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Boscobel by Ian Curteis
******A tense and thrilling dramatisation of a real-life escape story from Ian Curteis, 
starring Simon Woods (Cranford, Rome) as King Charles II.

Defeated in battle following the execution of his father, the future Charles II must 
flee England or die.

Over a thrilling 40-day journey, young Charles has much to learn - how to live rough, 
how to evade capture and how to earn the kindness of strangers.

Ian Curteis is a prolific writer for radio and television. His most well known play is 
The Falklands Play, the story of how Margaret Thatcher's government went to war 
with Argentina, which was first broadcast on both Radio 4 and BBC 4 to mark the 
20th anniversary of the Falklands War.



The Brave New World of Allaetitia 1.5 by Charlotte Cory
The Brave New World of Allaetitia 2.5 
The Brave New World of Allaetitia 3.5 
The Brave New World of Allaetitia 4.5 
The Brave New World of Allaetitia 5.5 
******A comic, exuberant journey into a child's imagination, narrated by Patricia Hodge, 
as the adult Allaetitia.It's tough being a Victorian heroine in 1960s Luton. Cursed with 
a name no one can pronounce, she cannot spell and everyone likes to make fun of, 
10 year old Allaetitia escapes the dreary confines of her life by telling stories. The stories 
take on a life of their own - fiction and reality blend, with hilarious results.



Evelina 01.10 by Frances Burney
Evelina 02.10
Evelina 03.10
Evelina 04.10
Evelina 05.10
Evelina 06.10
Evelina 07.10
Evelina 08.10
Evelina 09.10
Evelina 10.10
*****A work by turns hilarious and grim, Evelina tells the story of a young woman's 
education in the ways of the world, vividly rendering life in eighteenth-century England.

Raised by a pastor after her mother died and her father abandoned her, Evelina leaves 
the seclusion of the country for her first season out, encounters all manner of people
 -- from prospective husbands to rakes to vulgar relatives -- and endures all manner of 
trials before she achieves her final triumph.



The Flight of the Maidens 01.10 by Jane Gardam
The Flight of the Maidens 02.10 
The Flight of the Maidens 03.10 
The Flight of the Maidens 04.10 
The Flight of the Maidens 05.10 
The Flight of the Maidens 06.10 
The Flight of the Maidens 07.10 
The Flight of the Maidens 08.10 
The Flight of the Maidens 09.10 
The Flight of the Maidens 10.10 
******Jane Gardam has captured the burgeoning renaissance of post-war Britain 
in her novel The Flight of the Maidens. Writing with her usual deft and sensitive 
touch, she follows the lives and loves of three girls, Hetty, Una and Lieselotte, 
who are in transition from home to university in the Yorkshire of 1946. All three 
have suffered some fallout from war but have achieved academic success and 
have been offered university scholarships. Before they begin their studies, however, 
they have additional emotional lessons to learn.

Gardam explores the life and development of each character in turn, and projects 
the reader into a vivid post-war reality. Hetty loves her battle-scarred father--now 
the local gravedigger--who haunts the locale, but she yearns to escape the clutches 
of her possessive mother and finds temporary solace with an intelligent but dull lance 
corporal. Una goes cycling with Ray, the boy who used to deliver fish, as she forms her 
first relationship with a male after the suicide of her father--someone who was also a victim 
of an affliction called "war". Silent Lieselotte, a Jew from Hamburg who was on the last 
refugee train out, visits York, London and America as she searches for her family and roots, 
encountering a myriad of memorable experiences (the images of a bombed London are 
particularly startling and evocative). 




Frederick and Augusta 1.5 by Lizzie Slater
Frederick and Augusta 2.5
Frederick and Augusta 3.5
Frederick and Augusta 4.5
Frederick and Augusta 5.5
****** Frederick, Prince of Wales, and his new bride Augusta - the founders of Kew Gardens - 
are united in their need to break away from the vitriolic court of his father, George II. 
With Nigel Lindsay, Jasmine Hyde, Linda Marlowe and David Troughton. Directed by Kate Valentine 





The Furys 01.15 by James Hanley
The Furys 02.15 
The Furys 03.15 
The Furys 04.15 
The Furys 05.15 
The Furys 06.15 
The Furys 07.15 
The Furys 08.15 
The Furys 09.15 
The Furys 10.15 
The Furys 11.15 
The Furys 12.15 
The Furys 13.15 
The Furys 14.15 
The Furys 15.15  
******Depicts the life of the Fury family at a crucial moment - the return of the youngest son, 
coming home after being thrown out of his seminary in Ireland. His return, and the return of 
the other brother, crippled in an accident, bring to the surface the resentments and frustrations of the family.  

	


The God Of Small Things 01.10  by Arundhati Roy - Rahel's Story 
The God Of Small Things 02.10 - Baby Kochamma's Story  
The God Of Small Things 03.10 - Ammu's Story  
The God Of Small Things 04.10 - Chacko's Story
The God Of Small Things 05.10 - Mammachi's Story 
The God Of Small Things 06.10 - Sophie Mol's Story  
The God Of Small Things 07.10 - Velutha's Story  
The God Of Small Things 08.10 - The Aftermath 
The God Of Small Things 09.10 - The Separation
The God Of Small Things 10.10 - The Lovers
******The literary phenomenon of the year, again.

More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, 
more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest 
Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, 
fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, heart-stopping language, wry comedy 
and a hint of magical realism.

Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, Southern India, 
The God of Small Things tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. 
Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's 
factory, they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family - 
their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist and 
bottom-pincher) and their avowed enemy Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grand-aunt).





The Gowk Storm 01.10  by Nancy Brysson Morrison
The Gowk Storm 02.10  
The Gowk Storm 03.10  
The Gowk Storm 04.10  
The Gowk Storm 05.10  
The Gowk Storm 06.10  
The Gowk Storm 07.10  
The Gowk Storm 08.10  
The Gowk Storm 09.10  
The Gowk Storm 10.10  
******The Gowk Storm is the story of three close-knit sisters, the daughters 
of a minister, living in a remote parish on the fringes of the Highlands. 
Narrated by Lisbet, the youngest sister, the novel is written mainly in English, 
but given a strong sense of place by the use of Scots words and some Scots 
dialogue. Lisbet describes the love affairs of her older sisters, Julia and Emmy, 
each of whom falls in love with a man deemed an unacceptable match by their 
patriarchal, rigid and prejudiced society.

The gowk storm of the title is 'a storm of several days at the end of April or 
beginning of May; an evil or abstract obstruction of short duration'




Gunpowder Women 1.5 - The Pilgrim by Theresa Heskins  
Gunpowder Women 2.5 - The Mother by Deborah Catesby
Gunpowder Women 3.5 - The Sister by Kate Shaw
Gunpowder Women 4.5 - The Princess by Louise Ramsden  
Gunpowder Women 5.5 - The Wife by Stephanie Dale
******Five plays about the women connected with the Gunpowder Plot of 1605,
in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot, was a failed assassination 
attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial 
English Catholics led by Sir Robert Catesby.




Old Peter's Russian Tales - s01e01 - by Arthur Ransome - Sadko
Old Peter's Russian Tales - s01e02 - Fool of the World
Old Peter's Russian Tales - s01e03 - Baba Yaga  
Old Peter's Russian Tales - s01e04 - The Silver Saucer and the Tran  
Old Peter's Russian Tales - s01e05 - Little Master Misery
******In a hut in the Russian forest, old Peter the forester tells his grandchildren a new story every day. 




Tale of Lady Murasaki 1.5  
Tale of Lady Murasaki 2.5  
Tale of Lady Murasaki 3.5  
Tale of Lady Murasaki 4.5  
Tale of Lady Murasaki 5.5  




Telling Liddy 01.10  by Anne Fine
Telling Liddy 02.10  
Telling Liddy 03.10  
Telling Liddy 04.10  
Telling Liddy 05.10  
Telling Liddy 06.10  
Telling Liddy 07.10  
Telling Liddy 08.10  
Telling Liddy 09.10  
Telling Liddy 10.10  
******The Palmer sisters are close. They see each other often, for shopping 
trips and casual suppers. They care for one another's children and houses 
and pets through holidays and emergencies. They phone one another ceaselessly. 
And there are never any secrets. Not until now.
 



Tristram Shandy 01.10 by Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy 02.10
Tristram Shandy 03.10
Tristram Shandy 04.10
Tristram Shandy 05.10
Tristram Shandy 06.10
Tristram Shandy 07.10
Tristram Shandy 08.10
Tristram Shandy 09.10
Tristram Shandy 10.10
******The comic masterpiece TRISTRAM SHANDY by Sterne is generally regarded 
as the progenitor of the 20th century novel. Set in the Shandy's small parlour 
and garden, the book, narrated by Tristram, consists of a plot frequently and 
flagrantly interrupted by digressions. tristram insists on beginning the book 
at the moment of his own conception, but provides no consistent thread or 
conclusion to his tale. Shrewd and Bawdy, he is filled with such vitality that 
his words can scarcely keep up with his headlong thought. The characters that 
people his account include his excitable father, Walter, Uncle Toby, the bewildered 
Mrs Shandy, impulsive Parson Yoric and Dr Slop, incompetent Physician. Impossible 
and hilarious Tristram Shandy defies definitions and turns conventions on their head 
even while laying the very foundations of great modern writing.


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