Radio Plays XXXVIII
Radio Plays XXXVIII
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Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens - 01(10)
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens - 02(10)
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens - 03(10)
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens - 04(10)
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens - 05(10)
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens - 06(10)
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens - 07(10)
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens - 08(10)
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens - 09(10)
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens - 10(10)
******Chronicles Martin Chuzzlewit's experiences as a student of architecture and a pioneer in the American West.
Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella 1.5
Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella 2.5
Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella 3.5
Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella 4.5
Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella 5.5
******Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and correspondence
of real people, dramatised by Vanessa Rosenthal
Writing the Century 1939-1944 - Hostages to Fortune 1.5
Writing the Century 1939-1944 - Hostages to Fortune 2.5
Writing the Century 1939-1944 - Hostages to Fortune 3.5
Writing the Century 1939-1944 - Hostages to Fortune 4.5
Writing the Century 1939-1944 - Hostages to Fortune 5.5
*******Series exploring the twentieth century through diaries and correspondence
of real people, dramatised by Mick Martin.
Marianne Josephy arrives in London on a Kindertransport, a humanitarian scheme
offering refuge in Britain for unaccompanied Jewish children. The Hoppers from Hull
are a churchgoing working-class family who have a son serving in the forces.
Writing the Century 1946-1948 - Out of the Ashes 1.5
Writing the Century 1946-1948 - Out of the Ashes 2.5
Writing the Century 1946-1948 - Out of the Ashes 3.5
Writing the Century 1946-1948 - Out of the Ashes 4.5
Writing the Century 1946-1948 - Out of the Ashes 5.5
******Exploring the 20th century through the diaries and correspondence of real people,
dramatised by Margaret Wilkinson.
Following the relationship between Leslie Homer, a British soldier stationed in Germany
after the war, and Ischi Heitmann, his German sweetheart. The couple struggle against
the opposition of their parents and the authorities, who frown upon relations with 'the enemy'.
Writing the Century 1948-1953 - Starting From Scratch 1.5
Writing the Century 1948-1953 - Starting From Scratch 2.5
Writing the Century 1948-1953 - Starting From Scratch 3.5
Writing the Century 1948-1953 - Starting From Scratch 4.5
Writing the Century 1948-1953 - Starting From Scratch 5.5
******Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and correspondence of real people,
dramatised by Peter Roberts.
The story of Hazel Taylor, a young woman from Huddersfield, who dreams of becoming a
freelance writer as England struggles through the postwar period of rationing and rebuilding.
Hazel works with her dad in the family shop, but is worried that her mother has eyes for someone else.
Writing the Century 1954 1.5
Writing the Century 1954 2.5
Writing the Century 1954 3.5
Writing the Century 1954 4.5
Writing the Century 1954 5.5
******Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and correspondence of real people.
Returning to the 1950s diaries of Linton Andrews, editor of The Yorkshire Post.
It is 1954, and Linton's rise from provincial to national prominence continues through his work
as chairman of the Press Council and his respected editorials.
But his wife Pinkie hankers after the quieter life of retirement.
Count of Monte Cristo 1.7 by Alexandre Dumas
Count of Monte Cristo 2.7
Count of Monte Cristo 3.7
Count of Monte Cristo 4.7
Count of Monte Cristo 5.7
Count of Monte Cristo 6.7
Count of Monte Cristo 7.7
******Sent to prison on a false accusation in 1815, Edmond Dantes
escapes many years later and finds a treasure which he uses to
exact his revenge.
On the Cuff 1.5 - The Last Bridesmaid
On the Cuff 2.5 - Rocking Time
On the Cuff 3.5 - The Power Of Skin
On the Cuff 4.5 - Dear Mr Qwerty
On the Cuff 5.5 - Soixante-Neuf
VIVAT REX by Martin Jenkins.
******26 episodes encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins.
VIVAT REX was presented by BBC Radio 4 to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
(26 hours)
Vivat Rex - 01 The King's Favorite
Vivat Rex - 02 Revenge
Vivat Rex - 03 Obsession
Vivat Rex - 04 Battle
Vivat Rex - 05 Treason
Vivat Rex - 06 King of Snow
Vivat Rex - 07 Victims
Vivat Rex - 08 Vulgar Company
Vivat Rex - 09 Rebellion
Vivat Rex - 10 Corruption
Vivat Rex - 11 Deception
Vivat Rex - 12 Tennis Balls
Vivat Rex - 13 Harfleur
Vivat Rex - 14 St Crispin's Day
Vivat Rex - 15 Joan of Arc
Vivat Rex - 16 The White Rose and the Red
Vivat Rex - 17 Witchcraft
Vivat Rex - 18 Jack Cade
Vivat Rex - 19 The Paper Crown
Vivat Rex - 20 Warrick the Kingmaker
Vivat Rex - 21 The Tower
Vivat Rex - 22 The Little Princess
Vivat Rex - 23 Ghosts
Vivat Rex - 24 The Pretender
Vivat Rex - 25 Divorce
Vivat Rex - 26 Elizabeth
The Man Who Invented Yesterday by James Follett
******Boffin brings back a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and the comedy that ensues.
The Death Of Faith by Donna Leon
******Commissario Brunetti investigates astrange story brought to him by a nun.
Maria Testa, better known to Brunetti as the nun who once cared for his mother,
turns up at the Commissario's door. Maria has left her nursing convent after the
suspicious deaths of five patients. Is she creating fears to justify abandoning
her vocation, or is there a more sinister scenario?
Amazing Grace 1.5 by Michelle Lipton
Amazing Grace 2.5
Amazing Grace 3.5
Amazing Grace 4.5
Amazing Grace 5.5
******* inspired by a true story.
When Grace's Sudanese village is attacked, she scoops up her children -
two year old in her arms, nine year old holding her hand and the 10 year
old twins running behind - and they flee, running for their lives.
Thankfully safety is within reach, and a truck full of displaced villagers lets her
on board. She loads her two daughters on to the truck and turns to lift the boys up.
But they aren't there - they're gone. And the truck must go.
Grace must make any parent's most feared decision. A choice that is no choice - to save
the children she has with her or abandon them to look for the two who are left behind.
This is the story of Grace - now living in the UK - and her battle to find and bring back her missing children.
Avoid London...Area closed...Turn on Radio by Mike Walker
******The story of a fictional Every Family, the Demerils, set against
the real and terrible events of 7/7 2005 - how they coped with those
events and how they set about rebuilding their lives.
On the 3rd July Radio 4 will present a Drama centring on the events of
7 July 2005 as experienced by the Demerils, a kind of fictional Every Family.
Our family, typical of so many in the capital that week, has the usual preoccupations;
wayward children and aged parents, retirement and overwork, the near impossibility of
life in the city, when suddenly a series of explosions throws everything into extreme
and brutal perspective. Though fictional, this is all our stories and how we did or didn't
manage to cope with those awful events.
The title - an ominous portent which caused many travellers to suspect the worst -
refers to the many motorway signs which greeted commuters as they ground their way
into central London on the morning of 7th July.
Susan Hill's The Woman in Black 1.4 by Susan Hill - A Journey and a Funeral
Susan Hill's The Woman in Black 2.4 - A Causeway and a Pony Trap
Susan Hill's The Woman in Black 3.4 - The Nursery and a Child
Susan Hill's The Woman in Black 4.4 - Letters and Death Certificates
******"The Woman in Black" tells haunting testimony of a young solicitor, Arther Kipps,
who records in detail the nightmarish events of his stay in a house on a marsh in northern
England, and the terrible events that were to alter his life forever.
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden
*******1879. Northern England. Winter. Strike bound
coal mining town. Four British Army soldiers
arrive, superficially on a recruitment drive,
but, having witnessed callous killings in the
colonies, they have a more personal agenda.
The setting is Victorian England. The sergeant and his three men are deserters
from a bloody colonial war, sick of killing. Led by their puritan sergeant, they bring
to a colliery town their rifles, there could Gatling gun and the body of Billie, one of
their number, killed in street fighting and now returning as a corpse to his home town.
In the town a strike is on the point of erupting into violence and the sergeant promises
the town dignitaries that by addressing the a will striking miners and starting a recruiting
campaign, he will remove the troublemakers. By pointing a machine gun at the crowd
threatening to kill we are high- Alan ups and by showing them the body of their former mate
hanging from the Market Cross, he means to bring home to them the frightful meaning
of punitive expeditions. But there are further complications involving a barmaid and things
do not work out as planned.
Summer Lightning 1.2 by PG Wodehouse
Summer Lightning 2.2
******A star cast in a timeless comedy.
Affably absent-minded Earl of Emsworth, preparing his prize-winning pig Empress
of Blandings for the Shropshire Agricultural Show, is afraid that rival pig-owner
Sir Gregory Parsloe is planning to nobble his precious Empress. Parsloe fears
that Emsworth's brother Galahad's memoirs contain scurrilous stories about
their younger days in the naughty 1890s - particularly a racy story involving
some prawns. He plans to hire private detective Percy Pilbeam to purloin the manuscript.
Emsworth's sister Lady Constance, equally desperate to stop publication, also has a secret plan.
And romance is in the air. His Lordship's new secretary and Emsworth's niece Millicent
are secretly in love, but need financial help to pull off the marital merger. Emsworth's nephew,
Ronnie Fish, is also in love with an unsuitable person - chorus girl Sue Brown. But Emsworth
refuses to allow Ronnie any more money. Ronnie concocts a plan to regain his uncle's approval.
Pig-napping, private detection, impostering, mistaken situations, fisticuffs and broken
engagements ensue. All is set for glorious mid-summer mayhem.
Alone Together by Neil McKay.
******Poet, priest, birdwatcher, scourge of the English, the ogre of Wales ...
Who was R.S. Thomas, and why did his artist wife Elsi settle for a life of
obscurity in increasingly remote Welsh parishes? A portrait of a curious
marriage which captures that essence of all marriages -
a sense of shared space but separate lives.
Thomas was an unpublished poet when he met Elsi Eldridge, but she already
had the makings of a successful artist. After winning the Royal College of Art's Prix
de Rome scholarship and selling several paintings at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition,
she abandoned this to retreat with him to a small cottage in a remote part of North Wales.
The Song House 1.5 by Trezza Azzopardi
The Song House 2.5
The Song House 3.5
The Song House 4.5
The Song House 5.5
*****a compelling psychological thriller involving a young woman with a secret in her past.
During a rainy summer Maggie arrives for a job interview at a large house in the country.
The house is empty apart from Kenneth, an elderly man, who wants a secretary to do an
unusual live-in job. He wants someone to listen to his music collection, and transcribe his
impressions and memories connected to each piece of music. Kenneth is odd, isolated,
perhaps on the edge of dementia, slightly threatening. But Maggie is mysterious too and
she has some hidden plan in taking this job. She knows this place, she's been here before.
Piece by piece, as the rain intensifies and the river begins to flood, we learn about Maggie's
shocking past.Trezza Azzopardi's novels have been short-listed for numerous awards,
including the Booker. Critics praise her story-telling ability, her psychological acuity and her
intense poetic atmosphere.
The Five Of Us by Barrie Keeffe
******2002. London. Comedy of manners in which the
excitement of menage ą trois subsides into a
cosy extended family.
Also included is a short Front Row interview
[December 17, 2002] Barrie Keefe gave to Mark
Lawson to publicise the play.
Barrie Keeffe is best known for the film 'The
Long Good Friday, and for the play 'Gotcha'.
Death and Nightingales by Eugene McCabe
******The Big House in Anglo-Irish literature includes two contrastive architectural
aspects which, in Bronte terminology, shift between Wuthering Heights and
Thrushcross Grange, the world of the gothic and the genteel.
DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES may be set in the biddable husbandry of
Presbyterian Ulster in the late nineteenth century, but its ferocity is pure Yorkshire
moorland. Sex and violence, murder and mayhem, alternate like mood-swings in this
sweeping melodrama of Victorian Ireland during the Land agitation.
Produced by Lorelei Harris.
Season's Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn
******''Season's Greetings,'' by Alan Ayckbourn and adapted by Vanessa Rosenthal. begins
on Christmas Eve and ends on Dec. 27, the morning after Boxing Day. The setting is the
home of Neville and Belinda, who have been married for eight and a half years and have
already reached the stage of wondering if they can possibly spend the rest of their lives
as good friends. Neville is a successful retailer who seemingly prefers to spend most of
his time with Eddie, his old boyhood chum, who is married to Patty, who is pregnant again
and not very happy about it. Both couples have children who, although the supposed
beneficiaries of the Christmas exertions, are never seen.
Also visiting for the holidays are: Bernard, a wimpish doctor who, with good reason, has
concluded that he is a failure in life; his wife Phyllis, a rather dotty tippler who traditionally
cooks a leg of lamb that is universally loathed and Uncle Harvey, a security expert partial to
violent television shows (''You just missed a damn fine shark fight, you lot''). Finally there is
Rachel, a sensitive, repressed virgin at age 38. She has invited Clive, a youngish novelist,
as her guest for the occasion, and he becomes the plot catalyst as Rachel, Belinda and Phyllis
vie for his attention. Everybody in place, the wheels start spinning furiously.
Enchanting Evil by Dame Barbara Cartland
******dramatised by Wally K Daly. With Jenny Funnell and Timothy Bentinck. Produced by Shaun MacLoughlin.
In 1856, Melinda, fleeing her elderly suitor and his horse-whip, escapes to London.
Books by Trevor Hedley
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Hemlock and After 1.2 by Angus Wilson.
Hemlock and After 2.2
******Wilson's first novel (but not first book), about the doomed attempts of a
middle-aged novelist, Bernard Sands, to establish a writers' centre in a country
house - a hot topic amongst writers at the moment. Concerns the clash of morals
and 'the difficulties of the right-minded humanist'. Sands acknowledges his
homosexual desires late in life, and feels his whole system of values and life work
undermined when he experiences a sadistic reaction to the arrest of another gay man.
This is Wilson's 'breakdown' novel.
Enchanting Evil by Dame Barbara Cartland
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Inside Mr Enderby by Anthony Burgess
******Acerbic 60s comedy about a mediocre poet who is thrust upon an unsuspecting world.
`Inside Mr Enderby` is a the first volume of the Enderby series, a quartet of comic novels
by the British author Anthony Burgess.
The book was first published in 1963 in London by William Heinemann under the pseudonym
Joseph Kell. The series began in 1963 with the publication of this book, and concluded in 1984
with `Enderby's Dark Lady`, or `No End to Enderby` ( after a ten year break following the
publication of the third novel in the series, `The Clockwork Testament`, or `Enderby's End` ).
The Packer by Peter Tinniswood
******A monologue by Peter Tinniswood written for Michael Williams who stars as Gladwyn Jebb,
a man who sees his job as a vocation, his craft as an art and his lies as truths. Director: Enyd Williams
Tom Brown's Schooldays 1.2 by Thomas Hughes
Tom Brown's Schooldays 2.2
******A classic of Victorian literature, and one of the earliest books written
specifically for boys, Tom Brown's Schooldays has long had an influence
well beyond the middle-class, public school world that it describes. An active
social reformer, Hughes wrote with a freshness, a lack of cant, and a kind,
relaxed tolerance which keeps this novel refreshingly distinct from other
schoolboy adventures.
Gondal by Martyn Wade
******A drama based on the lives of the Brontė family.
Martyn Wade's play about Emily Bronte parallels her life at Haworth with a dramatic
reconstruction of Gondal, her epic fantasy world set on a Pacific island from which
the ideas for 'Wuthering Heights' evolved.
Using her family as inspiration, Emily Brontė is writing the saga of the inhabitants
of the fictional Pacific island of Gondal...
Clouds by Michael Frayn
******Michael Frayns drama is set in steamy Cuba where passions run high as two reporters
from rival Sunday magazines set forth on the island to find their stories.
It was originally written for the theatre in 1976. This production from 1987 stars
the late Dinsdale Landen and Morag Hood.
Greed All About It by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman
******The Wapping dispute was one of the most protracted and bitter in Britain's industrial history.
The picketing was exceptionally violent, with 1,262 arrests and 410 police injuries.
The police were accused of being heavy-handed and aggressive in dealing with strikers and local residents.
The strike lasted a year, ending in February 1987 in ignominy for the print unions,
near bankruptcy and under threat of court proceedings.
News International did not lose a single night of production during the strike.
Wapping effectively broke the power wielded by print unions over the newspaper industry.
It was the second time in as many years that major industrial action had failed, following the even more
bitter miners' strike of 1984-1985.
Both strikes were held against a background of new legislation to curb the power of the unions,
brought in by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
By 1988, all national newspapers had followed Rupert Murdoch away from Fleet Street to the newly-
developed Docklands, and adopted new, cheaper computerised printing technology.
A cross between I'm All Right Jack and Drop the Dead Donkey, Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's look
at the Wapping dispute is a wicked little satire that recalls the mid-80s like a pair of bright red braces.
The power struggle between the unions and Rupert Murdoch's News International is filtered through
Alice's story, a wannabe journalist who also happens to be the daughter of the Father of Chapel.
The "inkies" (printers) are all corrupt, overmanned, overpaid while Murdoch's henchmen are scheming,
underhanded tricksters, and everyone is drunk or sexist or both. References to Sinclair C5s and Howards' Way
are cute but this is an ugly 80s world. With elements of farce and tragedy, this is dead clever writing and is a
dream for the political drama slot. But where is its heart? Makes you yearn for His Girl Friday!
Radio Times reviewer - Frances Lass
It is 1986 and Alice longs to be taken seriously as a proper journalist. So when Greg 'from management'
takes a shine to her and mentions that he is involved in setting up a new newspaper in a high tech
office in Wapping, she senses an opportunity.
A sharp, satirical look at the Wapping dispute by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman.
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