Radio Plays XXXXIII
  
  




Vanity Fair 01.20 by William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair 02.20 
Vanity Fair 03.20 
Vanity Fair 04.20 
Vanity Fair 05.20 
Vanity Fair 06.20 
Vanity Fair 07.20 
Vanity Fair 08.20 
Vanity Fair 09.20 
Vanity Fair 10.20 
Vanity Fair 11.20 
Vanity Fair 12.20 
Vanity Fair 13.20 
Vanity Fair 14.20
Vanity Fair 15.20
Vanity Fair 16.20
Vanity Fair 17.20
Vanity Fair 18.20
Vanity Fair 19.20
Vanity Fair 20.20
******No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than
 the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to 
clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion amelia, however, longs only 
for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry 
glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fortunes 
made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is 
Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's 
gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure. 



Translator 1.5 
Translator 2.5 
Translator 3.5 
Translator 4.5 
Translator 5.5 



Young Victoria 01.10 by Juliet Ace - Clipped Wings 
Young Victoria 02.10 - Looking for Love
Young Victoria 03.10 - The Young Queen 
Young Victoria 04.10 - The Learning Process  
Young Victoria 05.10 - The Wedding  
Young Victoria 06.10 - The Newlyweds
Young Victoria 07.10 - The Family
Young Victoria 08.10 - Albert's Achievements 
Young Victoria 09.10 - The Marriage of True Minds  
Young Victoria 10.10 - The Death of Albert
******Imogen Stubbs, Anna Massey, Adrian Lukis and Christopher Cazenove 
star in this compelling portrait of the complex and passionate woman behind 
the crown, as heard on BBC Radio 4.

Queen Victoria reigned for 63 years--the longest reign of any British monarch. 
During those years she was transformed from a shy young bride to the formidable 
"Mother of Europe", making her mark on the 19th century in a manner that will never be forgotten.

Yet beneath the formal façade lay a passionate, principled and highly individual woman 
who found relief from the many frustrations of government in prolific writing. As the carefully 
preserved pages of her diaries and letters turn and reveal their secrets, the real Victoria emerges.

Imogen Stubbs plays the young Victoria, reading those diary extracts which chart the early years 
of her reign, from the time she ascended the throne as an 18-year-old until the premature death 
of her beloved Albert. These contemporary accounts mingle with dramatised episodes featuring
the characters closest to the woman, giving overall a fascinating insight into the mind of one of 
Britain's most celebrated rulers. 



LA Theater Works - A Fair Country 1.2 by Jon Robin Baitz.
LA Theater Works - A Fair Country 2.2
******A struggling envoy in a foreign country is offered a chance at a new life. 
But the deal he strikes to save his family may ultimately lead to their undoing.
A Fair Country by Jon Robin Baitz. Starring David Dukes as Harry; Judith Ivey as Patrice; 
Matt McGrath as Gil; and Kurt Deutsch as Allie, with Maddie Corman, George Gaynes, 
Chuma Hunter-Gault, and Kurtwood Smith. Directed by Jace Alexander.



LA Theater Works - Chavez Ravine 1.2 by Culture Clash
LA Theater Works - Chavez Ravine 2.2
******Before Dodger Stadium was built, the hillside area known as Chavez Ravine 
was the site of a vibrant Mexican-American community that fought the city of 
Los Angeles and powerful developers to preserve its land and identity. 
Their struggles come to life courtesy of the performance group Culture Clash 
in our story this week: Chavez Ravine.

Written and performed by Culture Clash: Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, 
and Herbert Siguenza. With guest star Zilah Mendoza.



A Child in the Forest 01.10 by Winifred Foley- Chapel Treat 
A Child in the Forest 02.10 - The Circle of Sciences  
A Child in the Forest 03.10 - A Magic Lantern Show 
A Child in the Forest 04.10 - The Queen of the Fairies
A Child in the Forest 05.10 - Father Christmas  
A Child in the Forest 06.10 - 1926 Coal Strike  
A Child in the Forest 07.10 - A Black Sheep Returns
A Child in the Forest 08.10 - Great Aunt Lizzie's Story  
A Child in the Forest 09.10 - A Death in the Family
A Child in the Forest 10.10 - Poll Says  
******'Few people visited the Forest of Dean. They thought us primitive, and looked 
down on us.' Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined miner's 
daughter in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship, in which women 
were widowed at thirty and children died of starvation. Living hand-to-mouth in a 
tumbledown cottage in the Forest of Dean, Foley - 'our Poll' - had a loving family 
and the woods and streams of a forest 'better than heaven' as a playground. But a 
brother and sister were dead in infancy, bread had to be begged from kindly neighbours 
and she never had a new pair of shoes or a shop-bought doll. And most terrible of all, 
like her sister before her, at fourteen little Poll had to leave her beloved forest for the city, 
bound for a life in service among London's grey terraces.



Dusty Answer 1.5 by Rosamund Lehmann
Dusty Answer 2.5 
Dusty Answer 3.5 
Dusty Answer 4.5 
Dusty Answer 5.5 
******Dusty Answer is Judith Earle's story - her solitary childhood spent in the seclusion 
of her riverside house, her awkward, intense experiences at Cambridge rounded with 
passion and disillusionment, and her travels abroad with her elegant, socialite mother. 
Above all, this novel is about Judith's consuming relationship with the Fyfe family, 
who each fall in love with Judith, transforming her young womanhood.



The Boy's Own Book Of The Dead by Graham White
******Something best left alone is revealed when two friends
recover a time capsule they'd buried years before.


I Am David 1.2 by Anne Holm
I Am David 2.2
******David's entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in 
Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given 
the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, 
David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources are 
a compass, a few crusts of bread, his two aching feet, and some vague advice to 
seek refuge in Denmark. Is that enough to survive?

David's extraordinary odyssey is dramatically chronicled in Anne Holm's classic 
about the meaning of freedom and the power of hope.




Snap 1.4 by Paul Mendelson
Snap 2.4
Snap 3.4
Snap 4.4
******Comedy series about a couple who have separated. 



The Pickerskill Reports - S01 - E01 - by Andrew McGibbon - Harry Hindle-Rand
The Pickerskill Reports - S01 - E02 - Kaws And Effect
The Pickerskill Reports - S01 - E03 - Cadmus Wilcox
The Pickerskill Reports - S01 - E04 - Crispin Biggerstaffe
******Dr Henry Pickerskill, the now-retired English master of Haunchurst School for boys, 
looks back on his favourite pupils and their fortunes in the adult world



The Circle by W Somerset Maugham 
*******Comedy of manners about familial double
standards in English high society.



Hurricane Dub by  Benjamin Zephaniah
******Breeze blowin' hard 
Tings start move in de back yard, 
Dis is a hurricane inna England!


Originally broadcast in 1988, this verse play uses the Great Storm of the previous year as 
the starting point for an emotionally powerful family drama. Employing rap amidst a mixture 
of musical styles, Hurricane Dub stars Norman Beaton and Angela Wynter, with music 
composed by Dennis Bovell.





The Party, Party - S01 - E01  
The Party, Party - S01 - E02  
The Party, Party - S01 - E03  
The Party, Party - S01 - E04  
The Party, Party - S01 - E05  
The Party, Party - S01 - E06
******Surreal political fantasy with Hugh Laurie



The Secretary Bird by William Douglas-Home
******Husband uses reasonableness to scotch his wife's affair.
Beautifully played. Funny too - almost up to Coward's standard.



Lloyd-George Knew My Father by William Douglas-Home
******Comedy farce with serious intent.
Lady of the manor threatens suicide unless a by-pass
under construction is diverted away from her home. 
Chaos ensues.


Legacy 1.2 by Louise Ironside
Legacy 2.2 by David Bishop
******Following the death of their parents, twins Jules and Harry were brought up 
by their grandmother Rose. Remote and eccentric, it is not until after Rose's death 
that Jules and Harry begin to discover who she really was and what she did in the war.

After finding clues to the whereabouts of the legacy in Rose's attic, Harry sets off for the 
City of London. Harry thinks he's heading for a security vault but finds himself trapped in 
an underground complex of bunkers. Rose it emerges worked for the secret services during 
the war and helped to develop The Legacy Project - a secret weapon built to disrupt and 
defeat the Nazis in the event of them being able to occupy London. The weapon, hidden 
underground, was designed to destroy the centre of London with other weapons being 
replicated in major cities throughout Britain. It should have been deactivated after the war 
but was kept secretly in commission for use during the Cold War.

Rose believed it should have been destroyed and had a life-long goal to de-activate it. But she 
ran out of time. Now Harry and Jules have been left the challenge but they are not the only people 
trying to find the Legacy Project, and not everyone has peaceful intentions.



Translations by Brian Friel
*******A new production of Brian Friel's masterpiece about 
language and power.

It's the summer of 1833. In a hedge-school in Donegal, the 
schoolmaster's prodigal son is about to return from Dublin. 
With him are two army officers. Their aim is to create a map 
of the area, and, in the process, replace the Irish place-names 
with English equivalents. It's an act with unexpected and 
violent consequences.

Thirty years ago playwright Brian Friel and actor Stephen Rea 
founded the Field Day Theatre Company in Northern Ireland. 
A company that aimed to provide a 'fifth province' in which Ireland's 
political and social troubles could be explored and re-imagined. 
Translations was its first production and became an instant classic. 
To mark its anniversary, BBC Radio 4 has commissioned a new 
production, specially adapted for radio by Michael Duke.




Jane and Prudence 01.10 by Barbara Pym 
Jane and Prudence 02.10 
Jane and Prudence 03.10 
Jane and Prudence 04.10 
Jane and Prudence 05.10 
Jane and Prudence 06.10 
Jane and Prudence 07.10 
Jane and Prudence 08.10 
Jane and Prudence 09.10 
Jane and Prudence 10.10
************If Prudence Bates and Jane Cleveland seem an unlikely pair to be 
walking together at a reunion of old students in Oxford, neither of them is 
aware of it. Born a decade apart, their pupil and tutor relationship has 
circumscribed their lives and cemented their friendship. 



Rookery Nook by Ben Travers
******'Rookery Nook' is a country house in which a homeless pajama
clad young woman has taken up residence in the living room.


The Dippers by Ben Travers
******Comedy of manners in which some professional
dancers fresh off a trans-Atlantic liner become
entangled with an eccentric English aristocrat.


The Hunchback of Notre Dame  1.2 by Victor Hugo 
(2008 with deaf actor David Bower playing Quasimodo) 
The Hunchback of Notre Dame  2.2 
*****
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame 1.5-  by Victor Hugo - The Feast Of Fools 
(1989, with Jack Klaff as Quasimodo)
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame 2.5- Monster And Maiden
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame 3.5- The Phantom Priest
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame 4.5- Sanctuary
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame 5.5- The Little Shoe
*****The story of Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre-Dame 
cathedral and his devotion to the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda. 
When the demented archdeacon Frollo sets out to abduct Esmeralda, 
he uses Quasimodo to do the evil deed on his behalf. However, 
Quasimodo turns from captor to saviour. 



Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
******First published in 1957, this book attempts to tackle the conflict between 
homosexual and heterosexual love. It tells of David, a young man awakening 
to his true homosexual nature, through a relationship with a barman named 
Giovanni, as he awaits his fiancee's arrival from Spain.




My Family and Other Animals 1.2  by Gerald Durrell
My Family and Other Animals 2.2
*******A humourous and motivating autobiography. A family moves to Corfu, 
and their hilarious meetings with the local people, birds and beasts are 
sure to delight the student.

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