AuthorSebastian Bacziewicz
NarratorFull Cast
SeriesPilgrim Series 2, Book 1
Duration43m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Plays and Dramatisations
PublisherAudio Go Ltd
VersionAbridged
The first play in Pilgrim Series 2, a collection of four BBC Radio 4 modern-day fantasy adventures written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and starring Paul Hilton as Pilgrim. The Drowned Church was originally broadcast in the Afternoon Play slot on 31 August 2010. What if all the myths and folktales of these islands were true? And what if they were not only true but present now in our world? All the spirits, existing, as they have always existed, in the gaps between tower blocks, in the shadows under bridges, in the corner of our vision. An ancient and eternal world which has existed alongside ours since time immemorial and will exist long after we have gone. Enter Pilgrim...In 1185, William Palmer was making pilgrimage to Canterbury. Unbeknownst to him his fellow pilgrim was the Lord of Faerie. When William claimed that the Church would wipe out the belief in the Faerie world, he was cursed by the Faerie Lord and condemned forever to walk between our world and theirs. In this episode, The Drowned Church, Pilgrim comes to Skaymer, a seaside town in Norfolk, to investigate the strange appearance of a young man believed drowned in the great flood of 1757. With Paul Hilton as William Palmer ("Pilgrim"), Claire Price as Helen and Judy Parfitt as Doris. Also starring William Gaunt, Luke Treadaway, Rachael Spence, Sean Baker, Jude Akuwudike, Sally Orrock and Agnes Bateman. Directed by Marc Beeby.
Author: Julia Blackburn, BBC Radio 4
Author Julia Blackburn, BBC Radio 4
Narrator Various
Duration 42m
A BBC Radio 4 drama of mesmerising delicacy from Julia Blackburn, winner of the Pen Ackerley prize for memoir 2009, and daughter of poet Thomas Blackburn. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 29 March 2011. Thomas Blackburn was an alcoholic before he became a poet, but in spite of his drunken rages, his erratic behaviour and his crazy ob...
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Author: Sebastian Bacziewicz
Author Sebastian Bacziewicz
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
An absurd black comedy thriller, set in Baghdad. The first of three Arabian Afternoons - contemporary plays inspired by tales from The Arabian Nights. Junior diplomat Bob Goldacre is in trouble: the American businessman he was looking after has vanished from a Baghdad street. As the suspects pile up, Goldacre is going to have his work cut out if he...
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Author: William Shakespeare
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 1m
Foretold he will become King of Scotland and spurred on by his wife, Macbeth commits deadly treason to seize the throne. Once crowned, guilt and mistrust of all around him leads Macbeth to embark on a trail of bloodshed and murder to stay in power. But under the yoke of his brutal reign, civil war breaks out and a rebellious army gathers to overthr...
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The Drowned Church; the Lost Hotel; the Lady In the Lake; Hope Springs. Series: Pilgrim
Author: Sebastian Bacziewicz
Author Sebastian Bacziewicz
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 54m
A series of four BBC Radio 4 modern-day fantasy adventures written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and starring Paul Hilton as Pilgrim. Pilgrim Series 2 was originally a weekly broadcast in the Afternoon Play slots from 31 August-21 September 2010. The plays in Pilgrim Series 2 are thrilling, dark and contemporary. They're set in a very recognisable, very...
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Author: Donald Stuart
Author Donald Stuart
Narrator Various
Duration 30m
William Franklyn stars as paperback hero Sexton Blake, with David Gregory as his assistant Tinker, in the original BBC Radio dramatisations from 1967. Lost from the BBC archives for over 40 years, these rediscovered episodes are presented on CD for the very first time. In the first episode of the series, Lilies For The Ladies, Blake investigates th...
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Author: Tony Kushner
Author Tony Kushner
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 6h 53m
In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their acclaimed performances from the 2018 Tony Award-winning National Theatre revival of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. With narration by Bobby Cannavale and Edie Falco, and a musical score by Adria...
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Fear On 4: 13 Chilling BBC Radio 4 Dramas
Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 18m
An unsettling collection of full-cast dramas from the long-running BBC Radio 4 horror series. Throughout five series of Fear on 4 from 1988-1997, Edward de Souza was The Man in Black, a sinister raconteur who introduced a weekly half-hour of terror and suspense. Here, he welcomes us to his house of horrors as he presents thirteen terrifying tales t...
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Author: Anton Chekhov
Author Anton Chekhov
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 2m
Chekhov's masterpiece in a full-cast performance starring Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sarah Zimmerman and Jon Hamm. Meet Olga, Masha, and Irina, warm and cultured young sisters who were reared in the exciting hubbub of Moscow, but have been living in the dull, gossipy backwaters of Russia for far too long. With their father's passing, an...
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Author: Sebastian Bacziewicz
Author Sebastian Bacziewicz
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesPilgrim Series 2, Book 4
Duration 43m
The last play of four in Pilgrim Series 2, a collection of BBC Radio 4 modern-day fantasy adventures written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and starring Paul Hilton as Pilgrim. Hope Springs was originally broadcast in the Afternoon Play slot on 21 September 2010. What if all the myths and folktales of these islands were true? And what if they were not on...
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Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Author Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 20m
Ian Carmichael is Lord Peter Wimsey, with Patricia Routledge as his mother, in this BBC radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Dorothy L. Sayers' first Lord Peter Wimsey tale introduces many of the author's best-known characters. Wimsey's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, rings her son with news of 'such a quaint thing'. She has heard through a frie...
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