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A series of dramas based on the short stories of Stacy Aumonier.
“Wych Street be damned – if he’d said it was on the moon you should have agreed with him… “
An argument breaks out in a London pub in Wapping over the exact location of a street in central London.
It soon spreads – bringing the world close to crisis…
A Source of Irritation – Grumpy farm-hand Sam Gates is busy tending his turnips in a Suffolk field.
But before he knows what’s happening, he’s been swept off to the trenches of the First World War.
Freddie Finds Himself – 26-year-old Freddie Oppincott is the butt of family jokes, because he hasn’t found his proper place in the world.
But then he suddenly finds his true vocation…
Funeral March – At a smart Paris gathering, Aumonier is amused by the darkly comic story of Madame Vieninoff and her poor, late husband – the composer Sergei.
Series based on the work of Stacy Aumonier (1887- 1928), considered by his contemporaries to be one of the best short-story writers of his time.
Episode List* 01 – Where was Wych Street * 02 – A Source of Irritation * 03 – Freddie Finds Himself * 04 – Funeral March The post Aumonier’s World appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Antony and Brian run their father’s building firm but money is tight and the housing market isn’t moving.
Greta and Julie, their ex-wives, are both looking for more in life, while Ruth and Alastair are contemplating a move when the unexpected happens.
The only way Antony and Brian can rescue their building firm is by bringing Greta into the picture. But is the cost of that too high?
Does Julie know what she’s doing allowing Antony back into the marital bed?
And will Ruth and Alistair be able to rescue their crumbling relationship by a touch of DIY?
Starring Stephen Tompkinson and Philip Jackson.
Neil McKay’s six-part comedy series taps into the British obsession with homes.
Episode List* 01 – Cracks * 02 – Movement * 03 – Restoration * 04 – Dreams and Schemes * 05 – Flight * 06 – Breaking Up The post Moving appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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“If you love a Law & Order marathon and binged True Detective in one go, Exeter might be your new favorite podcast.” (The New York Times)
From writer/director Ronnie Gunter, Exeter is a gripping crime mystery starring Jeanne Tripplehorn (Big Love, Criminal Minds) and Ray McKinnon (Dopesick, Sons of Anarchy).
Set in rural South Carolina in 1995, a veteran detective is forced to reconcile the errors of a past case when a woman she convicted of murder is exonerated after 10 years in prison. Meanwhile, a series of grisly and ritualistic murders rock their decaying town, and our heroine is put at odds against her ambitious partner as they race to put the pieces together.
Following the shocking reveals of season one, Colleen and Pruitt are forced to reopen a highly controversial cold case, which happens to be one Colleen could never solve. During the investigation into the murder of a pair of beloved local teens, they are forced to investigate their own friends and family. In order to finally put the case to rest, they must find new leads from an eight-year-old case, sift through long-buried secrets, and get to the shocking truth of what really happened.
Season two of hit crime podcast Exeter reunites Jeanne Tripplehorn (Big Love, Criminal Minds), Ray McKinnon (Dopesick, Sons of Anarchy), and an all-star cast.
Detectives Coleen Clayton and Lester Pruitt are searching for a missing person when they turn up a dead body. Fitting into a pattern of gruesome homicides hitting South Carolina, the case bears an unnerving resemblance to one from 30 years ago—one that still haunts Exeter. The killer has become a legend, spawning countless ghost stories and Halloween costumes. A killer named Crouchback. But Crouchback died in prison 30 years ago, right?
Filled with peculiar and authentic characters, Exeter examines the nature of innocence, justice, and the price that is paid for following your instincts to discover deeper truths.
Note: Listeners do not have to start Exeter on season one. There is progression from season to season, but each season can stand on its own and does not have to be listened to in order.
Episode List* S01E01 – How Quickly Things Die * S01E02 – Hounds and Snakes * S01E03 – Mystery Man * S01E04 – Absalom * S01E05 – Up on Glassy Mountain * S01E06 – Damn Lies * S02E01 – The Gun in the Woods * S02E02 – Who is Darryl Ballinger？ * S02E03 – Satan is Real * S02E04 – ’87 All Over Again * S02E05 – Say What You Did * S02E06 – The Gun in the Drawer * S02E07 – What Arthur Knew * S02E08 – It’s Worth the Risk * S03E01 – Pretty People * S03E02 – Crouchback * S03E03 – I Wish He’d Said Chesterfields * S03E04 – The Devil Lives in Pickens * S03E05 – Dig Him Up * S03E06 – The Living Among the Dead * S03E07 – The Fall of the House of Bostwick * S03E08 – Chasing a Ghost The post Exeter appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Paul Roseby investigates the disasters of British musical theatre
Was Bat Boy fang-tastic? Paul Roseby searches New York and London for musical failures. With Elaine Stritch and Sandi Toksvig.
Episode List* S01E01 – Fabulous Flops * S01E02 – Fabulous Flops * S01E03 – Fabulous Flops * S01E04 – Fabulous Flops * S02E01 – More Fabulous Flops * S02E02 – More Fabulous Flops * S02E03 – More Fabulous Flops * S02E04 – More Fabulous Flops The post Fabulous Flops appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A brand new BBC Radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s award-winning fairytale, merging Snow White and Sleeping Beauty to enchanting effect.
In a mountain kingdom far away, a young queen prepares for her wedding, believing her future is sealed. But when three dwarves bring news of a sleeping sickness sweeping across her realm, she knows she cannot stand by and do nothing. As a girl, she survived her own long, magical sleep, so she must try to turn back this new plague and save her people.
Abandoning her bridal finery, she dons her armour instead, and rides out to a castle at the very heart of the sleeping lands. There, she finds a beautiful princess, sound asleep, and a very old woman, forever awake. With no handsome prince in sight, the queen wakes the princess in the traditional way – but things are not as they seem, and it will take more than a kiss to ensure everyone lives happily ever after.
Penelope Wilton, Gwendoline Christie, Ralph Ineson and Neil Gaiman himself are among the star cast in this captivating fable of love, loss, hope and destiny.
This release is an extended cut of the story broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and features an exclusive introduction from Neil Gaiman.
Episode List* 01 – Opening Credits * 02 – The Sleeper and the Spindle * 03 – End Credits * 03 – End Credits The post The Sleeper and the Spindle Neil Gaiman appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Two stunning dramatisations from one of the twentieth century’s most beloved authors
Sink into the lyrical landscapes and beautifully observed lives of J. L. Carr’s finest stories, brought to life in these glorious, full-cast dramatisations starring Shaun Dingwall (Noughts and Crosses, Top Boy) and Rupert Evans (Man in the High Castle, Bridgerton).
This BBC Radio collection includes the Booker nominated A Month in the Country. Be transported to the Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where, in the aftermath of the First World War, survivor Tom Birkin spends a summer uncovering a medieval mural in the local church. Birkin discovers treasures he thought the war had blown away forever. A tender and beautiful story about spirituality and healing in the aftermath of horror. The Harpole Report tells the humorous story of idealistic young teacher, George Harpole, who decides to shake things up when he becomes acting head of Tampling St Nicholas Primary School. There’s stiff resistance, improper suggestions and children running riot, but true romance may be just around the corner…
J. L. Carr served in the RAF in WWII and after the war worked as a teacher, publisher and writer. His novel, A Month in the Country, won the Guardian Fiction Prize and was also turned into a film starring Colin Firth and Natasha Richardson. Since his death in 1994, Carr has become recognised as one of the great British writers; funny and heart-breaking in equal measure. Immerse yourself in this timeless and very English collection.
Episode List* 01 – A Month in the Country * 02 – The Harpole Report * 03 – The Harpole Report * 04 – The Harpole Report * 05 – The Harpole Report * 06 – The Harpole Report The post A Month in the Country and The Harpole Report Two BBC Radio Full Cast Dramatisations appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Laugh-out-loud comedy about two unfulfilled 40-somethings trying to get the best out of life
This is the complete series of Niall Ashdown and Luke Sorba’s (strictly non-autobiographical) hilarious sitcom about two men in their forties who really don’t know what to do with themselves.
The duo attempt (and mostly fail) to make their mark on the world and prove that they really aren’t as pointless as they feel. Embarking on a series of haphazard adventures covering everything from the human condition to sex, food and some surprising things in-between, they are keen to prove to old school friends they have actually achieved in life. When Niall and Luke hatch a plan to become successful novelists they decide what’s needed is a bunch of trendy half-baked ideas and a killer pitch and definitely not effort and tenacity. And what about sporting prowess? Surely they are in their prime with the stamina, dedication and physical fitness to make an impact? Things don’t quite go to plan when they find themselves trapped in a cable car on a ski trip with two about-to-be-newlyweds and decide to dole out relationship advice. The directionless twosome never quite seem to get things going in their own lives, particularly when they are forced to consider their own mortality at a funeral. And the less said about the fancy dress party, the better…
Luke Sorba has written sitcoms for radio and TV, as well as sketches and stand-up comedy, and is the author of two novels. Niall Ashdown is a comedian, actor, improvisor and writer. He has starred in Whose Line Is It Anyway? and regularly appears in TV and radio comedies as well as on the stage.
Episode List* S01E01 – Losers * S01E02 – Losers * S01E03 – Losers * S01E04 – Losers * S01E05 – Losers * S01E06 – Losers * S02E01 – The One About the Friends * S02E02 – Uniform * S02E03 – Write and Wrong * S02E04 – Sport * S02E05 – Stuck * S02E06 – Death The post Losers appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Comedian Adam Bloom sets the world to rights, with help from his fellow comics. Also features Rob Rouse, Brendon Burns, Stefano Paolini, Sarah Kennedy and Hattie Hayridge
Adam talks about paranoia, obsessions, an aversion to therapy, getting a round in and many other topics besides across the episodes. Is there an etiquette to being mugged? You can answer a mobile phone anywhere, including a cinema. Should you say anything if someone does? Is there anyone out there in the universe? Adam aims to answer many questions.
Episode List* S01E01 – Restaurants * S01E02 – Gossip * S01E03 – Street Crime * S01E04 – Mobiles * S01E05 – Lending Things * S01E06 – Cutting Corners * S02E01 – Problems * S02E02 – Edinburgh * S02E03 – Insecurity * S02E04 – Comedy * S02E05 – Friendship * S02E06 – Stress * S03E01 – Reading * S03E02 – Parents * S03E03 – Technology * S03E04 – Honesty * S03E05 – God * S03E06 – Friendship and Stress The post The Problem With Adam Bloom appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A comprehensive anthology of dramatisations and readings of Tagore’s finest works, plus bonus documentaries
Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. A novelist, poet, playwright, composer, artist and philosopher, he wrote both the Indian and Bangladeshi national anthems; exchanged ideas with Yeats, Einstein and Gandhi, and was hugely influential in promoting Indian culture to the West. This collection includes some of Tagore’s key novels, plays and short stories, as well as his best-known poem and four fascinating biographical programmes.
We begin with two adaptations by award-winning dramatist Tanika Gupta. The Home and the World, starring Indira Varma and Sacha Dhawan, relocates Tagore’s classic 1916 novel of love, power and political awakening to a contemporary British Muslim setting. Often acclaimed as Tagore’s best play, The Red Oleander stars Saeed Jaffrey and Aileen Gonsalves, and tells the story of a beautiful girl who comes to a gold mining community and foments a revolution against its tyrannical king.
Next up is a dramatisation of the novelette Farewell, My Friend, a romantic, delightful tale of two young lovers starring Sam Dastor and Shireen Shah. It is followed by three short stories: ‘The Postmaster’ and ‘The Kabuliwalah’, read by Ronny Jhutti, and ‘Wealth Surrendered’, read by Renu Setna.
Tagore bared his musical soul in the poem ‘Broken Song’, read here by Peter Barker, and in Centurions: Rabindranath Tagore, poet William Radice and theatre director Jatinder Verma explain why it ranks as one of the 100 greatest art works of the 20th Century. Tanika Gupta joins presenter Matthew Parris and translator Ketaki Kushari Dyson to share her love of Tagore’s writing in Great Lives: Tanika Gupta on Rabindranath Tagore, and Zia Mohyeddin reads a selection of his epistolary observations on English society and customs in Letters from Europe. Concluding the collection, Rabindranath Tagore: The Bard of Bengal explores the life and legacy of South Asia’s Shakespeare.
First published 1891 (‘The Postmaster’), 1891-2 (‘Wealth Surrendered’), 1892 (‘The Kabuliwalah’), 1910 (‘Broken Song’), 1916 (The Home and the World), 1925 (The Red Oleander), 1929 (Farewell, My Friend)
Episode List* 01 – Intro * 02 – The Home and the World * 03 – The Home and the World * 04 – The Red Oleander * 05 – The Red Oleander * 06 – Farewell, My Friend * 07 – The Postmaster * 08 – The Kabuliwalah * 09 – Wealth Surrendered * 10 – Centurions – Rabindranath Tagore * 11 – Broken Song * 12 – Great Lives – Tanika Gupta on Rabindranath Tagore * 13 – Letters from Europe * 14 – Letters from Europe * 15 – Letters from Europe * 16 – Rabindranath Tagore – The Bard of Bengal – Part One * 17 – Rabindranath Tagore – The Bard of Bengal – Part Twp The post Rabindranath Tagore A BBC Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The highly acclaimed BBC Radio 4 production.
It is 18 February 1943, and RAF Lancaster bomber WF 183 – call sign O-Orange – is about to set off on its final mission. It is a raid which will touch the lives of hundreds: the civilians in the small German town of Altgarten, consumed by blazing fire, and the crews, both German and British, men and women. It is a night of horror that few will forget: the story of the many men and women – British and German – whose lives were irrevocably changed by that night’s bombing raid.
When Bomber was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it was transmitted in ‘real time’ throughout the day, to incredible critical and audience response. The play blends dramatisation with actual reminiscences from men and women who were involved on both sides.
Bomber is a thrilling, action-packed and ultimately poignant story that will stay in the listener’s imagination for a long time to come.
Episode List* 01 – Planning And Preparation * 02 – Take-off * 03 – The Raid * 04 – The Return Leg The post Bomber BBC Radio WWII Drama – Len Deighton appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Anthony Trollope was one of Victorian England’s most popular and prolific authors. He worked for the Post Office while establishing himself as a writer, and is credited with introducing the pillar box to Britain. Best known for his ‘Barsetshire’ and ‘Palliser’ novels, he wrote over 50 works in total, including short stories, travel books, biographies and a posthumously published autobiography. Collected here are a selection of superb adaptations of his much-loved novels, as well as an original radio play by Patricia Cumper.
Orley Farm – Starring Tim Pigott-Smith, Samantha Bond and Ronald Pickup, this adaptation of Trollope’s 1861 novel is a compelling, emotional tale of disreputable lawyers, young lovers, the beautiful Lady Mason and the honourable Sir Peregrine Orme.
Miss Mackenzie – Hattie Morahan stars as Margaret Mackenzie, a single woman past the bloom of youth, who inherits a fortune and is then beset by suitors who may, or may not, simply be after her money. Can she pick her way through this romantic minefield and find true happiness?
The American Senator – Ruthless Arabella Trefoil wants to keep her engagement to John Morton a secret while she pursues the wealthy Lord Rufford. But fortune-hunting is a dangerous game, as she is soon to discover. Starring Robert Glenister, Anna Maxwell Martin and Barbara Flynn.
John Caldigate – Disinherited by his father, a young man leaves home to seek his fortune in Australia’s gold mines. But an unwise shipboard romance leads to trouble down the line… Jeremy Clyde stars as John Caldigate, with Margaret Wolfit as Euphemia Smith.
The Pallisers – A pacy, radical reboot of Anthony Trollope’s celebrated novels about high life and low politics in Victorian England. Jessica Raines stars as our omniscient narrator, Lady Glencora, who takes us through two decades of scandal, scheming, ambition and powerbroking.
The Way We Live Right Now – When shady financier Ghassan Mehmoud recruits gullible investors for his get-rich-quick scheme, the stage is set for scandal… Henry Goodman stars in this present-day reworking of Trollope’s satirical masterpiece about money, greed and dishonesty.
Mr Trollope and the Labours of Hercules – Paterson Joseph stars in this engrossing drama based on Anthony Trollope’s experiences in Jamaica in 1858.
Episode List* 01 – Intro * 02 – Orley Farm * 03 – Orley Farm * 04 – Orley Farm * 05 – Miss Mackenzie * 06 – Miss Mackenzie * 07 – The American Senator * 08 – The American Senator * 09 – The American Senator * 10 – John Caldigate * 11 – John Caldigate * 12 – John Caldigate * 13 – John Caldigate * 14 – John Caldigate * 15 – John Caldigate * 16 – John Caldigate * 17 – John Caldigate * 18 – The Pallisers * 19 – The Pallisers * 20 – The Pallisers * 21 – The Pallisers * 22 – The Pallisers * 23 – The Pallisers * 24 – The Way We Live Right Now * 25 – The Way We Live Right Now * 26 – The Way We Live Right Now * 27 – The Way We Live Right Now * 28 – The Way We Live Right Now * 29 – The Way We Live Right Now * 30 – The Way We Live Right Now * 31 – The Way We Live Right Now * 32 – The Way We Live Right Now * 33 – The Way We Live Right Now * 34 – The Way We Live Right Now * 35 – The Way We Live Right Now * 36 – The Way We Live Right Now * 37 – The Way We Live Right Now * 38 – The Way We Live Right Now * 39 – Mr Trollope and the Labours of Hercules The post Anthony Trollope A BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Office politics become deadly serious in this tense Danish thriller. Set in a fictitious genocide research centre, the story focuses on Iben, Malene and Anne-Lise, three co-workers in a small office. When Iben and Malene receive death threats, suspicion turns to a Serbian war criminal who they are investigating. Or could it be someone closer to home?
Recorded on location in Copenhagen, The Exception includes some of Denmark’s leading actors such as Lisbeth Wulff, a regular character in Borgen; award winning television and stage actress Stine Stengade; Charlotte Munck, a regular in Follow the Money; and Jakob Oftebro, rising star of Nordic cinema and and television with lead roles in The Bridge and the hit Danish television series, 1864.
In this Danish/English collaboration for BBC Radio 4’s Reading Europe series, radio drama producers Anders Lundorph and Polly Thomas co-dramatise the book as well as co-producing it. Anders and Polly have worked together before for BBC Radio 4, on The Unexpected European in 2006 and Borgen: Outside the Castle in 2013.
Episode 1: The Email
Iben and Malene receive death threats at work. The police investigate and the most likely culprit seems to be Mirko Sigic, a Serbian war criminal they have both researched. However, tensions build in the office and, as mysterious accidents occur, no-one is safe from suspicion.
Episode 2: The Dream
The atmosphere in the office worsens as suspicion now falls on Anne Lise as the source of the threatening emails and other alarming incidents. When Malene and Rasmus split up, no one could forsee the terrible consequences.
Episode 3: The Reality
Iben and Anne Lise have become close, while Malene is increasingly isolated after the mysterious death of her boyfriend Rasmus. The police close their investigation into the threatening emails and the office goes back to normal – until Mirko Zigic, Serbian war criminal, gets in touch.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Email * S01E02 – The Dream * S01E03 – The Reality The post The Exception – Christian Jungersen appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A collection of full-cast dramatisations plus interviews with Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee was a poet, novelist and screenwriter renowned for his bestselling autobiographical trilogy Cider With Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War. Among the best loved memoirs in the English language, the books chart Lee’s life from his boyhood summers in a remote Cotswold village to joining the Republican International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. Included here are dramatisations of the first two volumes, alongside a specially written radio play and four fascinating interview programmes.
Cider with Rosie – Recorded on location in and around the Slad valley in Gloucestershire, this lyrical, evocative account of Laurie Lee’s childhood in the West Country just after the First World War stars Tim McInnerny and Niamh Cusack.
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning – It is the mid-1930s and 19-year-old Laurie sets out on foot to London, but soon finds himself en route to Spain. Accompanied by his trusty fiddle, he walks the length of the country – but as he reaches Almunecar, the Spanish Civil War begins… Featuring recordings made in Spain, this irresistible tale stars Jonathan Keeble as Laurie Lee.
I Call Me Adam – Laurie Lee retells the story of the Bounty mutineers, as they occupy Pitcairn Island and try to create a new life there. Produced by the celebrated poet and playwright Louis MacNeice, this bloodthirsty take on what happened to Fletcher Christian and his crew stars Ralph Truman and Wilfred Babbage.
Literary Walks: Laurie Lee – The poet and author takes Christopher Somerville on a stroll around Slad, where he grew up and where Cider with Rosie is set.
Through My Window: Laurie Lee – Casting his eye over the countryside seen from his window, Laurie Lee waxes lyrical over the view that inspired his most famous work.
Laurie Lee’s Long Sleep – This interview with Christopher Cooke from 1989 sees Lee discussing his own sense of mortality. These thoughts are accompanied by a reading of poems and tributes from his 1997 Thanksgiving Service.
Laurie Lee’s final interview – In this last radio interview, recorded in 1997 by BBC Radio Gloucestershire’s Mark Hurrell, Laurie Lee talks about the inspiration for Cider With Rosie, his epic walk from Stroud to Spain and his love for the landscape around his beloved home village.
Episode List* 01 – Cider with Rosie * 02 – Cider with Rosie * 03 – As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning * 04 – I Call Me Adam * 05 – I Call Me Adam * 06 – Literary Walks – Laurie Lee * 07 – Through My Window – Laurie Lee * 08 – Laurie Lee’s Long Sleep * 09 – Laurie Lee’s final radio interview The post Laurie Lee – A BBC Radio Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Stewart Permutt’s comedies feature four different women’s bittersweet views of the world
Stewart Permutt’s bittersweet comedies of the world according to the first of four very different women. June Brown plays Bea, the long-suffering companion of a minor, whose unfortunate demise puts her happily into the limelight. June is best remembered as the iconic soap opera character, Dot Cotton in BBC TV’s EastEnders.
Celia Imrie plays Frances, a shy teacher with an unwanted notoriety. Following a school related incident, Frances takes some time out to reassess her life and career.
Miriam Margolyes plays Stella, proud manageress of an unchanging chocolate shop in a changing world.
Lesley Joseph stars as a ‘person of restricted growth’ whose performances are under threat.
Episode List* 01 – Bea * 02 – Frances * 03 – Dora * 04 – Stella The post Singular Women appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Nemours, near Origans, 1829: It is now 15 years since the extremely wealthy Dr Minoret returned to live in his native town. He is 74 and his grasping nephews and nieces eagerly await his demise. Yet more and more the good doctor seems to favour his charming young ward, Ursule. How terrible would it be if part of the inheritance were to go to her. Something must be done.
Episode List* 01 – Alarm Among the Heirs * 02 – Strategies in the Making * 03 – The End of the Campaign The post The Inheritance appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The hilarious BBC Radio comedy show where every sketch has been written by the publicThe complete series of the ground-breaking comedy series, which called for submissions from members of the public. With over 12,000 sketches sent in from 1,500 different people, The Show What You Wrote spans such diverse comedy topics as Crime & Thriller, Kitchen Sink, Body & Soul, and Geography, and features sketches about heaven’s unexpectedly strict dress code, the Shopping Forecast, the grammar police, and some very literal highwaymen.
Starring John Thomson (The Fast Show, Cold Feet), Jason Manford (8 Out of 10 Cats, QI), and Janice Connolly (Phoenix Nights, Coronation Street) and enjoying special appearances from Gyles Brandreth, Chris Addison, Shobna Gulati, Ben Crompton and Rob Rouse, among others, this brilliant sketch series will never let you look at rock-climbing, night-clubbing, or post-apocalypse dating the same way again…
Episode List* S01E01 – Sci-Fi and Fantasy * S01E02 – Crime and Thriller * S01E03 – Historical * S01E04 – Kitchen Sink * S02E01 – Sport and Leisure * S02E02 – Geography * S02E03 – Art and Literature * S02E04 – Science and Nature * S03E01 – Work and Play * S03E02 – Body & Soul * S03E03 – Crime & Punishment * S03E04 – The End The post The Show What You Wrote appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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While investigating a cyber-attack on the British transport system, Louise Caxton, First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington, meets a mysterious hacker with a very dangerous agenda.
A two-part thriller written by David Morley.
Episode List* 01 – Conspiracy * 02 – Compromised The post Massachusetts Avenue appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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When World War II started, everybody was terrified that the enemy would bomb London to ruins, and thousands of children were sent to homes in the country. The three Clark children were sent to Dorset. Laura, Andy and Tim with their names and address pinned to them, joined Operation Pied Piper.
Episode List* 01 – Leaving London * 02 – The Colonel * 03 – Charnbury * 04 – Our Darkest Hour * 05 – The Escape * 06 – Homecoming * 07 – Operation Mum * 08 – Trapped * 09 – Miss Justworthy * 10 – Coming Together The post When the Siren Wailed appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Episode List* 01 – The Ball of the Clipped Yew Trees * 02 – If There Has To Be A Mistress * 03 – The Well-Beloved The post The King’s Favourite appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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This programme aims to bring the funniest, brightest and most exciting new comedy acts from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe directly to BBC Radio 4 and Red Button audiences.
In the earlier series Jason Cook hosted a London-based showcase, but in recent years the show was recorded at the festival itself with different comedians as hosts.
Episode List* 01 – Fresh from the Fringe 2012 * 02 – Fresh from the Fringe 2013 * 03 – Fresh from the Fringe 2014 * 04 – Fresh from the Fringe 2015, Part 1 * 04 – Fresh from the Fringe 2015, Part 2 * 06 – Fresh from the Fringe 2016, Part 1 * 07 – Fresh from the Fringe 2016, Part 2 * 07 – Fresh from the Fringe 2017 * 08 – Fresh from the Fringe 2017 * 09 – Fresh from the Fringe 2018 – Part 1 * 10 – Fresh from the Fringe 2018 – Part 2 * 11 – Fresh from the Fringe 2019 – Part 1 * 12 – Fresh from the Fringe 2019 – Part 2 * 13 – Lee Mack and Friends at the Fringe – 01. Episode 1 * 14 – Lee Mack and Friends at the Fringe – 02. Episode 2 * 15 – Fresh from the Fringe 2023 – Part 1 * 16 – Fresh from the Fringe 2023 – Part 2 * 17 – Fresh from the Fringe 2024 – Part 1 * 18 – Fresh from the Fringe 2024 – Part 2 The post Fresh from the Fringe appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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David McAlister reads six supernatural stories from the author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds
Best known for his science fiction, H.G. Wells was also a master of the ghost story, producing numerous tales of the gothic, the eldritch and the uncanny. These six stories, ranging from the humorous to the horrifying, epitomise the very best of Wells’ occult fiction.
The Moth
Two entomologists are embroiled in a scientific feud. When one dies, the other believes he has discovered a rare new species…
The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham
A medical student gets more than he bargained for when he accepts an old man’s bequest.
The Temptation of Harringay
Struggling with his latest portrait, an artist is shocked to find it taking on a distinctly diabolical air.
The Inexperienced Ghost
A man encounters a timid spirit haunting his club, and helps him out – with dreadful consequences.
The Stolen Body
A psychical researcher attempts an out-of-body experience, with terrifying results.
The Door in the Wall
Lionel Wallace is haunted by the memory of a green door in a white wall, leading to an enchanted garden. Can he ever find it again?
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Well-known names reminisce and entertain with tales from their lives.
That Reminds Me is a series of programmes broadcast on BBC Radio 4 where someone (usually) connected with comedy talks about their life for thirty minutes in front of a live audience. The series has been running since 1999, and is produced by Claire Jones.
Episode List* S01E01 – Barry Cryer * S01E02 – Barry Took * S01E03 – Nicholas Parsons * S01E04 – Peter Jones * S01E05 – Bill Pertwee * S01E06 – Ned Sherrin * S02E01 – Roy Hudd * S02E02 – Maureen Lipman * S02E03 – Humphrey Lyttelton * S02E04 – Sir Clement Freud * S02E05 – Victor Spinetti * S02E06 – Dora Bryan * S03E01 – George Melly * S03E02 – John Fortune * S03E03 – Sheila Steafel * S03E04 – Jack Douglas * S03E05 – Warren Mitchell * S03E06 – John Inman * S04E01 – Ludovic Kennedy * S04E02 – Andrew Sachs * S04E03 – Melvyn Hayes * S04E04 – Pam Ayres * S04E05 – Peter Sallis * S04E06 – John Mortimer * S05E01 – Keith Barron * S05E02 – Nerys Hughes * S05E03 – Dudley Sutton * S05E04 – Charles Collingwood * S05E05 – Liz Fraser * S05E06 – Richard Griffiths The post That Reminds Me appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A collection of BBC Radio adaptations of Kingsley Amis’s novels and short stories.
Novelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest post-war writers. A master of comic fiction, he first came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of his stories, all imbued with his characteristic wit and social satire.
All Free Now – A comic observation of the late 1960s. “As you get older, you’ll find that absolutely straight-down-the-middle sex doesn’t strike you in quite the way it did.” Sir Roy’s pursuit of something more stimulating wreaks havoc in his own life – and everyone else’s…
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1989
I Want It Now – The late 60s. Ronnie Appleyard is an up-and-coming television personality – a bright young man with his own chat show. At a fashionable party he meets young Simona Quick and, after a bad start, decides that she’s the girl for him. Apart from her other assets, she’s rich. But the course of true love – if that’s what it is – has the proverbial vicissitudes.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1977
The Riverside Villas Murder – “Don’t grow up too fast, Peter. When I was your age I couldn’t wait to get out into the world, because I thought it was going to be so marvellous. Well. it isn’t. Things like this – they’re happening all the time. And it isn’t fair. It isn’t fair at all.” Set in 1936, an adolescent boy’s coming of age is blighted bу a local murder.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1976
Ending Up – Tuppenny-Hapenny Cottage is home to a hodgepodge of oldsters forced to live together more out of financial consideration than mutual affection. A darkly hilarious satire of old age
First broadcast on BBC 2 in June 1990
Something Strange – The four observers in the space capsule have unusual experiences to report…..
With Noel Johnson, Garard Green, Nerys Hughes, Olive Gregg, Charlotte Mitchell, Frank Duncan, David Garth, Tom Watson, Brian Wilde and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Based upon the short story bу Kingsley Amis, first published in 1960
First broadcast on BBC 2 in February 1962
To See the Sun – Vampires, a mad Scots librarian, a handsome Englishman and a Countess of uncertain age – all in Dacia in the 1920s.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1987
The ‘Green Man’ Revisited – Kingsley Amis finds himself in a pub peopled bу characters which bear a remarkable resemblance to one of his own novels. Are the events which follow fact or fiction?
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in December 1972
Festival – A comedy drama about festivals and the start of a legendary literary romance. In 1962, novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard took on the job of running the Cheltenham Literary Festival. It was to be a baptism of fire.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2018
Interesting Things – Gloria Davis and Waldo Huws-Evans are on a date. They plan to go to the cinema, to dinner and then to a party. Over the course of the evening, the much older man realises he has fallen in love with the young woman. However, she isn’t interested in the slightest, and so problems arise…
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1990
Lucky Jim – The academic and romantic tribulations of the eponymous James Dixon, a reluctant history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university.
Based upon the Kingsley Amis novel, first published in 1954
Episode List* 01 – All Free Now * 02 – I Want It Now * 03 – The Riverside Villas Murder * 04 – Ending Up * 05 – Something Strange * 06 – To See The Sun * 07 – The Green Man Revisited * 08 – Festival * 09 – Interesting Things * 10 – Lucky Jim The post Kingsley Amis BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Zoey is Too Drunk for This Dystopia is the latest installment in New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin’s thrilling Zoey Ashe sci-fi series.
Zoey Ashe wakes up every day feeling like she’s trying to steer a battleship while tied to the propeller. The twenty-three-year-old heiress to a criminal empire is navigating a futuristic world of high-tech liars and cutthroats, forced to learn the rules of a devious game she never asked to play. Now she’s facing a crisis that is both bigger and stranger than all that came before:
The gleaming new city of Tabula Ra$a is hosting its massive annual music festival, which every year precedes the equally massive annual drunken riot. This is all organized by Zoey’s people, including the riot. As her advisors explain, the citizens need a little controlled chaos now and then. Zoey, however, fears the chaos will not stay controlled for long.
When a horrific crime is broadcast live on an all-seeing social network, Zoey and her team suspect a carefully-stage hoax arranged by one of the Tabula Ra$a’s shadowy power players. But in a city in which lies are always served in layers, even that explanation will prove far too simple.
Episode List* 01 – Opening Credits * 02 – Prologue * 03 – Chapter One * 04 – Chapter Two * 05 – Chapter Three * 06 – Chapter Four * 07 – Chapter Five * 08 – Chapter Six * 09 – Chapter Seven * 10 – Chapter Eight * 11 – Chapter Nine * 12 – Chapter Ten * 13 – Chapter Eleven * 14 – Chapter Twelve * 15 – Chapter Thirteen * 16 – Chapter Fourteen * 17 – Chapter Fifteen * 18 – Chapter Sixteen * 19 – Chapter Seventeen * 20 – Chapter Eighteen * 21 – Chapter Nineteen * 22 – Chapter Twenty * 23 – Chapter Twenty-One * 24 – Chapter Twenty-Two * 25 – Chapter Twenty-Three * 26 – Chapter Twenty-Four * 27 – Chapter Twenty-Five * 28 – Chapter Twenty-Six * 29 – Chapter Twenty-Seven * 30 – Chapter Twenty-Eight * 31 – Chapter Twenty-Nine * 32 – Chapter Thirty * 33 – Chapter Thirty-One * 34 – Chapter Thirty-Two * 35 – Chapter Thirty-Three * 36 – Chapter Thirty-Four * 37 – Chapter Thirty-Five * 38 – Chapter Thirty-Six * 39 – End Credits The post Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia [3] Zoey Ashe Series appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Ian D. Montfort (Tom Binns), a celebrity spirit medium and psychic, is the star of this Radio 2 comedy that will amaze as much as it entertains.
In each radio show Ian makes contact with the celebrity ‘spirit guides’, secretly chosen by audience members, and reveals personal stories that make the audience laugh-out-loud one moment and gasp in surprise the next. Each episode features a different celebrity guest who gets a ‘private’ reading from Ian.
Episode List* S01E01 – With Angela Griffin * S01E02 – With Ruth Madoc * S01E03 – Hardeep Singh Kohli * S01E04 – With Joe Swash The post Ian D. Montfort is Unbelievable appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Following on from Charlotte Cory’s Thinking of Leaving Your Husband, this romantic comedy series explores the perils of internet dating for the middle-aged man.
Professor Tony (Henry Goodman), a recently-widowed professor who teaches in the University Mathematics Department of East Greenwich and Lewisham Combined, is struggling to understand the mathematical basis for social interaction.
A former student, who runs a thriving estate agency, introduces him to the website FindthePerfectPartner4u.com, and Tony’s introduction to the dangerous and exciting game of internet dating begins.
All his internet dates are played by Lia Williams.
Episode List* S01E01 – Dinner Parties & Dancing Partners * S01E02 – Finding The Perfect Equation * S01E03 – New Directions in Applied Mathematical Modelling * S01E04 – e=mc2 The Mathematics Of Speed Dating The post FindthePerfectPartner4u.com appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A newly rich couple, under the impression that Cockney racing tout Evans is a championship-winning trainer (he isn’t), ask him if he can train a racehorse they have just bought. It turns out that they don’t know anything about horse racing, but think that having a championship racehorse will be their ticket into “society”. Evans agrees, but since he doesn’t have a stable, moves the horse into the quarters he shares with two lodgers. Surprisingly, the horse has an innate talent for racing and could well be a champion. Evans enters him in the big championship race, but the day before it is to take place, the horse is stolen.
Episode List* S01E01 – Inside Information * S01E02 – The Snout * S01E03 – A Judge of Racing * S01E04 – A Matched Pair The post Educating Evans appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A programme showcasing On The Hour producer Armando Iannucci’s prodigious ability for fiddling about with bits of tape. Armed only with a huge library of stock recordings and some splicing equipment, Iannucci explained (via ludicrously mannered commentary) the history and future of radio and much else besides, highlighting such audio gems as a single footballer playing a league match on his own and a live commentary on the Splitting of the Radio 4 Frequencies.
Episode List* S01E01 – Down Your Ear * S01E02 – Down Your Ear * S01E03 – Down Your Ear * S01E04 – Down Your Ear * S01E05 – Down Your Ear The post Down Your Ear appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A BBC Radio adaptation by Alan Plater of Gwyn Thomas’ novel of early industrialism in 19th century Wales.
Alan Hugh Leigh, a traveling harpist, arrives in the industrial town of Moonlea in search of his friend John Simon Adams. However, upon his arrival, he is quickly warned against Adams, who has become a populist leader among the ironworkers who are involved in a bitter industrial conflict with the foundry’s upper class management. When it looks like the iron furnaces will be closed down, Leigh tries to persuade Adams to leave Moonlea, but to no avail. The unrest leads to a workers’ uprising, and in the wake of its failure Leigh and Adams both find themselves on trial for murder.
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A hilarious BBC Radio sitcom of big dreams, small towns, and rock’n’roll!
When Kenny (Stephen Tompkinson) gives up his life in the geography classroom to join a struggling a capella group with a beautician, a dentist and a boxer, he doesn’t realise he’ll soon be in the best band on the wedding circuit – and fronting the potential future of rock ‘n’ roll…
Between trying to manage the band’s failing love lives and their battling ambitions, Kenny finds that chaos greets them wherever they go. Arguments about who gets to sing the lead? Check. Rowing about recording contracts? Check. Selling out for a TV talent show? Check.
Even if their only gigs are the engagement parties of their exes and a ‘cruise ship’ that’s really a reconditioned destroyer, it doesn’t mean they can’t all dream of the big time: wealthy widows, international rock star glamour, private jets. It’s just a pity that it looks more like old school reunions and the same old small time rows…
A rib-tickling mixture of music and comedy from the writers of Peep Show, Dead Ringers, and The Now Show, and starring Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Drop the Dead Donkey, Brassed Off), Nicola Walker (Last Tango in Halifax, Doctor Who: The Audio Adventures, Unforgotten), Adrian Scarborough (Killing Eve, Crashing, Miranda) and Clive Rowe (The Story of Tracy Beaker, Harry Hill). Also featuring Meera Syal, Henrietta Garden, Dan Strauss, Darren Boyd and Matthew Little.
Written and devised by Bill Dare
Written by Giles New, Jessie Armstrong and Sam Baine
Episode List* S01E00 – Pilot Show * S01E01 – If You Scratch My Back * S01E02 – The Perfect Man * S01E03 – If You Sack Me, I’ll Leave * S01E04 – Band Of Gold * S02E01 – Meet The Wife * S02E02 – Fifteen Minutes Of Fame * S02E03 – East Coast Story * S02E04 – The Ballad Of Kenny And Christine The post Big Town All Stars appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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This is the panel game based on what we all sit down and do at least once a day – shop online and leave a review, as an all-star panel celebrate the good, the bad & the baffling.
Everyone has an online life, and when the great British public put pen to keyboard to leave a review, they almost always write something hilarious. And our all-star panel have to work out just what they were reviewing – and maybe contribute a few reviews of their own… and more… So if you’re the person who went on Trip Advisor to review Ben Nevis as “Very steep and too high”, this show salutes you!
Written by Frank Skinner, Catherine Brinkworth, Sarah Dempster, Jason Hazeley, Rajiv Karia, Karl Minns, Katie Sayer & Peter Tellouche
Devised by Jason Hazeley and Simons Evans with the producer David Tyler
Episode List* S01E01 – My Sphinx Has No Nose * S01E02 – Ponce & Prejudice * S01E03 – Hot Lava Blomps * S01E04 – Crouching Chicken Hidden Ladder * S01E05 – The Old Man & The Fishfinger * S01E06 – Everybody Loves Velociraptor The post One Person Found This Helpful appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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High comic drama among the humble members of a local council in the Home Counties
Broadcast live from the Club Akimbo, Bletchley, this is Britain’s first public access cable radio show, presented by a group of Buckinghamshire district councillors who really should know better. Chairman of the Ways and Means committee Mr Dutton is our host as he introduces us to the items on the agenda, which include sparkling sketches, surreal escapades and musical interludes from Chilean charmer Enrico Valdez and his Orchestra with Mickey Binelli.
Pay a visit to the Ideal Funeral Exhibition; tune into Clink FM, with all the hot hits and cool gossip from Buckinghamshire’s grooviest penitentiary; listen to a clip from an early, undiscovered version of Reservoir Dogs written by PG Wodehouse; and hear Sir John Gielgud’s lost audition tape for Teletubbies. Plus, we meet jackbooted ‘Cockney’ garden-centre owner Heinrich Himmler, and go on a cultural exchange with Signor Marinetti, the Mafioso mayor of Bletchley’s twin town Las Vegas…
Written by and starring Julian Dutton, with Liz Fraser, David Battley, Toby Longworth, Simon Godley, Peter Hugo-Daly, Stephen Critchlow, Matthew Bell and special guest Cleo Rocos, this is a feast of riotous entertainment from the town they forgot in the AA Guide to Weekend Breaks.
Production credits
Written by Julian Dutton
Produced by Dirk Maggs and Andy Aliffe
Starring Julian Dutton with Liz Fraser, David Battley, Toby Longworth, Simon Godley, Peter Hugo-Daly, Stephen Critchlow and Matthew Bell
With special guest Cleo Rocos
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 29 January-5 March 1997 (Series 1), 10 February-17 March 1999 (Series 2)
The humour in this series reflects the era in which the episodes were first broadcast.
Episode List* S01E01 – Truly, Madly, Bletchley * S01E02 – Truly, Madly, Bletchley * S01E03 – Truly, Madly, Bletchley * S01E04 – Truly, Madly, Bletchley * S01E05 – Truly, Madly, Bletchley * S01E06 – Truly, Madly, Bletchley * S02E01 – Truly, Madly, Bletchley * S02E02 – Truly, Madly, Bletchley * S02E03 – Truly, Madly, Bletchley * S02E04 – Truly, Madly, Bletchley * S02E05 – Truly, Madly, Bletchley * S02E06 – Truly, Madly, Bletchley The post Truly, Madly, Bletchley A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Drama appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A selection of full-cast BBC Radio dramas by the playwright Peter Wolf.
Black Queen to King’s Castle
On the anniversary of the night of her execution, it is rumoured that Anne Boleyn still haunts her family home in Norfolk. Is it possible that her ghost is trapped within the walls, trying to escape? Anne tells her own story of events leading to her execution.
Ghost on the Moor
A romantic drama set on the Yorkshire Moors. Graham has become something of a recluse since a dramatic break-up with his childhood sweetheart, the reasons for which continue to haunt him. A new and unexpected relationship is to have a cathartic effect on him.
Red Star Belgrade
Belgrade, 1941: As the Nazis begin their invasion of the Balkans, half the football team are wiped out as the pitch is bombed. In the prison camp, the survivors form a new team to play a match against the Prison Guards, but the price of winning this match against their fascists captors will be their lives.
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Comedic quiz hosted by Richard Osman posing one question – do you know how old people are? Three guests battle to prove they’re the best at working out ages.
Welcome to The Birthday Cake Game, a brand new comedic quiz hosted by Richard Osman that poses one simple question – do you know how old people are? Part quiz show, part panel show, and sometimes part chat show – The Birthday Cake Game is always play-along and full of entertaining guesses, with some surprising take home facts.
Tune in to find out who comes out on top and see if you can beat the players and score higher at home.
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The underwhelming story of life on Earth, from the National Theatre of Brent and starring Jim Broadbent
- The Creation – From the first amoeba to the Second World War. It’s the history of mankind.
- Civilisation – From Egypt to origami.
- The Fall of Troy. The Rise of Greece – The Fall of Troy and the Rise of Greece
The history of mankind from the first amoeba to the Second World War.
Presented with a bang by the entire cast of the National Theatre of Brent – Desmond Olivier Dingle and Wallace, aided by Mr Barker.
Written by Patrick Barlow
With additional material by Jim Broadbent and Martin Duncan.
Episode List* 01 – The Creation * 02 – Civilisation * 03 – The Fall of Troy. The Rise of Greece * 04 – From Scythians to Shakespeare * 05 – The Male Nude and Charlton Heston * 06 – The Interregnum and the Age of Turmoil * 07 – From Nelson to Women’s Emaciation * 08 – From 20th Century Wars to Twiggy The post All the World’s a Globe appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Mark Steel’s in Town is a stand-up comedy show on BBC Radio 4, co-written and performed by Mark Steel. The series, which was first broadcast on 18 March 2009, is recorded in various towns and cities in the United Kingdom and occasionally elsewhere. Each episode is tailored to the town in which it is recorded, and the show is performed in front of a local audience.
The programme received positive reviews from critics because of Steel’s observations of the locals, and that the series took place in multiple locations, compared to the majority of stand-up shows on radio and television, which are normally recorded in a single location. In 2010 Mark Steel’s in Town won a Silver Award for “Best Comedy” in the Sony Radio Academy Awards, and in 2012 it won the Gold Award in the same category. Also in 2010 it won the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for “Best Radio Comedy / Light Entertainment”. In series was voted “Best Radio Entertainment Show” in the Comedy.co.uk Awards held by the British Comedy Guide in the 2012 and 2015 awards.
Before each episode, Steel researches the history of the place in which he is going to perform. His research interests include local notable people, landmarks, customs and humorous anecdotes. The majority of the research sometimes took place close to the actual recording date. For example, Steel carried out almost no research for his episode in Walsall until ten days before the recording. In Merthyr Tydfil he spent three days in the town, where he carried out research and met locals. He then performs a tailor-made show about the town in front of a local audience. The style of the programme is similar to other shows starring Steel, such as The Mark Steel Lectures, in which Steel presented a humorous lecture about a famous person in history.
Episode List* S01E01 – Skipton * S01E02 – Boston * S01E03 – Lewes * S01E04 – Walsall * S01E05 – Merthyr Tydfil * S01E06 – Portland * S02E01 – Dartford * S02E02 – Wilmslow * S02E03 – Dumfries * S02E04 – Penzance * S02E05 – Gateshead * S02E06 – Kirkwall * S02ESP – Edingburgh Special – Leith * S03E01 – Berwick-Upon-Tweed * S03E02 – Holyhead * S03E03 – Basingstoke * S03E04 – Douglas Isle of Man * S03E05 – Bungay * S03E06 – Wigan * S04E01 – Whitehaven * S04E02 – Tobermory * S04E03 – Handsworth * S04E04 – Ottery St Mary * S04E05 – Corby * S04E06 – Chipping Norton * S05E01 – Glastonbury * S05E02 – Derry Londonderry * S05E03 – St Davids * S05E04 – Southall * S05E05 – Birkenhead * S05E06 – Huddersfield * S06E01 – Fleetwood * S06E02 – Melton Mowbray * S06E03 – Shrewsbury * S06E04 – Barnard Castle * S06E05 – Paisley * S06E06 – Saint Anne Alderney the Channel Islands * S07E01 – Stockport * S07E02 – Colchester * S07E03 – Hebden Bridge * S07E04 – Kingston upon Thames * S07E05 – Lynton and Lynmouth * S07E06 – Gibraltar * S08E01 – Bedford * S08E02 – Matlock and Matlock Bath * S08E03 – Inverness * S08E04 – Portishead * S08E05 – Hull * S08E06 – Ventnor * S09E01 – Hastings * S09E02 – Kings Lynn * S09E03 – Carlisle * S09E04 – Aberystwyth * S09E05 – The Forest of Dean * S09E06 – Malta * S10E01 – Brighton * S10E02 – Stratford-upon-Avon * S10E03 – Mark Steel’s Online * S11E01 – Blyth, Northumberland * S11E02 – Walthamstow, London. * S11E03 – Whitby * S12E01 – Nottingham * S12E02 – Tring * S12E03 – The Isles of Scilly * S12E04 – Salisbury * S12E05 – Newport * S12E06 – Paris * S12ESP – Paris (English and French) * S13E01 – Margate * S13E02 – Malvern * S13E03 – East Grinstead * S13E04 – Stoke-on-Trent * S13E05 – Nether Edge * S13E06 – Coleraine The post Mark Steel’s in Town appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Norman Wisdom stars as a small time crook who’s just come out of prison.
Hoping to go straight, he is entrusted to widow Natalie Mathews, who offers him a job and accommodation. However, she has an ulterior motive.
Written by John Graham and Peter Ling from an idea by Norman Wisdom.
Episode List* 01 – Norman’s Trial Run * 02 – Norman Delivers The Goods * 03 – Norman’s Weekend * 04 – Norman and the Mafia * 05 – Norman In A Jam * 06 – Norman And The Pearls The post Robbing Hood appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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After decades of searching the Valley of the Kings, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his newly appointed Egyptian assistant Shafiq Tadros uncover a step leading to the tomb of Tutankhamun. Funder Lord Carnarvon and his daughter Lady Evelyn arrive and an unauthorised inspection of the tomb takes place. Decades later a chance meeting on the streets of Paris with an Egyptian student causes Shafiq to excavate his own story.
Following the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, pressure builds for lead archaeologist Howard Carter and his assistant Shafiq Tadros. Chief funder Lord Carnarvon’s deal with The Times of London for exclusive media coverage causes resentment among other news organisations in Egypt and beyond.
The British team controlling the excavation come under increasing pressure from the Department of Antiquities. When Carnarvon contracts a mysterious illness, rumours of a curse abound.
In November 1922 the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb became the biggest news story in the world. Virtually untouched for over three thousand years, the tomb contained priceless artefacts including a solid gold coffin, thrones, archery bows, trumpets and fresh linen underwear. Egypt, newly liberated from British rule, hailed the discovery of Tutankhamun as a symbol of its glorious rebirth as an independent nation. But who should control the terms of the dig, and who should keep the treasure?
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The complete television soundtracks of all 12 episodes of the legendary BBC sitcom
Ground-breaking, satirical and anarchic, The Young Ones introduced alternative comedy to mainstream TV, and made household names of its writers and performers. It ran for two series on BBC Two between 1982 and 1984, winning a host of devoted fans and a BAFTA Award for its second series.
A world away from the cosy suburban sitcoms that preceded it, the show centred around four degenerate students sharing a squalid North London house: hippy Neil (Nigel Planer), right-on Rick (Rik Mayall), Mike ‘TheCoolPerson’ (Chris Ryan) and punk psycho Vyvyan (Ade Edmondson). Alexei Sayle co-starred as the various members of the dodgy Balowski family, and the plethora of guest stars included Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson and series co-writer Ben Elton. Musical interludes were provided by top bands such as Dexy’s Midnight Runners, The Damned, Madness, Motörhead and Nine Below Zero.
Collected here are all the dysfunctional foursome’s manic adventures – from discovering oil in the basement, to playing host to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, to representing Scumbag College on University Challenge. Now you can hear from your favourite characters once again, and listen to their iconic one-liners, inventive insults and fabulously funny quotes.
Full of wild slapstick, surreal twists, over-the-top ultra-violence and absurdist humour, this innovative, iconoclastic series remains one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. This audio-only collection of the original TV soundtracks provides the perfect opportunity for fans to relive the show’s finest moments while on the go.
Contains strong language and humour that some listeners may find offensive.
Episode List* S01E01 – Demolition * S01E02 – Oil * S01E03 – Boring * S01E04 – Bomb * S01E05 – Interesting * S01E06 – Flood * S02E01 – Bambi * S02E02 – Cash * S02E03 – Nasty * S02E04 – Time * S02E05 – Sick * S02E06 – Summer Holiday The post The Young Ones appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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BBC Radio 4 series in which guests read embarrassing extracts from their teenage diaries, hosted by Rufus Hound.
An “intimate” radio comedy show in which comedians and other celebrities the chance to revisit their formative years by dusting off and reading out in public “their hormone-fuelled angst-ridden diaries”.
Before they begin, the performer puts their diary excerpt into context by recounting the back-story and revealing how old they were when the extract was written, what year it was written and why it makes them cringe.
Episode List* S01E01 – Richard Herring * S01E02 – Russell Kane * S01E03 – Shappi Khorsandi * S01E04 – Steve Hall * S01E05 – Josie Long * S01E06 – Jenny Eclair * S02E01 – Sheila Hancock * S02E02 – Victoria Coren * S02E03 – Julian Clary * S02E04 – Meera Syal * S02E05 – Rob Deering * S02E06 – Phil Nichol * S03E01 – Michael Winner * S03E02 – Janet Street-Porter * S03E03 – Jo Caulfield * S03E04 – Arabella Weir * S04E01 – Robert Webb * S04E02 – Caitlin Moran * S04E03 – Jackie Kay * S04E04 – Toby Young * S04E05 – Rhona Cameron * S04E06 – Julia Donaldson * S05E01 – Ken Livingstone * S05E02 – Vanessa Feltz * S05E03 – Sarfraz Manzoor * S05E04 – Rachel Johnson * S05E05 – Janet Ellis * S05E06 – Kate Moss * S06E01 – Sir Terry Wogan * S06E02 – Chris Difford * S06E02 – Lionel Shriver * S06E03 – Oona King * S06E04 – Robert Newman * S06E05 – Lucy Worsley * S06E06 – Alex Horne * S07E01 – Robert Peston * S07E03 – Michael Rosen * S07E04 – Sara Pascoe * S07E05 – Samira Ahmed * S07E06 – Chris Packham * S07ESP – Ian Rankin * S08E01 – Debbie McGee * S08E02 – John Finnemore * S08E03 – Anneka Rice * S08E04 – Pippa Evans * S08E05 – Gyles Brandreth * S08E06 – Helen Lederer * S09E01 – Shazia Mirza * S09E02 – Jenni Murray * S09E03 – Olly Mann * S09E04 – Jan Ravens * S09E05 – Julie Myerson * S09E06 – Bill Oddie * S10E01 – Jane Horrocks * S10E02 – Ken Cheng * S10E03 – Deborah Frances White * S10E04 – Joe Thomas * S10E05 – Sofie Hagen * S10E06 – Tim Downie * S11E01 – Ivo Graham * S11E02 – Michaela Strachan * S11E03 – Amy Gledhill * S11E04 – Juno Dawson * S11E05 – Sophie Duker * S11E06 – Joe Stilgoe The post My Teenage Diary appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Stunning all-star adaptations of Ackroyd’s intriguing London stories
A superb collection of dramas guaranteed to thrill and entertain from best-selling author Peter Ackroyd. Set in the heart of London, these star-studded adaptations feature parallel investigations into killings across two centuries, black magic, haunted houses, holy ghosts and a stunning performance by Simon Callow as the magnificent Charles Dickens.
Novelist, biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd has cemented his place at the heart of the culture and history of London. This fantastic collection is full of vitality from a world-class author and stellar cast.
Hawksmoor – London, 1711: Nicholas Dyer, an 18th-century architect, builds churches to the glory of God, but he is hiding a dreadful purpose. Nicholas Hawksmoor, a detective in contemporary London, is called to investigate a series of brutal murders. The key lies deep in the past, but will the detective be able to solve the case before another life is lost…? Philip Jackson, best known for his role as Chief Inspector Japp in the TV and radio productions of Poirot, stars in the title role.
The House of Doctor Dee – Matthew Palmer is left an old house in London’s Clerkenwell. Once owned by an Elizabethan scholar who was reputedly involved in black magic, the house hides dark secrets. Featuring Philip Glenister, best known for his role in Life on Mars and Eastenders’ Tracy-Ann Oberman.
The City Speaks – A unique series of dramas based on Ackroyd’s short story in which the Virgin Mary makes an appearance in the City of London. The stories range from humorous to highly emotional, from heart-warming to bizarre: Canary Wharf resembles the Emerald City, voodoo goddesses wander the streets of East London casting evil before them, and a tube station exists beneath the capital, but doesn’t appear on any map… Featuring Peter Marinker, Adjoa Andoh and Jamie Foreman.
The City Speaks was a co-production between BBC Radio Drama and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN).
The Mystery of Charles Dickens – Simon Callow delivers an outstanding performance of Peter Ackroyd’s one-man show portraying both Charles Dickens and many of his best-loved characters. Readings from his novels interweave with Dickens’ own words in an incisive, compassionate and unforgettable journey. This collection features an exclusive introduction by Simon Callow.
Episode List* 01 – Intro * 02 – Hawksmoor * 03 – Hawksmoor * 04 – The House of Doctor Dee * 05 – The House of Doctor Dee * 06 – The City Speaks – Pushing * 07 – The City Speaks – The Virgin Day * 08 – The City Speaks – I Am Not, You Are Not Me * 09 – The City Speaks – Broken Chain * 10 – The City Speaks – The Fervour of Virgin Day * 11 – The City Speaks – Iesha’s Tale * 12 – The City Speaks – Make Your Way * 13 – The Mystery of Charles Dickens * 14 – The Mystery of Charles Dickens The post Tales of London Four BBC Radio Dramas – Peter Ackroyd appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Frank Muir approaches society’s sacred cows with a keen, knife-edged humour and emerges with some prime quotes, some tough views and many rare slices of humour. This wry and witty look at our most treasured institutions, is the perfect vehicle for the perceptive humour and cool urbanity of Mr Muir.
Radio comedy series starring former BBC head of comedy Frank Muir, and featuring Alfred Marks.
Each week Frank Muir picks a topic and investigates the humour of the subject with the help of Alfred Marks.
The comedy team of Frank Muir and Denis Norden began their radio careers in the late 1940s as scriptwriters on the legendary sketch series Take It From Here starring Jimmy Edwards, which became the BBC’s top-rated comedy show and ran for more than ten years.
They also wrote other tv and radio comedy series, both individually and jointly, during the 1950s and 1960s, before eventually changing careers from writing to performing, migrating to radio and television panel games, where, amongst other shows in which they appeared, they created and starred in My Word and My Music, both of which ran for decades.
Frank Muir Goes Into… was a long running solo success for Frank Muir on radio.
Episode List* S00E01 – Why Are You Laughing – Pilot * S01E01 – The Law * S01E02 – Education * S01E03 – Medicine * S01E04 – The Theatre * S01E05 – Advertising * S01E06 – The Church * S01E07 – The Office * S01E08 – Government * S02E01 – The Home * S02E02 – Marriage * S02E03 – The Family * S02E04 – Class * S02E05 – Food * S02E06 – Parties * S02E07 – Hobbies * S02E08 – Sport * S02E09 – Pets * S02E10 – Holidays * S03E01 – Nostalgia * S03E02 – Heroism * S03E03- Optimism * S03E04 – Pessimism * S03E05 – Superstition * S03E06 – Boredom * S03E07 – Pride * S03E08 – Jealousy * S03E09 – Fear * S03E10 – Lust * S04E01 – The Visual Arts * S04E02 – Books * S04E03 – Popular Music * S04E04 – Serious Music * S04E05 – Cinema * S04E06 – Television * S04E07 – Radio * S04E08 – Poetry * S04E09 – Conversation * S04E10 – Criticism * S04ESP – Christmas Special – Pleasure * S05E01 – Money * S05E02 – Public Transport * S05E03 – The Motor Car * S05E04 – Air Travel * S05E05 – Consumer Affairs * S05E06 – The Post Office * S05E07 – Inventions * S05E08 – The Environment * S05E09 – The Army * S05E10 – The Navy * S06E01 – Teaching * S06E02 – Public School * S06E03 – University * S06E04 – Languages * S06E05 – Mathematics * S06E06 – Science * S06E07 – English * S06E08 – History * S06E09 – Politics * S06E10 – Games * S06ESP – Christmas Special – Festivities * S06ESP – New Years Special – Celebrations * S06ESP – Special – Festivals * S07E01 – Anger * S07E02 – Gloom * S07E03 – Hypocrisy * S07E04 – Cruelty * S07E05 – Deceit * S07E06 – Greed * S07E07 – Laziness * S07E08 – Self-importance * S07E09 – Pettiness * S07E10 – Meanness * S08E01 – Romance * S08E05 – Childcare * S08E07 – Health * S09E02 – Failure * S09E03 – Politeness * S09E04 – Rudeness * S09E05 – Sentimentality * S09E06 – Pretension * S09E07 – Eccentricity * S09E08 – Misunderstanding * S10E01 – Wild Animals * S10E02 – Domestic Animals * S10E03 – Birds * S10E04 – Insects and Spiders * S10E05 – Plants * S10E06 – Fruit and Vegatables * S10E07 – Rivers and Lakes * S10E08 – The Sea * S11E01 – Profit * S11E02 – Loss * S11E03 – Hope * S11E04 – Despair * S11E05 – Heaven * S11E06 – Hell * S11E07 – Love * S11E08 – Hate * S11ESP – Goes Green – Environmental Special The post Frank Muir Goes Into appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Paul Sinha is an award-winning comedian, broadcaster and champion quizzer, best known for his appearances on TV’s The Chase. Formerly a doctor, he left medicine to pursue a comedy career, and hasn’t looked back.
In each episode of Paul Sinha’s Perfect Pub Quiz, the quizzer, comedian and Rose d’Or winner Paul Sinha invites the audience to tell him their favourite quiz questions, before offering up not just different and surprising questions, but also the fascinating stories behind the answers.
It’s facts, jokes, stories and puns – just the way you like them.
Episode List* S01E01 – Literature * S01E02 – The World * S01E03 – Four-Letter Words * S01E04 – Everything * S02E01 – Brighton * S02E02 – Manchester * S02E03 – Andover * S02E04 – Ipswich * S02E05 – Bridgwater * S02E06 – Brighton * S02E07 – Manchester * S02E08 – Andover * S02E09 – Ipswich * S02E10 – Bridgwater The post Paul Sinha’s Perfect Pub Quiz appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A six-part crime drama about a group of Manchester teens fighting for justice
When their friend Keith Brandon is charged with murdering a policeman, Gemma, Liam and Andy decide to bunk off school and go to the trial. Keith had a knife, a motive and has confessed to the crime, but they’re sure he didn’t do it – so when he’s found guilty, they can’t believe it.
Determined to prove Keith’s innocence, they take their story to the local media, but no-one will take them seriously. Then Gemma comes up with an unorthodox way of appealing for new evidence: setting up their own pirate radio station…
But someone’s trying to warn them off. First they receive a letter telling them to ‘stop looking’, then Andy’s mum – a police officer – is suspended from the force. Unafraid, they keep broadcasting – only to uncover sinister surprises and dangerous secrets.
Can they find out the truth about PC Johnson’s death, before they’re shut down for good?
First broadcast in 1993, this engaging crime drama was written by Dave Simpson and Diane Whitley. Among the star cast are Jane Dawson (Coronation Street), Sue Jenkins (Brookside), Maureen Beattie (Deadwater Fell) and Michelle Holmes (Rita, Sue and Bob Too).
Episode List* 01 – Crimewaves * 02 – Crimewaves * 03 – Crimewaves * 04 – Crimewaves * 05 – Crimewaves * 06 – Crimewaves The post Crimewaves A Full-Cast BBC Radio Thriller appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage.
- Willoughby Wants a Wife – Laetitia has been carrying a candle for Sir Willoughby, but he’s chosen the beautiful Constantia to be the future Lady Willoughby.But when this doesn’t happen, he chooses the young Clara Middleton.It never occurs to him that she too has doubts…
- Clara’s Choice – “It is on your head if my ideal of woman is wrecked. Who robs me? You drew me to you so you could reject me?” Is Sir Willoughby running out of options?
George Meredith’s novel first published in 1879 questions men’s power and women’s status in Victorian society.
Starring James Wilby and Keeley Hawes.
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As the world still reels from the Kennedy assassinations, an English intelligence operative uncovers a sinister conspiracy: the CIA has joined with the Mafia and communist Cuba to create sleeper agents, unwitting pawns hypnotized to kill on command. Now London wants in, setting its sights on the IRA and other enemies of the British Empire.
In this spine-tingling suspense about one of the darkest eras in American history
Ted Allbuery’s Cold War thriller describes how British secret service obliges the CIA to share its MK-Ultra programme to address domestic issues.
A British singer unwittingly becomes part of a sinister CIA Cold War project.
Ted Allbeury adapts his 1983 best-seller in ten parts.
Starring Robert Beatty, Susannah Fellows, Barry Foster and Michael J Shannon.
When President Kennedy said in his inauguration speech that America would ‘pay any price’ to preserve freedom, he could not have realised that the price would include his own life.
Neither could he have imagined that defending freedom would lead to the ruthless sacrifice of the minds of innocent people.
This is the story of part of the price that was paid.
It may seem incredible, but it is based on fact.
Stockport-born author Ted Allbeury [1917-2005] wrote over 40 novels. He served as an intelligence officer in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. This provided the groundwork for him to master the art of the spy novel genre.
Episode List* 01 – You Won’t Remember This * 02 – Unholy Alliance * 03 – The Clear Up * 04 – The Arrangement * 05 – Hamburg * 06 – Flashbacks * 07 – Reality Leaks * 08 – Number Unknown * 09 – Terminal Command * 10 – Price Paid The post Pay Any Price appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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First of Millions
The first of a collection of dramas illuminating historical turning points. Inspired by true events, writer Ryan Craig tells the story behind the pioneering science that led to the birth of the first IVF baby.
At the heart of a story which celebrates the science and people involved is the working relationship between Physiologist, Robert Edwards and Obstetrician, Patrick Steptoe. Both mavericks who came into conflict with the establishment they conducted much of their ground-breaking research in a make-shift laboratory at the Oldham hospital where Steptoe worked and where John and Lesley Brown were finally to become parents.
Wasps in a Jam Jar
Elspeth was married to Geoffrey Howe. She was the complete opposite of the other woman in his life, Margaret Thatcher. Elspeth was Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission and a vocal supporter of the homeless. She was a feminist, whereas Mrs Thatcher thought a woman’s place was in the home. This rivalry played a substantial part in Geoffrey Howe’s famous resignation speech in 1990. Arguably the speech was a major turning point in contemporary history. It meant the end of Mrs Thatcher. But most significant of all, the European battle lines in the Conservative Party were indelibly drawn that day. There’s a straight line from that speech to the Brexit referendum. This comedy drama by journalist Jonathan Maitland dramatises the events leading up to the speech.
A Ghastly Mistake
Born Elizabeth Forbes in 1912, Dr Ewan Forbes goes to the Scottish courts to protect his marriage, his practice and above all his claim to be heir-male to the Craigevar Baronetcy.
In 1967, John Forbes Sempill takes out a civil court case against his cousin, Ewan to establish his right to inherit the Baronetcy of Craigievar in Scotland – a title which could only be passed down the male line. Ewan, otherwise next in line, was registered at birth as Elizabeth, a girl. But, from the age of 6 he has lived as boy and man. A qualified GP he has successfully amended his birth certificate and married his housekeeper “Patty”.
The sudden death of Ewan’s older brother, William Baronet of Craigevar, instantly changes Ewan’s quiet rural life. His cousin challenges for the title, claiming that Ewan is female and cannot inherit. Ewan feels obliged to defend his position – to protect his marriage, his way of life and his identity.
The hearing may be held “in camera” out of the public gaze, but the testimony from the court records, reveals a disturbing personal examination and enquiry for both Ewan and Patty. The play presents their personal struggle to confirm Ewan’s gender and preserve the legality of their marriage against their moral obligations in the eyes of God to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Nicholas McInerney’s new play looks at the events of Ewan’s life through the eyes of the late Gwendolyn Forbes Sempill, formidable as Ewan’s mother and champion. It intertwines scenes from childhood with critical moments of the hearing taken verbatim from the court transcript.
Interpolated throughout the play are moments of verbatim testimony from people identifying as “trans”, from the 1950s to today.
Behind Beyond the Fringe
May 14th 1961 – Reviewing the hottest ticket in town, Observer theatre critic Ken Tynan effused: “Future historians may well thank me for providing them with a full account of the moment when English comedy took its first decisive step into the second half of the twentieth century.”
Like the ‘angry young’ novels and ‘kitchen sink’ dramas of a few years earlier, ‘Beyond the Fringe’ was a cultural and political turning point, introducing new voices and fresh attitudes to a generation hungry for change. ‘Beyond the Fringe’ not only transformed the style of British comedy, lighting the fuse of the satire boom, it also fired a broadside at The Establishment and sent a blast of fresh air through the fusty corridors of power. Before the Beatles made the 60s swing the Fab Four of comedy, Bennett, Cook, Miller and Moore opened the door to ‘the permissive society’, auguring the death of deference which still clung to paternalistic, post-colonial Britain.
Jeremy Front’s drama takes a look at how four young men were brought together to stage a comedy show and ended up staging a revolution.
With thanks to John and Josh Bassett for their help in researching the play.
The Fall
The extraordinary story of the mistake that caused one of the most significant turning points of the 20th century.
In November 1989 the repressive tyranny of the GDR ended and with it the Cold War, bringing in 33 years of peace – which only recently ended.
At a routine press conference on November 9, 1989, an East German spokesperson, Günter Schabowski, was handed an announcement about relaxed travel regulations for the people of East Germany. He mistakenly announced that the checkpoints in the Berlin Wall — which up until then were guarded by soldiers with orders to shoot anyone trying to cross — were now open. They weren’t, but that announcement was all East Berliners needed to storm the Wall and demand they be allowed to cross into West Berlin. After that, the Wall became obsolete, and soon fell.
This is a story of misguided good men doing their best, evil men doing their worst and an incompetent bureaucrat who accidentally changes the world.
First Folio
Mike Harris reimagines the collation of Shakespeare’s First Folio through the efforts of his colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell.
The First Folio, which was published 400 years ago, gathers 36 plays for the first time – although how much was accurate and how much reinvented through memory and scraps of manuscript remains a subject of debate.
To add a bit of fun to the whole procedure, Mike Harris imagines a young girl – Rosalind – desperate to act and write in a world where it’s the last thing females would routinely be allowed to do….
Mae West
In 1926 Mae West wrote, directed, produced and starred in the smash hit Sex on Broadway. When she was arrested on stage the following year for “corrupting the morals of youth”, the subsequent court case led to a choice between apologising and paying a fine or going to jail for ten days. #
Mae chose the latter and it secured her legend.
While she was serving her time at Welfare Island she was invited to dinner with the Warden. This drama, based on those real events, imagines that dinner and celebrates the fabulous Mae West and her subsequent glittering career – writing her own lines in her movies, acting with casting approval over all her male co-stars, becoming the number one box office draw and the second richest person in America by 1935. All on her own terms.
She was a trailblazer, a warrior. A woman of power and property. A woman who refused to be silenced or let age diminish her importance. And yet her extraordinary achievements often seem to have been forgotten, despite the icons that followed in her footsteps – Marilyn and Madonna and young Miley naked on her wrecking ball.
Never Mind the Ballocks
When Nottingham Virgin Records displays the Sex Pistols album Never Mind The Bollocks in the window, the local police take offence. The local shop manager looks like he might take the rap when Virgin boss Richard Branson manufactures a row and the case goes to court.
The stage is set for a showdown between Sir John Mortimer QC and the local guardians of morality. And it’s more than just strong language that’s on trial.
Michael Eaton’s drama evokes England of the late 1970s – a time of strikes, poverty and power cuts. Against this background, the country’s attitude to the Sex Pistols, punk and the angry youth they represented is tested.
Regina v Searle was heard at Court Three at Nottingham’s Guildhall on the chill morning of November 27, 1977. Witnesses included artist Caroline Coon, and the stern Scottish Professor James Kinsley of Nottingham University, an expert in Medieval Linguistics.
Southall Uprising
Set in immigrant, working class Southall, West London during the highly charged racially divided climate of a late 1970s Britain, on the cusp of Thatcherism. 1976, the racist murder of teenager Gurdip Singh Chaggar led to escalating tensions between Black/Asian locals and the far right. On St. George’s Day, April 23rd 1979, Tory-run Ealing Council and the Labour government permit a National Front pre-election rally at the town hall, in the heart of Southall. In an act of determined resistance, the community peacefully sits down to stand up to racism, against ensuing police brutality that ultimately leads to the death of protesting New Zealand teacher Blair Peach.
2024 marks the 45th anniversary of the Southall Uprising, a turning point in the birth of an Asian/Black Britain. St. George’s Day 1979 is remembered for when this small, hard-working immigrant community fought back against the far-right and its calls for immigrant repatriation, forced to collectively defend and assert its right to live, work and exist in a new, emerging multicultural Britain.
Satinder Chohan’s drama is based on the true events and testimonies of people who attended the protest in 1979 and was recorded on location in Southall.
This Is for Everyone
Entertaining drama from award-winning writer Matthew Broughton exploring probably the biggest turning point in recent history: the creation of the World Wide Web, and its impact on one family in the decades that follow.
In August 1991, the first website goes live. At exactly the same time, a baby is born…
Episode List* 01 – First of Millions * 02 – Wasps in a Jam Jar * 03 – A Ghastly Mistake * 04 – Behind Beyond the Fringe * 05 – The Fall * 06 – First Folio * 07 – Mae West * 08 – Never Mind the Ballocks * 09 – Southall Uprising * 10 – This Is for Everyone The post Turning Point appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A collection of full-cast dramatisations from the renowned screenwriter and novelist Ted Willis
Ted Willis began his creative life in amateur theatre and journalism before moving into writing for films, TV and radio, and was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most prolific writer for television. His best-known creation was the hit police procedural Dixon of Dock Green which he based on the stories told to him by a policeman friend. This radio anthology includes five of his best-loved crime tales from the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.
The Buckingham Palace Connection – Summer, 1976. A question in the House of Lords leads Ted Willis to uncover the extraordinary true story of a 1918 mission to rescue the Romanovs… Maurice Denham, Jeremy Clyde and Miriam Margolyes star in this exciting drama, based on real events and adapted by Ted Willis from his own novel.
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 3-31 May 1981
The Left-Handed Sleeper – Ted Willis’ neighbours have become embroiled in scandal. MP Mark Ritchie has gone on the run, suspected of being a spy, and MI5 are on his trail. Can his wife Christine prove his innocence? Dramatised by the author from his 1975 novel, this gripping espionage thriller stars Ted Willis as the narrator, with Annette Crosbie as Christine.
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 14 November-12 December 1982
Death May Surprise Us – Attending a country fair, the Prime Minister and his wife are kidnapped in broad daylight, within yards of a huge crowd. With the country reeling, the hunt is on to find them and bring them home safely… Leslie Sands and Mary Wimbush star in this suspenseful tale, adapted by Ted Willis from his 1974 novel.
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 26 August-30 September 1984
The Blue Lamp – This vintage drama by Ted Willis and Jan Read was based on their original treatment for the 1950 Ealing Studios film that introduced the character of PC George Dixon, who went on to appear in TV’s Dixon of Dock Green. Deryck Guyler stars as the veteran London copper who faces up to an armed robber.
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 24 December 1962
And No Birds Sing – Philip Brooks is quietly reading at home, but a knock on his front door may change his life forever… This intriguing play stars Hugh Burden as Philip Brooks, Mary Miller as Ann Brooks and Adrian Egan as Detective Sergeant Syms.
Episode List* 01 – Intro * 02 – The Buckingham Palace Connection * 03 – The Buckingham Palace Connection * 04 – The Buckingham Palace Connection * 05 – The Buckingham Palace Connection * 06 – The Buckingham Palace Connection * 07 – The Left-Handed Sleeper * 08 – The Left-Handed Sleeper * 09 – The Left-Handed Sleeper * 10 – The Left-Handed Sleeper * 11 – The Left-Handed Sleeper * 12 – Death May Surprise Us * 13 – Death May Surprise Us * 14 – Death May Surprise Us * 15 – Death May Surprise Us * 16 – Death May Surprise Us * 17 – Death May Surprise Us * 18 – The Blue Lamp * 19 – The Blue Lamp * 20 – And No Birds Sing The post The Buckingham Palace Connection and More Five Full-Cast BBC Radio Vintage Thrillers appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Writer, poet, and broadcaster Pam Ayres has been making her fans smile for more than 30 years, since her first television appearance on Opportunity Knocks. Now some of her best sketches, verses and songs are brought together in this complete collection of series 1-6 of her Radio 4 show, Ayres on the Air .
Each series consists of 4 episodes, with Pam performing witty and wonderful pieces on subjects as diverse as getting older, shopping and a surfeit of beige, bored chickens and school plays. With each sketch, she delights and entertains in a way that is unique to this very special broadcaster.
Episode List* S01E01 – Human Deterioration * S01E02 – Holidays * S01E03 – The Countryside * S01E04 – Children * S02E01 – Fame * S02E02 – Animals * S02E03 – Travel * S02E04 – Motherhood * S02E05 – The Old Days * S02E06 – Food * S03E01 – Passion * S03E02 – In the Doghouse * S03E03 – On Yer Bike * S03E04 – Shopping * S04E01 – Spring * S04E02 – Summer * S04E03 – Autumn * S04E04 – Winter * S05E01 – Home * S05E02 – Horses * S05E03 – Self-Sufficiency * S05E04 – Beauty * S06E01 – Still in the Game * S06E02 – Home * S06E03 – Grandparents * S06E04 – Holidays The post Ayres on the Air appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Sci-fi crime thriller from BAFTA-winning writer Trevor Preston. Turner is caught in a corrupt world where power lies in blood and body parts
Turner finds himself in the grasp of the criminal elite who control The Zone…and the trade in vital body parts.
Starring Ben Crowe.
Trevor Preston’s two-part sci-fi crime thriller is set in a world beyond the law.
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Eight dark comic dramas narrated by Alexei Sayle and adapted from his original short stories.
Dramatised from Alexei Sayle’s hilarious, highly acclaimed fiction, these satirical, surreal and surprising tales feature some of the UK’s foremost comic actors, and are introduced by the award-winning comedian himself.
The Only Man Stalin Was Afraid Of – Summoned to treat his old friend, Stalin’s psychiatrist is faced with an ethical dilemma. Starring Peter Capaldi, Freya Parker and Peter Serafinowicz.
Banner Bright – 1968. Five students meet during an art school occupation, and create an inspirational protest banner they believe will change the world. Starring Ben Crompton, George Fouracres, Kath Hughes, Tim Key and Nimisha Odedra.
The Minister for Death – A Liverpudlian pensioner foils a would-be mugger – and rekindles his lust for murder…. Starring Paul Barber, Lewis MacLeod, Shaun Mason, Freya Parker and Frances Tomelty.
The Last Woman Killed in the War – Returning to Liverpool after 40 years of exile, Mary finds that much has changed during her absence. Starring Adi Alfa, Katy Carmichael, Shaun Mason, Jan Ravens and Paislie Reid.
Clive Hole – An indecisive TV commissioner comes under pressure from two dogged producers determined to get their screenplay made. Starring Katheryn Drysdale, Graham Duff, George Fouracres, Georgie Glenn, Tim McInnerny, Alice McMillan and Duncan Wisbey.
Barcelona Chairs – Frustrated architect ‘Rupert’ embeds himself in Tony Blair’s Labour government while trying to design the perfect, ultra-minimalist home for his family. Starring Ambika Mod, Hugh Quarshie and Siobhan Redmond.
The Nameless Park – Jade loves the neglected park near her house, and often takes her wheelchair-user brother for trips around its paths. But when Jason becomes critically ill, she makes a devastating discovery. Starring Louis Emerick, George Fouracres, Shaun Mason, Alice McMillan and Claire Sweeney.
Locked Out – Unexpectedly stuck outside her Central London home, Katherine realises how little she knows about her neighbours’ lives, and the strange and apparently sinister things they get up to…. Starring Maxine Peake.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Only Man Stalin Was Afraid Of * S01E02 – Banner Bright * S01E03 – The Minister for Death * S01E04 – The Last Woman Killed In The War * S02E01 – Clive Hole * S02E02 – Barcelona Chairs * S02E03 – The Nameless Park * S02E04 – Locked Out The post Alexei Sayle The Absence of Normal appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A selection of contemporary dramas from leading Black playwright Rex Obano – plus bonus programme
Rex Obano has written for the stage, television, radio and film. His plays have twice been shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award and he received the Roland Rees Bursary in 2018. He is part of the writing team for the BBC Radio series Faith, Hope and Glory and his TV credits include Shakespeare & Hathaway. Included here are five of his acclaimed dramas, as well as a fascinating discussion programme, Black Tudors.
Lover’s Rock – 1981. Politicised by the legacy of the New Cross Fire, in which 13 people died, young Black pacifist Ben turns to activism. Alongside Monroe, an aspiring producer of ‘Lover’s Rock’ reggae, he finds himself at the sharp end of the Brixton Riots… Kobna Holdbrook-Smith stars as Ben, with Tobi Bakare as Monroe.
City College – When a university professor of Black history makes a controversial statement suggesting slavery never happened, a maelstrom ensues. Threatened with reprisals, he is forced to confront his hidden past. Rex Obano’s compelling drama about free speech stars Cyril Nri and Pippa Nixon.
As Innocent As You Can Get – Nathaniel and Tunde depend on each other – one guilty outside prison the other innocent within, one a prison psychologist, the other a prisoner convicted under ‘joint enterprise’. Freddie Fox and Paapa Essiedu star in this powerful urban drama, told in iambic pentameter rhyming couplets.
Burned to Nothing – Matthew has returned to his birthplace in Nigeria, to find his missing teenage son. But the police are also searching for Keith, who has become caught up in the politics of a turbulent land – a land he has fallen in love with. This gripping thriller stars Lucian Msamati, Jude Akuwudike, Lorraine Burroughs and David Ajala.
The Moors of England – It is the 16th Century, and Sir Robert Cecil is writing a proclamation to expel ‘blackamoors’ from England. So Cecil’s servant Fortunatus, a Black Muslim refugee, takes drastic action to change the course of history… Ray Fearon and John Heffernan star in this captivating drama about ambition and anarchy, introduced by historian and author Miranda Kaufmann.
Black Tudors – Rex Obano and Miranda Kaufmann discuss the history behind The Moors of England, exploring the genesis of the play and the real-life experiences of Black migrants in Elizabethan England.
Episode List* 01 – Lover’s Rock * 02 – Lover’s Rock * 03 – City College * 04 – City College * 05 – As Innocent As You Can Get * 06 – As Innocent As You Can Get * 07 – Burned to Nothing * 08 – The Moors of England * 09 – Black Tudors * 10 – With Rex Obano and Dr Miranda Kaufmann The post Rex Obano Five BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramas appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Dublin, 1997. When Joe Finnerty marries into Dublin’s political aristocracy his fortune appears to be made. Lucrative government contracts and the ready patronage of his heavy hitting father-in-law ensure that Joe soon becomes a man to be reckoned with. His own career in politics seems pre-ordained, until a disgruntled Party apparatchik leaks information concerning the unexplained death of Joe’s ex-partner, creating a scandal which shakes the Finnerty empire and threatens to destroy Joe and everything he once held dear. A cautionary tale about an individual’s pact with political preferment – Irish style.
Written by Hugh Costello and directed by Eoin O’Callaghan. Starring Patrick Fitzsymons, John Kavanagh, Amanda Hurwitz, Cathy White, Michael J Murphy, Hugh Costello, Frankie McCafferty, Nicky Doherty and Padraig Doon
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You’ve finished all her novels, so where do you go after Pride and Prejudice?
Perfect for Janeites everywhere, this enticing collection brings together for the first time six special recordings that offer a glimpse behind the scenes at the life of the celebrated author. Taking us on a journey from her earliest teenage writings, to her love affair aged 20, to the scandalous arrest of her aunt which shook her family, these fascinating programmes offer a closer look at Jane Austen and those around her, as seen through her letters, writings and final home.
Juvenile Jane – Jane Austen’s delightfully precocious and revealing early works are celebrated by Austen expert Janet Todd and writer and illustrator Posy Simmonds. Anna Maxwell Martin reads extracts from three stories: ‘Frederick and Elfrida’, ‘Henry and Eliza’ and ‘Love and Freindship'[sic].
Minuet – The story of Jane Austen’s real-life romance with an impassioned but impoverished young Irishman, which fueled her desire to become a writer. Helen McCrory stars as Jane Austen and John Light as Tom Lefroy in this original drama by Harriet O’Carroll.
A City Full of Swindlers – 1799, Bath. Accused of shoplifting a piece of lace, Jane Austen’s aunt is arrested and imprisoned… Narrated by Cassandra Austen (Lucy Black), this shocking tale reveals Georgian Bath to be a much less decorous place than it appears in her sister Jane’s novels. Based on a true story, Jenny Howarth’s entertaining drama also stars Tim Pigott-Smith and Pamela Miles.
Portrait of Elizabeth – Inspired by the Portrait of Elizabeth Bridges Austen at the Jane Austen’s House Museum, Chawton, Sophia Hillan’s short story is told from the point of view of Jane’s elder brother Edward’s wife. It is 1808, and Elizabeth has just given birth to her 11th child. Suffering from fever and unaware that she is dying, she rails at the thought of having Jane attend her. But why is she so angry with her sister-in-law? Read by Laura Carmichael.
No Ice in Weymouth – This 5-part series is a portrait of the family, social and professional world of Jane Austen, as seen through her letters and novels. Beginning in 1813, when Pride and Prejudice is about to be published, it concludes in 1815 in the months leading up to the publication of Emma. Starring Susannah Harker as Jane and Oona Beeson as Cassandra.
A Quire of Paper: A Poem for Jane Austen and Her House – In 2016, Maura Dooley was poet-in-residence at the Jane Austen’s House Museum, where Austen lived for the last eight years of her life. This atmospheric programme interweaves the sounds of the house, garden and village with specially composed poetry set against the rich history of this iconic place.
Episode List* 01 – Intro * 02 – Juvenile Jane * 03 – Minuet * 04 – A City Full of Swindlers * 05 – Portrait of Elizabeth * 06 – No Ice in Weymouth * 07 – No Ice in Weymouth * 08 – No Ice in Weymouth * 09 – No Ice in Weymouth * 10 – No Ice in Weymouth * 11 – A Quire of Paper The post Jane Austen – A Portrait – A BBC Radio Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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One Man and His Bog (subtitled: The Reluctant Rambler’s Guide to Walking the Pennine Way) is a 1986 travelogue book written by Barry Pilton started life as a series of talks on BBC Radio 4. It gives a light-hearted account of his walking the full length of the Pennine Way in 21 days, from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders.
An author’s note: “If this book should in some small way encourage people to take up walking themselves, then the author suggests they read the book again more carefully”.
It includes humorous tales of the people he met on the route, his overnight stops primarily at Youth Hostels, and the toll it took on his body. A glossary of “Difficult Technical Terms” is also included, for example “Compass – instrument for establishing you are lost”.
Episode List* 01 – Preparations * 02 – The Peak District * 03 – Only 215 Miles To Go… * 04 – Of Boots and Bulls * 05 – The Pub Beckons The post One Man And His Bog by Barry Pilton appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Comedian Glenn Moore looks in his almanac at major world events and what he was doing at the time.
Perhaps best-known for his outrageously brilliant one-liners on Mock The Week , Glenn delivers a tale of comic mishaps and extraordinary scenes interwoven with a big event in history – and looks back through his almanac to find out other strange connections to the day as well.
Written by Glenn with additional material by Katie Storey (Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week, The Last Leg) and produced and directed by David Tyler (Cabin Pressure,“Armando Iannucci’s Charm Offensive, and many more).
Episode List* S01E01 – Royal Wedding * S01E02 – General Election * S01E03 – International Space Station * S01E04 – Millennium The post Glenn Moore’s Almanac appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The inquest into the death of a female soldier found drowned reveals she had earlier been the victim of a sexual assault by a fellow soldier.
Over five days, we hear a range of witness statements and the coroner must decide whether she took her own life…
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BBC Radio 4 sitcom written by and starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald McLeary, set in a Glasgow corner shop.
First broadcast in 2007, Fags, Mags and Bags delivers shop-based shenanigans and over-the-counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. Ramesh has built his shop up over the course of 30 years, and it is a firmly entrenched feature of the local area. He is ably assisted by Dave, a forty-something underachiever who shares Ramesh’s love of the art of shopkeeping, even if he is treated like a slave. Then of course there are Ramesh’s sons Sanjay and Alok, both surly and not particularly keen on the old-school approach to shopkeeping. However, they are the natural successors to the business, and Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom on to them – whether they like it or not…
Episode List* S01E01 – Raising Keenan * S01E02 – The De-Magowarning Of Ramesh * S01E03 – Wall Of Crisps * S01E04 – Build The Titanic * S01E05 – The Festival Of Maltodextrin * S01E06 – January, February * S02E01 – Beansy, Beansy, Beansy, Beansy, Beansy * S02E02 – Skeletor Attack * S02E03 – Rameshtonite * S02E04 – All The Best * S02E05 – Cousin Wacko * S02E06 – Confectionary McEnroe * S03E01 – Jack Black’s Black Jacks * S03E02 – Mr Majhu Goes To Lenzie * S03E03 – The Wrath Of Khan * S03E04 – The Lenzie Splicer * S03E05 – Bacon Punctuation * S03E06 – The Fall Of Phallon And The Rise Of Bugatox * S04E01 – Sweetie Design Competition * S04E02 – Pennywise Empire * S04E03 – The Bewerdine Spectrum * S04E04 – Evil Narbara * S04E05 – Ayabassa Alan * S04E06 – Ramesh 50th * S05E01 – Hovering Chops * S05E02 – General Whitesnake Demeanour * S05E03 – Effervescent Members * S05E04 – Carnaptious Scroosh * S05E05 – Turn Around Dave Eyes * S05E06 – Meter Reading Chic * S06E01 – Chickpea Landslide * S06E02 – Schrodinger’s Birkenstock Interface Situation * S06E03 – Glamper, Camper, Pamper, Hamper * S06E04 – Crispquilibrium * S06E05 – Downton Abbey Voice Changer Helmet * S06E06 – Operation Voldemort Scrape-Away * S07E01 – Burger Burger Burger Burger Burger * S07E02 – Wizardy Lizardy Gubbins * S07E03 – Cumulus Nimbus * S07E04 – Begrudging a Crunchie * S08E01 – A Song For Lenzie * S08E02 – The Rubingtons Doobrery 9000 * S08E03 – Lenzie Has Fallen * S08E04 – Ladychase * S09E01 – Hamster Gamut * S09E02 – Bishop’s Finger * S09E03 – The Mike Leigh Theory * S09E04 – Soup Murder * S10E01 – Racismpallooza * S10E02 – Jeff Capes Five Egger * S10E03 – Full Five Pencil Belter * S10E04 – Florence Flouncingtons who lives in Flouncingtons Quadrant on the Flouncingtons Estate * S11E01 – The Pump Rubicon * S11E02 – Grumpy-Pumpy Doo-Dah McGraw * S11E03 – Ramesh-Pocalypse * S11E04 – Alok-Pocalyse * S11E05 – Priesty Weisty Hooversy Stairsy * S11E06 – Shopnucopia The post Fags Mags & Bags appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A collection of dramas set in South and Central America by acclaimed dramatist Mike Walker
An award-winning dramatist, author and feature writer, Mike Walker has written numerous original dramas for BBC Radio 4, including his epic chronicles Tsar, Caesar!, The Stuarts and Castle of the Hawk. Collected here are five of his gripping dramas from the 1980s and ’90s, set around the Amazon rainforest and Nicaragua.
Broken Wings and Bright Stars – Life in Tomas’s small Brazilian fishing village hasn’t changed for generations. But the old ways are dying, and few men now venture out to sea. For young Tomas, the future lies with the developers and their promise of jobs and money – so when his grandfather asks for his help building a boat, he is faced with a dilemma… Gary Cady stars as Tomas, with Michael Spice as Jose, in this first play in the Broken Wings and Bright Stars trilogy.
Dull Sun, Polished Moon – American filmmaker Bill Krause leads a crew into the Amazon jungle to make a documentary about tribal life, accompanied by his friend Father Alvarro, Tomas and Javari, a Brazilian Indian. They want to record the truth – but the truth is complicated, and difficult to reconcile. This second drama in the Broken Wings and Bright Stars trilogy stars Gary Cady, Ronald Herdman, Crawford Logan and Steve Hodson.
Fallen Leaves, Dead City – In this final part of the Broken Wings and Bright Stars trilogy, Tomas, desperate to make a difference, has embarked on a dangerous venture. Forced to confront the consequences of his actions, he must put aside idealism and face some harsh realities. Starring Gary Cady, Frances Jeater, Richard Pascoe and Crawford Logan.
Staying Still – When Jack Lowell is not organising survival courses for unfit executives on a remote Scottish island, he is living with an indigenous tribe in the Brazilian rainforest. Then tragedy occurs and his two worlds collide. Unhinged by grief, he seeks to extract payment for his losses… Nigel Anthony and Hilary MacLean star in this haunting tale of ritual, remorse and revenge.
Compa eros – Four strangers meet and decide to make a journey into the heart of Nicaragua, but when they happen upon a group of trigger-happy Contras, their nightmare begins… Starring Derek Newark, Angharad Rees, Trevor Nichols and Colin Stinton.
Episode List* 01 – Broken Wings and Bright Stars * 02 – Dull Sun, Polished Moon * 03 – Fallen Leaves, Dead City * 04 – Staying Still * 05 – Staying Still * 06 – Compañeros * 07 – Compañeros The post Broken Wings and Bright Stars & Other Stories Five BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramas appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The fast-talking glamorous musical drama set in a 1930s Chicago radio studio.
A radio caper set in Hollywood’s Golden Age, Big Broadcast sees radio station WKAZ’s most successful programme, ‘The Hour of Charm’, face trouble from gangsters, sponsors, moral guardians and politics, not to mention Chicago’s own winters.
When an acrimonious songwriting couple are facing threats from notorious gangster Brannigan, will a song save the day? Sometimes the hour can seem long when you’re radio staff – so what happens when Chicago snow traps you in the building completely? A new manager plans to change the whole format of the show, but a deep-voiced celebrity could use his charm to stop the manager in his tracks. And when the station is threatened with closure by the League of Decency, Katharine Hepburn herself comes to the rescue with her inimitable style.
Starring Samantha Spiro (Sex Education, Game of Thrones), Josie Lawrence (Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Eastenders), and Susannah Fielding (This Time with Alan Partridge, Black Mirror), this joyful, nostalgic musical drama will transport you to a different time and place.
Episode List* 01 – Big Broadcast * 02 – Big Broadcast * 03 – Big Broadcast * 04 – Big Broadcast * 05 – Big Broadcast * 06 – Big Broadcast * 07 – Big Broadcast The post Big Broadcast A BBC Radio Full-Cast Caper appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A collection of full-cast dramatisations and readings from the best-selling author.
Maeve Binchy was one of Britain’s best-loved storytellers, and this compilation of her finest fiction, as heard on BBC Radio, demonstrates all the warmth, wit and compassion that made her so popular.
Firefly Summer is a moving, humorous novel about a sleepy Irish town facing monumental change, dramatised in six parts, with a full cast including David Soul and Lorcan Cranitch.
No Nightingales, No Snakes features full-cast dramatisations of five Maeve Binchy short stories, with a distinguished cast including Niamh Cusack, Sam Dale and Harry Towb.
The Garden Party contains four short stories specially commissioned for BBC Radio 4, read by Niamh Cusack, Dervla Kirwan, Doreen Hepburn and Stella McCusker.
The Homecoming comprises four more stories exclusively written for BBC Radio 4, read by Sean Campion, Joanna Myers, Patricia Hodge and Kate Binchy.
Dealing with families, friendship, love, loss, sorrow and joy, these stories will delight all Maeve Binchy fans.
Episode List* 01 – Firefly Summer * 02 – Firefly Summer * 03 – Firefly Summer * 04 – No Nightingales, No Snakes – The Night the People Came in for Something the was no Trouble * 05 – No Nightingales, No Snakes – The Stepson * 06 – No Nightingales, No Snakes – Decisions at Sea * 07 – No Nightingales, No Snakes – The Answer Machine * 08 – No Nightingales, No Snakes – By the Time we get to Clifton * 09 – The Garden Party * 10 – The Special Sale * 11 – The Sensible Celebration * 12 – Dolly’s Mother * 13 – The Homecoming * 14 – Telling Stories * 15 – Needy * 16 – The Interview The post Maeve Binchy BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Political journalist Jonathan Pie gets a radio phone-in show and as his personal and professional worlds collide we see why he’s so incredibly angry about absolutely everything.
The BBC – Jonathan Pie (Tom Walker) is roped in last minute to host BBC radio’s most popular phone-in show. Basically there’s no one else available. Out of his depth and up to his neck in it, Pie manages to just about hold it together. He muses on the state of the BBC and in one breath is singing its praises and in the next he tears into it with his usual gusto.
Money – It’s Pie’s last night as guest host of the BBC’s flagship radio phone-in show. Pie is worried about money as he faces a moral and financial dilemma. He hijacks the show and uses the platform to air his frank views on the privately educated elite. He causes quite a stir, much to Roger’s (Pie’s boss’s) delight. Jules’s day however is about to get a lot worse.
Brexit – Much to Pie’s horror it has been decided that the opening show should be about Brexit. Pie has, quite frankly had it up to the back teeth with Brexit. He has a go at callers from both sides of the debate but Jules suspects something fishy and confronts Pie about his voting history. This does not go down well! Gauntlet thrown down, Pie takes to the airwaves to deliver an epic rant about Brexit that will end them all. He sincerely hopes.
Race – After a night of riots in Sam’s home town, Pie makes a stupid remark and Sam takes umbrage. Pie takes to the airwaves to prove his non-racist credentials, but ends up looking like a slice of Gammon on the side of the road. Sam and Pie make up and soon Jules is thinking that she herself might be a bit racist because she didn’t like a film that Sam likes. It’s all gets a bit silly really.
Online – Pie’s agent advises him to get on social media to help him garner a younger fanbase. Out of his comfort zone, Pie soon gains a troll…the mysterious Mr “O”. Who could that be? Meanwhile Roger asks Sam to help him clean up his work laptop because it’s full of evidence of Roger’s “extra-curricular activities”. The revelations about Roger are matched by what the team finds out about Jules. Probably too much information all round.
Women – When Roger warns Pie that he must widen his demographic, Pie decides to dedicate an entire show to “women’s issues”. Pie’s combative and contrary style does not suit the topic and Pie is taught a lesson or two by the female callers. Jules also gets involved by threatening Pie with quite serious bodily harm if he doesn’t shut his “rancid instant-coffee stinking mouth”. Pie is dismayed as he never touches instant coffee.
Comedy – When Pie says a very bad word in a meeting he is asked to apologise. Instead of doing just that however, he decides that it was “just a joke” and that he is a victim of cancel culture. He then hijacks the entire show to discuss the state of free speech in comedy. When Jules and Roger both implore him to apologise he is enraged even further. Can Jules persuade him to stop being a tit in time for him to save his job?
Drugs – Pie is doing a phone-in show about drugs policy in the UK, a subject he knows absolutely nothing about. He enlists the help of Sam to guide him through the country’s drug culture. When Pie’s narcissistic coke-fuelled agent pops in, things take a turn for the bizarre and he ends the evening knowing a lot more about drugs than he did at the start.
NHS – It’s Pie’s birthday and he’s really rather depressed about it. Until that is Roger shows up with egg on his face. Literally. The show’s topic is the state of the NHS but Pie seems obsessed with old age and death. When he is forced to reflect on his experiences of lockdown we discover that he had a more miserable time than most. Later he finally gets the chance to interview a junior health minister. Can he step up?
The Environment – Pie is running late with a child in tow. For various reasons, Pie has to juggle fatherly duties whilst hosting a late night phone-in show. The subject for the evening is The Environment. What starts as a rather light-hearted discussion soon descends into an angry an emotional plea for us to stop setting light to things that help us all to breathe. Pie’s sign off at the end of the show contravenes all sorts of broadcasting standards, but he doesn’t seem to care. Will Roger?
General Election Special – Having endured weeks of impossibly restrictive BBC election guidelines, Jonathan Pie is looking forward to election day and an end to all the madness. But first he has to persuade an apathetic Sam that not ‘all parties are the same’ and to actually go out and vote.
Episode List* 01 – The BBC * 02 – Money * 03 – Brexit * 04 – Race * 05 – Online * 06 – Women * 07 – Comedy * 08 – Drugs * 09 – NHS * 10 – The Environment * 11 – General Election Special The post Call Jonathan Pie appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Harold Wing Pinero hosts four comic close encounters with fate. Stars Charles Gray.
A Damp Fib – Simon is a junior clerk in a surveyor’s office, but when he tells a white lie it sparks disastrous consequences…
Along for the Ride – Colin impersonates a film producer with dangerous consequences. Stars Charles Gray and Michael Troughton. From February 1996.
Nice Little Number – Vernon Hedges sets out to prove that Lady Luck does not exist. Stars Charles Gray and Toby Longworth. From February 1996.
Love Bites – Martin’s proposal to his girlfriend does not go according to plan. Stars Charles Gray and Paul Raffield. From March 1996.
Harold Wing Pinero is your host of Four comic close encounters with fate written by Gary Parker and Phil Whelans.
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Sapna Sinha is a sales assistant in a TV showroom in New Delhi. As the sole breadwinner in the family, she works hard to support her widowed mother and younger sister Neha. Then billionaire Vinay Mohan Acharya walks into her life and offers to make her the CEO of his global empire. All she has to do is pass seven tests – rites of passage, designed to gauge her mettle as a leader.
It seems too good to be true, and Sapna is sceptical. But, in desperate need of money, she signs the contract that will subject her to the series of ‘life tests’. She has no idea what they will be, or when they will come, but if she gets through them, her life will change forever.
And change it does – though not in a way she could ever have predicted. As the consequences of her Faustian pact become clear, it seems there is no escape. Only by revisiting her past can she make sense of her present: but nothing can prepare her for what she finds there….
Vikas Swarup’s best selling novel The Accidental Apprentice, dramatised by award-winning authors Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden. This gripping, suspenseful drama with a twist in the tale stars Rasika Dugal as Sapna and Vijay Chrishna as Acharya.
Episode List* 01 – The Proposition * 02 – The Choice * 03 – The Wedding * 04 – The Ring * 05 – The Candy Van * 06 – The Talent Show * 07 – The Protest * 08 – Acid Rain * 09 – The Visitor * 10 – The Noose The post The Seventh Test BBC Radio Full-Cast Drama appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Vince Powell’s slice-of-life sitcom about factory worker Charlie Garside, played by Jack Smethurst. Madge Hindle played his wife, and Jane Hazlegrove and Jason Littler their daughter and son.
Episode List* S01E00 – A Proper Charlie (Pilot) * S01E01 – A Proper Charlie * S01E02 – A Proper Charlie * S01E03 – A Proper Charlie * S01E04 – A Proper Charlie * S01E05 – A Proper Charlie * S01E06 – A Proper Charlie * S01E07 – A Proper Charlie * S01E08 – A Proper Charlie * S01ESP – Trip to France The post A Proper Charlie appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A quartet of classic Ealing comedy films, reimagined for BBC Radio
Between 1947 and 1957, Ealing Studios produced a series of immensely popular, darkly funny film comedies that made the West London borough famous throughout the world. Almost 50 years later, four of these timeless films were recreated for BBC Radio 4, and are now collected together for the first time.
The Ladykillers – Eccentric elderly widow Mrs Wilberforce unwittingly foils a gang of crooks lodging in her London house under the pretext they are a string quintet. Dramatised by award-winning playwright Bruce Bedford from the much-loved 1955 film, this captivating crime caper stars Edward Petherbridge, Donald Sinden, Margot Boyd, Johnny Morris and Stratford Johns.
Kind Hearts and Coronets – Disinherited by his snobbish aristocratic familly, Louis Mazzini sets out to gain his rightful place as a Duke by bumping off the other eight D’Ascoyne heirs who stand ahead of him. But then he is arrested for the one murder he didn’t commit… Michael Kitchen stars as Mazzini and Harry Enfield as the various members of the D’Ascoyne family in this brilliant dramatisation of the classic 1949 comedy film.
Passport to Pimlico – When an undetonated World War Two bomb accidentally goes off, the explosion reveals a cache of treasure – including an ancient treaty declaring that the residents of Pimlico are actually part of the Duchy of Burgundy… Adapted by acclaimed scriptwriter John Peacock from the evergreen 1949 film, this delightful drama stars George Cole, Louise Lombard and Sylvia Sims.
Whisky Galore – It is the middle of World War Two, and the residents of the Hebridean islands Great Todday and Little Todday are facing a whisky drought. Then a cargo ship bound for America runs aground carrying 50,000 cases – but can the islanders keep this unexpected bounty secret? Bernard Holley and Dolina MacLennan star in this witty dramatisation of Compton Mackenzie and Angus MacPhail’s 1949 film.
Episode List* 01 – The Lady Killers * 02 – The Lady Killers * 03 – Kind Hearts * 04 – Kind Hearts * 05 – Passport to Pimlico * 06 – Passport to Pimlico * 07 – Whiskey Galore * 08 – Whiskey Galore The post The Ealing Comedy Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Imagine a Britain in which the state attempts to have absolute control over all its citizens, even to the extent that music and sound recording have been outlawed as subversive.
The heroine, Mel has always supported the State, but when she uncovers some uncomfortable facts she begins questioning her work as a government scientist.
A tale of love and treachery, in which an individual is pitted against enormous odds. It’s a totalitarian world in which music is so subversive that drastic action is taken.
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Madeleine’s birthday prompts memories for her mother Elizabeth of a distant past – and a lost love…
Twenty years on, Elizabeth is living in Iran, where her four daughters are growing up and discovering there may be more to their mother than meets the eye.
1976: an argument with Maddy prompts Nathalie to flee to Belgrade, where she is determined to learn from her mother’s mistakes.
But history has a habit of repeating itself…
Stars Haydn Gwynne and Sarah Jane Holm.
Three part drama written by Tina Pepler.
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A dramatised retelling of John Reed’s thrilling eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution—plus bonus documentary.
John Reed’s first-hand description of the October Revolution was written in early 1918 and published in the USA the following year. The veracity and impact of his dynamic snapshot-style reportage made the book an instant best seller, and it has since become a modern classic, inspiring films including Sergei Eisenstein’s October and the Oscar-winning Reds.
This fast-paced dramatisation begins in autumn 1917, with news of upheaval in Russia hitting the headlines worldwide. The tsar has abdicated, and the provisional government, formed to replace him, is losing control. American journalists John Reed and Louise Bryant arrive in Petrograd to find the city in chaos. The tension between factions is palpable, and it’s only a matter of time before the situation explodes—but in what direction? As revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries struggle to seize power, the duo find themselves at the very heart of the insurrection, experiencing history as it unfolds….
Vividly capturing the anarchy and confusion of those tumultuous days, Reed’s sensational blow-by-blow account, adapted by acclaimed dramatist Robin Brooks, transports us to the chilly, mud-churned streets of Petrograd as these world-changing events play out. It is accompanied by a fascinating retrospective documentary, Start the Week: Russian Revolution a hundred years on, in which Tom Sutcliffe travels to Moscow to discover the forces that led to the Revolution, and finds out how far Russians today embrace or reject such a pivotal moment in their country’s story.
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A giant of 20th century science fiction, Ray Bradbury’s imaginative stories lend themselves particularly well to the audio medium.
This is a collection of BBC Radio dramatizations of some of Bradbury’s most notable works.
Fahrenheit 451 – Sometime in the future the fireman’s role has changed from stopping fires to starting them: the material being all books or printed matter of any kind. Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which books burn. But Montag the fireman is beginning to have doubts about his role …
Leviathan 99 – A fantastical adaptation of Moby Dick, Ray Bradbury takes audiences past the moon and the stars in search of the greatest and brightest comet in the universe. Join a deranged captain, an eight-foot-tall telepathic spider, and our reluctant hero. You can call him Ishmael.
The Illustrated Man – A young traveller encounters a vagrant on the road who claims his tattoos come to life after dark and have the powers of prophecy. The vagrant offers his young traveling companion tantalizing glimpses into the future with tales of restless androids, children caught up in a sinister game and astronauts stranded in outer space which all hint at dark and troubling times ahead.
The Martian Chronicles – When the first expedition to Mars mysteriously disappears, Earth sends a second to find out what happened. But the real mission is classified. And only Captain Wilder knows the truth.
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Set in 1960’s Illinois this is the story of two boys, James Nightshade and William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small Midwestern town with the arrival of a “dark carnival” one Autumn midnight.
The Veldt – Two parents buy a nursery which simulates different environments for their children to play in. It comes alive – a startling premonition, from pre-computer days, of multimedia technology. The parents become concerned when the children keep returning to an African veldt scene and start feeding the lions, even though there are supposed to be no lions in the program.
Kaleidoscope – A disaster strikes in space, leaving a crew of astronauts with no option but to make peace with coming death. Tom Watson and Finlay Welsh star in Ray Bradbury’s own adaptation of his short story from The Illustrated Man.
Skeleton – Harris is troubled by his bones. An expert is needed – a real expert. Who better than Doctor Munigant?
I Sing the Body Electric – When a young mother dies, she’s replaced by a ‘Mk V, 110 volt, AC/DC, Electric Grandmother’. What else?
The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl – Murder is the ultimate crime. Acton realises it’s important to pay attention to detail – vitally so when committing the murder.
The Jar – Charlie is worried that his neighbours never call. Then he buys a strange jar and his house becomes the centre of attention…
Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You – One afternoon in the confessional, the priest hears a familiar voice and smells a familiar smell…
Night Call Collect – Marooned accidentally on Mars, telephone engineer Barton waits for the rescue rocket and goes on putting up the phone lines. Then one morning – on the day of his 80th birthday – the phone rings…
The Day It Rained Forever – The last remaining residents of a drought-stricken hotel receive salvation from an enigmatic source.
And So Died Riabouchinska – A man lies murdered in a basement – but there’s a surprising non-human witness.
The Wind – A man fears for his frantic friend, who claims he’s being pursued by enraged winds out to exact revenge.
The Scythe – A young farmer gets more than he bargained for when he stumbles across a seemingly deserted farm.
Jack in the Box – School is just up the stairs, and each birthday you get a new room. A young boy lives an isolated life – until a death opens the door to the outside world…
The Man Upstairs – A new guest in a boarding house is disliked by the grandson of the lady who runs the house. But why? The reason soon becomes startingly clear….
The Emissary – Young Marion is unwell, but her pet dog keeps her in touch with the outside world – and beyond.
There Will Come Soft Rains – It’s 2026: With surroundings destroyed and devoid of human life, an automated house carries on.
Episode List* 01 – Fahrenheit 451 * 02 – Leviathan 99 * 03 – The Illustrated Man * 04 – The Martian Chronicles * 05 – Something Wicked This Way Comes * 06 – The Veldt * 07 – Kaleidoscope * 08 – Night Call Collect * 09 – Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You * 10 – The Jar * 11 – The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl * 12 – I Sing the Body Electric * 13 – Skeleton * 14 – The Man Upstairs * 15 – Jack in the Box * 16 – The Scythe * 17 – The Wind * 18 – And So Died Riabouchinska * 19 – The Day It Rained Forever * 20 – The Emissary * 21 – There Will Come Soft Rains The post Ray Bradbury BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A small Norwegian spa town relies on the local spring for its prosperity, but Dr Thomas Stockmann is concerned the waters may be contaminated.
Could disease be spreading? If so, would the community’s livelihood be jeopardised?
Henrik Ibsen’s dynamic thriller starring Alfred Molina, Adam Godley, Susannah Fielding, Ian Ogilvy and James Callis.
Dramatised in two-parts by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
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Broadcast in early 1992, The End Of The Roadshow was a short run of programmes recorded live at different British university venues.
The series was parodically set up as a parallel to the Radio 1 Roadshow, aiming to convert the student masses to the glories of Radio 4 (with appropriately altered jingles: “Across the UK: BBC Radio… four… FM!”
The contents were billed as consisting of “a shoddy competition, off-the-cuff repartee with the audience, a look at the problems of being young, and facts about the town we’re in”.
The hosts were Tony Hawkes, Neil Mullarkey and Nick Hancock, with Rebecca Front (or Regina Freedman in the first programme) in the role of correspondent ‘Ann Person’.
This was the first series written entirely by the now highly-successful partnership of Richard Herring and Stewart Lee; rather oddly in retrospect, the On The Hour ringmaster Armando Iannucci is credited as the writers’ “assistant” on this series.
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Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. His writing career spanned over 50 years in which he produced 29 original stage plays, 27 screenplays, many dramatic sketches, radio and TV plays, poetry, one novel, short fiction, essays, speeches and letters. He appeared as an actor in productions of his own work on radio and film, and directed nearly 50 productions for stage, theatre and screen. In 2006 he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize and, in 2007, the highest French honour, the Légion d’Honneur.
Presented here is a selection of Pinter’s best works, broadcast by BBC Radio across 6 decades. The plays feature such notable actors as David Warner, Michael Gambon, Harriet Walter, Simon Russell Beale, Olivia Colman, Jeremy Irons, Anne Reid, Andrew Scott, Peggy Ashcroft, Penelope Wilton, Olivia Williams, Mark Strong and Harold Pinter.
A Kind of Alaska – A middle-aged woman named Deborah, who has been in a comatose state for 29 years awakes with a mind still that of a sixteen-year-old. She must confront a body which has aged without her knowledge or consent, and a brother-in-law who has fallen in love with her.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in November 2015
A Night Out – Why should Albert think of going out when his mother looks after him so well and has such a nice supper for him? It’s something his mother will never understand to her dying day.
First broadcast on BBC Third Programme in March 1960
A Slight Ache – In the week celebrating his 70th birthday, Harold Pinter starred in a new production of his classic radio play from 1959.
During a single day, the safety of the study, scullery and garden is endangered by the appearance of a match seller at the garden gate in this comedy of menace.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2000
Ashes to Ashes – A man interrogates a woman about her lover and involvement in wartime atrocities. The woman is haunted by appalling memories: genocide, deportation, and most disturbingly, a tenderly recalled masochistic-erotic relationship with a modern Herod-like infanticide.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in November 2015
Betrayal – A drama about a love affair and the intricate nature of deceit, which is told in reverse time from its poignant ending to its thrilling first kiss.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2012
The Birthday Party – Stanley Webber, a piano player, lives in a rundown boarding house run by Meg and Petey Boles, in an English seaside town, “probably on the south coast, not too far from London”. Two sinister strangers, Goldberg and McCann, arrive on Stanley’s birthday and appear to have come looking for him. They turn the innocuous birthday party organized by Meg into a nightmare.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1970
The Caretaker – Two brothers shelter an elderly, homeless man after a fight in a café. But his problems are far from over.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010
The Dreaming Child – It’s Bristol in 1868 and Emily, married to wealthy Tom Carter, is haunted by her passionate first love affair with a young soldier who subsequently died at sea. Seven years later, and unable to have children, the couple decide to adopt a boy from the slum. Jack, however, is not an ordinary child and seems to already know everything about his new home and family.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2015
The Examination – A chilling yet playful monologue in which a man about to be questioned summons up every mental resource to empower himself over his interrogator.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009
Family Voices – A series of parallel monologues between a mother and son in the form of letters written but probably never mailed, in which the facade of a happy family gradually disintegrates into a cauldron of recrimination.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1981
Landscape – A middle aged couple, housekeeper and chauffeur sit in the huge bare kitchen of a country house pursuing their own thoughts aloud in a ghastly semblance of conversation. While the man’s thoughts are of his day in the park and a quarrel in the pub, the woman’s are of an idyllic day spent many years ago on a beach with the man she loved.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009
Last to Go – At a coffee stall, the attendant and an old newspaper seller chat idly about a variety of pointless topics which probably mean little to either of them.
First broadcast on BBC Third Programme in May 1964
Moonlight – Andy is a man on his death bed – but where is his loving family?
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2009
Mountain Language – A prison is controlled by unnamed guards in an unnamed country. The guards ban the prisoners’ native language as they incarcerate them for unnamed crimes against the State.
First broadcast on BBC World Service in November 2007
Old Times – In a remote farmhouse, Deeley and Kate await a visitor. Anna is Kate’s best friend, though Deeley has never met her. Is the past really as they remember it?
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in January 2014
Victory – Baron Heyst is a mysterious Swedish recluse living alone on a deserted island in the Dutch East Indies in 1900. His life is changed forever when he visits a neighbouring island and falls in love with young English violinist, Lena. Pursued by predatory older men, Lena is drawn to Heyst and escapes with him to his island retreat.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in January 2014
Episode List* 01 – A Kind of Alaska * 02 – A Night Out * 03 – A Slight Ache * 04 – Ashes to Ashes * 05 – Betrayal * 06 – The Birthday Party * 07 – The Caretaker * 08 – The Dreaming Child * 09 – The Examination * 10 – Family Voices * 11 – The Homecoming * 12 – Landscape * 13 – Last to Go * 14 – Moonlight * 15 – Mountain Language * 16 – Old Times * 17 – Victory The post Harold Pinter BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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All 10 episodes of the compelling BBC radio thriller about art forger Daniel Ballantyne and his biographer and nemesis, Jessica Brown.
Daniel Ballantyne: monster and angel, thief and conman, genius – and murderer?
Newly released from Wormwood Scrubs, and dying of cancer, notorious art forger Daniel Ballantyne agrees to help art critic Jessica Brown write his biography. But as Jessica digs deeper into his life, she realises that nearly everything he’s told her is a lie, and behind his charming persona is a man capable of almost anything.
Trapped in a cat-and-mouse game with a master manipulator, Jessica finds herself putting her reputation – and her life – on the line….
Written by Philip Palmer (Red and Blue, Keeping the Wolf Out), this wickedly enjoyable crime drama stars David Schofield as Daniel Ballantyne, with Indira Varma and Hattie Morahan as Jessica Brown.
NB: Contains strong language and scenes which some listeners may find disturbing
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Poet and broadcaster Lemn Sissay explores the idea of uniqueness across different areas of his life, looking at situations where he stood out, alone, and examining how that felt.
The Only Poet on the Bill – This week, he’s the only poet on the bill, reflecting on his formative experiences on the Manchester cabaret/variety/comedy circuit of the 1980s, where he played alongside comedians like Steve Coogan, John Thompson and Caroline Aherne, and musicians like Johnny Dangerously and Claire Mooney.
The Only Non-Graduate at the Graduation – This week, he’s the only non-graduate at the graduation, reflecting on his experience of being Chancellor of the University of Manchester – the person who gives out the degrees – despite never having been through higher education himself, via a mix of poetry and stand-up. He talks about the importance of education, the power of suggestion, and he speaks to the Lord Mayor of Manchester Donna Ludford about how she felt walking into the council chambers for the first time, having become a councillor despite not having been to university. Lemn is also joined by Henry Normal, who interrupts at various points to ask Lemn questions about the show.
The Only Black Man in the Village – This week, he’s the only Black man in the village, drawing upon his experience of growing up in an all-white town. Through a mixture of poetry and stand-up, he talks about how it felt to be stared at and treated differently, as well as how things changed when he moved to Manchester and wasn’t the only Black man in town. He speaks to Oscar-nominated writer/director Cornelius Walker, who documented his childhood move from south-east London to Essex in his short film Black Sheep. Lemn is also joined by Henry Normal, who interrupts at will to ask Lemn questions about the show.
The Only Foster Child in the House – This week, he’s the only foster child in the house, drawing upon his experience of growing up in care as well as his lifetime of advocacy for care leavers. Lemn talks about how how isolated and alone care leavers can feel, and why it matters to make them feel included. He speaks to Terry Galloway, about how his horrific experiences in care led to him travelling the country, getting councils to put more thought into how care leavers are treated. Lemn is also joined by Henry Normal, who interrupts at will to ask Lemn questions about the show.
In Lemn Sissay Is The One And Only, the poet and broadcaster Lemn Sissay explores the idea of uniqueness across four different areas of his life, looking at situations where he stood out, alone, and examining how that uniqueness felt.
Starting the show in his dressing room, he walks the listening audience onstage to give them a sense of what it’s like to be him, before delivering a mixture of poetry and stand-up on the theme of uniqueness. He speaks to fellow poet Tony Walsh about what it was like to be the only poet at the vigil for the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017. Lemn is also joined by Henry Normal, who interrupts at various points to ask Lemn questions about the show.
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Robert Browning’s poetic masterpiece of sex, lies and murder, adapted for radio by Martyn Wade. The book – a verse novel – tells the story of a murder trial in Rome in 1698. Count Guido Franceschini is found guilty of the murders of his young wife and her parents.
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Comedian Ken Cheng focuses his analytical observations on school subjects.
- Solving a Problem like Maths – Comedian Ken Cheng focuses his analytical observations on school subjects. In the first of the series, Ken explores maths, the subject that he loved until it broke him. Ken looks into the popular disdain of maths, and offers up his answers on how we turn around its public image.
- Cooking Up a Full English – Comedian Ken Cheng focuses his analytical observations on school subjects. In this episode, Ken explores English lessons, the only subject you keep on learning after you’ve learned it.
- Not an Exact Science – Comedian Ken Cheng focuses his analytical observations on school subjects. In the last of the series, Ken takes on Science, and grapples with the shortcomings of the subject, and tries to perfect the tweaks to make it truly interesting.
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Featuring Rosie Jones with help from some of her comedy chums, this is a comedy show about Rosie’s life as a disabled, gay, northern woman.
Despite ticking lots of boxes, she really doesn’t think she’s a good representative of any of the afore mentioned communities, and quite frankly is getting a bit tired of being asked to speak on their behalf. Prepare to be shocked and disappointed by Rosie’s lack of standard bearing qualities.
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There are a number of themes or types or techniques in British comedy that seem to survive any social or political upheaval. We love wordplay, we’re suckers for Double entendre and while animals can be cute or terrifying, they can also make us laugh. In this series Ian Hislop looks back to try and find the first examples of these jokes or comedy genres. We love a good parody but when did that become a thing? Can we really find Anglo-Saxon Double Entendre? You bet we can, and filthy to boot, another trove of British Humour.
He visits libraries, museums and chapels, and also talks to comedy stars and writers of today like Nina Conti, Paul Whitehouse, comedy song writing duo Jo and Joan and parodist Craig Brown.
Ian Hislop examines the earliest examples of British humour. He begins his quest in the dark ages, not known as a well-spring of comic opportunity. Nevertheless, in the pages of the Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum – Ecclesiastical History of England, there is wordplay. Not only that it’s wordplay that obeys the comedy rule of three and it was potent enough to have a part in the naming of a nation. And how his fellow monks must have laughed.
Episode List* S01E01 – Wordplay * S01E02 – Double entendre * S01E03 – The Drunk and the Bullion Stone * S01E04 – Visual Humour and Misericords * S01E05 – The Heege Manuscript * S01E06 – Animals * S01E07 – Parody and Sir Topaz * S01E08 – Any Women here * S01E09 – Who’s De Hoeghe * S01E10 – Comic Song The post Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Graham Crowden and Jimmy Perry star in a sitcom about the early days of the wireless and the BBC
The man behind TV hits Dad’s Army and Hi-De-Hi – Jimmy Perry’s star-packed comedy about the early wireless days of the BBC.
Back in 1922, when a microphone jammed if a speaker talked too loudly, the letters of praise and complaint flooded in.
Then a new Director-General, John Brown, came to take over the British Broadcasting Company.
Colonel Beecham and Admiral Carpenter are concerned that all their hard work producing the BBC’s wireless output is beginning to affect their golf swing. Meanwhile, hard-up Children’s Hour’s Uncle Rex is made an offer he really ought to refuse.
The Daily Sketch says the BBC’s programmes are boring. Will DG John Brown finally agree to broadcast some light entertainment, or will his peccadillo with Auntie Phyllis force him over the edge? Either way, Fred “Keep ‘Em Laughing” Hicks has got an unusual new act for radio.
DG John Brown has decided that the BBC will broadcast the 1923 Boat Race.
So the rest of the staff must rally round to find a way to bring off the transmission.
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Martin Jarvis directs a stellar cast in Gregg Oppenheimer’s inside look at his writer- producer father’s famous TV series, I Love Lucy.
Anne Heche channels Lucille Ball in an outstanding performance. With Wilmer Valderrama, Jared Harris, Alfred Molina, Stacy Keach, Mike McShane. The onscreen pairing of Lucille and Desi is brilliant, but the American Network is doubtful.
“Who’d believe she was married to him?”
Lucille: ‘But I am married to him!’
The serial dramatises more than just the creation of an iconic TV series – it charts the need to challenge existing ideas that balked at diversity, the comic dynamic of the Arnaz’s partnership, and their commitment and integrity shared by writer Jess Oppenheimer – resisting network and sponsor demands and outdated censorship rules, bringing creative bonuses to US audiences and worldwide.
This roller-coasting five-part serial shows how television, at a crucial time, learned from the established craft of radio. Cuban bandleader Desi’s inventive genius engendered studio techniques now taken for granted. Lucille and Desi’s uplifting relationship flouted conventional thinking and defied accepted entertainment practice in one of the most influential sitcoms in TV history.
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Two BBC Radio full-cast dramas from the master of classic crime
Anthony Berkeley was a journalist, novelist, and founding member of the Detection Club – whose members included Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers – and was one of crime fiction’s greatest innovators, developing the idea of the psychological crime novel in the 1920s and 30s. One of his recurring and most-beloved characters was Roger Sheringham, a novelist and amateur detective.
In these two classic tales, Roger Sheringham must investigate two terrible murders: The Poisoned Chocolates Case, from 1929, sees him taking up the challenge when Scotland Yard admits defeat after months of investigations. How was a woman poisoned by a box of chocolates that weren’t even intended for her? Who was the intended victim? And who was the terrible mind behind it? Roger and his amateur detective friends will each have a turn to put forward their own personal theories about the dreadful crime…
In Jumping Jenny, written in 1933, Roger attends a party with the questionable theme ‘famous murderers and their victims’, only to discover that one difficult guest has been deliberately killed on one of the party’s props. When Roger suspects one of his close friends may be involved, he decides to meddle in the evidence – but is he putting his own life at risk with this mischievous intervention?
Witty, subversive, and fiercely clever, these wonderful crime mysteries by the renowned writer are just the thing for fans of The Lady Detectives, Maigret’s Collected Cases, and Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon and other Adventures.
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The Frequency of Laughter is a six-part history of radio comedy, covering 1975-2005, presented by journalist and radio fan Grace Dent. In each episode she brings together two figures who were making significant radio comedy at the same time, and asks them about their experiences. This is a conversational history that focuses on the people who were there and the atmosphere within the BBC and the wider comedy world that allowed them to make great radio – or not.
1975-1980 – The first edition features Graeme Garden and John Lloyd looking at radio comedy in the late 1970s. Graeme by this stage was an established figure, with his breakthrough show I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again morphing into I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, in addition to his work presenting Week Ending and as a panellist on shows such as A Rhyme In Time. John however had only joined the BBC Radio Comedy department in 1973, but he managed to make over 500 shows, co-creating The News Quiz, The Burkiss Way and Quote Unquote as he did so, before leaving for television. Grace asks them about the atmosphere within the Radio Comedy department and within the BBC, and how ideas actually go on air; they share their memories of former Heads of Light Entertainment Radio (as it was then called) Con Mahoney and David Hatch; and they talk about the lack of women in comedy at that time.
1980-1985 – The second edition features Angus Deayton and Michael Knowles looking at radio comedy in the early 1980s. Angus had been given a writer’s contract by the BBC Light Entertainment Radio (as it was then) in 1980, and used the time he was afforded by that to co-create the sketch show Radio Active, in which he wrote and performed. Michael however came to radio from television; having acted in It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, he was asked to adapt Dad’s Army for radio in the 1970s, which he did to great success, and in 1983 he and Harold Snoad wrote the sitcom It Stick Out Half A Mile, a sort of Dad’s Army sequel. Grace asks them about the atmosphere within the Radio Comedy department and within the BBC, and how they might circumvent rules on taste and decency; they share their memories of former Heads of Light Entertainment Radio (as it was then called) Bobby Jaye and Martin Fisher; and they talk about how the alternative comedy movement bypassed radio and went straight to TV – and how it felt to be left behind.
1985-1990 – The third edition features Hugh Dennis and Jim Eldridge looking at radio comedy in the late 1980s. Hugh first appeared on radio in this period, with shows like The Cabaret Upstairs and Live on Arrival, breaking through with Radio One’s Hey Rrrradio! and the Mary Whitehouse Experience. Jim came to radio via poetry, having performed on the John Peel show, but made his name as a sitcom writer in the 70s, having a hit with Parsley Sidings. And in 1985 he launched King Street Junior, a sitcom that was to run for twenty years. Grace asks them about the atmosphere within the Radio Comedy department and within the BBC; they discuss why stand-up was a hit on Radio One; and they talk about how Oxbridge became a dirty word.
1990-1995 – The fourth edition features Richard Herring and Sarah Smith looking at radio comedy in the early 1990s, when they were both starting out in – Sarah was the producer who gave Richard his first commission. And while Richard and his double-act partner Stewart Lee made names for themselves as writers and performers, writing for On The Hour as well as their own shows such as Lionel Nimrod’s Inexplicable World and Lee & Herring’s Fist of Fun, Sarah was forging a reputation as one of the most talented producers around, not only working on Lee & Herring’s output but also The League of Gentlemen and The Harpoon. Grace asks them about the atmosphere within the Radio Comedy department and the creative collaboration within it; they share their memories of former Head of Light Entertainment Radio (as it was then called) Jonathan James-Moore; and they talk about their time working on Week Ending, Radio 4’s flagship topical sketch show which ran from 1970-1998.
1995-2000 – The penultimate edition features producer Paul Schlesinger, who spent the late 1990s making shows such as the Sunday Format, People Like Us and Absolute Power before leaving to make television, returning in 2005 to become Head of Radio Comedy; it also features Meera Syal whose Radio 4 sketch show Goodness Gracious Me was the first British Asian comedy hit, later transferring to BBC Two. Grace asks them about the atmosphere within the Radio Comedy department and the attitude of TV Comedy department towards it; they discuss the BBC’s reaction to the wide range of Black and Asian talent breaking through; and they discuss what it is about media parodies that works so well on radio.
2000-2005 – The final edition features Justin Edwards and Jan Ravens looking at radio comedy in the early 2000s. Justin is now known for his work on In And Out Of The Kitchen and Radio 4 Extra’s Newsjack, but got his first series in 2003 as part of the sketch team The Consultants. Jan’s association with radio comedy dates back to the early 1980s when she became the first-ever female radio comedy producer, but became beloved of the Radio 4 audience for her work on Dead Ringers, which started in 2000. Grace asks them about the atmosphere within the Radio Comedy department and within the BBC; they discuss the difference between topical comedy and satire, and whether the Radio 4 audience necessarily wants either; and they discuss the contribution a good sound engineer can make to a programme.
The Frequency of Laughter is presented by Grace Dent, a journalist for The Independent, and is a BBC Radio Comedy production.
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Jocelyn Jee Esien presents sketch comedy featuring a raft of fresh characters.
Including the Overly Dramatic Family, a pair of terrible African Drummers and a bad-tempered couple who run a takeaway business.
Jocelyn vents her frustrations at the world around her through sketches and stand-up.
From pedantic dinner dates to coping with annoying friends, Jocelyn’s life provides a rich seam of humour.
Jocelyn starred in the hidden-camera show 3 Non-Blondes, and her own comedy sketch show, Little Miss Jocelyn
Episode List* S01E01 – It’s Jocelyn * S01E02 – It’s Jocelyn * S01E03 – It’s Jocelyn * S01E04 – It’s Jocelyn * S02E01 – Dumped * S02E02 – Dates * S02E03 – Friends * S02E04 – Family The post It’s Jocelyn appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Packed full of fun and adventure with Winnie-the-Pooh and all his friends in the Hundred Acre Forest. This is a wonderful dramatisation of The House at Pooh Corner by David Benedictus with music composed, directed and played by John Gould. With a cast of carefully-chosen actors, this adaptation conveys all the magic of Milne’s classic stories.
Performed by incredible talent including Finty Williams, Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig, Robert Daws, Jane Horrocks, Geoffrey Palmer and Judi Dench, this classic Winnie the Pooh audiobook is perfect for keeping little ones entertained.
Episode List* 01 – A house was Built * 02 – Tigger Comes To The Forest * 03 – Piglet Meets a Heffalump * 04 – Tiggers Don’t Climb Trees * 05 – Rabbit has a Busy Day * 06 – Pooh Invents a New Game * 07 – Tiger is Unbounced * 08 – Piglet Does a Very Grand Thing * 09 – Eeyore finds the Wolery * 10 – Christopher Robin and Pooh Come to an Enchanted Place The post Winnie the Pooh The House at Pooh Corner appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Ben Lewis’s witty real-time drama set around a kitchen table at the weekly meetings of an argumentative yet lovable blended family.
A funny real-time drama set around a kitchen table at the weekly meetings of a 21st century family who are not even managing to ‘just about manage’.
Amelia is 14. She’s been through a divorce before. She really doesn’t want to go through it again. But her blended family is threatening to unblend. So she draws on her experience as assistant chairperson of the Key Stage 3 debating society and initiates weekly family meetings for truth, reconciliation, grievance airing and the seeking of practical solutions. But can ultra-unionist Amelia overcome the separatist factions in her own family? Attendance is mandatory. Resistance is useless.
Episode List* S01E01 – House Rules * S01E02 – House Rules * S01E03 – House Rules * S01E04 – House Rules * S01E05 – House Rules * S02E01 – House Rules * S02E02 – House Rules * S02E03 – House Rules * S02E04 – House Rules * S02E05 – House Rules The post House Rules appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Series 1-3 of the 1960s comedy set in the world of advertising.
Set in a London ad agency called ‘Apsley, Addis, Cohen, Barbican, Blythe, Giddy & Partners’, Something To Shout About ran over three series in 1960-61.
Michael Medwin stars as account executive Michael, with Fenella Fielding as his seductive secretary Janet, Joan Sims and Sheila Hancock as shorthand typists Mavis and Shirley, Eleanor Summerfield as no-frills executive Maggie and Nicholas Phipps as copywriter Adrian. This disparate team must stick together to succeed, as they battle to win new accounts and impress clients – and from wooing a US tycoon to putting a glamorous spin on a dreary seaside holiday camp, they always think big. Why else would they hire an elephant to promote bath salts?
In these three series, a new recruit unsettles the ad agency’s routine, there’s uproar in the agency when the women discover that the men get paid more, a Parisian photoshoot is ruined and has to be redone on a budget and a team trip to the countryside to work on a shampoo commercial doesn’t go to plan….
Written by Myles Rudge and guest-starring Warren Mitchell and Roy Dotrice in a variety of roles, this light-hearted look at the advertising world is a treat for lovers of classic radio comedy.
Written by Myles Rudge and Ronnie Wolfe.
The series revolves around the adventures of a London-based advertising agency: Apsley, Addis, Cone, Barbican, Blythe, Giddy and Panners – a small company that thinks big!
By 1960 television was getting into full speed, but radio was still a poular medium. After all at this point in time iot had left us with comedy classics such as Hancock’s Half Hour, Take It From Here and the legend that was The Goon Show. However these three radio legends were coming to an end. Hancock’s Half Hour had finished it’s radio series in 1959 and would finish it’s run on TV in it’s current format in 1960, although it would go on for one more series as Hancock with a few noticable changes. The Goon show ended in this year as did Take It From Here.
This left the BBC with a massive hole in their shedule. There were even those that felt that radio would never be the same. However in the summer of 1960 (July) the BBC unveiled it’s new comedy series “Something To Shout About” The show filled the gap left by the others admirably running for 3 series between 1960 and 1962.
Surprisingly all the episodes still exist in the BBC archive yet it rarely gets repeated until recently when BBC Radio 4 Extra picked it up.
Episode List* S01E01 – Something to Shout About * S01E02 – Something to Shout About * S01E03 – Something to Shout About * S01E04 – Something to Shout About * S01E05 – Something to Shout About * S01E06 – Something to Shout About * S01E07 – Something to Shout About * S01E08 – Something to Shout About * S01E09 – Something to Shout About * S01E10 – Something to Shout About * S01E11 – Something to Shout About * S01E12 – Something to Shout About * S01E13 – Something to Shout About * S02E01 – Something to Shout About * S02E02 – Something to Shout About * S02E03 – Something to Shout About * S02E04 – Something to Shout About * S02E05 – Something to Shout About * S02E06 – Something to Shout About * S02E07 – Something to Shout About * S02E08 – Something to Shout About * S02E09 – Something to Shout About * S02E10 – Something to Shout About * S02E11 – Something to Shout About * S02E12 – Something to Shout About * S02E13 – Something to Shout About * S02E14 – Something to Shout About * S02E15 – Something to Shout About * S02E16 – Something to Shout About * S02E17 – Something to Shout About * S02E18 – Something to Shout About * S02E19 – Something to Shout About * S02E20 – Something to Shout About * S02E21 – Something to Shout About * S03E01 – Something to Shout About * S03E02 – Something to Shout About * S03E03 – Something to Shout About * S03E04 – Something to Shout About * S03E05 – Something to Shout About * S03E06 – Something to Shout About * S03E07 – Something to Shout About * S03E08 – Something to Shout About * S03E09 – Something to Shout About * S03E10 – Something to Shout About * S03E13 – Something to Shout About * S03E15 – Something to Shout About * S03E16 – Something to Shout About * S03E17 – Something to Shout About * S03E18 – Something to Shout About * S03E19 – Something to Shout About * S03E20 – Something to Shout About The post Something to Shout About appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Ramsay’s love of rules sparks catastrophe for an MP in a lift…
Ramsay Potts is the jobsworth caretaker at a crumbling Edwardian block of flats, pursued by the over-amorous cleaner Elsie.
Starring Roy Dotrlce and Patricia Hayes.
Sitcom written by Andrew Palmer and Nell Brennan.
Episode List* 01 – Lift Off * 02 – Not to Be Used for Babies * 03 – Room to Manoeuvre * 04 – Marriage of Convenience * 05 – Jumpers * 06 – Sisterly Feelings * 07 – Health Can Damage Your Smoking * 08 – Out of the Closet The post Know Your Place appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Occupying the world of spirits, kidnapping and old secrets, Le Fanu’s 1864 sensation novel is a chilling and ground-breaking psychological thriller.
Dramatised in three parts by Alan Drury.
The sinister Madame de Rougierre is employed as governess to the young Maud Ruthven, bringing with her a dark cloud of impending doom that hangs over the whole household. The governess eventually leaves, in possession of a dark secret, but that is not the end of her, much to Maud’s dismay.
Maud is later orphaned and sent to live with Uncle Silas, a man with a mysterious and scandalous past, and she once again meets Madame de la Rougierre, whose role in shaping Maud’s destiny becomes all too clear.
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Barry Took presents this revised radio version of the popular parlour game ‘Twenty Questions’
Hosted by veteran humorist Barry Took, presenter of Points of View and former chair of The News Quiz, this entertaining guessing game sees a panel of intellectually acute guests attempting to determine a mystery object in 20 tries. Their only clue is the category it falls into: animal, vegetable, mineral, abstract, or a combination of all four.
For most rounds, the studio audience know the answer and cheer on the contestants with promising guesses – but sometimes, both they and the listeners are kept in the dark, giving them an opportunity to play along too.
Pitting their wits against Barry Took are panellists Geoffrey Durham, Jeremy Hanley, Helen Atkinson Wood, Hattie Hayridge, Dick Vosburgh, Neil Innes, Jan Ravens, Nigel Dempster, Frances Edmonds, Chris Serle and Clare Francis, as they play their hunches and attempt to identify everything from a supermodel to a Page 3 girl, the Channel Tunnel to the shipping forecast, and a minicab driver to man’s best friend. Using their best deductive reasoning, will they figure it out – or will they get stumped?
Episode List* S01E01 – Guess What * S01E02 – Guess What * S01E03 – Guess What * S01E04 – Guess What * S01E05 – Guess What * S01E06 – Guess What * S01E07 – Guess What * S01E08 – Guess What * S01E09 – Guess What * S01E10 – Guess What The post Guess What appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Swept across the galaxy, two children must battle the evil Ice Queen. 1998 retelling of The Snow Queen, with Tara Prendergast
Swept across the Galaxy, two children must battle the evil Ice Queen, Novod Scaa.
Michelle is convinced her brother has been abducted by aliens. But what would they be doing in Manchester?
Michelle comes face to face with the evil Ice Queen, Novod Scaa. Is she too late to save Travis?
1998 retelling of ‘The Snow Queen’ by Martin Jameson in three parts.
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Thomas Nigel Kneale was a screenwriter who wrote professionally for more than 50 years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and was twice nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay.
Predominantly a writer of thrillers that used science-fiction and horror elements, he was best known for the creation of the character Professor Bernard Quatermass.Quatermass was a heroic scientist who appeared in various television, film and radio productions written by Kneale for the BBC, Hammer Film Productions and Thames Television between 1953 and 1996.
Kneale was most active in television starting in 1951; his final script was transmitted in 1997.In addition to the Quatermass serials, he wrote well-received television dramas such as The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968) and The Stone Tape (1972).He has been described as “one of the most influential writers of the 20th century”, and as “having invented popular TV”.
Collected here are BBC Radio productions of some of Kneale’s work:
You Must Listen – A solicitor’s office has a new phone line connected, but the staff keep hearing a woman’s voice on the phone.Engineer Frank Wilson is called to fix the problem, and gradually the disturbing story of the woman starts to emerge. Originally broadcast in September 1952, no recording of the original version of You Must Listen is known to exist, but fortunately Kneale kept a copy of the script in his archives, and this version was recorded to mark the centenary of BBC Radio Drama.
The Stone Tape – In 1979, a team of scientists moves into a new laboratory in a Victorian mansion.When Jill Greely hears a strange disembodied scream, the team decides to analyse the phenomenon, which appears to be a psychic impression trapped in the wall.The scientists begin to realise that their work has disturbed something hidden beneath the stone, something ancient and malevolent.
The Road – A philosopher and scientist investigate ghostly outbreaks in a country wood in 1768. Neither is quite prepared for the shocking truth that they uncover.
The Quatermass Memoirs – A mix of original TV soundtrack and drama-documentary, in which Nigel Kneale reflects on the 1950s fearful atmosphere in which he wrote the classic Quatermass TV serials.The program mixes the factual story with a dramatic narrative, in which the now-retired Professor Quatermass (played by Nigel Kneale) reluctantly recounts his past exploits to a female journalist.This in turn is interweaved with soundtrack footage from the Quatermass TV dramas.The final touch is a stirring music soundtrack.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in March 1996
The Pond – An old man calls to a frog and then catches it for a sinister purpose, but will he pay for his crime …… ?
The Photograph – A dying boy is forced by his mother to have one last photograph taken.
Episode List* 01 – You Must Listen * 02 – The Stone Tape * 03 – The Road * 04 – The Quatermass Memoirs * 05 – The Pond * 06 – The Photograph The post Nigel Kneale A BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Collection of fantasy stories by Ray Bradbury
The Golden Apples of the Sun – A tale about a voyage to the sun.
Hail and Farewell – A tale of a young boy whose real age is a mystery…
The Flying Machine – A tale about the terrible perils of invention
The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl – A story of the murderous dangers of jealousy…
A Sound of Thunder – The tale of a risky time-travelling safari trip.
The Murderer – The story of a man who loathes technology…
The April Witch – a magical creature…
The Fog Horn – the story that led to Ray’s 1953 film ‘The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms’.
Episode List* 01 – The Golden Apples of the Sun – Hail and Farewell * 02 – The Flying Machine – The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl * 03 – A Sound of Thunder – The Murderer * 04 – The April Witch – The Fog Horn The post The Golden Apples of the Sun – Ray Bradbury appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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1889, Paris. When Charles Zidler opens his extravagant pleasure palace, the Moulin Rouge, in bohemian Montmartre, he commissions local artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to create a series of posters to promote it. The striking lithographs Henri produces will make his name – and launch the careers of the performers he portrayed.
John Peacock brings Toulouse Lautrec’s poster characters to life in four plays about the entertainers whose lives were as vivid as Lautrec’s paint.
Yvette Guilbert – Singer Yvette Guilbert is drawn to a brand new venue in the capital city of France.
The Boneless Wonder – Only a shadow on a poster – what is Valentin Renaudin in real life?
La Goulue – Dancer Louise’s nickname of La Goulue is singularly appropriate – she’s a glutton for food and life…
Jane Avril – They called her Crazy Jane because of the way she danced, but it was not an affectionate nickname. Jane Avril used people all her life and reaped the consequences…
Episode List* 01 – Yvette Guilbert * 02 – The Boneless Wonder * 03 – La Goulue * 04 – Jane Avril The post Posters of the Moulin Rouge BBC Radio Drama appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A tense six-part techno-thriller, set during the era of George Bush and Boris Yeltsin.
Mike Fisher has everything to live for: a stunning model girlfriend, who has just accepted his proposal, and a successful career as a computer programmer. So why would he suddenly resign, dress up in women’s underwear and crash his car into a tree? And if he wanted to kill himself, why do it on his wedding day?
His death is ruled as suicide, but his fiancée, Kim Drake, is sure there’s more to it than meets the eye. Determined to find out what really happened, she retraces Mike’s footsteps across Europe, where she learns he’d been keeping crucial secrets relating to his highly sensitive job at Peregrine Communications Systems and his involvement with certain disaffected members of the European intelligence community.
Aided by ex-Stasi agent Otto, rock producer Charles Causley and Mike’s brother, disabled cyperpunk genius Todd Fisher, she travels across Germany, Denmark and France in search of answers. But Kim’s every move is being watched by the sinister Mr Stone, and her dogged investigations are putting her in terrible danger….
First broadcast in 1992, this hard-hitting, electrifying drama was created by award-winning writer and actor Shaun Prendergast, who plays Otto. It stars Siriol Jenkins as Kim, Kenneth Cranham as Stone, Neil Roberts as Mike, Okon Jones as Charles and Jack Klaff as Todd.
Episode List* 01 – Only the Good Die Young * 02 – Only the Good Die Young * 03 – Only the Good Die Young * 04 – Only the Good Die Young * 05 – Only the Good Die Young * 06 – Only the Good Die Young The post Only the Good Die Young – Shaun Prendergast appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Edward Hardwicke and Robert Lang star in this four-part comedy thriller
With the House of Commons in recess, it’s a chance for all hard-working politicians to take a holiday. So when Conservative MP Vincent Mellors and Labour MP Arnold Sellers discover that they’re staying at the same golf hotel in Lytham St Annes, they agree to put affairs of state on the back burner. But they’re soon handed a political hot potato in the shape of Sir Bertram Oliphant’s parliamentary memoirs. Full of red-hot revelations, the manuscript is diplomatic dynamite – and someone will go to any lengths to get their hands on it…
Then Sir Bertram is found murdered, buried head-first in a bunker and wearing someone else’s shoes. Deciding to investigate, Mellors and Sellers find themselves faced with a slew of suspects, including a suspiciously inquisitive Welsh receptionist, a mysterious Baltic businessman with size eleven feet, and an Italian mafioso named Marinello…
Created by playwright, broadcaster and Golden Age crime writer Alan Melville, this light-hearted comic crime drama stars Edward Hardwicke as Mellors and Robert Lang as Sellers.
Episode List* S01E01 – Un-Natural Hazard * S01E02 – Lunch with Her Ladyship * S01E03 – Dead Man’s Shoes * S01E04 – Undesirable Residence The post Mellors and Sellers appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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In Binchy’s 1987 novel, an American moves his family to the rural Irish town of Mountfern
- Mountfern is a quiet Irish village until the arrival of an ambitious American called Patrick O’Neil.
- An American, Patrick O’Neill, has arrived in Mountfern – the Irish village that his impoverished grandfather emigrated from many years before. O’Neill has bought the ruins of Fernscourt, the big house, and plans to rebuild it as a hotel, but how will the locals feel?
- A year has passed since O’Neill arrived in the Irish village of Mountfern with plans to build a hotel.The ruins of old Ferncourt House have finally been demolished. On the day that Patrick’s friend Rachel arrives, Kate Ryan wanders into the path of one of the diggers.
- Patrick O’Neill has arrived from America with big plans for his ancestral village of Mountfern in Ireland. However, things have turned sour since Kate Ryan suffered a severe accident on the site of his hotel.
- After 18 months in New York, Rachel Fine has been summoned back to Ireland by Patrick O’Neill to oversee the decoration of his new hotel. Rachel has become a close friend of Kate Ryan, who is now in a wheelchair as a result of an accident on the site of the hotel, over three years ago
- Patrick O’Neill has almost realised his dream. The opening of his new hotel is in sight, but Kate Ryan’s compensation case is looming and Kerry’s gambling has further estranged father and son.
Starring David Soul as Patrick O’Neill
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A trilogy of thrillers set in Liverpool, featuring the formidable Detective Inspector Crust
Veteran scriptwriter Vincent McInerney draws on his lifelong knowledge of Liverpool and his background in the Merchant Marine in these engaging thrillers, in which the gruff, indomitable John Crust and his sidekick Minty probe the circumstances surrounding a missing husband, a stolen sculpture and a hidden treasure.
O’Rourke’s First Case – Made redundant at 40, John O’Rourke gets a grant from the Enterprise Allowance Board and sets up as a private detective. Hired by Mrs Rate to trace her absent spouse, he’s soon caught up in a dangerous scheme involving modern art, drug money and shoot-outs on container ships. Fortunately, Inspector Crust is also investigating, and monitoring the rookie PI’s progress. Can the redoubtable copper ensure that O’Rourke’s first case isn’t also his last?
The Finger of Suspicion – With the university rag day parade in full swing, Inspector Crust is keeping his beady eye on the floats making their way through the city centre. So when a helicopter suddenly appears, and hoists the Epstein statue off Lewis’s department store, Crust assumes it’s an elaborate student prank. But when the police receive a ransom note, together with one of the statue’s fingers, he starts to have second thoughts.
The Bell – Following the death of shipowner Oliver Bright, his granddaughter Elizabeth prepares to sell his house and possessions at auction. Rumour has it that among his worldly goods is a rare artefact saved during the sinking of the Titanic – and psychotic criminal Tarrant will stop at nothing to lay his hands on it. But Inspector Crust is also on the trail of the missing relic, and is determined to find it first…
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A landmark drama series telling the compelling real-life WW1 love story of English soldier Eric Appleby and his Irish sweetheart Phyllis Kelly
Eric Appleby was an engineering student from Liverpool, who joined the Royal Field Artillery when war began in 1914. Posted to Athlone, he met and fell in love with solicitor’s daughter Phyllis Kelly at a dance. Their romance was interrupted when he was sent to fight in the trenches on the Western Front, but they kept their love alive through a series of wonderfully crafted letters.
This radio series charts their extraordinary correspondence, including over 200 letters, field service postcards and telegrams in which Eric describes his experiences from the time he left Athlone in March 1915 until the tail-end of the Somme offensive in October 1916. Discovered on a top shelf in Belfast’s Linen Hall Library by producer Ian Dougan, the letters reveal a touching, unique and bittersweet story.
From memories of their courting days of dances and boat trips, to quarrels, jealousy and the pain of being apart, Eric pours out his deepest feelings of love and loneliness to Phyllis. And as the casualties mount around him, he confides to her the horrors he has witnessed, painting a vivid, shocking picture of the stress and terror of life at the Front. In each letter, the voices of Eric and Phyllis interweave, as if in an intimate conversation, as they reach out across the miles that separate them.
Read by Ruairí Tohill and Roisin Gallagher, and featuring music and sound effects that bring the story to life, this remarkable, moving series will touch your heart. Also included is a 30-minute documentary, Introducing Love Letters from the Front, in which the actors discuss the challenges of performing the letters (they never met during the recording, so that their two perspectives could be kept separate). Plus, presenter Maggie Cronin talks to Phyllis Kelly’s relatives, Tom and Patrick, about who Eric and Phyllis really were; and discusses the remarkable context in which their memorable words were written.
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The painter Mario Minniti has travelled to Naples to seek out his old friend and former mentor Caravaggio. But on arrival, the great painter is nowhere to be found. In a bid to find him, Mario retraces Caravaggio’s last known movements. His search reveals a life lived dangerously.
Starring David Tennant as Mario Minniti, with Anton Lesser, Peter Hamilton, Joe Dempsie, Tracy Wiles and Harry Livingstone. Written by Stephen Wakelam. Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. Editor: Colin Guthrie. Studio Managers: Colin Guthrie, Keith Graham, Alison Craig. Production Coordinator: Nicole Fitzpatrick.
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A woman’s identity is threatened by the podcasts she makes with her synth doppelganger.
Hannah Silva’s future-set story of a woman’s search for connection is told through the podcasts she makes with her synthetic robodoll.
Nikki King is a journalist and presenter of Scientethics, a podcast exploring the blurred lines where tech, science and ethics merge. Covering the reappearance of enigmatic and reclusive robotics expert Tim Lowe, Nikki is surprised to find herself at the centre of his latest work.
“The relationship between humans and their artificial counterparts runs right back to the myths of ancient Greece, where Pygmalion’s statue was brought to life with a kiss. It is the stuff of legend and of science fiction – part of our written history and a part of our imagined future.” Dr Kate Devlin
Pygmalion and Narcissus intertwine in this 21st century story of human relationships and loneliness, of our need for external validation and the search for self.
Episode List* S01E01 – Uncanny Valley * S01E02 – Knickers * S01E03 – Normative Expectations * S01E04 – Snap * S01E05 – Tiresias and Narcissus The post Love Thy Synth appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Abraham Stoker was an Irish author who wrote the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of the famous Shakespearean actor Sir Henry Irving and the business manager of the West End’s Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned.
In his early years, Stoker worked as a theatre critic for an Irish newspaper, and wrote stories as well as commentaries. Since his death, his magnum opus Dracula has become one of the best-known works in English literature, and the novel has been adapted for numerous films and plays. Stoker’s stories are today included in the categories of horror fiction, romanticized Gothic stories, and melodrama. They are classified alongside other works of popular fiction, such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which also used the myth-making and story-telling method of having multiple narrators telling the same tale from different perspectives.
Collected here are nine BBC Radio productions of Stoker works, plus a drama by Joseph O’Connor which explores the close collaboration and intense friendship between Bram Stoker and Henry Irving.
Dracula – Bram Stoker’s masterpiece: a disturbing vampire tale of horror. An all-action adventure story, with ghosts, ghouls, lunatics, and seriously gripping chase sequences. A thrilling ride through the dark psyche of Victorian England.
Dracula’s Guest – Count Dracula looks out for a curious Englishman.
The Lair of the White Worm – It’s 1870 in Derbyshire’s High Peak district. While on a visit to his elderly uncle in the tiny village of Penda’s Dale, Adam Salton – already shocked by the oppressive melancholic atmosphere in the village – quickly realises that the disappearance of several local men is not accidental. His investigations lead him to the discovery of a terrifying and ancient secret: a malevolent force is at work in Penda’s Dale.
The Judge’s House – Malcolm Malcolmson discovers the truth of ‘absurd prejudices’ which have accrued around an empty property.
The Secret of the Growing Gold – Fair hair becomes an unusual tool of marital revenge.
The Coming of Abel Behenna – Two rivals in love make a pact. Will it end in betrayal?
The Dream in the Dead House – An Englishman in Munich receives a most unexpected rescue.
A Dream of Red Hands – Jacob Settle hides a dark past. What does his dream mean?
The Squaw – An arrogant American earns himself a horrific retribution.
Vampyre Man – A drama about the close collaboration and intense friendship between Bram Stoker and the famous Shakespearean actor Henry Irving. Under Irving’s reckless tutelage, the young Irish accountant struggled to keep the theatre afloat. Irving’s demands were indomitable and over the years Stoker endured the actor’s outrageous whims and acerbic tongue. And yet, Stoker remained mesmerised by him, absorbing his traits and suffering his humiliations all the while letting him grow in his imagination until he was ready to release him into the world as Count Dracula.
Episode List* 01 – Dracula * 02 – Dracula’s Guest * 03 – The Lair of the White Worm * 04 – The Judge’s House * 05 – The Secret to Growing Gold * 06 – The Coming of Abel Behenna * 07 – The Dream in the Dead House * 08 – A Dream of Red Hands * 09 – The Squaw * 10 – Vampyre Man The post Bram Stoker BBC Radio Gothic Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A BBC Radio historical drama in two parts about the career of Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington.
Part One follows Sir Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, through the 1808-13 Peninsular Wars. Napoleon Bonaparte has conquered Spain and replaced the lawful King Ferdinand VII and his father Charles with his brother Joseph. Now Sir Arthur Wellesley, placed in command of the Army in Portugal and Spain, must hold together the combined British, Spanish and Portuguese forces against Napoleon’s French Armies commanded by General Soult and Marshal Victor.
In Part Two, having won a notable victory at Talavera, Wellington cannot afford to rest on his laurels but must now keep pressing the French in a long road that leads from the seemingly-uncapturable town of Badajoz to the final showdown against Napoleon himself at Waterloo.
Episode List* 01 – It’s a Long Way From Talavera * 02 – The Long Road to Waterloo The post The Other Side of the Hill appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Hugo Rifkind – News Quiz stalwart and Times leader-writer – explores what it means to have ‘power’ in modern Britain.
Who, in modern Britain, has power? That’s the question Hugo Rifkind asks in this new series of stand-up journalism. Each week, Hugo looks at a group of people generally consider powerful, and examines what they actually can and can’t do.
Hugo ought to know about power. Born into a political family, he attended Cambridge and has spent 18 years writing for The Times. During that period, he has met prime ministers, royalty, Eurocrats, lawyers, judges, celebrities, billionaires and, of course, other members of the media elite – including his fellow regular panellists on The News Quiz. Yet in all that time, none of these people have seemed truly to be ruling the world.
And if they aren’t, who is?
This week, Hugo looks at the power of Members of Parliament. He speaks to Stella Creasy MP about the limits to which she can help her constituents, to Damian Collins MP about what the Chair of a Select Committee can order people to do, and to Andrew Mitchell MP about how Whips can keep MPs in check – which sometimes involves tears.
This week, Hugo looks at the power of journalists. He speaks to campaigning polemicist Owen Jones, political reporter Sam Coates, and investigative journalist James Ball – and attempts to determine what level of influence they wield.
This week, Hugo looks at the power of judges. He speaks to former Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, former President of the Supreme Court Lord Neuberger, and the anonymous blogger and author The Secret Barrister – and attempts to determine what level of influence they wield.
Episode List* S01E01 – MPs * S01E02 – Journalists * S01E03 – Judges The post Hugo Rifkind’s Search For Power appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The Serenity lands on the remote moon of Abel for a lucrative job but becomes embroiled in a young woman’s quest for vengeance and a starving frontier town’s fight for survival. Join Mal and the gang in this enthralling original tie-in novel from the award-winning series.
The Serenity crew head to Yell City, one of the settlements on Abel, a moon in the Rim. Their job: track down the killers of a local lawyer shot dead in the streets by a local gang. Their client is Annie Roberts, the eighteen-year-old daughter of the murdered man.
Lucky for them, Annie Roberts is more than capable of handling herself. Unlucky for them, the job is lot more complicated than they at first think it is. Annie’s father is not just the victim of local gang violence but also the target of some powerful men.
Taking down a local gang is one thing, but cleaning up a whole city? That’s not a job for the Serenity crew. But when their ship is impounded and Mal and the crew find themselves trapped in Yell City, they realize they are already in deeper than they could have ever imagined.
Episode List* 01 – Opening Credits * 02 – Dedication * 03 – One * 04 – Two * 05 – Three * 06 – Four * 07 – Five * 08 – Six * 09 – Seven * 10 – Eight * 11 – Nine * 12 – Ten * 13 – Eleven * 14 – Twelve * 15 – Thirteen * 16 – Fourteen * 17 – End Credits The post Firefly [8] Coup de Grâce appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Returning in its original one-to-one incarnation, Paul Merton interviews a variety of guests from the world of comedy and entertainment to find out what they would send to Room 101
What do you really dislike? In Room 101, celebrities have the chance to get rid of their personal hates forever.
Episode List* S01E01 – Claudia Winkleman * S01E02 – Desiree Burch * S01E03 – Steph McGovern * S01E04 – Mark Steel * S01E05 – Phil Wang * S01E06 – Julian Clary * S02E01 – Chris McCausland * S02E02 – Hannah Fry * S02E03 – Daliso Chaponda * S02E04 – Naga Munchetty * S02E05 – Victoria Coren Mitchell * S02E06 – Gyles Brandreth The post Room 101 appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Alan Garner is an English novelist best known for his fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. Much of his work is rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of Cheshire, North West England, being set in the region and making use of the native Cheshire dialect.
His first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, was published in 1960. A fantasy novel set on Alderley Edge, it incorporated elements of local folklore in its plot and characters. Garner wrote a sequel, The Moon of Gomrath (1963), and a third book, Boneland (2012). He wrote other fantasy novels, including Elidor (1965) and The Owl Service (1967)
This is a collection of BBC Radio productions of Garner’s fantasy dramas; weird and marvellously evocative tale of Celtic mysteries, elves, spirits and strange presences…..
Elidor – Roland, Helen, David and Nicholas Watson have escaped to Manchester to avoid helping out at their house move. After a detour down a creepy backstreet, they come upon a derelict church and a mysterious fiddle player. Little do the children know that chance didn’t bring them there, but a prophecy hundreds of years old. Slowly they realise that the church isn’t all it seems, as the fabric of time and space opens and they are propelled into the dying and strange world of Elidor…
The Owl Service – When Alison traces owls from the pattern on a dinner service, the paper owls disappear and the plates go blank. Mysterious events become frightening in this classic reworking of the Welsh Blodeuwedd myth.
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen – Two children, Colin and Susan are on holiday in the North of England where they encounter perilous magical forces. Susan possesses a small tear-shaped jewel held in a bracelet: unknown to her, this is the weirdstone. Its nature is revealed when the children are hunted by the minions of the dark spirit Nastrond who, centuries earlier, had been defeated and banished by a powerful king.
The Moon of Gomrath – Colin and Susan return to the site of their adventure at Alderley Edge, and the strangeness begins again. Susan had been previously been gifted a magical golden bracelet whose powers are now called upon. So, it’s back to Fundindelve and a reunion with the wizard Cadellan…
Boneland – The crowning achievement of Alan Garner’s astonishing career, ‘Boneland’ concludes the story that began over fifty years ago in ‘The Weirdstone of Brisingamen’. If the sleeper wakes, the dream dies. . .Professor Colin Whisterfield spends his days at Jodrell Bank, using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister in the Pleiades. At the same time, and in another time, the Watcher cuts the rock and dances, to keep the sky above the earth and the stars flying. Colin can’t remember; and he remembers too much. Before the age of twelve years and nine months, everything is a blank. After that he recalls everything, in every minute of every hour of every day. But if he wants to find his sister, Colin will have to unlock his memory of what happened when he was twelve. And the Watcher will have to find the Woman. Otherwise the skies will fall, and there will be only winter, wanderers and moon. . .
Episode List* 01 – Elidor * 02 – Elidor * 03 – Elidor * 04 – Elidor * 05 – The Owl Service * 06 – The Owl Service * 07 – The Owl Service * 08 – Weirdstone of Brisingamen * 09 – Weirdstone of Brisingamen * 10 – Weirdstone of Brisingamen * 11 – Weirdstone of Brisingamen * 12 – The Moon of Gomrath * 13 – The Moon of Gomrath * 14 – The Moon of Gomrath * 15 – Boneland * 16 – Boneland * 17 – Boneland * 18 – Boneland * 19 – Boneland The post Alan Garner BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A WW2 bomber pilot survives a plane crash unharmed. But when the authorities in heaven realise their mistake, will they let him live? A new adaptation of the classic 1946 film.
A Matter of Life and Death is a new adaptation of the classic 1946 movie by Emeric Powell and Michael Pressburger. Commissioned by the Ministry of Information as a propaganda exercise to aid Anglo-American relations, Powell and Pressburger instead delivered an epic romance about love, the afterlife and brain surgery. Even today it frequently tops lists of the greatest films ever made, and is referenced in everything from Wallace and Gromit to the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.
- Squadron Leader Peter Carter miraculously survives a jump from his burning plane, and falls in love with June, an American radio operator. He ought to be dead – the heavenly authorities have missed him in the sea fog. Peter demands an appeal, but will they let him live?
Dr Frank Reeves’ sudden death reunites him in the Other World with Peter Carter, who hovers between life and death as his operation begins. Can they win Peter’s celestial court case?
Episode List* 01 – A Matter of Life and Death * 02 – A Matter of Life and Death The post A Matter of Life and Death appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Series 1 – A gripping drama exploring the psychological impact of murder on a victim’s family and on the killer. Written by Lucia Haynes with monologues by Eileen Horne. Dr Alex Bridges is an expert forensic psychiatrist, assessing and treating perpetrators of the most unthinkable crimes. In this compelling drama, Alex charts the psychological impact of the murder of a young man on his family. A week after 19-year-old Jamie’s murder, Dr Alex Bridges interviews the members of his family.
Series 2 – The winner of the British Podcast Award for Best Fiction 2021 returns with a gripping drama about trauma, obsession and why we harm the things we love. Written by Lucia Haynes with monologues by Eileen Horne. Dr Alex Bridges is an expert forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist, assessing and treating perpetrators of violent crime. With Sarah out of prison, Paul begins to feel less and less safe and turns to a trauma therapy group for support. And so, Alex finds herself treating both the perpetrator of a violent crime and her victim.
Series 3 – Dr Alex Bridges is an expert forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist, assessing and treating perpetrators of serious crime. This gripping drama explores the psychological impact of murder on teenage perpetrators and follows the fortunes of participants in a Long Sentence therapy group. Has Dr Bridges made a mistake in putting co-offenders together in Group therapy?
Episode List* S01E01 – This Thing of Darkness * S01E02 – This Thing of Darkness * S01E03 – This Thing of Darkness * S01E04 – This Thing of Darkness * S01E05 – This Thing of Darkness * S01E06 – This Thing of Darkness * S01E07 – This Thing of Darkness * S02E01 – This Thing of Darkness * S02E02 – This Thing of Darkness * S02E03 – This Thing of Darkness * S02E04 – This Thing of Darkness * S02E05 – This Thing of Darkness * S02E06 – This Thing of Darkness * S02E07 – This Thing of Darkness * S03E01 – A Dangerous Animal * S03E02 – The Elephant in the Room * S03E03 – A Pint with Pals * S03E04 – The Christmas Killers * S03E05 – The Dandelion and the Orchid The post This Thing of Darkness appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Martin Jarvis performs Just William stories by Richmal Crompton in front of an enthusiastic, invited audience.
Martin Jarvis performs full-length William stories, recorded live on stage. Described by the Daily Telegraph as ‘the wizard of the talking book’, Martin Jarvis has made the voices of William and his gang of outlaws his own.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Sweet Little Girl In White * S01E02 – William And The Princess Goldilocks * S02E01 – William And The Lost Tourist * S02E02 – The Leopard Hunter * S03E01 – William Holds The Stage * S03E02 – Aunt Arabelle In Charge * S04E01 – The Outlaws And The Triplets * S04E02 – The New Neighbour * S05E01 – The Christmas Truce * S05E02 – Violet Elizabeth Runs Away * S06E01 – William and the School Report * S06E02 – William and the Musician * S07E01 – Williams Truthful Christmas The post Just William – Live! appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A poetry show like no other – over the course of 6 series Key has performed magic, music, cookery and witchcraft; he’s delivered a baby, gone underground, up the Shard and into space.
And sometimes he finds time to read poems.
Each week Tim Key explores a different theme, with poems ranging in length and style – from the short and frivolous to the longer-form epics. But every poem, short or long, represents a vivid journey through an absurd, yet strangely compelling, imagination.Tim is accompanied by his ‘good-looking musical chimp’ Tom Basden. The pair’s mutual contempt often bubbles over into open hostility and occasional violence. But they are best friends really.
Episode List* S01E01 – Family * S01E02 – Death * S01E03 – Chance * S01E04 – Superstition * S01E05 – Egypt * S01E06 – Work * S02E01 – Science * S02E02 – Magic * S02E03 – Medicine * S02E04 – Survival * S02E05 – Music * S02E06 – Stag * S03E01 – Love * S03E02 – Dating * S03E03 – Cookery * S03E04 – Space * S03E05 – Sleep * S03E06 – Horror * S04E01 – Continuity * S04E02 – Cuisine * S04E03 – Under the Stars * S04E04 – Cars * S05E01 – Accountancy * S05E02 – Rome * S05E03 – Bunny * S05E04 – Labour * S05ESP – Christmas Poetry Programme * S06E01 – The Pilot * S06E02 – Customs * S06E03 – Safari * S06E04 – Wild West The post Tim Key’s Late Night Poetry Programme BBC appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Jamie MacDonald is a Glaswegian stand-up comedian who found himself rapidly going blind in his teens. This series shows how Jamie used humour to turn denial into acceptance. He managed to find the spotlight as the darkness descended and has turned some pretty dark experiences into hilarious stories and anecdotes.
Episode List* S01E01 – The First Hurdle * S01E02 – Stick It To Me * S01E03 – To The Stage * S01E04 – Love Is Blind * S02E01 – Have I Got Views for You * S02E02 – Limb Broccoli * S02E03 – Kermit the Nob * S02E04 – Toxic Role Model The post Jamie MacDonald Life on the Blink appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Don Haworth was a journalist, TV producer and critically acclaimed writer of radio drama. His first play was produced on the radio by Alan Ayckbourn in 1967. In the course of a long and distinguished career, he won three Giles Cooper Awards.
This is a collection of twelve BBC Radio dramas from the author’s four-decade career.
A View from the Mountain – A re-telling of the myth of Sisyphus, set in a remote valley in central Europe. As a boy, Joseph accidentally killed a man by rolling boulders down a mountainside. As punishment, he is sentenced to push boulders up the mountain for the rest of his life. An old quarryman and his wife live on a mountain carrying out the instructions of the Emperor. A surveyor decides to try and release them from their burden. It takes a very special sort of man to attempt, every day of his life, a task that by any ordinary human standards is impossible. But Merope’s husband, Joseph, is such a man.
A Summertime – A warm and gently humorous tale about unforeseen happiness and its passing, set on the Lancashire moors in 1939.
Challenged – Set in a remote part of the Pennines, a widowed mother and her son battle to come to terms with the passage of time when hired worker, Tom arrives. Son Harry, who has learning difficulties, is described by his school as ‘challenged’. With Tom’s encouragement he finds new confidence, but this creates fresh conflict for the trio.
Ernest’s Tower – Ernest is a fairground stallholder, who lives in the baleful shadow of his Uncle Leo. Leo allows him to lease a small stall or two, but Ernest has dreams of owning the tallest fairground tower in the country.
The Ultimate Invention – When his aged uncle, the Grand Duke, is hit by a thunderbolt, Alexander finds himself ruler of a backward, impoverished duchy. But salvation beckons in the shape of Francis Block.
An End and a Beginning – Tom is an affable man in his middle 50s. He has worked happily for many years with a pipe-laying gang. The prospect of early retirement is not something he would look forward to.
Events at the Salamander Hotel – A hard-up travelling salesman and his cronies evolve a novel strategy for cutting their accommodation costs when times are difficult: ‘We ought to form a stack.’ ‘What’s that in the name of God? ‘American thing Alvin knows about.’ ‘One guy pays for a room and the rest move in for free.’ ‘And why do you call it a stack? ‘ ‘Double bed. Three guys lie side by side lengthways, then four width ways across them, then three more lengthways. surmounted by another four across….’ But more serious entanglements are to follow.
Dragon – In this allegorical story reflecting on the nature of power and war, the legend of St George and the Dragon Is turned on its head.
Emma Harper – Tussles in a Theme Village – Ex-headmistress Emma Harper writes a column for a village newspaper. But when she’s poached by the local radio station, her gossip programme causes controversy, anger and revenge…
Bill Bosun – Speedily to School – Passengers love country school bus driver Bill Bosun, despite his speed making journeys both a hazard and an adventure. But his weakness is an unwillingness to see anyone in a jam. Against instruction, he waits for late pupils and gives lifts to all kinds of folk and their dogs, ducks and hens. The children adore him, but the school governors and local councillors have a different view. Bill’s future is in their hands.
Stan Rooker – Night Receptionist – Late one Saturday night, a good Samaritan Wilfred Parkin brings a man with a strange problem to the hospital reception. But Stan Rooker seems strangely reluctant to call the doctor.
Jack Acorn – Disputed Inheritance – When Fred Melthorpe inherits an estate from his estranged father, he also inherits Jack Acorn, the general factotum. But Jack’s not all he seems, so unpleasant discoveries are set to be made.
Episode List* 01 – A View From The Mountain * 02 – A Summertime * 03 – Challenged * 04 – Ernest’s Tower * 05 – The Ultimate Invention * 06 – An End and a Beginning * 07 – Events At The Salamander Hotel * 08 – Dragon * 09 – Emma Harper – Tussles in a Theme Village * 10 – Bill Bosun – Speedily to School * 11 – Stan Rooker – Night Receptionist * 12 – Jack Acorn – Disputed Inheritance The post Don Haworth BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Northern Irish comedian Colin Murphy and his cohorts in a series where the most ridiculous of questions are tackled, with an attempt to provide the correct or at the very least, a funny answer. Could there be a city under the sea? Could pigs fly?
Regular guests, scientist Dr David Booth and up-and-coming comedian and computer geek Matthew Collins, are joined by special guest Jo Caulfield.
Episode List* S01E01 – Great Unanswered Questions * S01E02 – Great Unanswered Questions * S01E03 – Great Unanswered Questions * S01E04 – Great Unanswered Questions * S02E01 – Great Unanswered Questions * S02E02 – Great Unanswered Questions * S02E03 – Great Unanswered Questions * S02E04 – Great Unanswered Questions * S02E05 – Great Unanswered Questions * S02E06 – Great Unanswered Questions The post Great Unanswered Questions appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Bill Nighy stars in Steve May’s tense, three-part war-torn drama.
Cruise passengers wonder why the ship has docked in a town still reeling from civil war.
Now divided into zones by the warring factions, locals are trying to re-establish some sense of normality. Cruise passengers are allowed to disembark, but must remain vigilant.
Speculation rises on-board over Bob – after he’s mentioned in the newspapers. He’s later spotted moving furtively around the town. Then at a street café, he’s joined by a beautiful waitress named Sarab.
Their bond grows – and despite more gossip back on-board from passengers Randy and Cagey – Bill hatches a plan to take Sarab to the UK.
However her brothers Ahmed and Khalid have other ideas….
With Sudha Bhuchar as Sarab, John Hartley as Randy, James Aubrey as Cagey, Sam Dastor as Ahmed and Dhirendra as Khalid.
Episode List* 01 – Dropping Anchor in Qaman * 02 – Escape * 03 – Passion and Misunderstanding The post The Freedom Trap appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Chris McCausland asks a panel of comedians to live in an audio-only world, deciphering brainteaser sound cues for points and pride whilst trying not to muck about too much along the way.
In this episode, contestants try to figure out what on earth is being advertised on the TV, guess what famous objects or locations children are trying to describe, and work out the age of women based solely on the sound of their voice.
In this episode, contestants try to figure out what on earth is being advertised on the TV, guess what famous objects or locations children are trying to describe, and even work out what chocolate bars are being eaten based on sound alone.
In this episode, contestants try to figure out what on earth is being advertised on the TV, guess what famous objects or locations children are trying to describe, and even identify people based on the sound of their snoring alone.
In this episode, contestants try to figure out what on earth is being advertised on the TV, guess what famous objects or locations children are trying to describe, and even work out what names of popular Radio 4 shows Chris is yelling underwater.
Episode List* S01E00 – You Heard It Here First (Pilot) * S01E01 – You Heard It Here First * S01E02 – You Heard It Here First * S01E03 – You Heard It Here First * S01E04 – You Heard It Here First * S02E01 – You Heard It Here First * S02E02 – You Heard It Here First * S02E03 – You Heard It Here First * S02E04 – You Heard It Here First The post You Heard It Here First appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A vintage anthology series of BBC Radio plays from a concept originated by Philip Levene. Dramas which tell the stories when reading between the lines of newspaper personal ads.
A Honeypot with Bees On – An unusual request for a birthday present causes Derek to question his love for Adrienne.
Evening Out – Trevor calls on his acting skills when Miss Pike hires him to escort her to a works outing.
No Square Deal – John and Helen get more than they bargained for when they try to sell some old jewellery.
Findings Keepings – A rookie blackmailer is taught the ropes, but learns the pitfalls of the business.
Third Girl Wanted – When Jemma suddenly packs her bags and leaves, her flatmates have to work out why.
Home And Away – Elderly Albert and Fred cement a new friendship at the local library via personal ads.
Off To A Good Start – Carol and Dennis’s honeymoon period is soon over. Is the wedding dress to blame?
This Column Every Friday – A dodgy insurance broker takes drastic measures to try to avoid being exposed.
Time For A Coat – Victoria’s desire for a new coat calls for all manner of sacrifices.
What Am I Bid? – Tony is intrigued by a personal advert which reads: ‘Wife available – what offers? Box 523’
Episode List* S01E01 – A Honeypot With Bees On * S01E02 – Evening Out * S01E03 – No Square Deal * S01E04 – Findings Keepings * S01E05 – Third Girl Wanted * S02E01 – Home And Away * S02E02 – Off To A Good Start * S02E03 – This Column Every Friday * S02E04 – Time For A Coat * S02E05 – What Am I Bid The post Personal Column appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
2018 version – A visceral, revamped BBC radio production of John Ford’s classic play about a doomed love between a brother and sister. With its shocking portrayal of incest, intrigue and murder, this powerful Jacobean revenge drama scandalised audiences when it was first performed in the 1620s, and it is still controversial today. When siblings […]
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Taking part in Strictly Come Dancing made Susan Calman happy. Completely, totally happy. And having lived with anxiety for so long, it was something of a surprise to discover something new that gave her feelings of joy. So, in Susan Calman Makes Me Happy, she explores and explains the other things in life that bring her happiness.
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A BBC Radio 7 sketch show that aims to showcase new comedy talent. Stars Jack Bernhardt, Adam Gutteridge, Gareth Gwynn, Thomas Hardy, Chris Lean and more. Play And Record is a mixture of sketches, characters, songs and other funny bits and bobs.
Episode List* S01E01 – Play And Record * S01E02 – Play And Record * S01E03 – Play And Record * S01E04 – Play And Record * S02E01 – Play And Record * S02E02 – Play And Record * S02E03 – Play And Record * S02E04 – Play And Record The post Play and Record appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Harry Hill stars as the Governor in this BBC Radio 4 prison-based sitcom
‘Properly funny’ Miranda Sawyer, The Observer
The Egg is Britain’s remotest and highest-security prison, floating on a giant prehistoric egg in the middle of the ocean. Running the place is Governor Harry who, along with his trusty assistants Anne and Peter, does his best to keep the inmates under control – while dreaming of a transfer to the cushy Sparkles Open Prison.
In Series 1 he has to contend with government inspectors; mysteriously malfunctioning CCTV cameras; escaped prisoners; a demanding film star; a new, tough screw and a pair of mating whales attacking the Egg.
Series 2 sees Harry and the team striking oil and pitching a new invention to Dragon’s Den, while Peter faces a conflict of interest when his brother arrives at the prison. Plus, Harry finds himself on hold to customer services; tries to cope with food shortages, and gets sweaty palms (and itchy fingers) when a self-destruct button is found on the Egg.
Episode List* S01E01 – Inspection * S01E02 – CCTV * S01E03 – Mistress of Disguise * S01E04 – Method * S01E05 – Stand-In * S01E06 – Whale * S02E01 – Oil * S02E02 – Dragon * S02E03 – Brother * S02E04 – Hold * S02E05 – Storm * S02E06 – Self-destruct The post Life on Egg appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Susan Calman is the least relaxed person she knows. She has no down-time, no hobbies (unless you count dressing up your cats in silly outfits) and her idea of relaxation is to play Assassin’s Creed, an hour into which she is in a murderous rage with sky high blood pressure.
Her wife had to threaten to divorce her to make her go on holiday, and she’s been told by the same long-suffering wife that unless she finds a way to switch off, and soon, she’s going to be unbearable. Susan decided her best bet was to try to immerse herself in the pursuits that her friends find relaxing, to find her inner zen and outer tranquillity.
In the first series of this show she attempted to ditch the old Susan Calman and attempted to find the new ‘Susan Calm’, by watching cricket with Andy Zaltzman; going hillwalking with Muriel Gray; visiting an art gallery with Phill Jupitus and taking a spontaneous holiday with John Finnemore. She enjoyed these pursuits, but all too soon found herself slipping back into her old ways. So she tried again in Series 2, which involved learning about gardening with Val McDermid, going to a music festival with Robin Ince, trying her hand at baking with the Great British Bake Off’s Selasi Gbormittah, and having a go at birdwatching with Emma Kennedy.
Keep Calman Carry On is a stand-up show in front of a live audience, in which Susan reports on how successful she’s been – both at relaxing and at the pursuit itself – as well as playing in and discussing a handful of illustrative clips from her efforts. It’s an attempt to find out how people find solace or sanctuary in these worlds, and how Susan can negotiate her own place in them.
Episode List* S01E01 – Hillwalking with Muriel Gray * S01E02 – Cricket with Andy Zaltzman * S01E03 – Holiday with John Finnemore * S01E04 – Art with Phill Jupitus * S02E01 – Gardening * S02E02 – Festivals * S02E03 – Baking * S02E04 – Birdwatching The post Keep Calman Carry On appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The collected BBC Radio 4 crime dramas featuring Inspector Coleman and Sergeant Astor.
Like his actor namesake, Ronald Coleman is a suave, well-spoken English gentleman. But although he’s a movie buff, Coleman is no film star – he’s a copper, and a Detective Inspector to boot. Together with his down-to-earth Scottish partner, DS Fred Astor, he sets about solving cases on two very different patches – rural Kirkcaldy and inner-city Southampton.
Death Beach sees Hollywood director Curt Zorack’s film shoot interrupted by the death of one of the cast. But is it suicide or murder? In Death of a Mean Cornet, a jazz musician and old friend of Sergeant Astor is found dead of a heroin overdose. It looks like an accident, but Fred’s not convinced. In Death Against the Odds, two murders in one night cause Inspector Coleman and Sergeant Astor to lose some sleep – and long for the days when sheep-rustling was the worst crime they had to deal with.
Death of a Hooligan finds the two detectives working together at South Hants Central, and probing the suspicious death of a football fan; while in A Day at the Races, Sergeant Astor falls among thieves, and Inspector Coleman has one of his infamous hunches. In No Harm Done, the duo are faced with a wall of silence when a resident of the notorious Gantry Estate is found badly beaten. And in Fools Rush In, an IRA terrorist is released from Parkhurst prison – and promptly disappears. How is he connected to the mysterious Irishman causing parking problems on a suburban street?
These enthralling crime dramas star Stephen Thorne as Coleman and Joe Dunlop as Astor, with a supporting cast including Diana Bishop, Frances Jeater and Nicholas Boulton.
Death Beach
Cast: Peter Vaughan, Mary Miller, David King, Nigel Carrington, Vincent Brimble,
Jonathan Oliver, James Greene, Michael McStay, Jane Whittenshaw, Sue Broomfield, Ben Onwukwe, Stephen Garlick, Nicholas Gilbrook
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 13 October 1990
Death of a Mean Cornet
Cast: Kate Binchy, Maria Miles, James Grant, Paul Barber, Tony Armatrading, Michael McStay, Sidney Cole, Peter Gunn, John Forgeham, Terence Edmond, David Learner, John Webb, Matthew Sim, Mark Straker, Nicholas Murchie, Jonathan Tafler
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 18 July 1992
Death Against the Odds
Cast: Peter Gunn, Phyllis Logan, James Warwick, Morag Hood, Elaine Collins, Diana Bishop, John Fleming, Pauline Yates, John Webb, David Holt, Dominic Letts
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 21 August 1993
Death of a Hooligan
Cast: Diana Bishop, Frances Jeater, Nicholas Boulton, James Kerry, Dominic Curtis, Tom Bevan, Peter Kenny, Paul Panting, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Gareth Armstrong, James Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 16 May 1994
A Day at the Races
Cast: Diana Bishop, Frances Jeater, Nicholas Boulton, John Hartley, Larry Dann, McCartney Brown, Breffni McKenna, Gareth Armstrong, David Jarvis, David Sinclair, James Taylor, Don McCorkindale.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 23 May 1994
No Harm Done
Cast: Diana Bishop, Frances Jeater, Nicholas Boulton, Tony Osoba, Elaine Claxton, Pauline Letts, Dexter Fletcher, Simon Schatzberger, Deborah Berlin, Toby Jones, Sidney Cole, Peter Acre, Matthew Morgan, Gavin Muir, David Jarvis, Danny Schiller, Susannah Corbett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 30 May 1994
Fools Rush In
Cast: Diana Bishop, Frances Jeater, Nicholas Boulton, Anthony Jackson, Marianne Morley, Sally Kinghorn, Rachel Atkins, Michael Onslow, Tom Bevan, Paul Panting, Lyndham Gregory.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 6 June 1994
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A BBC Radio collection bringing together much-loved works by Alexandre Dumas and Alexandre Dumas fils, starring Timothy Spall, Anton Lesser, Iain Glen, Ruth Wilson and Dan Stevens. Alexandre Dumas père and fils are among the most popular and widely read authors in French literature, whose works have been adapted numerous times for stage, screen and […]
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Six-part sitcom by Meera Syal about East London’s premier Asian community radio station. Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nitin Sawhney, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia star in the Asian radio station comedy. Episode 1 – Owner, Mr Krishna, wants to make some changes and everyone’s scared, except for visiting Bollywood celebrity Johnny ‘Muscles’ Patel… Episode 2 – Is […]
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A rather unlikely duo, they come from two very different worlds, albeit only seven miles apart – Joe Snowball, unemployed ex-miner in a village forgotten by the world, and the Hon. Hermione Pink, slightly disenchanted senior lecturer at the third oldest university in England, an ivory tower almost encircled by the River Wear. Together, they […]
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Benedict Cumberbatch, Greta Scacchi and Simon Russell Beale star in Michael Frayn’s award-winning play about the controversial 1941 meeting between physicists Bohr and Heisenberg. Copenhagen, Autumn 1941. The two presiding geniuses of quantum physics, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg meet for the first time since the breakout of war. Danish physicist Bohr and his wife, […]
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Semi-improvised comedy show written and performed by Marc Wootton with Catherine Tate, Monica Dolan, Katherine Parkinson, Hammed Animashaun, Ellie White and Jamie Demetriou. Together they portray a series of couples all embracing the modern phenomenon of date night. DATE NIGHT, noun: A pre-arranged occasion when a couple who have been together for a long time […]
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Comedy drama about a boy and his uncle in 1930s Tyneside.
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Geth Straker – captain of the Peregrine – gets an offer to search for Italian gold sunk during the Second World War.
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This sitcom follows the life of Ed Reardon, a curmudgeonly writer who has only managed to have one novel published since the 60s. Despite his distinct lack of success, Ed remains bullishly optimistic about his future. Yes, he may only have a single pair of trousers and have one of the lowest sales ranks on […]
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Richard Burton’s voice has been digitally remastered and seamlessly mixed with an all-Welsh cast to create a magical, fresh visit to the unique but universally recognisable world of Llareggub. Richard Burton’s inimitable narration as the Narrator in the BBC’s 1963 recording of Under Milk Wood was hugely acclaimed. In this 2003 production, the famous radio […]
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Mixing parody, mockery, farce, satire, verse, pastiche, spoonerism, phonetics, social observation and nonsense, This Is Craig Brown brings the very best of Craig’s inspired humour to Radio 4. The stellar cast includes Rory Bremner, Harry Enfield along with Radio 4’s own Charlotte Green and John Humphrys. From steamy first-hand accounts by the five most distinguished […]
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As a starting point in making the world a better place, Mark will free you from sin. It’s a big task, but he thinks it’s going to go really well. Mark Watson is not only a fantastic stand-up comedian, but he may also be the best chance we have to overcome sin. He’s got a […]
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Twin sisters are the investigating police in this unusual three-part detective series Alice and Belinda are identical twins, and have grown up sharing everything: toys, rooms, and friends. But as they begin their careers as detectives – a job they have each wanted for as long as they can remember – a computer error sees […]
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1745: Gruffydd returns to Wales to regain his lands when the Jacobite Rebellion drives out George II. 1745: In Wales during the Jacobite Rebellion, Gruffydd actions have attracted attention. 1745: Gruffydd’s actions escalate, and people must decide their allegiances Gruffydd has inadvertently saved Ffowlke from the gallows. Seven years have passed since Gruffydd abducted Madlen […]
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A mockumentary in which pedantic reporter Gus Murdoch examines aspects of British culture. Written by and starring Stephen Carlin. Written by and starring Stephen Carlin.
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The complete series 1-3 of the spoof true crime series, written by and starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis Michael Feydeau, alias TV’s much-loved Inspector Niblett, and crime expert David Pershore (the bestselling author of A Nice Sit Down with Some Horrific Murders) go on a thrilling journey through the gruesome history of crime, digging […]
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Radio comedy Relocation broadcast on BBC Radio Wales Relocation is about a London couple; John and his pregnant wife Sarah, who are put into witness relocation in the Welsh Valleys, only to be moved next door to Loan – an excitable man who might blow their cover, as he once spent a year at John’s […]
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Mockumentary series following English cricket’s most celebrated bits-and-pieces county cricketer. Stars Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. Podmore began his career with Leicestershire, and he is married to Jackie Podmore, a lap-dancer. He owns a psychotic dog called Saxon. He views cricket as a means to making easy money through match-fixing, benefit nights, appearances at supermarket […]
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Matt Berry presents a series of his interviews with the greats of the stage, screen and music worlds. Matt interviewed Uri Geller at his home in 1974 just as the self-proclaimed psychic’s star was on the rise. Geller wasn’t keen at first, but eventually agreed and was very welcoming. He was becoming quite a global […]
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Stephen Fry stars as spoof investigative journalist David Lander in all four series of the BBC radio comedy Delve Special ran for four series on BBC Radio 4 from 1984-1987, later transferring to TV as This is David Lander. A parody of the popular genre of investigative reporting, it stars Stephen Fry as inept crusader […]
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Comedy by Guy Meredith about a group of expats sharing a flat in Hong Kong. Into the lives of unsuccessful architect James (Tony Gardner) and failed-everything Malcolm (John Gordon Sinclair) comes Zoe (Katherine Kingsley) on a one-way ticket from England to start a new life. After an unpromising start, she moves in with James and […]
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In these ten absorbing series, award-winning authors Naomi Alderman and Philip Ball and guest presenters Tracey Logan, Kevin Fong, Simon Schaffer and Lindsey Fitzharris take a look at the many amazing events and characters from science’s long history. In this collection, which runs close to 23 hours in total, they throw light on the revolutionary […]
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Village Guide Captain Madge Bessemer is not a particular fan of railways. Who needs trains when you’ve got an Austin Princess to tootle around in? However, when she discovers that, as part of their closure plans, British Rail are going to auction off the line side footpath, which holds precious memories for her, she determines […]
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Set and recorded on location in a car in Manchester, Where To, Mate? is a semi-improvised comedy following our main drivers Bernie and Ben as we eavesdrop on their taxi journeys around the North West. Ben was the first driver to work at the firm and he’s seen it all. He likes 80s movies and […]
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Series exploring the stories behind the making of programmes which have become part of TV history Welcome Aboard. Paul Jackson returns for a third series of the programme that explores television’s ability to affect and reflect society. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the programme that was revolutionary in its own right, aimed at […]
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New York psychiatrist Dr. Eliza Knight (Academy Award winner Julianne Moore) begins treating a patient registered as Case 63 (Emmy nominee Oscar Isaac) who claims to be from the year 2062. What begins as routine therapeutic sessions quickly turns into a story that threatens the boundaries of the possible and the real.
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Mark Bonnar stars as Leo Fabiani, a renowned painter who lost his wife and seems, ever since, to have become a magnet to all kinds of attractive women. This wry, narrative comedy begins with the funeral of Tamsin, killed in a traffic accident, mother of Laura and beloved wife of Edinburgh artist Leo. The funeral […]
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Sam loves Rose and Rose loves Sam. But while Rose is away on business, Sam’s dad dies and he ends up getting drunk and sleeping with a woman he’s never met before, called Bayley. Love compels him to confess to Rose, but can they salvage their relationship? Romantic comedy by Katherine Jakeways about a couple […]
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A historical romp with regal trips to the pub, medieval battle toys, and not-so-arranged marriages. In Jim the Great, Jimmy Edwards stars as the titular medieval chieftain who has more on his plate than whatever the huntsman’s brought in… From using the Venerable Bede to research the King’s (perhaps questionable) ancestry and attempting to build […]
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Shipcombe Green is a village divided between the villagers and the weekenders. Will they ever get on? Six-part sitcom written by Bill Matthews. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1999.
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Frances Barber and David Bamber star in this light-hearted sitcom about the diary-writing inhabitants of 11 Hare Lane. When newly widowed Jessica decides to rent a room to recently divorced Rex, she’s a little apprehensive. She’s never had a lodger before, and he’s not used to being a tenant. Neither are quite sure how their […]
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An Encounter with Mr Newton – Intellectual giant Isaac Newton is in town and he’s struggling with a new theory to explain why things keep falling on his head. He encounters the members of the Fair Intellectual club – a secret society for the scholarly improvement of young ladies. With the help of carefree socialite […]
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Karel Čapek’s ultra-prescient, retro-futurist 1921 comedy (the classic which gave us the word ‘robot’) is reimagined with a massive dose of character-driven and song-centred heart.5 In Capek’s world, machines do all the work and their monopolistic makers care only about enriching themselves. Robots make huge volumes of goods very cheaply, but there are limited resources […]
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Behind every great man there is an even greater woman – demanding rent. The late, much missed comedy legend Barry Cryer brings his unique brand of silliness to the world of Sherlock Holmes’ landlady in a special Radio 4 double bill recorded in front of an audience in London in November 2018 Barry plays chestnut […]
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What happens when a socially awkward and neurotic part-time comedian becomes a global internet sensation? Michael Spicer: Before Next Door charts Michael’s real-life progress – sort of – as his Room Next Door videos amass tens of millions of views online and win him acclaim for his comedy, at last. But how will Michael cope? […]
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Psychotherapist Martha is reasonably compassionate, but deep down she’s losing patience. It seems all her clients want to be something they are not, and it’s driving them (and her) out of their minds. There’s Richard Fallon MP, who’s convinced that promotion to the front bench is being denied him because of his obese son and […]
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A four-part comedy series based on the life and times of the artistic Bloomsbury Group The Great War – Artistic passions simmer between Lytton Strychnine, Virginia Woof and Vita Sockville-Pest. The General Strike – Will strikes threaten the artistic dreams of Lytton Strychnine and Virginia Woof? The Rights of Women – Universal rights prove irksome […]
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All 14 episodes of Amanda Murphy’s sitcom about the will-they-won’t-they romance between best friends Cassie and Pete Cassie’s 30, single, and miserable. All her friends are getting married – even Ugly Paula (albeit to someone on a life sentence in a Kentucky prison) but nobody loves her. Except for Pete. And he’s her best mate, […]
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The spoof hardboiled thrillers with Wales’s top private investigator dramatised by BBC Radio. This marvelous collection of Malcolm Pryce’s acclaimed Aberystwyth Noir radio productions are set in an alternative version of Aberystwyth, where the streets are filled with veterans of the Patagonian War (Wales’s answer to Vietnam), the Druids are mob bosses, and the ice […]
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Is the light playing tricks on you? Atmospheric reimagining of the original stage thriller, featuring original music from Imelda May
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Outrageous comedy drama telling the true story of the chart-topping pop duo known as KLF who, in 1994, burned £1 million in cash on a remote Scottish Island, with only one journalist and their roadie-come-fixer, Gimpo, in attendance. Why? Why would they do that? How To Burn a Million Quid lays the story bare. A […]
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Seven series of sensational live stand-up comedy from the nineties and noughties. Stand-up fans rejoice this cracking collection contains a whole seven series of top-drawer comedy, recorded live at London and Manchester’s legendary Comedy Store and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Enjoy more than 11 hours of laughs from some of the biggest and best stand-ups […]
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Unlicensed follows Molly Hatch, recently divorced, two years sober, and completely lost on where to go next in her life. On a whim she answers an ad for an assistant to a PI, traveling to an unpromising strip mall on Citrus Avenue in Azusa, CA, where she meets Lou Rosen. Lou is a brilliant detective, […]
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The case was barely open before it was deemed an accident. But O Malley knew it was murder. He just couldn’t prove it. Thirty-five years later, O’Malley is found dead in his flat in what looks like a drug overdose. But his son James knows somethings amiss. His dad was close to solving that case […]
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Craig Brown’s satirical history of Britain The 1920s and 30s – King George utters some unmemorable last words. DH Lawrence of Arabia writes Lady Chatterbox’s Llama. And John Yogi Bear discovers the BBC, but finds there’s not much on… The 1940s – The French Resistance struggle to victory under General de Girl. Hitler gets stuck […]
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Indecisive Poppy is forced to start making her own decisions. Stars Beatie Edney.
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By Sebastian Baczkiewicz Three plays about the feeding of the five thousand and the personal and political fallout from this extraordinary event. Is it a political act? A rebellion? A festival? Five thousand people are dancing on the hillside. What do they want? How can the state deal with those who seek to threaten it? […]
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The London suburbs, late 1920s: with a failing business, Mr Beluncle lives in a world of fantasy inspired by Mrs Parkinson’s Church of the Last Purification. His motto is ‘give love’. Beluncle’s family, his mistress and the business partner in his failing furniture factory must contend with his plans for moving into smart new houses […]
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Australian comedian and art history expert Hannah Gadsby comes to Radio 4 with a series based on her hugely successful one-woman comedy art shows. Each comedy lecture focuses on a ‘masterpiece’ from a particular era. Born in Tasmania, Hannah’s first artistic encounters were through books. These taught her the language of art appreciation but also […]
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Sara Pascoe explores our modern social world though theories of evolutionary psychology and more. How does our monkey past influence our modern lives and how come we can still get emotionally hijacked by our primitive emotions?
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Break out comedy star Sophie Willan comes to Radio 4 with an exciting stand-up series looking at what it is to be ‘normal’. Sophie grew up in and out of the Care System and had an unconventional childhood. In her debut series she will get to grips with – and often challenge – our perception […]
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Stand-up comedian Sindhu Vee looks at being a parent in a multi-generational family. Fruits of Labour – Sindhu Vee’s kids call her ‘mate’ and bruv’ – the comedian explores raising children in a multi-generational family. Unmarried Freaky Giant – Stand-up comedian Sindhu Vee talks about the day she finally got married. It may have been […]
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Nicholas Hawksmoor, a detective in contemporary London, investigates murders that mirror the sacrifices from 300 years before… Starring Philip Jackson. Peter Ackroyd’s acclaimed novel, first published in 1985.
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An unabridged reading of this classic novelisation featuring the First Doctor and the Meddling Monk. When the TARDIS materialises on an apparently deserted Northumbrian beach, Steven disputes the Doctor’s claim that they have travelled back to the 11th century. The discovery of a modern wristwatch in a nearby forest merely reinforces his opinion. But it […]
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Nicola Bryant reads this classic novelisation of a Sixth Doctor TV adventure. En route to Kew Gardens, the Doctor and Peri arrive in Northern England at the time of the Luddite uprisings. Unknown to them, the TARDIS has been dragged of course by the Master, who plans to pervert the course of history and destroy […]
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When working-class Tony falls in love with upper middle-class Imogen, their sons are forced to live under the same roof and behave like the brothers neither of them ever wanted. Unite is a new sitcom starring Claire Skinner (Outnumbered), Radio 4 favourite Mark Steel (Mark Steel’s in Town, The News Quiz), Mark’s son Elliot Steel […]
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Geoffrey Beevers reads this exciting novelisation of a classic TV adventure for the Fourth Doctor. The Doctor is suddenly summoned to Gallifrey, the home of the Time Lords, where his ghastly hallucinations of the President’s assassination seem to turn into reality. When the Doctor is arrested for the murder, a hideous, dark, cowled figure is […]
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The Doctor’s old friend and fellow Time Lord Professor Chronotis has retired to Cambridge University – where nobody will notice if he lives for centuries. But now he needs help from the Doctor, Romana, and K-9. When he left Gallifrey he took with him a few little souvenirs – most of them are harmless. But […]
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Full-cast dramatisations of six masterpieces from the founding fathers of dystopian fiction. Dark and disturbing, provocative and prescient, dystopian literature has long captured our imagination with its nightmarish visions of forbidding future worlds. Included here are six classic novels of time-travel, totalitarianism and terror, written by some of the masters of speculative fiction and adapted […]
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Miss M., a pretty and diminutive young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies and stuffed animals, struggles to deal with her isolation from the rest of society due to her size. Forced to make her own way in the world after the death of her father, she finds herself treated as little […]
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52 episodes of the Old Time Radio program, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The show, which aired from 1939-1946, starred the great Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. For an entire generation of movie-goers and radio-listeners, the definitive Holmes and Watson were Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, two English actors […]
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Recorded back in the 1990s, Kate Robbins, Brian Perkins and guest comedians recall’ 21st century years yet to happen. 2001 – From the World Cup to the future NHS. 2005 – It’s the year of the Telepathone. 2010 – It’s the Year of the Toddler Power. 2021 – Finding helium in the air and ‘Casablanca: […]
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Sponsoring the British Army, the impact of total European integration – and the House of Commons votes for the Honesty Act… Recorded in 1993 – ‘the comedy team look back’ at the rest of 1990s yet to happen – starting with 1995. Starring: Brian Perkins, Kate Robbins and Chris Barrie A satirical review set on […]
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A Dance to the Music of Time is a 12-volume roman-fleuve by English writer Anthony Powell, published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim. The story is an often comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century. The sequence is narrated by Nicholas […]
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Craig Brown introduces a mixture of satire, social observation and nonsense January and February – 1 Barack Obama and Barbara Cartland turn their thoughts to new starts March and April – 2 Elton John and George Michael both have new compositions to try out. May and June – 3 As summer heats up, passions rise […]
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A comedy from writers new to radio. Overheard conversations take place over the course of the day. Highlights from the first show include a series of sketches in which a goose has enrolled as a police officer, somehow getting through the very tight vetting procedures. There’s a character sceptical about time, and a doll-baby so […]
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A pet’s eye view of the trials and tribulations of high office. Written by Tony Bagley. Wilberforce – 1 The chief mouser to the Cabinet Office, 1973-1987, reflects on life with Margaret ThatcherHumphrey – 2 The chief mouser to the Cabinet Office, 1989-1997, reflects on life with New Labour.Sybil – 3 Talks from well-known, if […]
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Comedy series making fun of technology and radio, written by Jerome Vincent and Stephen Dinsdale What is the future of radio? In a world of digital overload can the public be expected to just listen to something without any pictures? Is the radio era over? The Institute of Radiophonic Evolution (IRE), based in South Mimms, […]
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Nicknamed ‘Tinsel Girl’ by her best friend Lisa because of her sparkly view of life, Maz is an eternal optimist. But having just turned 30, she’s all too aware that not only is she single, but also disabled. Her degenerative disease means she now has to use a motorised wheelchair, which isn’t exactly the sexiest […]
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David Nobbs’s 1975 novel ‘The Death of Reginald Perrin’ was the basis for the TV sitcom ‘The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin’, a classic comedy which introduced the world to Reginald Iolanthe Perrin. A suburb dwelling executive who has had enough… Enough of working for his bullying boss at Sunshine Desserts, enough of the […]
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Comedian and broadcaster Jake Yapp with a new interactive live show for January evenings; three hours of comedy, guests and games. he’s joined by the comedian’s to help introduce programmes, chat about stuff and play some daft games, including the incredible quiz Celebrity Soup Of The Day.
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Jake Yapp applies his satirical eye to the modern media, exploring its strengths, weaknesses and idiosyncrasies through stand-up, sketch and music. Jake Yapp Saves Humanity In 28 Minutes – Jake turns his attention to the pernicious evil of TV advertisements, breaking down the five main formats used to peddle us products. Daytime TV – Jake […]
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Richard E Grant, Peter Capaldi and Amanda Root are among the stars of this BBC radio sitcom about three promising graduates still underachieving in their 30s Flatmates Judith, Giles and David once had it all: youth, optimism, ambition, and degrees from one of the country’s best universities. In their 20s, they were full of potential, […]
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All three series of the BBC Radio spoof boys’ magazine – plus Winter and Christmas Specials. Nominated for a British Comedy Award for Best Radio Comedy, The Harpoon is a nostalgic, spiffing spoof of adventure story papers for boys from yesteryear – but on the wireless. In the style of publications such as the Boys’ […]
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We’ve all seen the patrol cars perched on the A-roads and motorways of Wales – what do their occupants chat about while they wait to right wrongs and pounce on offending motorists? In this new comedy series we’re eavesdropping on the antics of North Wales Traffic Police.
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Caretaker Bob Braithwaite spies on all the goings on below, from the top of Blackpool Tower. he observes Clinton J Beesley – self-proclaimed ‘King Of The Weddings’ and proprietor of ‘Nuptial World’ – everything from a cufflink to a Daimler – who is hosting a dinner for his 25th wedding anniversary. Unfortunately after one too […]
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All the bees are dead. And we love it! Britons revel in sting-less, insect-free summers. But soon all the honey vanishes and instantly becomes the must-have accoutrement for rappers and grime artists. With no pollination, all fruits and vegetables vanish and a panicked government tries to find bees in North Korea and, confusingly, space. Can […]
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Meet a masseuse who likes to ensure her clients are relaxed and a cleaning lady who knows her place Tim Vincent’s Mum checks into a hotel – and all the way from Las Vegas, Candi Karmel the 80-year-old diva who can’t stop performing. Meet Daisy, the chattering public school girl’s, parents and find out why […]
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Impression and sketch show starring Lewis Macleod with Kate O’Sullivan, Duncan Wisbey and Julian Dutton. The impression and sketch show that looks behind the scenes at the life and work of star impressionist Lewis Macleod. Lewis has performed on BBC Radio 4 Extra’s Newsjack, plus Postman Pat, The Phantom Menace and Dead Ringers.
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Sherlock Holmes has never been able to resist a challenge so when Karl Marx turns up asking him to find his ‘kidnapped’ revolutionary tract Das Kapital, he agrees. But, as Holmes discovers, Marx has enemies at home and abroad. The great detective gets caught up in the crossfire between communists, anarchists and the British Establishment. […]
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Growing up surrounded by gangsters and a dysfunctional family, this is the story of Ashley – a tall comedian who loves William Shatner and hates textured fabrics. Glasgow’s nightlife in the early 1980s was still flying the flag for disco, bell bottoms and oversized lapels, and it was outside the local club in Shettleston where […]
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Richard Quick’s adaptation of his own novel about a man who installs a bug in his own telephone and ends up knowing more than he really wanted to. Stars Hwyel Bennett. Simon suspects his wife of having an affair and borrows some bugging equipment for his own telephone. However, he finds out more than he […]
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A BBC Radio double bill of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s award-winning drama about a group of 18th-century Australian convicts and their attempts to stage a play, plus the Restoration comedy that the prisoners put on. Australia, 1789: A young lieutenant attempts to direct a cast of convicts in the first play ever to be staged in the […]
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Early 1950s: Poppy is the junior reporter on the Downingham Post, where it’s always her turn to make the tea. She takes lodgings with the formidable Mrs Goff and discovers something sinister under the bed… Semi-autobiographical story by Monica Dickens, first published in 1951. Starring Alice Hart and Keith Barron. First broadcast on BBC Radio […]
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David Jason stars alongside John Bird, Jan Ravens and Rory Bremner in David Renwick’s dark and quirky comedy sketch show that takes a not-altogether-factual look at the history of comedy…. What comedy sketches would you most want at your side to face the end of the world? In the opening episode, interviewer JP Doom interviews […]
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Starring Sheila Hancock (Series 1) and Marcia Warren (Series 2-4) as Hetty, All Those Women is a comedy series about four women living under the same roof. All Those Women explores familial relationships, ageing, marriages – it’s about life and love and things not turning out quite the way that you’d expected them to. Here […]
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Dudley and Harry end up at the mercy of a devious criminal. Stars Peter Jones as Dudley, Harry Worth as Harry and Irene Handl as Granny. With Paddy Edwards, Wallas Eaton and John Graham. Peter Jones is small-time businessman, Dudley Grosvenor who’s always out to make a fast buck – usually at the expense of […]
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By Mike Walker. Starring Patrick Baladi and Sirine Saba. Cosimo de’ Medici inherits his father’s bank. Through shrewd trade and business innovation he becomes the richest man in Europe and a great patron of the Arts, but will Albizzi and the ruling families of Florence ever accept him as an equal? Young Lorenzo is more […]
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1987 sitcom about a group of 1950s builders
Demobbed Old Ned heads south after the war and joins a special construction team.
Six anarchic tales from those demob days “when we was going to build the new Jerusalem – you know, before the world turned lax and sour”.
Written by Ted Walker.
Narrated by Bernard Cribbins.
Episode List* 01 – Transport And Delight * 02 – The French Connection * 03 – On The Line * 04 – Up The Pole * 05 – Boning Up On History * 06 – The Old Dunkirk Spirit The post Big Jim and the Figaro Club appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The struggles of a Dublin theatrical costumier. Classic comedy from 1998, with Doreen Keogh.
A rundown Dublin theatrical costumier is struggling to come to terms with modern working practices.
When an order comes in from a local nun’s drama group, it leads to a mix-up with the Gaiety Theatre’s opera production.
The Dublin Theatrical Costumiers are asked to dress a British Embassy pageant, only to become embroiled in an unfortunate scandal…
The Dublin theatrical costumiers get embroiled in rivalry between two Lancashire clog troupes.
The Dublin theatrical costumiers dress a medieval banquet in a ghostly castle.
Great excitement when the Dublin Theatrical costumiers provide the uniforms for an American film company.
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Narrated By Tim Treloar, Jamie Glover, Clare Corbett, Dan Starkey, Jon Culshaw, Louise Jameson, Maureen O’Brien
A multi-voice retelling of historical events featuring the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki.
The TARDIS crewmembers have taken a break from their adventures and are enjoying a well-deserved rest in a luxury villa.
But, in the gory grandeur that is Imperial Rome, things don’t stay quiet for long. If the time travellers can save themselves from being sold as slaves, assassinated by classical hit-men, poisoned by the evil Locusta, thrown to the lions, maimed in the arena and drowned in a shipwreck, they still have to face the diabolical might of the mad Emperor Nero.
As if that wasn’t enough, they also discover that, although Rome wasn’t built in a day, it burnt down in considerably less time…
Episode List* 01 – Opening Credits * 02 – Prologue * 03 – Chapter One First Extract from the Journal of Ian Chesterton * 04 – Chapter Two First Extract from the Doctor’s Diary * 05 – Chapter Three First Letter from Legionary (Second Class) Ascaris * 06 – Chapter Four Second Extract from the Doctor’s Diary * 07 – Chapter Five Second Extract from the Journal of Ian Chesterton * 08 – Chapter Six Second Letter from Legionary (Second Class) Ascaris * 09 – Chapter Seven Third Extract from the Doctor’s Diary * 10 – Chapter Eight Third Letter from Legionary (Second Class) Ascaris * 11 – Chapter Nine Third Extract from the Journal of Ian Chesterton * 12 – Chapter Ten Fourth Extract from the Doctor’s Diary * 13 – Chapter Eleven First Extract from the Commonplace Book of Poppea Sabina * 14 – Chapter Twelve Fourth Extract from the Journal of Ian Chesterton * 15 – Chapter Thirteen First Selection of jottings from Nero’s Scrapbook * 16 – Chapter Fourteen Fourth Letter from Legionary (Second Class) Ascaris * 17 – Chapter Fifteen Fifth Extract from the Doctor’s Diary * 18 – Chapter Sixteen Fifth Extract from the Journal of Ian Chesterton * 19 – Chapter Seventeen Second Extract from the Commonplace Book of Poppea Sabina * 20 – Chapter Eighteen A Poisoner Remembers * 21 – Chapter Nineteen Letter from Barbara Wright * 22 – Chapter Twenty Second Selection of Jottings from Nero’s Scrapbook * 23 – Chapter Twenty-One Sixth Extract from the Journal of Ian Chesterton * 24 – Chapter Twenty-Two Third Extract from the Commonplace Book of Poppea Sabina * 25 – Chapter Twenty-Three Fifth Letter from Legionary (Second Class) Ascaris * 26 – Chapter Twenty-Four Sixth Extract from the Doctor’s Diary * 27 – Chapter Twenty-Five Seventh Extract from the Journal of Ian Chesterton * 28 – Chapter Twenty-Six Seventh Extract from the Doctor’s Diary * 29 – Chapter Twenty-Seven Sixth Letter from Legionary (Second Class) Ascaris * 30 – Chapter Twenty-Eight Third Selection of Jottings from Nero’s Scrapbook * 31 – Chapter Twenty-Nine Eighth Extract from the Doctor’s Diary * 32 – Epilogue The post Doctor Who – The Romans appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Kayvan Novak imagines what it might be like to hear the answerphone messages of the rich and famous
An entirely fictitious comedy show written, improvised and starring Kayvan Novak.
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Maureen O’Brien reads an action-packed original adventure for the Twelfth Doctor, as played on TV by Peter Capaldi.
When Professor Irene Hyde’s Monday morning lecture at St Luke’s University is rudely interrupted by a man named the Doctor, it’s the beginning of an adventure she could never have dreamt possible.
Soon they are hurtling backwards in time to 1806, where the crew of the trading ship Favorite, led by the ‘Ice King’ himself, Frederic Tudor, are being picked off, one by one, by a hideous monster that lurks in the shadows.
A head frozen in ice provides a further complication to matters, as the robotic Nekkre awakes determined to vanquish all-comers. With the Doctor seriously weakened, Irene must tap into hidden reserves of courage if they are to have any hope of returning to 21st Century England…
Maureen O’Brien, who played the Doctor’s companion Vicki in the BBC TV series, reads Niel Bushnell’s thrilling original tale.
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Dark comedy set in the BBC during the 1930s. Starring Robert Bathurst.
It’s back to the 1930s at the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London.
Head of programmes, John Tharb and his assistant, Mabel Hopcraft struggle to deal with the foibles and fragile egos of radio’s biggest stars.
These include perpetually drunk band-leader, Ronaldo and the most boring man in radio, Mallard Tofts.
Tharb’s task is not made any easier by having to constantly defer to the whims and wishes of his irascible boss, Lord Reith.
First radio sitcom written by Channel 4’s Father Ted writer, Arthur Mathews.
Starimg Robert Bathurst.
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Lloydie returns after years of travel to find best mate Johnno still living in their old flat.
But their former gang has disbanded and times have changed. Worse still, the sins of the past are about to catch up with them.
Comedy drama series about two Australians down on their luck in London.
Written by and starring Will Adamsdale and Stewart Wright.
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In one version of his life, Justin is a well-known local Manchester radio DJ who is successful, funny, and stopped in the street by adoring fans. He’s the man who has everything.
In another version he’s a DJ in a slightly shabby local radio station who gets hassled by the occasional oddball on the street. And he’s the man who hopes for everything. The truth lies somewhere in between.
And at home?
Well, naturally, his private life is chaotic. His wife has left him, taking custody of his 8-year-old son Justin Junior and is in the process of taking him to the cleaners. So he’s back on the market. As is his house. So he’s currently living in his father-in-law’s spare room in Bury. The only person who understands him is his Gran, living in luxury in an old folk’s home in Warrington. Oh, and his producer Bryn but this might not be a good thing.
Despite all this mess, Justin always remains positive. Every new day is a new opportunity, “When life throws you lemons, make lemonade”.
Sitcom written by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser.
Episode List* S01E01 – Everyone Quite Likes Justin * S01E02 – Everyone Quite Likes Justin * S01E03 – Everyone Quite Likes Justin * S01E04 – Everyone Quite Likes Justin * S02E01 – Everyone Quite Likes Justin * S02E02 – Everyone Quite Likes Justin * S02E03 – Everyone Quite Likes Justin * S02E04 – Everyone Quite Likes Justin * S02E05 – Everyone Quite Likes Justin * S02E06 – Everyone Quite Likes Justin The post Everyone Quite Likes Justin appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A mother and daughter undertake a two week sponsored walk along The Thames Path to raise money for the dead father’s charity.
But the mother and father divorced nine years ago and he’d re-married, so relationships between them all have been strained. Things come to a head at any mention of the French Oak gable table that Ros and her now dead ex bought together in Camden. This has somehow ended up in the step-mother’s house, much to Ros’s annoyance: “I mean she sits at it! It’s my table and she sits at it.”
Comedy drama written by Katherine Jakeways.
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Richie Webb stars as performance shy cocktail pianist, Nigel Penny.
Nigel’s attempts to live his life in the background are thwarted by the surprise arrival of his entrepreneurial half-brother, Pav.
Pav hooks Nigel up with desperate wannabe singer Rachel and strong-arms the pair onto the books of his fledgling entertainment agency.
With a gig at a Carpenters-themed wedding on the horizon, Nigel has to contend not only with his job at an Italian Restaurant run by a probably-not-an-actual-Italian, but also with Pav’s mysterious new Ukrainian friend, Stan, and some disturbing news about his new musical partner.
Despite his protestations of sea-sickness, Pav books Nigel to accompany Rachel as the entertainment on a floating barge at an event hosted by Belinda, an old acquaintance of Nigel’s.
Meanwhile Stan is yearning to return to his homeland.
Richie Webb stars as shy cocktail pianist Nigel Penny.
Episode List* S01E01 – We’ve Only Just Begun * S01E02 – Rock the Boat * S02E01 – Football’s Coming Home * S02E02 – O Little Town of Letchington * S02E03 – Just Say No * S02E04 – Leaving On A Jet Plane The post Mr Muzak appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Sketch show from the writer of Radio 4’s Cabin Pressure and regular guest on The Now Show, John Finnemore, with Carrie Quinlan, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Lawry Lewin and Simon Kane
‘One of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite some time’ The Guardian
John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme has won a host of awards, including the 2015 BBC Audio Drama Award for ‘Best Scripted Comedy with Live Audience’. Written by and starring John Finnemore, this fifth series of the hit show returns with more witty wordplay and laugh-out-loud sketches.
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Radio sitcom written by and starring Susan Calman, about two sisters who have nothing in common except living together. Also features Ashley Jensen, Nick Helm, Nico Tatarowicz, Ellie White and Cariad Lloyd
Susan has hidden Fiona’s work phone, in a bid to encourage a healthier work-life balance. But Fiona declares Susan a hypocrite due to her own constant internet use and online gaming. Each sister thinks the other is completely addicted so they set themselves a challenge to go without their devices for 24 hours.
In the empty hours that lie ahead, the pair try to find ways to occupy themselves but inevitably end up getting increasingly irate with one another.
As they try to stave off the building frustration, Susan makes a rash decision, while Blake’s attempts to hijack the neighbours’ Wi-Fi don’t end well.
Episode List* S01E01 – No Wi-Fi * S01E02 – Lazy Susan * S01E03 – No Friends * S01E04 – Wedding Anniversary * S02E01 – Blackout * S02E02 – Love, Love, Love * S02E03 – Road Trip * S02E04 – Oh Brother The post Sisters appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Les Kelly hosts a magazine show from hell.
Les is a cross between Jeremy Kyle and a slap in the face. He claims this is the only radio show for ‘normal, decent people’. ‘If you aren’t decent, this is not the show for you,’ says Les.
Les meets a father whose daughter needs a new kidney. Well, perhaps ‘need’ isn’t quite the right word. She just wants one more kidney than all her friends.
Les also meets an expert on sanglanding. It’s the dangerous new craze amongst young people – trouble is, no on knows what it is.
Les is meeting Britain’s first firm of emergency yodelers, a woman whose claim to fame is that she can walk backwards, and a man with such an embarrassing medical condition that Les refuses to have him on the show.
Les asks whether able bodied people should have the same rights as the disabled when it comes to having mobility scooters, guide dogs and hearing aides?
And meet the preacher whose religious education lessons involves twisting balloons into the shape of Moses and Jesus, and a woman with an obsessive hatred of Belgians.
He claims this is the only radio show for ‘normal, decent people’. ‘If you aren’t normal or decent, this is not the show for you,’ says Les.
Coming up, Les talks to Britain’s only male nun, a man who only speaks using sound effects – and answers the question: what is the world coming to?
Kevin Bishop stars as Les Kelly.
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Nina Stibbe’s comic novel set in 1970s Leicestershire about the madcap schemes of three kids to cheer up their recently divorced mum Elizabeth.
Struggling to cope, she’s taken to drinking and compulsive playwriting – neither of which impresses villagers already deeply suspicious of an attractive divorcee. Top of their list is to find her a new man in the hope that it will appease the hostile locals.
Adapted in four-parts by Amanda Whittington.
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Comedy series by Hilary Lyon set in an Edinburgh cafe
Arty Trisha and sensible sister Clare open their new Edinburgh cafe together. Polish chef, Krzysztof, and uninvited waitress, Lizzie, both help and hinder – but will they all even get through Day 1?
Hilary Lyon’s series sees erstwhile free spirit Trisha (played by Julie Graham) return to her native city of Edinburgh after years of living in London. Trisha, a generally relaxed and positive art teacher is coping with not only unexpectedly losing her job, but also trying to repair her bruised heart. Nonetheless, she arrives at Waverley Station enthusiastic and eager for the next chapter of her life to begin. Trisha’s solvent big sister Clare (played by Hilary Lyon) is a non-practising qualified accountant, has been married for years, has two spoiled teenage children and has probably spent too much time on the school PTA. Clare struggles with a tendency towards suburban snobbery and an obsessive need to control but happily facilitates the opening of ‘Cafe Culture’ in leafy Bruntsfield, which marks the beginning of a whole new era for both sisters.
Throw in temperamental opera-loving Polish chef, Krzysztof (Simon Greenall) and a strangely forward teenage customer, Lizzie (Pearl Appleby), and you have the perfect recipe for volatile relationship tension, a lot of laughs and a few secrets for good measure.
Episode List* S01E01 – In The Beginning * S01E02 – Growing Pains * S01E03 – Spring Awakening. * S01E04 – Heart Failures * S01E05 – A Paler Shade Of white * S01E06 – Oh God It’s Christmas * S02E01 – All Change * S02E02 – Off Piste * S02E03 – Strictly Christmas * S02E04 – Burns and a’ That * S02E05 – Home and Away * S02E06 – The Plans The Thing The post Secrets And Lattes appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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There’s a surprise in store for chairman, Alice at the Annual General Meeting of the Ladies’ Evening Guild, in the northern English town of Cloughbottom.
Keith Parry’s sitcom about the comic mishaps of the Cloughbottom Ladies’ Evening Guild.
Starring Sheila Hancock as Alice Foster, Pat Coombs as Phyllis Middleton, Avis Bunnage as Mrs Fothergill and Clovissa Newcombe as Ethel and Peggy.
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Celebrations – A vain, ambitious black woman dreams of becoming a chat-show queen.
Cut – Emerald Green’s illusions of glamour and fame are shattered when she meets her TV producer.
Face Value – The show has failed to deliver, but Emerald’s too desperate to give up so easily. Her feathers are ruffled when a bright and talented intern arrives.
All For One – Will Emerald Green’s ego be able to deal with the ambitious plans of new girl, Tanesha?
Starring Llewella Gideon. Lisselle Kayla’s 4-part sitcom. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.
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From Liam Williams, a two-time Edinburgh Festival Award Nominated comedian, comes a rich storytelling series about Liam’s teenage misadventures in the Yorkshire suburbs.
The first series delves into Liam’s memories of his first fight, virginity loss, the best house party ever organised, and his marvellous outwitting of an entire teaching staff. This is the New Labour, post-mining, aspirational heartland, meeting 50 Cent and Generation Y ennui, represented in a bourgeois radio format – by one of Britain’s most exciting comedians.
Series two sees Liam anxiously awaiting A-Level results before trying to find his feet in a most alien of new environments, Cambridge University. There, he searches for hedonism, torn between the laddish drinking societies and the artsy intelligentsia of Cambridge University.
Liam Williams is a critically acclaimed comedian, known for his wry poetic presentation style. He was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2013 Edinburgh Fridge Comedy Awards, and for Best Show at the 2014 awards. He has appeared as a guest stand up on Russell Howard’s Good News, and on Channel 4’s Drunk History. His successful mockumentary series on BBC Three in 2017 was called Pls Like, about a man trying to become a YouTube star.
The series was recorded in Leeds and stars teens from Yorkshire as the young Liam and his mates. Ladhood received a commendation for Best Scripted Comedy at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2018.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Fight * S01E02 – The First Time * S01E03 – Truants * S01E04 – House Party * S02E01 – Ladhood * S02E02 – Ladhood * S02E03 – Ladhood * S02E04 – Ladhood The post Ladhood – Liam Williams appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Slimline sitcom about fighting the flab. Stars Michael Troughton.
Graham joins the members of a slimming club run by Wendy Bottomley.
Graham becomes Tina Tattersall’s escort for the night in a bid to make her errant husband jealous – and the rest of the slimming club have some surprising news.
A TV star turns up at Wendy Bottomley’s slimming club and Graham unwisely divulges his secret to Lee…
Will Graham be the next Blue Peter presenter and why did Tina’s husband leave her?
It’s Kelly’s wedding day and the rest of the slimming club rally round to give her a day she’ll never forget – though she may want to…
Jenny McDade’s high-fat bittersweet five-part comedy – for those believing there’s a thin person inside them begging to get out.
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Rudyard Kipling’s timeless story re-imagined as a gangland coming-of-age fable.
In this radical radio reboot, Kipling’s family classic is given a darker twist and reimagined in the concrete jungle of present-day India.
Born in a tenement block in Mumbai, orphan boy Mowgli is brought up by the Wolves, a gang of tough, streetwise petty criminals, and quickly learns how to survive in that world. But when the villainous politician Tiger Khan threatens his life, two residents of the block, the ‘black panther’ Bagheera and the ‘bear’ Baloo, offer to help him escape.
Leaving behind the only home he’s ever known, Mowgli embarks on a journey of self-discovery through the city, meeting ‘creatures’ along the way who don’t always have his best interests at heart….
Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon, whose radio version of Midnight’s Children won Best Adaptation at the 2018 Audio Drama Awards, this stunning audio retelling features Namit Das (A Suitable Boy) as Mo, with Bollywood stars Rajit Kapur and Shernaz Patel as Tiger Khan and Mrs Gupta.
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David Soul (‘Starsky and Hutch’) narrates and Simon Day (‘The Fast Show’) stars in this fantastical BBC Radio 4 comedy series looking at the most entertaining apocalypses on parallel Earths. Originally broadcast from 15 December 2010 – 19 January 2011.We all worry about the end of the world, as economists and environmentalists speak in apocalyptic terms every day.
iGod says that trying to predict the end of the world is as pointless as moisturising an elephant’s elbow. In each episode, an unnamed, all-seeing narrator (David Soul) shows us that it is stupid to be worrying, as he looks back at some of the most entertaining apocalypses on parallel Earths. Each week our case study is a normal bloke called Ian (Simon Day) who manages to accidentally initiate the apocalypse of a different parallel world through a seemingly harmless single act (telling a lie, being lazy, cooking some lamb shanks).
A succession of comic vignettes ensue that escalate to the end of a parallel world. With a full-range of sound effects and wonderfully funny and surreal twists, ‘iGod’ is a highly original aural extravaganza. Written by Sean Gray, one of the head writers of the BAFTA award-winning ‘The Thick of It’, and produced by Simon Nicholls (‘Ed Reardon’s Week’, ‘News at Bedtime’), ‘iGod’ stars Simon Day, David Soul, Rosie Cavaliero, Alex MacQueen and Dan Tetsell.
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Rock musicologist and part-time media studies tutor, Brian Appleton attempts to assert his rightful place in the music history books.
Brian charts the beginnings of his influence on the rock world when, as a young boy, he met apprentice gravedigger Rod Stewart in London’s Highgate cemetery.
With the help of a maggot, Brian gave Rod the idea for his hit Maggie May…
Six-part comedy series of lectures, written and performed by Graham Fellows.
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BBC radio comedy from 2014
The Comedians Theatre Company and Radio Drama combine forces to bring you four black comedies about making the best of a bad situation.
The episodes were written by Dave Florez, Alan Francis, Richard Turner, Stephen Keyworth and Matthew Osborn.
Shock Jock
DJ Asif has dragged Barry out of his room to act as on air ‘posse’ in his Lake Vista Care Home radio show.
But can Barry and Asif hold it together in the cupboard next to the vending machine, and make the kind of radio magic which will propel Asif all the way to a photocopying placement with Chris Evans?
Eking It
After losing his job in urban planning, Matt’s been eking out the last of his money.
Luckily for him, his ex-partner has a stable job and is still fond of him. Possibly.
The Last Minutes
Daisy Haggard stars as Debra, a Crisis Branding Consultant brought in during a major boardroom crisis, with only minutes to manage how the truth comes out.
And what that truth is, exactly…
Ceredigion or Bust
Anouska and Michael crave the simple life, and are willing to pay for it. So Barry and Gwen do their best to oblige. And so do the Druids.
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Dorothy and Edward Atkinson are Sidcup’s premier warring couple with a marriage to challenge even the most determined of counsellors.
Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden star in Barry Pilton’s marital mayhem sitcom.
With Alison Steadman and Bill Wallis.
After notching up multiple BBC radio series together of ‘Beyond Our Ken’ and ‘Round The Horne’ – most memorably as ageing juvenile Binkie Huckaback and Dame Celia Molestrangler – Hugh and Betty were reunited on-air, almost a decade later in ‘The 27 Year Itch’.
Episode List* 01 – All Play and No Work Makes Jill an Unemployment Statistic * 02 – You’re Never Too Old to Stay at Home * 03 – Expanding the Mind * 04 – A Pill a Day Keeps the Doctor at Work * 05 – The 28th Anniversary The post The 27-Year Itch appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Surreal comedy starring John Hegley and Simon Munnery
The two friends head off on a surreal camping trip, with Herman Hessian – a dog made out of an old potato sack, four comic journeys written by John Hegley in which John and his best mate Tony search for happiness, love, the meaning of life … and glasses.
Starring John Hegley, Simon Munnery, Terry Malloy, Sunny Ormonde and John Korne.
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comedian Helen Lederer reveals her recipes for coping with life.
From moving house, using alternative therapies to finding a suitable partner and hosting a dinner party, Helen looks to give you the perfect guide.
Comedian, writer and actress Helen Lederer was born in Wales to an English mother and a Czech father. Her career in stand-up comedy started at London’s famous Comedy Store, as part of the early 80s comedians including French & Saunders, Rik Mayall, Ade Edmonson and Harry Enfield.
With Nigel Carrington, Malcolm Raburn, Sandra Maitland and Barbara Dryhurst.
- The Body Beautiful – Helen Lederer reveals her recipes for coping with life, beginning with losing weight.
- The New Home – Helen Lederer tackles another stress-filled event – moving home.
- Relationships – Helen Lederer decides she needs man in her life.
- The Dinner Party – Cookbook and bottle in hand, Helen Lederer nervously prepares a supper party.
- The Holiday – It’s something longed for, but will Helen Lederer actually enjoy going on holiday?
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Dad’s Army star Clive Dunn looks back over his eventful showbiz career
Don’t panic! Memories of Dad’s Army star Clive Dunn, who played Lance-Corporal Jack Jones for nearly a decade on TV, radio and film between 1968 to 1977.
Recalling highlights from his first 50 years in entertainment, Clive begins with his early years on tour with his mother in musical halls.
Clive was aged 68 at the time of recording. He died in Portugal in 2012, aged 92.
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How does the family of Fulton Jones cope when he reappears after walking out 20 years before?
As suddenly as he disappeared, Fulton Jones returns to his family – wife Margaret and children Rosie and Martin. He went to the newsagent to buy matches 20 years before and, bold as brass, waltzes back assuming his role as father figure once more. Margaret is perplexed, whilst Rosie and Martin are furious!
1 The Family Gathering – Fulton Jones alarms his wife and children when he returns after a 20-year absence.
2 Old Habits – Fulton Jones resumes his old ways after a 20-year family absence. Stars Robin Bailey.
3 Enter the Airship – Fulton meets daughter-in-law, Cyrilla, for the first time. How will they get on?
4 Courage, Mother, Courage – Margaret plans to infuriate husband Fulton by revealing she’s taken a lover.
5 Doctor Thumper and the Incredibly Inky Ruler – Fulton discloses the facts behind his long absence, and where he’s been.
6 Poling Off – Fulton and Margaret prepare to rededicate their vows.
First Broadcast in 1980
Episode List* 01 – The Family Gathering * 02 – Old Habits * 03 – Enter the Airship * 04 – Courage, Mother, Courage * 05 – Doctor Thumper and the Incredibly Inky Ruler * 06 – Poling Off The post Home Again appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Imagine if London’s genteel literary scene had a bit more swag and a gangsta’s lean. You’ve just imagined The Literary Adventures of Mr. Brown.
With the help of his naively affable intern, Charlie, the heroic, absurd and frankly bad-ass Kurtis Brown fights for his clients in London’s entertainment industry.
When you need your fights fought and your books bought, who are you going to call? The best damn literary agent in the world, Kurtis Brown. He’ll solve all your problems…for 15%.
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Four comedies written for the many voices of June Whitfield
Starring June Whitfield.
Series of comedies by Andy Merriman and Peter Morfoot written for the legendary actress.
Spray the Grass Green
It’s 1939 and Lana Garfield is a fading Hollywood star. Contracted to Tantamount Pictures run by the notoriously difficult and womanising studio head, Al Seltzer. Miss Garfield is writing her autobiography with the assistance of British ghost writer, George Creighton.
But she’s shocked when her radio reveals Al intends to axe her contract. George and his ex-pat cronies take time off from their cocktails and cricket matches to collude with Al’s ambitious and glamorous assistant Betty Stevens in exacting an appropriate revenge.
Lost and Found
Retired politician Kate Whittington has agreed to take part in TV reality show ‘Lolly in the Loft’.
Now You See Me, Now You Don’t
There’s skulduggery afoot in Mrs. Ramsbottom’s safe house for refugees from the Sorcerers’ Circle.
Shangri-La
Romance in a council beach hut is alive and well but perhaps a little cramped for our elderly couple.
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Glimpses of a city after dark with Paul Merton, Julian Clary, Richard Wilson and Liz Smith.
Bleak, funny, sultry, bitter, poignant – the first of a four-part series of brief visits to a city, late at night.
- From Tangoing to Keeping Watch – Tango dancers and DJs – bleak, funny and confusing tales of urban life after dark.
- From Grieving to Cross-Dressing – Cross-dressing and grief – bleak, funny and confusing tales of urban life after dark.
- From Dating to Mothering – Dodgy advice on-air and a restless baby – funny, confusing tales of urban life after dark.
- From Travelling to Telephoning – Midwife tales, and a man thinks about picking up the phone.
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Justin Edwards, Mel Giedroyc and Dave Mounfield, along with special guests, present sketches and musical comedy
World’s End on Sea – Justin Edwards, Mel Giedroyc and Dave Mounfield have been invited by the Mayor of seaside town World’s End on Sea to perform a hair raising tribute to Houdini. Justin’s invited the “nicest woman in showbiz”, Rebecca Front, to join them. But he’s unaware of history between Mel and Rebecca, dating back to them appearing on Celebrity Supermarket Sweep. It turns out that Justin also doesn’t know much about Houdini – believing him to be an Italian woman. Luckily Dave, fearing the show may be a disaster causing him to miss out on the free lighter promised by the Mayor, is on hand to rewrite the play. Mel persuades Rebecca to perform a radio first, a recreation of one of Houdini’s most daring stunts. But will the truth of what really happened on Supermarket Sweep ever be revealed? Will the show restore the fortunes of the once fashionable seaside town? Will Dave get his free lighter?
Great Hillston – The Rum Bunch have been invited by the parishioners of the sleepy rural idyll of Great Hillston-Near-Water – birthplace of the Jacobean playwright Lydia Le Provost – to perform her most famous play, The Murderous Priest. Justin has invited the showbiz legend and serious actress, Jane Asher, to take the leading role. It’s been her lifetime ambition to perform the play’s famous death scene.
Clenton – Justin Edwards, Mel Giedroyc and Dave Mounfield are in the fictional town of Clenton to perform a poorly researched re-enactment of the life of Annie Oakley, the gun toting legend of the Wild West. Due to Mel’s terrible American accent, Justin has asked Clare Grogan to take on the main role – much to Mel’s annoyance. Meanwhile Dave is trying to boost the sales of his homemade fish paste by getting a celebrity endorsement. Things take a turn for the worse after Clare, inspired by her criminal alter ego, goes off script. Will Mel ride to her old friends’ rescue? Will they be able to understand what she says if she does
Grissock – Justin Edwards, Mel Giedroyc and Dave Mounfield are in the mining town of Grissock to tell the story of talc through the ages, using songs, sketches and powerful verbatim theatre. Justin has actually done some research for this week’s play, interviewing some miners in the social club and writing down what they said to him. Sadly ,not all of it was relevant. The band go on strike and special guest Vicki Pepperdine launches a coup. Is this the end for Rum Bunch. The Rum Bunch is Justin Edwards (The Consultants, The Odd Half Hour, Newsjack, Sorry I’ve Got No Head, The Thick of It), Mel Giedroyc (Mel and Sue, Bake Off, Let It Shine) and Dave Mounfield (Count Arthur Strong, This Is Jinsy).
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Comedy with brothers Rene, Carlo and Charlie Quando chop, snip and crimp their lucky clients into shape at London’s finest hair salon.
Six-part comedy written and performed by Rainer Hersch and Mark Maie.
Big Head – The Quando brothers’ hair salon is thrown into pandemonium when the President of Uruguay arrives for his annual trim. No one must mention his enormous head…
The Nits – The Quando brothers’ hair salon is inundated with children wanting their haircut before the start of the school-term. But one of them is accompanied by nits and the result is itchy mayhem…
Fishy Business – When the racketeering Fish Brothers pay the Quandos a visit, Carlo is in turmoil, Anthony is in Timbuktu and Charlie is in a world of his own.
Spies – Spies steal the Quando brothers’ secret formula – upsetting the delicate equilibrium that’s existed for so long between them and the Quandos.
Love and Marriage – The salon is offering special two-for-one cuts. Brides and grooms are queuing up for days in the hope of getting an appointment. A childhood sweetheart of Rene’s appears unexpectedly, hoping to rekindle their love.
The Christmas Rush – When the Christmas snipping gets out of hand and the salon clients get too crazy, Carlo decides he’s had enough. It’s time to do something about it…
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Roger’s a children’s author. His wife, Julia, is in hospital. Life is complicated.
Next Time I’ll Kiss Her – 1 Roger’s a children’s author. His wife, Julia, is in hospital. Life is rather complicated.
If The Truth Be Known – 2 Will children’s writer Roger be able to cope at home with his wife still in hospital?
Other People – 3 With Roger’s wife in hospital, can he cope with his Mother-in-law’s new ‘friend’, Otto?
I Should Have Had The Sausages – 4 Roger’s writing career is in jeopardy. Will his wife Julia ever come home from hospital?
Complications – 5 With his wife still in hospital and his publisher unhappy with him, can Roger cope?
Ouch – 6 Julia is due home for hospital, but will she be in time to save Roger from her mother?
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Lost Voice Guy (real name Lee Ridley) won the BBC Radio Stand-Up Comedy Award in 2014. He is a funny guy. He also has cerebral palsy and can only speak via a computer. Ability uses Lee’s experiences of coping with this disability and weaves them into a sitcom. It is based around Matt, who is leaving home for the first time to move in with Jess, his best friend from school. Matt’s parents are worried, particularly his dad – they have always done everything for him. But Matt is determined even though his new carer, Bob, is not all he should be. Bob is new to the role, and although willing, he somehow manages to spend more time dealing weed and flogging knocked off TVs than cooking Matt’s tea. But he treats Matt like an equal, and not all his previous carers have done that, and so the two form a bond. A bond that could lead Matt into an awful lot of trouble. Especially as Matt has never been above exploiting his circumstances if the situation arises – he’s always known he could get away with murder (although he’s never actually tried that of course.) But who would suspect the disabled guy? Could Matt and Bob become the new Del boy and Rodney? And if so, which is which?
Allan Mustafa plays Bob, Matt’s carer. Best know for People Just Do Nothing, which he also co-created, Allan has never actually acted in anyone else’s work. But he read this script and immediately got it. He loved the dark comedy and is indeed, the perfect Bob.
The sitcom is co-written by Sony nominated Katherine Jakeways and produced and directed by Jane Berthoud. Jane Berthoud says: “Katherine has brought her great expertise as a writer to this project, and always been careful to make sure Lee’s voice in it was clear. Together they make a great team and have turned out an excellent script – funny, fast moving and even a touch poignant at times. Allan Mustafa is the perfect Bob, the rest of the cast were also brilliant and I can see a great future for these characters.”
Lee says:”I’m really pleased with how Ability has turned out. I’ve had the idea behind this sitcom in my head for a few years now, so to finally get the chance to make it is an amazing feeling. Ever since winning the BBC New Comedy Award, the BBC have been very supportive and I’m lucky to have had the opportunity to work with some great people while writing this. It has been wonderful to hear my ideas come alive. Allan Mustafa is exactly how I imagined Bob to be.”.
Episode List* S01E00 – Ability (Pilot) * S01E01 – Matt attempts to get a girlfriend * S01E02 – Matt’s rubbish carer Bob is due for his first assessment. * S01E03 – Matt and Bob decide to see how far they can go – they attempt shoplifting. * S01E04 – Bob persuades Matt to be the voice of a sex bot. * S02E01 – Disability Exam * S02E02 – Doing a Runner * S02E03 – A Job for Matt * S02E04 – Weekend Away * S03E01 – Robot Hitler * S03E02 – VDP Experience * S03E03 – Ranting and Rating * S03E04 – Working 9 to 5 * S04E01 – Girlfriend with Benefits * S04E02 – Mi Casa Su Casa * S04E03 – Blood, Sweat and Dribble * S04E04 – Till Death Do Us Part The post Ability appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Two friends are thrown into a mad and mysterious world by wry narrator Diana. Stars June Whitfield, Matthew Bell and Toby Longworth.
Stowaways – Fed up narrating the lives of two men bickering on an allotment, mischievous Diana decides to shake their lives up…
A Whale of a Time – Bell and Todd are all at sea – and then a whale called George appears.
Princess – The narrator goes on strike, while Bell and Todd are get tied up….
The Magic Compass – Todd and Bell’s plan to revamp the royal croquet lawn upsets the Princess…
Stuck in a Swamp – Stuck in a swamp pretending to be frogs, Todd and Bell are still in danger. Mischievous narrator Diana is suffering too
Time for a Holiday – Diana really wants to get off on her holiday, but Bell and Todd are still in trouble.
Episode List* 01 – Stowaways * 02 – A Whale of a Time * 03 – Princess * 04 – The Magic Compass * 05 – Stuck in a Swamp * 06 – Time for a Holiday The post The (Almost) Accidental Adventures of Bell and Todd appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A paranormal cold case, re-investigated through a thrilling blend of drama and documentary. The true story of one of Britain’s strangest hauntings, with Dafne Keen and Toby Jones.
This series blends drama and documentary to explore an intriguing paranormal cold case. As we hear the original haunting brought to life, host Danny Robins begins his own present-day investigation – what really happened to terrify the Hitchings family 65 years ago?
Written and Presented by Danny Robins, starring Dafne Keen (His Dark Materials), Toby Jones (Detectorists), Burn Gorman (Torchwood) and Alice Lowe (Sightseers), with original theme music by Mercury-nominated Nadine Shah and Ben Hillier, this gripping 8-part series interweaves a chilling supernatural thriller set in 50s London with a fascinating modern-day investigation into Britain’s strangest ever haunting – a mystery unsolved… until now.
Episode List* 01 – 63 Wycliffe Road * 02 – Shirley * 03 – Interview with a Ghost * 04 – The Underground Exorcist * 05 – Strange Bones * 06 – Fright Night * 07 – Dead Letters * 08 – Darkness and Light * 09 – Introducing The Battersea Poltergeist * 10 – Case Update The Key * 11 – Case Update It Follows * 12 – Case Update A New Witness * 13 – Doubt and Wonder The post The Battersea Poltergeist appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The Battersea Poltergeist’s Danny Robins investigates chilling first-hand stories of paranormal encounters, from ghostly phantoms to sinister folklore and UFOs.
Appealing to believers and sceptics alike, the podcast is an expansive investigation into the paranormal, turning the listeners into armchair supernatural sleuths. Uncanny is hosted by award-winning writer and journalist Danny Robins, presenter of The Battersea Poltergeist and writer of West End hit stage play 2:22 – A Ghost Story, starring Lily Allen.
This gripping series explores 15 new cases, each one an individual story of a deeply strange encounter. Danny, a self-declared “sceptic who wants to believe”, investigates alongside a team of experts including paranormal psychology specialists Chris French, Ciaran O’Keefe and Evelyn Hollow. Taking a ‘true crime’ approach, Uncanny will hunt down answers by throwing open each case to the listeners, asking for questions, theories and accounts of the audience’s own experiences.
Episode List* 01 – Case 1 The Evil in Room 611 * 02 – Case 2 The Hanging Room * 03 – Case 3 The Todmorden UFO * 04 – Case 4 My Best Friend’s Ghost * 05 – Case 5 Return to Room 611 * 06 – Case 6 The Brooklyn Poltergeist * 07 – Case 7 The Angel in the Bathroom * 08 – Case 8 The UFO in the Playground * 09 – Case 9 I Will Kill You All * 10 – Case 10 Don’t Sleep in this House * 11 – Case 11 The Curse of Luibeilt * 12 – Case 12 Fatal Collision * 13 – Case 13 The Return of Elizabeth Dacre * 14 – Case 14 The Haunting of Tanfield House * 15 – Case 15 Bloody Hell Ken * 16 – Summer Special Part 1 Canadian Horror Story * 17 – Summer Special Part 2 The Room Next Door * 18 – Summer Special Part 3 Uncanny Live * 19 – Christmas Special * 20 – Uncanny Live with Mark Gatiss * 21 – Uncanny Meets Ghosts The post Uncanny appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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By the end of 1918, the German people are starving and revolution is in the air. A 29-year-old army corporal is sent to report on fringe political parties in Munich. His name is Adolf Hitler and so begins the political ascent of the National Socialist Party.
Nazis: The Road to Power recreates this story and the forgotten players from these early years – the army captain who orders Hitler to join the German Workers Party, the millionairess who plays the role of surrogate mother, the Harvard-educated American who becomes Hitler’s court jester.
Nobody imagines the Nazi Party will ever take power – it requires a chain of hugely unpredictable events. This new 8-part series dramatizes these moments, re-creating the intrigues, the knife-edge decisions which would ultimately lead to 40 million dead in the world’s greatest catastrophe.
Even before the Armistice is signed, Germany is collapsing. The army is in retreat and the Kaiser has smuggled himself into exile. In Munich, there is revolution – a bloodless uprising led by poets and playwrights. And keeping his head down during all this is a lonely soldier recently discharged from hospital – Corporal Hitler is appalled to see Munich overrun by freethinkers, by liberalism, by women!
Once the revolution is crushed, Army Intelligence looks around for soldiers who might be able to influence their comrades, steer them away from all this Bolshevik nonsense. And that’s how Corporal Adolf Hitler starts making speeches – it turns out he has quite a talent for it.
Starring Toby Stephens as Captain Mayr, Tom Mothersdale as Adolf Hitler and featuring Forbes Masson as Thomas Mann and Jack Laskey as Anton Drexler, founding Chairman of the German Workers Party.
Episode List* 01 – Long Live the Soviet Republic of Bavaria! * 02 – I Can Speak * 03 – My Little Wolf * 04 – My Word is My Pledge * 05 – The Enemy is on the Left, The Danger is on the Right * 06 – The National Dictatorship is Here! * 07 – Write the Bitterness Out of Your Soul * 08 – The Big Lie * 09 – National Socialist or Social Nationalist * 10 – The Little Man * 11 – Germany is My Wife * 12 – Hitler Over Germany * 13 – Hitler Whatever Happened To Him * 14 – How Was the Venison * 15 – Forwards with God * 16 – Make Germany Great Again The post Nazis – The Road to Power appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Radio comedy set in an old peoples’ home
The show supplying the answers to questions you never asked. Stars Tom Mennard and Anthea Askey
How do you make a tool shed into a meal for five? What do you say to a human cannonball on your first date in mid-air? How do you apologise to someone you buried by mistake? Wrinkles supplies the answers to the questions you never asked.
Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor – the creators of Red Dwarf.
Episode List* S01E01 – Missing Shovel * S01E02 – Cleaning the Garden * S01E03 – Reading the Paper * S01E04 – Clay Pigeon Shooting * S01E05 – Empty Swimming Pool * S01E06 – Chopping Down A Tree * S02E01 – Mr P Can Seriously Damage Your Health * S02E02 – In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning * S02E03 – The Dog Who Laughed * S02E04 – Night and Day * S02E05 – Swept Away * S02E06 – Dear Lillian The post Wrinkles appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The full facts about the incident at Okefield Park and the strange following events may not be revealed for 30 years – when Government archives are opened to public scrutiny.
A seemingly innocent engagement for Prime Minister Jack Stoddart becomes perilous and politically volatile.
Will the strange repercussions of an incident at Okefield Park ever be revealed?
Starring Leslie Sands.
Six-part thriller written by Ted Willis – adapted from his own novel
Episode List* 01 – The Fortune Teller * 02 – Westminster One * 03 – The Anonymous Man * 04 – Breakthrough * 05 – Confession * 06 – Staccato The post Death May Surprise Us appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Cosmic comedy connections. A spoof documentary series that stretches the truth, narrated by Oliver Postgate
Links between cheese sculpture, pavement privatisation, skirting boards and the great knitting reform act.
Animator and voice of Bagpuss and the Clangers, Oliver Postgate island-hops through a stream of bizarre coincidences.
Ben Moor’s cosmic comedy of connections.
Episode List* 01 – The Babies * 02 – The Train * 03 – The Shape * 04 – The Zoo * 05 – The Objects * 06 – The Hair The post Elastic Planet appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Robin Herford and Tessa Peake-Jones star in Alan Ayckbourn’s award-winning trilogy: Table Manners, Living Together, and Round and Round the Garden.
When the deviously amorous Norman plans a clandestine weekend away with his sister-in-law, he has some fun and games in mind. But not quite the fun and games that he gets….
Ayckbourn’s trilogy has been hailed as a mould-breaking masterpiece. All three plays take place concurrently so an exit in one becomes an entrance in another and can be played in any order. The story of the same dreadful weekend is illuminated from three different vantage points: the dining room, the sitting room, and the garden.
With a distinguished cast, including Robin Herford as Norman and Tessa Peake-Jones as Sarah, The Norman Conquests is a brilliantly entertaining comedy of our time: wise and witty, funny and profound.
The Classic Radio Theatre range presents notable radio productions of much-loved plays by some of the most renowned playwrights, and starring some of our finest actors.
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Jonathan Coy stars as the much-married King in this unreliable Tudor history
From his tiny room at Hampton Court, the royal chronicler records the comings and goings of the King of England, his six Queens—and his six mothers-in-law. Introducing us to these redoubtable ladies, he relates the surprising part they played in the destiny of Henry VIII and his unfortunate wives.
We meet Catherine of Aragon’s duenna, Dona Elvira, whose introduction of paella, flamenco and bullfighting to his home leads Henry to seek his pleasures elsewhere; Lady Boleyn, whose gentleman admirer threatens danger for her daughter Anne; and Lady Margaret, whose attempt to overturn hundreds of years of tradition leads to a dramatic confrontation. There’s also meddling matriarch Mrs Loew, whose devious dealmaking costs Henry dear; good-time grandmother Duchess Agnes, who encourages Catherine Howard to play the field—and neglect her husband; and Catherine Parr’s mother, whose impact on the King’s court will be life-changing for Henry—and for his Chancellor, Thomas Cromwell…
Created by Barry Grossman (The Attractive Young Rabbi), this tongue-in-cheek historical spoof stars Jonathan Coy as King Henry VIII, with a star cast including Carla Mendonça, Lydia Leonard, Jasmine Hyde, Marcia Warren and Geoffrey McGivern.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII * S01E02 – The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII * S01E03 – The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII * S01E04 – The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII * S01E05 – The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII * S01E06 – The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII The post The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Set in 1939/40, the exploits of louche, upper-crust waster Basil Seal who manoeuvres his way around the outbreak of the Second World War, as well as the women in his life.
As the Second World War looms, louche, upper class loafer Basil Seal considers his role in the unfolding events.
Winter 1939. As war rages in Europe, upper class loafer Basil Seal finds a way of exploiting evacuees.
The Second World War isn’t turning out to be the opportunity that privileged loafer Basil expected it to be.
Evelyn Waugh’s sixth novel, first published in 1942.
The satire reprises characters found in previous novels such as ‘Decline and Fall’ and ‘Vile Bodies’
Episode List* 01 – Autumn * 02 – Winter * 03 – Spring The post Put Out More Flags appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A boy-shouldn’t-meet-girl screwball comedy in millennial London. Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they’re crazy, but it’s the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy’s at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time.
But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven’t met yet, they’re about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rule-book out the window.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary * S01E02 – The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary * S01E03 – The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary * S01E04 – The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary * S01E05 – The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary * S01E06 – The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary * S01E07 – The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary * S01E08 – The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary * S01E09 – The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary * S01E10 – The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary The post The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Sally and Bea are best friends in their late 30s – which means it’s crunch time. Frank and funny drama by E V Crowe.about female friendship in all its gruesome glory.
They meet whenever they can for coffee, but life – work, money, family – is in danger of pushing them apart.
Montserrat Lombard and Ophelia Lovibond star in this frank and funny exploration of female friendship in all its gruesome glory.
Episode List* S01E01 – PregNot Preg * S01E02 – Near Break Up * S01E03 – Chaos * S01E04 – Together * S01E05 – Oh No * S02E01 – Weird * S02E02 – Judgy * S02E03 – Cuddles * S02E04 – Last Time * S02E05 – Cancelled The post Cry Babies appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Roy Kinnear and Simon Cadell and star in this comedy about a squad within the police force
Superintendent Brabazon’s task is to investigate his superiors, using hand-picked police officers.
Unfortunately, the hand that picked them belongs to his boss – the Deputy Assistant Commissioner…
Episode List* 01 – Hand-Picked * 02 – The Devil * 03 – Fraud * 04 – The Purge * 05 – Invaders The post The Phenomenon Squad appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorised by aliens in tall, armoured capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs. The machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties, and survivors are driven underground. Scientist John Nicholson (Paul Daneman) tells how he was plunged into a paralysing nightmare of stark terror, savage madness and utter destruction. Martin Jarvis, Peter Sallis, and Anthony Jackson also feature in this thrilling six-part dramatisation of HG Wells’ book, first broadcast on Radio 4 in 1967.
Episode List* 01 – The Red Planet * 02 – The Heat Ray * 03 – The Fighting Machines * 04 – The Black Smoke * 05 – The Red Weed * 06 – The Bacillus The post HG Wells – The War of the Worlds appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Granny Kumar is back! Meera Syal’s glorious comedy creation returns, with great granddaughter Maya (Ambreen Razia) and arch nemesis Geeta (Harvey Virdi) to chat with the sisters.
Granny Kumar is back! Meera Syal’s glorious comedy creation, first seen on The Kumars At No. 42 returns in Gossip And Goddesses With Granny Kumar, with her great granddaughter Maya (Ambreen Razia) and arch nemesis ‘frenemy’ Geeta (Harvey Virdi) to chat with a host of fascinating female guests. Starting with Samira Ahmed & Thandie Newton, Granny Kumar also talks to women including Beverley Knight, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Anoushka Shankar, Konnie Huq, Mandip Gill and Anita Rani.
Episode List* S01E01 – Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar * S01E02 – Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar * S01E03 – Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar * S01E04 – Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar * S01E05 – Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar * S01E06 – Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar * S02E01 – Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar * S02E02 – Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar * S02E03 – Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar * S02E04 – Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar The post Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Written by multi award-winning writer Carl Gorham, creator of cult TV animation show “Stressed Eric”, the series explores what happens when two Jacobite soldiers from 1745 are found alive and well in a cave in Perthshire and have to be integrated into modern Scottish society by English academic Andrew Merron.
1 – Anthropologist Andrew Merron attempts to introduce two Jacobite soldiers to modern notions of Scottishness. This week, in pursuit of patriotism, he takes them to a tartan shop on the Royal Mile. There, a chance encounter with a key ring brings back memories of the golden days and unlocks a great well of nationalistic feeling. But when they attend a football World Cup qualifier with Scotland taking on the tiny Dickson Isles, it all turns horribly sour.
2 – Friction between the two Jacobite soldiers comes to a head and results in a bust-up with broadswords. This prompts anthropologist Andrew Merron to introduce them to the modern world of therapy. The two soldiers can’t agree who should have therapy first; they can’t even agree how they should decide who should have therapy first. It is only when they are forced to live separately, with a dreary cousin of Merron’s and his fussy Uncle that Rab and Macdonald start to realise each other’s true merits.
3 – This week in Carl Gorham’s culture clash comedy anthropologist Andrew Merron takes his two Jacobite soldiers from 1745 into the modern world of speed – dating. There, a super confident Macdonald fails spectacularly to attract anyone whilst a nervous Rab is mistaken for the strong silent type and overwhelmed with offers. With Rab already on a date, Merron manages to fix Macdonald up with someone via the internet then succeeds in arranging a special evening out for himself and long suffering wife Denise. But far from pleasing everyone, the three dates quickly prove a nightmare for all concerned.
4 – The last episode in the present series of Carl Gorham’s culture clash comedy. With his marriage under severe strain, Andrew Merron introduces the Jacobites to the world of television. He attempts to turn the radio show he is making into a TV series and is on the verge of a deal when the executive in charge accidentally insults the scots and they attack him with his own Bafta. A depressed Merron then finds his wife has left him and hits the bottle, introducing the men to the ways of modern self -pity. The picture looks hopeless till Merron finds help from an unlikely source.
Episode List* 01 – The Patriots * 02 – In Therapy * 03 – The Dating Game * 04 – On Television The post Very Old Pretenders appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Alan Ayckbourn’s award-winning comedy classic, with a glittering cast directed by Martin Jarvis. Written and set in 1975. Before mobile phones. Devastatingly funny – marriage, partnerships, differences.
Elderly Ernest and Delia in their bedroom. Worrying over son Trevor’s relationship with ‘complex’ wife Susannah. Fish on toast in bed is a comfort.
Nick and Jan’s bedroom. Jan was once ‘destroyer’ Trevor’s girlfriend.
Malcolm and Kate’s bedroom. Tonight it’s a cloakroom for their housewarming party. Trevor arrives. Then wife Susannah. Blazing row. Jan appears. Complications.
Nick and Jan’s. Back at home Jan tells jealous Nick she and Trevor had a mutual snog.
Ernest and Delia’s. Doorbell. It’s crazy daughter-in-law Susannah.
Nick and Jan’s. Trevor’s ringing their bell.
Kate and Malcolm’s. Awaiting Trevor’s return, to sleep over.
Anything but a typical bedroom farce – though we hear about a range of sexual troubles. Is marriage sustained more by habit than mutual excitement? Or is there a certain blessedness? Ayckbourn’s play is moving, observant – and hugely funny.
Episode List* 01 – Bedroom Farce * 02 – Bedroom Farce The post Bedroom Farce appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A fast-paced, globe-trotting family saga of power, revenge and karma.
High-stake deals and sibling rivalry set in the world of the super wealthy. Meet the Majumdars, a family at war… with itself. A new drama serial starring Rajit Kapur. Self-made billionaire, Ravi Majumdar, risks losing everything to defeat a man he once considered his friend and mentor, while his four children – Ash, Zara, Shaan and Maya – fight for their father’s affections and fortune.
A drama on a grand scale, played out like a Shakespearean tragedy.
Episode List* S01E01 – Takeover * S01E02 – Takeover * S01E03 – Takeover * S01E04 – Takeover * S02E01 – Takeover * S02E02 – Takeover * S02E03 – Takeover * S02E04 – Takeover The post Takeover appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Elis James hosts four stand-up shows from the four nations of the United Kingdom which explore what it means to be variously Welsh, English, Scottish and Northern Irish.
Wales – In this episode, star of BBC3’s Josh and Radio 4 News Quiz regular Elis James visits The Lyric theatre in his home town of Carmarthen where he is joined by Tudur Owen, Mike Bubbins and Kiri Pritchard-McLean to hear their thoughts on Wales and Welshness.
England – Star of BBC3’s Josh and Radio 4 News Quiz regular Elis James hosts four stand-up shows from the four nations of the United Kingdom which explore what it means to be variously Welsh, English, Scottish and Northern Irish in today’s United Kingdom.
This week Elis is in The Stand Comedy Club in Newcastle where he’s joined by Rahul Kohli, Suzi Ruffell and Tom Allen to get a comedy snapshot of England and Englishness.
Northern Ireland – Star of BBC3’s Josh and Radio 4 News Quiz regular Elis James hosts four stand-up shows from the four nations of the United Kingdom which explore what it means to be variously Welsh, English, Scottish and Northern Irish in today’s United Kingdom.
Scotland – Star of BBC3’s Josh and Radio 4 News Quiz regular Elis James hosts four stand-up shows from the four nations of the United Kingdom which explore what it means to be variously Welsh, English, Scottish and Northern Irish in today’s United Kingdom.
For the final programme in the series, Elis is at The Stand Comedy Club in Glasgow where he is joined by Jim Smith, Fern Brady and Scott Gibson.
Episode List* 01 – Wales * 02 – England * 03 – Northern Ireland * 04 – Scotland The post State of the Nations appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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David Baddiel attempts to unravel an array of life’s conundrums, as suggested by the public on Twitter. In each episode he speaks to experts and the general public to make sense of common, yet little understood, subjects and impart his new-found knowledge on each topic in under 15 minutes.
From the global economy to electricity, much loved comedian David Baddiel gets to the heart of issues that dominate random shower musings and dinner party debates. He attempts to understand areas including fracking, rugby, hacking, The Constitution, fashion and even the modern-day enigma known as the Kardashians.
Where do fossil fuels really come from? How do Bitcoins work? What does the International Monetary Fund actually do? Why is all my data stored in the Cloud? And when does a cry become a sob?
Join Baddiel in his quest to understand these puzzling topics and the world.
Episode List* S01E01 – Electricity * S01E02 – Cryptic Crosswords * S01E03 – Derivatives * S01E04 – Sunni and Shia Islam * S02E01 – Nuts * S02E02 – The Cloud * S02E03 – Pi * S02E04 – The IMF * S02E05 – The US Electoral System * S02E06 – Rugby * S03E01 – Bitcoin * S03E02 – Fracking * S03E03 – Hacking * S03E04 – The Constitution * S03E05 – The Kardashians * S03E06 – TV Broadcasting * S04E01 – Wifi * S04E02 – Fashion * S04E03 – Crying * S04E04 – Global Trade The post David Baddiel Tries to Understand appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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David Sedaris’s remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is surpassed only by his ability to make his stories even more hilarious when he reads them aloud.
David Sedaris achieves something that is very rare these days, incredibly funny stories, no vulgar language, mostly self deprecating, surreal at times, always entertaining.
Episode List* S01E01 – Six to Eight Black Men and Just a Quick Email * S01E02 – Let It Snow and The Cat and the Baboon and Keeping Up * S01E03 – Picapocketoni and I’ll Eat What He’s Wearing * S01E04 – Kookabura and With a Pal Like This * S02E01 – The Incomplete Quad and The Squirrel and the Chipmunk * S02E02 – Me Talk Pretty One Day and It’s Catching * S02E03 – Nuit of the Living Dead and The End of the Affair * S02E04 – Us and Them and Selected Diary Extracts * S02E05 – Memento Mori and The Motherless Bear * S02E06 – The Ship Shape and Make That a Double * S03E01 – Attaboy and In the Waiting Room * S03E02 – Author Author and Front Row Centre with Thaddeus Bristol * S03E03 – Memory Lapse and If I Ruled the World * S03E04 – Put a Lid on It * S03E05 – Easy Tiger and Possession * S03E06 – Rubbish and Jesus Shaves * S04E01 – The Happy Place and The Shadow of Your Smile * S04E02 – Repeat After Me * S04E03 – #2 to Go and Innocents Abroad * S04E04 – Company Man and Diary Extracts * S04E05 – English Lesson and Understanding Understanding Owls * S04E06 – The Sea Section and Dog Days * S05E01 – The Understudy and Big Boy * S05E02 – Stepping Out and The Vigilant Rabbit * S05E03 – Leviathan * S05E04 – Little Guy, The Ones That Got Away and Now Hiring Friendly People * S05E05 – Calypso and Follow Me * S05E06 – Loggerheads * S06E01 – Untamed & Diary Extracts * S06E02 – Of Mice and Men & A Can of Worms * S06E03 – Suitable for Framing & Diary Extracts * S06E04 – A Modest Proposal & Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie * S06E05 – A Number of Reasons I’ve Been Depressed, Lately & Diary Extracts * S06E06 – The Perfect Fit & Audience Q&A * S07E01 – Father Time & Diary Extracts * S07E02 – The Godfather & Diary Extracts * S07E03 – The Silent Treatment & Diary Extracts * S07E04 – Why Aren’t You Laughing * S07E05 – Active Shooter & Diary Extracts * S07E06 – CNN, Boo Hooey & Million Dollar Ideas * S07ESP – Being David Sedaris – 1. Smoking and Rambling * S07ESP – Being David Sedaris – 2. Santaland and Paris * S07ESP – Being David Sedaris – 3. Music and Meeting * S08E01 – Instalment 1 * S08E02 – Instalment 2 * S08E03 – Instalment 3 * S08E04 – Instalment 4 * S08E05 – Instalment 5 * S08E06 – Instalment 6 * S09E01 – Happy Go Lucky * S09E02 – Fresh Caught Haddock * S09E03 – Pussytoes * S09E04 – Eat The Rich! * S09E05 – My Corona and A Better Place * S09E06 – Sweet Land of Liberty The post Meet David Sedaris appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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In the year 2038, there’s only one destination that can play host to the world’s wealthiest adventure seekers: the Pengalaman Island Resort and Virtual Reality Theme Park. Located on a private South Pacific island, guests here live out their wildest fantasies in custom-made virtual reality simulations while also enjoying the usual amenities of an exclusive five-star getaway.
All is relatively breezy until famed billionaire and avid guest, Mr. Wagner (Sudeikis), goes missing within a virtual simulation. His only hope? A daring rescue led by Derek Ambrose (Rudd), the maladjusted heir to his mother’s resort empire, and his ragtag search party consisting of Faith (Ruffin), a tech-nerd extraordinaire (and naturally, his ex); Ramona Kurtz (Pell), the foul-mouthed head of island security; and Beasley (McBrayer), the resort’s lead concierge and Ambrose family confidant.
What ensues is a high-octane, comedy throwback filled with memorable performances throughout, and a reminder that real life can be the ultimate experience if you’re just willing to open your heart and dive in headfirst.
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Fighting against evil in a time-travelling midwinter family drama. A gripping journey through a frozen landscape… and an unending epic battle against the forces of “the Dark”. On midwinter’s eve, 11-year-old Will Stanton discovers he is an ancient being and guardian of “the Light”. This eerie drama is best experienced on headphones for a unique, immersive ‘binaural’ experience.
Episode List* 01 – Midwinter Eve * 03 – The Sign-Seeker * 04 – The Walker on the Old Way * 05 – The Book of Gramarye * 06 – The Opening of the Present * 07 – The Besieging * 08 – The Coming of the Cold * 09 – Hawk in the Dark * 10 – The King of Fire and Water * 11 – The Hunt Rides * 12 – The Joining of the Signs The post The Dark Is Rising appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Struggling musician and successful delivery driver Andrew O’Neill has inadvertently opened a portal to another dimension in their flat. This is a very bad thing. A million demons have flooded through and they’re getting in everyone’s way. A comedy about being stuck between worlds – human and demon, millennials and boomers. This is the first narrative comedy starring a non-binary character.
Written by Andrew O’Neill and Tom DeVille and narrated by writer and graphic novelist Alan Moore
Episode One – And So it Begins. Andrew has inadvertently opened a portal to another dimension and a thousand demons flooded into London and parts of Leeds. That was a year ago and, although people are pretty much getting used to them, they’re really getting in the way. Andrew needs to find a way to close the portal. Which isn’t easy when they’re completely in denial about it having happened in the first place. Not only that, their friend and landlord Pad (Sanjeev Kohli) wants to sell the flat Andrew shares with their partner Gabriella (Jen Brister) and Andrew enlists their sister’s help (Carly Smallman) to change his mind. Meanwhile, a weird tramp (Phil Nichol) keeps appearing and seems to be trying to tell Andrew something.
Episode Two – Phil Le Tramp is desperately trying to convince Andrew and Gabriella that they need to do something about the magical portal in their front room. Unfortunately Gabriella has a pub to open, and Andrew is busy with their day job as a delivery driver in the deadly outer zone (the suburbs). Will they get back in time to perform at the opening night gig? And will Pad reveal their dark secret to the world? Wait and see you itchy little frogs… Wait and see…
Episode Three – When Andrew wins a real human skull they unleash a curse that might bring their magical quest to an end. If they’re going to survive they going to have to find the skull’s slightly miffed original owner – Aelric, last of the druids. Meanwhile, Siobhan goes on a date with Chrontar and Barry – a pair of demons who are hiding a deadly secret… Lucky girl!
Episode Four – The transdimensional portal in Andrew and Gabriella’s front room is misbehaving and messing up their flat – mostly by depositing a trivia obsessed sentient mould in their bedroom. When Andrew makes a desperate attempt to solve the problem, they wind up trapped in a mysterious and deadly nostalgia labyrinth with Gabriella and Pad, reliving the best days of their lives while some massive Doctor Who monsters try to kill them. Meanwhile, Siobhan is busy helping Phil LeTramp break the curse on him, so he can finally go back inside…
Episode List* S01E01 – And So It Begins * S01E02 – The Wolves of Finsbury Park * S01E03 – Real Human Skull * S01E04 – The Best Day of Their Lives The post Damned Andrew appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Keith Spencer Waterhouse was a British novelist, newspaper columnist and the writer of many films and television series. His credits, many with lifelong friend and collaborator Willis Hall, include satires such as That Was The Week That Was, BBC-3 and The Frost Report during the 1960s; Budgie; Worzel Gummidge; and Andy Capp (an adaptation of the comic strip).
Presented here are BBC Radio presentations of four Waterhouse stories:
Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell – A recreation of a time in London when poets, painters, artists and writers (Dylan Thomas, Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, and Elizabeth Smart) lived alongside the local Low Life of No Knickers Joyce and Sid the Swimmer, inhabiting the clubs and pubs of Dean Street. A dying Soho, seen through the eyes of Jeffrey Bernard, the notorious columnist of The Spectator – plain-speaking drinker, gambler, wit and raconteur. With frequent, very strong language. Alongside John Hurt in the lead role, the cast includes Nichola McAuliffe, Jeff Rawle, Amelia Bullmore and Miles Jupp.
Mr and Mrs Nobody – A delightful diary account which reveals the day-to-day activities of one Charles Pooter, a London clerk, and his long-suffering wife Carrie. Based on George and Weedon Grossmith’s 19th Century comic masterpiece ‘The Diary of a Nobody’.
Albert and the Liner – A boy is convinced a model of the Queen Mary is coming his way for Christmas.
Billy Liar – A lazy, irresponsible young clerk in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
Episode List* 01 – Jeffery Bernard is Unwell * 02 – Mr and Mrs Nobody * 03 – Albert and the Liner * 04 – Billy Liar The post Keith Waterhouse BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4’s monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It allows nothing inside that doesn’t make you scratch your head, stroke your chin or, at the very least, go ‘Hmm’. Fortunately, helping to fill its vacant plinths is a gathering of the world’s most original minds.
Among the guests bearing donations to the museum in these episodes are Neil Gaiman, Sarah Millican, Clive James, Kate Adie, Sir Terry Pratchett, Ronni Ancona, Jon Ronson, Bettany Hughes, Ben Elton, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Alain de Botton, Charlotte Uhlenbroek, Alistair Fothergill, Ruth Padel, Jonathan Miller, Lucie Green, Marcus du Sautoy, Sara Wheeler, Brian Eno, Shappi Khorsandi, John Hodgman, Chris Addison, Roger Law, Tim Minchin, Philip Pullman, Richard Wiseman, Victoria Finlay, Simon Singh, Jimmy Carr, Graham Linehan, Sarah Bakewell, Robin Ince, David Eagleman, Natalie Haynes, Brian Blessed, Alan Davies, Gareth Edwards, Martha Reeves, Harry Enfield, Helen Scales, Admiral Alan West & many more.
Episode List* S01E01 – Meeting One * S01E02 – Meeting Two * S01E03 – Meeting Three * S01E04 – Meeting Four * S01E05 – Meeting Five * S01E06 – Meeting Six * S02E01 – Meeting Seven * S02E02 – Meeting Eight * S02E03 – Meeting Nine * S02E04 – Meeting Ten * S02E05 – Meeting Eleven * S02E06 – Meeting Twelve * S03E01 – Meeting Thirteen * S03E02 – Meeting Fourteen * S03E03 – Meeting Fifteen * S03E04 – Meeting Sixteen * S03E05 – Meeting Seventeen * S03E06 – Meeting Eighteen * S04E01 – Meeting Nineteen * S04E02 – Meeting Twenty * S04E03 – Meeting Twenty One * S04E04 – Meeting Twenty Two * S04E05 – Meeting Twenty Three * S04E06 – Meeting Twenty Four * S05E01 – Meeting Twenty Five * S05E02 – Meeting Twenty Six * S05E03 – Meeting Twenty Seven * S05E04 – Meeting Twenty Eight * S05E05 – Meeting Twenty Nine * S05E06 – Meeting Thirty * S06E01 – Meeting Thirty One * S06E02 – Meeting Thirty Two * S06E03 – Meeting Thirty Seven * S06E04 – Meeting Thirty Four * S06E05 – Meeting Thirty Five * S06E06 – Meeting Thirty Six * S07E01 – Meeting Thirty Seven * S07E02 – Meeting Thirty Eight * S07E03 – Meeting Thirty Nine * S07E04 – Meeting Forty * S07E05 – Meeting Forty One * S07E06 – Meeting Forty Two * S07ESP – Coding Special * S08E01 – Meeting Forty Three * S08E02 – Meeting Forty Four * S08E03 – Meeting Forty Five * S08E04 – Meeting Forty Six * S08E05 – Meeting Forty Seven * S08E06 – Meeting Forty Eight * S09E01 – Meeting Forty Nine * S09E02 – Meeting Fifty * S09E03 – Meeting Fifty One * S09E04 – Meeting Fifty Two * S09E05 – Meeting Fifty Three * S09E06 – Meeting Fifty Four * S10E01 – Meeting Fifty Five * S10E02 – Meeting Fifty Six * S10E03 – Meeting Fifty Seven * S10E04 – Meeting Fifty Eight * S10E05 – Meeting Fifty Nine * S10E06 – Meeting Sixty * S11E01 – Meeting Sixty One * S11E02 – Meeting Sixty Two * S11E03 – Meeting Sixty Three * S11E04 – Meeting Sixty Four * S11E05 – Meeting Sixty Five * S11E06 – Meeting Sixty Six * S12E01 – Meeting Sixty Seven * S12E02 – Meeting Sixty Eight * S12E03 – Meeting Sixty Nine * S12E04 – Meeting Seventy * S12E05 – Meeting Seventy One * S12E06 – Meeting Seventy Two * S13E01 – Meeting Seventy Three * S13E02 – Meeting Seventy Four * S13E03 – Meeting Seventy Five * S13E04 – Meeting Seventy Six * S13E05 – Meeting Seventy Seven * S13E06 – Meeting Seventy Eight * S13ESP – Annual Stock Take * S14E01 – Meeting Seventy Nine * S14E02 – Meeting Eighty * S14E03 – Meeting Eighty One * S14E04 – Meeting Eighty Two * S14E05 – Meeting Eighty Three * S14E06 – Meeting Eighty Four * S14ESP – Christmas Special * S15E01 – Meeting Eighty Five * S15E02 – Meeting Eighty Six * S15E03 – Meeting Eighty Seven * S15E04 – Meeting Eighty Eight * S15E05 – Meeting Eighty Nine * S15E06 – Meeting Ninety * S15ESP – Museum of New Year’s Curiosity * S16E01 – Meeting Ninety One * S16E02 – Meeting Ninety Two * S16E03 – Meeting Ninety Three * S16E04 – Meeting Ninety Four * S16E05 – Meeting Ninety Five * S16E06 – Meeting Ninety Six * S17E01 – Meeting Ninety Seven * S17E02 – Meeting Ninety eight * S17E03 – Meeting Ninety Nine * S17E04 – Meeting One Hundred * S17E05 – Meeting One Hundred and One * S17E06 – Meeting One Hundred and Two The post The Museum of Curiosity appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Comedian Alex Edelman encourages his guests from both sides of the Atlantic to think laterally about a diverse collection of special relationships.
Alex Edelman encourages his guests from both sides of the Atlantic to think laterally about a diverse collection of special relationships in this loose limbed series of chat shows, recorded in London and the USA.
Inevitably, that special relationship surfaces – but in unexpected ways. In this episode, there are some surprising revelations about social life, social networking and what the panel would like to keep private. Recorded in London
Episode List* S01E01 – Public and Private * S01E02 – Me and Us * S01E03 – Faith and Uncertainty * S01E04 – Teacher and Student The post Alex Edelman’s Special Relationships appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Maureen Lipman stars in shows recorded in front of a live audience in the Radio Theatre.
From pesky rodents to Jane Austen. The irrepressible Maureen Lipman performs her comic monologues in the BBC Radio Theatre.
Building on a monologue tradition that builds on the foundations established by the likes of Joyce Grenfell, Maureen brings her own particular brand of humour and wit to this genre.
Characters include a Northern waitress with a passion for Cliff, a widowed chef who has fallen for her Polish builder and an Australian radiologist severely lacking in bedside manner.
From Balkan windscreen washers to a cock-eyed look at the spirit of Christmas. More comic monologues, musings and anecdotes from the irrepressible Maureen Lipman.
Maureen Lipman’s unique collection of musings, monologues, duologues and amusing anecdotes about her life and popular culture.
This first programme begins with a poem reflecting on the past two years we’ve lived through. Other characters we meet include a far too chatty woman on a commuter train and a woman who is a whizz at crosswords.
For this second series, recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Radio Theatre, Maureen is joined by Oliver Cotton. Together they give life and opinions to various animals. They also give their take on an Awards ceremony. These are the ‘Daftas’.
Episode List* S01E01 – Maureen and Friends * S01E02 – Maureen and Friends * S02E01 – Maureen and Friends * S02E02 – Maureen and Friends The post Maureen and Friends appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Mark Watson attempts to answer the big questions and make sense of life.
Radio 4 series from multi-award winning Mark Watson where he reignites his quest to improve the world.
Previous series have seen Mark and his two deputies eradicate the seven deadly sins, promote virtue throughout the world, and broadcast live to the nation allowing the audience to guide Mark’s attempts to make the world a better place. This latest format will see Mark and two henchmen tackle the bigger, more academic and abstract subjects that affect our everyday life, asking big questions that are crucial to our understanding of ourselves and the crazy world around us.
Themes are examined from every angle, torn apart, laughed at and put back together again to help listeners to understand themselves and the world around them, and to make it a slightly better place using stand-up, poetry, songs and dippy interactions.
Mark was nimbly accompanied by his long-term collaborators Tim Key and Tom Basden in Series 1.
Mark was assisted and impeded in equal measure by henchmen Sam Simmons and Will Adamsdale, as he revived his quest to make sense of life against the backdrop of a world that, in recent times, has come to appear even more peculiar than usual.
The tenacious trio take on some of human life’s central topics – family, spirituality, Scandinavia. Watson peddles his unique, high-octane stand-up while Simmons and Adamsdale chip in with interjections which include (but are not limited to) music, shopping lists, life advice, stunts, avant-garde offerings and divvy interactions.
Episode List* S01E01 – Success * S01E02 – Health and Beauty * S01E03 – Money * S01E04 – Longevity * S02E01 – Work and Play * S02E02 – Possessions * S02E03 – Family * S02E04 – Spirituality * S02E05 – Legacy * S02E06 – Scandinavia * S03E01 – Spring * S03E02 – Summer * S03E03 – Autumn * S03E04 – Winter * S04E01 – Monday * S04E02 – Tuesday * S04E03 – Wednesday’s Child Is… * S04E04 – Thursday’s Child Is… * S04E05 – Friday’s Child Is… * S04E06 – Saturday’s Child Is… The post Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Series 1 Radio comedy drama series with touches of the surreal by Tony Bagley. Starring Zoe Wanamaker as Miss Callaghan, Martin Clunes as Roy Hitchcock and Toyah Wilcox as Elsa. Roy Hitchcock is a hack journalist on a provincial paper with big ideas and an attitude problem. When he meets his former English teacher his private fantasies get a new lease of life as he sets out to win her against all the odds.
1 Local hack journalist Roy Hitchcock tries to win the heart of his former teacher
2 Can Roy impress Jane by joining a green pressure group? Meanwhile, Pavarotti appears in his dreams with some invaluable advice
3 Roy’s quest to insinuate himself further into Jane’s good books gets a new lease of life when she requests his help to save a tree
4 Roy tries to impress Jane with some campaigning local journalism
5 In a rare moment, Miss Callaghan apologises to her ex, lovestruck pupil Roy
6 A letter and phone calls lift the lid on Jane’s chaotic love life
Series 2 The return of Tony Bagley’s romantic comedy drama serial mixing fantasy with reality. Starring Geraldine James and Martin Clunes.
1 On the down side, Roy has lost his job as journalist, blown his chance of romance with Jane and is about to have his house repossessed. But just when he thought it was safe to retreat into self-pity and fantasies about The Archers, help comes from an unexpected quarter…
2 Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger have changed their image from tough-talking, macho men to gentle, child-caring new men. Can Roy follow suit in his own home movie?
3 Roy’s efforts to make a video diary become tinged with paranoia. The thought police and Michael Buerk from TV’s ‘999’ infiltrate his fantasies. Surprisingly, Jane finds herself feeling sorry for Roy and makes a gesture she lives to regret.
4 Roy Hitchcock is a hack journalist on a provincial paper with big ideas and an attitude problem. When he meets his former English teacher, his private fantasies get a new lease of life as he sets out to win her against all the odds – including staying in a caravan in her garden.
5 Roy Hitchcock has, surprisingly, managed to interest TV in his video diary. Should he now become celibate in order to be an artist of integrity? Meanwhile, Jane resolves to remain celibate – at least as far as Colin’s romantic intentions are concerned…
6 After his TV documentary, Roy Hitchcock has, at last, achieved recognition, but at what price? Reputations and relationships are put on the line and some extreme weather conditions seem to be contributing towards an ending of apocalyptic proportions.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Older Woman * S01E02 – The Older Woman * S01E03 – The Older Woman * S01E04 – The Older Woman * S01E05 – The Older Woman * S01E06 – The Older Woman * S02E01 – The Older Woman * S02E02 – The Older Woman * S02E03 – The Older Woman * S02E04 – The Older Woman * S02E05 – The Older Woman * S02E06 – The Older Woman The post The Older Woman appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Three charming comedy series starring the dear ladies of a musical bent, Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket.
Meet Hinge and Bracket, the delightful double act brought to sublime life by George Logan and Patrick Fyffe. Lifelong companions and musical collaborators, they enjoy nothing more than performing around the piano together and trading light-hearted banter spiced with comic innuendo and a double entendre or two.
Collected here are the very best of their radio appearances, including the pilot episode and first series of The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket. From their home in the genteel Suffolk village of Stackton Tressel, the pair embark on a variety of adventurous escapades, such as staging a murder mystery, taking part in a sonic jamboree with Peter Pratt, appearing on Desert Island Discs with Roy Plomley, sailing off on a musical cruise and orchestrating a last-minute royal celebration.
Also featured are 17 episodes from The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket. Introduced by entries from Dame Hilda’s diary, they chronicle the further misadventures of the dear ladies, including organising a Fancy Dress Ball, dealing with mice, woodworm and a headstrong donkey, partaking in a little too much home-made wine and squabbling over a holiday – and the milkman.
Rounding off the merriment is At Home with Hinge and Bracket, in which we join the duo for six informal soirees as they entertain celebrity guests Benjamin Luxton, Evelyn Laye, Jack Brymer, June Whitfield, Rosalind Plowright and Anthony Newley with their inimitable mix of songs and witty conversation.
Episode List* 01 – The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket * 02 – The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket * 03 – The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket * 04 – The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket * 05 – The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket * 06 – The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket * 07 – The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket * 08 – The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket * 09 – The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket * 10 – The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket * 11 – The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket * 12 – The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket * 13 – The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket * 14 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 15 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 16 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 17 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 18 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 19 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 20 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 21 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 22 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 23 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 24 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 25 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 26 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 27 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 28 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 29 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 30 – The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket * 31 – At Home with Hinge and Bracket * 32 – At Home with Hinge and Bracket * 33 – At Home with Hinge and Bracket * 34 – At Home with Hinge and Bracket * 35 – At Home with Hinge and Bracket * 36 – At Home with Hinge and Bracket The post The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a couple who have been married ‘for ever’. Children of the Sixties, they’re still free spirits, drawn together by their passion for music and each other. Their warm and witty conversations dance around everyday chores and appointments as well as dealing with problems within long-held friendships, and tackling their own frustrations with each other. But underlying it all is their enduring love for each other and their desire to keep the passion alive.
Episode List* S00E00 – Pilot * S00ESP – At Christmas * S01E01 – Why Didn’t You Ask Me to Dance * S01E02 – Sally’s Your Friend * S01E03 – Lean on Me * S01E04 – Let’s Spend the Night Together * S02E01 – Just the Way You Are * S02E02 – It’s Just Work * S02E03 – Heartbreak Hotel * S02E04 – If You Go Away * S02E05 – Should I Stay or Should I Go * S02E06 – I’ve Been Loving You Too Long to Stop Now * S02ESP – at Christmas again * S03E01 – Birthday Blues * S03E02 – Heroes and Villains * S03E03 – Travelling Light * S03E04 – Don’t Throw Your Love Away * S03E05 – Losing the Way * S03E06 – Please Don’t Ever Change * S04E01 – She Drives Me Crazy * S04E02 – Let It Go * S04E03 – The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea * S04E04 – Every Little Thing * S04E05 – We Are Family * S04E06 – This Old Heart Of Mine The post Conversations from a Long Marriage appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A series of enthralling mysteries by written by Edgar Wallace and dramatised for radio by Neville Teller.
They feature the enigmatic figure of Mr JG Reeder who works for the Public Prosecutor’s office and has the mind of a criminal.
His novel methods bring the criminals of 1920s London to justice.
Episode 1: The Poetical Policeman – Mr Reeder uncovers the peculiar circumstances surrounding a bank robbery, the death of the night-watchman and the part in the plot played by his beautiful daughter.
Episode 2: The Troupe – Mr Reeder’s curiosity is aroused when a transatlantic impresario rents an out-of-season cottage. He can only be up to no good.
Episode 3: The Green Mamba – The emeralds of Suliman are stolen in North Africa and brought to London, but the “mamba” (Mr Reeder) thwarts the thieves’ plans.
Episode 4: The Strange Case – A wealthy government minister is defrauded of a large sum of money and suspects his wastrel nephew. Then he’s murdered and Mr Reeder uncovers the truth.
Episode List* 01 – The Poetical Policeman * 02 – The Troupe * 03 – The Green Mamba * 04 – The Strange Case The post The Mind of Mr JG Reeder – by Edgar Wallace appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Ian Holm Cuthbert was an English actor who was knighted in 1998 for his contributions to theatre and film. Beginning his career on the British stage as a standout member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he later transitioned into a successful and prolific radio, TV and screen career. He portrayed a variety of both supporting and leading characters, earning critical acclaim and many accolades in the process.
Collected here are fourteen BBC Radio dramas featuring Ian Holm:
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The arrival in Cloisterham of Neville and Helena Landless, twins from Ceylon, sets in motion a chain of events which leads to murder. Dramatised in 5 episodes:
- Orphans
- A Disappearance
- An Arrival
- A Performance
- Redress
The Quiet American
It’s Saigon in the early 50s. A burnt-out British journalist has fallen in love with a local girl but the arrival of an apparently innocent economic attache disrupts both their relationship and the teetering balance of power.
The Lost Boys
Barrie’s biographer Andrew Birkin tells the haunting story of Barrie’s relationship with the five Llewelyn-Davies boys, Barrie’s adopted sons and the inspiration behind “Peter Pan”. He reveals how his own experience, over a 30-year association with the author, has thrown up tragic parallels.
What Happened with St George
A man and a woman look at a statue of St George and the dragon in a Swedish cathedral. She’s heard the myth. But what was the reality? The man knows – and tells. A revelation……
Victory
In postwar Germany, Langley, a young English officer, has been posted to organise the coal industry in a remote area.
Before the war Erdmann, who is in charge of the mine, was a distinguished scientist. It becomes apparent that Langley’s mission is actually more to do with Erdmann’s past than his present.
Bartleby the Scrivener
A man employed as a copyist in a firm of lawyers starts behaving strangely. It begins with him announcing there are aspects of his work he’d ‘prefer’ not to do – although he’s excellent at the actual work. But then the list of things he’d rather avoid doing becomes more sinister…
Creepers
‘I know the English are good at concealing their feelings, but you can’t really be so cold-blooded about your wife’s death as you seem. Can you, sir?’ However, no-one did care very much about Julia’s death…
Landscape
Beth sits in an armchair to the left of the table, and Duff in a chair at the opposite end. Duff refers normally to Beth but does not appear to hear her voice and Beth never looks at Duff and does not appear to hear his voice.
The Wood Demon
A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man’s birthday; his sister hopes he’ll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden old professor who makes life hell for his son George and his young wife, Helen. At the luncheon is Khrushchov, a passionate environmentalist, called “the Wood Demon” by all, who’s in love with Sonya and she with him, but neither will admit it.
Two weeks later there’s a family meeting at the professor’s estate; two weeks after that, a supper at the cabin of Dyadin, who’s cheerful to all. George, Helen, Sonya, and Khrushchov are each suffocating. Can any of them take action?
Uncle Vanya
When Vanya’s brother-in-law declares his intention to sell the family’s house, polite facades begin to crumble and long repressed feelings start to emerge with devastating consequences.
The Deep Blue Sea
It is post-war Britain and Hester Collyer has left her husband, an eminent judge, to be with Freddy, an ex-RAF pilot with no prospects. The passion she feels for this younger man is not returned by him, and the play opens as Hester, in a state of despair, has attempted suicide.
The Homecoming
In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence, and introduces the four men, father, uncle, and two brothers, to his wife.
The Browning Version
Teacher Andrew Crocker-Harris is on the verge of retirement – and a divorce. But he has a shot at trying to redeem his dignity when a young schoolboy gives him an unexpected parting gift…
Moonlight on the Highway
David Peters is visited in his run-down bedsit by Marie, a researcher for Severn Television, who is collecting material for a documentary about the singer Al Bowlly. David is the editor of the Al Bowlly Appreciation Society fanzine and Marie hopes to secure him as the programme advisor. David is enthusiastic about the offer but has other things on his mind; he has an appointment with an NHS psychiatrist the following day and his anxiety about the meeting, coupled with the novelty of entertaining his beautiful visitor, leads him to make an unwelcome pass at her…
Episode List* 01 – The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Orphans * 02 – The Mystery of Edwin Drood – A Disappearance * 03 – The Mystery of Edwin Drood – An Arrival * 04 – The Mystery of Edwin Drood – A Performance * 05 – The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Redress * 06 – The Lost Boys * 07 – What Happened with St George * 08 – Bartleby the Scrivener * 09 – Creepers * 10 – Landscape * 11 – The Deep Blue Sea * 12 – The Browning Version * 13 – Moonlight on the Highway * 14 – The Wood Demon * 15 – Uncle Vanya * 16 – The Quiet American * 17 – Victory * 18 – The Homecoming The post Ian Holm BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Camp Restart is a secretive facility in the desert of New Mexico set up to help teenagers addicted to video games. When sixteen-year-old Eddie witnesses the abduction of his online gaming friend, he risks all and goes on a quest to find him, uncovering the shocking true purpose of Camp Restart. Armin Karima (Sex Education) stars in this mind-bending thriller from the makers of The Cipher.
Whats in a Name? – “Do you want to go on an adventure?” From the makers of THE CIPHER and PASSENGER LIST an original mind-bending thriller starring Armin Karima.
The Dig – The video game journalist, the janitor, a desert grave for ET…
Circleville – The video game designer, a military base, an errant priest…
Start Again – Life at Camp Restart, the Boss, a baggage handler who stole a plane…
Wild Mountain – Extreme detox, the kill, the other side of the camp…
The Most Dangerous Game – Hunters and hunted, the “happy kids”, an ancient mechanism…
No One Sees The Janitor – Training regime, a friend IRL, the escape…
Light of the World – Open the door, what’s my name, play the game to the end…
Episode List* S01E01 – What’s in a Name * S01E02 – The Dig * S01E03 – Circleville * S01E04 – Start Again * S01E05 – Wild Mountain * S01E06 – The Most Dangerous Game * S01E07 – No One Sees The Janitor * S01E08 – Light of the World The post Restart appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Mythos is a series that examines British folklore through a quasi-scientific prism. It’s laced with sardonic humour, ridiculous situations and insane leaps of logic – but its foundations lie in the stories that have become part of the British cultural DNA over the last 2000 years.
Mary Lairre is the ghost of a 16th century French nun murdered at Borley Rectory and rendered corporeal by the mysterious Department to act as a paranormal investigator. Lairre is joined by Parker, whose magical abilities rely upon her transforming her entire personality as circumstances require
- Mythos – Incidents of death from heart failure have spiked at seven times the national average in a small Essex village. Agent Lairre is sent to investigate.
- Glamis – Lairre and Parker accompany their boss Johnson to Glamis Castle in Scotland, where a secret door into a folkloric dimension has been discovered.
- Albion – A sinkhole opens up beneath the City of London. Lairre and Parker are tasked to rescue Johnson from the depths of the city. They find themselves facing Gogmagog the Giant as Britain’s past erupts through time to destroy the present.
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Welcome to Radio 9 where Dark approaches Silly, shakes hands, then realises its trousers are round its ankles. All set in a parallel universe just like ours, but different. Written and performed by Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker. Starring Sarah Walton, John Stevenson, Stefan Frank, Janice Vee, Matt Wilkinson and Michelle Gomez.
Episode List* S01E01 – Radio 9 * S01E02 – Radio 9 * S01E03 – Radio 9 * S01E04 – Radio 9 * S02E01 – Radio 9 * S02E02 – Radio 9 * S02E03 – Radio 9 * S02E04 – Radio 9 * S02E05 – Radio 9 The post Radio 9 appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A collection of twenty-five beautifully crafted, terrifying and intriguing tales of spine-tingling psychological terror and suspense from Ruth Rendell.
A Case of Coincidence read by George Baker
A Needle for the Devil read by Isla Blair
A Glowing Future read by George Baker
A Pair of Yellow Lilies read by Penelope Keith
Catamount read by Jenny Sterlin
Dying Happy read by Penelope Keith
Fair Exchange read by Jenny Sterlin
Long Live the Queen read by Penelope Keith
In All Honesty read by Sandra Burr
Mother’s Help read by Penelope Keith
Paint Box Place read by Isla Blair
Paperwork read by Penelope Keith
The Astronomical Scarf read by Jenny Sterlin
The Carer read by Eileen Newbery
The Beach Butler read by Jenny Sterlin
The Copper Peacock read by Penelope Keith
The Dreadful Day of Judgement read by George Baker
The Fish-Sitter read by Penelope Keith
The Man Who is The God of Love read by Michael Page
The Professional read by Jenny Sterlin
The Wink read by Kathy Staff
The Wrong Category read by George Baker
Unacceptable Levels read by Sharon Williams and David Colacci
Walter’s Leg read by Jenny Sterlin
Weeds read by David Holt
Episode List* 01 – A Case of Coincidence * 02 – A Needle for the Devil * 03 – A Glowing Future * 04 – A Pair of Yellow Lilies * 05 – Catamount * 06 – Dying Happy * 07 – Fair Exchange * 08 – Long Live the Queen * 09 – In All Honesty * 10 – Mother’s Help * 11 – Paintbox Place * 12 – Paperwork * 13 – The Astronomical Scarf * 14 – The Carer * 15 – The Beach Butler * 16 – The Copper Peacock * 17 – The Dreadful Day of Judgement * 18 – The Fish-Sitter * 19 – The Man who is The God of Love * 20 – The Professional * 21 – The Wink * 22 – The Wrong Category * 23 – Unacceptable Levels * 24 – Walter’s Leg * 25 – Weeds The post Ruth Rendell BBC Radio Short Story Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American writer and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception. He has been called “a giant of American letters” and is acknowledged to be one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Presented here is a collection of BBC Radio dramatisations of six of Steinbeck’s best known works, together with readings of three of his novellas.
East of Eden – An epic tale exploring the nature of good and evil, inspired by the story of Cain and Abel. Cathy Ames is a young woman who has always filled her parents with a deep sense of unease. Adam and Charles Trask are brothers whose relationship veers dangerously between love and hate. Their lives are about to collide in a dark and febrile drama about familial love.
Of Mice & Men – Dramatisation of John Steinbeck’s seminal 1937 novel about migrant workers in 1930s California whose dream of one day owning a place of their own is tragically destroyed.
The Grapes of Wrath – The Joads are a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they are trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California along with thousands of other “Okies” seeking jobs, land, dignity, and a future.
The Pearl – A captivating and atmospheric parable set in a small Mexican fishing village about the greatest pearl ever found and the tragic impact its discovery has on one young family.
Steinbeck in Avalon – As a child, John Steinbeck was enthralled by Malory’s account of the life of King Arthur. In 1959, the great novelist went to live in Somerset for a while to write what he hoped would be the crowning glory of his distinguished career, a 20th-century restatement of the Arthurian legend.
Lifeboat – July 1943: Connie Porter is a glamorous foreign correspondent aboard a lifeboat alone in the middle of the Atlantic, after the freighter ship SS Argo was torpedoed by a Nazi submarine. She soon rescues John Kovak from the ship’s engine room and sparks fly between the couple as they pick up other survivors – including a Nazi seaman from the enemy U-boat.
The Murder – An American farmer, Jim Moore marries an eastern European woman Jelka, but the gulf between their cultures proves too great and they begin to drift apart. One night in the bar, Jim encounters a neighbor who mentions that he found dead cattle in the corner of Moore’s property that had been clearly killed by human hands…
The Chrysanthemums – Elisa Allen, the wife of a rancher in Salinas Valley is proud of her ability to cultivate the biggest chrysanthemums in the whole valley. Elisa’s husband, Henry, has negotiated the sale of some cattle and has left to fetch the animals ready for sale. Then, a travelling tinker shows up…
The Red Pony – Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father’s California ranch. He is thrilled when one day his father gives him a red pony and promises him the colt of a bay mare. Both these gifts bring joy to Jody’s life – but tragedy soon follows. As Jody begins to learn the harsh lessons of life and death, he starts to understand what growing up and becoming an adult really means.
Episode List* 01 – East of Eden * 02 – East of Eden * 03 – East of Eden * 04 – Of Mice & Men * 05 – The Grapes of Wrath * 06 – The Pearl * 07 – Steinbeck in Avalon * 08 – Lifeboat * 09 – The Murder * 10 – The Chrysanthemums * 11 – The Red Pony The post John Steinbeck A BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Ghostly stories. A study in fear. A collection of twenty-four full cast paranormal BBC Radio dramas.
Personal Luggage – A fragmented family gather in their new home. It’s to be a fresh start for them all. But on the first morning, they’re joined by an apparition … and he’s angry.
The Door in the Pillow – Annie is a woman whose fractured sense of the world is held together by stories. Daughter Terri starts to question where they are coming from – one story in particular seems wildly disconnected from anything Terri knows of her mother’s past. It doesn’t crack under examination, and seems to have a concrete solidity that reality no longer does….
The Maid’s Bell – A maid takes a job with a kind but sad mistress who suffers from a weak heart, a cruel and tyrannical husband, and the presence of a stubborn ghost…
The Understudy – An actor’s obsession with a bizarre murder in Victorian theatreland sparks a deadly confrontation.
Grahamston – An audio documentary and ghost story inspired by the forgotten village in Glasgow’s City Centre which was destroyed to make way for Central Station in the late 1870s.
Knock of the Ban-Sithe – A contemporary ghost story based on Gaelic folklore. Three siblings return to the family croft on the Isle of Lewis to visit their dying mother – but their childhood home is haunted by unsettling memories and fears as they wait through the night for the arrival of the dreaded Ban-Sithe.
I See The Moon – It’s 1967 and Richard Thornton is at a planning conference. In the big house where he’s staying, he comes across a little girl on the top landing. He comforts her and promises to return, but his hosts deny any knowledge of her. Can she really have disappeared into thin air?
Trespass – Former countess, Christine, asks a medium to contact her dead husband. But the consequences spark a night of terror in the foreboding Crithin Castle in Wales.
The Drover’s Path – A chilling ghost story, based on a real-life family history, set on a remote Yorkshire sheep farm in 1890.
Haunted Hospital – A hospital in Rochdale is the setting for this ghost story, featuring two parallel storylines, one contemporary and the other set in the late 1800s – drawing on real historical events.
The Le Fanu Ballads – The tale bridges the two time periods of Sheridan Le Fanu’s 19th Century ghost stories and our world today in his supernatural adaptation. It begins in a basement nightclub in Dublin called Sheridan’s. For four of the people who come to this club, a Royal Naval sailor, an au pair, an artist and a judge, this visit will change their lives. They will find themselves trapped in a story sprung from the tortured mind of Le Fanu himself.
The Haunted Hotel – In 1860, the formidable Countess Narona marries a rich young aristocrat in London – but shortly after travelling to Venice her husband dies, apparently of natural causes, leaving the Countess a rich woman. Years later, guests in a Venetian hotel encounter the terrifying apparition of a murder victim seeking revenge.
After Supper Ghost Stories – It’s Christmas Eve, 1891. In Laburnum Grove, Tooting, Uncle John’s whisky-punch and Aunt Maria’s toasted lobsters are not the only frights on the menu…
The Parson – Back from missionary work abroad, Reverend Martin Stokes stumbles into a nightmare of biblical proportions abroad. Based upon existing ghost stories from around Britain.
The Lie – Lisa gives up everything for her lover – and wanders a disused Victorian psychiatric hospital. Based upon existing ghost stories from around Britain.
Middlewitch – Midsummer. A remote village in North Wales has been living under a curse since 1823. Will the arrival of a new Methodist Minister offer them salvation? Based upon existing ghost stories from around Britain.
50 Berkeley Square – The most haunted house in Victorian London is set to give up its dark secret. A hundred years back in time, Molly discovers that passion never dies. Based upon existing ghost stories from around Britain.
The Midnight House – Fact and fiction collide in Jonathan Hall’s period ghost story. Set in the Welsh tin quarries that housed the nation’s treasures during the Second World War.
The House at Tinner’s Tor – A bleak and abandoned house and a ghost from the past troubles Anna, as she returns to Dartmoor – the scene of her childhood holidays. Kim Hicks stars as Anna, with Oona Beeson, Stewart Clapp, Elizabeth Revill, Daisy Martinez, Florence Wood, Alex Maclaren, Stuart Crossman and Helen Weaver
Emily’s Ghost – Young Emily goes to live with her family in an inherited country house. When she begins to see and hear strange things, Emily fears that she is being haunted.
Episode List* 01 – Personal Luggage * 02 – The Door in the Pillow * 03 – The Maid’s Bell * 04 – The Understudy * 05 – Grahamston * 06 – Knock of the Ban-Sithe * 07 – I See The Moon * 08 – Trespass * 09 – The Drover’s Path * 10 – Haunted Hospital * 11 – The Le Fanu Ballads * 12 – The Haunted Hotel * 13 – After Supper Ghost Stories * 14 – The Parson * 15 – The Lie * 16 – Middlewitch * 17 – 50 Berkeley Square * 18 – The Midnight House * 19 – The House at Tinner’s Tor * 20 – Emily’s Ghost * 21 – Afterward * 22 – Man-Size in Marble * 23 – The Cold Embrace * 24 – The Demon Lover The post Tales of Haunting – BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.
This collection includes BBC Radio dramatisations of some of Huxley’s best known novels.
Brave New World – It’s 2116, and Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson are token rebels in an irretrievably corrupted society where promiscuity is the norm, eugenics a respectable science, and morality turned upside down. There is no poverty, crime or sickness – but no creativity, art or culture either. Human beings are merely docile citizens: divided into castes, brainwashed and controlled by the state and dependent on the drug soma for superficial gratification.
The Dwarves – Sir Hercules and his wife, Filomena, are dwarves who have turned their country estate into a haven for others like themselves. This world of peace and harmony exists for many years until it becomes threatened from a most unexpected quarter.
Antic Hay – When inspiration leads Theo Gumbril to design pneumatic trousers to ease the discomfort of a sedentary life, he decides to give up teaching and seek his fortune in London. But his dreams seem to disappear as he gets caught up in the world of his self absorbed friends. A wicked satire on the glittering hedonism of the 1920s.
The Gioconda Smile – Henry feels anger and guilt as his first wife lies upstairs confined to her bed. He finds solace in his relationship with Janet Spence and their shared love of art. He also finds pleasure in an affair with Doris. Then, his wife Emily dies suddenly – but what, exactly, caused her heart failure?
The Genius and the Goddess – Thirty years ago, ecstasy and torment took hold of John Rivers. He had an affair with the wife of his mentor, Henry Maartens – a pathbreaking physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize – bringing the couple to ruin. Now, on Christmas Eve while his small grandson sleeps upstairs, Rivers is moved to set the record straight about the great man and the radiant, elemental creature he married, who viewed the renowned genius through undazzled eyes.
Episode List* 01 – Brave New World * 02 – Brave New World * 03 – The Dwarves * 04 – Antic Hay * 05 – The Gioconda Smile * 06 – The Genius and the Goddess The post Aldous Huxley BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Three BBC radio productions of major works by James Joyce – plus Gordon Bowker’s fascinating biographical account of his life.
Ulysses – In this full-cast dramatisation of Joyce’s epic modernist novel, the stories of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom combine as they meander through Dublin in the course of one day, 16 June 1904. Andrew Scott stars as Stephen, with Henry Goodman as Bloom, Niamh Cusack as Molly Bloom and Stephen Rea as the Narrator.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – An abridged reading of James Joyce’s autobiographical masterpiece portraying the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who must question the culture and religion of his native land before he can break free to become an artist. Read by Andrew Scott.
Dubliners – This abridged collection of 15 naturalistic tales depicts an array of characters from childhood through adolescence to maturity. Stories of love, loss, friendship, marriage, politics and family combine to create a unified world and a celebration of a city. Read by Stephen Rea.
James Joyce – A Biography – Gordon Bowker’s comprehensive study explores Joyce’s years spent in exile in Europe and examines how his life shaped his genius. Read by Jim Norton, with Andrew Scott as the voice of Joyce.
Episode List* 01 – Ulysses * 02 – Ulysses * 03 – Ulysses * 04 – Ulysses * 05 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man * 06 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man * 07 – Dubliners * 08 – Dubliners * 09 – Dubliners * 10 – Dubliners * 11 – James Joyce – A Biography The post The James Joyce BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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BBC Radio 4 productions of JG Farrell’s celebrated historical novels—plus bonus material.
Acclaimed author JG Farrell came to fame with his Empire Trilogy, exploring the collapse of British colonialism and its repercussions in three different countries. The first book in the series, Troubles, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Lost Man Booker Prize, while the second, The Siege of Krishnapur, was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction. Included here are three BBC Radio adaptations of the trilogy, plus an edition of Witness History exploring Farrell’s tragic accidental death.
Troubles – 1919, and Major Brendan Archer travels to Kilnalough in Ireland to visit his accidental fiancée, Angela. Arriving at her father’s once-grand hotel, the Majestic, he finds it a dilapidated wreck, overrun by vegetation and hordes of feral cats. And outside its walls, a violent storm is brewing—one that will sweep him, and the Majestic, away… Jim Norton reads Farrell’s tragicomic novel set during Ireland’s struggle for independence.
The Siege of Krishnapur – It is 1857 and British rule in India is under threat. At first the colonists are confident that their ’superior culture’ will prevail, but when the Indian mutineers attack the Residency in Krishnapur, the Collector is unsure whether his defences can hold out… This thrilling adaptation of JG Farrell’s masterpiece stars Alex Jennings, Shiv Grewal and Jasmine Hyde.
The Singapore Grip – 1937. Young Matthew Webb arrives in Singapore to join the family rubber business, and becomes embroiled in a love triangle with two beautiful women. But as the Japanese invasion grows closer, Matthew’s comfortable expat world is about to crumble… Robert Glenister, Jonathan Cake and Samantha Spiro star in this gripping dramatisation of Farrell’s satirical tale of the fall of Singapore.
Witness: History: The Death of JG Farrell – The Booker Prize-winning author drowned off the south-west coast of Ireland in 1979, aged just 44. Vincent Dowd talks to those who knew him, and hears an eyewitness account of his death.
Episode List* 01 – Intro * 01 – Troubles * 02 – Troubles * 03 – Troubles * 04 – Troubles * 05 – Troubles * 06 – Troubles * 07 – Troubles * 08 – Troubles * 09 – Troubles * 10 – Troubles * 12 – The Siege of Krishnapur * 13 – The Siege of Krishnapur * 14 – The Singapore Grip * 15 – The Singapore Grip * 16 – The Singapore Grip * 17 – The Singapore Grip * 18 – The Singapore Grip * 19 – The Singapore Grip * 20 – Witness – History – The Death of JG Farrell The post The Empire Trilogy A BBC Radio 4 Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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In ‘Dead on Arrival’, Jo Grant finds out what it’s like to be a ghost when she realises that no-one can see her. Even more alarmingly, the Doctor and the Brigadier appear to be mourning her death! Something has gone very wrong since her last trip in the TARDIS – but how can she tell the Doctor about it?
In ‘The Traitor’, the Fourth Doctor and Sarah help rescue the survivors of a crashed spaceship, only to discover that they are scientists deliberately marooned on a distant planet. The people plead with the Doctor and Sarah for help – but what happens next is far from expected.
In ‘The Power’, the Doctor and Leela are among those invited to the wedding of Princess Azula on the planet Shem. Yet barbarism still rules over a divided people, and the time travellers become embroiled in a bitter tussle for the secret of the mysterious Power.
Adapted by Paul Magrs from strip stories first published in the Doctor Who Annuals of the 1970s, these stories are brought to life by three much-loved readers and some stirring sound design.
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Experience Ender’s Game as you’ve never heard it before! With an all-new, original script written by Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game Alive is a full cast audio drama that reimagines the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic.
Ender’s Game Alive puts you into Battle School with young Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, as he trains to become the general who will lead Earth against the Formics, the alien “buggers”. Removed from his family at the age of six, Ender must prove his strength and his leadership, even as he fights his own doubts. The stakes are nothing less than the fate of humankind.
Ender’s Game Alive is performed by Kirby Heyborne, Stefan Rudnicki, Theodore Bikel, Scott Brick, Samantha Eggar, Harlan Ellison, Susan Hanfield, Roxanne Hernandez, Janis Ian, Rex Linn, Richard McGonagle, Jim Meskimen, Emily Rankin, John Rubinstein, Christian Rummel, and a full cast.
Episode List* 01 – Ender’s Game Alive * 02 – Ender’s Game Alive * 03 – Ender’s Game Alive * 04 – Ender’s Game Alive * 05 – Ender’s Game Alive * 06 – Ender’s Game Alive * 07 – Ender’s Game Alive The post Enders Game – Alive appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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An epic BBC historical drama based on Iceland’s famous saga of tragedy, heroism and fate.
Written by an anonymous storyteller in the 13th Century, and describing events between 960 and 1020, Nj ls saga is one of the great works of medieval literature. The longest and most celebrated of the Icelandic sagas, it deals with family honour, vengeance and a vicious blood feud spanning almost 50 years.
Based on the classic translation by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Plsson, this gripping dramatisation centres around two friends the wise, learned Njal, and the brave warrior Gunnar. Gifted with the ability to see into the future, Njal can foretell his own death but he is powerless to stunt the growth of the tree of strife that flourishes after Gunnar’s betrothal to Hallgerd with the thief’s eyes.
Embroiled in his wife’s intrigues, Gunnar is caught in a cycle of killings and revenge and as Njal’s sons are drawn into this web of violence, tragedy ensues. Bound by ties of blood, and unable to escape their destiny, Gunnar, Njal, and their descendants seem doomed to an endless vendetta. Even the coming of a new faith, Christianity, fails to halt the conflict and as brother turns upon brother, will peace ever be restored?
Adapted by veteran dramatist David Wade, this gripping tale vividly evokes Iceland’s heroic age. Thronged with action, passion, power struggles and prophetic dreams, it features a host of vividly-drawn characters, and stars Bernard Hepton as Njal, Struan Rodger as Gunnar and Maureen O’Brien as Hallgerd.
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In this witty, fact-packed A-Z, Newman takes the listener on a whirlwind tour from caring, sharing vampire bats to intelligent slime mould; from pacifist baboons to Richard Dawkins wrestling naked with his postman; from the invisibility cloak of the Hawaiian bobtail squid to Francis “DNA” Crick’s belief that life on Earth began with alien spaceships.
The only comedian ever credited in a paper published in the science journal Nature, Newman explores how stunning scientific breakthroughs have turned received ideas of evolution upside down.
Now a BBC Radio 4 comedy series, The Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution is based on the stand-up show Robert Newman’s New Theory of Evolution.
Episode List* 01 – A to C * 02 – D to F * 03 – G to O * 04 – P to Z The post Robert Newman’s Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Comedy drama by Mark Maier about the ongoing trials of the staff and passengers on an intercity rail service. Stars Jeremy Swift, Malcolm Tierney, Tessa Nicholson, Alex Kelly, Nicholas Boulton and more.
Mark Maier’s comedy is more an emotional roller coaster, less an intercity train journey. For starters, most of the staff can’t square up to the job. They’re suffering the torments of unrequited love – for each other…
Ticket-inspector Robin’s marriage has fallen apart and, in a horribly doomed last-ditch scramble, he’s staking all on Nadine, the restaurant-car chef who is scarcely aware Robin exists. Nadine is besotted with rogue-ish buffet-car manager Carl, who is completely in love with himself. Robin, in turn, ignores the forlorn flirtations from dippy trolley-attendant Carol.
Episode List* S01E01 – Tickets Please * S01E02 – Tickets Please * S01E03 – Tickets Please * S01E04 – Tickets Please The post Tickets Please appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Stand-up show with Ellie Taylor in which she talks about a controversial subject. She discusses her views with help from the studio audience and her side-kick Robin Morgan.
Comedian Ellie Taylor has some opinions she’d like to get off her chest.
In her brand new series, she discusses her views through stand-up, sketches and with help from the studio audience and her side-kick Robin Morgan.
First, Ellie looks at parenting and considers: has having kids ruined her life? To discuss it further she welcomes a special parenting expert…her Mum.
Next she considers whether masculinity has had unfairly poor press, and Robin Morgan asks members of the British public about their attitudes to men being men. She also welcomes a special guest, a man who knows all about how men should behave: Rupert Wesson from etiquette guide Debrett’s.
And what about the environment? Is the planet really worth saving? Ellie’s not so sure but to help talk it through she meets Ed Stafford, the first man to walk the length of the Amazon.
In the final episode, Ellie turns her attention to marriage, and wonders whether monogamy is all it’s cracked up to be…despite being married herself.
Episode List* S01E01 – Motherhood * S01E02 – Masculinity * S01E03 – The Environment * S01E04 – Monogamy * S02E01 – Parties * S02E02 – Exercise * S02E03 – The News * S02E04 – Holidays The post Ellie Taylor’s Safe Space appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Munchicrunch snack tycoon Morgan Jefferies, flies into to the town where he grew up – but finds that it doesn’t live up to his nostalgic expectations. He decides the only way to save it is to turn it into a heritage theme park.
A comedy in six-parts by Janey Preger
Episode List* S01E01 – England’s Glory * S01E02 – England’s Glory * S01E03 – England’s Glory * S01E04 – England’s Glory * S01E05 – England’s Glory * S01E06 – England’s Glory The post England’s Glory appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley, entertains an audience with his book of verse.
Performance poet John Hegley was born in 1953 in Newington Green, Islington.
He grew up in Luton and was educated at Bradford University, where he studied Literature and Sociology. He has worked as a bus conductor in Bristol, and in children’s theatre in London.
His collections include Glad to Wear Glasses (1990), Can I Come Down Now Dad (1991) and Dog (2000). He has published a volume of verse for children, My Dog is a Carrot (2002). In 2008 he coedited an anthology of poetry for young people, The Ropes: Poems To Hold On To, with Sophie Hannah. His most recent collections are Peace, Love and Potatoes (2012), New & Selected Potatoes (2013) and I am a Poetato (2013).
John Hegley has also released his own CD of songs and poetry, ‘Saint and Blurry’, and collaborated with Robyn Hitchcock as John Hegley and The Popticians.
In 2000 he received an honorary Arts Doctorate from Luton University, where he has also let creative writing classes. Hegley launched “Warning: May Contain Nuts”, a project using comedy to increase awareness of mental illness. He performed these shows in 2010 with other performers, including comic Mackenzie Taylor, talking about mental illness.
Episode List* S01E01 – Hearing With Hegley * S01E02 – Hearing With Hegley * S01E03 – Hearing With Hegley * S01E04 – Hearing With Hegley * S01E05 – Hearing With Hegley * S01E06 – Hearing With Hegley * S02E01 – Hearing With Hegley * S02E02 – Hearing With Hegley * S02E03 – Hearing With Hegley * S02E04 – Hearing With Hegley * S02E05 – Hearing With Hegley * S02E06 – Hearing With Hegley * S02E07 – Hearing With Hegley * S02E08 – Hearing With Hegley * S03E01 – Hearing With Hegley * S03E02 – Hearing With Hegley * S03E03 – Hearing With Hegley * S03E04 – Hearing With Hegley * S03E05 – Hearing With Hegley * S03E06 – Hearing With Hegley * S03E07 – Hearing With Hegley * S03E08 – Hearing With Hegley The post Hearing With Hegley appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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In this series Mark looks back on his early life as a political agitator and revisits locations he was active in. The forerunner to the Mark Steel’s in Town Series
Episode List* S01E01 – Swanley * S01E02 – Liverpool * S01E03 – Belfast * S01E04 – Left And Right
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Clashes of culture and class as the East End meets Cheshire. Stars Barbara Windsor and Peter Sallis. From December 1986.
Episode List* S01E01 – Living with Betty * S01E02 – Living with Betty * S01E03 – Living with Betty * S01E04 – Living with Betty * S01E05 – Living with Betty * S01E06 – Living with Betty
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The Remains Of Foley and McColl follows the surreal adventures of The Right Size – double act Sean Foley and Hamish McColl. Across the series the duo find themselves on a disco ship, taking part in a competition involving European Radio Drama, and visiting a Jane Austen novel.
Also features Steve Delaney, Rose English, Chris Lamer and Mark Stevens.
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Collected radio plays and short stories by Rachel Joyce
Rachel Joyce captured the hearts of millions with her bestselling debut novel, which told the moving tale of an ordinary man, Harold Fry, who embarks on an epic journey to deliver a message and save a life. But Harold’s story began its life on radio, in the award-winning play which opens this collection: To Be A Pilgrim, starring Anton Lesser, Anna Massey and Niamh Cusack.
Here, too, is an adaptation of the companion novel, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, with Sophie Thompson as Queenie; as well as a collection of linked Christmas tales, A Snow Garden and Other Stories, read by the author herself.
Also featured here are eleven more superb radio productions, each showcasing Joyce’s characteristic empathy, compassion and understanding of the human heart. Including a dark modern fairytale set in Baghdad, a Brief Encounter-style romance and the heartbreaking story of the Lindbergh baby, they are: Painting Mrs Jones, Feather, Kissing Shadows, Talking, Take One Night, The Porter and the Three Ladies, The Art of Balance, Little Lower than the Angels, The Wall, and The Memory Thief.
Life-affirming, touching and redemptive, these magical dramas explore themes of friendship, connection, the role of memory in our lives and the true nature of happiness. Among the star casts are Lindsay Duncan, Sophie Thompson, Shaun Dooley, Kenneth Cranham, Stephen Tompkinson and Lia Williams.
This special edition also features Rachel Joyce in conversation with Niamh Cusack.
Episode List* 01 – To Be a Pilgrim * 02 – The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy * 03 – A Hit to the Heart * 04 – Life Class * 05 – Painting Mrs Jones * 06 – The Man with Wings * 07 – Talking * 08 – Kissing Shadows * 09 – Feather * 10 – The Porter and the Three Ladies * 11 – Love’s Executioner * 12 – Christmas by the Lake * 13 – The Music Shop The post Rachel Joyce BBC Radio Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A definitive, fully-dramatised collection of the best-known works of Thomas Hardy
Renowned novelist and poet Thomas Hardy is best known for his fatalistic, often tragic novels set in the ‘realistic dream-country’ of Wessex, in south and south-west England. Drawing on his own life, he created some of the most memorable characters and stories in Victorian literature – many of which are included here.
In five dramas taken from Radio 4’s ‘Hardy’s Women’ season, we meet a few of Thomas Hardy’s most compelling female protagonists. The Hand of Ethelberta centres around an infamous poet who’s not the lady everyone thinks she is; while Two on a Tower is the star-crossed love story of Lady Viviette Constantine and handsome young astronomer Swithin St Cleeve. The Woodlanders tells Hardy’s tale of ambition, money and missed chances from the perspective of its unsung heroine, Marty South; unhappy Tess Durbeyfield recounts her life story in Tess of the d’Urbervilles; and in Jude the Obscure, Sue Bridehead relates the tale of stonemason Jude and his dreams of being a scholar. Among the stars of these irresistible adaptations are Rebecca Humphries, Olivia Poulet, Callum Scott Howells, Katy Sobey, Sacha Dhawan, Faye Marsay, Kirsty Oswald and Robert Emms.
Also featured are dramatisations of three of Hardy’s other masterpieces. Far from the Madding Crowd sees the beautiful, independent Bathsheba Everdene (Alex Tregear) pursued by three suitors: Gabriel Oak (Shaun Dooley), William Boldwood (Toby Jones) and Sergeant Troy (Patrick Kennedy). In The Return of the Native, Hardy’s poignant tale of love and longing is brought to life by an ensemble cast including David Calder, Emma Fielding and Adam Godley. And in The Mayor of Casterbridge, starring John Lynch and Ruth Wilson, a man spends his life trying to atone for his terrible past – but however hard he tries to conceal it, it will not be buried.
Rounding off our collection we have a pair of classic short stories – ‘The Withered Arm’ and ‘The Fiddler of the Reels’, starring Victoria Hamilton, Susan Jameson, Janet Dale, Stephen Tomlin and Struan Rodger.
Episode List* 01 – Far from the Madding Crowd * 02 – Far from the Madding Crowd * 03 – Far from the Madding Crowd * 04 – The Hand of Ethelberta * 05 – The Return of the Native * 06 – The Return of the Native * 07 – The Return of the Native * 08 – Two on a Tower * 09 – Two on a Tower * 10 – The Mayor of Casterbridge * 11 – The Mayor of Casterbridge * 12 – The Mayor of Casterbridge * 13 – The Woodlanders * 14 – The Woodlanders * 15 – The Woodlanders * 16 – The Woodlanders * 17 – The Woodlanders * 18 – The Woodlanders * 19 – The Woodlanders * 20 – The Woodlanders * 21 – The Woodlanders * 22 – The Woodlanders * 23 – Tess of the d’Urbervilles * 24 – Tess of the d’Urbervilles * 25 – Tess of the d’Urbervilles * 26 – Jude the Obscure * 27 – Jude the Obscure * 28 – Jude the Obscure * 29 – The Withered Arm * 30 – The Fiddler of the Reels The post Thomas Hardy – The BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Alexei Sayle writes and stars in the comedy about life, love and not living together. Also features Siobhan Redmond, Adjoa Andoh, Chris Pavlo, Nadim Sawalha, Harry Towb and more.
Loft – Having read ‘Women are from Mars and Men are From Croydon’ and ‘Set Sail on The SS Relationship’ – Andy thinks it’s about time he and Julie headed into deeper waters. So naturally this means a visit to the estate agents…
Airport – Andy and Julie take their holiday at Heathrow Airport. Strolling through the waste ground beyond the perimeter fence, Julie wonders whether all their holidays will be like this.
Animal – Andy and Julie make their first attempt to throw a posh dinner party.
Occurrence – Andy’s dinner party sparks a rift with Julie.
Enemy – Dad’s double-life shocks Andy and Julie.
Episode List* S01E01 – A Loft * S01E02 – A Airport * S01E03 – A Animal * S01E04 – A Occurrence * S01E05 – A Enemy The post Sorry About Last Night appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of A.S. Byatt’s Frederica Quartet.
Inspired by the novels of D.H. Lawrence, particularly The Rainbow and Women in Love, this ambitious quartet from Booker Prize-winning novelist A.S. Byatt charts the lives of the Potter family between 1953 and 1970. Set against the changing social and political landscape of England in the ’50s and ’60s, it follows the heroine, Frederica, from precocious teenager to TV talk-show host and from her Yorkshire home to the heart of swinging London.
The Virgin in the Garden sees the Potter family preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II’s coronation, while Frederica auditions for a play about Elizabeth I written by the beautiful Alexander Wedderburn. Will she win the part and Alexander’s heart?
In Still Life, Frederica’s ambitions – both academic and sexual – come to fruition, as she gains a place at Cambridge University to study English – and men.
In Babel Tower, Frederica has given up her carefree, independent lifestyle – but as the ’60s’ cultural revolution explodes and the quest for personal and public freedom becomes all-important, will settling down bring her happiness?
And in A Whistling Woman, as events build to a tragic climax in Yorkshire, back in London, Frederica is faced with a difficult choice….
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A landmark collection of BBC Radio productions of the works of Katherine Mansfield – plus two bonus dramas.
One of the great Modernist authors, Katherine Mansfield was a short story virtuoso, redefining the genre with her subtle, powerfully perceptive tales. A prolific writer, she penned over 60 stories and several poetry collections before her tragic death from tuberculosis in 1923, aged only 34.
This collection opens with seven plays from Radio 4’s 2020 series And Other Stories: Katherine Mansfield. It features dramatisations of ‘Marriage a la Mode’, ‘Something Childish But Very Natural’, ‘Bliss’, ‘Daughters of the Late Colonel’, ‘The Garden Party’, ‘Ma Parker’ and ‘Her First Ball’, all starring Hattie Morahan, supported by casts including Charlotte East, Luke Nunn, Ellie Piercy, Joel MacCormack and Cecilia Appiah.
There are readings of ‘The Stranger’, ‘Miss Brill’, ‘A Cup of Tea’, Poison’ and ‘The Doll’s House’, by Hugh Bonneville, Barbara Flynn, Hattie Morahan and Blake Ritson.
Also included are some of her lesser-known tales: ‘Mr Reginald Peacock’s Day’ (read by Brian Gear), ‘Sun and Moon’ (read by Lin Sagovsky, and ‘Honeymoon’ (read by Emilia Fox).
Finally, two original dramas explore moments in the life of the great author. Cherie Rogers’ An Oddly Complete Understanding looks at Mansfield’s friendship with Virginia Woolf and stars Rosalind Shanks and Penelope Wilton. Katie Hims’ Luxembourg Gardens re-imagines Katherine Mansfield’s last day in Paris and stars Hattie Morahan.
Something Childish but Very Natural – Henry and Edna meet and fall in love, just as passionately as they always hoped they might.
Daughters of the Late Colonel – Jug and Con’s fear of their father’s disapproval continues even after he has died.
Bliss – Bertha’s life is dedicated to happiness, and her will for happiness folds around every experience, until this one.
The Garden Party – Laura learns, briefly, the awful gap between her class and that of a dead neighbour on the day of her mother’s garden party.Hattie Morahan ….. Katherine Mansfield
Marriage a la Mode – Isabel’s new friends come between her and husband William.
Life of Ma Parker – The cleaner for a Literary Gentleman discovers she has absolutely nowhere to grieve when her grandson dies.
Her First Ball – Leila learns that the joy of a ball, and of being young and free, is short-lived and destined to end.
The Doll’s House – The Burnell children invite their classmates to see their new toy, all except the pauper Kelsey girls.
Mr Reginald Peacock’s Day – “The truth was that once you married a woman she became insatiable…. nothing was more fatal for an artist than marriage….” A singing teacher ponders the mundane nature of married life, compared to the passion of his profession.
Honeymoon – By the Mediterranean Sea, Fanny contemplates her future with George, a ‘man of the world’.
Miss Brill – Read by Barbara Flynn
Poison – Read by Blake Ritson
The Stranger – Read by Hugh Bonneville
Sun and Moon – The young offspring of a wealthy family witness the transformation of their house for a grand gathering.
A Cup of Tea – Rosemary Fell is accomplished and rich, but her vanity is exposed when she decides to do a good deed.
The Lady’s Maid – Ellen, the Maid, finds solace in her one-sided conversation with “madam,” an unnamed guest of Ellen’s employer.
An Oddly Complete Understanding – Introduced to each other by Lytton Strachey in 1916, the friendship between Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf had to overcome formidable obstacles – the differences of class and culture, the threat of madness and tuberculosis. But the influence of each on the other was destined, to some degree, to change the direction of women writers this century.
Luxembourg Gardens – For the last five years of her short life, Katherine Mansfield struggles to find a cure for her pulmonary tuberculosis. Very ill, and sometimes hallucinatory, she spends her last day in Paris before resolving to stop writing while she finds a cure. A Mansfieldesque play about Katherine Mansfield.
Episode List* 01 – Something Childish But Very Natural * 02 – Daughters of the Late Colonel * 03 – Bliss * 04 – The Garden Party * 05 – Marriage a la Mode * 06 – Ma Parker * 07 – Her First Ball * 08 – The Doll’s House * 09 – Mr Reginald Peacock’s Day * 10 – Honeymoon * 11 – Miss Brill * 12 – Poison * 13 – The Stranger * 14 – Sun and Moon * 15 – A Cup of Tea * 16 – The Lady’s Maid * 17 – An Oddly Complete Understanding * 18 – Luxembourg Gardens * 19 – Germans At Meat And Frau Fischer * 20 – The Sister Of The Baroness * 21 – The Modern Soul * 22 – The Advanced Lady * 23 – Frau Brechenmacher Attends A Wedding The post Katherine Mansfield BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Joanna Trollope is an English novelist, originally a writer of historical romantic fiction, before becoming an author of contemporary fiction, for which she has become better known. She is his fifth-generation niece of Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope.
Her work, including best sellers The Choir and The Rector’s Wife, has often been dismissed as ‘the Aga sagas’, for their rural themes and settings, though this belies the often bleak and subversive nature of her plots.
Presented here are five BBC Radio productions of some of Trollope’s better known stories:
Other People’s Children – The complications facing parents when a marriage breaks down and a new relationship begins. Joanna Trollope’s tale about the traumas and delights of adjusting to a new step-family.
Parson Harding’s Daughter – Caroline Harding’s only suitor disappeared to India without her and forgot that he’d ever planned to marry her. She was left with few hopes, for what was there for a parson’s daughter – of limited means and no looks – to expect in 1775?
Daughters-in-Law – As a spirited new daughter-in-law joins the Brinkley clan, simmering tensions threaten family harmony. Evoking the beautiful wilds of Suffolk, this is a sharply observed study of a family in crisis – suspected affairs, unspoken tensions and money troubles threaten to tear this close-knit cast of characters apart.
A Village Affair – Alice and Martin Jordan relocate with their three children to the quiet English village of Pitcombe, and all seems to be well at first. But there is a secret below the surface which begins to emerge after Alice meets Clodagh, the daughter of local landowner Sir Ralph Unwin.
Dora and Elizabeth – Specially written by Joanna Trollope to mark the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Dora shares her birthday with the Queen. She reflects that this was the only thing about her that made her mother proud.
Episode List* 01 – Other People’s Children * 02 – Other People’s Children * 03 – Other People’s Children * 04 – Other People’s Children * 05 – Other People’s Children * 06 – Other People’s Children * 07 – Other People’s Children * 08 – Other People’s Children * 09 – Other People’s Children * 10 – Other People’s Children * 11 – Parson Harding’s Daughter * 12 – Parson Harding’s Daughter * 13 – Parson Harding’s Daughter * 14 – Daughters-in-Law * 15 – Daughters-in-Law * 16 – Daughters-in-Law * 17 – Daughters-in-Law * 18 – Daughters-in-Law * 19 – A Village Affair * 20 – Dora and Elizabeth The post Joanna Trollope BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Broadcaster, writer, philanthroper and one of the first public figures to suggest high-visibility clothing for people manning temporary car parks, the public Alan Partridge is a cherished institution.
But what of the unseen Alan?
For the first time, this famously private man welcomes us into his home and audibly deshrouds himself for a fascinating series of podcasts. Over the course of 18 generously durated episodes, Partridge grants us full and unfettered access to his off-screen life (within reason).
In exchange for a series of payments from Audible, he promises an access-all-areas pass to the nooks and crannies of his hinterland, to reveal a wiser, cleverer, more reflective Alan than many of his more vaunted peers have given him credit for. He then sends the resultant podcasts to Audible ensuring they meet the technical specifications laid down in the contract.
Alan returns to podcasting, offering his unique perspective on life’s big questions, the hot-button issues of the day, his professional successes and the most intimate details of his personal life in a series he is already calling ‘seminal’. The second series will come partly from the oasthouse—in order to satisfy people who’d rather he didn’t mess with the format—and partly from other locations—to appeal to those who found the original format a bit limiting.
Episode List* S01E01 – From the Oasthouse * S01E02 – From the Oasthouse * S01E03 – From the Oasthouse * S01E04 – From the Oasthouse * S01E05 – From the Oasthouse * S01E06 – From the Oasthouse * S01E07 – From the Oasthouse * S01E08 – From the Oasthouse * S01E09 – From the Oasthouse * S01E10 – From the Oasthouse * S01E11 – From the Oasthouse * S01E12 – From the Oasthouse * S01E13 – From the Oasthouse * S01E14 – From the Oasthouse * S01E15 – From the Oasthouse * S01E16 – From the Oasthouse * S01E17 – From the Oasthouse * S02E01 – Rekindlings * S02E02 – Novel * S02E03 – Stake Out * S02E04 – Potholing * S02E05 – Tyneham * S02E06 – Wild Swimming * S02E07 – Time Travel * S02E08 – Katarina * S02E09 – Brand Ambassador * S02E10 – Alpha Male * S02E11 – Perfect Day The post Alan Partridge – From the Oasthouse appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A one-man comedy sketch show from character comedian and voice artist Damien Slash featuring a profusion of high octane characters – all from his own voice. Featuring guest appearances from Natasia Demetriou and Roisin O’Mahony.
Meet the sinister, pipe-smoking dog who’s looking for a master, find out what’s on Morgan Freeman’s bucket list, witness Ian McEwan in a parallel universe as a grime artist. There’s the erudite, articulate troll who regards his work as performance art; Automated David, the troubled man behind automated phone systems; and the Masterchef contestants serving up superinjunctions and making mountains out of molehills. Gamblers, gamers, music execs and tech CEOs seeking immortality.
Plus, every TV car advertisement ever is summed up in ‘Serious Man Car’, and the shock troops of gentrification are parodied in a series of commercials and audio diaries targeting Peckham-dwelling, wannabe-woke, avocado-munching maniacs.
From the surreal to the satirical, from the zeitgeist to the absurd, no aspect of modern life is left un-skewered in these two fast-paced, frenetic and fabulously funny series.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Damien Slash Mixtape * S01E02 – The Damien Slash Mixtape * S01E03 – The Damien Slash Mixtape * S01E04 – The Damien Slash Mixtape * S02E01 – The Damien Slash Mixtape * S02E02 – The Damien Slash Mixtape * S02E03 – The Damien Slash Mixtape * S02E04 – The Damien Slash Mixtape * S03E01 – The Damien Slash Mixtape * S03E02 – The Damien Slash Mixtape * S03E03 – The Damien Slash Mixtape * S03E04 – The Damien Slash Mixtape * S04E01 – The Damien Slash Mixtape * S04E02 – The Damien Slash Mixtape * S04E03 – The Damien Slash Mixtape * S04E04 – The Damien Slash Mixtape The post The Damien Slash Mixtape appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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In a warm and irreverent interview series, Stephen Mangan offers insights into a well known guest. He asks them to reveal three guilty secrets inside his virtual confessional box.
Actor, comedian and broadcaster Stephen Mangan presents a comedy chat show about shame and guilt.
We’re used to hearing celebrity interviews, where stars are persuaded to show off about their achievements and talk about their proudest moments. Stephen is not interested in that. He doesn’t want to know what his guests are proud of, he wants to know what they’re ashamed of. That’s surely the way to find out what really makes a person tick.
Episode List* S01E00 – The Confession of David Tennant (Pilot) * S01E01 – The Confession of Cariad Lloyd * S01E02 – The Confession of Dr Phil Hammond * S01E03 – The Confession of Clarke Peters * S01E04 – The Confession of Suzi Ruffell * S01E05 – The Confession of Marian Keyes * S01E06 – The Confession of Phil Wang * S01E07 – The Confession of Joan Bakewell * S01E08 – The Confession of Lucy Porter * S01E09 – The Confession of Nigel Planer * S01E10 – The Confession of Alastair Campbell * S02E01 – The Confession of Olivia Williams * S02E02 – The Confession of Anthony Horowitz * S02E03 – The Confession of Ed Byrne * S02E04 – The Confession of Shaparak Khorsandi * S02E05 – The Confession of Konnie Huq * S02E06 – The Confession of David Quantick * S03E01 – The Confession of Jessie Cave * S03E02 – The Confession of Neil Dudgeon * S03E03 – The Confession of Sheila Hancock * S03E04 – The Confession of Maisie Adam * S03E05 – The Confession of Lady Antonia Fraser * S03E06 – The Confession of Ben Bailey Smith aka Doc Brown The post The Confessional appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Louise Jameson reads a gripping novelisation of a classic TV adventure for the Fourth Doctor, as played by Tom Baker.
The TARDIS lands in a primeval forest, and the Doctor meets Leela, a warrior banished from her tribe. He learns that an ongoing war between the Sevateem and the Tesh was instigated by Xoanon, the god they both worship.
In reality an all-powerful computer, Xoanon is possessed by a desperate madness directly related to the Doctor – one which only the Time Lord can rectify!
In order to do battle with Xoanon the Doctor must escape, not only from the savage practices of the Sevateem, but also from the mind-controlling impulses of the Tesh.
Louise Jameson, who played Leela in the BBC TV series, reads Terrance Dicks’s unabridged novelisation of the 1977 TV serial by Chris Boucher.
Episode List* 01 – Chapter 1 The Outcast * 02 – Chapter 2 The Invisible Terror * 03 – Chapter 3 Captured * 04 – Chapter 4 The Face on the Mountain * 05 – Chapter 5 Attack * 06 – Chapter 6 Danger for Leela * 07 – Chapter 7 The Test of the Horda * 08 – Chapter 8 Beyond the Wall * 09 – Chapter 9 The Tesh * 10 – Chapter 10 The Summons * 11 – Chapter 11 Xoanon * 12 – Chapter 12 The Trap * 13 – Chapter 13 The Last Battle * 14 – Chapter 14 Recovery * 15 – Chapter 15 The Departure The post Doctor Who and the Face of Evil appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A comedy by Sue Teddern. Western movie-mad Heather is the Sherlock Holmes of the rundown Sutter Estate, who is determined to help her community
Just this side of nosey, Heather is western movie-mad. She’s also the Sherlock Holmes of the rundown Sutter Estate.
For a Few Dollars More – With the aid of daughter Natalie and her boyfriend Ryan, she’s determined to help her local community. For starters, Heather tries to help a family with a sick child, but events take an unexpected turn…
Wild Bunch – Heather helps a neighbour who is being harassed on the estate and also tries line dancing.
The Searchers – Emma thinks that her mother is having an affair and asks Heather to investigate.
Unforgiven – Recently widowed Denis hires Heather to trace his first love Yvonne.
True Grit – Heather used to clean for Angela. Now Angela suspects her teenage daughter is on drugs so asks Heather to investigate.
High Noon – 16 years ago, Heather’s best friend Dawn ran off with Heather’s man Joe. Now Dawn has the cheek to ask Heather to check if Joe is having an affair!
Episode List* S01E01 – For a Few Dollars More * S01E02 – Wild Bunch * S01E03 – The Searchers * S01E04 – Unforgiven * S01E05 – True Grit * S01E06 – High Noon The post Lucky Heather appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A BBC trio of horse-racing dramas
Scripted by Dave Sheasby (the co-writer of The Blackburn Files), these three cracking comedy dramas bring the world of horse-racing alive, from the agony and ecstasy of risking it all on a likely-looking thoroughbred to the thrill of having a share in a potential equine superstar…
In One Flat Summer, newly redundant clothing salesman Ken Warburton finds himself adrift and lured by the temptations of serious gambling after an old acquaintance offers him a promising partnership. Betting on the horses has always been Ken’s hobby, but now it’s a full-time job. The stakes are raised by a big win at Newmarket – but can his success last? And what of the cost at home? Gerard McDermott stars as Ken, with Gillian Bevan, Anthony Ofoegbu and Janet Maw.
Sequel Sharing Fatman sees Ken’s wife Margaret taking the reins to find an absorbing new hobby that will steer Ken away from gambling and fill their retirement. Could owning a horse be the answer? Trainer Karen French warns them both about the downsides – but when they make a connection with Mr Fatman at the horse sales, the Warburtons throw caution to the wind… Starring Gerard McDermott as Ken and Gillian Bevan as Margaret, with Tony Rohr, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Rachel Atkins and Fine Time Fontayne.
Also included is standalone play Apple Blossom Afternoon, which won a Giles Cooper Award. Ted’s down at the betting shop, just like every Saturday. But this one’s a bit special: it’s his 55th birthday. This particular anniversary isn’t like any of the others, so he indulges in a dream accumulator bet – but will Apple Blossom oblige? Malcolm Hebden stars as Ted.
Episode List* S01E01 – One Flat Summer – The Craven Stakes * S01E02 – One Flat Summer – The 2000 Guineas * S01E03 – One Flat Summer – The Derby * S01E04 – One Flat Summer – The Eclipse Stakes * S01E05 – One Flat Summer – The Nottingham Meeting * S01E06 – One Flat Summer – The St Ledger * S02E01 – Sharing Fatman – Daffodil Days * S02E02 – Sharing Fatman – Breezing Up * S02E03 – Sharing Fatman – White Swan Sailing * S02E04 – Sharing Fatman – Under Starters Orders * S02E05 – Sharing Fatman – The Thoroughbred Game * S02E06 – Sharing Fatman – Rainbows And Buried Treasure * S03E01 – Apple Blossom Afternoon The post One Flat Summer and Sharing Fatman appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Bashful Edward passes a local allotment and speaks to an attractive female allottee.
He decides there and then that he must apply for a plot. But doing so involves an interview with ferocious site-manager Bernie who runs the allotments with military rigour. It’s all looking unlikely until Edward reveals that his father was a local landscape horticulturalist, one Bernie has admired all his life.
Edward joins the site. And it is only then that he springs a surprise on Bernie. One that leads to explosive confrontation.
Which of them will lose the plot?
Nick Warburton’s delicious comedy stars James Fleet.
Episode List* S01E01 – Losing The Plot * S01E02 – An Incident At The Border * S01E03 – How’s Your Mother * S01E04 – The Accidental Head The post Turf Wars appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Stephen Tompkinson and Gary Wilmot star as buddies grappling the country’s most common and least sexy male cancer, in Martin Jameson’s comedy drama.
Tony – job going nowhere, marriage collapsed, son barely speaking to him – thinks life couldn’t get any worse. Until the nimble-fingered consultant tells him he has prostate cancer.
Head spinning, Tony collides with Lenny’s car in the urology car park. Lenny has been in hand-to-gland combat with the disease for ten years but still lives life to the cantankerous max. Over five episodes, Lenny drags Tony out of the slough of despondency. Together they kick Tony’s cancer into touch, and his life into vibrant new shape.
47,000 men are diagnosed every year, with UK deaths from prostate cancer now exceeding those from breast cancer. Writer Martin Jameson was diagnosed in 2013 and endured lengthy treatment in 2014, despite which he discovered a well of humour and life-affirming camaraderie with other prostate veterans whose experiences get to the nub of what it is to be a middle-aged man.
Prostrate – because that’s what everyone calls it and that’s how it renders you – is a rebel yell of solidarity to every man (and supportive woman) living with the disease. The enemy is silence – the weapons are friendship and laughter.
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A woman called Josie leaves London for better life in Glasgow – at the indie band theme park, where she will finally be happy and accepted.
Her flatmate Darren is just happy having his meals cooked by someone other than his mum.
Together they drink tea and wander the streets searching for romance and adventure, making fun of squares and making up games. It’s them against the world, or so Josie hopes. How much can you rely on a friend who doesn’t want to grow up?
Based on characters from the short films “Romance and Adventure” and “Let’s Go Swimming” by Josie Long and Douglas King.
Written by and starring Josie Long.
Episode List* S01E00 – Josie Long Romance and Adventure (Pilot) * S01E01 – Josie Long Romance and Adventure * S01E02 – Josie Long Romance and Adventure * S01E03 – Josie Long Romance and Adventure * S01E04 – Josie Long Romance and Adventure The post Josie Long Romance and Adventure appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Award-winning comedian Josie Long presents her first radio series, in which she aims to explore all of the planet’s wonders, in detail, over four episodes.
In the first programme, the theme is astronomy, with subsequent episodes covering the enlightenment, the animal world, trivia, parents, plants, propriety and grandparents.
Josie is joined by Irish comedian Maeve Higgins and a variety of comedic guests including Robin Ince, Chris Neill, Daniel Harkin, Henning Wehn, Isy Suttie and American broadcaster Jesse Thorn.
Each episode is anchored by Josie and Maeve in the studio, with Josie presenting her essay on the week’s given subject, and Maeve helping with questions and illustrations. The guests help to play extra characters or provide specialist advice.
Episode List* S01E01 – Astronomy for Dummies * S01E02 – The Enlightenment * S01E03 – Obscure Animal Facts * S01E04 – Propriety, Plants, Grandparents and Growing Your Own The post Josie Long All of the Planet’s Wonders appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Three BBC radio adaptations of famous novels by the prolific 19th-century author Margaret Oliphant.
Sometimes called ‘the feminist Trollope’, Margaret Oliphant is an unjustly-neglected British writer of the 19th century, famed for her perceptive, ironic psychology, and her strong female characters. She wrote over 100 works of fiction in a wide variety of genres, ranging from novels of small-town life to historical tales and supernatural stories. Included here are three of her best-loved works, brimming with dry wit and flawed but fascinating heroines.
Miss Marjoribanks – Lucilla Marjoribanks, a large and determined girl, returns from school with two resolves – to comfort her recently widowed father and to revolutionise society. She becomes the doyenne of Carlingford’s social circle with her Thursday soirees – but her plans are disrupted by her friends’ romances, a new arrival, the solving of a mystery and a wedding….
Phoebe Junior – Phoebe Beecham has met Clarence Copperhead at a Ball in London. His wealthy father disapproves of her and she fortuitously leaves London to visit her sick Grandmother in Carlingford. But a shock awaits her on arrival….
Hester – In this deliciously sardonic tale of credit and discredit, a young woman in a 19th Century Cheshire town, having been snubbed and discarded in marriage, does something truly radical. When the family bank is in danger, she pledges her private fortune to save it – but insists on running it herself, as a single woman, in defiance of all convention.
Episode List* 01 – Miss Marjoribanks * 02 – Miss Marjoribanks * 03 – Miss Marjoribanks * 04 – Miss Marjoribanks * 05 – Phoebe Junior * 06 – Phoebe Junior * 07 – Phoebe Junior * 08 – Phoebe Junior * 09 – Hester The post Margaret Oliphant BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Twigg and Dersingham, Purveyors of Fine Veneers, has been a successful family firm in the City for three generations. But now, in the depression of 1930, it can no longer cover its costs and the owner, young Mr Dersingham, is looking for cuts.
Then James Golspie arrives with a proposition. He has the sole agency for some excellent Baltic veneers at extraordinary prices and, despite the caution of the company accountant Mr Smeeth, an agreement is reached. But is Smeeth right? Is Golspie everything he seems?
Staring Marcus Brigstocke as you guide and Henry Goodman as James Golspie
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Comedian Alun Cochrane has a 25-year mortgage which he can only pay off by being funny.
In this series he takes us on a room by room, stand-up tour of his house.
He has a fridge that beeps at him when he doesn’t move quickly enough and a fire alarm he can’t reach.
His relationship with his house is a complicated one.
A hoarder of funny and original observations on everyday life, Alun invites us to help him declutter his mind and tidy his ideas into one of those bags that you hoover all the air out of and keep under your bed.
This show will help Alun and his house work through their relationship issues and prevent a separation that Alun can ill afford; at least not until the market picks up anyway.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Kitchen * S01E02 – Living Room * S01E03 – The Bathroom * S01E04 – Bedroom The post Alun Cochrane’s Fun House appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Golden girl Zoe’s been dead for ten years, her body dragged from the river Black after a night out to celebrate the end of school. But now a woman who says she’s Zoe has turned up in her hometown of Blackwater, on the Irish border, with no memory of the last decade. She claims she woke up in a forest nearby, bruised and bleeding, and doesn’t know where she’s been all this time. What happened to her? Is she really Zoe? And if so, who’s in her grave?
Paul, a local boy whose band were playing in the venue where Zoe was last seen, went to prison for her murder. Now he’s out, but he’s lost everything and is shunned in the town. The people of Blackwater were easily convinced that a black boy murdered Zoe, and the evidence did stack up – but if she’s not even dead, then how did he get convicted? Did someone deliberately frame him? He’s determined to find out the truth and clear his name. But does he really know nothing about what happened?
Could it be that everyone involved with the case is hiding something? There’s Zoe’s uncle Phil, a former detective superintendent with an explosive secret. There’s Steve, the police officer who found ‘Zoe’s’ body in the river Black, and sent Paul to prison for her murder. And there’s Zoe’s friend Danny, who wasn’t where she said she was on that night ten years ago. When Paul and Zoe collide, they realise they’re the only ones who can help each other. As they sift through their conflicting memories of that day ten years ago, they start to discover that not everyone is happy that Zoe’s back from the dead.
Episode List* S01E01 – Blackwater * S01E02 – Blackwater * S01E03 – Blackwater * S01E04 – Blackwater * S01E05 – Blackwater * S01E06 – Blackwater * S01E07 – Blackwater * S01E08 – Blackwater * S01E09 – Blackwater * S01E10 – Blackwater The post Blackwater A BBC Radio Crime Drama appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The complete Series 1 and 2 of the BBC radio sitcom about the ups and downs of a second-class writer.
Once upon a time, there was a struggling writer named Woodhouse Carton, who tried to make his name as an author while simultaneously running his own creative writing class….
Over 12 episodes, we follow the frustrated scribe’s fruitless search for fame and fortune as, supported by his long-suffering wife, Gila, and feckless sidekick Seamus, he tries to write the definitive biography of philosophical novelist Wolf Heinrich Graubart – or compose the hit song that will set him up for life.
Travelling to Berlin in an attempt to get under the skin of his subject, Woodhouse is confused with contradictory accounts – and confounded by extra expenses. Desperate to make big money, he tries his hand at children’s fiction, pens an oratorio, gets a new agent and searches for a patron. With a baby on the way, will he manage to turn his fortunes around and find success at last?
Scripted by award-winning biographer and dramatist Ronald Hayman, this superbly written literary sitcom stars Tim Pigott-Smith as Woodhouse, Zoë Wanamaker as Gila and Stephen Rea as Seamus, with a distinguished cast including Miriam Karlin, Sheila Hancock and Celia Imrie.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Little Grey Man * S01E02 – Keats, Baby You Done It Wrong * S01E03 – In An Unreal City * S01E04 – Stories Before Bed * S01E05 – Red Whales In The Funhouse * S01E06 – A Touch Of The Whatsits * S02E01 – Kiss My Hand, Iris * S02E02 – Meet My New Agent * S02E03 – We Poets Rejoice * S02E04 – Penny-Pinching Publisher * S02E05 – Hunting, Shooting And Wishing * S02E06 – Why Did You Marry A Writer The post Such Rotten Luck appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Meet The Kneebones. a squabbling, financially ruined family trying to survive in St. Day, Cornwall. Their father, Jed Kneebone (scrap yard merchant and Country & Western addict) has died, leaving his three children (Slick, Dwight and Maddy) in serious debt. Maddy reluctantly runs the yard, Slick tries to find work (there isn’t any) and Dwight does dodgy deals.
Could an old family legacy, The Kneebone Bonanza, be the answer?
Carl Grose’s wildly inventive Cornish comedy about family, death, love and hope.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Kneebone Bonanza * S01E02 – The Kneebone Bonanza * S01E03 – The Kneebone Bonanza * S01E04 – The Kneebone Bonanza * S01E05 – The Kneebone Bonanza The post The Kneebone Bonanza appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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When a major financial donor approaches HEARTH a housing charity for the homeless offering them a block of new apartments for the use of those most in need, the organisers think there is a god after all. Using the charity’s fast track access to planning permissions money is lavished on refurbishing a raft of luxury apartments – a clear statement that even the poor deserve a decent place to live. But it’s only when a local journalist raises the question as to where the benefactor’s money is coming from that alarm bells start to ring. Could money launderers really be so low as to exploit the needs of the desperate and homeless?
Episode List* S01E01 – Manchester – Buy To Leave * S01E02 – The Hold Out * S01E03 – The Conversion * S01E04 – Transparency * S01E05 – The Laundromat The post Pretty Vacant appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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It’s London, 1593. Christopher Marlowe, a young writer, is fatally stabbed in a Deptford lodging house because of a disagreement over the bill. There’s an investigation, the witnesses are interrogated, and the suspect walks free. The authorities find that Marlowe was the aggressor and was killed in self-defence.
History says it was just a drunken quarrel, nothing more. But Charles Nicholl thinks it was murder, and an unsolved murder never grows old.
In this series, Nicholl traces Marlowe’s political and intelligence dealings, explores the shadowy underworld of Elizabethan crime and espionage, and penetrates a complex and chilling story of entrapment and betrayal.
Christopher Marlowe was a playwright and in 1593 his star was at its height. More than any, he was the writer who influenced Shakespeare and had he lived there would have been two stars in that constellation. But he died at the age of 29 and how and why he died – thereby hangs a tale.
This is a true story. The people in it are real people, the events are documented, the words were spoken, though we have invented some of them, and set them in a modern idiom for the sake of clarity. But this true story is also a mystery, a jigsaw with many pieces missing, and the spaces have to be filled with what historians call speculation and detectives call hunches. Using drama, we show what might have happened – what could have happened – maybe even what did happen.
Charles Nicholl’s book The Reckoning is the winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Non-Fiction and the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction.
Episode List* 01 – What Feeds Me Destroys Me * 02 – Secret Servants * 03 – The Price of Silence The post The Reckoning appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Radio sketch show created by David Quantick, in which every sketch is a delivered by a single voice. This includes an awards ceremony acceptance speech delivered by a complete imposter fighting off security men, a Children’s Hour presenter frightening the children with ever stranger substitutes for Muffin The Mule and many bizarre versions of The Shipping Forecast. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in three series (of six episodes each) in 2006, 2008 & 2009. Starring Dan Maier, Lizzie Roper, Graeme Garden, Deborah Norton, Andrew Crawford, Dan Antopolski, Simon Greenall, Kate Gielgud and others, as well as featuring Bill Oddie and Jeremy Clarkson as themselves.
Episode List* S01E01 – One * S01E02 – One * S01E03 – One * S01E04 – One * S01E05 – One * S01E06 – One * S02E01 – One * S02E02 – One * S02E03 – One * S02E04 – One * S02E05 – One * S02E06 – One * S03E01 – One * S03E02 – One * S03E03 – One * S03E04 – One * S03E05 – One * S03E06 – One The post One – David Quantick appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A close election sees evil Chief Whip Francis Urquhart start scheming his way into 10 Downing Street. Stars Daniel Massey.
The Insane Route – A close election sees evil Chief Whip Francis Urquhart start scheming his way into 10 Downing Street.
The Dart of a Chance – Francis puts pressure on Roger, and a press leak occurs. Meanwhile, Mattie wonders who her new ally is.
The Unkindest Cut – Francis deals with an irate media mogul who wants the Prime Minister replaced, after sitting on a leak.
In Hot Pursuit – Francis uses the Prime Minister’s brother as the lynchpin to his plans. Mattie starts to get suspicious.
The Path to Danger – An unpopular media merger seems to put Francis’ plans at risk. Roger is once more forced to co-operate.
Death and the Maiden – Roger finally stands up for himself, but pays the price. His misfortune, however, gives Mattie her lead.
Episode List* 01 – The Insane Route * 02 – The Dart Of Chance * 03 – The Unkindest Cut * 04 – In Hot Pursuit * 05 – The Path To Danger * 06 – Death And The Maiden The post House of Cards appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Whatever anyone declared categorically about Shura Giraldi, someone else insisted on the exact opposite. Shura was handsome and beautiful; Shura was kind and good, Shura was exploitative and evil. Shura was just another struggling White Russian refugee trying to get by in 1930s China; Shura was the heart and brains of a gang that ran clubs, sex workers, illicit booze and drugs, when not robbing banks and stealing gems to fence in Shanghai. Shura loved ballet and cabaret, creating the Shura Giraldi Dance Troupe that topped the bill at all the best Peking nightclubs.
Shura sometimes presented as male and sometimes as female. When passing as a man Shura bound his breasts tightly and wore a sharp tailored suit; when she was a woman she wore startlingly coloured robes, both Chinese-style cheongsam and Western dresses, letting her raven hair flow loose, said witnesses. Shura had added an incredibly massive layer of confusion and obfuscation to anyone looking by changing gender. Switching for anonymity, for commercial gain or criminal advantage, for love, for a whim.
Paul French is a historian and writer who focuses on China in the first half of the 20th century. He’s been on Shura’s trail for 15 years, digging through the paper records and archives in half a dozen countries in an attempt to get to grips with the enigma that was Shura. This story, a product of that tireless research, is full of truths, but like an old jigsaw brought down from the attic after decades, there are many pieces missing. So we’re using drama, written by Sarah Wooley, to conjure and join the dots of Shura’s story, and go in search of a lost life and a forgotten world.
The search will take us from a Russian far east in violent revolution, to the chaos of the mass emigration of the White Russians, to the crowded hutongs of Peking; from that city’s nightclubs and cabarets, to the casinos of Shanghai; from a China wracked by rampaging warlordism, invaded by Japan, and then fighting its own civil war that culminated in its own revolution.
Shura saw it all; Shura lived through it all; Shura, in part, explains it all.
Episode List* 01 – Peking Noir * 02 – Peking Noir * 03 – Peking Noir * 04 – Peking Noir * 05 – Peking Noir * 06 – Peking Noir The post Peking Noir appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Herbert George Wells was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and has been called the “father of science fiction”.
In addition to his fame as a writer, he was prominent in his lifetime as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons and satellite television
This collection brings together BBC Radio dramatisations and readings of some of Wells’ most notable works of fiction.
The Time Machine – Transported to the year AD 802701, the Time Traveller encounters the peaceful Eloi, a beautiful elfin race of childlike adults afraid of the dark, and with good reason. Beneath the earth’s surface live the Morlocks, apish troglodytes who torment the Eloi. When the time machine is stolen, the Time Traveller must enter Morlock territory if he ever hopes to return home.
The Wonderful Visit – Everyday life in a small English village is completely disrupted when the vicar accidentally shoots and wounds an angel who’s somehow flown off-course.
The Island Of Dr Moreau – Edward Prendick, the single survivor of a shipwreck, is rescued by Montgomery in a vessel carrying a menagerie of savage animals. Taken to an uncharted island, he meets Dr Moreau – a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments have caused him to abandon the civilised world. It soon becomes clear he has been developing these experiments – with truly horrific results.
The Invisible Man – When a strange man takes shelter at an inn, his skin covered from head to toe in bandages, he causes distrust. Griffin, a scientist, reveals that he has successfully managed to turn himself invisible, but alas without a way of undoing it. Desperate for a cure, his ailment drives him to many sinister actions, including murder.
The War Of The Worlds – When Earth is invaded by Martians in great mechanical tripods, terror ensues. They are equipped with heat rays and poisonous black gas, intent on wiping out the human race. During the destruction, one man’s story details the monstrous invasion and his struggle to find his wife in the devastation.
Love and Mr Lewisham – Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is pursuing former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson passionately, only to find that she hides a dark secret. For she is involved in a plot of trickery, working as an assistant to her stepfather – a charlatan ‘mystic’ who earns his living by deluding the weak-willed with sly frauds.
The First Men In The Moon – A chance meeting between penniless businessman Mr Bedford and absentminded scientist Dr Cavor leads the two on a fantastical journey to the moon. However, they are unprepared for what they find: freezing nights, boiling days and sinister alien life. Will they be trapped forever?
Kipps – Arthur ‘Artie’ Kipps leaves school, and his first love Ann, when he’s apprenticed to a Folkestone draper. His life – and fortune – changes dramatically when he answers an advertisement in a newspaper.
Tono-Bungay – Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless, when the young George Ponderevo is employed by his uncle Edward to help market this ineffective medicine, he finds his life overwhelmed by its sudden success. George …. Neil Dudgeon
Ann Veronica – This witty and lively tale sees Ann Veronica living alone in London in her quest for liberation but it’s an uphill struggle; she has to fight off the sexual advances of a so called friend, discovers the love of her life is married, and gets arrested and imprisoned for a suffragette raid on the House of Commons.
The History of Mr Polly – Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife’s nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman’s outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning his shop to the ground, and killing himself.
In the Abyss – Elstead designs a sphere capable of exploring the seabed for the first time. His deep-sea expedition encounters some strange creatures that inhabit the unknown depths. What he finds amazes him.
The Sea Raiders – After a suspicious-looking object is washed in by the tide, flesh-eating monsters from the deep are soon terrorising residents along the Devon coastline.Performed by Robert Bathhurst
A Dream of Armageddon – A stranger on a train reveals his secret. When he dreams, he enters a future reality of an advanced civilization descending into senseless war.
The New Accelerator – In the name of science, HG Wells agrees to sample a new drug designed to speed up both body and mind.
The Inexperienced Ghost – A man encounters a troubled spirit. But could this meeting lead to tragedy?
Episode List* 01 – The Time Machine * 02 – The Wonderful Visit * 03 – The Island of Doctor Moreau * 04 – The Invisible Man * 05 – The War Of The Worlds * 06 – Love and Mr Lewisham * 07 – The First Men In The Moon * 08 – Kipps * 09 – Tono-Bungay * 10 – Ann Veronica * 11 – The History of Mr Polly * 12 – In the Abyss * 13 – The Sea Raiders * 14 – A Dream of Armageddon * 15 – The New Accelerator * 16 – The Inexperienced Ghost The post H.G. Wells A BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Playwright Ron Hutchinson places his story in the context of where he grew up and the extraordinary effect the Titanic story has had the world over. If you think you really know how and why the Titanic sank, buckle up and get ready to hear an alternative version of events.
It’s 1912 and Emma Hinton has come to New York 6 months after the sinking of the Titanic determined to find out the real reason the ship sank and her fiancé died. And having met William MacBride from Belfast she thinks she’s found the answer. But it’s an answer that some very powerful men in London and New York do not want made public.
Episode List* 01 – Ghosts of the Titanic * 02 – Ghosts of the Titanic * 03 – Ghosts of the Titanic * 04 – Ghosts of the Titanic The post Ghosts of the Titanic appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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BBC Radio 4’s ambitious eight-hour dramatisation of Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman’s epic masterpiece set during the Battle of Stalingrad.
This powerful work, completed in 1960, charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the turmoil of war. Its comparison of Stalinism with Nazism was considered by Soviet authorities to be so dangerous that the KGB placed the manuscript under arrest and Grossman was informed his book would not be published for at least 200 years.
Having been a household name as one of Russia’s most distinguished war correspondents, Grossman died in 1964 aged only 58 – the banning of his book hastening the end of his life – and he would never know the fate of his masterpiece: smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm, to freedom and eventual publication in the West in 1980. Today it is increasingly hailed as the most important Russian novel of the 20th century.
Viktor, a nuclear physicist, is evacuated with his family from Moscow eastwards to Kazan. It’s October 1942 and the Russians are defending Stalingrad from the ferocious attack of the Germans. Viktor has a revelatory breakthrough in his research but his wife Lyuda learns of the death of her son and her grief drives a wedge between the couple.
Viktor’s mother, Anna, writes him a farewell letter in September 1941. As a Jew in Berdichev, in the Ukraine now occupied by the Nazis, she has been forced into a ghetto and understands what will come next. The letter somehow finds its way to Viktor and is to be a source of strength for him in the days to come.
Evacuated from Moscow to Kuibyshev before the invading German army, Lyuda’s sister, the beautiful Yevgenia (Zhenya), is alone. While she tackles Soviet bureaucracy for the residence permit she needs for food, her ex-husband, the Commissar Nikolai Krymov, is posted into the heart of the battle for Stalingrad, hundreds of miles away.
In a forest in northern Russia, Lenya, a pilot, longs to see his pregnant girlfriend, Vera. She is stranded in Stalingrad with her father, Stepan. Her mother (another sister of Lyuda) has drowned in the Volga. She watches the planes daily, hoping to catch sight of Lenya.
Episode List* 01 – Viktor and Lyuda * 02 – Anna’s Letter * 03 – Krymov and Zhenya – Lovers Once * 04 – Vera and Her Pilot * 05 – Journey * 06 – Abarchuk * 07 – Building 61 – Those Who Were Still Alive * 08 – Lieutenant Peter Bach * 09 – Novikov’s Story * 10 – A Hero of the Soviet Union * 11 – Krymov in Moscow * 12 – Fortress Stalingrad * 13 – Viktor and the Academy The post Vasily Grossman’s Life & Fate appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Gemma Arrowsmith has a sketch show on Radio 4! But will she be allowed to host it herself? Surely she’s not famous or important enough. Join her as she fights to host her own show – but it’s going to be difficult with all the celebrities who keep turning up and taking over…
Gemma Arrowsmith’s Sketched Out is crammed with sketches which answer Britain’s most pressing questions:
- How many films in the Jane Austen cinematic universe will you watch?
- Should we ban all toddlers?
- Why has Susie Dent from Dictionary Corner been arrested?
- Will you still have to pay off your student loan in the afterlife?
- Who really is Banksy?
… plus an array of furious sketches about the cost of living crisis.
In the pilot episode – titled Gemma Arrowsmith: Emergency Broadcast – Gemma broadcast sketches and characters from the basement of Old Broadcasting House where she had been stuck since the nation went into lockdown. Her only companion was the ghost of Lord Reith (he might have been a figment of her imagination).
Episode List* S01E00 – Emergency Broadcast (Pilot) * S01E01 – Paterson Joseph * S01E02 – Joanna Lumley * S01E03 – Adam Fleming * S01E04 – E-Host! The post Gemma Arrowsmith’s Sketched Out appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Two diverse women run a service together, MiraclesRUs, offering to fulfil whatever domestic task might arise that any hard-pressed modern household might want to delegate.
In the opening episode, Caroline is running Household Solutions on her own from the student rooms she is renting – just leafleting through doors, offering a family back-up service.
After a chance meeting with Sylvia, Sylvia is sure she could be helpful to the business; Caroline is sure she couldn’t.
Sylvia persists and, against her better judgement, Caroline gets drawn in. And gradually, throughout the series, a mutual respect is formed and a strong business, MiraclesRUs, is built up.
Caroline is running Household Solutions on her own from the student rooms she is renting – just leaflets through doors, offering a family back-up service. Then she meets Sylvia, who is sure she could be helpful to the business. Caroline is sure she couldn’t. But Sylvia persists and gradually, throughout this BBC Radio series, a mutual respect is formed and a strong business, MiraclesRus, is built up. In these four episodes, the duo must help a client with romantic problems; are engaged by a married woman to stay for three days in her cottage in Sussex and post daily pre-written postcards to her husband at home; and attend an auction at a country house to bid for a Lot for a client. Written by Lesley Bruce. Starring Anna Massey as Sylvia and Deborah Findlay as Caroline. Music and stings from the music of Nick Drake. Theme: “When the Day is Done” and stings: “Time of No Reply” and “Cello Song”.
Episode List* S01E01 – Flux * S01E02 – Domestic Arrangements * S01E03 – Postcards * S01E04 – Lot 243 The post Miracles R Us appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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All three series of the satirical sitcom by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, following the fortunes of a hapless backbench MP.
Ever since he fell off the stage live on Question Time, Labour MP Duncan Stonebridge has been stuck in political limbo. Struggling with a tiny majority and a career that’s going nowhere, he’s caught between the impossible demands of his constituents and the dictates of Westminster and constantly afflicted by the bane of all politicians: events.
Whether he’s getting wound up about a wind farm, saving his party agent from a rabid Russian oligarch, fending off accusations of financial irregularities or losing a laptop full of top-secret government reports, life never runs smoothly for the beleaguered backbencher. So when an old friend makes him an attractive job offer, will he give up his seat for a cushy corporate role or battle on in the hope that things can only get better?
Written by comedy kings and Now Show hosts Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, this sparkling sitcom was first broadcast in 2005, and still feels topical and relevant today. James Fleet stars as Duncan Stonebridge, with a stellar supporting cast including Simon Greenall, Geoffrey McGivern, Sally Hawkins and Sarah Solemani.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Party Line * S01E02 – The Party Line * S01E03 – The Party Line * S01E04 – The Party Line * S01E05 – The Party Line * S01E06 – The Party Line * S02E01 – The Party Line * S02E02 – The Party Line * S02E03 – The Party Line * S02E04 – The Party Line * S02E05 – The Party Line * S02E06 – The Party Line * S03E01 – The Party Line * S03E02 – The Party Line * S03E03 – The Party Line * S03E04 – The Party Line * S03E05 – The Party Line * S03E06 – The Party Line The post The Party Line appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Karl Howman stars in Jim Eldridge’s sitcom about a likeable ex-convict trying to turn over a new leaf.
Released from prison early, chirpy Cockney conman Terry King is given a chance to find his feet again. His challenge is to breathe new life into a run-down community centre – with the support of Sandra Gaines, a social worker with a warm heart but an unhappy past. If he succeeds, he’ll prove that rehabilitation is possible. But if he fails, he’ll be sent back to jail….
Situated in the middle of a rough council estate, Grove Hill Farm needs a lot of work. The windows are broken, the plumbing’s out of action and part of the centre was burned down during a riot. But it’s not just the buildings that could use some TLC – the community’s pride needs restoring, too. Can Terry get the locals to come together and make the centre a neighbourhood hub again? He’s got big plans – concerts, dances, bingo – but first he must raise the funds and win over the residents….
As he uses his charm and his con artist skills to start turning the place around, he finds himself growing closer to Sandra and love slowly blossoms between the two of them. But will Terry be able to stay out of trouble – and out of prison? And as the end of his sentence approaches, will he and Sandra finally get together?
Created by Jim Eldridge, whose numerous radio credits include King Street Junior and Albert & Me, this feel-good comedy drama stars Karl Howman (Brush Strokes, EastEnders) as Terry and Phyllis Logan (Lovejoy, Downton Abbey) as Sandra.
Episode List* S01E01 – Coming Out * S01E02 – Quick Draw McGraw * S01E03 – Runaway * S01E04 – Plumbing The Depths * S01E05 – Hostage To Fortune * S01E06 – Dance On * S02E01 – Off The Hook * S02E02 – Just One Night * S02E03 – Committed * S02E04 – Where The Action Is * S02E05 – Big Trouble * S02E06 – Out Of The Mouth of Babes * S03E01 – Good Sports * S03E02 – A Many-Splendoured Thing * S03E03 – Betting Fever * S03E04 – Here Comes the Judge * S03E05 – Star * S03E06 – Endings and Beginnings The post Coming Alive appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity.
Robin decides that the agency can’t help with this—and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.
Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie’s true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits—and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways…
Episode List* 001 – Chapter 1 * 002 – Chapter 2 * 003 – Chapter 3 * 004 – Chapter 4 * 005 – Chapter 5 * 006 – Chapter 6 * 007 – Chapter 7 * 008 – Chapter 8 * 009 – Chapter 9 * 010 – Chapter 10 * 011 – Chapter 11 * 012 – Chapter 12 * 013 – Chapter 13 * 014 – Chapter 14 * 015 – Chapter 15 * 016 – Chapter 16 * 017 – Chapter 17 * 018 – Chapter 18 * 019 – Chapter 19 * 020 – Chapter 20 * 021 – Chapter 21 * 022 – Chapter 22 * 023 – Chapter 23 * 024 – Chapter 24 * 025 – Chapter 25 * 026 – Chapter 26 * 027 – Chapter 27 * 028 – Chapter 28 * 029 – Chapter 29 * 030 – Chapter 30 * 031 – Chapter 31 * 032 – Chapter 32 * 033 – Chapter 33 * 034 – Chapter 34 * 035 – Chapter 35 * 036 – Chapter 36 * 037 – Chapter 37 * 038 – Chapter 38 * 039 – Chapter 39 * 040 – Chapter 40 * 041 – Chapter 41 * 042 – Chapter 42 * 043 – Chapter 43 * 044 – Chapter 44 * 045 – Chapter 45 * 046 – Chapter 46 * 047 – Chapter 47 * 048 – Chapter 48 * 049 – Chapter 49 * 050 – Chapter 50 * 051 – Chapter 51 * 052 – Chapter 52 * 053 – Chapter 53 * 054 – Chapter 54 * 055 – Chapter 55 * 056 – Chapter 56 * 057 – Chapter 57 * 058 – Chapter 58 * 059 – Chapter 59 * 060 – Chapter 60 * 061 – Chapter 61 * 062 – Chapter 62 * 063 – Chapter 63 * 064 – Chapter 64 * 065 – Chapter 65 * 066 – Chapter 66 * 067 – Chapter 67 * 068 – Chapter 68 * 069 – Chapter 69 * 070 – Chapter 70 * 071 – Chapter 71 * 072 – Chapter 72 * 073 – Chapter 73 * 074 – Chapter 74 * 075 – Chapter 75 * 076 – Chapter 76 * 077 – Chapter 77 * 078 – Chapter 78 * 079 – Chapter 79 * 080 – Chapter 80 * 081 – Chapter 81 * 082 – Chapter 82 * 083 – Chapter 83 * 084 – Chapter 84 * 085 – Chapter 85 * 086 – Chapter 86 * 087 – Chapter 87 * 088 – Chapter 88 * 089 – Chapter 89 * 090 – Chapter 90 * 091 – Chapter 91 * 092 – Chapter 92 * 093 – Chapter 93 * 094 – Chapter 94 * 095 – Chapter 95 * 096 – Chapter 96 * 097 – Chapter 97 * 098 – Chapter 98 * 099 – Chapter 99 * 100 – Chapter 100 * 101 – Chapter 101 * 102 – Chapter 102 * 103 – Chapter 103 * 104 – Chapter 104 * 105 – Chapter 105 * 106 – Chapter 106 * 107 – Chapter 107 The post Cormoran Strike [06] The Ink Black Heart appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Hugh Laurie, Rory Bremner and Morwenna Banks star in this six-part comedy series that sends up both politics and traditional sitcom conventions
1993, and the party of the loony right and centre sweeps to power, changing the face of politics forever and drastically disrupting the very normal, very predictable, very sitcom lives of the actor-residents of Microcosm.
When the newly appointed Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Action Man, MP, moves into No. 10, his first priority is to change the curtains. But next he must appoint a Cabinet – starting with the Minister for Honesty, Sir Lord Knight – and try to uncover the mystery behind the clandestine Department of Secrets… With the country getting bored, the Government stirs up a convenient crisis; and a new event, ‘No War’ Anniversary Day, is added to the PM’s diary (to rank alongside ‘No Horse’ Ascot Week and ‘No Balls’ Wimbledon).
Meanwhile in Microcosm, the villagers are sitting around being stereotypes, experimenting with character development, taking lessons in scene-changing technique from the mysterious Mr Mann (including a lecture on fading footsteps) and finding out what radio feels like from inside a hi-fi. Will they emerge as the lead characters in a sitcom of their own? Only the Narrator knows – but when he goes AWOL, and the sound effects go missing, it spells trouble for Microcosm. It’ll end in tears – not to mention resentment, revenge, malice and attempted murder…
Written by Moray Hunter (Spitting Image, Absolutely), and first broadcast in 1987, this surreal, satirical, marvellously meta comedy features Hugh Laurie, Morwenna Banks, Robin Driscoll, Robert Glenister and Clive Mantle, with guest appearances by Rory Bremner.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Party Party * S01E02 – The Party Party * S01E03 – The Party Party * S01E04 – The Party Party * S01E05 – The Party Party * S01E06 – The Party Party The post The Party Party appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Two full-cast fantasy dramas.
THE WEIRDSTONE OF BRISINGAMEN
Two children on holiday in the North of England encounter perilous magical forces.
The story, set in and around Macclesfield and Alderley Edge in Cheshire, tells the story of Colin and Susan, who are staying with some old friends of their mother while their parents are overseas.
Susan possesses a small tear-shaped jewel held in a bracelet: unknown to her, this is the weirdstone of the title. Its nature is revealed when the children are hunted by the minions of the dark spirit Nastrond who, centuries before, had been defeated and banished by a powerful king.
The children also have to compete with the wicked shape-shifting sorceress Selina Place and the evil wizard Grimnir, each of whom wishes to possess the weirdstone. Along the way Colin and Susan are aided by the wizard Cadellin Silverbrow and his dwarf companions.
THE MOON OF GOMRATH
Colin and Susan return to the site of their adventure at Alderley Edge, and the strangeness begins again.
Susan had been previously been gifted a magical golden bracelet whose powers are now called upon.
So, it’s back to Fundindelve and a reunion with the wizard Cadellan…
Alan Garner’s sequel to ‘The Weirdstone of Brisingamen – a weird and marvellously evocative tale of Celtic mysteries, elves, spirits and strange presences….
Episode List* 01 – Weirdstone of Brisingamen – Peril * 02 – Weirdstone of Brisingamen – Sleepers * 03 – Weirdstone of Brisingamen – Fightback * 04 – Weirdstone of Brisingamen – Excape * 05 – The Moon of Gomrath – Part 1 * 06 – The Moon of Gomrath – Part 2 * 07 – The Moon of Gomrath – Part 3 The post Tales of Alderley by Alan Garner appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A collection of eight full cast dramas from BBC Radio, spanning the period from the first World War to the present, which explore the hardship, trials and costs resulting from human conflict.
The Ice Cream War – 1914: as millions prepare for slaughter on the Western Front, a ridiculous array of British and German colonists in East Africa try to emulate their European counterparts and begin to choose sides.
Journey’s End – On the British front line at St Quentin, in 1918, a young military officer, fresh from school, finds himself facing the realities of war, and the tension and strain of life in the trenches.
A Fragile Peace – It’s 10 November 1919 and Folkestone is preparing for the first Remembrance Day, and contemplating a new post-war world.
The Snow Goose – A wounded bird brings together a disfigured artist and a young girl and helps in a courageous act of bravery in the Second World War.
Back Home – Rusty returns home to Britain after being evacuated to the United States during the Second World War. But she’s reunited with a mother she doesn’t recognise.
Fighting Over Beverley – A Yorkshire man belatedly flies to America 45 years on to reclaim the war bride taken from him by an American war hero.
The War After The War – Layla came back to the UK three months ago, missing a leg, her army career seemingly over, and her young life in tatters. Layla still needs physiotherapy and support, so she can’t travel to India to be with her parents. Instead, Layla’s come to stay with her grandfather Bernard, behind his bookshop. The last time he saw Layla was at Elsie’s funeral, four years ago. She was 15 and he barely knew her.
Shrapnel – Having escaped from a war-torn city, reporter Nadine assumes that she can handle anything. But in reality her mind remains trapped and under siege.
Episode List* 01 – An Ice Cream War * 02 – Journey’s End * 03 – A Fragile Peace * 04 – The Snow Goose * 05 – Back Home * 06 – Fighting Over Beverley * 07 – The War After The War * 08 – Shrapnel The post The Trials of War – Eight Full Cast BBC Radio Dramas appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age – a term he popularized. During his lifetime, he published four novels and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald only received critical acclaim after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
This collection includes four BBC Radio dramatisations of his novels, as well as readings of five of his short stories.
The Great Gatsby – Nick Carraway arrives in Long Island and is reacquainted with his distant cousin, Daisy Buchanan. He falls in with her wealthy crowd. His neighbour, the self-made and self-invented millionaire, Gatsby, is the man who has everything – but one thing will always be out of his reach.
Tender Is the Night – Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a young film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets that hold them together.
The Beautiful and Damned – Anthony Patch, presumptive heir to a vast fortune, marries renowned beauty, Gloria Gilbert. True socialites, the pair are the essence of glamour: a golden couple, spoiled and selfish, who descend through the wild partying of the Jazz Age into despair and alcoholism.
The Last Tycoon – Haunted by the death of his wife, 1930s Studio Head Monroe Stahr works eighteen hour days, each one a collision of talent meetings, set visits, script brainstorms and preview screenings. He’s the “last of the princes”, is making the studio millions and seems bullet proof. But then he meets the mesmerising Kathleen. As their affair plays out, we follow the disintegration of the great Hollywood legend, and witness the darker heart of the Hollywood machine as a paranoid fear of communism comes to the fore.
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” performed by Scott Brick; “The Lost Decade,” performed by Paul Michael Garcia; “Three Hours between Planes,” performed by Jeff Cummings; “The Bridal Party,” performed by Grover Gardner; and “Babylon Revisited,” performed by Ray Porter.
First broadcast May 2007
Episode List* 01 – The Great Gatsby * 02 – Tender Is The Night * 03 – The Beautiful and Damned * 04 – The Last Tycoon * 05 – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button * 06 – The Lost Decade * 07 – Three Hours between Planes * 08 – The Bridal Party * 09 – Babylon Revisited The post F. Scott Fitzgerald BBC Radio Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The collected BBC radio productions of the internationally renowned playwright Tom Stoppard.
One of the giants of British theatre, Sir Tom Stoppard has been writing for the stage and screen for over 50 years. Full of wit, verbal brilliance and big ideas, his plays appeal to critics and audiences alike and are among the most studied works of the last century.
This collection contains the masterpiece, Arcadia, which won him an Olivier Award for Best Play and transferred to radio with the cast of the award-winning National Theatre production. Two of his most famous and best-loved dramas: the hilarious spoof whodunnit The Real Inspector Hound and the play that made Stoppard’s name, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead are also included, as is the bittersweet drama Dalliance, based on Arthur Schnitzler’s play Liebelei.
The troubled history of Stoppard’s home country, Czechoslovakia, is explored in two thought-provoking plays. Rock ‘n’ Roll, about love, loyalty, compromise and music, was specially adapted for radio by Stoppard himself, with a new final scene and a soundtrack featuring artists such as, U2, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys and The Velvet Underground. Its themes of resistance to totalitarianism are echoed in Professional Foul, dramatised by Stoppard from his award-winning BBC TV play and set in communist Prague.
Stoppard also wrote numerous original radio plays, eight of which are featured here including; The Prix Italia-winning Albert’s Bridge, In the Native State (later adapted as the stage play Indian Ink) and Darkside, based on the themes of Pink Floyd’s classic album The Dark Side of the Moon.
Among the multitude of stars in these dazzling dramas are Hugh Grant, Rufus Sewell, Bill Nighy, Felicity Kendal, Harriet Walter, Amaka Okafor, Emma Fielding, Bill Paterson, John Hurt, Bertie Carvel, Toby Jones, Penelope Keith, John Le Mesurier, Penny Downie, Anna Massey, Ron Cook, Ronny Jhutti, Mathew Baynton, Peggy Ashcroft and Timothy West.
Episode List* 01 – The Real Inspector Hound * 02 – M Is for Moon Among Other Things * 03 – The Dissolution of Dominic Boot * 04 – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead * 05 – If You’re Glad, I’ll Be Frank * 06 – Albert’s Bridge * 07 – Where Are They Now * 08 – Professional Foul * 09 – The Dog It Was That Died * 10 – Dalliance * 11 – In the Native State * 12 – Arcadia * 13 – Rock ‘n’ Roll * 14 – Darkside The post Tom Stoppard – A BBC Radio Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Writer and director David Hare is one of England’s leading political dramatists, celebrated for his many award-winning plays analysing the morality of contemporary Britain. This collection comprises BBC Radio dramatisations of some of his most acclaimed pieces.
It opens with his two acknowledged masterpieces: Plenty and Amy’s View. These mesmerising dramas, both spanning several decades, present vivid portraits of strong women diminished by circumstance, metaphorically evoking the changing values and collapsing ideals of the post-war period. These are followed by Knuckle, a fast-paced parody of the American hardboiled thriller set in the Home Counties; and Pravda, co-written with Howard Brenton, a satirical comedy about a monstrous media tycoon.
Also included are South Downs, the much acclaimed Chichester Festival production of his play brought to radio, plus the play in which Hare made his acting debut: the powerful monologue Via Dolorosa, a meditation on his extraordinary 1997 trip to Israel and Palestine.
Plenty – Susan Traherne returns to Britain haunted by her experiences as a Resistance fighter in Occupied France. Post-war life seems dull, but Susan’s rage against mediocrity and her attempts to find fulfilment not only damage her own life, but alter the lives of those around her.
Amy’s View – The play takes place in Pangbourne and in London, from 1979 to 1995. Over the course of these years, “a running argument about the respective virtues of traditional theatre and the media arts weaves its way through espoused opinions on marriage, love, fame, fidelity, betrayal, personal and artistic integrity, and the sometimes elusive ethics of the corporate world.
Knuckle – It’s the 1920s and Curly Delafield, a young arms merchant, is determined to discover the secret behind the disappearance of his sister Sarah. Delafield’s investigations uncover a web of corruption under the placid setting of Guildford, where his father lives in suspicious circumstances with his housekeeper, Mrs Dunning. Will Delafield unfold the mystery of his sister’s disappearance …. and is his father involved?
Pravda – Lambert Le Roux is a media tycoon of tremendous power. He’s also a monster manipulating all, including Fleet Street.
South Downs – A pin sharp young pupil (an astonishing professional debut from Alex Lawther) is cut off from his fellow boys by virtue of his own intellect, background and questioning spirit. The school, with its unyielding and rigid outlook on life, leaves the boy isolated and confused. In an unlikely meeting with the free-spirited mother of another pupil (Anna Chancellor) her generosity and sound advice offers the boy a world of kindness and possibility.
Via Dolorosa – In the form of a monologue, the play deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through Hare’s own 1997 journey through Israel and Palestine, and the 33 people whom he met. He describes the extremism he found, between warring political-philosophical-religious diehards within each populace, Israeli and Palestinian alike: ‘people who seek religious justification for excessive behaviour on either side’.
Episode List* 01 – Plenty * 02 – Amy’s View * 03 – Knuckle * 04 – Pravda * 05 – South Downs * 06 – Via Dolorosa The post David Hare A BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A collection of acclaimed radio retellings of Greek and Roman myths.
Powerful, uncompromising re-imaginings of classic tales from Roman and Greek history, hailed as masterpieces when they first aired on BBC radio. Told in contemporary speech, they revitalise the ancient myths, making them fresh, relevant and accessible to a modern-day audience.
King Priam and His Sons – A second son is about to be born to the Trojan king Priam and his wife Hekabe. But the gods foretell only dissension and disaster if the child is permitted to live.), 29th November 1998 (The Death of Achilles, Helen at Ephesus)
The Death of Achilles – With the bloody Trojan War at stalemate, Agamemnon hits on a cunning plan.
Helen in Ephesus – After defeating the Trojans, the Greeks sail home. Will the gods be kind to them?
Dionysos – Zeus’s son, Dionysos has returned to Thebes. His coming has affected everyone, young and old, and represents a pivotal shift to a belief in a single god who dwells in every human heart. But to King Pentheus, his coming is a subversive threat to the authority of the state and a danger to himself that he seems powerless to fight against.
The Oresteia: Agamemnon – Agamemnon returns home to Argos after his victory at Troy. But his wife Clytemnestra has determined to take terrible revenge for his sacrifice of their eldest daughter Iphigenia.
The Oresteia: The Libation Bearers – Agamemnon’s son Orestes returns home from exile to kill his mother in revenge for his father’s murder. But where can he find the strength to carry out such a terrible deed?
The Oresteia: The Furies – Orestes has avenged his father Agamemnon by murdering his killer, his own mother Clytemnestra. Now the Furies, deities of revenge, are on his trail and baying for blood. Can the young gods Apollo and Athena stop this cycle of revenge?
Severus – Libyan born Severus, his Syrian wife Julia and their two sons Antoninus and Geta are celebrated across the Roman empire as the perfect royal family: a symbol of the civility and harmony of Rome. So when they come to York in 209AD, many are amazed that the most powerful man in the world has chosen to call these shores “home”. After all, Britannia is the centre of nothing; a troublesome backwater that has never been truly pacified; in the eyes of every cosmopolitan Roman citizen, it is the arse-end of the world. So why are they here?
Episode List* 01 – King Priam and His Sons * 02 – The Death of Achilles * 03 – Helen in Ephesus * 04 – Dionysos * 05 – Agamemnon * 06 – The Libation Bearers * 07 – The Furies * 08 – Severus The post Myths Reimagined – BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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What happens when your neuroses come to life? What shape will they take? Lusus is a psychological horror anthology starring Ncuti Gatwa, Morfydd Clark, Ella Bruccoleri, Karima McAdams, Patsy Ferran, Susannah Fielding, Caroline Faber and Alistair Petrie.
Noa, a young Gen Z Urbanite, suffers from continual FOMO. There is always someone somewhere doing something better than the choice she has made. When trying to keep a birthday arrangement with her mum and sister and attend a fun night out with successful friends, her wish to be in two places at the same time turns deadly.
Tanya is home looking after her baby daughter while her wife Kate (Karima McAdams) works overseas. Their plans to try for more children fuels Tanya’s anxieties about the plastic crisis. As her panic about their impact on the planet grows larger…. so does the fatberg beneath their flat. They learn the hard way that the waste they create will come back to them as either food, or poison.
Magnus is a surgeon who secretly believes that if he doesn’t do his daily rituals, his patients will die. We follow Magnus through the habitual voicemail messages he leaves for his ex-girlfriend Julia, but with each day she doesn’t answer, his rituals are further interrupted. The mindfulness podcast he listens to, in a desperate attempt to change, isn’t helping and might in fact be making things much worse …
Episode List* S01E01 – Doppelgänger * S01E02 – Kappa * S01E03 – Rituals * S01E04 – Gorgon * S01E05 – Eris * S01E06 – Boonies * S01E07 – Khar Darakh * S01E08 – Ale of Goibhniu The post Lusus appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A BBC Radio adaptation of Hugh Walpole’s historical novel, set in the Lake District during the 18th century.
Driven by a wild romantic impulse, Francis Herries uproots his family from Doncaster to the lakeland valley of Borrowdale. Accompanied by his housekeeper/mistress, Alice, they settle in his tumbledown ancestral home, Herries, in the shadow of the Cumberland fells.
Proud, stubborn and temperamental, Francis cuts himself off from his brother, spurns his long-suffering wife and becomes embroiled in drink and debauchery. When he sells Alice at Keswick Fair, his reputation is ruined, and the locals dub him ‘Rogue’ Herries. His fate is sealed when he falls for the flame-haired Mirabelle Starr. They are both vagabonds, both outcasts but she is 30 years his junior and does not love him.
As Francis struggles with his feelings for Mirabelle, his son, David, and daughter, Deborah, have battles of their own to fight. Meanwhile, the Jacobite rising has begun, and Bonnie Prince Charlie’s rebel army is at the gates of Carlisle….
Described by John Buchan as ‘the greatest English novel since Jude the Obscure’, Rogue Herries is a sweeping family saga full of romance and drama. This powerful adaptation stars Gavin Muir as Francis, Mark Bonnar as David, Jane Slavin as Alice, Deborah Berlin as Mirabelle and Jane Whittenshaw as Deborah, with a full cast including Stephen Thorne, Hugh Dickson and Gerard McDermott.
Written by Hugh Walpole.
Episode List* 01 – Wilderness * 02 – Forty-Five * 03 – The Wild Marriage * 04 – A Great Age to Be Beginning The post Hugh Walpole – Rogue Herries A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A serial killer known as The Harvester terrorizes Gotham City, but Batman is not coming to the rescue. In fact, Bruce Wayne has no memory of being the Caped Crusader at all. Instead, Bruce is a forensic pathologist, performing the autopsy on the latest victim when he’s attacked by the killer himself. As Bruce’s obsession with the Harvester consumes him, Dr. Thomas Wayne, head of Gotham City Hospital, orders his son to take medical leave and seek treatment from an unusual psychologist, Dr. Hunter. With Batman missing in action, Detective Barbara Gordon is left with no other choice but to seek help from Gotham’s second smartest detective: The Riddler.
Episode List* 01 – Kind of a Night Person * 02 – Such Wonderful Secrets * 03 – Dog With a Bone * 04 – I Am a Crook * 05 – Park Row * 06 – Wok Clothes * 07 – May Day * 08 – Deadly Things * 09 – Box in the Ground * 10 – In the Soil The post Batman Unburied appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Comedy that is half sketch show and half thriller, written by and starring Richard Bean, Andrew Clifford, Clive Coleman and Colin Swash
Series 1
1 Can Dr Heaven locate Agent Frank, lost somewhere in an experimental company town?
2 In singles bars, Dr Heaven continues his search for love.
3 Agent Beatrice is Dr Heaven’s girl of his dreams, but will she stick around long enough?
4 Can an unusual source help Dr Heaven complete his mission?
Series 2
1 With President Frank dead and the chippy wrecked, Dr Heaven finds himself promoted.
2 President Heaven finds himself a First Lady, but she turns out to have a hidden secret.
3 President Heaven holds a peace conference. There can be only one conclusion – all-out war.
4 President Heaven escapes an assassin’s bullet, but his problems are far from over.
Episode List* S01E01 – Control Group Six * S01E02 – Control Group Six * S01E03 – Control Group Six * S01E04 – Control Group Six * S02E01 – Control Group Six * S02E02 – Control Group Six * S02E03 – Control Group Six * S02E04 – Control Group Six The post Control Group Six appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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About a Dog was Debbie Barham’s last comedy proposal before she died in 2003. The programme stars Alan Davies, playing a dog, Jack, with his owner, Sarah, played by Kate Ashfield in the first series and Claire Goose in the second, in a sitcom told through the eyes of a canine.
While he can’t understand sexual foreplay “I just trot up,” he says, “give it a quick sniff and murmur, ‘stand still a minute’. That usually does the trick”, he has learned that eating his mistress’s dinner from the kitchen worktop isn’t a popular move. So he licks it instead. “I can never remember if I like olives,” he slobbers, sampling her pizza topping. “No, don’t like olives. Actually, that pizza looks better for a bit of a lick – what they call a glaze.”
Episode List* S01E01 – Let Sleeping Dogs Lie * S01E02 – We Was Robbed * S01E03 – Love, Probably * S02E01 – A Munch in the Country * S02E02 – A Tail of Love * S02E03 – Mistress And Commander * S02E04 – Bitchcraft * S02E05 – Every Dog Has His Day * S02E06 – Collars And Cuffs The post About a Dog appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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By Jake Oldershaw and Craig Stephens.
A series of late night musical comedies featuring poignant songs of romance, mystery and horror. Enter a strange building down a dark back street and be taken on a journey to meet the enigmatic Dr Pfeffer for a unique rendez-vous.
A disorientating journey through the whispering corridors of the Lonely Hearts Club leads to an encounter with Dr Pfeffer. It’s a hot and sultry night and the party is in full swing.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Mayor Of Lyon * S01E02 – Music And Humour * S01E03 – Poor Tom * S01E04 – To Be King The post Dr. Pfeffer’s Lonely Hearts Club appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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BBC Radio drama adaptations of two action-packed adventures by James Fenimore Cooper.
A founding father of American literature, James Fenimore Cooper was one of America’s first professional novelists, and a pioneer of both the Western and the historical romance. Included here are his 1826 masterpiece The Last of the Mohicans and his 1821 classic The Spy, widely considered the world’s first espionage novel.
The Last of the Mohicans – 1757, and Britain and France are struggling for control of the New World. Caught between them are the tribes of the First Nations… Hawkeye is an American scout who lives with the American Indians and fights for the British. When the daughters of a British army officer are captured by a vengeful Huron chief while travelling to join their father, Hawkeye and his Mohican friends set out on a rescue mission… This gripping dramatisation of James Fenimore Cooper’s epic is narrated by Garrick Hagon, stars Michael Feast as Hawkeye and Helen McCrory as Cora.
The Spy – New York State, 1778. Henry Wharton, a young soldier for the British in the American Revolutionary War, sneaks into no-man’s land in disguise to spend an evening with his family. But their happy reunion is cut short when American troops surround the house. Can the mysterious peddler Harvey Birch provide Henry with a means of escape? Burn Gorman and Rose Leslie star in this thrilling tale of double agents and divided loyalties.
First published 1821 (The Spy) and 1826 (The Last of the Mohicans)
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Country singer Wilson Dixon moseys on down to the Maida Vale Studios for the first of four programmes introduced by devotee Johnnie Walker. It’s a mixture of songs and homespun philosophy that ranges from the delightfully silly to the downright surreal. He’s a likeable kinda guy who reserves his only mean words for fellow country artist Billy Ray Cyrus: “you can’t trust a man with two haircuts at the same time”. Along with stories about his family, Wilson’s humour comes from the culture clashes that occur when a simple man born and raised in Cripple Creek, Colorado, embarks on a journey to foreign lands: “I went to Brixton and a man tried to sell me a skunk, but I’ve already got a raccoon back home.” I don’t think Wilson Dickson is going to be a stranger in a strange land for long.
1 Words of Wisdom
Radio plays host to legendary outlaw country singer Wilson Dixon, born and raised in Cripple Creek, Colorado, as he descends on London for a string of rare performances singing songs from his first album “Wilson Dixon’s Greatest Hits”, his acclaimed second album “Introducing Wilson Dixon” and his album of love songs “I Love You But I Also Want To Hurt You.”
In this four-part series, an affectionate tribute to the philosophy of traditional country music, Wilson expounds his viewpoints on life, love and relationships through dry, observational songs and anecdotes delivered with a deadpan, surreal edge. Wilson’s sharp observations on everyday life are juxtaposed with his laid back country delivery and draw the audience into his surreal redneck world full of larger than life characters and situations.
The series will comprise of four “live” sessions, captured when Wilson was in London as part of a UK tour. In episode one, ‘Words Of Wisdom’, Wilson talks about the world, and shares his observations of society and the differences between the UK and Cripple Creek. He recounts some of his experiences from his travels, his interactions with people and places, and offers his unique advice on how to live life.
Wilson Dixon is the creation of Jesse Griffin; award winning comedian, actor and founding member of acclaimed comedy trio The 4 Noels. Since his creation, Wilson Dixon has performed extensively around Australia and New Zealand as well as headlining around the UK comedy circuit. Jesse’s other acting credits include Peter Jackson’s ‘Heavenly Creatures’ and the drama/comedy series ‘Last Man Standing’. As a member of The 4 Noels, he has won best comedy awards at Melbourne and Wellington Fringe festivals.
“Dixon’s deadpan patter is gut-bustingly funny, but it’s his beautifully crafted songs that really impress. One of the finest bits of character comedy you’ll find on the Fringe.” **** The Scotsman, Edinburgh Fringe 2008
“with the sort of nuanced performance and subtle humour that have already made cult stars of Flight Of The Conchords. Don’t be surprised if he follows in their wake…Brilliantly oddball …a cult is born” Chortle May 2008.
2 Sweet Home Colorado
In episode two, Sweet Home Colorado, Wilson talks about the country scene, his hometown, Cripple Creek, Colorado, and America in general. He reminisces about his isolated childhood, the people in his dysfunctional family, and the local characters that shaped his upbringing.
3 When Love Comes to Town…and Then Leaves Again
In episode three, When Love Comes To Town…And Then Leaves Again, Wilson talks about love and affairs of the heart. Hard done by in love, he talks about his ex-wife Maureen, who pulled at Wilson’s heart like he pulls on his guitar strings. Hold onto your Stetson and get ready for the rocky ride of romance.
4 Uncle Wilbour’s Advice for Modern Living
In the final episode, Uncle Wilbour’s Advice for Modern Living, Wilson retells the story of how he split from his wife Maureen. The experience resulted in him heading into the mountains with his horse, Andrew, in order to get his life back together, with help from ageing hermit Uncle Wilbur.
Episode List* 01 – Words of Wisdom * 02 – Sweet Home Colorado * 03 – When Love Comes to Town…and Then Leaves Again * 04 – Uncle Wilbour’s Advice for Modern Living The post The Wilson Dixon Line appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Angus Dry has no friends, no job and still lives at home with his mum. But he’s quite happy to spend his time taking bubble baths, splashing his dole money on a motorised water laser and recapturing the joys of childhood. His busy mother has an international career as an arms dealer and a string of lovers. He feels terribly sorry for her.
In these eight episodes, unambitious Angus tries to reconnect with his old schoolfriends, agonises over the death of a bee, steps out of the confines of his sheltered life to go on a date, and writes a requiem to himself (well, he is a genius, you know). With his 30th birthday approaching, he is visited by the Ghost of Birthdays Yet to Come – what terrible end will the spirit reveal? And, feeling left out and ignored, Angus decides to take his problems to a psychiatrist – but has trouble making himself heard over the cricket commentary…
First broadcast on Radio 4 in 1995 and 1997 as Dry Slopes, this offbeat comedy was written by Nick Ball, who also stars as Angus Dry. Louisa Rix co-stars as Mum, and the supporting cast includes Robert Harley, Toby Longworth, Julie Gibbs, Wayne Forester and Ben Silburn.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Lost Boys * S01E02 – The Day of Judgement * S01E03 – Families and How to Conceive Them * S01E04 – Dry Wit * S02E01 – Emma * S02E02 – Tick Tock * S02E03 – The Domino Effect * S02E04 – The Invisible Man The post The Misadventures of Angus Dry appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Alexei Sayle takes a train journey and breaks the golden rule of travelling by train in the UK – he actually talks to his fellow passengers.
He shares their funny and moving moments, their favourite jokes, their tales of weddings, work, funerals and holidays, and explores the lives of strangers by simply asking the questions that we might want answered – if only we were there too.
Along with the unplanned conversations, Alexei gives us his reaction to everything he can see as it passes his carriage window. Perhaps it’s the stunning coastline north of Newcastle or the remains of Britain’s industrial heritage as he chugs through the Midlands. After all, there must be a little bit of Alexei’s DNA devoted to the railways – his father was a railway guard and Alexei travelled thousands of miles by train as a child.
Episode List* S01E00 – Birmingham to Edinburgh (Pilot) * S01E01 – Cardiff to Portsmouth * S01E02 – London to Glasgow * S01E03 – Bristol to Penzance * S01E04 – Manchester to Bournemouth * S01E05 – London to Holyhead * S01E06 – Hull Liverpool The post Alexei Sayle’s Strangers on a Train appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Ronald Pickup, Paul Ritter and Kate Duchêne star in Nick Warburton’s comedy about one community’s attempts to resist change.
When Richard and Clare Wells inherit a clifftop house in Yorkshire, they also inherit a sitting tenant, John Hector, who treats their home as his own and the local town as his own personal fiefdom. But the sea is eroding the land, and John is intent on stopping them all from being evicted, so the Wells reluctantly embrace him as an ally. As he entangles them in his conservation battles, Clare and Richard find themselves drawn into the Breck Howe Preservation Society, an unlikely group attempting to defend their town against the worst ills of modernity. Their lives will never be the same again….
North meets South in this comedic clash of cultures, written by award-winning dramatist Nick Warburton. Ronald Pickup stars as John Hector, with Paul Ritter as Richard and Kate Duchêne as Clare.
Directed by Sally Avens.
Episode List* S01E00 – The Vauxgarth Pig * S01E01 – Democracy * S01E02 – I Want to Thank You All * S01E03 – Herring Week * S02E01 – There Will Be Guests * S02E02 – Ps and Qs * S02E03 – John’s Jaunts * S02E04 – Selling The Capstan * S02E05 – Chips * S03E01 – The Woman In Puce * S03E02 – Good Fences * S03E03 – Walk On The post Holding Back the Tide appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A collection of BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations of plays by Tennessee Williams, plus bonus material.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams is one of the three most important American dramatists of the 20th Century, alongside Arthur Miller and Eugene O’Neill. Acclaimed for their lyrical language, dark themes and vivid portrayal of the American South, his works have spawned several Oscar-winning films and been translated and performed worldwide.
Collected here are some of the best, beginning with the play that launched Williams’ career: The Glass Menagerie. Telling the story of a family in crisis in 1930s St Louis, it is one of his most autobiographical works, and a timeless evocation of lost love and loneliness. It is introduced by Williams’ biographer, John Lahr, and stars Anastasia Hille, George MacKay, Patsy Ferran and Sope Dirisu.
Next up is his masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire. With an introduction by author Sarah Churchwell, it stars Olivier Award-winning actress Anne-Marie Duff as damaged Southern belle Blanche Dubois, pushed to the brink of sanity by her explosive brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski (Matthew Needham). It is followed by one of Williams’ earliest plays, Spring Storm, about Heavenly Critchfield, a young woman forced to decide between a respectable suitor and a handsome, wild, lover. Liz White stars as Heavenly, with Matthew Malarkey and Michael Thomson.
First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2006, Tennessee’s Women comprises five one-act plays: This Property is Condemned, Something Unspoken, The Long Goodbye, Portrait of a Madonna and 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. Among the casts are Maria Watton-Graham, Barbara Jefford, Elizabeth McGovern, Nick Sayce, Eleanor Bron and Gerard Murphy.
Also included is the world premiere of one of Williams’ last screenplays, Secret Places of the Heart, starring Sheila Gish and Ian Hogg. In addition, three bonus programmes take an in-depth look at the iconic playwright. John Lahr’s evocative biography, Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, draws on Williams’s poems, journals and correspondence to create a compelling portrait of his life and career; Frost Over America: Tennessee Williams features David Frost in conversation with the author; and in Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, Kwame Kwei-Armah investigates the creative influence of Williams’ childhood home on his writing.
Episode List* 01 – The Glass Menagerie * 02 – A Streetcar Named Desire * 03 – Spring Storm * 04 – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof * 05 – The Rose Tattoo The post Tennessee Williams A BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Dramatisations and short stories by the award-winning playwright – plus bonus programmes
Known as the ‘Irish Chekhov’, Brian Friel was one of the most renowned dramatists of his generation, producing over 30 plays in a career spanning six decades. Included here are some of his best-known works, as well as mesmerising radio documentaries featuring the author himself, in his own words.
Beginning with his modern classic about language and power, Translations, this collection goes on to showcase two further masterpieces: Faith Healer (voted one of the 100 most important plays of the 20th Century by the National Theatre) and the play that launched Friel to international acclaim, Philadelphia, Here I Come! With settings ranging from the 1830s to the present day, all are centred around the small fictional town of Ballybeg, and share key themes including the stories we tell ourselves, the nature of truth and the unreliability of memory. Among the stellar casts are Samuel Barnett, Mark Bazeley, Dermot Crowley, Lia Williams, Phil Daniels and Donal Donnelly.
Also featured are five short stories: ‘The Skelper’, ‘My True Kinsman’, ‘The Death of a Scientific Humanist’, ‘The Gold in the Sea’ and ‘Everything Neat and Tidy’, read by Adrian Dunbar.
We conclude with two talks by Brian Friel – the ‘fragment of autobiography’ Self Portrait and The Green Years, a lyrical account of his childhood in Derry – and the fascinating documentary Staging Ireland, telling the story of the radical Derry theatre company Field Day, founded by Friel and Stephen Rea with the aim of challenging their nation’s view of itself.
Episode List* 01 – Translations * 02 – Faith Healer * 03 – Philadelphia Here I Come * 04 – The London Vertigo * 05 – Afterplay * 06 – My True Kinsman * 07 – Everything Neat and Tidy * 08 – The Gold in the Sea * 09 – The Death of a Scientific Humanist * 10 – The Skelper The post Brian Friel A BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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What do a whale’s eardrum, a beaver’s anal gland and the feather of a lesbian albatross have in common?
They’re not the ingredients for the beginnings of a bad joke, but some of the objects brought in for ‘show and tell’ in Nature Table with Sue Perkins.
Listen as a Marine Biologist, an Ethnobotanist, an ant expert (yes, really), a wildlife cameraman and other experts bring Sue their strange and fascinating objects – and the stories that go with them – to discuss with a ‘class’ at London Zoo, made up of guests like comedians Sally Phillips and Lucy Porter, as well as London Zoo staff and members of the public.
Why are sea otters ‘demons’? Which animal can delay its own pregnancy until it’s ready? Which animal is probably living on the faces of most human adults? Nature Table might teach you something about the amazing world of plants and animals while hopefully making you laugh along the way.
Episode List* S01E01 – Nature Table * S01E02 – Nature Table * S01E03 – Nature Table * S01E04 – Nature Table * S01E05 – Nature Table * S01E06 – Nature Table * S01ESP – Christmas Special * S02E01 – Nature Table * S02E02 – Nature Table * S02E03 – Nature Table * S02E04 – Nature Table * S02E05 – Nature Table * S02E06 – Nature Table * S03E01 – Nature Table * S03E02 – Nature Table * S03E03 – Nature Table * S03E04 – Nature Table * S03E05 – Nature Table * S03E06 – Nature Table The post Nature Table appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Seven BBC radio full-cast productions of Noel Cowards classic plus bonus material including a profile of Coward and extracts from his diaries.
Renowned for his wit, style and sophistication, Noel Coward was one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century. His plays, set in the glittering world of high society in which he lived, are much admired and have remained in the popular theatre repertoire to this day.
This collection brings together the very best radio adaptations of Cowards works, encompassing sparkling comedies of manners ‘Private Lives’ and ‘Hay Fever’, farcical ghost story ‘Blithe Spirit’, and daring manage trois drama ‘Design for Living’. Here, too, is his controversial first hit ‘The Vortex’; the poignant ‘Still Life’ (the inspiration for the film Brief Encounter); and the semi-autobiographical ‘Present Laughter’.
Among the star-studded cast are Helena Bonham-Carter, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Roger Allam, Harriet Walter, Paul Rhys, Stephanie Cole and Paul Scofield.
Also included is a BBC World Service profile of Noel Coward, comprising interviews, musical extracts and archive clips; and the BBC Radio 4 programme From His Diaries, featuring a selection of passages from Coward’s journal read by Simon Cadell.
Episode List* 01 – Private Lives * 02 – Private Lives * 03 – Hay Fever * 04 – Hay Fever * 05 – Blithe Spirit * 06 – Blithe Spirit * 07 – Design for Living * 08 – Design for Living * 09 – Design for Living * 10 – Design for Living * 11 – The Vortex * 12 – The Vortex * 13 – Still Life * 14 – Present Laughter * 15 – Present Laughter * 16 – Present Laughter * 17 – Meridian – Noël Coward profile * 18 – Noël Coward – From His Diaries * 19 – Noël Coward – From His Diaries * 20 – Noël Coward – From His Diaries The post The Noel Coward BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A BBC Radio series about the dark and sinister goings-on at a rather unusual nightclub owned and operated by Dr. Byron Caligari and his two assistants.
- A Voice in Your Ear – Late-night DJ Rick O’Shea is about to have the time of his life at London’s hottest new club.
- Comedian’s Moon – Kevin Scorch is a young man bitten by the comedy bug and on the rise. But after an encounter with one of his former comedy heroes, will he end up turning into the thing he hates?
- The Conversion – A yuppie sales rep tries to have her retired trade union leader dad sectioned after cashing in on the publicity surrounding the strange “de-gentrification” project he’s undertaking … only to get caught up in his dream.
- Teenage Psycho Chainsaw Bimbos – Video nasties get their revenge when a video store owner, a fan of second-rate slasher films, finds himself trapped in a fantasy world of his own creation.
- The Homeless Who Ate London – A freak chemical spill turns the homeless of London into a giant people-eating blob … and the person responsible for it is a little surprising …
- The Body Politic – A government minister learns the true meaning of “National Health Service cuts” … and the consequences.
Episode List* 01 – A Word In Your Ear * 02 – Comedian’s Moon * 03 – The Conevrsion * 04 – Teenage Psycho Chainsaw Bimbos * 05 – The Homeless Who Ate London * 06 – The Body Politic The post The Cabaret of Dr. Caligari appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A stand-up series exploring British Chinese culture with Ken Cheng.
The BBC New Comedy Award finalist tackles many themes affecting ethnic minorities in today’s society. His comic discussions explore education, the arts, family, relationships, free speech, social status, racism and money.
The programmes contain some strong and discriminatory language.
Episode List* S01E01 – Education * S01E02 – The Arts * S01E03 – Family * S01E04 – Relationships * S02E01 – Racism * S02E02 – Money * S02E03 – Free Speech * S02E04 – Status * S03E01 – Chinese Virus * S03E02 – Chinese Boyfriend The post Ken Cheng Chinese Comedian appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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All four episodes of Tom Allen’s brilliant BBC Radio 4 show – plus two series of The Correspondent
Award-winning comedian Tom Allen is one of Britain’s best and brightest stand-ups. He’s appeared on Mock the Week, The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice and Live at the Apollo, toured several sell-out solo shows, starred in his own TV pilot and even written an autobiography.
He’s always seemed pleasant and polite on the surface: but the truth is, he’s a monster – or so he says. In Tom Allen’s Actually Not Very Nice, he stages a stand-up intervention to find out what turned him from sweet to naughty, and how he can get back on the straight and narrow. With help from his friend Gabby Best, and the studio audience, Tom works out how best to navigate some tricky social situations – like sacking your personal trainer, dealing with other people’s children, sitting through an entire play and being set up on a date. Can he learn how to keep a lid on his fury in the face of life’s small injustices?
Episode List* S01E01 – Tom Allen Is Actually Not Very Nice * S01E02 – Tom Allen Is Actually Not Very Nice * S01E03 – Tom Allen Is Actually Not Very Nice * S01E04 – Tom Allen Is Actually Not Very Nice The post Tom Allen Is Actually Not Very Nice appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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2017 is the 130th anniversary of the publication of A Study in Scarlet, the first recorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson. What an amazing journey it’s been! In addition to the pitifully few sixty tales originally presented in The Canon, published between 1887 and 1927, there have been literally thousands of additional Holmes adventures in the form of books, short stories, radio and television episodes, movies, manuscripts, comics, and fan fiction. And yet, for those who are true friends and admirers of the Master Detective of Baker Street, where it is always 1895 (or a few decades on either side of that!) these stories are not enough. Give us more!
In March 1998, legendary radio dramatist, producer, writer, director, and founder of Imagination Theatre listened to this request and broadcast the first of an astounding number of Holmes radio shows over their United States network of stations. In the intervening years, 128 original Holmes episodes (and one recently found “lost” episode”) were broadcast before Imagination Theatre closed its doors in early 2017. Additionally, the cast and crew performed their version of the entire Holmes Canon between 2005 and 2016, featuring the same actors as Holmes and Watson, (John Patrick Lowrie and Larry Albert, respectively,) as well as having every script adapted by the same author, M.J. Elliott – something that has never been done before.
Astonishingly, this great number of episodes were written by a relatively small group of dramatists. Imagination Theatre’s departure from the airwaves left a great void, both in terms of those seeking “movies for your mind”, but also those wanting new quality stories about the true Sherlock Holmes, set in the correct period, and featuring tales that truthfully represented Holmes and Watson.
This serves both to honor Jim French and his lifetime of achievements, and also Mr. Sherlock Holmes, along with the dramatists, cast, and crew who brought the new adventures to life. Inside this volume, you will find a script by every one of the authors who wrote about Holmes for Imagination Theatre, representing some of the finest new Holmesian storytelling to be found, and honoring the man described by Watson as “the best and wisest . . . whom I have ever known.”
Episode List* 001 – The Poet of Death * 002 – The Sealed Room * 003 – The Adventure of the Blind Man * 004 – The Woman from Virginia * 005 – The Adventure of the Seven Shares * 006 – The Adventure of the Painted Leaf * 007 – The Secret of the Fives * 008 – The Quartermaine Curse * 009 – The Adventure of the Bishop’s Ring * 010 – The Adventure of the Samovar * 011 – The Adventure of the Red Death * 012 – The Adventure of the Silver Siphon * 013 – The Dark Chamber * 014 – The Ragwort Puzzle * 015 – The Adventure of the Mind Reader * 016 – The Gambrinus Cure * 017 – The Billingsgate Horror * 018 – The Adventure of the Missing Link * 019 – The Edison Sender * 020 – The Estonian Countess * 021 – School for Scoundrels * 022 – The Adventure of the Dover Maiden * 023 – The Adventure of the Wycliffe Codicil * 024 – The Tuttman Gallery * 025 – The Bee and the Spider * 026 – The Man Who Believed In Nothing * 027 – The Death of Artemus Ludwig * 028 – 36 Thayer Street * 029 – The Adventure of Farnham Grange * 030 – The Strange Death of Lady Sylvia * 031 – The Adventure of the Lonely Harvester * 032 – The Mystery of the Patient Fisherman * 033 – The Wizard of Baker Street * 034 – The Diary of Anthony Moltaire * 035 – The Singular Affair of Madame Planchette * 036 – The Bardsley Triangle * 037 – The Strange Case of Lord Halworth’s Kitchen * 038 – The Adventure of the Voodoo Curse * 039 – The Mystery of the Ten Pound Note * 040 – The Adventure of the Great American * 041 – The Amateur Mendicant Society * 042 – The Adventure of the Tontine * 043 – The Godolphin Arabian * 044 – The Living Weapon * 045 – The Blackmailer of Lancaster Gate * 046 – The Problem of Penningtton Flash * 047 – The Adventure of the Forgotten Throne * 048 – The Speaking Machine * 049 – The Adventure of the Serpent’s Tooth * 050 – The Dreadnought Papers * 051 – The Covetous Huntsman * 052 – The Master Craftsman * 053 – The Margate Deception * 054 – The Head of Jean Malreaux * 055 – The Ripper Inheritance * 056 – The Bonesteel Covenant * 057 – The Great Ansceni * 058 – The Adventure of the Vampires Kiss * 059 – The Tradgey of Saxons Gate * 060 – The Winterbourne Phantom * 061 – The Adventure of the Aldgate Noose * 062 – The Star Of Tibet * 063 – The Persian Diadem * 064 – The First Mates Jacket * 065 – The Paradol Chamber * 066 – The Christmas Bauble * 067 – The Moriarty Resurrection * 068 – Stroke Of Justice * 069 – The Invisible Hand * 070 – The Case of the Remarkable Worm * 071 – The Inspector of Graves * 072 – The Highlanders Letter * 073 – The Hudson Problem * 074 – The Dragon of Lea Lane * 075 – Murder at the Lyceum * 076 – The Tollington Ghost * 077 – The Revenge of Ansceni * 078 – The Gastein Symphony * 079 – The Case of the Venomus Lizard * 080 – The Curse of the Third Sign * 081 – The Adventure of the Improbable Snowman * 082 – The Adventure of the Petty Curses * 083 – How Watson Learned the Trick * 084 – The Singular Affair of the Holden Necklace * 085 – Lady Sannox Investigation * 086 – The Two Watsons * 087 – The Apothecary Shop * 088 – The Eye of the Beholder * 089 – The Adventure of the Perfect Match * 090 – The Voice in the Smoke * 091 – The Disappearance of the Cutter Alicia * 092 – The Adventure of the Invisible Man * 093 – The Stolen Hunter * 094 – The Adventure of the French Compass * 095 – The Coughing Man * 096 – The Parisian Assassin * 097 – The Mystery of Edelweiss Lodge * 098 – The Curse of Brokenshore * 099 – The Mystery at Mandrakes Circus * 100 – Adventure of the Fatal Anniversary * 101 – Adventure of the Fool’s Errand * 102 – The Three Deaths of Erasmus Crow * 103 – The Adventure of the Borgia Ring * 104 – The Addleton Tragedy * 105 – The Elusive Mr Phillimore * 106 – The Abernetty Transaction * 107 – The Adventure of the Tired Captain * 108 – The Adventure of the Third Crate * 109 – The Adventure of the Irregular Client * 110 – The Ferrers Engine * 111 – The Profligate’s Plea * 112 – Terrible Tragedy of Lytton House * 113 – Adventure of the Releuctant Host * 114 – A Case of Unfinished Business * 115 – Sissinghurst Castle * 116 – The Adventure Of The Deadly Tradition * 117 – Beast of Hyndford * 118 – The Christmas Ogre * 119 – Case of the Confounded Chronicler * 120 – The Adventure of the Careless Captive * 121 – The Adventure of the Sleeping Cardinal * 122 – The Errant Book Keeper * 123 – The Moriarty Revelation Part One * 124 – The Moriarty Revelation Part Two * 125 – The Moriarty Revelation Part Three * 126 – The Moriarty Revelation Part Four * 127 – The Adventure Of The Bitterest Season * 128 – The Moriarty Conclusion (Final Episode) * 129 – The Strange Case * 130 – The Adventure Of The Cruel Miracle * 131 – The Autumn of Terror Chapter 1 * 132 – The Autumn of Terror Chapter 2 * 133 – The Autumn of Terror Chapter 3 * 134 – The Autumn of Terror Chapter 4 * 135 – The Autumn of Terror Chapter 5 * 136 – The Adventure of the Final Flourish * 137 – The Adventure of the Singular Caravan * 138 – The Adventure of the Waylaid Diplomat * 139 – The Season of Vengence * 140 – The Enigma of Dr. Noone * 141 – The Adventure of the Limping Major * 142 – The Adventure of the Silent Sherlockians * 143 – The Adventure of the Misplaced Benefactor * 144 – Children of the Night Part 1 * 145 – Children of the Night Part 2 * 146 – Children of the Night Part 3 * 147 – Children of the Night Part 4 * 148 – Children of the Night Part 5 * 149 – The Christmas Doppelganger * 150 – The Adventure of Tempest Abbey * 151 – The Pallid Mask * 152 – The Poltergeist of Buckley Street * 153 – The Adventure of the Christmas Toast * 154 – The Adventure of the Foregone Conclusion * 155 – The Adventure of the Prudent Undertaker * 156 – The Adventure of the Absent Bankers * 157 – The Seven Swords of Osiris * 158 – The Darlington Substitution Scandal The post Imagination Theatre – The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Ardal O’Hanlon plays Smallbone – an idiot angel who’s sent to earth to fix his mistakes.
In this first episode, Smallbone learns to use his new human body and ends up taking on the CEO of Grapefruit, a powerful technology company that wants to knock down the local library to expand their store.
In 1885, God (Geoff McGivern) nodded off. In 2015, he awoke to discover that his idiot servant, the angel Smallbone, had accidentally handed out God’s plans for the next millennium when he was only meant to hand out plans for the next century. A thousand years of leisurely human progression has been crammed into the last 130. No wonder we’re all so stressed. We weren’t even meant to have pocket calculators until 2550.
Not only that, but God’s blueprints should have run out in the mid-eighties – but we kept going. Humans are now inventing things God never even dreamed of – mobile phones, wireless internet and Made in Chelsea.
Smallbone is cast down to Earth in human form by God, tasked with the dauntingly vague mission of ‘reversing the last thirteen decades of human progression’. The problem is that Smallbone is the world’s biggest fan – he loves modern technology and his new human body, and he becomes distracted by everything that he’s meant to destroy. Especially escalators.
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The bell rings in Boo and Ray’s local, and they have fifteen minutes to drink up. A series of four comic plays written by and starring John Kearns and Tim Key.
1 – Coat – Boo wants to leave, Ray wants him to take his big coat off. The wrong person’s on the piano and Ray’s furious. Derek – an absolute hog of a landlord – is giving them the hurry up. Terrible conditions for Ray to open up his love life.
2 – Hot Magnums – Ray’s fuming. Boo’s brought his “big shop” along to the pub and his fish fingers are thawing. He challenges Boo to put a log on the fire. Derek – an old goose of a landlord – isn’t happy with any of it.
3 – Clancy – Disaster. The lads have missed last orders. Boo has big news, but Ray has no pint to listen to it with! Salvation comes in the shape of Clancy, Boo’s adult niece, who’s got in before the bell. Can she be their mule?
4 – The Unknown Pint – Ray’s taken to going for walks around the pub and Boo doesn’t like it. On one of his constitutionals, Ray finds an abandoned pint and is beguiled by it. Can he claim it? Derek – an old snake of a landlord – watches on with interest.
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Strange things happen when you shake your hard-boiled egg in a packet of crushed up Monster Munch. A hilarious, unorthodox love story set on the night shift at a petrol station.
Alex is desperate to find someone to share his life with, but too scared to do anything about it. A film-obsessive, he works the night shift at an isolated petrol station on the outskirts of a two-bit town. Awkward, and with no real friends to speak of, he confides in his only ‘colleague’ – a smiley-faced vacuum cleaner named Keith, whose voice only Alex can hear.
Ella is a cycling-mad woman of action, prepared for anything and curious about everything. One stormy night, by chance, their lives intersect. These two lonely souls are made for each other, even if they don’t know it. This is their story.
1 – Frankenstein – Tonight, Keith (a raconteur of relationships with a variety of household appliances) suggests that they build a customer out of the recycling for Alex to practice his conversation skills on. A storm is raging outside. Strange electrical pulses keep blowing the station’s fuse-box. What could possibly go wrong?
2 – The Western – Tonight, there is tumbleweed, there are cicadas singing in the night-heat, there is gambling with custard creams. A lone drifter wanders onto the forecourt and the stakes are about to get very high indeed.
3 – Zombies – Tonight a mysterious crimson cloud pours red rain over the town, turning those caught in the storm into smooching – crazed zombies. Ella, returning home from Plumbing Enthusiasts Club, seeks shelter at the petrol station. Alex and Ella – along with a sandwich-loving truck driver named Jonny Tenaka – subsequently find themselves trapped in the petrol station shop, defending themselves against the zombie horde. Will they too become ‘infected’?
4 – Sci-Fi – Tonight, Alex finds a toy ray-gun in an industrial bin and accidentally blasts himself in the face, spawning his evil twin. This sets off a chain of events that will see Alex, Ella and a recycling collector named Denise attempt to stop Evil Alex and Ella turning the whole town bad.
5 – The Action – Tonight, Alex, Ella and Keith must overcome an evil plot to take over the petrol station, and this time the ‘How to’ tapes might just come in handy. But which one of them is Jean-Claude Van Damme? And will Mr Ricky save his cat?
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Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.
Commended by critics for his gritty realism and strong dialogue, Stephen King places Leonard in the same company as John D. MacDonald, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, but Leonard himself felt more influenced by Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck.
This audio collection includes BBC Radio dramatisations of Leonard novels Hombre and The Hot Kid, plus readings of nine of his novellas and short stories.
Hombre – John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he’s on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him. That is, until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell to lead them out of the desert.
The Hot Kid – A criminal odyssey set against the dusty, sun-kissed backdrop of Oklahoma and Kansas during America’s Great Depression. Carl Webster is a rising star in the US Marshals Service, one of the elite man-hunters currently chasing the likes of Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, and Pretty Boy Floyd across America’s Depression-ravaged heartland.
Meanwhile, Jack Belmont, the wayward son of an oil millionaire, wants to be public enemy number one. The lives of the cop and robber criss-cross repeatedly before finally confronting in an inevitable showdown.
When the Women Come Out to Dance – An exotic dancer marries a wealthy Pakistani doctor. A year later, sitting in the lap of luxury, she starts to worry that she’ll meet the gruesome fate of other wives no longer desired by their traditional Pakistani husbands – being burned to death. Her new Colombian maid might be the solution to her problem. Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat.
Hanging Out at the Buena Vista – At the Buena Vista hospice, cancer patients Natalie and Vincent meet each other and decide how to live the rest of their lives. Narrated by Henry Stroger.
Chickasaw Charlie Hoke – A colorful story about how Charlie Hoke lands a job as celebrity greeter for a Las Vegas casino. A prequel to Leonard’s 2002 book, Tishomingo Blues. Narrated by Henry Stroger.
Sparks – The widow of a famous record producer is grilled by an insurance company adjuster following the suspicious destruction of her house during a California brush fire. Narrated by Richard Poe.
Fire in the Hole – Raylan Givens is a US martial, but he used to work in the Harlan County, Kentucky mines, digging coal for a living. A friend from there, Boyd Crowder, has also changed his business: he now heads up a neo-Nazi group that’s threatening to get out of control. When they come head to head, Raylan has to decide how far he’ll go in pursuit of justice. This story formed the basis for the TV series Justified. Narrated by Richard Poe.
Karen Makes Out – U.S. Marshall Karen Sisco has a brief fling with a man who may or may not be a bank robber. Sisco is featured in Leonard’s 1996 novel Out of Sight. Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat.
Hurrah for Captain Early – The tale of a black U.S. Army veteran of the Spanish-American war, and the myth of the Rough Riders. Narrated by Tom Stechschulte.
The Tonto Woman – A woman is kidnapped by Indians who tattoo her face. Many years later, she escapes and makes it back home only to be shunned by her husband – until a crafty and honorable Mexican cattle rustler comes along. Narrated by Henry Stroger.
Tenkiller – A rodeo star turned Hollywood stuntman returns to his tiny hometown in Oklahoma following the death of his wife. He finds a family of white trash thugs have conned their way onto his land and into his house. Narrated by Tom Stechschulte.
Episode List* 01 – Hombre * 02 – True American Lawman * 03 – Shoot-out at Bald Mountain * 04 – Teddy’s on 18th and Central * 05 – Public Enemy Number One * 06 – When the Women Come Out to Dance * 07 – Hanging Out at the Buena Vista * 08 – Chickasaw Charlie Hoke * 09 – Sparks * 10 – Fire In The Hole * 11 – Karen Makes Out * 12 – Hurrah for Captain Early * 13 – The Tonto Woman * 14 – Tenkiller The post Elmore Leonard BBC Audio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s The Worst Journey In The World has been called the greatest adventure story of all time. Cherry-Garrard, a wealthy upper-class landowner, was appointed zoological assistant on Captain Scott’s doomed polar expedition when he was 24 in 1910. He returned two and a half years later a broken man who would suffer intense bouts of depression for the rest of his life.
On his return the committee in charge of Scott’s expedition asked Cherry-Garrard to write the official narrative. He set about interviewing those who had come back but in 1914 Cherry went to serve in Flanders. Invalided home, he met George Bernard Shaw under whose influence he severed his links with the expedition committee and began to write a very different book to the one originally planned. The Worst Journey In The World appeared in 1922, and was immediately hailed as a modern classic.
In this adaptation, the story begins at Cape Evans in the frozen Ross Sea, as Scott chooses the 12 men who will set off on the southern journey. With horses, motor sledges and dogs they will take supplies and lay food depots for the assault on the Pole.
A magical Antarctic icescape is created by a musical score specially composed by Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory, orchestrated by Ian Gardiner and performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
The cast stars Matt Green as Cherry; John McAndrew as Scott; Carl Prekopp as Atch; Richard Mitchley as Bill; Mark Meadows as Captain Oates; Peter Callaghan as Birdie; Simon Lee Phillips as Silas; Jack Reynolds as Tom Crean; Andrew Byron as Keohane; and Huw Davies as Edgar Evans.
This drama is adapted by Costa Book of the Year Award-winning writer Stef Penney.
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Fabulous tales from the vintage pages of Doctor Who Annual, brought to life by a host of Doctor Who voices.
In ‘The Sons of the Crab’ the First Doctor finds himself a prisoner on a nightmarish world in the Crab Nebula. The Second Doctor is faced with a dilemma posed by the bird-like Arcturans in ‘Only A Matter of Time’, and in ‘War in the Abyss’ the Third Doctor goes in search of Jo Grant’s missing uncle.
The Fourth Doctor and Leela try to help the victims of ‘Famine on Planet X’, whilst the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa find themselves on a ‘Night Flight to Nowhere’ – courtesy of the Master!
In ‘Time Wake’ the Sixth Doctor and Peri search for the entity behind a dangerous temporal corridor in London.
Two short additional features ponder the ‘Secrets of the TARDIS’ and examine the conundrum that is ‘One Doctor – Five Men.’
Dan Starkey, Geoffrey Beevers, Anneke Wills, Jon Culshaw, Louise Jameson and Colin Baker are our guides through these weird and wacky stories from Doctor Who Annual.
Episode List* Part 01 * Part 02 * Part 03 * Part 04 * Part 05 * Part 06 * Part 07 * Part 08 * Part 09 * Part 10 * Part 11 * Part 12 * Part 13 * Part 14 * Part 15 * Part 16 * Part 17 * Part 18 * Part 19 * Part 20 * Part 21 * Part 22 * Part 23 * Part 24 * Part 25 * Part 26 * Part 27 * Part 28 * Part 29 * Part 30 * Part 31 * Part 32 * Part 33 * Part 34 * Part 35 * Part 36 * Part 37 * Part 38 * Part 39 * Part 40 * Part 41 * Part 42 * Part 43 * Part 44 * Part 45 * Part 46 * Part 47 * Part 48 * Part 49 * Part 50 * Part 51 The post Doctor Who – Time Wake and Other Stories appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Lily Cole stars as Helen of Troy, ‘the face that launched a thousand ships’, in Simon Armitage’s vivid, visceral adaptation of Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid.
For 10 years, the Greeks have been laying siege to Troy to win back their abducted queen, Helen. But as the war drags on and the battlefields run scarlet with blood, the opposing forces are entrenched in a bitter stalemate. As gods and mortals squabble amongst themselves for the spoils of war, the exhausted warriors go to extreme lengths in a desperate grab for victory….
Dramatised by multiaward-winning poet and playwright Simon Armitage, The Last Days of Troy was first produced as a stage play at the Manchester Royal Exchange and Shakespeare’s Globe, and this radio version features the original cast. Both a tense action adventure and a powerful commentary on the futility of war, it brings Homer’s ancient myth to dynamic life and explores themes that still resonate today, in a world locked in cycles of conflict and revenge, East versus West and with the same dangerous combination of pride, lies and self-deception that fuelled the Trojan War.
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Everyone knows that Pluto is a barren, airless rock. So naturally the Doctor is surprised when he discovers artificial suns and an ultra-modern industrial city. What’s more, a group of colonists is being worked – and taxed – to death in this inhospitable and supposedly undeveloped part of the Universe…. With the help of his companion Leela and the faithful K9, the Doctor takes on the mysterious and powerful Company, a ruthless exploiter of planets and their people.
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A collection of six stories by Nikolai Gogol, adapted by Jim Poyser and starring Griff Rhys-Jones and Stephen Moore.
Mr. Poyser’s adaptations stick to the original stories, but add a touch of madcap comedy.
The Two Ivans – In a sleepy Russian town, a careless insult changes the lives of two neighbours.
The Overcoat – A humble Russian civil servant’s career is stuck in a dismal rut until he buys a new coat.
Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt – Home from military service, Ivan finds his aunt’s efforts to marry him off intolerable.
The Nose – Major Kovalyov’s nose vanishes and reappears in St Petersburg disguised as a councillor.
The Mysterious Portrait – St Petersburg’s most high-minded young artist makes a pact with the devil.
The Diary of a Madman – A civil servant’s dull existence is transformed when he overhears two dogs talking.
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A rogue virus that kills pregnant women has been let loose in the world, and nothing less than the survival of the human race is at stake.
Some blame the scientists, others see the hand of God, and still others claim that humanity is reaping the punishment it deserves for years of arrogance and destructiveness. Jessie Lamb is an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl living in extraordinary times. As her world collapses, her idealism and courage drive her toward the ultimate act of heroism. Jessie wants her life to make a difference; but is she heroic, or is she, as her scientist father fears, impressionable, innocent, and incapable of understanding where her actions will lead?
Set in a world irreparably altered by an act of biological terrorism, The Testament of Jessie Lamb explores a young woman’s struggle for independence. As the certainties of her childhood are ripped apart, Jessie begins to question her parents’ attitudes, their behavior, and the very world they have bequeathed her.
Jane Rogers dramatises her award-winning novel set in a future where an act of biological terrorism has spread a deadly virus across the world.
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The classic tale in 3D, like you’ve never heard it before.
An adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, executive produced by Academy-Award winning director Sam Mendes, with an original score by The Feeling’s Dan Gillespie Sells (Everyone’s Taking About Jamie), and with an all-star cast including Brian Cox (Succession) as Fagin, Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah) as Bill Sikes, Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) as Nancy, Adeel Akhtar (Four Lions) as Mr Bumble, Lucian Msamati (Gangs of London) as Mr Brownlow, Paapa Essiedu (The Lazarus Project) as Toby Crackit, Kit Connor (Heartstopper) as Noah Claypole, Diane Morgan (Philomena Cunk) as Mrs Mann, Julia Davis (Nighty Night) as Mrs Sowerberry, Nick Mohammed (Ted Lasso) as Mr Sowerberry and Patricia Allison (Sex Education) as Rose Maylie. And introducing Emilio Villa Muhammad as Oliver Twist and Elijah Wolf as the Artful Dodger.
Orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist is born into the grimmest of 19th century English workhouses with a life of grinding poverty ahead of him. But the boy is a fighter and after being evicted from the workhouse for asking for ‘more’ and surviving a stint as an undertaker’s assistant, he walks many miles to London and finds a whole new life with a gang of young pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and their guardian Fagin.
Oliver’s adventures are only beginning as he finds his way into the home of wealthy Mr. Brownlow. Even there he is not safe, for Fagin and his even more dangerous colleague, the thief Bill Sikes, seek to snatch him back and lead him deeper into a life of crime. Only Nancy, Bill Sikes’ girlfriend, can ensure Oliver’s future safety, even if that puts her own life at risk. Full of twists and turns, the story moves towards a dramatic climax when murder prompts a manhunt and a final confrontation with the forces threatening Oliver’s future.
So put your headphones on, sit back and listen as this 19th century classic is brought to the most vivid, cinematic life in an epic, immersive audio drama.
Also starring: Josephine Arden, Rachel Atkins, Annette Badland, Saffron Coomber, Jason Forbes, Pete Gold, Gerard McDermott, Lizzie Waterworth, David Holt, Harry Myers, Alistair Nwachukwu, Amaka Okafor, Stellan Powell, Richard Reed, Garry Robson, Lizzie Stables, Sam Stafford, Mark Straker, Harry Tuffin, Ben Whitehead, Elijah Wolf, Sarah Whitehouse.
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Dramatised from Gillian Slovo ‘s acclaimed detective-mystery. Kate Baeir and her partner Carmen are trying to trace the mystery man who is following Alicia. With David Holt , Philip Anthony. John Webb and Matthew Morgan. Music by Anthea Gomez. Abridged by Jill Brooke. Director Sue Wilson
Episode List* 01 – Death Comes Staccato * 02 – Death Comes Staccato * 03 – Death Comes Staccato * 04 – Death Comes Staccato * 05 – Death Comes Staccato The post Death Comes Staccato appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The definitive collection of full-cast BBC radio dramatisations of Henry James classic novels – plus a bonus documentary about his life and work.
One of the greatest and most influential American novelists, Henry James is loved for his compelling storytelling, vividly realised characters and perceptive exploration of the shifting relationships between Europeans and Americans. But he also possessed extraordinary insights into the secrets of the human heart, as shown in the 10 dramas in this collection.
Roderick Hudson explores how love and obsession intermingle as old and new worlds collide; The American mixes humour and heartache in a tale of a self-made millionaire and an aristocratic young Frenchwoman; and desire and propriety clash in Daisy Miller when Frederick Winterbourne meets the beautiful, free-spirited Daisy. Pursued by two suitors, Isabel Archer longs for freedom in The Portrait of a Lady while a literary editor insinuates himself into the lives of an elderly spinster and her niece in The Aspern Papers.
What Maisie Knew is James classic tale of divorce seen through a child’s eyes while Gothic ghost story The Turn of the Screw tells the terrifying tale of a governess who tries to protect two young children from the forces of evil. The Wings of the Dove is a heartbreaking story of a doomed love triangle; dark comedy The Ambassadors features yearning and betrayal in aristocratic Paris; and The Golden Bowl explores two marriages and the secret that threatens to tear them apart.
The casts of these sweeping radio dramas include Kate Hudson, Kate Phillips, Emma Cunniffe, Jodie Comer, Henry Goodman and Toby Jones, with John Lynch as Henry James. Also featured is a bonus programme, The Master, in which Sarah Churchwell discusses James’s life and novels with author Colm Tibin and biographer Hermione Lee.
Episode List* 01 – Roderick Hudson * 02 – Roderick Hudson * 03 – The American * 04 – The American * 05 – Daisy Miller * 06 – The Portrait of a Lady * 07 – The Portrait of a Lady * 08 – The Portrait of a Lady * 09 – The Aspern Papers * 10 – What Maisie Knew * 11 – The Turn of the Screw * 12 – The Wings of the Dove * 13 – The Wings of the Dove * 14 – The Ambassadors * 15 – The Ambassadors * 16 – The Golden Bowl * 17 – The Golden Bowl * 18 – The Golden Bowl * 19 – The Portrait of a Gentleman * 20 – The Real Henry James * 21 – The Master ‘A Discussion of Henry James’ The post The Henry James BBC Radio Drama Collection 10 Full-Cast Dramatisations appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Four stirring tales in which Sir Digby Spode and the trusty Hubert Carstairs thwart the forces of swarthy skulduggery
Spoof of Bulldog Drummond in which adventurer Sir Digby Spode tackles a master criminal bent on world domination. Starring Richard Johnson as Sir Digby Spode and Royce Mills as Hubert Carstairs.
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The Sangres Motorcycle Club are outlaws, notorious for drug-running, illegal weapons sales, and possibly even murder. But what they don’t know is that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has a man on the inside….
Can Darrin “Koz” Kozlowski survive long enough to bring them down from within?
KOZ tells the tale of how ATF agent Darrin “Koz” Kozlowski pulled off one of the largest organized crime busts in a generation. This gritty, LA-after-dark story dives deep into the world of one of the most dangerous motorcycle clubs in Los Angeles, bringing these unbelievable true events to life.
“Koz” works his way up the club ranks. But the more entrenched he becomes, the more the stakes grow and spiral. Either he proves he’s as ruthless as his Sangres brothers, or he risks his and his family’s lives. As the story speeds toward its conclusion, the question becomes: Will Koz unearth the Sangres’ dark secret? Or will he blow his cover and be run down before getting the chance?
Taylor Kitsch (Waco) and Kate Mara (House of Cards) star in this fast-paced, immersive Audible Original based on a true story. Its format features scripted storytelling from an all-star cast, and includes interview excerpts from the real Darrin “Koz” Kozlowski, allowing listeners to dive deeper into his psyche for the first time.
Please note: This content is for mature audiences only. It contains adult language and themes. Discretion is advised.
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Penny and Dave are getting married, but there are a few hiccups – Penny’s hair being just one of them.
She wanted the Julia Roberts look but has ended up with a Mrs Merton instead.
Starring Letitia Dean, Phil Cornwell and Julian Rhind-Tutt.
Simon Warne’s four-part comedy serial.
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Following on from Ashley Blaker’s Goyish Guide To Judaism, this series of four half hours is a mix of stand-up and observational documentary that moves beyond Blaker’s Orthodox Judaism and meets his extraordinary family. All recorded in the Blakers’ unusual home and featuring the voices of his real family.
As parents of six children, Blaker and his wife, Gemma are trying to raise a family in a world that is only really set up for having two or three. On top of that, the Blakers’ children are not just any kids: three have special needs – two autistic boys and an adopted girl with Down Syndrome – and 6.5 Children sensitively finds the funny in raising children with disabilities. Naturally, an entire episode of the show will deal with lockdown when the Blakers had to home-school half a dozen children at once.
Episode List* S01E01 – Too Many Kids * S01E02 – Opt to Adopt * S01E03 – The Special Ones * S01E04 – Lockdown The post Ashley Blaker 6.5 Children appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Period comedy drama with Caroline Quentin and John Duttine
Dr Thomas and Mrs Jane Barrett leave the comfy security of 1950s Manchester and head down-under to a town so remote it’s not even on the map – Kalangadog Junction in Australia.
Six-part comedy drama series by Moya O’Shea.
Starring Caroline Quentin as Jane, John Duttine as Thomas, Niall Ashdown as Jimmy, Toby Longworth as Pete, Brian Bowles as Len, Joanna Monro as Madge, Julie Gibbs as Milly and June Whitfield as Phoebe.
Episode List* 01 – Kalangadog Junction * 02 – Kalangadog Junction * 03 – Kalangadog Junction * 04 – Kalangadog Junction * 05 – Kalangadog Junction * 06 – Kalangadog Junction The post Kalangadog Junction appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Jim Thackeray is a renowned landscape gardener. He is also a first-class private detective. When a murder takes place in the Shakesperean-themed gardens he has designed, both elements of his life come together with dramatic consequences.
1: Battle Cry – When someone is accidentally killed in re-enacting a medieval battle, Thackeray is pulled in to investigate.
2: This Blessed Plot – Thackeray’s chance to redesign an Italian garden is thwarted by the disappearance of his employer. andscape gardener-cum-detective Jim Thackeray needs to combine his skills when a murder takes place in the Shakespeare-themed garden he has designed. The victim is the ex-wife of a Turkish multi-millionaire and the crime is committed during a ‘Shakespeare’ party Thackeray is holding.
3: Death and the Ice Maiden – Gail asks her father to look into the strange deathbed confession of a friend’s grandmother.
Written by Olwen Wymark and Barbara Clegg
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When five 30-something Asian women get together for ritual ‘girlie’ evenings, nothing is sacred
Friendships are tested, marriages analysed, and secrets exposed…
Vinny’s exciting news gets mixed reactions and Sonal is shocked by who’s invited Tula on a date.
Dan and Sonal move house. Vinny and Ali try to assert some control over their young son, who’s causing havoc because Vinny’s pregnant.
Sonal calls on Samina’s legal expertise and Jabeen gets welcome news from husband Joe.
Vinny arrives home with a bundle of joy whilst Samina is furious with Saleem.
Jabeen has a stormy appearance on cable TV, prompting a girlie night. Does Samina have good news?
Dan’s financial woes catch up with him, Tula’s ex remarries – and Salim has a secret…
As tragedy strikes, can the five feisty, foxy, fighting females try to forgive and forget?
Episode List* S01E01 – Girlies * S01E02 – Girlies * S01E03 – Girlies * S01E04 – Girlies * S02E01 – Girlies * S02E02 – Girlies * S02E03 – Girlies * S02E04 – Girlies The post Girlies appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A selection of short stories from Daphne du Maurier’s collection, The Breaking Point.
- The Chamois – When Stephen decides to fly to Greece, it’s for one reason only. He’s determined to rid himself of a secret fear – a fear so painful that he’ll try anything to conquer it… Starring Christopher Cazenove.
- The Alibi – To change your life in middle age can be a traumatic experience. For James Fenton, his sudden decision leads him along a strange street into a strange house – and an experience from which he’ll never recover. Starring Tony Britton.
- Ganymede – The man arrived in Venice happy and contented with life. He left Venice shattered by an unusual experience destined to mark him for life. Starring John Le Mesurier.
- The Apple Tree – Recently widowed George Carey has an irrational hatred for the old apple tree in his garden. He decides it must be dug up – but it’s a decision he’s going to regret for the rest of his life – what’s left of it… Starring Charles Gray.
- Panic – They met at a party and became friends. Despite their age difference, they embarked on an affair – with a trip to Paris. And so began a night of fear which led to panic… Dinsdale Landen stars in the final adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s famous short stories.
A series of adaptations of Daphne Du Maurier’s famous short stories.
Episode List* 01 – The Chamois * 02 – The Alibi * 03 – Ganymede * 04 – The Apple Tree * 05 – Panic The post The World of Daphne Du Maurier appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Nathan Blakely was a popstar, but he died and was reincarnated as a snail. Will he ever make it back to human again?
It’s Quantum Leap meets Planet Earth meets an idiot.
Daniel Rigby and Diane Morgan star in a comedy about the afterlife
With special guest star Josh Widdicombe.
Written by Tom Craine and Henry Paker.
Episode List* S01E01 – Snail * S01E02 – Shrimp * S01E03 – Swallow * S01E04 – Mayfly * S02E01 – Cat * S02E02 – Eel * S02E03 – Beaver * S02E04 – Space Hamster * S02E05 – Komodo * S02E06 – Max * S03E01 – Wolf * S03E02 – Bower Bird * S03E03 – Bonobo * S03E04 – Ant * S03E05 – Cleaning Wrasse * S03E06 – Snowshoe Hare The post ReincarNathan BBC appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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In this modern horror classic, a priest is called in to help a 12-year-old girl who appears to be possessed by an overwhelming demonic force.
William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel is dramatised by Robert Forrest.
Episode List* 01 – The Exorcist * 02 – The Exorcist
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Nikesh Patel stars as Saleem in BBC Radio 4’s epic dramatisation of Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize-winning novel of love, history and magic.
Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations. From that moment on, his fate is mysteriously handcuffed to the history of his country.
But Saleem’s story starts almost thirty years earlier, when his grandfather, Dr Aadam Aziz, falls in love with a woman concealed behind a perforated sheet. That pivotal moment in Kashmir in 1919 sparks a series of bizarre events that will lead to a cryptic prophecy and the birth of a boy with an extraordinary destiny. As a ‘Midnight’s Child’, Saleem has magical powers, and can telepathically tune in to all the other gifted children whose birth coincided with India’s division. However, his strange entanglement with the fate of India will have dramatic repercussions for both him and his country….
Adapted by Ayeesha Menon, this dazzling dramatisation of Rushdie’s many-layered, magical realist masterpiece is both an enthralling family saga and a riveting history of post-colonialism. First broadcast to mark the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India, it features Nikesh Patel as Saleem, with a star cast including Abhin Galeya, Meera Syal, Anneika Rose and Narinder Samra.
Also included is an interview with Salman Rushdie, in which the author talks to radio drama director Emma Harding about his multi-award winning novel.
Midnight’s Children won the Booker Prize in 1981, and was subsequently awarded the ‘Booker of Bookers’ prize in 1993 and ‘The Best of the Booker’ prize in 2008.
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Often described as ‘the father of realism’, Henrik Ibsen was a pioneer of modernist drama. He influenced playwrights as diverse as George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, and is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare. Included in this collection are adaptations of his tragicomic masterpiece The Wild Duck, his complex and compelling play Rosmersholm, the epic drama Brand and the tragedy John Gabriel Borkman. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is relocated to 1879 India in Tanika Gupta’s Audio Drama Award-winning dramatisation, while the provocative and scandalous Ghosts is adapted by Richard Eyre, with the cast of his Olivier Award-winning Almeida Theatre production. Also featured are vibrant dramatisations of Hedda Gabler, whose desperate heroine is trapped in a suffocating marriage; The Lady from the Sea, about a woman torn between security and passion; and An Enemy of the People, in which a whistleblower reveals an inconvenient truth and is vilified for it. The casts of these stunning dramas include David Threlfall, Nicholas Farrell, Helen Baxendale, Indira Varma, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter.
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A master of Russian realism, Anton Chekhov is renowned for his meticulously observed plays and short stories exploring the human condition, in all its joys and sorrows. Included here are six of his best-known dramas, as well as Michael Frayn’s adaptation of Wild Honey, drawn from an early, untitled Chekhov play; and one documentary exploring Chekhov’s life and work.
Wild Honey – The acclaimed radio version of Michael Frayn’s adaptation and Olivier Award-winning comedy, in which village teacher Platonov’s youthful ambitions are rekindled when the seductive Sofya arrives. Ian McKellen stars as Platonov
The Seagull – Recorded on location in Russia, this much-praised version of Chekhov’s classic set on a lakeside dacha features a star cast including Diana Quick, Alex Jennings, Robert Glenister and Helena Bonham-Carter.
Ivanov – 19th Century landowner Ivanov is in debt and depressed – can the love of a beautiful young woman rejuvenate him? Alec McCowan, Maurice Denham, Maxine Audley and Judi Dench star in this vintage production, adapted by John Gielgud.
The Cherry Orchard– Returning home from Paris, Madame Ranyevskaya and her daughter Anya discover that the family estate must be sold to cover their debts. Can they save their beloved cherry orchard? Starring Sinéad Cusack, Anna Massey, Patricia Routledge and Andrew Sachs.
Three Sisters – Stuck in provincial Russia, Olga, Masha and Irina dream of one day returning to Moscow. But life keeps getting in the way… Hattie Morahan, Scarlett Alice Johnson and Flora Spencer-Longhurst star in Chekhov’s poignant meditation on love and longing.
Uncle Vanya – Life on a rural Russian estate is thrown into turmoil by the visit of the ailing Professor Serebryakov and his beautiful young wife Yelena. Anton Lesser stars as Serebryakov, with Lyndsey Marshal as Yelena and Neil Dudgeon as Vanya.
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13 of the finest works by the world-renowned playwright, as heard on BBC radio
Sir Terence Rattigan was one of Britain’s greatest playwrights, renowned for his well-crafted dramas of upper-class manners and repressed sexuality. He was hugely popular throughout the 1940s and early 50s, and had the rare distinction of having plays running in three West End theatres simultaneously. Having fallen out of fashion in the Sixties, his work is now enjoying a huge revival. Included here are some of his most esteemed plays, adapted for radio and brought together in chronological order in one statement collection.
We begin with the sparkling comedy French Without Tears, introduced by the author himself. Next is one of his most famous plays, The Winslow Boy, the moving story of an innocent boy accused of theft. The Browning Version features a teacher overwhelmed by a schoolboy’s unexpected gift, Adventure Story tells the dramatic tale of Alexander the Great, and The Final Test, adapted from Rattigan’s 1951 television play, tells the comic story of a veteran cricketer’s son who prefers music and poetry to cricket.
The Deep Blue Sea centres around the troubled relationship of Hester and Freddie, who need each other, but are worlds apart. In Separate Tables, a radio version of the classic stage play set in the 1950s, a small group of residents at a Bournemouth hotel discover one of them harbours a devastating secret. Variation on a Theme is a reworking of Alexander Dumas’ classic 19th-century novel La Dame aux Camélias, Ross explores the enigmatic life of T.E. Lawrence and Man and Boy focuses on a fraudulent financier who, with his worldwide empire facing collapse, flees to the New York apartment of his estranged son.
Also featured are A Bequest to the Nation, a dramatised account of the Battle of Trafalgar and Lord Nelson’s affair with Emma Hamilton, and In Praise of Love, inspired by the relationship between Rattigan’s friend, the actor Rex Harrison, and his wife Kay Kendall. Last up is Rattigan’s final play, Cause Célèbre, based on the story of Alma Rattenbury, who went on trial with her teenage lover for the murder of her husband. And in two bonus documentaries, Kaleidoscope: Terence Rattigan and Conversations with Terence Rattigan, the great author discusses his life, work and influence.
Among the array of stars in these enthralling dramas are John Gielgud, Alan Bates, Diana Dors, Siân Phillips, Anna Massey, Amanda Root, Peter Sallis, Nerys Hughes, Michael Williams, Saeed Jaffrey, Mary Wimbush and Carleton Hobbs.
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A sparkling seasonal anthology of BBC dramas and readings.
Christmas is the perfect time to curl up with a good story, and this cracking collection brings you 30 wonderfully diverse tales inspired by this most special of seasons. From Santa Claus, gift-giving and family gatherings, to an unexpected encounter in a snowstorm and an alternative take on the Nativity, they’re sure to get you in the festive mood.
Here are modern readings of classics such as Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Tree’, Anton Chekhov’s ‘At Christmas Time’, Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Fir Tree’, O Henry’s ‘The Gift of the Magi’, Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Christmas Storms and Sunshine’ and Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Papa Panov’s Special Christmas’. Alongside them is some superb short fiction by contemporary authors, including Stella Duffy (‘South’), Paul McVeigh (‘Daddy Christmas’), Laura Barnett (‘Survivors’), and nine delightful stories by Alexander McCall Smith. Among the stellar narrators are Don Gilet, Nina Sosanya, Hannah Gordon, Stephanie Cole and Meera Syal.
Interspersed with these are a range of spellbinding plays, including Rachel Joyce’s poignant Christmas by the Lake; festive action comedy Lena Marsh, Live and Schticking! by Jeremy Front; a very unusual and very dangerous Santa in The Morpeth Carol by Timothy X Atack; and Robert Hudson and Marie Phillips’ epistolary animal tale, Some Hay in a Manger, introduced by Stephen Fry. All feature star casts including Niamh Cusack, Robert Lindsay, Sam Troughton, Clare Corbett, Tamsin Greig and Joel Fry.
Heartwarming and heartfelt, comic and bittersweet, moving and magical, these fantastic, evocative stories are a real Christmas treat.
Episode List* 01 – Intro * 02 – Christmas by the Lake * 03 – Motordrome * 04 – The Revenge, or Otherwise, of Herbie Bontemps * 05 – How to Escape in Gaelic * 06 – The Colourful Life of Cousin Grace * 07 – Good President Wenceslas * 08 – The Christmas Present * 09 – Christmas Compass – North * 10 – Christmas Compass – South * 11 – Christmas Compass – East * 12 – Christmas Compass – West * 13 – A Time to Dance * 14 – Christmas Compass – Winter Journey * 15 – Christmas Compass – In the DRC * 16 – Christmas Compass – Primatologist * 17 – Christmas Compass – On The Island * 18 – Midnight at Christmas * 19 – The Fir Tree * 20 – At Christmas Time * 21 – Papa Panov’s Special Christmas * 22 – Some Hay in a Manger * 23 – Some Hay in a Manger * 24 – Daddy Christmas * 25 – Christmas Storms and Sunshine * 26 – The Morpeth Carol * 27 – Survivors * 28 – Lena Marsh, Live and Shticking! * 29 – A Christmas Tree * 30 – The Gift of the Magi * 31 – Get Santa * 32 – Home The post A BBC Christmas Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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John Hurt stars in this BBC radio dramatisation of Gustave Flaubert’s infamous tale of adultery and tragedy.
Beautiful Emma meets and marries Doctor Charles Bovary. He’s happy for the first time in his life – but Emma is distraught that her marriage lacks the passion and romance of her fantasies.
Dazzled by the splendour of a marquis’ ball, she longs for excitement and soon becomes infatuated with a young solicitor, Léon Dupuis. But when Dupuis moves away, her memories of him lead her to despair – and into the arms of wealthy landowner Rodolphe Boulanger.
As she moves from one illicit liaison to another, Emma’s complicated life begins to unravel. Exhausted from her debts and her affairs, she feels she is left with only one course of action….
A French masterpiece of betrayal and wantonness, Flaubert’s notorious novel features Sarah Smart as Emma Bovary, Conrad Nelson as Charles, Jude Akuwudike as Rodolphe and James D’Arcy as Léon.
Episode List* 01 – The Marriage * 02 – The Ball * 03 – The Solicitor * 04 – The Longing * 05 – The Temptation * 06 – The Affairs * 07 – The Unexpected Turn * 08 – Torment * 09 – Misfortune * 10 – Mounting Debts The post Madama Bovary – A Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatization appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Thermonuclear war erupts in Kerry Shale’s award-winning 1993 dramatisation of the classic apocalyptic black comedy.
Dr Strangelove came to prominence in the 1964 film, directed by Stanley Kubrick. Based on the novel Red Alert by Peter George, it famously starred Peter Sellers in multiple roles. As well as scripting the dramatisation, Kerry Shale also takes multiple roles: Dr Strangelove, Lieutenant ‘Sweets’ Kivel, Lieutenant Barney Goldberg, Lieutenant Lothar Zogg, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, General Jack D. Ripper and President Merkin Muffley.
With William Hootkins as Major ‘King’ Kong, Sean Barratt as General ‘Buck’ Turgidson, Stuart Milligan as Colonel ‘Bat’ Guano, Lorelei King as Captain ‘Ace’ Owens, Nigel Anthony as Soviet Ambassador De Sadesky and Peter Whitman as Staines. Nigel Anthony and Teresa Gallagher are the Presenters.
Adapted by and starring Kerry Shale.
With thanks to Keith Wickham.
Directed by Gordon House.
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James Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the men and women who have given the second Elizabethan Age its character.
As the longest-lived and longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II has presided over an era of tremendous social, political and cultural change. In 2012, to mark her Diamond Jubilee, Radio 4 looked back on the long span of her reign, and asked the public to choose high-profile public figures who have helped to define this New Elizabethan Age. Almost a thousand nominations poured in, and the final selection was decided by a panel of leading writers and historians, including Dominic Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne and Max Hastings.
In this celebratory collection, distinguished broadcaster James Naughtie profiles 37 of these iconic individuals. They come from all walks of life – from artists and scientists like David Hockney and Francis Crick, to business legends such as Alan Sainsbury and Anita Roddick, politicians including Roy Jenkins, Tony Blair and Alex Salmond, and even a member of the Royal Family: Diana, Princess of Wales. Some are world-famous, others less well-known, and there are several surprising choices – and a few controversial ones. But all have made their mark on our nation, for good or ill.
Here are fascinating portraits of mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, whose conquest of Everest was announced on the day of the queen’s coronation; Elizabeth David, the food writer who brought European cuisine to British tables; leading thinker on British culture, race and identity Stuart Hall; renowned English composer Benjamin Britten; the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee – and many more, whose achievements and influence will stand the test of time. Together, they shine a light on postwar Britain, illuminating how our society has evolved over the seven decades since Queen Elizabeth II’s accession.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 11th June 2012 – 3rd Sept 2012
Episode List* 01 – Edmund Hillary * 02 – Elizabeth David * 03 – Graham Greene * 04 – Michael Young * 05 – Vladimir Raitz * 06 – Francis Crick * 07 – Doris Lessing * 08 – Alan Sainsbury * 09 – Alfred Hitchcock * 10 – Laurence Olivier * 11 – Benjamin Britten * 12 – Dorothy Hodgkin * 13 – Harold Pinter * 14 – Richard Doll * 16 – Philip Larkin * 17 – Barbara Windsor * 18 – Alfred Denning * 19 – Paul Foot * 20 – Francis Bacon * 21 – John LennonPaul McCartney * 22 – Margot Fonteyn * 23 – Peter Hall * 24 – Terence Conran * 25 – Enoch Powell * 26 – Cicely Saunders * 27 – Basil D’Oliveira * 28 – George Best * 29 – Germaine Greer * 30 – Robert Edwards * 31 – Jack Jones * 32 – Roald Dahl * 33 – David Bowie * 34 – Talaiasi Labalaba * 35 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell * 36 – Roy Jenkins * 37 – Vivienne Westwood * 38 – Jayaben Desai * 39 – Stuart Hall * 40 – David Attenborough * 41 – Margaret Thatcher * 42 – David Hockney * 43 – Billy Connolly * 44 – Ralph Robins * 45 – Amartya Sen * 46 – Salman Rushdie * 47 – Anita Roddick * 48 – Norman Foster * 49 – Charles Saatchi * 50 – Goldie * 51 – John HumeDavid Trimble * 52 – Doreen Lawrence * 53 – Tim Berners-Lee * 54 – Diana, Princess of Wales * 55 – Alex Salmond * 56 – Tony Blair * 57 – Fred Goodwin * 58 – Rupert Murdoch * 59 – Simon Cowell * 60 – Queen Elizabeth II The post The New Elizabethans – James Naughtie appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Bill Bailey stars as Guy Starling, a middle aged man, who, after 45 years, and for reasons quite unknown to him, is suddenly revisited by his imaginary childhood friend Hennikay.
It’s the biggest day in his career and he is on the brink of closing the biggest deal in the history of Maidstone, but when Guy Starling strides into his office at Solutify Technology, a software house that develops games for grown-ups to waste their time playing on their phones, he is confronted with an 11-year-old boy, playing keepy-uppies.
And to make matters worse, no one else can see or hear him. Because he is Hennikay, Guy’s imaginary friend from his lonely childhood.
Neither of them knows why he is there after all these years, but he refuses to leave and even though he sees the world through the naïve eyes of a child from 1976, Hennikay might just be there to help his oldest (and only) friend in the world save the day and close the deal.
Episode List* S01E00 – Pilot * S01E01 – Close-Contact Paint-Based Combat Manoeuvres * S01E02 – Grown-Up Stuff * S01E03 – The Animo-Expo Pro-Gaming Trade Fair * S01E04 – Going Home The post Hennikay appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Albert Edward, Prince of Wales—Bertie, as he’s known—is the eldest son of Queen Victoria, and future King Edward VII. Bertie is a pleasure seeker, always searching out the best meals, the most beautiful women, and the most lavish parties.
As Prince Regent, Bertie is expected to behave like a proper royal and avoid scandal. Instead, his love of excitement leads him to a decidedly unprincely hobby: sleuthing. Bertie is not the best detective, but that does not stop him from trying to solve every case that crosses his path, including the feverish suicide of the greatest jockey of the century, the mysterious death of a member of the royal hunting party, and the murder of the son-in-law of an old friend.
Bertie and the Tinman – Bertie, Prince of Wales and future King Edward VII, is a charismatic but self-indulgent man who enjoys the finer things in life, including dining, flirting, and flitting from party to party with his entire thirty-person staff in tow. But the fun and games come to a tragic halt when Bertie hears the shocking news that his friend the legendary jockey Fred Archer, known as the Tinman, has taken his own life. Bertie has his doubts that it was in fact suicide, especially considering the Tinman’s ominous final words: “Are they coming?” Bertie resolves to discover the truth, looking for new suspects and evidence on a quest that will take him through some of the most disreputable parts of London, much to the dismay of his mother, Queen Victoria. With Timothy West as Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.
Bertie and the Seven Bodies – The second entry of the Bertie, Prince of Wales mystery series, featuring future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England. Bertie, Prince of Wales, is delighted to be invited by Lady Amelia, a recently widowed young woman, to Desborough Hall for a week-long shooting party. The eleven other motley guests include a poet, a chaplain, and an Amazon explorer. The party promises a week of shooting, socializing, and feasting, but these expectations are soon shattered as one of the guests collapses face first into her dessert and dies before the night is out. At first, this death is believed to be an accident, and the party continues with their hunting plans for the week. But when another guest turns up dead the very next day, Bertie realizes that the deaths cannot be coincidence.
Peter Lovesey ‘s unusual detective, the Prince of Wales, finds his life endangered at a party. Dramatised by Geoffrey M Matthews Director Matthew Walters.
Bertie and the Crime of Passion – The third and final entry of the Bertie Prince of Wales mystery series, featuring future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England. Bertie, amateur sleuth and the Crown Prince of Wales, loves food and women. This is why Bertie enjoys his frequent trips to Paris, a city that is known not only as the City of Lights, but also as the city of romance and fine cuisine. In 1891, however, Bertie’s yearly Paris vacation becomes much more eventful than he had anticipated when, soon after his arrival, he learns that the future son-in-law of his old friend, Jules d’ Agincourt, was recently murdered at the Moulin Rouge. Unable to resist practicing his detective skills, Bertie resolves to assist the Sûreté, the French police force, in solving the ongoing case. He enlists the help of the reluctant Sarah Bernhardt, renowned actress and Bertie’s long-time friend, and together, Bertie and Sarah travel around Paris following possible leads, questioning witnesses, and even apprehending the murder weapon. When the Sûreté discovers that the victim’s fiancée has a much older lover who was present at the scene of the murder, they immediately arrest him on the suspicion that the murder was a crime of passion. Bertie’s instincts tell him that this man is innocent, but the Sûreté is convinced he is the killer. With the threat of the guillotine looming over the innocent man’s head, it is up to Bertie to find the real killer and close the case before it is too late.
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Five BBC Radio adaptations of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray plus bonus features.
Best known today for his comic masterpiece, Vanity Fair, W. M. Thackeray was regarded in his time as the only rival to his contemporary, Charles Dickens. This collection includes a selection of his finest satirical fiction, as well as two fascinating programmes exploring his life and writings.
Vanity Fair – Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Thackeray’s deliciously ironic tale of passion and ambition follows the fortunes of penniless, social-climbing Becky Sharp and her wealthy, sweet-natured best friend, Amelia Sedley. Starring Stephen Fry as the Narrator, with Emma Fielding as Becky and Katy Cavanagh as Amelia and Toby Jones as Jos.
Barry Lyndon – Forced to leave his native Ireland after an unfortunate duel, young Redmond Barry embarks on a series of adventures that take him from the battlefields of the Seven Years War to the highest courts of Europe and the drawing rooms of English society. Gerard McSorley and Andrew Scott star in Thackeray’s picaresque classic alongside Shelia Hancock and Kenneth Cranham.
The Yellowplush Papers- Adam Buxton stars in these five comic tales about the rise and fall of canny Regency footman Charles Yellowplush.
Pendennis – Thackeray’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale charts the youthful exploits of handsome, impoverished Arthur Pendennis as he leaves his home in the country to make his way in London society. Dominic Guard stars as Arthur, with Hugh Dickson as The Writer.
The Newcomes – Featuring characters from Vanity Fair and narrated by Arthur Pendennis, this epic saga tells the story of several generations of a respectable English family, centring around Colonel Thomas Newcombe and his artist son, Clive. Starring Simon Lack, Carleton Hobbs and Nigel Grahame.
Al Murray on Thackeray – Comedian Al Murray talks about his great-great-great-grandfather, William Makepeace Thackeray, and why he thinks Vanity Fair is still relevant today.
Andrew Davies/William Thackeray – James Naughtie and a group of readers chat to Andrew Davies about Thackeray’s classic novel, Vanity Fair, which he adapted for BBC TV in 1998.
NB: Due to the age and nature of some of the recordings, the sound quality may vary.
First published 1837 (The Yellowplush Papers), 1844 (The Luck of Barry Lyndon), 1848 (Vanity Fair), 1849-50 (Pendennis), 1855 (The Newcomes)
Episode List* 01 – Intro * 02 – Vanity Fair – Moving On * 03 – Vanity Fair – Plotting * 04 – Vanity Fair – Admirers * 05 – Vanity Fair – Charmer * 06 – Vanity Fair – London * 07 – Vanity Fair – Loss * 08 – Vanity Fair – Ruin * 09 – Vanity Fair – Honeymoon * 10 – Vanity Fair – Brussels * 11 – Vanity Fair – Waterloo * 12 – Vanity Fair – The Inheritance * 13 – Vanity Fair – Plans * 14 – Vanity Fair – Tactics * 15 – Vanity Fair – Georgia * 16 – Vanity Fair – Court * 17 – Vanity Fair – Trouble * 18 – Vanity Fair – Fight * 19 – Vanity Fair – Return * 20 – Vanity Fair – Europe * 21 – Vanity Fair – Futures * 22 – Barry Lyndon – The Duel * 23 – Barry Lyndon – The Squire * 24 – The Yellowplush Papers – My First Employer * 25 – The Yellowplush Papers – Captain Rook * 26 – The Yellowplush Papers – Deuceace * 27 – The Yellowplush Papers – My Novel * 28 – The Yellowplush Papers – My Debut in Society * 29 – Pendennis – Fair Ophelia * 30 – Pendennis – Bearding the Lion * 31 – Pendennis – The Primrose Path * 32 – Pendennis – Undine * 33 – Pendennis – The Pleasure Garden * 34 – Pendennis – Wings of Pegasus * 35 – Pendennis – Fame and Folly * 36 – Pendennis – The Rose of Shepherd’s Inn * 37 – Pendennis – A Blessing in Disguise * 38 – Pendennis – The Upper Hand * 39 – Pendennis – Plot and Counterplot * 40 – Pendennis – Cards on the Table * 41 – Pendennis – Goodbye to Youth * 42 – The Newcomes – A Visitor from India * 43 – The Newcomes – Pride and Fashion * 44 – The Newcomes – Wings of Pegasus * 45 – The Newcomes – The House in Fitzroy Square * 46 – The Newcomes – Pavilions of Pleasure * 47 – The Newcomes – The Mayfair Market * 48 – The Newcomes – The Reigning Beauty * 49 – The Newcomes – A Marriage Is Arranged * 50 – The Newcomes – Hearts and Coronets * 51 – The Newcomes – Father and Son * 52 – The Newcomes – The Battle for Newcome * 53 – The Newcomes – Brutal Facts * 54 – The Newcomes – Point of Honour * 55 – Al Murray on Thackeray * 56 – Andrew Davies on William Thackeray The post William Makepeace Thackeray – A BBC Radio Drama Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Two full-cast dramatisations of Jeffrey Archer’s thrillers with narration by Jeffrey Archer himself.
Jeffery Archer is a New York Times best-selling author, published in over 37 languages across 97 countries. Jeffrey Archer’s debut novel Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less from 1976 is dramatised here in seven parts by Betty Davis; as well as his later work A Matter of Honour, which was recently rediscovered in the collection of an amateur archivist after the recording was lost on delivery to the BBC archives. The sound quality of A Matter of Honour may be affected as a result.
Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less
The conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physician, a chic French art dealer and a charming English lord. They have one thing in common. Overnight, each novice investor lost his life’s fortune to one man.
The con: Harvey Metcalfe. A brilliant, self-made guru of deceit. A very dangerous individual. And now, a hunted man. With nothing left to lose, four strangers are about to come together, each experts in their own field.
Their plan: find Harvey, shadow him, trap him and destroy him, penny-for-penny. From the luxurious casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot; from the bustle of Wall Street to fashionable London galleries, their own ingenious game has begun.
It’s called revenge, and they were taught by a master.
A Matter of Honour
10th May 1966: The Tsar’s Icon is a fake. It is imperative that the original be found, and by 20th June. Finding it will change the course of human history.
It seems innocent enough. A disgraced British colonel bequeaths a mysterious letter to his only son. But the moment Adam Scott opens the yellowing envelope, he sets into motion a deadly chain of events that threatens to shake the very foundations of the free world.
When at last he comes to understand what he is in possession of, he’s even more determined to protect it, for it’s more than a matter of life and death, it’s a matter of honour.
Episode List* 01 – Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less * 02 – Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less * 03 – Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less * 04 – Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less * 05 – Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less * 06 – Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less * 07 – Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less * 08 – A Matter of Honour * 09 – A Matter of Honour * 10 – A Matter of Honour * 11 – A Matter of Honour * 12 – A Matter of Honour * 13 – A Matter of Honour * 14 – A Matter of Honour The post Jeffrey Archer – 2 BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Thrillers appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Colin Baker reads this dynamic novelisation of a TV adventure featuring the Sixth Doctor and Peri.
The inhabitants of the planet Karfel are suffering under the tyrannical rule of their leader, the Borad, who has brought his world to the brink of interplanetary war.
Those who dare to oppose the will of the Borad are mercilessly sacrificed to the Timelash, a fate considered by many to be worse than death.
When the Doctor arrives on Karfel, he soon discovers the Borad’s horrifying plan – and realises he must be stopped at all costs.
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A BBC comedy sitcom from BBC New Comedy Award winner Lucy Beaumont, also starring Maureen Lipman.
Sophie still lives at home with her mum in Hull. They make a living doing car boot sales at the weekend. Except they don’t really make a living because her mum can’t bear to get rid of any of their junk. Plus, they don’t have a car. As their house gets more cluttered, Sophie feels more trapped. She dreams of moving to London to meet her dad and to become a famous actress. Will this dream ever come true?
Starring Lucy Beaumont as Sophie and Maureen Lipman as her mum, Sheila.
Written by Lucy Beaumont.
Episode List* S01E00 – Lucy Beaumont – To Hull and Back * S01E01 – The French Connection * S01E02 – Crying in the Chapel * S01E03 – An Affair to Forget * S01E04 – My Casa Is Your Casa * S01E05 – It’s My Party * S02E01 – This Must Be It * S02E02 – Is There Anyone Out There * S02E03 – Is That You Mr Brown * S02E04 – Where Do You Think You’re Going * S03E01 – Last Chance Salon * S03E02 – Stockholm Syndrome * S03E03 – Fourth in Show * S03E04 – Welcome to the Family The post To Hull and Back appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Science sleuths Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry investigate everyday mysteries.
In this irreverent and illuminating popular science show, award-winning geneticist Dr Adam Rutherford teams up with mathematics guru Dr Hannah Fry to solve puzzling conundrums sent in by listeners. For the past five years, they’ve been scrutinising a cornucopia of cases using the power of science – from why people shout on their mobile phones to how much the bacteria in our body weighs.
In these 50 episodes, they tackle topics including what makes gingers ginger, how to make the perfect cup of tea, whether being left-handed affects your brain and why we get static shocks. Plus, they explain why the Earth spins, what’s inside a black hole, why tunes get stuck in our heads and how bats echolocate – as well as solving the enigma of why sex exists and discovering whether science can help you win the lottery.
So whether you’re curious about déjà vu, wondering if we could shoot lasers to the moon or simply desperate to identify the tiniest dinosaur, Fry and Rutherford have the answers you need. Helping them to find the solutions are a host of fellow scientists and special guests including Professors Alice Roberts, Marcus du Sautoy and Jim Al-Khalili, Jay Rayner, Shaun Keaveney, Rory Cellan-Jones and Duncan Wisbey.
Episode List* S01E01 – The Scarlet Mark * S01E02 – The Phantom Jam * S01E03 – The Aural Voyeur * S01E04 – The Squeamish Swoon * S01E05 – The Stellar Dustbin * S02E01 – The Tea Leaf Mystery * S02E02 – The Psychic Tear * S02E03 – A Study in Spheres * S02E04 – The Hairy Hominid * S02E05 – The Counting Horse * S03E01 – The Sinister Hand Part 1 * S03E02 – The Sinister Hand Part 2 * S03E03 – The Space Pirate * S03E04 – The Portly Problem * S03E05 – The Strongest Substance * S04E01 – The Melodic Mystery * S04E02 – The Hunt for Nothing, Part 1 * S04E03 – The Hunt for Nothing, Part 2 * S04E04 – The Bad Moon Rising * S04E05 – The Lost Producer * S05E01 – The Broken Stool * S05E02 – The World That Turns * S05E03 – A Code in Blood * S05E04 – The Astronomical Balloon * S05E05 – The Forgetful Child * S06E01 – The Cat Who Came Back * S06E02 – The Burning Question * S06E03 – The Dark Star * S06E04 – Itchy and Scratchy * S06E05 – Kate Bush’s Sonic Weapon * S07E01 – The Curious Cake-Off * S07E02 – The Polar Opposite * S07E03 – The Sticky Song * S07E04 – The Shocking Surprise * S07E05 – Adventures in Dreamland * S08E01 – The Baffled Bat * S08E02 – The Dreadful Vegetable * S08E03 – The Cosmic Speed Limit * S08E04 – The Curious Face Off * S08E05 – Goldfinger’s Moon Laser * S09E01 – The Enigma of Sex, Part 1 * S09E02 – The Enigma of Sex, Part 2 * S09E03 – The Tiniest Dinosaur * S09E04 – The Atomic Blade * S09E05 – The Cosmic Egg * S10E01 – The Fifth Dimension * S10E02 – The Human Instrument * S10E03 – The Déjà Vu * S10E04 – The Lucky Number * S10E05 – The Dawn Chorus * S11E01 – The Alien Enterprise Part 1 * S11E02 – The Alien Enterprise Part 2 * S11E03 – The Running Joke * S11E04 – The Random Request * S11E05 – A World of Pain * S12E01 – The Viking Code * S12E02 – The Stressful Scone * S12E03 – Two Infinities and Beyond Part 1 * S12E04 – Two Infinities and Beyond Part 2 * S12E05 – The Good Bad Food * S12E06 – The Horrible Hangover * S13E01 – The Mesmerist * S13E02 – The Periodic Problem * S13E03 – An Instrumental Case * S13E04 – The Lunar Land Pt 1 * S13E05 – The Lunar Land Pt2 * S13E06 – Jurassic Squawk * S14E01 – A Frytful Scare Part 1 * S14E02 – A Frytful Scare Part 2 * S14E03 – Stephen Fry’s Identity Crisis * S14E04 – The Heart of the Antimatter * S14E05 – The Trouble Sum Weather * S14E06 – The End of the World * S15E01 – The Golden Secret * S15E02 – The Power of Love * S15E03 – The ASMRnswer * S15E04 – Adam’s ASMR cocktail * S15E05 – Hannah’s ASMR cocktail * S15E06 – A Cold Case Part 1 * S15E07 – A Cold Case Part 2 * S15E08 – The Exotic Wormhole * S16E01 – The Growling Stomach * S16E02 – The Seeded Cloud * S16E03 – The Sting in the Tail * S16E04 – The End of Everything * S16E05 – The Zedonk Problem * S16E06 – The Space Burrito * S17E01 – The Hamster Power Hypothesis * S17E02 – The Martian Mission * S17E03 – The Good and Bad in Fungi * S17E04 – The Pizza Diet * S17E05 – The Noises That Make Us Cringe * S17E06 – The Scientific Exploration of Astrology * S17E07 – The Mosquito Conundrum * S17E08 – The Flying Clock and the Stopped Watch * S17E09 – A Weighty Matter Part 1 * S17E10 – A Weighty Matter Part 2 * S17E11 – Back to The Sinister Hand * S17E12 – More Frytful Scares * S18E01 – The Guiding Hound * S18E02 – The Weirdness of Water Part 1 * S18E03 – The Weirdness of Water Part 2 * S18E04 – The Painless Heart * S18E05 – The Slippery Situation * S18E06 – The Venomous Vendetta * S18E07 – Living with AI – The Biggest Event in Human History * S18E08 – Living with AI – AI in Warfare * S18E09 – Living with AI – AI in the Economy * S18E10 – Living with AI – A Future for Humans * S19E01 – The Mystery of the Teenage Brain * S19E02 – The Weird Waves of Wi-Fi * S19E03 – Surprising Symmetries * S19E04 – The Shocking White Hair * S19E05 – The Turn of the Tide * S19E06 – The Colour Conundrum * S20E01 – The Case of The Missing Gorilla * S20E02 – The Wild and Windy Tale * S20E03 – The Suspicious Smell * S20E04 – The Problem of Infinite Pi(e) * S20E05 – The Riddle of Red-Eyes and Runny-Noses * S20E06 – The Puzzle of the Plasma Doughnut The post The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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Neil Brand’s new espionage drama about weaponised narrative and conspiracy.
In London, Indira, a young medical school graduate, receives terrible news of the death of her parents and travels home to India to investigate.
At a New York conference Sophie, a brilliant young graduate, is accused of plagiarising a senior academic and finds herself caught up in a dangerous conspiracy.
And in Kiev, Ukrainian intelligence is using every A.I. weapon at its disposal to pinpoint a major source of Russian disinformation.
One name is behind all three stories, a person who seems to exist only in the world of disinformation – but who are they, and can they be stopped?
War of Words is an epic story of weaponised narrative, disinformation, conspiracy and paranoia in the style of Le Carre, taking the listener at breakneck speed around the world towards a deadly confrontation in Eastern Ukraine, whilst laying bare the facts about our contemporary world of fake news, data farming and political interference in all its detail.
Deeply embedded in today’s current affairs and conflicts, this drama continues to resonate with ongoing events in the real world and cyberspace up to the present day.
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Five tall tales and one true story…
The Master turns sleuth and spy in this quintet of fictional radio dramas, plus the true story of how Coward came to take the role of chief gangster in the film The Italian Job.
Actor, playwright, songwriter, director, author and star – as far as we know, Noël Coward never added ‘detective’ or ‘undercover agent’ to his astonishing achievements. But could the intriguing gaps in his memoirs be hiding a thrilling secret life?
Starring Malcolm Sinclair as Coward, Eleanor Bron as his devoted secretary Lorn Loraine and Tam Williams as his devoted valet Cole Lesley, these light-hearted thrillers see Noël Coward solving crimes and foiling villains with his favourite weapon: wit.
Design for Murder
In this wry backstage whodunit set just before World War II, Coward must put aside the play he’s writing to track down a murderous psychopath in London’s West End.
Blithe Spy
This Second World War espionage adventure finds Coward in New York, where he turns secret agent and uses his talent to amuse to help Britain battle the Nazis.
A Bullet at Balmain’s
1948 and the celebrated playwright is in post-liberation Paris to take the lead role in his play Present Laughter. But the murder of a fashion-house mannequin provides a stylish distraction.
Death at the Desert Inn
When $300,000 is left in a satchel in Noël Coward’s Las Vegas suite, it’s the prelude to a baffling murder mystery, complete with Judy Garland, a showgirl, a Broadway agent, an unlikely croupier and a US Congressman.
Our Man in Jamaica
Reconciled to being out of fashion, Noël Coward is determined to finish his first novel – until his neighbour Ian Fleming sets him a challenge: become a spy once more to help destabilise Fidel Castro….
Mr Bridger’s Orphan
Commissioned to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of Noël Coward, Mr Bridger’s Orphan tells a surprising and little-known story from his life. It’s 1968 and Coward is in Dublin to play the chief gangster in the film The Italian Job. But why did the urbane actor and playwright, in failing health, accept the role? The play tells the story of how his involvement in the movie emerged from a significant encounter during Coward’s dynamic and humane twenty-year Presidency of the Actors’ Orphanage, revealing the down-to-earth man behind the sometimes waspish and rarefied public persona.
Episode List* E01 – Design for Murder * E02 – Blythe Spy * E03 – A Bullet At Balmains * E04 – Death At The Desert Inn * E05 – Our Man in Jamaica * E06 – Mr Bridger’s Orphan The post The Noel Coward Quintet appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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A collection of four full cast BBC radio trilogies, written and directed by John Dryden.
A Tokyo Murder
‘The Parents’: Jennifer and Peter Whitelock arrive in Japan to help find their daughter’s murderer. Frustrated with the slow progress of the police investigation, Peter puts his trust in TV producer Norio Ito, who promises to champion their cause on his popular ‘news and entertainment’ show, while Jennifer tries to discover what her daughter’s life in Tokyo was like. Then she starts getting calls from a man claiming to be the killer….
‘The Detective’: Detective Inspector Julie Hill is sent to Tokyo to investigate the disappearance of British teacher Daisy Whitelock. Working with the Tokyo police, who are reluctant to have a foreign police officer interfering with the case, she has to overcome cultural and bureaucratic obstacles as she attempts to untangle what really happened at the foreign language school Daisy taught at.
‘The Daughter’: Daisy Whitelock arrives in Japan to teach English at a foreign language school in Tokyo. Her desire to scratch beneath the surface of Japanese society leads her to shun the companionship of the other ex-pat teachers in her shared apartment, and exposes her to the terrifying reality of a disturbed mind.
Severed Threads
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. At first the three lives seem totally unconnected, but as the threads unravel they become tangled in a shocking heap of child labour, abuse and murder.
Pandemic
Dr Jan Roldanus, a microbiologist and WHO advisor on infectious diseases, arrives in Bangkok to give a keynote lecture at a medical conference. Whilst there, he is invited to observe the local authority’s handling of an outbreak of bird flu. But when a new virulent strain, ‘Red Eye’, emerges – causing bleeding eyes followed by death – he finds himself trapped in Thailand, unable to fly home to his wife and son. As the virus spreads at a terrifying pace, his investigations lead him to one inescapable and terrible conclusion…
The Reluctant Spy
In Cairo against a backdrop of the “Arab Spring”, hard-up Coptic art expert Duncan Kavanagh scrapes a living as a private English language tutor and by showing tourists around the ancient churches of Cairo. He lives with his feisty, politically-aware, 15-year-old daughter Ola, who is half-Egyptian, in a modest flat they can barely afford. Since the revolution, the situation has become ever harder for Duncan with tourists in short supply. When approached by seductive Canadian student Tara Moore to deliver a letter (for money) to a prominent Egyptian politician whose son Duncan teaches, he accepts. It’s a decision that will solve his short-term financial problems but embroil him in a complex web of secrets and misinformation and a struggle for his own and his daughter’s survival.
Episode List* S01E01 – A Tokyo Murder – The Daughter * S01E02 – A Tokyo Murder – The Detective * S01E03 – A Tokyo Murder – The Parents * S02E01 – Severed Threads – God’s Clothing Firm * S02E02 – Severed Threads – If Thy Hand Offend Thee * S02E03 – Severed Threads – The Reckoning * S03E01 – Pandemic – The Present * S03E02 – Pandemic – The Future * S03E03 – Pandemic – The Past * S04E01 – The Reluctant Spy – The Delivery * S04E02 – The Reluctant Spy – Death of a Friend * S04E03 – The Reluctant Spy – Out of Control The post The John Dryden BBC Radio Collection appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
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The award-winning series Dead Ringers is back with highlights from its television series. A huge hit on BBC Radio 4, Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Kevin Connelly, Mark Perry and Phil Cornwell star once again in the best impression comedy on TV. This collection brings together some of the best episodes from BBC1s first, second and third series.
Enter a surreal universe where David Dickinson goes looking for weapons of mass destruction in ‘Weapons Hunt’, the Queen sells off the royal jewels on the QVC shopping channel and Delia Smith turns homicidal and starts cooking up the competition. Elsewhere, Anne Robinson votes off The Weakest Disciple, and Simon Schama and David Starkey battle it out – literally – in order to become television’s leading historian.
Also in the mix are an oddly threatening Michael Buerk, Saddam Hussein advertising Werther’s Originals and familiar favourites Tony Blair, Greg Dyke and Kristy Wark. Obi-Wan Kenobi visits a second-hand car salesman, Ozzy Osborne takes over the role of Dumbledore in the new Harry Potter movie and Doctor Who spends a weekend with the Cybermen family in Living with the Enemy.
So take a ringside seat for another TV swipe at the famous – and infamous – courtesy of Dead Ringers.
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A BBC Radio drama of Stendhal’s masterpiece plus bonus documentary.
Both a sweeping chronicle of 19th-century France and a coming-of-age story of a young, idealistic social climber, The Red and the Black is one of the great works in world literature, and widely considered to be the first psychological novel.
It charts the misadventures and romantic escapades of Julien Sorel, a timber miller’s son who idolises Napoleon and dreams of military glory. But post-Waterloo, the path to power does not lie with the army (the ‘red’), but the Church (the ‘black’), so he decides to study for the priesthood. Then an opportunity arises to further increase his status as tutor to the mayor’s children and when the mayor’s wife, Mme de Renal, falls in love with him, he seduces her.
Their affair is discovered, and he is forced to leave Verrires and enter the seminary only for his life to be transformed when his mentor, Abb Pirard, finds him a job in Paris, as private secretary to the aristocratic Marquis de la Mole. Finally, Julien has an entre into high society and when he wins the heart of the Marquis’ beautiful, haughty daughter Mathilde, he seems to have the world at his feet. But as his past returns to haunt him, Julien commits a terrible crime that will seal his fate….
A gripping tale of love, ambition, morality and hypocrisy, The Red and the Black was adapted as an award-winning 1954 film by Claude Autant-Lara, and televised as a 1993 BBC mini-series starring Ewan McGregor. This lively, fast-paced radio adaptation stars William Squire as the Narrator and Andrew Hall as Julien, with a cast including Margo Gunn, Deborah Paige and Edward de Souza.
Also included is the fascinating documentary feature Stendhal and Napoleon, in which Andy Martin tells how Stendahl followed Napoleon across Europe to Moscow in 1812 as catering manager to the troops and changed fiction in the process.
Episode List* 01 – The Red and the Black * 02 – The Red and the Black * 03 – The Red and the Black * 04 – The Red and the Black * 05 – The Red and the Black * 06 – The Red and the Black * 07 – The Red and the Black * 08 – Stendhal and Napoleon The post Stendhal – The Red and the Black A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts.
Five fantastic shows from The Chase’s ‘Sinnerman’, award-winning comic and broadcaster Paul Sinha Paul Sinha loves a quiz. Not only is he the sixth-ranked quizzer in the UK, he’s also a regular on Radio 4’s long-running Round Britain Quiz and a resident Chaser on ITV’s The Chase. In these collected BBC shows, Paul offers us […]
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A major BBC Radio series charting the history of post-war Britain through the lives of Hope Kiffin, Eunice Lamming and Gloria de Soto, bound forever by one moment in 1946. London, 1946. Struggling to cope with the idea of raising her daughter in a hostile environment, African-Caribbean nurse Hope makes the difficult decision to entrust […]
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A tale of 17th-century Milan translated and dramatised in four parts by RB Amos. Narrated by Richard Bebb. Renzo and Lucia are to be married this day, but their village priest is curiously reluctant to get on with the ceremony. Someone has been getting at him – someone who, for his own black reasons, does […]
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Series 1 – Based on Nigel Fairs’s “murder mystery serial” that has been running for over 21 years (new episodes performed every month in country houses, steam trains, jailhouses, castles and restaurants throughout the UK), Shilling & Sixpence Investigate takes place in a sometimes quirky, sometimes dark world where nobody is quite whom they seem. […]
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England, Their England is an affectionately satirical inter-war comic novel first published in 1933. It hit the right spot at the time and became a bestseller, and has endured as a classic of humour, transending the passage of time. It is particularly famed for its portrayal of a village cricket match. The plot – if […]
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A. J. Raffles, gentleman, brilliant amateur player and thief, was created in 1898 by E. W. Hornug, brother-in-law of Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Like his Baker Street cousin, Raffles has enjoyed a long history in print, on the stage, in film, television and radio. He is possibly one of the original anti-heroes, […]
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In a hotel room in German East Africa, American farmer Walter Smith dreams of Theodore Roosevelt. As he sleeps, a railway passenger swats at flies, regretting her decision to return to the Dark Continent–and to her husband. On a faraway English riverbank, a jealous Felix Cobb watches his brother swim, and curses his sister-in-law-to-be. And […]
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Often disguised as something that would help him, evil accompanies Christian on his journey to the Celestial City. As you walk with him, you ll begin to identify today s many religious pitfalls. These are presented by men such as Pliable, who turns back at the Slough of Despond; and Ignorance, who believes he s […]
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of M.M. Kayes epic novel of love and war. M.M. Kayes masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that spans over twenty years, moving from the foothills of the Himalayas, to the burning plains, to the besieged British Mission in Kabul. It begins in […]
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Andrew is completely dissatisfied with his lot: work, home, his girlfriend, all of it. He constantly aspires to something better, to escape from this dreary life. But his attempts to improve himself will have to be a lot less feeble if they are ever going to succeed.
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Florence Ransom (Dawn French) is a literary novelist, known for the Booker Prize winning Pennant Days. Her sister is Selina Mountjoy (Jennifer Saunders), a movie star and glamorous celebrity. The two sisters have avoided each other for decades but, when Selina returns to Britain to promote her kiss and tell autobiography Kiss And Tell, the […]
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Modern technology is terrifying. The average smartphone carries out 3.36 billion instructions per second. The average person can carry out only one instruction in that time. Stop and think about that for a second. Sorry, that’s two instructions; you won’t be able to do that. But what if modern technology was…literally terrifying? What if there […]
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Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, where every story promises a ‘Thousand Thrills!’, Ben, the chivalrous and perky non-descript little man, whose thumbs itch just before ‘something ‘orrible ‘appens’ played by Tony Robinson is joined by Leslie Phillips as the devilish Lovelace in J Jefferson Farjeon’s 1930’s thriller. A hat lost in the […]
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Toby Longworth reads this suspenseful novelisation of a classic adventure for the Seventh Doctor and Ace. A squad of UNIT troops is escorting a nuclear missile through the English countryside, whilst nearby knights in armour are fighting battles with broadswords, guns and grenades. The Doctor arrives on the scene and meets two old friends: Brigadier […]
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The identity of Amna depends on who you are. To her fellow Glaswegians, she’s a Londoner now, having lived there for three years. To Londoners, she’s Scottish when they can only hear her, but Asian if they can see her. To Scots, she’s Pakistani – but to Pakistanis, she’s British. To employers, she’s disposable. And […]
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A full-cast dramatisation of this comic tale about an 18th-century gentleman who tries to tell his life story but continually finds that he must digress…. Featuring some of the best known and most well-loved characters in English literature, including Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Dr Slop and the Widow Wadman. Beginning (or attempting to begin) at […]
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It’s 1794, and the TARDIS materialises some distance from Paris during the French Revolution, the scene of the infamous Reign of Terror. Soon the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara find themselves caught up in the tangled web of historical events. Who is James Stirling, the master-spy to whom Ian must deliver a message? What world-shattering […]
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The Infinite Monkey Cage is a BBC Radio 4 comedy and popular science series. Hosted by physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince, The Independent described it as a “witty and irreverent look at the world according to science Each show has a particular topic up for discussion, with previous topics including the apocalypse and […]
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All four series of Alexei Sayle’s hilarious stand-up and storytelling show The Godfather of alternative comedy, Alexei Sayle, mixes memoir and philosophy from behind the counter of his imaginary sandwich bar, serving up wit, wisdom and illusory baguettes as he muses on a multitude of topics. In these twelve shows, he explores his impulse to […]
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Swots is a comedy quiz for BBC Radio Scotland that puts the contestants back into the schoolroom circa 1965. Presenter Miles Jupp presides over the class of unruly celebrity pupils, with the aid of classroom assistant, the inimitable stand-up Susan Morrison.
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Alfie Moore spent eighteen years on the Humberside Police force before turning to stand-up comedy. In his time as a cop on the beat Alfie ‘has seen it all’ so, in addition to all that policing knowledge and experience, he has a wealth of hilarious stories you ‘just couldn’t make up’. His BBC Radio 4 […]
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Classic comedy from the days when the Civil Service had a sense of humour. The Men from the Ministry were the hilarious radio forerunners of TV’s Yes Minister – bungling bureaucrats who bungled for 15 glorious years from 1962 to 1977. Muddling through were Wilfrid Hyde White, as the first head of the ubiquitous General […]
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Bonnie Langford reads this novelisation of a classic TV adventure for the Seventh Doctor, as played on TV by Sylvester MCoy. When the Doctor and Mel arrive in the Space Trading Colony Iceworld, the Doctor can feel that there is mischief afoot. He and Mel don’t have to wait long before they discover the culprit, […]
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Tony Hancock stars with Sid James and Kenneth Williams in the legendary BBC Radio comedy series. Created by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in 1954, Hancock’s Half Hour was the radio vehicle that made Tony Hancock a household name. Each week listeners would be admitted to the sometimes fantastical, sometimes mundane life of “the lad […]
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Robert Beatty stars as the hard-nosed Irish-American PI in these two vintage crime serials. Lester Powell’s Chandleresque detective Philip Odell was a huge hit on the BBC Light Programme between 1947 and 1961, thrilling audiences with his crime-solving adventures in post-war London. This gripping collection brings together the only two surviving radio serials featuring the […]
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The Dream Factory is the towering global monopoly which has been responsible for the manufacture and distribution of humanity’s hopes, fantasies and nightmares since the night before the dawn of time. Due, presumably, to an admin error, The Dream Factory’s UK regional management have recently appointed the worst possible person to the delivery team – […]
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Midnight Cab was produced and directed (all episodes) as part of THE MYSTERY PROJECT by Bill Howell out of the Toronto CBC radio drama studios from 1992-96. The 1990s was full of mystery in Canada. Weekday broadcasts on CBC Radio featured more than a dozen detectives in fully dramatized mysteries. This was a result of […]
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Stephen K. Amos and the comedy circuit’s best stand-ups attempt to unravel the knotty problems of life. Award-winning jokesmith and self-confessed idiot Stephen K. Amos teams up with some of the world’s sharpest comic minds to compile a dummies’ guide to being a modern human. From raising children and having a mid-life crisis to first […]
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The spy who changed history and a great-aunt’s double life. In season one we met the scientist who might have stopped the atomic bomb. In season two we meet the man who stole it. In The Bomb, a new podcast from the BBC World Service, the American writer and journalist Emily Strasser recalls a photograph […]
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Fifteen of the finest works by the world-renowned playwright, as heard on BBC radio. George Bernard Shaw – or Bernard Shaw, as he preferred to be known – was one of Ireland’s foremost dramatists and thinkers. His plays range from contemporary satires to historical allegories, and are infused with ideas, insight, wit and wisdom. Included […]
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Despite it’s name there was no Betty Witherspoon, the character, if there ever was one, never appaeared as either a real person or indeed a character. It appears the idea for the title was a parody of the Simon Dee show, very popular around the time this series was recorded. All this aside The Betty […]
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Dave and Cathy decide to trade in city life for some honest country living. But will the pastoral idyll of Drayton Warlock live up to their expectations? Starring Jonathan Tafler and Lesley Sharp. Mike Coleman’s six-part sitcom about a city couple’s new life in the country. 1/6 Dave and Cathy leave the city for Drayton […]
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A brand-new full-cast audiobook production of the classic collaboration from internationally best-selling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett starring Rebecca Front as the Narrator, Michael Sheen as Aziraphale, and David Tennant as Crowley! “Good Omens…is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. Lots of literary inventiveness […]
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Richard Herring’s comedy about four generations of family. Death, birth, falling in and out of love, resentment over forgotten slights and indestructible affection – it’s all relative. Relativity is a witty and loving portrait of family life, with affectionate observation of inter generational misunderstanding, sibling sparring and the ties that bind, that will resonate with […]
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Five full-cast BBC Radio thrillers from renowned crime writer R.D. Wingfield. Author and dramatist R.D. Wingfield was best known for creating one of Britain’s most beloved fictional policemen, Inspector Jack Frost, who featured in 10 bestselling books and a hit ITV series starring David Jason. This collection includes the radio precursor to the novels and […]
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Bonnie Langford reads this thrilling novelisation of the debut TV adventure for the Seventh Doctor. Assailed by violent bolts of energy, the TARDIS is blasted off-course and forced to land on the barren planet of Lakertya. The turbulence triggers the Doctor’s sixth regeneration – but that is the least of his worries. Why has the […]
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Rosalind Ayres directs a stellar cast in this masterly, rediscovered, horror-thriller. Joanne Whalley stars as Mrs Lovett and Martin Jarvis as barber Sweeney Todd with Rufus Sewell, Jonathan Cake, Julian Sands, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Darren Richardson and Ian Ogilvy. Based on the novel by Thomas Prest. It’s 1785 in Fleet Street, during the reign of George […]
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A thrilling dramatic account of one of Europe’s most extraordinary women, Eleanor of Aquitaine, based on historical fact, legend – and rumour Wife and mother to a dynasty of kings, crusader, prisoner and formidable political operator, Eleanor of Aquitaine is a thoroughly modern woman, despite living almost 900 years ago. Intelligent, witty and independent, she […]
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The groundbreaking audio production of what Los Angeles Times Magazine called “the greatest epic in the history of comic books” continues. Leading perhaps the best cast ever assembled in audio, James McAvoy returns to voice Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, in The Sandman: Act III, the third installment of the New York Times best-selling audio […]
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30% of UK households consist of only one person. That makes about 7.7 million people who are on their own. When you hear this show, you’ll understand why.Alone is about five, single, middle-aged neighbours living in a converted North London house who, it seems, can’t get by with or without each other. No doubt, being […]
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Six part sitcom set on a Gloucestershire farm. Stars Alison Steadman, Nigel Planer, Morwenna Banks and Tony Gardner. Organic farmer Ben and his musician wife Cicely run Dangerfield Farm in Gloucestershire – but they’re not getting any younger and are feeling the strain of such a demanding occupation. Their daughter Beatrix turns up unexpectedly, fleeing […]
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A BBC radio collection of full-cast dramatisations, bringing together Edith Whartons most popular and best-loved works. This collection includes full-cast dramatisations of the following novels: The House of Mirth starring Carole Mowlam, Keith Alexander and Alexander John. Madame de Treymes starring Anna Massey, Philip Voss and Valerie Sarruf. Ethan Frome starring Dominic Mafham, Jessica Raine […]
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Two vintage thrillers, written by award-winning writer Roy Clarke and directed by Alan Ayckbourn Acclaimed radio and TV dramatist Roy Clarke is well known for his hit sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours and Keeping Up Appearances. But before he came to fame, he penned two hugely entertaining six-part thriller serials – […]
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Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine travel the world in pursuit of species on the brink of extinction. In 1985, The Observer magazine sent Douglas Adams to Madagascar to look for the exotic and potentially extinct aye-aye lemur. There he met zoologist Mark Carwardine, and together they made a radio pilot about their travels, In Search […]
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A radio anthology of George Orwell’s finest novels, memoirs and essays, plus four biographical dramas and a bonus documentary, The Road to Nineteen Eighty-Four. Visionary author and journalist George Orwell was the man behind two of the best loved and most influential novels of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. This collection celebrating […]
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John Boynton Priestley was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator. His Yorkshire background is reflected in much of his fiction, notably in The Good Companions (1929), which first brought him to wide public notice. A number of his plays are structured around a time slip, and he went on to develop a […]
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Nicholas Briggs reads this exciting novelisation of a classic TV adventure for the Fourth Doctor. A mysterious plague strikes Space Beacon Nerva, killing its victims within minutes. When the Doctor lands, only four humans remain alive. One of these seems to be in league with the nearby planet of gold, Voga… Or is he in […]
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Here is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of one of the most famous adventure stories of all time, starring Roy Marsden as Robinson Crusoe.Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor. Paying no attention to his parent’s warnings, he runs away to sea to embark on an extraordinary series of adventures: […]
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Mollie Sugden and Deryck Guyler star in this vintage 1970s sitcom about life in retirement. William and Olive Wheeler are an old-fashioned couple, who call each other ‘Mother’ and ‘Father’, and are happy in their traditional roles as breadwinner and housewife respectively. But now William has retired after 40 years in the office, and is […]
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‘I gazed at him over my shoulder. My ear was burning, the weight of the pearl pulling at the lobe…’ Who is the young woman in Vermeer’s famous painting? And why are her eyes brimming with tears? Tracy Chevalier’s much-loved novel vividly imagines the story behind the gaze of the unknown model in Vermeer’s painting […]
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What happens when the Prime Minister suddenly stops being Prime Minister? One day you’re the most powerful person in the country, the next you’re irrelevant, forced into retirement 30 years ahead of schedule and find yourself asking ‘What do I do now?’ Miles Jupp stars as Henry Tobin – Britain’s shortest serving and least popular […]
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Mark Heap stars in this Radio 4 show. Michael leads a double life to escape his wife and three small children. How long before his deception is exposed? Michael’s valiant, long-suffering wife is played by Tamsin Grieg. You may have seen her being brilliant in Channel 4’s ‘Black Books’ and a certain diet beverage commercial.
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Since the mid-1980s, aspiring singer/songwriter John Shuttleworth has been posting audio cassettes of his “finest songs to date” to pop stars throughout the land, in the hope that someone would record his material. But all to no avail. However, the BBC has very kindly given John a show and asked him to invite pop starts […]
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Comedian Alan Francis explores the workings of his own mind in relation to his life, friends and long-suffering girlfriend Jane. Alan Francis tries to figure out the workings of his mind, with the help of some stand-up and sketch comedy. Alan realises he must have done something wrong to annoy Jane, but can’t remember what […]
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Adam Buxton takes a sideways look at some of our confusing modern ideas and explains why you’re definitely doing it all wrong. Across five episodes he explores the worlds of work, parenting, diet, the environment and family. Is the idea of a ‘dream job’ – one that inspires and fulfils us and makes our lives […]
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A family run a hotel at the edge of the water. But the food is running out and the water keeps rising. When there is no place but the water, where do you go? A drama series set in a future flooded world. Written by Linda Marshall Griffiths. ‘No Place but the Water’ is a […]
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UFOs – Sheffield’s premier singer-songwriter investigates UFOs, with the help of agent Ken Worthington and special guest Patrick Mower. Ghosts – Spooky happenings hamper John’s investigation this week, as he delves into the world of ghosts. He can’t afford a night at a haunted hotel, but does garner some expert advice from his telephone guest, […]
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All 16 episodes of the BBC radio comedy about the dysfunctional Burbage siblings Brothers Nigel and Michael share everything – home, work and acute neuroses. Several years ago, they gave up respectable careers to set up a website design company in Nigel’s living room. That was their first mistake… They rapidly discover that no-one can […]
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Welcome to TS Sport Stars, a public relations and personal management agency run by the conscientious Trevor Heslop and the lascivious Sammy Dobbs, promoting the careers of an assortment of self-obsessed, overpaid, morally-challenged sporting heroes. Trevor (Neil Pearson), sports agent to the stars, is married to his job. But it’s not a happy marriage. One […]
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Leonardo Padura’s award-winning detective series set in Cuba and featuring Lieutenant Mario Conde. Full cast dramatisations by BBC Radio 4. Havana Blue: it’s New Year’s Day 1989, and Lieutenant Mario Conde wakes up with another terrible hangover and a case which is close to home. His schoolboy rival, now a party grandee, is missing. Havana […]
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I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue is a BBC radio comedy panel game. Introduced as “the antidote to panel games”, it consists of two teams of two comedians “given silly things to do” by a chairman. The show was launched in April 1972 as a parody of radio and TV panel games, and has been […]
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A BBC thriller serial in five parts written by mystery author R.D. Wingfield. The coastal village of Polford in the West Country used to be very prosperous as a fishing village. But times have changed, and the area seems to have fallen onto hard times. However, recent events may bring the area back to prosperity […]
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Sitcom following the staff of Edge Falls (an out-of-town retail park) as they try to maintain their sanity and provide a real shopping experience for the customers. Each week politically incorrect manager Sonya dreams up a scheme to extricate large amounts of cash from shoppers, such as Pink Thursday, where in order to attract the […]
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popular radio drama set in a Manchester legal practice, starring David Schofield. Frank Twist and Sarah Gold lead a maverick team of freelance paralegals operating in the mean(ish) streets of Manchester. Their agency operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, dispatching legal representatives to set free burglars, muggers and even some innocent people […]
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A BBC Radio adaptation in three parts by Barry Campbell of the classic novel by James Hilton. In May 1931, an airplane evacuating a number of people from a province in India overrun by revolution is mysteriously hijacked, but crash-lands somewhere in the mountains of Tibet, killing the pilot. The passengers, which include a British […]
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T. H. White’s classic retelling of the King Arthur story, dramatised by Brian Sibley. The Coming of Merlyn – On the night before a decisive battle, Merlyn and Arthur meet to talk about what has brought the King and country to this perilous state. The Sword in the Stone – Wart’s remarkable education at the […]
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A BBC Radio collection of dramatisations of E. Nesbit’s finest children’s books with extra magical readings plus an original drama by Martin Jameson. E Nesbit is widely regarded as the first modern children’s writer. Her ground-breaking novels have influenced authors from Oscar Wilde to Jacqueline Wilson, and over 100 years after their first publication, they […]
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Seymour the Fractal Cat was a science fiction comedy series first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. Its Supporting Protagonist is Jeremy, a computer programmer whose new Chaos Analysis Transformer programme falls into the hands of a sentient network of computers seeking to overthrow humanity. Their first act is to enhance the brain of […]
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Rodney Stone is the son of a sailor who wants to go to sea himself. His friend Jim Harrison is the son of a blacksmith, a famous former fighter, and his son also wants to fight. Taken to London by Rodney’s uncle, Sir Charles Tregellis, a highly respected gentleman and arbiter of fashion who is […]
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The lavish seven-part saga of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The Arthurian legends have long held a powerful grip on our collective imagination, inspiring numerous poets, novelists and playwrights to interpret them in countless different ways. In this epic play cycle, based on Malory’s classic Le Morte D’Arthur, Graeme Fife gives […]
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Norman Conquest. Alias 1066 is back! Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, where every story promises a ‘Thousand Thrills!’, with ingenious plots, full of twists and surprises, driven along with exciting action and tongue in cheek humour, our fast-talking, hard-hitting adventurer with a nose for trouble keeps up good cheer while he biffs […]
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Enter a brave new world created and presented by John Dowie. For starters, it’s time to enter the relationship minefield The unreconstructed John Dowie escapes from his wife and new baby when the band go on the road – to Edinburgh. Here, he falls madly in lust… John Dowie checks into a boarding house in […]
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Hardy’s powerful tale, set in mid-19th century Dorset, tells the tragic story of Michael Henchard, a man who cannot escape his past.Drunk on rum at a country fair, Henchard sells his wife to a sailor for five guineas. Unable to find, them and overcome with guilt and remorse, he vows to be teetotal for 21 […]
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They never came tougher than Marlowe, a cynical, world-weary, wise-cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice. Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in these powerfully atmospheric BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Raymond Chandler’s novels. The Big Sleep – […]
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A collection of cosy crime dramas adapted from Colin Watson’s Flaxborough Chronicles, set in a small Lincolnshire market town in the 1960s and ’70s. Inspector Purbright is a thoroughly English policeman: affable, polite, dogged and decent. Created by award-winning crime writer Colin Watson, he appeared in 12 Flaxborough mysteries, four of which were adapted for […]
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Uh-oh – Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! In each episode, Marcus finds he’s volunteered to be in charge of a big old thing – a hospital, the railways, British fashion, a prison. And in each episode he starts out by thinking “Well, it can’t be that difficult, surely?” and ends […]
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Yes, it’s hello again from them. For nearly 25 years The Two Ronnies were a TV institution, a much-loved double-act, each with his own inimitable, individual appeal. Who could forget Barker’s hilarious ‘pispronunciation’, Corbett’s witty monologues, the risque limericks, the puns, the patter, and the parody? So enjoy another fun-filled feast of verbal fireworks. Inspired […]
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“To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh…well, it’s the best job in the world,” says Ronnie Barker. And few are better at it, as this compilation of highlights from over three decades in radio and television shows. From his early radio career […]
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A full-cast dramatisation of one of the greatest war novels of all time. First published as a novel in 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a group of young German soldiers who are enduring, and then coming to terms with, the realities of the First World War. At the age […]
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Three BBC Radio performances of works by the great G. K. Chesterton. Best known as the creator of clerical detective Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton was a prolific and talented writer in virtually every area of literature: from novels, poetry and short stories to plays, biographies and essays. A noted thinker, controversialist, raconteur and wit, […]
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Two feature length, full cast period radio dramas, written specially for radio by Ian Rankin. Starring Alexander Morton as the roguish detective Mr Cullender in the seething Old Town of 1790s Edinburgh. The Serpent’s Back – The resourceful if low-born Mr Cullender (caddie, manservant and general dogsbody) goes in search of a double murderer. Ian […]
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Stories from New Creatives, artists supported by BBC Arts and Arts Council England. Introduced by Rebecca Jones. BBC Arts Correspondent, Rebecca Jones, introduces the best new audio dramas from the New Creatives. BBC Arts and Arts Council England have joined forces to give 500 emerging artists the chance to tell the stories they want to […]
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MP George Dank finds himself living in a tree to protest about a bypass. Starring John Fortune and Eleanor Bron. Kate Brooke and Sally Phillips’ six-part comedy drama, set just before the 1997 general election.
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Henry Normal presents a comic and poetic look at his family life – centred around his son, Johnny, who was diagnosed with “mildly severe” autism. Through stand-up and poetry, Henry explores what this means for Johnny, for himself, and his wife, Angela. Recorded with an audience in Henry’s hometown of Brighton, the show paints just […]
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Stephen Barlay’s gripping Cold War drama about the threat of nuclear war. Laid up in a CIA hospital, recovering from a gunshot wound, British agent Maxon is about to have his peaceful convalescence shattered. As the radio DJ introduces In the Mood, the swinging sound of Glenn Miller is cut off by a shrill, insistent […]
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A full cast drama by L. J. Ross, the author of the international number one best-selling series, the DCI Ryan mysteries. There’s a serial killer targeting the streets of Newcastle, seemingly picking his victims at random but subjecting them all to the same torturous end. When the Chief Inspector on the case goes missing, it […]
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Charlie Craggs, Lois Chimimba and Holly Quin-Ankrah are Cleo, Abby and Shawna – three best friends and university dropouts who make a truly terrible conspiracy podcast together. Their favourite conspiracy? The one about the random blue box actually being an alien spaceship. Of course, it’s obviously not. Right…? Cleo Proctor got kicked out of her […]
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Three members of staff, one dysfunctional railway station, zero passengers. Brand new comedy that drives a train through sitcom-land via a platform crowded with big name cameos, absurd goings-on, and very silly jokes. From the team behind the multi award-winning The Skewer and the also-multi-award-winning podcast Cold Case Crime Cuts.
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Three detective thrillers set in the Met’s Missing Persons Bureau After shooting a teenage boy in an undercover operation, DS Sue Manson is taken off the front line and transferred to a desk job in Missing Persons. But no sooner has she arrived than she’s in the thick of the action once more, tasked with […]
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Al Smith’s award-winning series set in an ambulance control room. Carrie is an ambulance call handler. She never knows what the next emergency will be or the effect it might have on her. And sometimes you have to listen hard to find out exactly what’s going on. Some calls are literally a matter of life […]
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The godfather of the hard-boiled detective novel, Dashiell Hammett is widely acknowledged as one of America’s greatest mystery writers. This collection brings together the BBC radio adaptations of his works for the first time, including the iconic The Maltese Falcon, featuring his most famous character: Sam Spade. The Maltese Falcon San Francisco, 1928. When his […]
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Mutiny on the Bounty is a gripping adventure of the high seas and a story of treachery and betrayal. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, this epic three-part serial tells the true story of Fletcher Christians dramatic mutiny against his tyrannical Captain and how Lieutenant Bligh when cast adrift in an open rowing boat with […]
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Thirteen classic crime dramas featuring Dr Morelle – ‘the man you love to hate!’ Psychiatrist-detective Dr Morelle is arrogant, sarcastic and rude – but when it comes to catching criminals, he is unparalleled. Using deduction, psychological profiling and his keen, analytical mind, he solves cases ranging from blackmail to murder, aided by his devoted and […]
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The definitive collection of dramatisations and readings of Patricia Highsmith’s finest fiction – plus bonus material. A master of the psychological crime genre, Patricia Highsmith is most famous for her quintet of best-selling Ripley novels, and her groundbreaking thriller Strangers on a Train (notably adapted as a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock). This extensive collection […]
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Dramatisations and readings of EM Forster’s finest works, plus Stephen Wakelam’s radio play A Dose of Fame and the documentary feature Forster in India: Sex, Books and Empire. One of the greatest English novelists of the 20th century, EM Forster was also an accomplished short story writer. This collection includes stunning adaptations of his classic […]
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J Edgar Hoover rose to become the legendary director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation Mike Walker’s four part drama series reflects his life and career. It’s 1919. Young Hoover gains a reputation as an anti-Communist zealot and gets the chance to prove it. It’s 1933. With President Franklin D Roosevelt’s backing, Hoover’s FBI […]
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BBC radio productions of Mark Twain’s very best novels and short stories – plus bonus material Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens), was one of the foremost writers and humorists to come out of the United States. Hailed by William Faulkner as ‘the father of American literature’, he is renowned worldwide for his classic […]
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Peter Flannery’s own adaptation of his highly acclaimed TV series, chronicling the lives of four friends over three decades. Peter Flannery once famously said of Our Friends in the North, “I’ve always said it’s just a posh soap opera – but it’s a posh soap opera with something to say.” And now he has rewritten […]
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Comedy series which pays homage to the cult action adventure shows of the sixties and seventies. The Preventers are an elite, stylish, polo-neck-wearing threesome of international trouble-shooters. Craig Sturdy, suave and charming; Penelope Cold, enigmatic and foreign and Mike Stallion – the third one. In the opening episode, evil mastermind Mordick was destroyed when Atlantasia […]
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The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 space drama arrives in its entirety for the very first time, with a bonus introduction by creator and writer James Follett. The starship Challenger has been on a 115-year-long mission, exploring other galaxies for suitable Earth-like planets to colonise. The present crew of four were born on the ship and […]
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Arama – a great domed city encased in rock, deep beneath the surface. Generation after generation of people have gone about their lives in a world of finite space and infinite resources – never pondering the many inconsistencies around them. They have been taught not to. To them there is only Arama and Diablo – […]
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Lucy Worsley investigates the crimes of Victorian women from a contemporary, feminist perspective. Lucy Worsley and Dr Rosalind Crone investigate and re-examine Britain’s most notorious serial killers, including Amelia Dyer who’s thought to have killed hundreds of babies and children and Mary Ann Cotton who murdered three of her husbands and numerous children and step-children. […]
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A BBC Radio thriller series about two old-school detectives who solve crimes in Victorian London 1839, and Bow Street Runner Pip Shepherd is out of a job. The Runners have been disbanded, merged with Sir Robert Peel’s new Metropolitan Police – and there’s no way Pip’s signing up with them. But when he befriends ‘Peeler’ […]
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Comedy series by Ian Brown and James Hendrie set in the eccentric seaside town of Flamford following City burn-out Andy Chambers. Series 1 Welcome to Flamford, the setting for this sitcom starring Philip Jackson, Tom Palmer and Alison Steadman. Andy Chambers – edgy, sharp-tongued City burn-out – has fled London for his Uncle Jeff’s seaside […]
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Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones! is the fourth comedy programme starring Milton Jones to be broadcast by BBC Radio 4 (the others being The Very World of Milton Jones, The House of Milton Jones and Another Case of Milton Jones). The first series was broadcast on Radio 4 in February and March 2014, with the […]
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Christopher Lee’s political drama series Suave, unflappable and ambitious, veteran politician Charles Bannister knows his way around the corridors of power. As Chief Whip, he’s adept at keeping MPs in line and squashing potential scandals – aided by his brother-in-law, MI6 agent Henry Colvil, who whispers useful titbits of information in his ear. His position […]
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From the mind of Jon Holmes comes topical satire like you’ve never heard it before. A platform for brand new talent in a dizzying, dazzling satirical river of sound. Freeform, dreamlike, curious, scathing, The Skewer is the home of the new news jokers.
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Drug Ship: The Last Voyage of the Pong Su – The Age/The Sydney Herald The thrilling true story behind an international drug plot involving the rogue state of North Korea, south-east Asian drug lords, $100 million worth of heroin, spooks, sailors, Australian cops and a web of lies. “Do they surf in North Korea?” – […]
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A BBC comedy drama set in the world of a ‘pile ’em high university’. Karen Poynter is the new head of the Geography Department – renamed Geographical Tourism – at Hayborough University, which is definitely not part of the elite Russell Group of top universities. Ranked 132nd in the UK academic league table; if you […]
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Series 1 & 2 of the mystery drama featuring the crime-solving exploits of a Scottish pathologist and his daughter. 1920s Stirling, and Chief Pathologist Dr Wallace is the town’s acknowledged expert on all matters forensic. But he’s not the only detective in the family – his daughter Barbara, a medical student, also has quite a […]
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Getting Nowhere Fast is a BBC Radio sitcom written by and starring the comedian and musician Mervyn Stutter. Stutter plays “Merv” the co-owner and manager of “The Cyber Pass”, a former “vodka’n’veggies” bistro converted into an Internet Cafe. Actress Lill Roughley plays Pamela Baverstock, Merv’s ex-wife and the other co-owner of the bistro. Pamela’s rich […]
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Jess is an aspiring artist with synaesthesia, which means that she sees colours and patterns when she hears certain sounds. When Jess collapses and hits her head during an environmental protest, she meets Dan and falls in love. This relationship changes both of their lives. But Dan has a shadowy career, working for a criminal […]
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All the Young Dudes was a radio comedy drama series that aired from July 2001 to October 2002. There were 12 35-minute episodes and it was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was written by and starred Jim Sweeney. When Patrick (an out of work teacher) and his wife Helen (a high flying businesswoman) move […]
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On a flat roof above suburban south London, Chris Neill is joined by Isy Suttie and Martin Hyder, hacking back the undergrowth of his life for the comedy stories buried within. “A rapid-fire English David Sedaris. Every word is perfectly chosen and perfectly used.” – Miranda Sawyer, The Observer After ten episodes of Woof, in […]
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Four full-cast dramas featuring the London police duo. Sergeant Jimmy Vogel is an old-school, down-to-earth copper. Dedicated and tenacious, he’s happy to work overtime to get results (to the dismay of his long-suffering wife, Mo). But after repeatedly missing out on promotion, he finds himself working under Superintendent Fraser, whose methods are alien to him. […]
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The dazzling BBC Radio adaptations of Ursula K. Le Guin’s famous fantasy saga and her ground-breaking science fiction masterpiece – plus bonus material Ursula K. Le Guin was one of the most revered and influential writers of the 20th Century. Her ‘Earthsea’ books have sold millions of copies and been translated into numerous languages, while […]
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The Unbelievable Truth is a BBC radio comedy panel game made by Random Entertainment, devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith. It is very similar to the occasional I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue game “Lies, All Lies”, which was first played in 1985. Chaired by David Mitchell, the show is described in the program’s […]
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Musings from John Shuttleworth as we eavesdrop on the semi-detached world of the Sheffield based singer and songwriter. Stars Graham Fellows and Charlotte Green. Radio sitcom in which all parts are voiced by comedian Graham Fellows. John Shuttleworth, Sheffield’s favourite singer-songwriter, takes to the airwaves with his electronic keyboard, wife Mary, and next door neighbour […]
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Discover what happens to Raffi and Seven of Nine following the stunning conclusion to season one of Star Trek: Picard with this audio exclusive, fully dramatized Star Trek adventure featuring the beloved stars of the hit TV series Michelle Hurd and Jeri Ryan. Star Trek: No Man’s Land picks up right after the action-packed season […]
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BBC radio productions of the finest works of Wilkie Collins: sensation novelist, early master of the mystery story and pioneer of detective fiction. Wilkie Collins was one of Victorian England’s best-loved and best-selling authors, and a crime-fiction pioneer. His enthralling ‘sensation novels’ such as The Woman in White paved the way for today’s thrillers and […]
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A sweeping adaptation of Olivia Manning’s classic war novels, starring Joanna Lumley and Honeysuckle Weeks. 1939, and naïve young newlywed Harriet Pringle arrives in Bucharest with her husband, Guy – just as Europe is about to rip itself apart. She believes she knows everything about the man she has married, but soon realises she knows […]
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Dramatisations of six of Conrad’s finest novels, plus bonus material. Polish-born author and mariner Joseph Conrad is widely regarded as one of the greatest English novelists. His 16 years in the merchant navy profoundly shaped his fiction, giving him transformative experiences of adventure and exotic places, and a unique insight into the human psyche. Included […]
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Six BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Maya Angelou’s evocative, extraordinary memoirs, starring Adjoa Andoh and Pippa Bennett-Warner The books that make up the life and times of Maya Angelou are among the most beautiful and haunting pieces of autobiography ever written. Joyous, direct and searingly honest, they run the gamut from life-affirming to tragic, and […]
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The thrilling adventure based on the acclaimed Star Trek: Picard TV series! Starfleet was everything for Cristóbal Rios…until one horrible, inexplicable day when it all went wrong. Aimless and adrift, he grasps at a chance for a future as an independent freighter captain in an area betrayed by the Federation, the border region with the […]
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BBC Radio productions of the first seven books in Patrick O’Brian’s hugely popular Napoleonic naval series – plus bonus material Widely regarded as the most engaging historical novels ever written, the 21 books in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series have garnered millions of fans since the publication of the first volume over 50 years ago. Included […]
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Victorian detective mysteries, written by David Ashton, based on real-life Edinburgh policeman Inspector James McLevy (Brian Cox).
In 1833 he became Edinburgh’s first detective and handled 2,220 cases during his 30-year career, almost always securing a conviction. His fame was such that the UK Parliament asked for his advice on dealing with criminals and Mary Carpenter, the great social reformer, quoted him in her paper on dealing with convicts.
Brian Cox stars as the Edinburgh detective in the BBC Radio 4 series.
Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulholland.
Episode List * 00.00 – Happy Land * 01.01 – For Unto Us * 01.02 – The Trophy Club * 01.03 – The Second Shadow * 01.04 – The Burning Question * 02.01 – A Good Walk Spoilt * 02.02 – Wild Justice * 02.03 – The Wild Spark * 02.04 – Stab In The Back * 03.01 – Behind The Curtain * 03.02 – A Voice From The Grave * 03.03 – The Dark Shadow * 03.04 – Servant Of The Crown * 04.01 – A Piece Of Cake * 04.02 – The Sea Change * 04.03 – Sins Of The Fathers * 04.04 – The Devil’s Disguise * 04.SP – Christmas Special * 05.01 – To Keep Him Honest * 05.02 – Picture Of Innocence * 05.03 – The Chosen One * 05.04 – The Reckoning * 06.01 – A Bolt From The Blue * 06.02 – End Of The Line * 06.03 – Jack O’ Diamonds * 06.04 – Queen Of Spades * 07.01 – The Firebrand * 07.02 – Dead Reckoning * 07.03 – Prince Of Darkness * 07.04 – A Distant Death * 08.01 – The Blue Gown * 08.02 – Flesh And Blood * 08.03 – A Fine Deception * 08.04 – The Last Illusion * 09.01 – A Dangerous Remedy * 09.02 – No Looking Back * 09.03 – A Pearl in the Oyster * 09.04 – The Cross-Roads * 10.01 – A Different Path * 10.02 – The Cat’s Claw * 10.03 – A Sore Convulsion * 10.04 – A Secret Life * 11.01 – A Price to Pay * 11.02 – The Seventh Veil * 11.03 – The Night Walker * 11.04 – The Devil Makes a Move * 12.01 – A Matter of Balance * 12.02 – A Man of Honour * 12.03 – He Who Waits * 12.04 – The Last Goodbye * 12.xx – Meet James McLevy * 13.01 – McLevy in the New World – Shake Hands With The Devil * 13.02 – McLevy in the New World – A Stirring in the Blood
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BBC Radio adaptations of Tolstoy’s three major novels, plus a reading of his profound philosophical memoir, an original drama based on his life and a bonus documentary.
One of the greatest novelists of all time, Leo Tolstoy is famed worldwide for his masterpieces of realist fiction, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. This comprehensive collection contains both those iconic works, as well as his final novel, Resurrection, his autobiographical essay ‘A Confession’, Stephen Wakelam’s dramatic account of his tempestuous marriage, Mrs Tolstoy, and In Our Time: Tolstoy.
War and Peace – 1805, and Napoleon Bonaparte is threatening the peace of Europe. In St Petersburg and Moscow, the lives of three aristocratic families are about to be changed forever…. This epic dramatisation stars Simon Russell Beale, Gerard Murphy, Amanda Redman and Emily Mortimer.
Anna Karenina – in 19th-century Russia, bored high-society wife Anna embarks on an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky – but her passion sets her on a path to self-destruction. Starring Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens.
Resurrection – serving on the jury in a murder trial, Prince Dimitri recognises the young prostitute in the dock as Katerina Maslova, the girl he seduced years before. Knowing he is partly responsible for her plight, he attempts to atone for his mistakes and find redemption. Katherine Igoe and Richard Dillane star in this powerful adaptation of Tolstoy’s final novel.
A Confession – read by Joss Ackland, this compelling religious testament describes Tolstoy’s search for God, faith and the meaning of life.
Mrs Tolstoy – in his 50’s, Leo Tolstoy has a spiritual crisis. Converting to Christianity, he gives up writing, stops sleeping with his wife, won’t see his children and wants to give away all his possessions. But Sofya is ready to fight for her husband and family…. Starring Ian McDiarmid and Haydn Gwynne.
In Our Time: Tolstoy – Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Tolstoy’s life and writings, exploring his urgent desire to represent real life in his work, how he strove to convey truth to the reader – and why he ultimately gave up on literature to concentrate on religious and political philosophy.
First published 1869 (War and Peace), 1877 (Anna Karenina), 1879 (A Confession), 1899 (Resurrection).
Episode List * 01 – Introduction * 02 – War and Peace * 03 – War and Peace * 04 – War and Peace * 05 – War and Peace * 06 – War and Peace * 07 – War and Peace * 08 – War and Peace * 09 – War and Peace * 10 – War and Peace * 11 – War and Peace * 12 – Anna Karenina * 13 – Anna Karenina * 14 – Anna Karenina * 15 – Anna Karenina * 16 – Resurrection * 17 – Resurrection * 18 – A Confession – Faith * 19 – A Confession – The Search for Answers * 20 – A Confession – Life and Death * 21 – A Confession – Philosophy * 22 – A Confession – Life Perceptions * 23 – A Confession – Logic * 24 – A Confession – Understanding Faith * 25 – A Confession – Seeking God * 26 – A Confession – Obsticles to Truth * 27 – A Confession – Combining Faith with Reason * 28 – Mrs Tolstoy * 29 – In Our Time – Tolstoy
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Tim Vine and the Great British public are the stars of this side-splitting radio chat show, featuring his trademark wonderful wordplay, quickfire gags and silly songs
‘Full of laugh-out-loud moments … Vine’s razor sharp wit and warmth shine through’ Radio Times
Internationally acclaimed master of the one-liner Tim Vine travels the length and breadth of Britain on a quest to hear the funny, strange and surprising life stories of his live audience – while simultaneously taking the opportunity to showcase his world-famous jokes and preposterous songs.
In these two sparkling series, he is confronted with a death-defying parachutist, a guest with an interesting technique for warding off foxes, an office worker who was inadvertently responsible for half of Welwyn Garden City being closed to the public and a man undergoing some unusual physiotherapy. Plus, there’s an encounter with an anaconda, a quiz about trifle, an impromptu laughter yoga workshop, at least two jokes about chickens and musical entertainment ranging from an imaginary country song to a maritime sing-a-long.
Also included are two ‘SummerTim Specials’, recorded at Cromer Pier and the Edinburgh Festival, and three festive special episodes complete with a sackful of Yuletide jokes, alternative traditional songs and fiendishly silly seasonal games – as well as a former air hostess from the land of Santa Claus and a budding Widow Twanky…
Episode List * S01E01 – Episode 1 * S01E02 – Episode 2 * S01E03 – Episode 3 * S01E04 – Episode 4 * S01ESP – Christmas Chat Show 2016 * S02E01 – London * S02E02 – Torquay * S02E03 – Birmingham * S02E04 – Abergavenny * S02E05 – North Berwick * S02E06 – Greenwich * S02SP1 – Summer Extra Special 2018 * S02SP2 – Summer Extra Special 2019 * S02SP3 – Christmas Special 2019 * S02SP4 – Christmas Special 2021 * S02SP5 – Easter Special 2022
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A unique collection of 12 full-cast BBC Radio productions of plays by Alan Bennett.
The titles are:
40 Years On
A Visit from Miss Prothero
Say Something Happened
Kafka’s Dick
Two in Torquay
The Madness of George III
The History Boys
An Englishman Abroad
A Question of Attribution
The Lady in the Van
Cocktail Sticks and the Last of the Sun
The cast includes John Gielgud, Patricia Routledge, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, Judi Dench, Thora Hird, Alex Jennings and many more.
Episode List * 01 – 40 Years On * 02 – 40 Years On * 03 – 40 Years On * 04 – 40 Years On * 05 – A Visit from Miss Prothero * 06 – Say Something Happened * 07 – Kafka’s Dick * 08 – Kafka’s Dick * 09 – Two in Torquay * 10 – Introduction to The Last of the Sun – Tribute to Thora Hird (pt.1) * 11 – The Last of the Sun * 12 – Thoughts on The Last of the Sun – Tribute to Thora Hird (pt.2) * 13 – The Madness of George III * 14 – The Madness of George III * 15 – The History Boys * 16 – The History Boys * 17 – An Englishman Abroad * 18 – A Question of Attribution * 19 – The Lady in the Van * 20 – The Lady in the Van * 21 – Cocktail Sticks
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All classic episodes from the original TV series: Arrival, Songs of Praise, Easter Special and The Christmas Lunch Incident. Welcome to Dibley, a perfect village full of some perfectly peculiar people – including Alice Tinker and her underactive brain, Owen Newitt and his overactive bowels, and Letitia Cropley and her orange cake with Branston pickle icing. Council ruler David Horton has everything running exactly as he wishes – until 102-year-old Reverend Pottle dies. That’s when the trouble begins, for the new vicar of Dibley is Geraldine, a babe with a bob and a magnificent bosom. In these instalments, the vicar increases the church-going public, finds something remarkably attractive about television, learns about suffering by giving up chocolate for Lent, and promises herself too many Christmas lunches with too many people. Starring Dawn French, with Gary Waldhorn, James Fleet, Roger Lloyd Pack, Emma Chambers and Trevor Peacock.
Episode List * S01E01 – Arrival * S01E02 – Songs of Praise * S01E03 – Easter Special * S01E04 – The Christmas Lunch Incident * S02E01 – Autum * S02E02 – Winter * S02E03 – Spring * S02E04 – Summer * S03E01 – The Window and the Weather * S03E02 – Election * S03E03 – Animals * S03E04 – Engagement * S03ESP – Dibley Live
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Meet Surbitons most famous residents: Tom, Barbara, Margo and Jerry. It is Tom Good’s 40th birthday, and he feels thoroughly unfulfilled. If only he can discover what ‘It’ is, and if he can, will his wife Barbara agree to do ‘It’ with him? The subsequent and sudden transformation of the Goods home into a smallholding causes consternation for Margo and Jerry next door, and they decide its their duty to interfere….
So begins The Good Life, the much loved classic sitcom starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith.
The escapades of the mismatched next-door neighbours whose friendship is constantly being tested to the limits are collected here with 30 hilarious episodes from the much loved BBC television series.
Series One: Plough Your Own Furrow, Say Little Hen, The Weaker Sex?, Pigs Lib, The Thing in the Cellar, The Pagan Rite, Backs to the Wall.
Series Two: Just My Bill, The Guru of Surbiton, Mr Fix-It, The Day Peace Broke Out, Mutiny, Home Sweet Home, Going to Pot.
Series Three: The Early Birds, The Happy Event, A Tug of the Forelock, I Talk to the Trees, The Wind-Break War, Whose Fleas Are These?, The Last Posh Frock.
Series Four: Away from It All, The Green Door, Our Speaker Today, The Weavers Tale, Suit Yourself, Sweet and Sour Charity, Anniversary.
The Specials: Silly But Its Fun…, When Im 65.
Episode List * S01E01 – Plough Your Own Furrow * S01E02 – Say Little Hen * S01E03 – The Weaker Sex * S01E04 – Pig’s Lib * S01E05 – The Thing in the Cellar * S01E06 – The Pagan Rite * S01E07 – Backs to the Wall * S02E01 – Just My Bill * S02E02 – The Guru of Surbiton * S02E03 – Mr Fix-It * S02E04 – The Day Peace Broke Out * S02E05 – Mutiny * S02E06 – Home Sweet Home * S02E07 – Going to Pot * S03E01 – The Early Birds * S03E02 – The Happy Event * S03E03 – A Tug of the Forelock * S03E04 – I Talk to the Trees * S03E05 – The Wind-Break War * S03E06 – Whose Fleas Are These * S03E07 – The Last Posh Frock * S04E01 – Away from It All * S04E02 – The Green Door * S04E03 – Our Speaker Today * S04E04 – The Weaver’s Tale * S04E05 – Suit Yourself * S04E06 – Sweet and Sour Charity * S04E07 – Anniversary * S04ESP – Silly But It’s Fun… * S04ESP – When I’m 65
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Comedy legends Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis bring a new sitcom to Radio 4, set in the claustrophobic carriages of a cross-country rail service.
It’s day one of a new franchise and train manager Sam has high hopes for their maiden voyage, even if the new bosses insist her role is to ‘enhance the onboard travel experience’. But the marketing team’s offer of free coffee for ALL customers soon threatens to derail the smooth running of the service. Meanwhile passengers struggle to escape the clutches of the automatic toilets….
Our heroes are the long-suffering train crew who manage to scrape through every shift like a dysfunctional family – Train Manager, Sam (Rosie Cavaliero) First Class Steward, Gilbert (Kenneth Collard), Catering Manager, Dev (Ali Shahalom) and Trolley Operator Tasha (Amy Geldhill). The passengers are made up of a rolling roster of guest stars, which includes the odd cameo from Punt and Dennis themselves.
Episode List * S01E01 – Coffee * S01E02 – Cat * S01E03 – Bag * S01E04 – Gilbert
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Bittersweet comic real life stories written and performed by Chris Neill.
Series 1 – titled One Man’s Search For A Dog Or A Boyfriend – focused on Chris breaking up with his boyfriend and getting a dog.
Series 2 – titled True Tales Of Romance And Failure – sees Chris delivering more tales about his life.
Series 3 – named Honest Mistakes From Home And Abroad – sees Chris continue his comedic exploration of affairs of the heart, the unexpected humiliations of ageing, and what bloody good luck it is that he has met his boyfriend, Rory.
Episode List * S01E01 – One Man’s Search for a Dog or a Boyfriend – Episode 1 * S01E02 – One Man’s Search for a Dog or a Boyfriend – Episode 2 * S02E01 – True Tales of Romance and Failure – A Foreign Tongue * S02E02 – True Tales of Romance and Failure – It’s All in a Name * S02E03 – True Tales of Romance and Failure – The Price of Luxury * S02E04 – True Tales of Romance and Failure – Much Loved Son and Fantasist * S03E01 – Honest Mistakes at Home and Abroad – What Will You Be When You Grow Up * S03E02 – Honest Mistakes at Home and Abroad – Hamburg Noir * S03E03 – Honest Mistakes at Home and Abroad – Habits of a Social Animal * S03E04 – Honest Mistakes at Home and Abroad – Parakeet Frenzy
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Creators of the hit Radio 4 Sci Fi comedy Quanderhorn, Rob Grant (Son of Cliché, Spitting Image, Red Dwarf) and Andrew Marshall (Burkiss Way, Whoops Apocalypse, 2point4children) invite you back for a deeper glimpse into the steaming primordial swamps of their hideously contorted imaginations, known only as The Nether Regions.
Trapped with them in the dank basements of their fetid minds are sparkling young talents Helen Cripps, Edward Rowett and Holly Morgan.
The Nether Regions is our dystopian present – it’s now, but not now, and then, but now. Not.
Past, present and future merge into one writhing tortured tangle, where the Naked Truth climbs out of the window, because Fake News has come home unexpectedly early.
Continuing the mirth, mayhem and something else beginning with M of the highly acclaimed pilot show. Scream in terror. Then listen to the show. Then scream in terror again, as you witness:
Germany’s most efficient fast food sausage establishment
The recently rediscovered classic, Jane Austen’s Love Island
Thinking dogs for the stupid
The tortured souls who are addicted to being Alan Bennett.
These and other mind-munching experiences await the unwary listener. Make sure you book a return ticket.
Episode List * S01E01 – The Nether Regions * S01E02 – The Nether Regions * S01E03 – The Nether Regions * S01E04 – The Nether Regions
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Comedy about two goldfish, Liam and Anton, who contemplate life from their bowl and try to understand their owners, Martin and Susan
Liam is a Friday-night-in-with-a-Dick Francis-and-a-box-of-Terry’s All Gold goldfish, whereas Anton is erudite and sophisticated.
Written by and starring Shaun Prendergast.
Episode List
S01E01 – The Goldfish Bowl
S01E02 – The Goldfish Bowl
S01E03 – The Goldfish Bowl
S01E04 – The Goldfish Bowl
S01E05 – The Goldfish Bowl
S01E06 – The Goldfish Bowl
S01E07 – The Goldfish Bowl
S01E08 – The Goldfish Bowl
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A star-studded BBC radio production of Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion – plus bonus drama The ‘B’ Word, telling the story of the play’s scandalous opening night
Irascible phonetics professor Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can train Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle to talk ‘like a lady’ and pass as a duchess at the Ambassador’s Ball. As the day of reckoning approaches, can Eliza convince the assembled aristocrats that she’s one of them? And what will become of her afterwards?
This effervescent radio version of Shaw’s classic comedy features a stellar cast, including award-winning comedians Alistair McGowan as Henry Higgins, Morgana Robinson as Eliza Doolittle and Al Murray as Alfred Doolittle.
Also featured on this release is The ‘B’ Word, written by and starring Alistair McGowan as Bernard Shaw. Centring on the shocking opening night of Pygmalion – the first time that the word ‘bloody’ was used on the British stage – it also explores the passionate love-hate relationship between Shaw; his leading man, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (Richard McCabe) and his leading lady, Mrs Patrick Campbell (Charlotte Page), who played the 19-year-old Eliza Doolittle at the age of 49.
Episode List * E01 – Pygmalion * E02 – Pygmalion * E03 – The ‘B’ Word
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The Now Show is a topical comedy show recorded in front of a live audience and scripted to include current events up to the last minute. It stars Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis in a collection of sketches and routines based around recent news items and issues. Comedians Marcus Brigstock and Midge Benn provide additional support.
Saving you from the trouble of keeping up with the news by providing a topical mix of stand-up, sketches, songs and interviews that tell you everything you need to know.
The Now Show is a much-loved stalwart of radio comedy. Featuring some of the best and brightest contemporary comedians, this award-winning show takes a satirical look at the news through a mix of stand-up, songs and sketches, as well as interview segments in which experts in their field explain the facts behind the headlines.
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S29E01 – The Now Show * S29E02 – The Now Show * S29E03 – The Now Show * S29E04 – The Now Show * S29E05 – Now Show at Christmas, Song – Can’t Get Home For Christmas * S29E06 – Special – 2009 Highlights * S30E01 – BBC Channels Axed, Song – Politicians Jogging * S30E02 – National Women’s Day, Song – Mothers Day * S30E03 – Spring Potholes, Song – Too Optimistic * S30E04 – Scrabble, Election, Song – Kyrgyzstan Elections * S30E05 – Song – Missed Me, Tony Blair’s Back * S30E06 – Scrabble Rule Changes, Song – Newsroom Tricky Words * S30V01 – The Vote Now Show 2010 * S30V02 – The Vote Now Show 2010 * S30V03 – The Vote Now Show 2010 * S30V04 – The Vote Now Show 2010 * S30V05 – The Vote Now Show 2010 * S30V06 – The Vote Now Show 2010 * S30V07 – The Vote Now Show 2010 * S30V08 – The Vote Now Show 2010 * S30V09 – The Vote Now Show 2010 * S30V10 – The Vote Now Show 2010 * S30V11 – The Vote Now Show 2010 * S30V12 – The Vote Now Show 2010 * S31E01 – Last Weekend Before Emergency Budget * S31E02 – 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Stilgoe Song – Tribute to Spring * S34E01 – Now Show Extra, No Olympic Tickets, Song – Quantum Mechanics * S34E02 – Now Show Extra, Sky TV New Reality Show, Song – Best Days of University Life * S34E03 – Now Show Extra, No Steve Punt Python Bio-Pic, Song – Leave Them Where They Are * S34E04 – Now Show Extra, NHS Reform, Song – Repeating Big In the 80s * S34E05 – Now Show Extra, Getting Old Social Care, Song – Ain’t Getting Fixed For No TV * S34E06 – The Now Show * S34E07 – Lord Voldemort MP Enquiry, Song – I’m Part Neanderthal * S35E01 – Now Show Extra, LLoyd Langford, Government Debt * S35E02 – Now Show Extra, Henning Wehn, Pin the Blame Week * S35E03 – Now Show Extra, Josie Long, Brigstocke, Mushrooms Ecomonic Manure * S35E04 – Now Show Extra, Andrew Maxwell, Everybody Out! Strikes * S35E05 – Now Show Extra, David Quantick, Astromomers Keplar 22B Planet * S35E06 – Now Show Extra, HoHoHo, Alan Cochran * S36E01 – Pippa Evans, John Finnemore, People Saying No * S36E02 – The Now Show * S36E03 – Andy Parsons, Lynne Truss, Silent Film The Artist * S36E04 – Lloyd Langford, Lisa Montgomery, Israel Leader Uranium * S36E05 – Matt Forde, Laura Shavin, David Cameron In USA * S36E06 – Nathan Caton, Budget 2012 * S36E07 – John Finnemore, Laura Shavin, Out of Petrol * S37E01 – The Now Show * S37E02 – The Now Show * S37E03 – The Now Show * S37E04 – The Now Show * S37E05 – The Now Show * S37E06 – The Now Show * S37E07 – The Now Show * S37L01 – The Now Show 2012 Live – Olympic Special * S37L02 – The Now Show 2012 Live – Olympic Special * S37L03 – The Now Show 2012 Live – Olympic Special * S37L04 – The Now Show 2012 Live – Olympic Special * S37L05 – The Now Show 2012 Live – Olympic Special * S37L06 – The Now Show 2012 Live – Olympic Special * S38E01 – USA Leadership Battle, Song – Colin Baker * S38E02 – BBC 90 Years Old, Song – Police Commisionaire Elections * S38E03 – Gorillas Mid-Life Crisis, Song – Women Bishops * S38E04 – Levison Report, Song – Nobody Thinks the Now Show’s Real * S38E05 – Royal Pregnancy, Song – Sir Rannulph Fiennes * S38E06 – Census Results, Song – No need to Panic the World’s Not Going to End * S38ESP – News Quiz vs Now Show * S39E01 – Gráinne Maguire, Alleged Horse Meat * S39E02 – Cariad Lloyd, Government Making Things Up * S39E03 – Andy Zaltzman, Tough Week For Ranulph Fiennes * S39E04 – Nick Doody, Johnny and The Baptists, Harlem Shake * S39E05 – Maeve Higgins, Nathan Caton, 1st Non-EU Pope * S39E06 – Grace Petrie, Sara Pascoe, Papers Furious About Hacked Phones * S39E07 – Marcus Brigstocke, Immigration * S39E08 – Matt Forde, Cariad Lloyd, Funny How News Works * S40E01 – Dave Cameron * S40E02 – Bad Week for the Swivelled-Eyed, Song – GIFs Mispronunciation * S40E03 – George Osbourne Cuts, Song – EDL Rioting Concerns * S40E04 – Matt Smith Leaving Doctor Who, Song – Driving Spot Fines * S40E05 – America Is Spying On Us, Song – Femin-Is-Hmm – Women Don’t Need Men * S40E06 – Pre-Credit Chat, World Leaders Meet Re Syria, Song – This Is a Song About Esme * S41E01 – Ed Milliband, Song – Angela Merkel * S41E02 – US Government Shutdown, Song – You Hate Britain * S41E03 – David Cameron Cookie Monster, Song – Riot at the Ticket Gate * S41E04 – Media Speculation, Song – Banksy * S41E05 – Electricity People Hate, Joe Stilgoe Song – Iceburg Lettuce Blues * S41E06 – Ghost Train, Song – Dell Laptops Smell of Cat Wee * S42E01 – Pre-Credits Hugh Dennis, Weather Top Story, Song – 007 Golden Badger Gun * S42E02 – Immigration, Song – Writers Immerse Themselves * S42E03 – Amazing Statistic, Song – Taxpayers Relief Prince Charles Is Back to Work * S42E04 – Economic Recovery, Song – Everything You Nick Out the Bin * S42E05 – Michael Gove BLOB, Song – Noah’s Ark * S43E01 – British Social Attitude Survey, Song – My Man and Me On Holiday * S43E02 – Shakespeare 400 Years Old, Song – Jamica Inn * S43E03 – Transport For London Strike, Song – Bez Is Here to Save the Day * S43E04 – Bank Holiday Weekend, Song – Threlkeld Mountain For Sale * S43E05 – London Has More Billionaires, Song – Could You Forget About Me * S43E06 – Summer Arrived Briefly, Song – Happy Iranians * S43E07 – Nick Clegg Everywhere On TV, Song – Google Self-Driving Car * S44E01 – Nothing Happens Over the Summer, Mitch Benn Song – Tony Blair Philanthropist * S44E02 – Historic Referendum Edition, Mitch Benn Song – Make-Up Sex * S44E03 – Public Sector Monitoring, Pippa Evans Song – Apple Jingles Latest Tech * S44E04 – Conservative Party Conference, Mitch Benn Song – End Of My Career As I Know It * S44E05 – Pluto Is a Planet Again, Pippa Evans Song – What Am I Supposed to Wear * S44E06 – Reboot of Bob the Builder, Mitch Benn Song – Unanswering Questions * S45E01 – Rich Hall, Vikki Stone, Tragedy in France * S45E02 – Pippa Evans, Tez Ilyas, Everbody Defends Free Speech * S45E03 – Marcus Brigstocke, Nish Kumar, Tuesday Democracy Day * S45E04 – Andy Zaltzman, Jake Yapp, 100 Days to the General Election * S45E05 – Ed Milliband Argument, Mitch Benn Song – Vaccinate Your Kids * S45E06 – HSBC, Song – I’ve Lost My Magic Touch * S45V01 – The Vote Now Show 2015 * S45V02 – The Vote Now Show 2015 * S45V03 – The Vote Now Show 2015 * S45V04 – The Vote Now Show 2015 * S45V05 – The Vote Now Show 2015 * S45V06 – The Vote Now Show 2015 * S46E01 – UK Slows Down For Hottest Day, Mitch Benn Song – Schadenfreude * S46E02 – Budget All the Time, Song – AC-DC House Arrest * S46E03 – Conservatives Woke Up Do Anything, Song – 246 Years Each Orbit Pluto * S46E04 – Queen Outed By Sun As Nazi, Song – Android Boy Band * S46E05 – Page 3 Men Bras, Song – Facebook Everyone’s Talking No One Listening * S46E06 – August Silly Season, Kermit & Miss Piggy Split, Jake Yapp Song – Long Term Economic Plan * S47E01 – Freya Parker, Holly Walsh, Dr Phil Hammond * S47E02 – 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Comedian Rob Newman pieces together a unique philosophy for our times by unpicking 3000 years of thought – from Socrates, to Sartre, to
super-intelligent chimps.
In a world gone mad can philosophy provide the answer?
Episode List * S01E01 – The Inheritance * S01E02 – If a Tree Falls in a Forest * S01E03 – The Music of the Chromosomes * S01E04 – Thought Experiments
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All radio monologues written by Lynne Truss, author of the phenomenal best sellers Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Talk to the Hand. In the tradition of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads come Lynne Truss’s female monologues: bittersweet tales of love, romance, friendship, and family from the classic BBC Radio 4 series.
At a certain age, women gain a huge confidence about themselves because they realise that life’s too short to waste. These six women are in their 40s and each has a very different – and sometimes surprising – story to tell, from the husband who unexpectedly disappears to the dreaded ‘other woman’, and the sisters who take an adventurous trip on the Nile together. All are funny, touching, and as beautifully observed as would be expected from the author of the phenomenal best sellers Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Talk to the Hand.
Starring Siobhan Redmond, Janine Duvitski, Rebecca Front, Lesley Manville, Lindsey Coulson and Dawn French and many more.
Episode List * S01E01 – The Mother * S01E02 – The Wife * S01E03 – The Daughter * S01E04 – The Other Woman * S01E05 – The Sister * S01E06 – The Cat lover * S02E01 – The Father * S02E02 – The Son * S02E03 – The Husband * S02E04 – The Pedant * S02E05 – The Brother * S02E06 – The Married-Man
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Nicholas Briggs reads the brand-new novelisation of the spectacular 50th anniversary TV episode. When the entire universe is at stake, three different Doctors will unite to save it.
The Tenth Doctor is hunting shape-shifting Zygons in Elizabethan England. The Eleventh is investigating a rift in space-time in the present day. And one other – the man they used to be but never speak of – is fighting the Daleks in the darkest days of the Time War. Driven by demons and despair, this battle-scarred Doctor is set to take a devastating decision that will threaten the survival of the entire universe…a decision that not even a Time Lord can take alone.
On this day, the Doctor’s different incarnations will come together to save the Earth…to save the universe…and to save his soul.
Episode List
01-8 – The Night of the Doctor
02-11 – The Flight of the Doctor
03-1 – The War of the Doctor
04-10 – The Love of the Doctor
05-12 – The Leap of the Doctor
06-2 – The Children of the Doctor
07-9 – The Truth of the Doctor and 3 – 400 years of the Doctor
08-4 – In the Absence of the Doctor
09-5 – The Wedding of the Doctor
10-6 – Dearest Petronella
11-7 – The Day of the Doctor
12-13 – The Doctor
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John Peacock ‘s trilogy follows the progress of a flawed light Cape diamond and the fortunes of the Hallam family over 120 years.
South Africa, 1871. The diamond is discovered and a terrible error made.
Episode List * E01 – Stars of the Orange River * E02 – The Diamond Jousts * E03 – Diamond Cut Diamond
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From the Supernatural Case Files of Sherlock Holmes London’s most beloved detective encounters his most deadly foe, and the results will be unlike any Sherlock Holmes adventure before it!
Episode List * 01 – Intro * 02 – Chapter 1 * 03 – Chapter 2 * 04 – Chapter 3 * 05 – Chapter 4 * 06 – Chapter 5 * 07 – Chapter 6 * 08 – Outro
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The Limelight – for fiction and drama serials you won’t want to miss.
The System – A witty six-part thriller about a group of young radicals and the hunt for their leader by Ben Lewis. Starring Siena Kelly, Jack Rowan and Iain de Caestecker.
The House That Vanished – the true story of one man’s struggle to find out why his home on a remote Irish island disappeared.
Harland – Lucy Catherine’s supernatural thriller set in the new town of Harland, built on the site of a village abandoned 900 years earlier. DI Sarah Ward returns to work to investigate the disappearance of a child.
Steelheads – When a young British tennis pro, Joleen Kenzie (Jessica Barden), is diagnosed with a rare terminal illness, she has herself cryogenically frozen at an experimental lab in Seattle, in the hope that one day – perhaps hundreds of years into the future – there will be a cure and she can be revived. She wakes up to a world divided… and Joleen is now captive.
Seige – Everybody remembers the Siege, when for 24 hours the whole world was watching a small South London branch of a global supermarket chain. You’ve seen the news, the crazy conspiracy blogs and Naomi’s infamous Snap. Now for the first time the hostages tell the inside story of what really happened on those two dark days in December.
Episode List * S01E01 – The System – Level 1 Get Naked * S01E02 – The System – Level 2 Sweat Blood * S01E03 – The System – Level 3 Field Work * S01E04 – The System – Level 4 Red Pill * S01E05 – The System – Level 5 Kill the Past * S01E06 – The System – Level 6 Judgement Day Question Mark. * S02E01 – The House That Vanished – The Vanishing * S02E02 – The House That Vanished – The Real King of Tory * S02E03 – The House That Vanished – Balor’s Fort * S02E04 – The House That Vanished – The Holy Clay * S02E05 – The House That Vanished – The Hand of God * S03E01 – Harland – Tuesday * S03E02 – Harland – Wednesday * S03E03 – Harland – Thursday * S03E04 – Harland – Friday * S03E05 – Harland – Saturday * S04E01 – SteelHeads – Lady in the Water * S04E02 – SteelHeads – The Conversation * S04E03 – SteelHeads – Shiny Happy People * S04E04 – SteelHeads – Break Point * S04E05 – SteelHeads – Plan D * S05E01 – Siege * S05E02 – Siege * S05E03 – Siege * S05E04 – Siege * S05E05 – Siege
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Children’s Classics, is a range of much-loved BBC full-cast dramatisations. These stories have delighted children for generations and continue to do so.
Full-cast radio adaptations bring them to life with a full soundscape and much-loved British actors.
Episode List * S01E01 – Ballet Shoes * S01E02 – Ballet Shoes * S02E01 – Heidi * S02E02 – Heidi * S03E01 – Pollyanna * S03E02 – Pollyanna * S04E01 – The Hundred and One Dalmatians * S04E02 – The Hundred and One Dalmatians * S05E01 – The Jungle Book * S05E02 – The Jungle Book * S06E01 – The Railway Children * S06E02 – The Railway Children * S07E01 – The Secret Garden * S07E02 – The Secret Garden * S08E01 – The Wizard of Oz * S08E02 – The Wizard of Oz * S09E01 – Tom’s Midnight Garden * S09E02 – Tom’s Midnight Garden * S10E01 – Peter Pan * S11E01 – Five Children and It * S12E01 – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang * S13E01 – The Queen’s Nose * S14E01 – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland * S14E02 – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland * S15E01 – Anne of Green Gables * S16E01 – The Water Babies * S16E02 – The Water Babies * S16E03 – The Water Babies * S17E01 – Moonfleet * S18E01 – Robinson Crusoe * S18E02 – Robinson Crusoe * S19E01 – The Wind In The Willows * S19E02 – The Wind In The Willows * S20E01 – Charlotte’s Web * S20E02 – Charlotte’s Web * S21E01 – Emil and the Detectives * S22E01 – Marry Poppins * S23E01 – Aesop’s Fables * S24E01 – Pinocchio * S25E01 – Watership Down * S25E02 – Watership Down
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Late Victorian London. When the most respectable of Scottish businessmen is pulled, dead, from the Thames, his daughter is drawn into an investigation which reveals a whole world of secrets and corruption and leads all the way to the tragic truth behind the ghostly legend of The Darkwater Bride.
An epic drama combining the genres of the Victorian mystery thriller with the equally classic Victorian mode of the ghostly tale.
Episode List * Part 1 * Part 2 * Part 3 * Part 4 * Part 5
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The deeds and misdeeds of Uncle Silas, the rural reprobate, were renowned in the short stories H E Bates published in the 1930s.In this collection the stories are presented in full, accompanied by the original drawings by Edward Ardizzone that perfectly capture the little reed-thatched house atop a violet-banked…
lane.Over the course of ninety-five years Uncle Silas found the time to do most things: He boasted of the villains he had knocked to kingdom come as he boasted of the women whose hearts he had truly captured.
Crotchety, vainglorious, occasionally wicked, he maintained a devilish spark of audacity which made him so attractive to everyone he met.
Note: There are only 12 original episodes of My Uncle Silas by Neal
8 from 1985
3 from 1986
1 from 1988
all others are repeats.
Plus 5 new episodes by Neal in a new series staring Uncles Silas called sugar for my horse.
Episode List * S01E01 – The Lily * S01E02 – The Revelation * S01E03 – A Funny Thing * S01E04 – Finger Wet, Finger Dry * S01E05 – Silas the Good * S01E06 – The Sow and Silas * S01E07 – The Shooting Party * S01E08 – The Death of Uncle Silas * S02E01 – Shandy Lil * S02E02 – A Teetotal Tale * S02E03 – The Bedfordshire Clanger * S03E01 – The Lily * S03E02 – The Shooting Party * S03E03 – The Revelation * S03E04 – The Death of Uncle Silas * S03E05 – The Return * S04E01 – The Revelation * S04E02 – The Lily * S04E03 – A Funny Thing * S04E04 – Finger Wet, Finger Dry * S04E05 – Silas the Good * S04E06 – The Sow and Silas * S04E07 – The Shooting Party * S04E08 – The Death of Uncle Silas * S04E09 – The Return * S05E01 – Sugar for the Horse – The Widder * S05E02 – Sugar for the Horse – The Blue Feather * S05E03 – Sugar for the Horse – Queenie White * S05E04 – Sugar for the Horse – The Singing Pig * S05E05 – Sugar for the Horse – Aunt Tibby
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Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life is the third and final soundtrack album by Monty Python, released in 1983 alongside their last film. Billed as “The only soundtrack album to be introduced by live fish! (apart from some copies of ‘Shane’)”, it consists of sketches and songs from the film, with a few links performed by Michael Palin and a brief appearance from Terry Gilliam.
The album features dialogue which didn’t make it into the final cut of the film as well as additional sound effects to help with the audio medium. “The Adventures of Martin Luther” sequence is introduced but does not appear. The sketch itself was excised from the final cut of the film but was eventually reinstated 20 years later for the DVD “Director’s Cut”, although it did feature in the illustrated script book which accompanied the film’s release. The film’s songs are included in full, with “Christmas In Heaven” having a longer fade-out than appears in the film.
The original UK vinyl release had the traditional George Peckham messages etched on the runout grooves. The first side read: “GADZOOKS!!! NO TIME LEFT. TURN OVER FOR “THE MEANING OF LIFE” NOW. ALL WILL BE REVEALED”, with the second reading “NO FISH ADDITIVES USED WHATSOEVER, SEE COVER FOR FURTHER DETAILS OF PHILOSOPHY LPS”. The back cover did indeed contain a short list of spoof philosophy LPs, alongside a similarly comic profile of the Python team members.
Episode List * 01 – Intro (The Meaning of Life) * 02 – Fish (Morning) * 03 – The Meaning of Life * 04 – (Part One) The Miracle of Birth * 05 – MP Link * 06 – (Part 2) The Third World (Yorkshire) * 07 – Every Sperm Is Sacred * 08 – Bloody Catholics * 09 – Link (Martin Luther) * 10 – (Part Three) Growth and Learning * 11 – (Part Four) Fighting Each Other * 12 – Terry Gilliam Introduction * 13 – Accountancy Shanty * 14 – (Part Five) Live Organ Transplants (Galaxy Song) * 15 – (Part Six) The Autumn Years (The Not Noel Coward Song) * 16 – (Part Seven) Death (Christmas in Heaven) * 17 – MP Link (Dedication to Fish) * 18 – Intro Title Song Demo Meaning of Life (Piano Version) * 19 – Alternate Intro Title Song Meaning of Life (Piano Version) * 20 – Fat Song (Deleted Intro to Mr Creosote Sketch) * 21 – Alternate Christmas in Heaven Song * 22 – Radio Ad Philosophers Corner * 23 – Radio Ad Officer * 24 – Radio Ad German Translation * 25 – Greasy Hair * 26 – Dino Viccoti * 27 – Stretch the Script * 28 – Grand Prix * 29 – Hard of Thinking
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Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album is the final studio album by Monty Python, released in 1980. As the title suggests, the album was put together to complete a contract with Charisma Records. Besides newly written songs and sketches, the sessions saw re-recordings of material that dated back to the 1960s pre-Python shows I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again, The Frost Report, At Last The 1948 Show and How To Irritate People. One track, “Bells”, dates from the sessions for Monty Python’s Previous Record, while further material was adapted from Eric Idle’s post-Python series Rutland Weekend Television. The group also reworked material written but discarded from early drafts of Life Of Brian, as well as the initial scripts for what would eventually become The Meaning Of Life.
The group had not recorded an all-studio album since Matching Tie and Handkerchief in 1973 and were initially unenthusiastic about returning to the recording studio. Fresh from co-producing the Life Of Brian soundtrack album, Eric Idle oversaw the sessions which resulted in over half the album consisting of songs. Beginning in January 1980, the group recorded reams of unused material during the sessions, much of which found its way on to the unreleased outtakes album Hastily Cobbled Together For A Fast Buck, although some previously unheard material was included on the compilations The Final Rip Off (1987) and Monty Python Sings (1989). In 2006, further unreleased tracks were added to the special edition CDs of Another Monty Python Record, Monty Python’s Previous Record, Matching Tie and Handkerchief and the Contractual Obligation album itself. In 2014, three further tracks were added to the expanded Monty Python Sings (Again).
Due to the amount of cut material, the finished album features John Cleese on only three tracks (the reworkings of “String” and “Bookshop”, plus a brief appearance at the start of “Medical Love Song”) while Terry Gilliam does not feature at all. Gilliam’s absence was noted on the album’s Basil Pao-designed cover, which featured a plain inner sleeve on which Eric Idle wrote “Can T.G. do a nice-eye catching cover to help it sell?”, to which Terry Jones replies “Not really worth it”. The record label shown on the cover has a fake track-listing, with titles relating to the legal status of the contractual obligation. As with the Drury Lane album, the cover appears in a scene in Gilliam’s 2005 film Tideland, although it is only visible in the 2.35:1 aspect ratio version.
Episode List * 01 – Sit On My Face * 02 – Announcement * 03 – Henry Kissinger * 04 – String * 05 – Never Be Rude to an Arab * 06 – I Like Chinese * 07 – The Bishop * 08 – Medical Love Song * 09 – Finland * 10 – I’m So Worried * 11 – I Bet You They Won’t Play This Song On the Radio * 12 – Martyrdom of St. Victor * 13 – Here Comes Another One * 14 – Bookshop * 15 – Do What John * 16 – Rock Notes * 17 – Muddy Knees * 18 – Crocodile * 19 – Decomposing Composers * 20 – Bells * 21 – Traffic Lights * 22 – All Things Dull and Ugly * 23 – A Scottish Farewell * 24 – Contractual Obligation – Terry Jones and Graham Chapman Promotional Interview * 25 – Radio Ad Obligation Promo- Fanfare * 26 – Medical Love Song (Alternate Demo Version) * 27 – I’m So Worried (Demo Version)
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Monty Python’s Life of Brian is the second soundtrack album by Monty Python, released in 1979 alongside the film of the same name. It contains scenes from the film interrupted by linking sections performed by Eric Idle and Graham Chapman, who also acted as producers following an aborted attempt at a soundtrack album by Michael Palin. The album opens with a brief rendition of “Hava Nagila” on Scottish bagpipes, which had earlier been considered for use in a scene later cut from the film.
Episode List * 01 – Introduction * 02 – Brian’s Song [Segment] * 03 – Wise Men at the Manger * 04 – Brian’s Song * 05 – Sermon On the Mount (Big Nose) * 06 – Stone Salesman * 07 – Stoning * 08 – Ex Leper * 09 – You Mean You Were Raped (Naughtius Maximus) * 10 – Revolutionaries in the Amphitheatre (Loretta) [Link] * 11 – Revolutionaries in the Amphitheatre (Loretta) * 12 – Romans Go Home * 13 – What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us * 14 – Ben * 15 – Brian Before Pilate (Throw Him to the Floor) * 16 – Prophets * 17 – Beard Salesman * 18 – Brian’s Prophecy * 19 – Hermit * 20 – He’s Not the Messiah * 21 – He’s a Very Naughty Boy * 22 – Pilate Sentences Brian * 23 – Nisus Wettus * 24 – Pilate with the Crowd (Welease Woger) * 25 – Nisus Wettus with the Gaolers * 26 – Release Brian * 27 – Not So Bad Once You’re Up * 28 – Revs Salute Brian * 29 – Cheeky Is Released * 30 – Mandy to Her Son * 31 – Always Look On the Bright Side of Life * 32 – Otto Sketch * 33 – Otto’s Song * 34 – Otto’s Song [Demo] * 35 – Brian’s Song [Alternate Version] * 36 – Life of Brian Radio Ad – Record Shop * 37 – Life of Brian Radio Ad – Twice As Good
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The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the first film soundtrack album by Monty Python, released in 1975. It features selected scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail interspersed with a large volume of new studio material, much of which centers on a spoof screening of the film at the Classic Silbury Hill Theatre. Also among the new items is the “Marilyn Monroe” sketch, which Graham Chapman co-wrote with Douglas Adams – the pair having recently collaborated on the fourth series of Monty Python.
The album is billed as the ‘Executive Version’ as a joke on popular ‘special editions”‘ of albums that contained extra tracks unavailable on earlier versions. Naturally, no other version of this album existed when it was originally released. On the A-side of the original UK vinyl release, the engraved text by George Peckham around the label reads: “AN EXECUTIVE PORKY PRIME CUT”, while on the B-side it reads: “THIS IS THE SMALL DETAILED WRITING ON THE RECORD OF THE ALBUM OF THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE TRAILER OF THE FILM OF MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL – THIS WRITING IS NOT INCLUDED ON THE EXECUTIVE VERSION OF THE ALBUM OF THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE TRAILER OF THE FILM OF MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL”.
Episode List * 01 – Introduction * 02 – Introduction (Part 2) * 03 – Arrival at Castle * 04 – Constitutional Peasants * 05 – Witch Burning * 06 – Logician * 07 – Camelot * 08 – Camelot Song * 09 – Arthur and God * 10 – Classic (Silbury Hill) * 11 – French Castle * 12 – Announcement * 13 – Apology * 14 – Story So Far * 15 – Brave Sir Robin * 16 – The Knights Who Say ‘Ni’ * 17 – Classic (Silbury Hill) (Part 2) * 18 – Marylin Monroe * 19 – Sir Lancelot & Swamp * 20 – Tim the Enchanter * 21 – Drama Critic * 22 – Hand Grenade of Antioch * 23 – Announcement (Part 2) * 24 – End of Quest * 25 – Arthur’s Song * 26 – Documentary – Terry Jones & Michael Palin * 27 – Run Away Song
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Monty Python Live at Drury Lane is a live album released by Monty Python in 1974. It was recorded on the final night of their four-week run at the Drury Lane Theatre in London earlier that year and edited onto disc with new studio linking material by Eric Idle and Michael Palin. The majority of the sketches are from Flying Circus and vary slightly from their television counterparts, although “Cocktail Bar” was written for the third series but not used. The team also revived sketches from At Last The 1948 Show, including “Secret Service”, “Wrestling” and “Four Yorkshiremen” – the latter on its way to being adopted as a Python standard. Neil Innes provided the musical interludes, while Eric Idle’s then wife Lyn Ashley replaced regular Python actress Carol Cleveland in supporting roles.
As with its predecessor, the second side of the original UK vinyl release had a cryptic message by George Peckham etched onto the runout groove, which read “THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PORKY TRISHY MELLY YEAH”. This message was missing from the second pressings, the label of which added the musical titles used on the album (notably for the many songs referenced in “Election Special”).
To promote the album’s release, a double-sided 33rpm Flexi disc was issued free with the 25 May 1974 edition of New Musical Express entitled Monty Python’s Tiny Black Round Thing which contained an extended version of “Election Special” and “Lumberjack Song” with new linking material from Michael Palin.
The album was the group’s most successful to date, reaching No.19 in the UK charts.
The album was released in Canada in 1975 (distributed by GRT of Canada Ltd. 9211-4) but was not issued in the US until 1994, when it was included in the box set The Instant Monty Python CD Collection. Until then, the only live Python album released in the US had been Monty Python Live at City Center, released in 1976.
The album’s cover was designed by Terry Gilliam’s assistant Katy Hepburn (misspelled as “Hebbern” on the back cover). Three decades later, it made a surprise appearance in Gilliam’s 2005 film Tideland, where it can be seen at the front of a box of LPs.
The performance featured Eric Idle muttering “Breakaway!” during the “Nudge, Nudge” sketch (Idle was advertising the Breakaway chocolate bar at this time), which resulted in an unexpectedly strong laugh from the audience. This moment was removed from subsequent compilations.
Although originally released in stereo, the 2006 special edition CD has the whole album mixed into mono. This is the only one of the 2006 reissues to contain no new material, with the exception of an interview placed at the end of the disc.
Episode List * 01 – Introduction * 02 – Llamas (Including Granada) * 03 – Gumby – Flower Arangment * 04 – Terry Jones – Link * 05 – Secret Service * 06 – Wrestling * 07 – Communist Quiz (World in Action) * 08 – Idiot Song * 09 – Albatross * 10 – Nudge Nudge * 11 – Silly Noises * 12 – Cocktail Bar * 13 – Travel Agent * 14 – Spot the Brain Cell * 15 – Bruce’s Song * 16 – Argument Song * 17 – Four Yorkshireman * 18 – Election Special (Medley) * 19 – Lumberjack Song * 20 – Theme Song ‘Liberty Bell’ * 21 – Parrot Sketch * 22 – Theme Song ‘Liberty Bell’ (Part Two) * 23 – UK Tour Interview Promo
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