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Agatha Christie Five Little Pigs



Saturday-Night Theatre: Five Little Pigs Sat 18th Jun 1994, 19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Agatha Christie. Sixteen years af…

Agatha Christie The Body In The Library



By Agatha Christie First published in 1942 whodunit Dramatised by Michael Bakewell When a young blonde is found dead at Gossington…

Cards On The Table By Agatha Christie



By Agatha Christie Dramatised by Michael Bakewell A perverse eccentric's idea of amusement goes horribly wrong when a murderer strikes durin…

Agatha Christie Death In The Clouds



Agatha Christie's Death in the Clouds Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. It is 1935 and Hercule Poirot's horror of flying is compounded when a …

Endless Night By Agatha Christie



Agatha Christie - Endless Night Joy Wilkinson's adaptation This psychological thriller concerns the murderous ambitions of a young adventure…

The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side



Agatha Christie   The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side From the book first published in 1962   Dramatised by Michael Bak…

Roald Dahl Boy



Roald Dahl: Boy Patrick Malahide provides the voice of Dahl in a colourful adaptation by Lucy Catherine. A full dramatisation of t…

The Mystery Of Agatha Christie [1984]



The Mystery of Agatha Christie [1984] Now that Dr Janet Morgan's authorised biography is published, the puzzle of how and why a reserved, di…

CBC Mystery Theatre



CBC Mystery Theatre The Mystery Theater was a radio series that was written, adapted, produced and broadcast by the CBC from 1966 to 1968. C…

John Buchan - Greenmantle



Greenmantle By John Buchan, dramatised by Patricia Hannah A ripping yarn by any standards, Greenmantle is set across two action-pa…

E. M. Forster A Room With A View



Dramatised by David Wade FOUR EPISODES MERGED TO ONE: TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1: Miss Honeychurch, Giotto and Too Much Beethoven. 1905.…

Vaniishing Point



Vanishing Point pdf = Program Guide A Canadian radio drama series produced and aired by CBC Radio from 1984 to 1986. &nb…

John Buchan - Mr Standfast



Mr. Standfast John Buchan's First World War thriller, dramatised by Bert Coules. 1/2. Richard Hannay is ordered to pose as a pacifist and se…

The Holden Caulfield Fan Club



IDEAS: The Holden Caulfield Fan Club He’s arguably the single most compelling character in 20th century literature. Ever since the 1951 publ…

Orson Welles Heart Of Darkness



Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness Unmade Movies The broadcast premiere of Orson Welles’ unproduced screenplay of Joseph Conrad's celebrated no…

1 CBC Maigret In Society Georges Simenon



CBC MAIGRET 1 Maigret In Society Based on the novels of   Georges Simenon Program Guide: pdf Starring Budd Knapp as Maigret CBC Stage -…

Iris Murdoch The Bell



Classic Serial: The Bell From - Sun 7th Nov 1999, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Iris Murdoch, dramatised in three parts by …

L Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz



The Wonderful Wizard of Oz By L Frank Baum Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths When a tornado strikes her farmhouse in Kansas, young Doro…

Talk To Me HP Lovecraft



Talk to Me: HP Lovecraft The strangest story of all HP Lovecraft's 'weird tales' isn't fiction at all: it's true. It concerns his marriage t…

2 CBC Maigret And The Killer Georges Simenon



CBC MAIGRET Based on the novels of   Georges Simenon 2 Maigret And The Killer Program Guide: pdf Starring Budd Knapp as Maigret CBC Sta…

Unmade Movies Hitchcock's The Blind Man



Unmade Movies: Hitchcock’s The Blind Man Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman’s unfinished screenplay, the follow-up to North by Northwest - c…

Joseph Conrad Heart Of Darkness 2021



Heart of Darkness First broadcast: Sun 17th Jan 2021, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW By Joseph Conrad Adapted by Anita Sul…

Trial By Laughter Ian Hislop & Nick Newman



Trial by Laughter   Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's comedy drama based on the real trial transcripts. William Hone is the forgotten hero o…

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Lost Stories Omnibus



F. Scott Fitzgerald:   The Lost Stories (Omnibus) A selection of stories taken from a collection of previously unpublished work by F Sc…

4 CBC Maigret Hesitates Georges Simenon



CBC MAIGRET Based on the novels of   Georges Simenon 4 Maigret Investigates Program Guide: pdf Starring Budd Knapp as Maigret CBC Stage…

3 CBC Maigret Sets A Trap Georges Simenon



CBC MAIGRET Based on the novels of   Georges Simenon 3 Maigret Sets A Trap Program Guide: pdf Starring Budd Knapp as Maigret CBC Stage …

5 CBC Maigret The Reluctant Witness Georges Simenon



CBC MAIGRET 5 The Reluctant Witness Based on the novels of   Georges Simenon Program Guide: pdf Starring Budd Knapp as Maigret CBC Stag…

Waiting For The Boatman Stephen Wakelam



Waiting for the Boatman By Stephen Wakelam The painter Mario Minniti has travelled to Naples to seek out his old friend and former ment…

Brian Aldiss Man In His Time



Man in His Time   The sci-fi master Brian Aldiss's award-winning story about space travel and how it affects life back home is adapted …

Sean Grundy Tolkien In Love



Tolkien in Love Based on real events and written by Sean Grundy.   Starring Will Merrick (Skins, The Rack Pack) as Ronald and Claudia J…

Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid ( Deceased)



The Continuing Adventures of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Deceased) An original western by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. It’s 1904. New Mexico. L…

Happy Birthday, John Williams! 2012



Friday-Night is Music Night! Happy Birthday John Williams! First broadcast: Fri 14th Dec 2012, 20:00 on BBC Radio 2…

Unmade Movies Harold Pinter's Victory



Victory Unmade Movies Harold Pinter's screenplay of Josef Conrad's last major novel, in a special adaptation for radio by Sir Richard Eyre. …

Unmade Movies The Hook By Arthur Miller



Unmade Movies:   Arthur Miller’s The Hook The world broadcast premiere of Arthur Miller’s unproduced screenplay tells the story of a 19…

Harold Pinter's The Dreaming Child



Harold Pinter's The Dreaming Child Unmade Movies The world premiere of Harold Pinter's unproduced film screenplay, based on Karen Blixen's e…

Peter Shaffer - Amadeus



Peter Shaffer's award-winning play combines fiction and history. Details the final years of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Antonio Salieri, an old…

J B. Priestly Salt Is Leaving



Salt is Leaving by J. B. Priestley   Dramatised for radio by Elizabeth Bradbury   Dr Salt is determined to leave Birkden, but when…

Old Yellow Gloves -- Raymond Chandler



A documentary about the Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler who died in 1959. Chandler had a huge influence on the sty…

Dover And The Smoking Gun



Dover and the Smoking Gun By Paul Mendelson (An original story based on characters created by Joyce Porter) A new adventure for Chief Inspec…

Death Of A Cosmonaut By James Fritz



Julian Rhind-Tutt stars in a powerful re-imagining of Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov's final moments as he hurtles towards earth. Death of a Cos…

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner



The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner By Alan Sillitoe Dramatised by Robert Rigby It's the late 1950s: Borstal boy Smith remembers his …

Peter Whalley The Trial



The Trial by Peter Whalley Falling in love with a stranger has never been scarier: A gripping new thriller. Vibrant, young, attractive, Moll…

Adam Beeson The Magician's Daughter



The Magician's Daughter Comic drama, by Adam Beeson During revolutionary turmoil in 19th-century Europe a celebrated magician is shot on sta…

Terence Rattigan The Browning Version



Terence Rattigan Festival 'THE BROWNING VERSION' Mon 30th Sep 1957, 21:30 on BBC Home Service Basic Starring Sir John Gielgud and Angela Bad…

Jane Tolerton An Awfully Big Adventure



An Awfully Big Adventure: New Zealand's World War One veterans tell their stories by Jane Tolerton (Contributor) What was it like …

Frankie Goes To Flensburg



Frankie Goes to Flensburg By Jennifer Howarth, based on a true story.   In the spring of 1945, as the war in Europe was ending, Frank H…

The Blind Man



The Blind Man Starring Hugh Laurie as Larry Keating Set in 1961, a famous blind jazz pianist, Larry Keating, agrees to a radical new medical…

The Discovery of New Zealand Documentary Drama



Fair Winds To The South Seas Discovery of NZ   By Brian Millard; John O'Leary On the thirteenth of December 1642, sailors aboard t…

September In The Rain By John Godber



September in the Rain By John Godber Jack and Liz are in Blackpool for one last time. John Godber's classic stage play tells the touching an…

Richard Stevens Left At Marrakech



Afternoon Play: Left at Marrakech Thu 7th Aug 2008, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Richard Stevens In 1943, B-17 Lucky Charm…

George Bernard Shaw Caesar And Cleopatra



The Monday Play: Caesar and Cleopatra Mon 21st Apr 1975, 19:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM   With Alan Badel as Caesar and Sa…

Don Grey Marine Investigator



DON GREY MARINE INVESTIGATOR   These two half-hour plays by     Thomas Gilchrist, sea-captain    &nb…

Rum Runners



A comedy series about the adventures of a Revenue Man in Canada's Maritime Provinces during Prohibition. Inspector John McMulloch's job was …

Somewhere In England By Caryl Phillips



Written and dramatised from his own novel, CROSSING THE RIVER, by Caryl Phillips. SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND is a story of love and race set in Yo…

Stephen Wakelam Lying Low [Samuel Beckett]



Afternoon Drama: Lying Low First broadcast: Fri 22nd Sep 2017, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM Stephen Wakelam’s play about…

Ruddigore by Gilbert and Sullivan



A complete performance of the famous Savoy operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan. Ruddigore; or, The Witch's Curse, originally called Ruddygore, …

David Spicer Munchausen



Munchausen Alistair McGowan stars as Baron Munchausen and all the other 43 characters in David Spicer's comic drama about truth, lies and cr…

Redacted By Hugh Costello



Redacted Greta Scacchi and Nicholas Murchie head the cast in Hugh Costello's political thriller of secrets and lies. Monica: Greta Scacchi J…

Paul Bryers The Legion Of The Lost



Saturday-Night Theatre Sat 1st Sep 1984, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM The Legion of the Lost An historical comedy by Paul Bry…

Chris Mc Hallem Christmas At Farkham Hall



Chris McHallem Farkham Hall at Christmas   RTÉ Radio 1: Drama on One: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 A tale of war, nobility and occasional cr…

Robert Rigby A Kestrel For A Knave



A Kestrel for a Knave Robert Rigby’s dramatisation of Barry Hines’s 1968 coming-of-age novel set in a mining town in South Yorkshire. Young …

Lulu's Back In Town By Danny McCahon



Lulu's Back In Town By Danny McCahon It's 1969 and Glasgow singer Lulu is making her mark on television with her own series complete with gu…

Beryl A Love Story On Two Wheels



Beryl: A Love Story on Two Wheels As an ill child, Beryl Burton was told never to exercise. And then she met a young cyclist called Charlie:…

Resistance By Becca Barnes



Short Drama Series: Resistance Radio New Zealand 15 Episodes From 21 July 2013 In the not too distant future the New Zealand government…

Alex Jones Lightbulbs



Thirty Minute Theatre: Lightbulbs Tue 21st Nov 1995, 14:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM A tale of the supernatural. In Alex Jones's…

Everybody's Got Conditions By Sarah Wooley



Everybody's Got Conditions By Sarah Wooley 1961. Tennessee Williams had just turned 50. In spite of a string of successful plays (Cat on a H…

The Incident Of The Russian Visitors



Carter Mysteries: The Incident of the Russian Visitors By Jonathan Holloway The 20th Century has left the Carter warehouse crammed with hist…

Dear Arthur, Love John By Roy Smiles



Dear Arthur, Love John A comedy drama by Roy Smiles   It's often assumed that it was Dad's Army that made John Le Mesurier and Arthur L…

Talking To Zeus By Don Shaw



Talking To Zeus By Don Shaw Inspired by the book Talking To Zeus, by Jane Shaw; Greek, green, fresh and vivid, this is based on a true story…

Tracy Ann Oberman Rock & Doris & Elizabeth



Rock and Doris and Elizabeth On the 15th July 1985, Rock Hudson appeared at a press call on the first day of filming for the TV show Doris D…

An Indescribable Beauty



An Indescribable Beauty A young German writes letters home to his mother after immigrating to Wellington in 1859. Wellington, 1859, and a yo…

Clarence Meredith Hincks  1885 1964



Clarence Meredith Hincks  1885 - 1964  A Recollection  Canadian Physician Pioneer in Mental Health CBC Radio Canadian Mental …

A Day By The Sea By N C. Hunter



A Day by the Sea Written by N.C. Hunter Adapted by Mollie Greenhaigh The loves, hopes and fears of a Dorsetshire family are brought together…

J’Accuse By Hattie Naylor



J’Accuse By Hattie Naylor In a newspaper article from 1898, the writer Emile Zola took a stand against the French military and judicial esta…

Reading Europe Greece The Final Reckoning



The Final Reckoning Written by Petros Markaris - one of the country’s most popular writers. Greece, 2008: just prior to the elections that w…

Suspicion For 10 Voices By Mark Laweson



Suspicion for 10 Voices By Mark Lawson Starring:   Simon Russell Beale as William Byrd   Anton Lesser as Sir Francis Walsingham Mu…

CBC 50 1986



CBC 50 1986

Love Me Do Laurence Marks Maurice Gran



Love Me Do By Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran As the world faces nuclear extinction two Americans trapped in London find themselves thrown t…

Rock Meets Bone [09 Phillip Glass]



Rock Meets Bone Rock Meets Bone was a 30-minute radio program that aired on CKDU from September-December 1989. It focused on Nova Scotian gr…

Simon Littlefield Stannie And Jim



Afternoon Drama: Stannie and Jim First broadcast: Wed 11th Aug 2010, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Simon Littlefield T…

Broadcast Live From The Scala Berlin



Broadcast -  15/02/38  Regional Programme London Live from the Scala Theatre, Berlin -  Opening and closing announcements&nbs…