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Author: David Eldridge
Author David Eldridge
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 3m
The writer David Eldridge introduces his BBC Radio 3 full-cast drama, The Picture Man starring Martin Freeman, about a man who despairs of the behaviour he sees around him and decides to take action. Originally broadcast in the "Drama on 3" slot on 6 January 2008. Neil decides he has been pushed too far by the uncaring and often callous behaviour h...
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Author: Eoin Mcnamee
Author Eoin Mcnamee
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation written by Eoin McNamee, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 23 March 2009. A truck driver in Ireland gives a lift to a female Asian hitchhiker but gets more than he bargained for, especially when his truck is stopped by immigration officers and he and his illegal occupant are taken in for questioning...
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Paultemple and the Spencer Affair
Author: Francis Durbridge
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 55m
Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury star in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. When young drama student Mary Drei...
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Prospero, Ariel, Reith and Gill
Author: Gary Brown
Author Gary Brown
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
Gary Brown's BBC Radio 4 full-cast comedy dramatisation about artist Eric Gill's clash with the BBC over his famous sculpture of Prospero and Ariel, starring Anton Lesser as Eric Gill and Tim McInnerny as Sir John Reith, the first Director General of the Corporation. Originally broadcast in the 'Afternoon Play' slot on Wednesday 9 June 2010. Inspir...
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Patricia Hodge Is Mattie, A Liberated Woman
Author: Juliet Ace
Author Juliet Ace
Narrator Patricia Hodge
Duration 4h 55m
Patricia Hodge stars as Mattie in Juliet Ace's four linked dramas, written especially for Patricia's voice, in which Mattie reflects on her life as a naval wife, an actress and as a mother and daughter. In these funny and beautifully observed performances we come to meet Mattie as she shares her hard-earned understanding of her life, in all its int...
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The Night Tried To Kidnap the Prime Minster
Author: Martin Jameson
Author Martin Jameson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
This full-cast dramatisation by Martin Jameson for BBC Radio 4 is a fictionalised account of the incident in 1964 when a group of students attempted to kidnap the then-Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in Scotland. Originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 15 July 2009, this dramatisation stars Tim McInnerny as Sir Alec, Chris Starkie as R...
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Author: John Dryden
Author John Dryden
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 11m
Three lives on three continents connected by one event...A young British schoolboy obsessed with school massacres, a radio journalist in India on the trail of a scoop for the BBC and the boss of an American church-owned clothing firm are the threads that run through this intricate, suspenseful three-part thriller from award-winning writer-director...
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Author: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
Author Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 26m
Wine shop owner Gerald desperately needs money: his business is failing and the landlord has raised the cost of the lease. When he inherits a watch that used to belong to wartime Nazi Joachim Von Ribbentrop he believes that his financial troubles are over. But it sparks conflict with his wife and brother, who question the ethics of the potential sa...
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Saint Overboard & the Saint Plays With Fire
Author: Leslie Charteris
Author Leslie Charteris
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 55m
Leslie Charteris' square-jawed, blue-eyed hero loved, fought and stole his way through Europe in the 1930s, endlessly pursuing blondes, baddies and boodle. Adored by women and feared by his foes, he was known as 'The Saint' after the calling card he left at the scenes of his crimes - a sketch of a stick figure with a halo.
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Author: Paul Gallico
Author Paul Gallico
Narrator Various
Duration 57m
In The Snow Goose, a wounded bird brings together a disfigured artist and a young girl on the eve of World War II.
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Author: Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Author Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 28m
A desperate love story, and a beautiful history of the treatment of mental health, written by one of Britain's foremost playwrights for the two lead actors. Sarah and Ken met as foster siblings, and fell in love. While he has married a good wife and fathered beautiful children, she has spent her whole life in institutions, and they have maintained...
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Author: Simon Passmore
Author Simon Passmore
Narrator Claudia Harrison
Duration 43m
This BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation is a captivating thriller written by Simon Passmore, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 29 June 2009. What would you be prepared to do to escape the grind of a life going relentlessly downhill? For former City lawyer Alice, the price is getting higher by the minute. Stars Claudia Harrison in the l...
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The Adventures of Inspector Steine
Author: Lynne Truss
Author Lynne Truss
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 46m
Constable Twitten takes over the narrative in this third series of Lynne Truss's seaside comedy about celebrity policeman Inspector Steine. Back from an attachment at Scotland Yard, Twitten finds Brunswick more depressed than ever about villainy in Brighton. To cheer him up, Twitten persuades Brunswick's favourite writer Harry Jupiter, crime report...
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The Adventures of Sexton Blake
Author: Jonathan Nash, Mil Millington
Author Jonathan Nash, Mil Millington
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 10m
BBC Radio 2's action-packed deafening romp - with 40 minutes of previously unbroadcast peril. Sexton Blake! The name that spells hurtling adventure! The name that spells doom for villainy! In a series of thrilling adventures packed with incident and hilarity, Sexton Blake, (Simon Jones, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) and his plucky assistant...
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Julie Christie
Duration 1h 5m
Holmes and Watson mystery in which a man, apparently missing, is spotted by his own wife standing in the window of the home of a dirty, disfigured beggar.
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Author: Arthur Miller
Author Arthur Miller
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 34m
Italian - American immigrant life in the 1950's textures this searing drama of love and revenge. Longshoreman Eddie Carbone is devoted to his wife, Beatrice and to his niece, Catherine. When Beatrice's impoverished Sicilian cousins enter the U.S. illegally, in the hope of finding work, Eddie gives them a helping hand. But when Catherine and one of...
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Author: William Shakespeare
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 32m
King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most performed and celebrated plays - presented here in accessible story fom by brother and sister team Charles and Mary Lamb. An ideal story for newcomers to Shakespeare, young people and as an additional study aid for students.King Lear is to abdicate, and wants to divide his kingdom between his three daughters....
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Author: Charles Lamb
Author Charles Lamb
Narrator Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres
Duration 25m
This story makes Shakespeare's world-famous play accessible to everyone in Charles and Mary Lamb's acclaimed prose form. Ideal as a study aid for students, or as an introduction to the play's plot for any listener. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plot to seat Macbeth as the king of Scotland, both of them knowing that they will have to get their hands very...
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Author: Charles Lamb
Author Charles Lamb
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 30m
An adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy in which hapless couples are forced into cross-dressing to avoid their loan-shark woes: Charles and Mary Lamb turn the master of all playwright's works to prose to great effect.
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Author: Micheal Butt
Author Micheal Butt
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the strange legal case of film star Peter Lorre, written and produced by Michael Butt and starring Stephen Greif. Originally broadcast as the "Afternoon Play" on 10 May 2010. Towards the end of his unique career, movie star Peter Lorre found himself at the centre of an unusual legal case. Incorporating verba...
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