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Community Audio 323 323 A Fortunate Man by John Berger audio eye 323 favorite 3 comment 2

John Berger's extraordinary work about a GP and the rural community he served, adapted for radio by Matthew Broughton. Starring Peter Marinker, Adrian Scarborough and Barbara Flynn. In 1966, John Berger and Swiss photographer Jean Mohr spent several months shadowing a GP in The Forest Of Dean. The resulting book was A Fortunate Man - a truly moving meditation on society, the doctor-patient relationship and how we value a life. "The most important book about general practice ever...

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Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 613 613 Who Killed Zebedee by Wilkie Collins audio eye 613 favorite 3 comment 0

BBCR7 2003 Wilkie Collins - Who Killed Zebedee? Given just days to live, a Victorian policeman is ready to make his final confession He candidly reveals his involvement in a murder case many years before. As a young police constable in London, he recalls how a young woman burst in with news of a gruesome killing... Detective story by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1881. Read by Ronald Pickup. Producer: Joanne Reardon Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in October 2003.

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 2,043 2.0K 44 Scotland Street by A M Smith audio eye 2,043 favorite 1 comment 0

BBCR4E 2017 AM Smith - 44 Scotland Street Alexander McCall Smith's much-loved series of novels is the basis of this full-cast dramatisation about the inhabitants of an Edinburgh tenement building. Anthropologist Domenica MacDonald observes the lives of her neighbours and the neighbourhood in Edinburgh's New Town. Pat, a new young tenant, arrives at 44 Scotland Street to flat share with Bruce. Bruce is a surveyor with more of an eye for the ladies than a sound property. We're introduced to...

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BBC Radio Shows 1,030 1.0K The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter audio eye 1,030 favorite 4 comment 0

BBCR4 2018 The Bloody Chamber 15 Minute Drama Five stories to gobble you up. From Angela Carter's iconic collection of fairy stories and dramatised for radio by Olivia Hetreed. At the time of writing The Bloody Chamber in the late 1970s, Carter was disaffected by both sides of the feminist debate. She re-worked traditional fairy tales from her own unique, literary outsider's point of view, putting women at the centre of the stories. With their feisty heroines and orgiastic mash-up of beasts,...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



Community Audio 89 89 Dissolution Of Dominic Boot, The by Tom Stoppard audio eye 89 favorite 0 comment 0

Tom Stoppard's first radio play, written in 1964. Dominic travels around London trying to raise cash for the mounting taxi fare. The afternoon starts out quite ordinarily for Dominic Boot. Lunch with his girlfriend and a taxi ride back to work leaves him short of ready cash. Getting the money together should be so simple, but as he chases the money he needs, the taxi bill grows also.... The Dissolution of Dominic Boot by Tom Stoppard with VALERIE KIRKBRIGHT JOHN BADDELEY PETER PRATT and...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 1,051 1.1K Doctor Who - Paradise 5 by BBC Radio 4 audio eye 1,051 favorite 8 comment 0

BBCR4 2019 Doctor Who The Lost Stories: Paradise 5 When the Sixth Doctor and his companion, Peri check in on an old friend, Professor Albrecht Thompson, they discover he's vanished - and last sighted taking a shuttle to the eerie holiday resort planet of Paradise 5... An adventure originally written for the BBC's Doctor Who TV series but never made. Colin Baker stars as the Sixth Doctor. Peri ...... Nicola Bryant Gabriel ...... Alex Macqueen Michael ...... James 'D'Arcy Stella/ Bella .........

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 469 469 Consider The Lilies by Susan Hill audio eye 469 favorite 2 comment 0

BBCR3 1973 Susan Hill - Consider the Lilies Charles Bowman saw angels when his sister drowned. Blakean visions which led to his isolation. Decades later, as a 53-year old bachelor in charge of botanical gardens, he sees angels once again. They appear to him in a magnolia tree, blazing with the light of God. Bowman wants to rid himself of these visions. No doctor can provide an answer. But he finds himself drawn to dying girl called Susannah, who likes to visit his gardens. At last someone...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 734 734 Dover And The Claret Tappers by Joyce Porter audio eye 734 favorite 5 comment 0

BBCR4 2005 Dover and the Claret Tappers The Chief Inspector Dover Mysteries When one of their own gets kidnapped, there's a sense of jubilation at Scotland Yard. Not what you might expect, but then the victim is Inspector Dover, and he's not quite the detective England expects. Is this the start of something more sinister? Set in 1976, Joyce Porter's comedy thriller is dramatised by Paul Mendelson. Stars Kenneth Cranham as Chief Inspector Dover, Stuart McQuarrie as Sergeant McGregor, Crawford...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 171 171 Faded Glory by Rebekah Harrison audio eye 171 favorite 0 comment 0

Original drama recorded on location in Rhyl written by Rebekah Harrison Childhood sweethearts Dave and Sue, whose lives have taken them very different ways, meet after 22 years. A bitter sweet love story set against the backdrop of Rhyl: once a thriving seaside town now desperately trying to reinvent itself to survive. SUE.....Shobna Gulati DAVE.....Roger Evans GEMMA.....Annie-Rose Tate Directed by Nadia Molinari The drama was recorded on location in Rhyl, with special thanks to actors from...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 1,757 1.8K Home Front s1-15 (Complete) by BBCR4 audio eye 1,757 favorite 16 comment 0

BBCR4 15 series containing 120 x 60-70 minute episodes Home Front Omnibus editions of the epic drama series tracking the fortunes of characters on the home front as they try to maintain normality while Britain is involved in the First World War. Series 1: The Lost Boys Series 2: What Will You Do? Series 3: A New Deal Series 4: Where There's A Need Series 5: Whisky On The Other Side Series 6: Angels In All But Name Series 7: Moral, Medical, Family & Economic Series 8: Espionage &...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 455 455 The Double - Dangerous Visions by Jonathan Holloway audio eye 455 favorite 3 comment 0

BBCR4 2018 The Double Dangerous Visions Jonathan Holloway's reimagining of Dostoyevsky's nightmare vision of a lonely civil servant driven to madness when his life is stolen by a doppelganger. Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins Jonathan Holloway has taken Dostoyevksy's tale of the lonely civil servant on the verge of a nervous breakdown and relocated it to a steampunk version of 19th Century St Petersburg, substituting the labyrinthine Tsarist bureaucracy of the original with the advanced...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 2,104 2.1K Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett audio eye 2,104 favorite 10 comment 0

BBCR4 1995 Wyrd Sisters Three witches meet on a blasted heath while murder is in the air. Terry Pratchett 's popular tale dramatised in four parts by Vince Foxall. Starring Sheila Hancock as Granny Weatherwax, Lynda Baron as Nanny Ogg, Deborah Berlin as Magrat Garlick, Ian Masters as Duke Felmet, Kristin Milward as Lady Felmet, John Hartley as King Verence and Natasha Pyne as Mrs Vitoller. Director: Claire Grove First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



Community Audio 294 294 The Accident by Jonathan Davidson audio eye 294 favorite 2 comment 1

A railway signal-box at night in the west of England in the early 1960s. A signalman and his daughter- between them, the bells and the levers - ahead of them, the rest of their lives. Written by Jonathan Davidson. Music Paul Dodgson. Director Tim Dee.

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Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 1,590 1.6K Tracks s1-3 by Matthew Broughton audio eye 1,590 favorite 16 comment 0

BBCR4 2016 -2018 Tracks A multi-award-winning conspiracy thriller, written by Matthew Broughton. When Dr Helen Ash witnesses the brutal and disturbing crash of the plane that is carrying her father, the incident sets her on an investigation into a dark conspiracy. Florian Chauvin was flying to Wales to tell his daughter something important, but his plane fell out of the sky. What was Florian coming to tell Helen? Who was he travelling with? And why did his plane crash? Cast & Crew Helen...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



Radio Programs 1,998 2.0K Three Hostages, The by John Buchan audio eye 1,998 favorite 14 comment 1

Dramatisation of a lesser known novel featuring a slightly older Richard Hannay, with David Robb once more doing the honours. His wartime service now at an end, the newly-knighted Sir Richard Hannay lives in quiet contentment on his country estate. But an unexpected and unsettling communication arrives from his old Secret Service boss Sir Walter Bullivant. What possible connection can there be between a carefree young society woman, an aristocratic Cambridge undergraduate and a ten-year-old...

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BBC Radio Shows 1,096 1.1K A Confidential Agent ( Retired) by Nick McCarty audio eye 1,096 favorite 12 comment 1

BBCR4 2007 A Confidential Agent (Retired) Another adventure for Nick McCarty's former private investigator Liz Parker, now retired in France. Liz discovers that Nicholas has some loyal friends and some frightening enemies. Liz ...... Jillie Meers Jean ...... Robin Ellis Mary ...... Marian Diamond Gloria ...... Jane Whittenshaw Nicholas ...... Philip Franks Penelope ...... Cheryl Campbell Alicia ...... Valerie Sarruf Michelle ...... Cosima Littlewood Gallery attendant ...... Michael McStay...

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BBC Radio Shows 452 452 Alexander by David Wade audio eye 452 favorite 2 comment 0

BBCR4 1993 David Wade - Alexander Baby Alexander is born and there's friction between King Philip of Macedon and Queen Olympias. David Wade's six-part serial on the life of Alexander the Great starring Barry Foster, Simon Ward and Geraldine James. Spirit of Achilles ...... Barry Foster Spirit of Patroclus ...... Simon Ward King Philip of Macedon ...... Brian Cox Queen Olympias ...... Geraldine James Young Alexander ...... Sam Crane Antipatros ...... David March Demosthenes ...... Malcolm...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 207 207 Clinging To Lord Nelson by Emma Reeves audio eye 207 favorite 1 comment 0

Jim has brought Alice up to be resourceful. Having lost her mother at an early age, he feels it's important that she should know how to take care of herself and make the best of her brain. And she's doing well. Off to Cambridge in the Autumn. But Jim's plans may have to be put on hold because there has been an unexpected intervention. Rain. Heavy rain. Rain of the forty days and forty nights variety. Undeterred Jim and Alice have set off in a dinghy and made their way to Trafalgar Square in...

Topic: BBC Radio drama, Fantasy



Community Audio 147 147 A Mackerel Sky And Apple Green by Brian Lee audio eye 147 favorite 1 comment 0

Fr Collins is a vegetable-arian and he says you mustn'kill any animals - and the cook does. And he doesn'worship the sun, but he must if he's religious because God made the sun. And you should take your clothes off if you're a proper vegetable-arian. Bishop: Keep still in your seat. You'll have me liqueur over. Liam: But you're a Bishop. And you're eating animals! Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin Kevin Leroy: T P McKenna Fr Collins: Jim Norton Sara Leroy: Kate Binchy Liam Leroy: J Bennett Miss...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 3,107 3.1K Earthsea s1+2 by Ursula le Guin audio eye 3,107 favorite 25 comment 1

BBCR4 Earthsea: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Le Guin's enduring fantasy saga set on the magical archipelago rich with wizards and dragons. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra. Based on the novels A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin. Adapted by Judith Adams. Hungry for power and knowledge, the young wizard Ged tampers with long-held secrets and releases a terrible shadow into the world. Meanwhile, Tenar is taken away from her home and family...

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Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 475 475 Concrete Island - Dangerous Visions by J G Ballard audio eye 475 favorite 5 comment 0

BBCR4 Concrete Island Dangerous Visions By J.G. Ballard Adapted by Graham White Driving home one Friday rush hour, a cocky young architect crashes down a motorway embankment. At first he seems bound to be rescued, but as he fails to make the passing commuters notice him, he finds himself trapped on a strange, neglected island between the highways. Can this modern day Crusoe survive in a strange new world? Directed by Mary Peate

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 364 364 Ivanov by Anton Chekhov audio eye 364 favorite 1 comment 0

Sunday Play: Ivanov BBC Radio 3, 21 October 2001 18.30 By Anton Chekhov, adapted for radio by David Hare. Chekhov was only 27 when he wrote this portrait of Nikolai Ivanov, an intelligent man beset by guilt and frustration when he finds himself drawn to a beautiful young girl. Contributors Author: Anton Chekhov Adapted by/Director: David Hare Music: Nick Bicat. Ivanov: Ralph Fiennes Borkin: Anthony O'Donnell Anna Petrovna: Harriet Walter Count Shabyelski: Oliver Ford Davies Lebedev: Bill...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 483 483 Tom Stoppard - In The Native State by Tom Stoppard audio eye 483 favorite 1 comment 0

BBCR3 1991 1 x 130 minute episode Tom Stoppard - In the Native State The original production was first broadcast on BBC Radio Three on April 20, 1991. It was directed by John Tydeman and starred Felicity Kendal and Peggy Ashcroft. It was Dame Peggy's last dramatic performance[2] and Saeed Jaffrey played the role of the Rajah. The play takes place in two timelines. In 1930 (the year of Gandhi's Salt March) Flora Crewe (Felicity Kendal), a young poet with a somewhat scandalous reputation, travels...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 1,164 1.2K Doctor Who - Leviathan by BBC Radio 4 audio eye 1,164 favorite 9 comment 0

BBCR4E 2019 Doctor Who The Lost Stories: Leviathan When the TARDIS materialises near a castle in a sinister medieval society, the Doctor and Peri befriend Gurth, a terrified youth who is attempting to flee the village.... An adventure originally written for the BBC's Doctor Who TV series but never made. Colin Baker stars as the Sixth Doctor. Peri ...... Nicola Bryant Gurth ...... Howard Gossington Herne the Hunter ...... John Banks Althya ...... Beth Chalmers Wulfric ...... Jamie Parker Siward...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



Community Audio 81 81 Getting A Life by Alex Shearer audio eye 81 favorite 0 comment 0

When someone sees their life going the other way on the back of a lorry, what can they do? Read by Brian Parr, Producer Pauline Stone

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 2,121 2.1K Inspector Rebus - Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin audio eye 2,121 favorite 1 comment 1

BBCR4 2017 Rebus: Fleshmarket Close Dramatised by Chris Dolan In Ian Rankin's crime thriller, the teenage sister of a rape victim goes missing, two skeletons are found in the cellar of a pub in Edinburgh's Old Town, and an illegal immigrant is murdered on a city housing estate. Rebus and Clarke investigate. DI Rebus - Ron Donachie Siobhan Clarke - Gayanne Potter DS Reynolds - Robbie Jack Storey - Damian Lynch DI Young - Chris Reilly Mangold - Grant O'Rourke Caro - Karen Bartke Cruikshank -...

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Topic: BBC Radio Drama



Radio Programs 993 993 Beau Geste by P C Wren audio eye 993 favorite 6 comment 0

Forward, mon brave! The classic tale of Victorian daring do in the desert with the French Foreign Legion and a jolly good chap doing the right thing, after being wrongly suspected of a jewel theft. All good boys' own fun.

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



Community Audio 234 234 The Missing Wife by Peter Whalley audio eye 234 favorite 3 comment 0

A psychological thriller by Peter Whalley , set in the suburbs of Manchester. When Mark's wife goes missing he thinks she will return. Just why has Denise Telfer disappeared from her own house one summer's evening? Can she really have walked out on her married life, leaving Mark devastated and forlorn, or might there be some other, more sinister explanation? Director Pauline Harris

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 446 446 The Mother by Florian Zeller audio eye 446 favorite 1 comment 0

BBCR3 2019 The Mother Drama on 3 Florian Zeller's acclaimed stage play is a portrait of a mother coming to terms with the 'empty nest' effect, soon after the departure of her two children who have found partners and new lives for themselves. Translated by Christopher Hampton Featuring music by Philip Glass, Christopher Hampton's regular collaborator. Told in an original and ingeniously fractured style, the play charts the woman's descent into a world of imagination and make-believe. Can we...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 5,102 5.1K His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman audio eye 5,102 favorite 38 comment 0

His Dark Materials. Radio 4 Extra. First Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 - The Saturday Play by Philip Pullman, dramatised by Lavinia Murray Dramatisation of Philip Pullman's epic worlds trilogy. 1 - Northern Lights. 4 November 2017. First Broadcast 4 January 2003 2 - The Subtle Knife. 11 November 2017. First Broadcast 11 January 2003 3 - The Amber Spyglass. 18 November 2017. First Broadcast 18 January 2003 The epic worlds trilogy begins with Lyra delving into the mystery of 'Dust'. Credits Lyra -...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 989 989 The Club Of Queer Trades by G K Chesterton audio eye 989 favorite 18 comment 1

BBCR4 2013 The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade", using the word "queer" in the sense of "peculiar"). To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income. The framing narrative by...

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Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 2,500 2.5K Blandings Castle by P G Wodehouse audio eye 2,500 favorite 30 comment 0

BBCR4 1985 7 x 30 minute episodes Blandings Castle Short stories by P.G. WODEHOUSE adapted for radio in seven parts by RICHARD USBORNE. Lord Emsworth....................Richard Vernon Beach............................Lockwood West Lady Constance...................MArgot Boyd The Hon Grederick Threepwood.....Steve Hodson Narator..........................Nigel Anthony Producer.........................Bobby Jaye 1. The Custody of the Pumpkin (Broadcast Radio 4, Sat 2nd February 1985 12:27)...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 205 205 The Playgirl by Alan Berrie audio eye 205 favorite 0 comment 0

With and He had been so successful in Playboy of the Western World. His young daughter loved him as an actor and as a father. Then it all went horribly wrong. Mary Nash (piano) Directed by Richard Wortley

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 3,081 3.1K Sweet Danger - Albert Campion Mystery by Margery Allingham audio eye 3,081 favorite 5 comment 0

BBCR4 2003 Sweet Danger A crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in October 1933, in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in the United States by The Crime Club as Kingdom of Death; later US versions used the title The Fear Sign. It is the fifth adventure of the mysterious Albert Campion, aided as usual by his butler/valet/bodyguard Magersfontein Lugg, and introduces the recurring character of Amanda Fitton. When Averna, a tiny but oil-rich principality on the Adriatic Sea,...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 3,113 3.1K The Corrupted s1-4 by G F Newman audio eye 3,113 favorite 8 comment 2

BBCR4 2013 Crime drama chronicling the fortunes of one family against the backdrop of a revolution in crime. A new long-running drama series from G F Newman based on the characters from the multi-award winning writer's best-selling crime novel. Spanning six decades, it plots the course of one family against the backdrop of a revolution in crime as the underworld extends its influence to the very heart of the establishment, in an uncomfortable relationship of shared values. Joey Oldman is a...

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Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 587 587 With A Whimper To The Grave by Wally K Daly audio eye 587 favorite 3 comment 0

BBCR4 1984 With a Whimper to the Grave Wally K Daly To combat the threat of an alien invasion, the nations of Earth formed a World Council. The aliens gave certain humans extraordinary 'sixth-sense' powers, but these were abused. The British Government is ready to give an update on their plans... Starring John Shrapnel as Tom Harris, Maureen O'Brien as Sally Harris, Donald Hewlett as AP Smith, Patrick Troughton as George, Angela Thorne as the Prime Minister and Timothy West as 642. Director:...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 1,607 1.6K Tommies s1-11 (Complete) by Jonathon Ruffle audio eye 1,607 favorite 8 comment 1

BBCR4 11 series containing 43 x 45 minute episodes Tommies A major BBC Radio 4 drama series following the lives of those on and behind the battlefront of World War I Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness accounts, each of these 43 episodes of Tommies traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago. We follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers from the Lahore Division of the British Indian Army, as they experience life – and death – on the front line....

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Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 3,529 3.5K Ring For Jeeves by P G Wodehouse audio eye 3,529 favorite 15 comment 0

BBCR4 2014 2 x 60 minute episodes P G Wodehouse - Ring for Jeeves An all-star cast brings P.G. Wodehouse's supremely funny 1950s horse-racing novel to galloping life. Jeeves, on loan to young Lord Rowcester (Bill), devises a plan to assist his impoverished new master sell his crumbling pile to a wealthy American widow. But will she buy it? There's also White Hunter Captain Biggar on the trail of a bookie and his clerk who conned him at Epsom races. Who are they? Could they in fact be Bill and...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 484 484 A House Of Correction by Howard Barker audio eye 484 favorite 3 comment 0

BBCR3 1999 (14-02-1999; 8:45pm) A House Of Correction (Howard Barker) In Barker's latest play for radio, three women and a sick old man sit in a ruined palace, preparing themselves for a forthcoming war. Their little household is changed for ever with the arrival of a perfidious courier. Starring Juliet Stevenson, Nicholas Le Prevost, Jennie Stoller, Victoria Wicks, David Bradley, Ioan Meredith and Patience Tomlinson. Directed by Richard Wortley.

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 1,195 1.2K Arcadia - Tom Stoppard by Tom Stoppard audio eye 1,195 favorite 12 comment 1

BBCR4 - Saturday Play 2007 Arcadia: Tom Stoppard's acclaimed comedy about the lives and preoccupations of the inhabitants of Sidley Park, Derbyshire in the early 19th and late 20th centuries. BBC Radio 3 Broadcast: Sunday 26th December 1993 Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" represents two time periods, the Romantic Era of the early 1800's and Modern time. He intertwines these periods and characters freely throughout the entire play, giving the audience a wonderful perspective on human...

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BBC Radio Shows 306 306 Goodbye Forever by Malcolm Stewart audio eye 306 favorite 0 comment 0

"She's no good to you because she's too good for you! Stick to your level! If you get mixed up with her, you'll lose your touch and you'll lose your judgement! She's a nice girl and nice girls only bring trouble to men like you!"

Topics: BBC Radio Drama, Comedy



Community Audio 55 55 African Queen, The 1956 by Adapted by John Keir Cross from the novel by C S Forester audio eye 55 favorite 0 comment 0

African Queen The BBC Home Service Basic, 24 November 1956 21.15 A 1956 version of the classic novel, in which a drunken sailor and a prim missionary's sister journey together in the ancient vessel "The African Queen" in a bid to sink a German ship on an un-named lake in the early months of World War 1. A new radio play by John Keir Cross from the novel by C. S. Forester [Starring] Celia Johnson with Deryck Guyler Contributors Writer: John Keir Cross From the novel by: C.S. Forester...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



Community Audio 52 52 Unman, Wittering And Zigo By Giles Cooper 1958 by Giles Cooper audio eye 52 favorite 0 comment 0

Giles Cooper - Unman, Wittering and Zigo Just down from Oxford, John Ebony takes up his first teaching post to replace a teacher who died mid-term. But, after meeting the Lower Fifth, his enthusiasm and resolve give way to apprehension. Never has he met such sinister boys... Giles Cooper's creepy thriller stars Peter Howell as John Ebony, Anthony Viccars as the Headmaster, Cary Farthingale as John Sharp, Violet Loxey as Nadia, David Franks as Cuthbun, Leonard Monaghan as Cloistermouth, John...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 4,219 4.2K Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery by Francis Durbridge audio eye 4,219 favorite 29 comment 2

BBCR4 2008 Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery Paul Temple Paul and Steve are returning from New York on board a luxury liner when they meet an amnesiac millionaire. New production of an adventure by Francis Durbridge, first broadcast in 1949.

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BBC Radio Shows 655 655 Henry James - The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James audio eye 655 favorite 6 comment 2

BBCR4 Classic Serial 2017 3 x 60 minute episodes Portrait of a Lady Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce. Young and beautiful, Isabel Archer thinks that she is in control of her fate. Little does she know, however, that others behind the scenes are pulling the strings. Isabel Archer ...... Anna Maxwell Martin Madame Merle ...... Haydn Gwynne Lord Warburton ...... Robert Bathurst Mrs Touchett ...... Gayle Hunnicutt Mr Touchett ...... Peter Marinker Ralph Touchett ...... Paul Venables...

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Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 4,276 4.3K Inspector Morse - In The Shallows by Colin Dexter audio eye 4,276 favorite 38 comment 1

BBCR4 Morse: In the Shallows Drama Terrible things happen even in beautiful places and among highly educated people. Morse, Lewis and Strange are back on their criminally fertile Oxford patch - dealing with a mysterious pair of Oxford students who appear to be fish out of water, a Don found dead in the river, and an attractive philosopher who pleads with Morse to drop his investigation to save her career. It's still the early 1990s when computers, mobiles, digital media and sophisticated...

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BBC Radio Shows 6,857 6.9K Sapphire + Steel s1-3 by Peter J Hammond audio eye 6,857 favorite 27 comment 0

ATV Audio 2005 Sapphire & Steel is a British television supernatural sci-fi/fantasy series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. Produced by ATV, it ran from 1979 to 1982 on the ITV network. The series was created by Peter J. Hammond who conceived the programme under the working title The Time Menders,[1] after a stay in an allegedly haunted castle. Hammond also wrote all the stories except for the fifth, which was co-written by Don Houghton and Anthony Read. From...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



Community Audio 243 243 The Technicolour Time Machine audio eye 243 favorite 0 comment 0

Adapted for radio by Chris Boucher from the novel by Harry Harrison Another play in the occasional series tracing the writing of science fiction from the turn of the century to the present day. Climactic Studios in Hollywood is about to go bankrupt and is in need of a big-budget epic to restore its fortunes. In desperation, L.M. Greenspan agrees to use a time machine to transport the company's director and stars back to the period of the Viking crossing to America in the year 1005. Real Vikings...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 369 369 Albertina by Howard Barker audio eye 369 favorite 1 comment 0

BBCR3 1999 Albertina, by Howard Barker BBC Radio 3: The Sunday Play Broadcast: Sunday 13th June 1999 @ 7:30 p.m. In Howard Barker's play, subtitled 'The 20 Duologues', the Bishop of Albertina, a tiny state in old Europe, has proposed to Rocklaw, the town's intellectual, that all undesirables should be carried off on a Ship of Fools. But Rocklaw is plagued by jealousy when his wife follows her lover on board. With Nicholas Le Prevost [Grodiska, an actor], Juliet Stevenson [Lyback,...

Topic: BBC Radio Drama



BBC Radio Shows 415 415 Clouds by Michael Frayn audio eye 415 favorite 2 comment 1