Hercule Poirot 
to attend an old-fashioned christmas house-party. Whilst there, he must use all his powers of 
discretion to try and retrieve a priceless stolen ruby - the legendary Heart of Fire...


Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
******Tyrannical millionaire Simeon Lee has been estranged from most of his family for years. 
But now, on Christmas Eve, the old man calls them all together once more. Unable to 
disobey, the children gather uneasily and wonder what their father's intentions are. 
Does he want to clear up past misunderstandings or cause fresh mischief? Before 
they can find out, a deafening crash is heard overhead. Rushing upstairs, they discover 
a shocking sight: Simeon Lee is lying in a pool of blood, his throat cut. But it is the 
strangest thing - the door has been locked from the inside and there is
                                                                                                     no trace of the murderer.

With so many possible suspects, it is lucky for Superintendent Sugden that the 
Chief Constable has his old friend Hercule Poirot staying with him. It seems to be an
impossible case. But, as Poirot knows only too well, things aren't always as they seem...



Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie
******On a flight from Le Bourget to Croydon, on which Hercule Poirot is an 
apprehensive passenger, a woman is found dead. A doctor on board is inclined 
to put it down to a wasp-sting, but Poirot suspects that a poisoned dart is the 
real cause - and, perhaps rather too conveniently, a blow pipe is dicovered 
stuffed down the back of his seat. Clearly the murder can only have been 
committed by one of the passengers or crew on the plane. But which one? 
Poirot, Japp and M. Fournier of the Surete will make their way through shoals 
of red herrings before reaching an utterly unexpected conclusion...


Taken At The Flood 1.5 by Agatha Christie
Taken At The Flood 1.5
Taken At The Flood 1.5
Taken At The Flood 1.5
Taken At The Flood 1.5
******In the quiet English village of Warmsley Vale, a young widow of just two weeks 
becomes heir to a vast fortune, and an enigmatic newcomer meets s brutal death. 
But Hercule Poirot believes these "coincidences" are deliberate crimes-
......and he's determined to prove it.


The Dressmaker's Doll 1.10 by Agatha Christie
The Dressmaker's Doll 10.10
The Dressmaker's Doll 2.10 
The Dressmaker's Doll 3.10 
The Dressmaker's Doll 4.10 
The Dressmaker's Doll 5.10 
The Dressmaker's Doll 6.10 
The Dressmaker's Doll 7.10 
The Dressmaker's Doll 8.10 
The Dressmaker's Doll 9.10 
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The 199 Pounds Adventure by Agatha Christie
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Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
******Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless he was a man 
of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered 
murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about accepting a party 
invitation to view Shaitana's private collection. Indeed, what began as an absorbing 
evening of bridge was to turn into a more dangerous game altogether...



Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
******Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder 
of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, 
the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile 
courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: 
Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows.



At Bertrams' Hotel 1.5 by Agatha Christie
At Bertrams' Hotel 2.5
At Bertrams' Hotel 3.5
At Bertrams' Hotel 4.5
At Bertrams' Hotel 5.5
******Miss Marple, Agatha Christie s deceptively mild spinster sleuth, is being treated 
to a few days holiday staying at Bertram s Hotel, a dignified, unostentatious establishment 
tucked away in a back street of busy Mayfair. Here is a place where sedate upper class ladies, 
retired military gentlemen and the higher echelons of the clergy can indulge in the comforts 
of a bygone age. But Miss Marple begins to feel uneasy. Something sinister lurks beneath 
the polished veneer. Why are so many major crimes associated in some way with the hotel 
or somehow implicate eminently respectable people staying there? 



Sherlock Holmes and the Pimlico Poisoner 1.2 by Peter Mackie
Sherlock Holmes and the Pimlico Poisoner 2.2
******Arthur Conan Doyle's detective comes up against a real-life demon of Victorian crime. 




Spellbound by Francis Beeding.
******The basis for Hitchcock's masterpiece Spellbound, Francis Beeding's 
The House of Dr. Edwardes is a chilling mystery set in an asylum in France. 
A study of good and evil that owes some of its brooding, portentous 
atmosphere to the Gothic fiction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, 
Beeding's novel is also a classic page-turner, 
                                                        a gripping work of suspense and intrigue.




Peril at End House - 1.5 by Agatha Christie
Peril at End House - 2.5
Peril at End House - 3.5
Peril at End House - 4.5
Peril at End House - 5.5
******Miss Buckley's three near-fatal accidents spur ace detective Hercule Poirot 
to conduct a search for motives among her friends and neighbors.


The Mystery of the Blue Train 1.4 by Agatha Christie
The Mystery of the Blue Train 1.4
The Mystery of the Blue Train 1.4
The Mystery of the Blue Train 1.4
******When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene 
Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again, for a heavy blow has 
killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. 
                                                                 What is more, her priceless rubies are missing.



Dumb Witness 1.2 by Agatha Christie
Dumb Witness 2.2 
******As Hercule Poirot sifts through his post one particular morning, he alights upon 
a letter from an elderly and (as it transpires), exceedingly rich spinster - Miss Emily Arundell. 
She is clearly in great distress and seeking his help, but doesn't say why. Her only specific 
mention is 'the incident of the dog's ball'. However, what intrigues Poirot is the date of the 
communication - it was written two months ago. He persuades Captain Hastings that they 
must visit the lady with all haste. On arrival, they discover that she has died, apparently of 
natural causes. But Bob, Miss Arundell's devoted wire-haired terrier, knows better. 
                                                                                                             And so, soon, does Poirot...



Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
******When Poirot arrives in France, following an urgent appeal for help, he finds he is too late. 
His client, a South American millionaire, has been stabbed to death and his body flung into a 
freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Meanwhile the millionaire's 
wife is found bound and gagged in her room. Poirot launches an investigation 
                                                                                  and the baffling mystery begins to unfold...



The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
******Detective-Inspector Lejeune and police surgeon Jim Corrigan 
enter the world of witchcraft and the occult when a puzzling list, 
naming people already dead or marked for death, is found on 
Father Gorman's dead body.


Christopher Columbus by Louis MacNeice
******First perfomed in 1942 to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Columbus'
first great voyage of discovery. This production was made and broadcast
to celebrate the 500th anniversary. Far less theatrical/more natural
than the original production.



Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
******Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, 
sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign 
of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, 
Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: 
'You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?' Mrs Boynton was, indeed, 
the most detestable woman he'd ever met.


Murder In Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
******Crime sleuth Hercule Poirot returns in a thrilling BBC Radio 4 dramatisation. 
Amy Leatheran has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels 
to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist; 
events prove stranger than she could ever have imagined. Her patient's bizarre visions 
and nervous terror seem unfounded, but as the oppressive tension in the air thickens, 
events come to a terrible climax - in murder...






The Sea Raiders by HG Wells.
******Monsters from the deep terrorise the coast of Devon.


Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
******A woman is convicted of murdering her husband. Sixteen years later her daughter 
seeks Hercule Poirot's help when she becomes convinced that her mother is innocent. 
Having examined the history of the case, Poirot finds five other possible suspects, 
each of whom recounts their version of the events leading up to the murder...






Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
******A friendly game of two-handed canasta turns out to be thoroughly crooked 
and a beautiful girl ends up dead. In Bond's first encounter with Auric Goldfinger - 
the world's cleverest, cruellest criminal, useful lessons are learned.

Crosswords: 01 Arthur in Bournemouth
******Crossword compiler Stephen gets embroiled with lovely widow Penny.
Crosswords: 02 Leonardo in Lyme Regis
******A da Vinci turns up in Dorset - or does it? Crossword compiler Stephen 
sets out to solve the puzzle. 
Crosswords: 03 Shakespeare in Southampton
******Stephen delves into the mystery of a manuscript that may or may not be by the Bard.



The Centenier
 by Alan Downer
******

The first of three crime dramas set on the Channel Island of Jersey, 
featuring Centenier Richard Hammond, whose role is to stick his nose into 
open-and-shut cases 
                                and thereby rile the local plods ..





A Bumper Year for Dahlias 
by Alan Downer


******The second of three crime dramas set on the Channel Island of Jersey, 
featuring Centenier Richard Hammond, whose role is to stick his nose into 
open-and-shut cases and thereby rile the local plods ..
.....

A girl is found dead in a hotel room with an apparent 
overdose of sleeping tablets. Case closed. But irritating meddler Richard 
Hammond, never one to miss an opportunity to get his stutter centre-stage, 
suspects she's been raped and strangled and had been mixed up in Jersey's 
Mafia-organised pornography racket. Who'd have thought it .... in the cuddly 
old Channel Islands? Anyway, thanks to Hammond's suspicions we have enough hokum 
to fill ninety minutes or thereabouts ...

Approx. 85 minutes





The Deep End 
by Alan Downer
******

The third of three crime dramas set on the Channel Island of Jersey, featuring 
Centenier Richard Hammond, whose role is to stick his nose into 
open-and-shut cases and thereby rile the local plods ...


Our hero Centenier Hammond espies a pair of right villains attempting a 
supermarket blag. Hammond challenges the rascals and gets a black eye 
for his impertinence, but in true have-a-go-hero spirit he manages to nab one chummy, banged to rights. 
Yes, they really do talk like that. Meanwhile, Chummy Number Two has legged it and appears to be sending 
Hammond letters of the 'or else' ilk ...

Approx. 85 minutes



The Persian Lesson by Michael Campbell
******Detective Inspector Tom Tanner is on the trail of a criminal organization 
led by 'The Colonel'. Tanner is part of a police operation preparing to foil a 
new caper, but it looks like they have a mole inside the force, 
                                       and Tanner is one of the suspects ...

84 minutes.




Death Against The Odds by Michael McStay
******

As Inspector Ronald Coleman and his wife, Margaret, spend an evening 
with the Laird of the area, Sir Harold Kelso, and his wife, Lady Penelope, 
he receives a call from his Sergeant to come down to a crime scene on the 
moors where a dead woman has been found. 
                                                       It is someone that the Inspector knows  ....

85 minutes.



Arlette by Nicholas Freeling
In two episodes of approx. 1 hour each: A Long Silence & The Widow.
******A Van der Valk Thriller - Running a one-woman agency in Strasbourg, 
Arlette Van der Valk sets out to uncover an illegal fur-trader's activities and 
ends up in the Argentine searching for a runaway. What ensues is a chilling 
warning from a mysterious voice on the telephone. It seems that one of her 
murdered husband's rivals has finally caught up with her. 
                               Life for Arlette is just one damn thing after another. 



Black Betty by Walter Mosley
******1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former 
P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never meaner...
or more deadly. Ordinarily, Easy would have thrown the two bills in the 
sleazy shamus' face — the white man who wanted him to find Black Betty, 
an ebony siren whose talent for all things rich and male took her from 
Houston's Fifth Ward to Beverly Hills. There was too much Easy wasn't 
being told, but he couldn't resist the prospect of seeing Betty again,
                                                  even if it killed him....................



Ways of Escape 1.2 by Eric Pringle - Sarah 1
Ways of Escape 1.2 by Eric Pringle - Sarah 2
Ways of Escape 2.2  - Elizabeth 1
Ways of Escape 2.2  - Elizabeth 2
******Two 90 minute plays about The Rector, His Wife and Her Sister......
  A long tale of religion, oppression, repression, possession, injustice (and worse...) 
set in wild, poverty-stricken coastal north Lancashire in the early 1800s. 
                             Top-drawer cast, and an atmospheric production.



Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie
******the wife of the accused, whose testimony--and true identity--
                                                                   holds the key to solving the case.



The Singular Case of Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud by Cecil Jenkins
******Dr Watson takes Sigmund Freud on a tour of the Ripper's murder sites



Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie
******A mystery writer's latest whodunit isn't fiction-but rather a true crime 
from her own past. And if memory serves Poirot, murder-like history-repeats itself... 



The Gate of Baghdad by Agatha Christie
******A disparate group of adventurers sets out from Damascus to visit the Gate of Baghdad, 
                                       once known as the Gate of Death.



The Case of the Perfect Carer by Agatha Christie
******Renting a flat to elderly sisters in a converted dower house should be 
a simple job for an estate agent, but Kate finds Bernice anything but easy. 
Then valuables start to disappear.







The Sittaford Mystery 1.5 by Agatha Christie
Sittaford Mystery 2.5
Sittaford Mystery 3.5
Sittaford Mystery 4.5
Sittaford Mystery 5.5
******When a Ouija board pronounces Captain Trevelyan "dead", the guests 
at Sittaford House became nervous. And when, a few hours later, Major Burnaby 
discovers the body, the game becomes an eerie and baffling murder case...



Philomel Cottage by Agatha Christie
******Alex has an excellent track record in an e-commerce company. Richard, one of her colleagues, 
is interested in forming a closer relationship with her, but when Terry comes on the scene he doesn't 
stand a chance. Within a month, Alex and Terry have set up their own company (with Alex's capital) 
and are living in Philomel Cottage, a roses round the door place near the M4 corridor. But is Terry for real? 
Alex finds out that he is syphoning money from her account. And then there is the cottage, it certainly 
has a history, a history which involves unnatural death...


In a Glass Darkly by Agatha Christie
******In a mirror, a man witnesses a murderous attack on a young woman – just before he meets 
the woman and falls in love with her. Agatha Christie’s tale about a man trying to outwit fate still 
has the power to chill in an age of helicopter warfare, and Mike Walker’s dramatisation relishes 
testing Christie’s storytelling gifts against the accelerated tensions of the 21st century. With 
thoroughly modern performances by Neil Dudgeon as an Army helicopter pilot, and Rebecca Egan 
as the threatened woman he seeks to protect – and marry – the fundamental human characteristics 
of loyalty and jealousy are as intense as ever. 


Express to Stamboul by Agatha Christie
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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie
******New York Times A real Agatha Christie thriller...A swift course in unflagging
suspense that leads to a complete surprise.





Rush 1.2 by Annie McCartney
Rush 2.2 
******A two-part medical thriller from Annie McCartney.

Dr Louisa Maxwell brushes off a call from a former patient, Sophie Patterson, 
in the middle of a busy shift, only to discover the next day that Sophie has been 
admitted to thehospital, having taken a second overdose, and tragically died. 
Racked with guilt Louisa refuses to believe that Sophie intended to kill herself - 
all the signs indicated Sophie was getting her life back on track - and begins to 
suspect foul play. Louisa delves further into Sophie’s life; her family, her sister 
Jenny, her relationship with nurse Adam Bailey. As she becomes more and more 
involved, Louisa becomes increasingly convinced that someone was responsible 
for Sophie’s death. Despite warnings from her work colleagues, and her own relationship 
with boyfriend Jeff disintegrating, Louisa refuses to give up her search for the truth. 
But what is the truth? Is Louisa’s guilt leading her down the wrong path, or is there 
more to Sophie’s death than meets the eye?...


Maestro by Ronald Frame
******Ronald Frame's play stars Joss Ackland as a celebrated English 
conductor whose life is in crisis.On a visit to Vienna to prepare for a 
new recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, he begins to entertain 
doubts about himself as a musician and to recognise the human 
cost of his brilliant career.



Cloudberries by Elaine Feinstein
******A slice of Alexander Pushkin's life - reckless libertine,
committed radical, brilliant poet, and author of 'Eugene
Onegin', 'Boris Godunov', and 'Mozart & Salieri'.

He died from injuries sustained in a duel.




Speak Low by Bruce Stewart
******Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
working together in New York in 1944.

Brecht is as angry as ever.



A Pageant by Alan Ayckbourn (90m)
******Marital tensions and mid-life crises erupt for Toby and Celia. Alan Ayckbourn's play 
stars Robin Herford and Lavinia Bertram.


A Matter of Interpretation by Peter Morgan
******Peter Morgan is a reporter for ITN's Channel Four News; he won a BAFTA 
and Amnesty International Award for his coverage of the Bosnian War. He has also 
written for radio and theatre. His first radio play, A Matter of Interpretation (BBC Radio 4), 
explored the work of the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal. 


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