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Edward William Chaillet, III ( ; born 29 November 1944) is a radio drama producer and director, writer and journalist.
Chaillet, American by birth, was born in Boston, Author profile (with photo) on the article Erik Bauersfeld, American radio dramatist and producer, Ned Chaillet, Bay Area Radio Drama, 2007 but is a "native of Washington" according to The New York Times. He has lived in Britain since 1973.
His newspaper career began at the Washington Evening Star in 1964, interrupted by service in the United States Army. He then lived in Europe, founded the Free State Theater company in Maryland, and studied at the University of Maryland, College Park and California Institute of the Arts.
Chaillet moved to London in 1973 to work at The Times Literary Supplement for the editors Arthur Crook and John Gross 1974–76. He was deputy drama critic (to Irving Wardle) for The Times 1975–83. In 1983, he joined the BBC as Editor, Radio 3 Plays, before becoming a producer for BBC Radio Drama. At the same time (1983–86), he wrote drama criticism for The Wall Street Journal – Europe. Ned Chaillet's radio play listing at Diversity website
His radio programmes have received five Sony Radio Academy Awards, and the Prix Italia for Fiction in 1997. In 2005, he was nominated by the Directors Guild of Great Britain for Outstanding Achievement in Radio. 2nd Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards – Nominee for Outstanding Achievement in Radio Between 2008 and 2012, Chaillet taught Radio and Microphone Technique at the Central School of Speech and Drama (London). Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London – Visiting Staff In 2013, working with Chris Wallis at Autolycus Productions, he completed the recording of David Suchet's single-voice reading of the entire Bible (New International Version, 2011) for CTVC.
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Radio plays
Notes:– Salesman in Beijing abridged in four parts by Read by Arthur Miller Arthur Miller reads from his account of his journey to Beijing to direct a production of his play Death of a Salesman in Chinese. BBC Radio 3
(Recorded on 29 September 1984)Marion Maggie McCarthy, Jill Gascoine and Brian Kelly Anne (Jill Gascoine) and Brian return from their mother's funeral to encounter an unexpected visitor: an unknown woman who makes some startling claims and revelations. BBC Radio 4
Thirty-Minute Theatre
(Recorded on 17 April 1986)Where Are You Wally? from a story by Barry Wasserman and Patrick Carroll Alfred Molina, Bill Paterson, Shaun Prendergast, Jennifer Piercey, Pauline Letts, Edward de Souza, Deborah Makepeace, Janis Winters, Ronald Herdman, Louis Mahoney, Paul B. Davies, Andrew Branch, Garard Green, Natasha Pyne, Stephen Rashbrook and Avril Clarke When Albert picks up a passenger in his mini-cab he is left with a bag full of money as the passenger rushes to catch a train. £275,000 proves too great a temptation, and he goes on the run. The Detective Sergeant who pursues him finds that Albert clings to his radio and finally establishes contact via the airwaves, but the police are not the only people interested in finding Albert. BBC Radio 4 Optimistic Tragedy translated and adapted by and Toyah Willcox, Shaun Prendergast, Trader Faulkner, Linda Marlowe, Stephen Boxer, Richard Durden, John Church, Paul Barber, Trevor Allan Davies, Garard Green, James Goode, Brian Hewlett, George Parsons, Pauline Letts, Elaine Claxton and David Learner Vishnesvsky's Soviet classic from 1932/3 celebrates the indomitable spirit of the new Soviet navy in the turbulent years following the Revolution. A young female commissar is appointed to represent the revolution on a ship's company, but Anarchists undermine the Communists at every turn and make them vulnerable to the Germans. BBC Radio 3 On Mayday Paul Copley – Main Writing Credits Radio 4 Theatre – On Mayday Natasha Pyne, Jan Winters, Bryan Pringle, Christopher Fairbank, Garard Green, Daniel Kodicek, Wayne Howard, Peter Howell, Deborah Makepeace and Kim Wall Tom tries to reach his wife in the USSR as the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl spreads across Europe. BBC Radio 4
Sunday Play
(Recorded on 12 July 1987)Sweet Tooth Steve Hodson, Richard Griffiths, Melinda Walker, Denis Lawson, Tim Reynolds, Morag Hood, Steven Harrold, Julie Berry and John Holmstrom A would-be adulterous affair consisting of meetings in a tea shop may be frustrating to George and Alice, but it is a matter of life or death to the Rum Baba and his friends on the cake shelf. BBC Radio 3 Languages Spoken Here Colin Stinton, Emily Richard, Renny Krupinski, Jiri Hanak, Peter Craze, Steven Harrold, John Samson and Karen Archer Michael believes he is doing a favour for the Polish émigré writer, Janusz, by translating his book. But whose cause is he serving? A morally ambiguous comedy.
Won a Giles Cooper Award in 1987 Best Radio Plays of 1987 Methuen/BBC 1988BBC Radio 3 Tickertape and V-Signs Peter Cox, The Writers of Wales Database Brian Bovell and Stephen Tompkinson A black soldier returning from the Falklands War finds himself the subject of racial taunts. BBC Radio 3
(Recorded on 15 June 1988)Hancock's Last Half Hour Richard Briers with Steve Hodson and Zelah Clarke Tony Hancock died on 25 June 1968. His last half-hour is a solitary affair and his audience has dwindled to a telephone, some clippings and a bottle of vodka. BBC Radio 3
(Recorded on 28 January 1989)Haunted by More Cake Graham Crowden, Joan Mattheson, Stephen Tompkinson, Victoria Carling, John Bull, Richard Pearce, Philip Sully, John Warner, Joan Walker, Nicholas Courtney, Jo Kendall and Charlotte Green Ginger's nephew Lionel has a problem; there's a tea party going on in his stomach and he's fallen in love with one of the guests. What can Ginger do to help? BBC Radio 4
(Recorded on 9 June 1989), adapted by
Music by Graham CollierJohn Woodvine, Jonathan Cullen, Joe Dunlop, Elizabeth Mansfield, Danny Schiller, Michael Kilgarriff, Michael Graham Cox, Ken Cumberlidge, David King, Jo Kendall and John Bull "You were Eve and it was the apple" is Old Joseph's admonition to his younger self, remembering when a German band appeared in his German-occupied town in Czechoslovakia. The apple was the band's bass saxophone and the temptation was to play it for a German audience.
Sony Award – Best Drama Production 1990BBC Radio 3 Eating Words John Woodvine, Sheila Allen, Ed Asner, Emily Richard, Charles Simpson, Vincent Brimble, John Bull, David King, Elizabeth Mansfield, Simon Treves, Joe Dunlop, Christopher Good and Danny Schiller Won a Giles Cooper Award in 1989. Best Radio Plays of 1989 Methuen/BBC 1990 BBC Radio 4
(Recorded on 10 August 1989)Rabbit Man Jim Broadbent, Maggie McCarthy, Carolyn Backhouse, John Moffatt, Ken Campbell, Susan Sheridan, Melinda Walker and David Goudge A man sprouts rabbit ears. BBC Radio 3
(Recorded on 18 March 1990)Joe Allen Presented by Daily Mail theatre critic Jack Tinker A profile of the restaurateur Joe Allen BBC Radio 4
(Recorded on 17 May 1990)True Believers Produced by Ned Chaillet, directed by David Greenwood Dhirendra Kumar, Meera Syal and Elizabeth Mansfield 'Tony' has turned his back on his Sikh family and married an English girl. But his brother's activities threaten to destroy his happiness. BBC Radio 4
Saturday Night Theatre Betrayal BBC – Drama on 3 – Betrayal Harold Pinter, Patricia Hodge, Michael Gambon, Christopher Good and Elizabeth Mansfield A study of triangular infidelity and friendship. BBC Radio 3
(Recorded on 26 October 1990)Advice to Eastern Europe Andrew Wincott, John Bull, Simon Treves, Joanna Myers, Jenny Howe, Tara Dominick, Oliver Cotton, Colin Stinton and Edita Brychta The barriers between East and West have fallen to open up economic and artistic ambition for Eastern Europe. Helena come to England with a project, only to meet a love-smitten American script editor... BBC Radio 3 Diary of a Madman Richard Williams Obituary – Ned Chaillet, The Guardian, 26 Aug 2019 Gogol, adapted by , re-mixed for radio by John Whitehall
Music: Peter ShadeKenneth Williams and Richard Williams Kenneth Williams, directed by the animator Richard Williams, performs triumphantly in the 1963 soundtrack of an uncompleted film of Nikolai Gogol's demented masterpiece. BBC Radio 4 When We Dead Awaken translated and adapted by
Music by Ilona SekaczPaul Scofield, Cheryl Campbell, Imogen Stubbs, Jon Strickland, Terence Edmond, Joanna Myers, Alan Barker, Joanna Myers and Danielle Allan In Henrik Ibsen's last play, a celebrated sculptor returns to Norway with his young wife and confronts Irene, the tormented model of his masterpiece. BBC Radio 3
(Recorded on 13 April 1991) Ronald Herdman, Stephen Tompkinson, Fraser Kerr, David Sinclair, Joanna Myers, Karen Archer, Robin Weaver, Brian Johnston and Peter Barker The captain of the England team is going to be a father, but Louise is not his wife... BBC Radio 3
(Recorded on 25 August 1991)Japan Season – Alan Booth Alan Booth, famous for a 2,000-mile walk through Japan, talks about a new walk he took with a reluctant companion. BBC Radio 3
(Recorded on 2 September 1991)Japan Season – Yabuhara, the Blind Master Minstrel Inoue Hisashi translated and adapted by
Songs by Koichi Uno
Additional music by Mia SoteriouJohn Woodvine, Roger Allam, Mia Soteriou, David Bannerman, Ronald Herdman, Sirol Jenkins, Charles Millham, Joanna Myers, Margaret Shade, Susan Sheridan, Auriol Smith and Andrew Wincott Hisashi Inoue's bawdy comedy charts the rise of a blind minstrel to the top ranks of Japanese society through murder, theft and extortion BBC Radio 3
(Recorded on 2 October 1991)Japan Season – Kyōgenii, Utsubozaru BBC data credits "Producer: E. Chaillet"; however Ned says "I didn't direct the Kyōgen. In fact, I curated the whole drama side of the Japan Season, but only Yabuhara, Performing Rites, Alan Booth, were mine." Utsubozaru translated by Andrew Wincott, Joanna Myers, Alan Barker and Matthew Sim Second of three short comedies taken from the traditional Japanese theatre. BBC Radio 3
(Recorded on 27 September 1991)Japan Season – Performing Rites
aka Modern Japanese Theatre Dr Brian Powell Dr Brian Powell of Keble College Oxford examines the development of the modern Japanese theatre, talking to its leading dramatists, directors, critics and performers. BBC Radio 3 , dramatised by Alex Jennings, Roger Lloyd Pack, Kate Bufferey, Vivian Pickles, Norman Jones, Helen Cooper, Terence Edmond, Timothy Morand, Eric Allen, Ronald Herdman, Siriol Jenkins, Cassie MacFarlane, Neil Roberts, David Sinclair, Matthew Sim and Auriol Smith Winston Graham's novel was the first winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award for best crime novel of the year.
Philip has returned to Europe from America after his brother appears to commit suicide in Amsterdam. His search for the truth takes him from England to the Netherlands and Italy. BBC Radio 4
Saturday Play
Gold and Silver Daggers Season
(Recorded on 7 October 1991)Design for Living Cheryl Campbell, Alex Jennings, Michael Kitchen, Joanna Myers, James Laurenson, Alan Barker, Bradley Lavelle and Linda Marlowe Three terminally stylish friends who share rivalrous affections attempt to uncoil their twisted love triangle in this sexy and scandalous gem. BBC Radio 3 BBC – Inspector Morse – The Wench is Dead dramatised by John Shrapnel, Robert Glenister, Garard Green, Joanna Myers, Peter Penry-Jones and Kate Binchy After he's rushed into hospital, Inspector Morse becomes intrigued by an old crime. BBC Radio 4 Introducing Fagan T. P. McKenna and Anita Dobson A dark, claustrophobic play. BBC Radio 4 Who Killed Palomino Molero?
translated and adapted by Bronwyn FerzackerleyCharles Simpson, Ray Fearon, Steve Hodson, Melanie Hudson, Jonathon Taffler, Linda Marlowe, Madelaine Kemms, Jo Kendall, John Bull, Gordon Reid, Nicholas Murchie, Jonathon Addams, John Church and Mia Soteriou 1954. Peru. Northern desert. Military base. A recruit is found murdered. The resulting investigation is flawed by indifference and the commanding officer's stonewall. BBC Radio 4
Monday Play Dictator Gal
Music: Trevor Allan Davies
Sound Design: John WhitehallJosette Simon and Joe Melia A musical satire
Special Jury Commendation: Prix Futura Berlin 1993BBC Radio 3 Larry Dann, Meg Davies, Struan Rodger, Steve Hodson, Kate Binchey, Mathew Morgan, Keith Drinkel, Eric Allan, Phillip Anthony, Nicholas Murchie, Melanie Hudson, John Webb and Jonathon Taffler What at first seems to be an open-and-shut case turns out not to be so straightforward. BBC Radio 4
Saturday Playhouse– McSorley's Wonderful Saloon The Ghost of New York City, Patrick Carroll, 24 June 2011 abridged by Read by Eli Wallach Eli Wallach reads eight stories from Joseph Mitchell's classic collection of tales from the New Yorker, beginning with the first part of a celebrated portrait of New York's oldest saloon, McSorley's. BBC Radio 4
Book at Bedtime BBC – Book at Bedtime Malcolm Rennie, Brian Croucher, Adé Sapara, Paul Shane, Michael Melia, Mona Hammond, Ray Lonnen, Oscar James, Malcolm Kaye, Don Gilét, Michael Onslow, Vivienne Rochester, Andrew Wincott, Gary Lawrence, Steve Hodson, James Telfer, John Evitt, John Fleming and John Webb When a black youth dies in a violent incident on the London Underground, the subsequent investigation uncovers a pervasive racism that appears to reach to the top ranks of the police themselves. BBC Radio 4
Saturday Night Theatre
(Recorded on 28 August 1993) James Aubrey, Karen Archer, Pauline Yates, Frances Jeater, Barry Woolgar, Teresa Gallagher, David Thorpe, Nicholas Boulton, Steve Hodson, Isabelle Hewitt, John Prendergast and Hayley Thomas Childhood memories draw Ben Wheeler back to a lake, but when a child disappears his obsession provokes suspicion. BBC Radio 4 Waiting for Lefty Clifford Odets' stilted Waiting For Lefty, Robert Hanks, The Independent, 15 March 1994
adapted by Bill MorrisonEd Bishop, William Hootkins, Bob Sherman, Bradley Lavelle, Teresa Gallagher, Malcolm Ward, Paul Panting, Melanie Hudson, Jonathon Tafler and Michael Fitzpatrick Series of related vignettes, framed by the meeting of cab drivers who are planning a strike BBC Radio 3 Tipperary Smith Natasha Pyne and Barbara Durkin The adventures of a Bradford woman in the Far East.
Commended by European Broadcasting Union (Turin – Sept. 1994)BBC Radio 4 – Shakespeare's sonnets British Universities Film & Video Council – Shakespeare's Sonnets Simon Callow Six programmes, broadcast daily, in which Simon Callow explores the hidden meaning of the Sonnets by following a radical reordering by John Padel. Believing that the W.H. is William Herbert, it suggests that the poems were initially commissioned to convince W.H. to marry. The later passions and anguish of the poems then reveal the Poet. BBC Radio 3 Last Seen Wearing BBC – Inspector Morse – Last Seen Wearing dramatised by John Shrapnel, Robert Glenister, Miles Anderson, Melinda Walker, Donald Sumpter, Frances Jeater, Terence Edmond, Tamsin Greig, John Hartley and Emily Woof Colin Dexter's grumpy detective Inspector Morse is reluctant to take over an old missing person case from a dead colleague, but murder is Morse's speciality and the case soon has complications. BBC Radio 4 Inugami, The Dog God translated by
Music by Mia SoteriouPauline Letts, Susan Sheridan, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Auriol Smith, Ann Windsor, Charles Milham, David Banerman, James Taylor, Joanna Myers, Siriol Jenkins, Margaret John and Rachel Atkins In a remote village in Japan, a woman is attacked by a dog. Nine months later she gives birth to a son, Tsukio, and the village treats him with apprehension. A powerful mythic drama by one of the 20th century's most important Japanese writers, Shūji Terayama. BBC Radio 3 Virtual Radio Stephen Tompkinson, Jennie Stoller, Buffy Davis, Larry Dann and Anthony Jackson Virtual reality is so seductive to Bob that his entire life becomes devoted to escape into his machinery – but where will it take him when the bailiffs come? BBC Radio 4
Thirty Minute Theatre
(Recorded on 5 January 1995)Friday's Child BBC – Georgette Heyer – Friday's Child
dramatised byMary Wimbush, Eva Stuart, Susan Sheridan, David Bannerman, Tessa Worsley, Nicholas Boulton, Simon Russell Beale, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Ian Hughes, Jilly Bond, Paul Panting, Cathy Sara, Peter Kenny, David Antrobus, Annabel Mullion, James Frain and Elli Garnett Viscount Sheringham is fast spending his money, and cannot inherit until he marries. Will his choice of bride bring happiness to them both? BBC Radio 4
Playhouse Green and Pleasant Land Written and presented by Jeremy Nicholas Sony Award for Best Feature Programme 1996 BBC Radio 2
Radio Two Arts Programme Silver's City Monday Play Silver's City, Radio Times Brian Cox, Freddie Boardley, James Nesbitt, Clare Cathcart, John Rogan, Sean Caffrey, Michael McKnight, Ethna Roddy, Valerie Lilley, Catherine White, Conleth Hill, Toby E. Byrne, Robert Patterson, Joshua Towb, and James Greene Brian Cox stars as 'Silver' Steele in Maurice Leitch's play based on his Whitbread Prize-winning novel. Freed from imprisonment for terrorism by a Loyalist raid on his hospital room,
Silver finds that his ideals have made him a dangerous anachronism in a changing Northern Ireland. BBC Radio 4
The Monday Play Telephone in the Deep Freeze Barbara Durkin, Polly James, Oliver Cotton, Eric Allan, Sandra Voe, Hazel Holder, Colin Pinney, Donald Sumpter, George Parsons, Lyndam Gregory and Gary Lawrence "Only people like us, who have lived with an alcoholic, can understand the mental agony that goes with it. We're co-alcoholics." Janet Plater's deeply moving play follows the fortunes of members of a support group for "co-alcoholics". BBC Radio 4 Radio Two Arts Programme, Radio Times Contributors: Carl Davis, David Robinson, Kevin Brownlow Lisa Hull In cinema's centenary year, Neil Brand - composer and accompanist to silent films at the National Film Theatre - explores the great years before the coming of sound. Also including a 'silent film for radio' written and read by Miles Kington to the piano accompaniment of Neil Brand. BBC Radio 2
Radio Two Arts Programme
(Recorded on 24 August 1995)Biography Races Presented by John Walsh, Literary Editor of The Independent.
Biographers Victoria Glendinning, Humphrey Carpenter and Miranda Seymour join publisher Helen Fraser. BBC Radio 4
Books and Company
(Recorded on 7 September 1995)Begin at the Beginning Presented by John Walsh, Literary Editor of The Independent. Children's storytelling has become a global industry where books sell upwards of 30 million copies. BBC Radio 4
Books and Company
(Recorded on 14 September 1995) Presented by John Walsh, Literary Editor of The Independent.
With Nik Cohn, Lucy O'Brien and Jon Savage.Are books about rock the new rock'n'roll? BBC Radio 4
Books and Company
(Recorded on 22 September 1995) BBC – Inspector Morse – The Burglar Read by John Turner Neighbourly concern about a suspicious stranger sets a new puzzle for Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis in a story specially written for the Nottingham Boucheron. BBC Radio 4
Short Story Death of an Ugly Sister Roy Barraclough, Paul Shane, Linda Regan, John Alstead, Tina Grey, Jilly Mears, Gordon Reid, Annabel Mullion, Christopher Sidon, Oliver Senton, David Lerner, Crawford Logan, Peter Yapp, Michael Tudor Barnes. Becky Hindley, Sandra Bowe and James Beatty A very dark comedy of pantomime, serial murder, crack addiction and secret gay sex....... BBC Radio 4
Saturday Night Theatre
Extended repeat 11 May 1997 Giving Proust the Pinter treatment, Robert Hanks, The Independent, 17 May 1997 adapted for radio by Douglas Hodge, John Wood, Emma Fielding and Harold Pinter Harold Pinter's film script of Marcel Proust's novel À la recherche du temps perdu has never been produced for the screen, but in this radio adaptation Harold Pinter himself guides us through the story, speaking the 'big print' of the script as it sets each scene and describes establishing shots, closeups, long shots, scenes without dialogue ... all in the immediately recognisable language of film. BBC Radio 3
Memory Evening
(Recorded on 2 January 1996) Melinda Walker, Zoë Wanamaker, Anton Lesser, Emily Richard, Oona Beeson, Oliver Cotton, John Sharian and Alan Marriott BBC Radio 4
Thirty Minute Theatre
(Recorded on 6 January 1996) BBC – Inspector Morse – The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn dramatised by John Shrapnel, Robert Glenister, Richard Pasco, Meg Davies, Stephen Critchlow, David Timson, John Hartley, Lyndam Gregory and Roger May Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse faces a puzzling trip into the world of deaf people with the murder of an invigilator in a foreign exam syndicate. BBC Radio 4
(Recorded on 14 January 1996)Heartache , text completed by . Richard Griffiths, David Timson, Jim Broadbent, Tracy Wiles, Lee Montague, David de Keyser and Meg Davies Cartoonist Mel Calman, who died two years previously, left a final play for radio in which all of a man's body parts rise up to resist his heart attack. BBC Radio 4
Thirty Minute Theatre
(Recorded on 28 January 1996) Alice Arnold, Jane Whittenshaw, Ann Beach, Nicky Henson, Bob Sherman, Zulema Dene, Frances Tomelty and Israel Horovitz A comedy of anxiety in New York City.
Jeffrey, a writer, struggles with a magazine article.BBC Radio 4
Thirty Minute Theatre Everybody Comes to Schicklgruber's Clive Swift, David Kossoff, Jane Whittenshaw, Keith Drinkel, Kerry Shale, Alice Arnold, Ann Beach, Bruce Purchase, Cyril Shaps, Kim Wall, Kristin Millward, Lee Montague, Steven Crossley, Timothy Bateson and Wolfe Morris The war's been over for fifty years. Then Edward Schicklgruber, Adolf Hitler's cake cook brother, turns up in Vienna, just where he's been all along, doing what he does best.
1997 Silver Sony Award for Best Radio PlayBBC Radio 4 American Faith
Music by Neil BrandAlan Marriott, Colin Stinton, William Roberts, William Dufris, John Sharian, Kate Harper, Ed Bishop, Garrick Hagon, Bob Sherman, Tara Hugo, Morgan Deare, Steven Crossley, Norman Chancer and William Hootkins Richard Milhous Nixon's road to Watergate. BBC Radio 4 (Recorded on 21 April 1996) Text: David Zane Mairowitz
Music: Dominic Muldowney
Sound: Ian DeardenMaria Friedman and Alan Belk In Dominic Muldowney's score an erotically charged collision between two of the cultural stars of the 20th century makes for operatic radio. Isadora Duncan and F. T. Marinetti vie for carnal domination over a futurist meal...
Winner: Prix Italia Special Prize for Fiction 1997 Prix Italia, Winners 1949 – 2010, RAI
Sony Award for Best Radio Drama 1997BBC Radio 3
Between the Ears BBC – Between the Ears By Jeeves A Timeline For Jeeves & By Jeeves, Alan Ayckbourn By Jeeves – Radio (1996), Alan Ayckbourn CastAlbums » By Jeeves » BBC Radio 2 Cast
adapted by Alan AyckbournSteven Pacey, Malcolm Sinclair, Robert Austin, Diana Morrison, Simon Day, Nicholas Haverson, Lucy Tregear, Cathy Sara, Nicolas Collicos, Richard Long, Denise Silvey, Giles Taylor and Mike Windsor Recorded with an audience at the BBC Radio Theatre, with the West End cast playing to piano accompaniment with the West End recording of the songs mixed in later. BBC Radio 2 BBC – The Westward Journey Carolyn Jones and Marcia Warren "We are now beyond the Missouri River. We have left the States behind. Ahead of us lie the great uncivilised plains." On the wagon trains of the perilous migration across America to Oregon and California, the strength of women was tested against the ambition and pride of their men. BBC Radio 4 Love Story Love Story review, Sue Gaisford, The Independent, 31 August 1997 dramatised by Ingri Damon, Mark Leake, Patrick Allen, Sheila Allen, John Guerrasio, David Brooks, William Dufris, Gerrard McDermott, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Christopher Wright
Harpsichord: David Roblou "What do you say about a twenty-five-year old girl who died? That she was brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me." The most potent romantic novel of the 1970s in a new dramatic version by Juliet Ace. BBC Radio 4
Saturday Play BBC – Saturday Play As You Like It British Universities Film & Video Council – As You Like It adapted by Imogen Stubbs, Toby Stephens and Ronald Pickup Shakespeare's comedy of true love, misplaced love, gender confusion and reconciliation. BBC Radio 4
The Monday Play Goodbye Kiss Tom Courtenay and Peggy Phango For Master Donny, a return to the South Africa he left as a youth offers a fragile hope of reconciliation.
But it depends on Annie.BBC Radio 4
Thirty Minute Theatre Bell, Book and Candle adapted by Beatie Edney, Stephen Moore, Ann Beach and Nicholas Boulton Bewitched and bewildered, Anthony Henderson wanders into the Christmas cauldron of a Knightsbridge witches' coven just when Gillian Holroyd decides that she wants a new man in her life. BBC Radio 4 Fighting over Beverley Rosemary Harris, Ian Carmichael, Elizabeth McGovern and Israel Horovitz A Yorkshireman belatedly flies to America to reclaim the war bride taken from him by an American war hero 45 years earlier. BBC Radio 4 Last Man Out Louise Lombard and Donald Sumpter At the end of a night of jazz, only the drummer and the bar manager remain, packing up and picking over the ruins of their lives. BBC Radio 4 Phone Tag BBC – Phone Tag John Guerassio, Elizabeth Mansfield and Doreen Mantle A transatlantic love affair is played out on the telephone as calls are missed, messages are left and confusion reigns. BBC Radio 4 Old Times Julia Ormond, Michael Pennington, Cheryl Campbell and Harold Pinter A darkly erotic drama. In an isolated country house, the past is about to come calling. BBC Radio 4 Summer with Monika BBC – Roger McGough – Summer with Monika Mark McGann and Katy Carmichael Roger McGough's dramatisation of his magical poem of love in the 1960s. BBC Radio 4 William Hootkins, Stefan Dennis and James Laurenson British actors and would-be Mel Gibsons have flocked to Los Angeles for the 'pilot season', and Billy Bob's apartment house is the venue for high ambition and low plots. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play BBC – Afternoon Play BBC – Afternoon Play – The Captain's Wife Patricia Hodge As the years pass, a navy spouse moves from craving conformity to rebellion. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Stations of the Cross Israel Horovitz, Nicky Henson and Joanna Monro David has returned from America, the land of his father, to make a farcical, poetic rail crossing of England to the home of his sister – and to an unforgettable funeral. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Love, Pray, and Do the Dishes Paul Bradley, Struan Rodger and Alice Arnold A mobile phone ringing out in the middle of a Sunday service is the start of a media roller coaster ride for Father Andrew. Only his employer would ring him at work... BBC Radio 4 – Trust me, I'm a Policeman
(Six-part series) John Woodvine, David Antrobus and Jan Winters Detective Sergeant Matrix takes a reluctant work-experience youth on a stakeout and passes the time with highly unreliable tales of police work. BBC Radio 4 Victorville The third man reconstructed, Ned Chaillet, The Independent, 3 August 1998 Stanley Kamel, David Ogden Stiers and William Hootkins In Los Angeles last month, three actors recreated a crucial hour in cinema history – when Orson Welles delivered his verdict on the screenplay for Citizen Kane. At stake is the credit for the film, being written by Herman J Mankiewicz and overseen by John Houseman. BBC Radio 4
Friday Play BBC – Friday Play BBC – The Friday Play – The Dish Bette Bourne Bette Bourne stars as China Dish, the role he played on stage to great critical acclaim. The intimate radio version provides an equally funny and chilling insight into the dying days of a Bournemouth bed-and-breakfast that has seen both joy and Aids. Music: Laka Daisical. BBC Radio 4
Friday Play
translated and adapted by Eivor MartinusRonald Pickup, Cheryl Campbell, Eleanor Moriarty, Tom Mannion, Christopher Good, Eve Pearce, Ben Crowe and Paul Panting A mother knows her own child, but the seed of paternal doubt can poison a father's mind. BBC Radio 3 Struan Rodger, Emily Richard and Angela Pleasence Alcohol, anger, infidelity and stories of Dartmoor witches and the "hairy hand" are the ingredients in a cocktail party that goes dangerously awry for Geoffrey. BBC Radio 4 : Red Scare William Hootkins, Bob Sherman, Kate Harper and Patrick Allen The 24-year-old Hoover is charged with orchestrating America's first campaign against communism. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play : Public Enemy William Hootkins, Michael Neill, John Guerrasio, William Roberts, Mac MacDonald, Adam Sims and Dave Brooks Hoover sheds his younger self and moves into the orbit of Walter Winchell, America's radio pundit, as they wage war against gangsters, creating and destroying heroes. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play : They Call Him Bobby William Hootkins and John Sharian A powerful duologue for US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover.
It is set in the volatile years of the Kennedy administration, when the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. and the war against the American Mafia were high on the Kennedy agenda. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play : Private and Confidential William Hootkins and David Soul J. Edgar Hoover's life is reviewed by his lifelong companion and assistant director, Clyde Tolson. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play The Old Man and the Sea, Harold Jackson, Radio Pick of the day, The Guardian, 2 August 2002
dramatised byRod Steiger, Ramon Estevez and David Allister A dramatisation of the book which led to Hemingway's Nobel Prize for Literature.
An old fisherman's epic struggle for one last great fish is a classic fable of the 20th century.BBC Radio 4
Friday Play Bent's Business: Talk's Cheap James Faulkner, Amy Shindler and Brian Croucher The glamour, and particularly the corruption, of the international art trade is Anthony Bent's business.
In the first of two adventures, the theft of a Constable painting from a London gallery leads to death, and to Spain.BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Bent's Business: An Old Flame James Faulkner, Amy Shindler and Brian Croucher The glamour, and particularly the corruption, of the international art trade is Anthony Bent's business.
In the second of two adventures, the murky underworld of international art theft threatens those nearest to him, and his own reputation.BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play On the Eve of the Millennium Warren Mitchell, Karl Johnson, Cathy Tyson and Ioan Meredith In a comic and touching performance, Mitchell evokes the rich humanity of a father determined to pass on a hidden heritage to his son – when his bouts with Alzheimer's disease permit. BBC Radio 4
Friday Play 1000 Years of Spoken English: Know What I Mean? Patricia Hodge, Michael Kitchen and Sylvester Williams A marriage between a barrister and a management consultant is under threat when a Caller comes to visit, but they have the armoury of their professional languages on their side. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play 1000 Years of Spoken English: The Verger Queen Bette Bourne An ancient verger in a historic church is disturbed by a tour party who sparks him into memories of hundreds of years of the church, forgotten pleasure gardens, and the coded world of a once-secret sexual culture. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Her Infinite Variety – Writing to Veronica Eleanor Moriarty Five 15-minute plays inspired by Shakespeare's Women.
Faced with parental disapproval of the boy of her choice, a young Juliet of today at least has the internet and agony aunt Veronica. BBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama BBC – Woman's Hour Drama Radio Previews, Laura Kernan, The Irish Times, 4 December 1999 (Subscription required) (Free index page) Andrew Scott, Sorcha Cusack, T. P. McKenna, James Greene, Gavin Muir, Gavin Stewart, Valerie Lilley and Elizabeth Bell A comedy of Irish manners is the last thing young Winston expects when he is uprooted from Northern Ireland and transplanted to London. But there is more than rhyming slang that he must learn to understand. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Her Infinite Variety – Diary of a Dutiful Daughter Anna Massey Faced with a doddering dad and a nursing home she runs as a business, what can a modern Goneril do but offer him the box room? BBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama Her Infinite Variety – And All That Jazz Bette Bourne Count Orso offers a modern Viola a spectacular twelfth night, with a wardrobe beyond most cross-dressers' dreams. BBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama Her Infinite Variety – Dirty Linen Elizabeth Bell and Oliver Cotton Everyone thought Rocky would tame the shrewish Cat, but 20 years of their tempestuous marriage is played out in a national newspaper. BBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama Alphabox
dramatised byConrad Nelson, Gemma Saunders, Beth Chalmers, Harry Myers, Christopher Kellem, Tom George and Rosie Cavillero Alphabox is a mysterious and almost fairytale-like short story based on letters and their relationship to story-telling. In the book, a writer has his letters hand-delivered to him each day one by one, in a mysterious wooden box. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Michelle Holmes, Patrick Nielsen and Stephen Hogan A magical underwater world awaits Leni – if her cry from the depths of the public swimming baths can be heard. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Design for Murder Malcolm Sinclair, Eleanor Bron, Kristin Milward, Tam Williams, Nicholas Boulton, Gemma Saunders, Joe Dunlop and Don McCorkingdale Actor, playwright, songwriter, director and star, Noël Coward never quite added sleuth to his astonishing achievements.
But just before the war with Adolf Hitler, there is a gap in his memoirs – is there a murder mystery in those days?BBC Radio 4
The Saturday Play– Father! Father! Burning Bright
abridged byRead by Alan Bennett Alan Bennett reads his comic story in five parts. BBC Radio 4
Book at Bedtime– Joe Gould's Secret abridged by Read by Eli Wallach A classic literary mystery by New Yorker journalist Joseph Mitchell, describing his true-life encounter with a Greenwich Village bohemian in the 1940s who claims to have written a great American book. BBC Radio 4
Book of the Week BBC – Book of the Week Marina Tsvetayeva Diana Quick Based on the life of the Russian poet Marina Tsvetayeva, who went into exile after the Revolution.
Following her return to Russia in 1939, her husband was shot, and she killed herself in 1941.BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play– Jagged Prayer
(Four-part crime series) Cheryl Campbell and Timothy Spall Comedy drama combining crime, convents, police and perdition. BBC Radio 4 Zero Tolerance Nicky Henson, Ronald Pickup and Tom George With trade advantages, increased tax revenue, and a handy mathematical superiority over the Pope's insistence on Roman numerals, should the doge of Venice declare war on the Vatican, particularly considering the doge's interest in his mathematician's wife? BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Small Parts BBC – Afternoon Play – Small Parts Patricia Hodge Seduced by the theatre, Mattie Potter joins a repertory company in Wales where she finds that the quick-change artistry of bit parts is a kind of preparation for life. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Three Chickens Anton Lesser, Valerie Braddell and Suzanna Hamilton On a magic island in Brazil, the Englishman William Marlow is seduced by tales of witchcraft.
In a story about three chickens, he finds uncanny and uncomfortable echoes of a life he thought he had left behind him.BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Harold Pinter and Jill Johnson A husband and wife encounter a strange, mute matchseller. They each see something different in him. BBC Radio 4 Dr. Ibsen's Ghosts Paul Scofield, Morag Hood, Edna Doré and Michael N. Harbour The story of the illegitimate son and the forgotten mother of the great Norwegian poet and playwright Henrik Ibsen. BBC Radio 3 Into the Ether John Sharian and Holley Chant At the height of the Cold War, American and Russian scientists lined up their psychics and telepaths in the service of the military.
Ballistic missiles pale beside the power of the human mind at the beginning of the 90s, in this chilling drama.BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Man in Snow BBC – Afternoon Play – Man in Snow Israel Horovitz, Marcia Warren, Dick Vosburgh and Burt Kwouk As a climber escorts a group of honeymooners up Alaska's highest mountain he recalls his relationship with his dead son.
2001 Bronze Sony Award for Drama BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play
dramatised byWilliam Hope, Bob Sherman, Laurel Lefkow and Beth Chalmers Guy wakes each morning from the same terrifying dream, but each day it is soothed away by special offers and an abundance of consumer goods.
Then, one day, he begins to recall a little more.BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play and
adapted for radio bySimon Callow, Elizabeth McGovern, Conleth Hill, Cheryl Campbell and John Sessions A broken leg turns a visiting celebrity into a tyrannical house guest who mercilessly abuses a family's hospitality, in this classic 30s comedy. BBC Radio 4 Jeremy Northam, Teresa Gallagher, Jillie Mears and Tom George James, a man haunted by the disturbing image of a figure in an old-fashioned military uniform, is struggling to break the walls he has built around himself, but he must confront the pain and mystery of what happened in his childhood. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Feng Shui and Me Phillip Joseph, Janet Maw, Jimmy Yuill and Gordon Reid Chanting seems to help, but not even a Buddhist romance can quite quell Mick's craving for alcohol. BBC Radio 4
The Saturday Play I'll be George Jane Lapotaire, Simon Callow, Federay Holmes, Jennie Stoller, Jasmine Hyde, Jonathan Keeble and Gordon Reid George Sand was one of literature's freest spirits, and when she is evoked in present-day Paris by an Australian tour guide the result is a bawdy fantasia of mother and daughter relationships. With an incarnated Charles Dickens, the 19th century and 21st century collide in a turbulent and gritty morality tale. BBC Radio 4
Friday Play Suzanna Hamilton, Ray Lonnen, Roger May and Terence Edmond When a paroled murderer kills after his release, all new paroles are frozen by the Home Office.
A prisoner caught in this freeze on new paroles challenges the ruling and demands a psychological profile from a hardline psychiatrist – with explosive results.BBC Radio 4
Saturday Play : Marius
adapted by from a translation byRichard Johnson, Simon Scardifield, Monica Dolan and Andrew Sachs Marius, son of César, feels the pull of the sea, and is prepared to sacrifice his family and his love for beautiful Fanny to fulfil his dreams. BBC Radio 4
The Saturday Play : Fanny
adapted by from a translation byMonica Dolan, Richard Johnson, Andrew Sachs and Simon Scardifield The story of a lovely young woman abandoned by César's son Marius, who is unaware she is pregnant. BBC Radio 4
The Saturday Play : César
adapted by from a translation byRichard Johnson, Simon Scardifield, Monica Dolan, Andrew Sachs, Tam Williams, Steve Hodson, Stephen Thorne, Struan Rodger, Phillip Joseph and Sean Baker Twenty years after the events of the first play, the sad comedy of lost love is touched by a rich comedy of death and disclosure. A mother's secrets send her son off in search of a father he never knew. BBC Radio 4
The Saturday Play Free Gift Maureen Lipman, Sophie Okonedo and Daniel Anthony An Englishwoman in New York finds the most wonderful free gift when a child was left on her doorstep, but she lives in fear that the gift might be taken away. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Groupie Barbara Windsor and Timothy West Matty reads the memoirs of a well-known artist from the East End, and she writes to him. He is down on his luck, living as a recluse, and has no work. Eventually, they meet, a few illusions are shattered and things develop in a way they had not foreseen. BBC Radio 4 BBC – The Saturday Play – The Gold Bug
dramatised byClarke Peters, John Sharian, Rhashan Stone and William Hootkins Set in 1838, this is Poe's story of piracy, slavery and a treasure hunt, with a critical overhaul to excise the 19th-century casual racism from this compelling tale of obsession. BBC Radio 4
The Saturday Play Hecuba Euripides
translated and adapted byOlympia Dukakis, Timothy West, Emma Fielding, Greg Hicks and Nicholas Woodeson Greek tragedy BBC Radio 3 It's a Wonderful Divorce David Bamber and Sarah Paul The love of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life could become grounds for divorce as the season of goodwill approaches. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Damned If I Do , , and Mini-musical. New songs from songwriter Connie are laid out as a trap for her best friend Zoe. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Who Goes There? ChillersProduced by Ned Chaillet, directed by Rachel Horan
dramatised byLiam Brennan, Ioan Meredith, Cyril Nri, Christopher Godwin, Harry Myers and Colin Adrian Six men are trapped by a vicious snowstorm in an Antarctic research station. BBC Radio 4
Chillers Swan Song
dramatised byMaria Friedman, Emily Woof, Sylvester Morand and Ray Lonnen As if from nowhere, a soprano has emerged to become the Tosca of our day – but like Tosca she carries in her heart a terrible need for revenge. BBC Radio 4 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
dramatised byDavid Soul, Harlan Ellison, Abi Eniola, Ewan Bailey, David Timson and Jason O'Mara After a computer wins mankind's last war, there is a final battle still to come, between it and the five surviving humans. BBC Radio 4
Chillers Magnolia Blossom BBC – Agatha Christie – Magnolia Blossom
dramatised byEmilia Fox, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Alex Jennings and Ewan Bailey A woman's place is definitely not in the luxury home created for her by her financier husband. But in times of trouble a woman's loyalty can challenge the presumption of men – and infidelity can be a small crime compared to others. BBC Radio 4 Delta Sly Honey
dramatised byCorey Johnson, Robert Petkoff, Sam Douglas and Ben Onwukwe A country boy exorcises his demons in Vietnam by making late-night broadcasts to phantom military units – until one of them answers his call. BBC Radio 4
Chillers Corona
dramatised byJosie Kook-Clarke, Walter Lewis, Doña Croll, John Moraitis, William Roberts and Bill Bailey When a telepathic girl and a damaged young man are hospitalised, their two minds become entwined as the nightmares of his brutal past draw her in. BBC Radio 4
Chillers Kenneth Haigh, Nickolas Grace, Jill Johnson, John Sharian, Conrad Nelson, Ben Crowe, Barbara Barnes, Bob Sherman, Peter Marinker and Tom George When the Titanic sank the owners of the White Star Line made every effort to return straight to England. An inquiry set up by the United States Senate held the surviving witnesses ashore in New York until questions could be answered. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Kenneth Haigh, John Sessions, John Sharian, Peter Marinker, Conrad Nelson, Ben Crowe, Tom George and Barbara Barnes Testimony from the archives of the United States Senate investigation into the sinking of the Titanic moves on to an early confrontation with cheque book journalism in 1912. The inventor of the wireless, Guglielmo Marconi, takes the stand. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play In Extremis Sheila Hancock and Corin Redgrave It is March 1895, and Oscar Wilde consults a palm reader to help him with a momentous decision. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Meet Mr. Mulliner: Honeysuckle Cottage
dramatised byRichard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Peter Acre, Martin Hyder, David Timson and Tom George An engaging new series that brings one of Wodehouse's most entertaining characters to radio begins with one of the best loved of the tales. Richard Griffiths stars as the storytelling Mr Mulliner whose narratives enlist the regular tipplers of the Angler's Rest as participants. One of the Mulliner clan writes tough detective stories, but when he inherits the cottage of another family author he finds it haunted by the spirit of all her cloying romantic fiction. Marital bliss seems inevitable. BBC Radio 4 Meet Mr. Mulliner:
dramatised byRichard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Peter Acre, Martin Hyder, David Timson and Tom George A gothic comedy of beauty preparations, thwarted love, a spooky old house, and a determined suitor. The regulars of the Angler's Rest parlour bar step into yet another of Mr Mulliner's quirky stories. BBC Radio 4 Meet Mr. Mulliner:
dramatised byRichard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Peter Acre, Martin Hyder, David Timson and Carl Prekopp In the bar parlour of the Angler's Rest, the regulars are drawn into another of Mr Mulliner's peculiar tales. When a dyspeptic detective member of the Mulliner family receives a doctor's prescription to smile, the frightening knowingness of his grin spreads terror throughout the titled classes. BBC Radio 4 Meet Mr. Mulliner: Open House
dramatised byRichard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Peter Acre, Martin Hyder, David Timson and Marlene Sidaway Never more Wodehousian than when faced with frightening aunts, terrifying ingenues and resourceful butlers, Mr Mulliner's tale today touches on a Mulliner whose callous dismissal of one young woman opens the door to vengeful neighbours, animal cruelty – and exile. BBC Radio 4 Meet Mr. Mulliner: Came The Dawn
dramatised byRichard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Peter Acre, Martin Hyder, David Timson and Tom George A transparent visage is the striking feature of Mr Mulliner's relative Lancelot in today's tale of indomitable love, poetry, parental obstruction and unexpected opportunities. Mr Mulliner stretches the credulity of his captive fellow tipplers in the Angler's Rest parlour bar, but as ever they are drawn into his story where the glitter of silent movies proves irresistible. BBC Radio 4 Meet Mr. Mulliner: Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo
dramatised byRichard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Peter Acre, Martin Hyder, David Timson, Carl Prekopp, Tom George and Sandra Clark Pale young curates are rapidly going out of fashion. Augustine Mulliner, in particular, is transformed overnight into a tiger of a churchman when his aunt sends some of Uncle Wilfred's latest invention, a tonic called Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo. BBC Radio 4 A spectre is said to haunt a small Somerset village. Gerald's circumstances make him particularly vulnerable – but what is the real secret of the Doctor's House? BBC Radio 4 Coriolanus British Universities Film & Video Council – Coriolanus adapted by Samuel West, Adrian Dunbar, Susannah York and Kenneth Haigh Shakespeare's powerful Roman play The Tragedy of Coriolanus BBC Radio 3
Drama on 3 BBC – Drama on 3– Read by Arthur Miller An account of the postwar anti-Communist paranoia which gripped America at the height of McCarthyism. BBC Radio 4
Book of the Week Evaristo's Epitaph , based on a true story. Jasmine Hyde, Geoffrey Hutchings, Seun Shote, Diana Berriman, Samantha Robinson and Ben Crowe The inscription on a tombstone in a Cornish churchyard tells the tale of a remarkable friendship between a master and an African slave. Unravelling the historical mystery of the genuine epitaph, Patrick Carroll's play is an inspired and tender re-creation of a remarkable true story. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play– My Life as Me Read by Barry Humphries Barry Humphries casts off his Dame Edna Everage mantle to read from his hilarious autobiography in his own voice. BBC Radio 4
Book of the Week BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: A Man's Head
dramatised byNicholas Le Prevost, Julian Barnes, Ron Cook, Paul Birchard, Beth Chalmers, Philip Fox, Ifan Meredith, Tom George, Jane Whittenshaw and Ben Crowe Jules Maigret bends the rules to investigate a double murder in a Paris suburb. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: The Bar On The Seine
dramatised byNicholas Le Prevost, Julian Barnes, Ron Cook, Timothy Watson, Sylvester Morand, Jonathan Tafler, Tracy Wiles, Rebecca Egan, Martin Hyder, Richard Firth, Scott Brooksbank, Emma Woolliams and Laura Doddington Jules Maigret puts his holiday on hold to tackle an unsolved murder. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play– Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(Three episodes)
dramatised byMark Caven, Christopher Jacot, Martin Roach, Kay Hawtrey and Sandy Webster The classic tale following Huck and the runaway slave Jim on their journey down the Mississippi on a raft.
A Joint BBC/CBC Production with an all-Canadian cast, it was produced at CBC's Toronto studios.BBC Radio 4
Classic Serial BBC – Classic Serial My Friend Maigret BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: My Friend Maigret
dramatised byNicholas Le Prevost, Julian Barnes, Neil Dudgeon, Jonathan Keeble, Jilly Bond, Maggie McCarthy, Bunny Reed, Ewan Bailey, Martin Hyder, Richard Firth, Emma Woolliams, Simon Donaldson and Carla Simpson On the seductive island of Porquerolles, a man is murdered when he claims the friendship of Jules Maigret. With a Scotland Yard detective in tow, Maigret is sent from Paris to investigate the death, and finds a dangerous and tempting dissolution – and some old acquaintances. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Phil Davis, Nicholas Deal, Claire Rushbrook, Steven Diggory, Annabelle Apsion, Tony Rohr and Michael N. Harbour Sex and drugs and rock and roll are the illusory dreams of Bruce in his mid-life crisis.
But he forgets that he is also the older man, and finds that a ménage à trois can easily become an extended family.BBC Radio 4
Friday Play Madame Maigret's Own Case BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: Madame Maigret's Own Case
dramatised byNicholas Le Prevost Julian Barnes, Ron Cook, Julie Legrand, Paul Sirr, Victoria Carling, Nicholas Boulton, Carl Prekopp and Martin Hyder Jules Maigret's wife finds herself entangled in a case of murder when two human teeth are found in a bookbinder's furnace. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Karl Johnson, Christopher Kelham, Kate Dudley, Philip Jackson, Paul Downing, Stephen Critchlow, Carolyn Backhouse and Martin Hyder A pianist's marathon performance in a seaside town provides the evocative soundtrack for a tale of young love and first heartache. The music that conjures up a week in the 1950s still has the potency to bring back pain. BBC Radio 4 In a Glass Darkly BBC – Agatha Christie – In a Glass Darkly
dramatised byNeil Dudgeon and Rebecca Egan In a mirror, a man witnesses a murderous attack on a young woman just before he meets the woman and falls in love with her. BBC Radio 4 Righteous Brothers John Woodvine, Clive Swift, Tom George, Ioan Meredith, David Timson, Peter Luke Kenny and Carolyn Jones Harmony is the joyful noise that Brother Caradoc wishes to offer to the Lord. He dreams of taking his fellow monks to a higher musical plane with him. BBC Radio 4 BBC – Agatha Christie – The Dressmaker's Doll
dramatised byJuliet Aubrey, Beth Chalmers, Stephen Critchlow, Gemma Saunders, Emma Woolliams and Connie Gurie When a doll with a mind of its own comes into your life, it might be worth finding out what it wants.
Agatha Christie for the 21st century is no less chilling for moving to the driving rhythms of London's catwalks in the cut-throat world of today's fashion.BBC Radio 4 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich BBC – The Saturday Play – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
dramatised byNeil Dudgeon, Philip Jackson, Paul Chan, Jonathan Tafler, Ben Onwukwe, Bruce Purchase, Matthew Morgan, Marty Rea, Stephen Critchlow, Ben Crowe, Seun Shote and Peter Darney When Solzhenitsyn's shattering picture of Stalin's prison camps became an international bestseller in 1962, it seemed to signal a thaw in the Cold War. But Solzhenitsyn was a prophet about to be dishonoured in his own land, and the uncensored version of the novel did not appear until 1991 – the year after Solzhenitsyn's citizenship was restored in Russia. Following the routine of a single day in the camps, the story is a dynamic demonstration of human resilience. BBC Radio 4
The Saturday Play Swan-song for the Nightingale BBC - Afternoon Play - Swan-song for the Nightingale Sorcha Cusack, Marty Rea, James Ellis, John Rogan, Stephen Hogan, James Greene and Norma Sheahan The sound of country music rings alarm bells for young Kevin, when it means that his 'has-been alcoholic' mother hits the comeback trail in Ireland, and wants to take him along.
But he has a lot to learn about his mother, and other stars of yesteryear.BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Speaking Well of the Dead Jill Clayburgh, Lily Rabe and Israel Horovitz Penelope speaks well of her husband, who was killed at the World Trade Center, and her daughter, Willa, wants to speak the truth. It would mean killing her father again. BBC Radio 4
Friday Play Eryl Maynard Eryl Maynard, Jean Heywood, Fine Time Fontayne and Matilda Ziegler Chickens first come into the Chicken Woman's life while she and her husband strive for children.
Defending her 'girls' against the Fox; nursing them into health, and comforting them in her bed, she is adamantly not obsessed.
But the neighbours have another view.BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play BBC – A Bullet at Balmain's Malcolm Sinclair, Eleanor Bron, Tam Williams, Linda Marlowe, Susy Kane, Jaimi Barbakof, William Hootkins and Frances Jeater Noël Coward is in post-liberation Paris, 1948, to play the lead, in French, in his own play "Present Laughter". But the murder of a promiscuous mannequin provides him with a crime to solve BBC Radio 4 Dead-Heading the Roses BBC – Afternoon Play – Dead-Heading the Roses Dead-Heading the Roses – Radio Pick of the Day – Phil Daoust, The Guardian, 12 December 2003 Dead-Heading the Roses review – Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 15 December 2003 Jill Balcon, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cheryl Campbell, Graham Crowden and William Hootkins Ariadne, a naval officer's wife, has become the benign queen of death, arranging tasteful memorial services – which will include her husband's. But before his departure he has plotted a final fling. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play – James Baldwin in Paris BBC – Friday Play – A Kind of Home: James Baldwin in Paris Ricky Fearon, Ronald Pickup, Tom Silburn, Alibe Parsons, Declan Wilson, Lydia Leonard, Jaimi Barbakoff, Damian Lynch, Lisa Davina Phillip, Ryan McCluskey, Roger May, Timothy Morand, Bob Sherman, Rachel Atkins and Chris Moran Covers the period from the war's end to the publication of Go Tell It on the Mountain. BBC Radio 4
Friday Play More Mr. Mulliner:
dramatised byRichard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Tom George, David Timson, Martin Hyder and Peter Acre Mr Mulliner returns to the Angler's Rest public house, where the regulars are once again ready to be transported into the roles of the characters in his fabulous stories. It is their urging that brings him back to the massively potent tonic, Buck-U-Uppo, which can transform a timid cleric into a tiger, and is even more dangerous when a bishop imbibes it. BBC Radio 4 More Mr. Mulliner:
dramatised byRichard Griffiths, Peter Darney, Matilda Ziegler, David Timson, Martin Hyder, Peter Acre and Stephen Critchlow This time, it is the timid Osbert Mulliner whose trials and tribulations begin when he falls in love, putting him at risk from a ferocious explorer and an even more ferocious uncle of the damsel. Rarely can a man have been so grateful for burglars. BBC Radio 4 More Mr. Mulliner:
dramatised byRichard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Tom George, Martin Hyder, David Timson, Peter Acre, Joanna McCallum and Gbemisola Ikemelo Only one of Mr Mulliner's many relatives appears to be a 'chump', young Mervyn Mulliner who demands a knightly quest to prove his love to the glamorous Clarice. It is December, in the 1920s, and she craves strawberries. BBC Radio 4 More Mr. Mulliner:
dramatised byRichard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Peter Darney, Martin Hyder, David Timson, Peter Acre, Damian Lynch and Lydia Leonard Mr Mulliner's final tale to the regulars at the Angler's Rest public house is about his crossword obsessed nephew, George, and his attempt to be as fluent in his speech to his beloved as he is in a crossword puzzle. Once again, the regulars fall into the story in a crazed journey across the English countryside, pursued by lunatics and farmers. BBC Radio 4 Skin Patricia Hodge Mattie's road to liberation and success sees her shedding her clothes on a naturist beach only to be asked for her autograph; but the sun also has its shadows. A wry and powerfully affecting tale of sun, flesh, naturism and mortality. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Maigret and the Burglar's Wife BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: Maigret and the Burglar's Wife
dramatised byNicholas Le Prevost, Julian Barnes, Julie Legrand, Rachel Atkins, Jill Johnson, Philip Franks, Tom George, Scott Brooksbank, Jennie Stoller, Philip Fox and Alice Hart A thief's wife comes back from the detective's past.
Jules Maigret last met Ernestine when he was a young policeman, and she refused to put her clothes on so he could arrest her.
But now he must choose to believe her story about a murdered woman discovered by her burglar husband, or believe the respectable dentist who denies there ever was a burglary.BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: The Yellow Dog
dramatised byNicholas Le Prevost, Julian Barnes, Cherie Taylor, Chris Moran, Phillip Joseph, Philip Fox, Michael Fenton Stevens, Ioan Meredith, Joe Dunlop, Steven Diggory, Damian Lynch, Francis Jeater and Rachel Atkins The Yellow Dog finds Jules Maigret away from his Paris patch, in a sordid tale set in Brittany where one of the town worthies has been shot – through a letter box – and a wandering dog spreads panic among the citizens. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Inspector Cadaver BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: Inspector Cadaver
dramatised byNicholas Le Prevost, Julian Barnes, Michael N. Harbour, David Bannerman, Karen Archer, Philip Fox, John Rowe, Alice Hart, Joanna McCallum and Scott Brooksbank It was only as a favour to his inspecting magistrate that Jules Maigret agreed to investigate rumours about a death in the village of St Aubin.
But when he arrives he finds his investigation undermined by an old adversary, the disgraced Inspector 'Cadaver'.
Baulked by a town united in silence, Maigret is determined to uncover the truth – however ugly.BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Maigret's Little Joke BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: Maigret's Little Joke
dramatised byNicholas Le Prevost, Julian Barnes, Julie Legrand, Phillip Joseph, Philip Fox, Harry Myers, Jaimi Barbakoff, Cherie Taylor-Battiste, Chris Moran, Rachel Atkins and Ioan Meredith When a particularly sensational murder takes place in Paris, Jules Maigret is on holiday and must follow the investigation like any member of the public, through newspapers and news flashes.
How can he keep his promise to Mme Maigret and let Inspector Janvier get on with solving the crime when he is haunted by the question: why the devil was the murdered woman naked?BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Stan Tom Courtenay, Ewan Bailey, Ed Bishop and Barbara Barnes As death finally threatens to separates the greatest double-act in film comedy, Stan Laurel tries to say the things which have been left unsaid, in a poignant and powerful farewell to Oliver Hardy. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play : Miss Tempy's Watchers
dramatised byJoanna McCallum, Sheila Allen and Susan Jameson Miss Tempy's Watchers sees two estranged friends finding their old bonds of affection as they watch over the body of a beloved friend the night before her funeral. BBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama :
dramatised bySusannah York, Nathan Osgood, Joanna McCallum and Brian Flaherty Mrs Abby Martin, a woman born at exactly the same moment as Queen Victoria (allowing for the time difference between England and New England), tells the tale of their parallel lives. BBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama : Captain Littlepage
dramatised byAlec McCowen, Jon Glover, Tam White, Joanna McCallum and Barbara Barnes A sea captain with a memory to share of meeting an ancient Scots mariner who sailed into uncharted waters, and discovered a strange land with no place for the living. BBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama : Miss Esther's Guest
dramatised bySusan Engel, Joanna McCallum, Jon Glover and Nancy Crane Seeing it as a duty to provide a country break for a city-dwelling church member, Miss Esther offers to take in a guest from Boston. The visitor is not the old lady she expects. BBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama :
dramatised byAngela Pleasence, Carolyn Jones, Joanna McCallum, Alice Hart, Jennifer Hilary and Eve Pearce Having fallen on hard times, the Bray sisters have been placed out of sight on a remote farm where they won't disturb the town's conscience. A chance visit by two old friends puts their lives in shocking contrast. BBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama Hippomania BBC – Drama on 3 – Hippomania Anthony Calf, Anastasia Hille, Patricia Leventon, Andrew Woodall, Victoria Woodward, Ian Masters, Owen Sharpe, Katherine Igoe, Stephen Hogan, Renee Weldon, Aoife McMahon, Gerard Murphy, John Rogan, Nicholas Boulton, Jimmy Akingbola, Ndidi del Fatti, Andrew Scott, Tam Williams, Snoo Wilson, Alex Tregear, Emily Wachter, Jason Chan, Robert Hastie and Stuart McLoughlin With Laurence Olivier preparing to film the patriotic epic Henry V in neutral Ireland during the Second World War, and the poet John Betjeman attracting the suspicious attention of the IRA, it is a heady time in Dublin.
Snoo Wilson's astonishing fantasia, which springs from real events in Betjeman's life, conjures up Nazis, assassins and fairies as the poet wanders blithely through seats of power, pubs and a cemetery.BBC Radio 3
Drama on 3– – My Life with John Thaw
(Five episodes) Read by Sheila Hancock Sheila Hancock reads from her enthralling new book about her deep and passionate partnership with her late husband, John Thaw. BBC Radio 4
Book of the Week Death at the Desert Inn BBC – The Saturday Play – Death at the Desert Inn Malcolm Sinclair, Eleanor Bron, Tam Williams, Belinda Lang, Jake Broder, Meredith MacNeil, Peter Swander, Nathan Osgood and William Hootkins Three hundred thousand dollars are left in a satchel in Noël Coward's Las Vegas suite.
Coward sets off on his unexpected posthumous career as a detective.
The Desert Inn, scene of one of his greatest cabaret triumphs, is the setting for a murder mystery complete with Judy Garland, a showgirl, a Broadway agent, an unlikely croupier and a US Congressman, with half of Hollywood in the audience.BBC Radio 4
The Saturday Play Glenn Conroy, Adam Sims and Jason Chan Drama about crooked antiques dealer Mark Hofmann, who nearly succeeded in rewriting American history and bringing down the LDS Church when his forgeries fooled experts around the world. BBC Radio 4
The Saturday Play Something Cool Linda Marlowe, Jim Norton, Alyson Coote, Bruno Lastra and Claudio Rojas In a Spanish bar, far out of the tourist season, Rose sits and waits for something to happen.
As the happy hour draws to a close, two strangers appear and the scene is set for an intense and unexpected confrontation.BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Scenes of Seduction British Universities Film & Video Council – Scenes of Seduction Michael Maloney, Jasmine Hyde and Harriet Walter Five-scene drama involving courting couples in various stages of life. The scene entitled Summer rewrites the wooing scene of Shakespeare's Henry V. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Hotel Cristobel BBC – Drama on 3 – Hotel Cristobel Radio review – Drama, Moira Petty, The Stage, 21 March 2005 Rosemary Harris, Michael Potts and Stephen Spinella Caribbean independence is re-imagined in a struggle for control of a fading hotel on a small and beautiful island.
The English woman who has always managed and owned Hotel Cristobel cannot accept that her era is over and that her servant John and the mysterious visitor Mr Schultz from New York might take her hotel away.
The play, recorded in New York, is a gripping drama of power, and perhaps love.BBC Radio 3
Drama on 3 Claw Marks on the Curtain: Saki
dramatised bySusan Engel, Ben Tibber and Alex Tregear When young Nicholas is punished by his aunt, he seeks refuge in the magical lumber-room; but when his aunt seeks him in the garden, he can exact retribution. BBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama Claw Marks on the Curtain: Saki
dramatised byPhilip Fox, Emily Wachter, Timothy Morand, Jennie Stoller and Jemma Churchill When Lady Carlotta is mistaken for Miss Hope, the new governess, she takes up the job with relish, applying a freshly invented technique of child-rearing to her new charges.
The ensuing chaos is all too modern for the parents.BBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama Claw Marks on the Curtain: Fur Saki
dramatised byBertie Carvel, Helen Longworth, Lydia Leonard and Alex Tregear Eleanor and Suzanne are best friends, but not for much longer.
Suzanne knows she can get her rich cousin Bertram to buy her a fur in the sales, but she has to entrust the job to Eleanor, who has her own plans.BBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama Claw Marks on the Curtain: Saki
dramatised byAnton Rice, Ben Tibber, Anthony Calf, Beth Chalmers and Alex Tregear Harvey is encouraged by his right-thinking sister to give her two sons toys that cannot be used for war.
Of course children, in a Saki tale, are immensely inventive.BBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama Claw Marks on the Curtain: Saki
dramatised bySusan Jameson, Paul Brooke, Michael Kilgarriff, Joanna McCallum and Emily Chenery Packed off around Britain in a search for a cure for his nerves, Framton Nuttel arrives at the Sappletons' house with a letter of introduction from his sister.
It little prepares him for the tale of terror he is about to hearBBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama BBC – The Wire – The Miracle of Reason Staying power, Radio review, Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 3 June 2005 Frances Tomelty and Jasper Britton A menacing drama about a dirty weekend that spirals into abject terror. BBC Radio 3
The Wire BBC – The Wire Grief Abigail Thaw, Michael Pennington, Isla Blair and Michael N. Harbour Simon's despair at the sudden death of his wife, Sarah, is only too clear to everyone.
Their perfect marriage was legendary, but their best friend Nick is tormented by his sense of loss, and there is no one he can share it with.
Especially not with his partner, Isabel.BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play I Enjoyed Myself Today Alex Tregear and Samantha Bond Freya's diaries reflect the world around her in the 1960s: the Vietnam War, whether to dye her hair.
But when her menopausal self discovers them, lyrical with hormonal pubescence, she has things to say in return.BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play Voices World premiere of Pinter's dramatic work on Radio 3, BBC Press Office, 13 September 2005 Harold Pinter: Fighting cancer but still manages to produce a searing new play, Alice Jones, The Independent, 7 October 2005 Text: Harold Pinter
Music: James ClarkeHarry Burton, Anastasia Hille, Andy de la Tour, Douglas Hodge, Gabrielle Hamilton, Roger Lloyd Pack, Gawn Grainger, Harold Pinter and Indira Varma An experimental collage of voice and sound. BBC Radio 3 The Lost Love of Phoebe Myers, Moira Petty, Radio review, The Guardian, 29 November 2006 The Lost Love of Phoebe Myers, Elisabeth Mahoney, Radio review, The Stage, 27 November 2006
aka Lost Love of Phoebe Miles The Lost Love of Phoebe Miles, Phil Daoust, Radio Pick of the day, The Guardian, 28 November 2006 Tracy-Ann Oberman, David de Keyser, Heather Coombs, Qarie Marshall, Lucy Middleweek and Miranda Keeling Bernard Kops's new play evokes the resilience and passions of wartime London and embarks on a journey through heartache and abandonment, while offering a promise of ultimate contentment and the exorcism of ghosts. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play– , and dramatised by Marcia Warren and Alec McCowen Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell's Victorian tale of a woman worried about an unsettling sign of life in a derelict house. BBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama Needle BBC – Afternoon Play – Needle Peter Marinker, Jade Williams, Meg Davies, Kate Williams, Liz Sutherland, Liza Sadovy and Ben Onwukwe Creating the Bayeux Tapestry for their Norman conquerors is a bitter task for the women of Canterbury. BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play BBC – Drama on 3 – A Long Way from Home BBC – Drama on 3 – A Long Way from Home (more detail) O-T Fagbenle, Kerry Shale, Alibe Parson, Rhea Bailey, Rachel Atkins, Damian Lynch, Ben Onwukwe and Major Wiley Caryl Phillips' original drama imagines the conflicting forces in the iconic singer Marvin Gaye's life, including family, stardom, love, sex and drugs.
The story focuses on his final years, when he was offered a lifeline in the unlikely setting of Ostend in Belgium, where he composed the song Sexual Healing before he returned America and was murdered by his own father. BBC Radio 3
Drama on 3 Bora Bora BBC – The Saturday Play – Bora Bora Derek Jacobi, Corin Redgrave, Cheryl Campbell, Adrian Bower, Eve Pearce, Jill Johnson, Stephen Critchlow and Rachel Atkins Art historian Alec, the brother of a famous actor, has lived his life in the shadows following a traumatic event in his childhood.
When a biographer joins a painting holiday organised by Alec, his arrival disturbs the calm.
Alec must face a terrible truth about his life and about the nature of forgiveness.BBC Radio 4
The Saturday Play Hyde Park-on-Hudson BBC – Drama on 3 – Hyde Park-on-Hudson Barbara Jefford, Emma Fielding, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nancy Crane, Julia Swift, Sylvia Syms, John Chancer, Corin Redgrave, Kika Markham and Jamie Newall No reigning British monarch had ever been to the United States before George VI's visit in 1939, just on the cusp of a new world war.
History was in the making when the King and Queen arrived at President Roosevelt's upstate New York home, with a promise of politics, a picnic and hot dogs.
But the private life of the President provided a whole new dimension to an epochal moment, at least in the memory of his lover.BBC Radio 3
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