Chủ Nhật, 25 tháng 6, 2017

BBC Radio Drama - The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde

Two amorous young gentlemen, objects of their affection who are in love with the name Ernest, the worlds most formidable aunt, a dotty governess, and a dull-witted country parson--these are perhaps the most feckless, unconsciously witty, and uproarious characters ever to grace a stage.


A tour de force of wit and irony, Oscar Wilde's most enduring and influential play enjoys frequent, if not always expert, revival.


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BBC Radio Drama - Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother’s seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy’s father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea.


As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr. Pancks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens’s maturity.

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BBC Radio Drama - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt and later attends a charity school with a harsh regime, enduring loneliness and cruelty.  
 
 
 
This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. However, when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice.  Should she stay with him and live with the consequences, or follow her convictions, even if it means leaving the man she loves?
 
 
 
From BBC Radio 7. Written by Charlotte Bronte; Full cast dramatisation starring Sophie Thompson and Ciaran Hinds; Dramatised by Michelene Wandor; Directed by Cherry Cookson.

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BBC Radio Drama - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

"Frankenstein"
 
by Mary Shelley
 
[A BBC RADIO DRAMA]
 
 
Description:
Mary Shelly's classic tale of terror is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young student, who learns the secret of imparting life into a creature that he has constructed from corpses he finds.

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BBC Radio Drama - An Inspector Calls JB Priestleys Classic

An Inspector Calls  - JB Priestley's classic -  BBC Radio  - Full Cast Drama
 
 
 
On Sat 23 February 2008 BBC Radio 7 broadcast an adaptation by John Foley originally aired on the BBC World Service, starring Bob Peck as Inspector Goole, John Woodvine as Arthur Birling and Maggie Steed as Sybil Birling. The production was directed by Rosalyn Ward
 
 
 
An Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values.
 
 
 
Duration: 90 minutes
 
An Inspector Calls was first performed in 1945 in two Moscow theatres, as an appropriate venue in England could not be found. (Critics have speculated that the play's themes were considered too negative and critical for wartime British audiences). The play had its first English production in 1946 at the New Theatre in London with Alec Guinness as Eric Birling

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BBC Radio Drama - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

This book is so moving and yet, despite the horrors endured on the frontline during WW1, a sense of humour (however grim) is retained throughout, almost to the last few paragraphs. The story is written in the first person narrative, by a young German soldier, Paul Bauer.


He is only eighteen when he is pressured by his family, friends and society in general, to enlist and fight at the front. He enters the army, along with 6 other lads he was at school with, each one filled with fresh, lively, optimistic and patriotic thoughts, but within a few months they are all as old men, in mind if not completely in body.


Paul and his friends witness such horrors and endure such severe hardship and suffering, that they are unable to even speak about it to anyone but each other. This is a very moving and poignant novel, and the reader is made even more aware of its poignancy in knowing that its author is writing from experience, having suffered greatly as a young man on the frontline, whilst fighting for the Fatherland

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BBC Radio Collection - The Odyssey

This is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer's epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by award-winning poet Simon Armitage, and starring Tim McInnerny and Amanda Redman 'My fame is written in the heavens, and my fate too...' So speaks Odysseus as he starts to recount his struggles to sail home to Ithaca, in one of the greatest pieces of storytelling in Western literature.


"The Odyssey" is his incredible traveller's tale - and also the story of his faithful wife, Penelope who waits for him, besieged by suitors, and their son, Telemachus who has a quest of his own. In a twenty-year journey, fabulous fantasy mixes with extraordinary reality as Odysseus encounters enchantresses, nymphs, monsters, prophets and ghosts. From the temptations of the lotus flowers and the Sirens' song to the horrors of the Cyclops' cave and the Land of the Dead, the story of his encounters is riveting. We hear of Circe, who turned his men into swine; Calypso, who held Odysseus prisoner for seven years; and the dreadful six-headed monster Scylla who devoured some of his crew. And we hear of the Gods, who have a vital role to play...


Dramatised by major contemporary poet Simon Armitage to celebrate the return of the Olympics to Athens, this full-cast production brings Odysseus's adventures to vivid life, conveying all the excitement, suspense and poetry of the original. A stunning aural rollercoaster ride, "The Odyssey" will have your heart in your mouth and stir your soul.

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BBC Radio Collection - Doctor Finlay Adventures of a Black Bag

A dramatisation of the stories by A J Cronin - six episodes:
1. "The Resolution that went Wrong"
2. "Who Laughs Last"
3. "The Day Dandini Came to Town"
4. "Wee Robertson"
5. "The Wife of a Hero"
6. "The Sisters Scobie"


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BBC Radio Cast Dramatisation - Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. 
 
 
 
A sixteen year-old murder with the apparent killer convicted and long dead is a formidable challenge even for the remarkable Poirot.
 
 
 
Especially as he has nothing to go on except five suspects who fit strangely into the pattern of a children's nursery rhyme...


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BBC Radio Audiobook - The Portrait Of a Lady by Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1880.
 
 
 
Isabel Archer, a young woman of intelligence, imagination and beauty, travels from nineteenth-century America to England and across Europe on a journey that encompasses not only continents, but the crossing from innocence to experience. Miriam Margolyes brings a unique vitality to this reading of Henry James’ masterpiece.
 
 
The Portrait of a Lady was turned into a film in 1996 by New Zealand director Jane Campion, starring Nicole Kidman as Isabel, John Malkovich as Osmond, and Barbara Hershey as Madame Merle.
 
 
 
In 1968 the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) produced a television mini-series version of The Portrait of a Lady, starring Suzanne Neve as Isabel and Richard Chamberlain as Ralph Touchett.
 
 
 
This production was originally broadcast in twenty episodes over four weeks on BBC Radio 4. This release is derived from the four weekly 'omnibus' broadcasts which contained five episodes each
 
 
 
Read by Miriam Margolyes - four parts of one hour each.
 

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BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

"The Woman in White" 
 
by Wilkie Collins
 
[A BBC RADIO 4 FULL-CAST DRAMATISATION]
 
 
Description:
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.

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BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation - The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

"The Old Curiosity Shop" 
 
by Charles Dickens
 
[A BBC RADIO 4 FULL-CAST DRAMATISATION]
 
 
Description:
The Old Curiosity Shop (along with Barnaby Rudge) was one of two novels which Dickens published in his short-lived weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841, when Barnaby Rudge was published. The Old Curiosity Shop was printed as a separate book in 1841.

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BBC Radio 4 full Cast Dramatisation - The Aeneid by Virgil

BBC RADIO 4 The Aeneid by Virgil, adapted in two parts by Tom Holland
 
Classic Serial: The Aeneid by Virgil
 
Translated by C Day Lewis and adapted in two parts by Tom Holland.
 
 
CAST:
Ralph Fiennes ......... Aeneus
Derek Jacobi .......... The narrator
Anna Massey ........... The Sybil
Gina McKee .............Queen Dido
Diana Quick ........... Venus
 
 
 
Also featuring Andrew Sachs, Bill Wallis, Sean Barrett, Christian Rodska, and Elena Bron.Produced by Jeremy Howe and Viv Beeby.
1: After the fall of Troy, Prince Aeneas is forced to seek a new
land and a new destiny. His adventures take him to Carthage, where
he falls in love with Queen Dido, but their happiness soon comes 
to a tragic end.
2: After many trials and tribulations, Trojan prince Aeneas and
his men arrive on the west coast of Italy. Soon war breaks out
with local rivals. 

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BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation - The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

"The Pickwick Papers" 
 
 
by Charles Dickens
 
 
[A BBC RADIO 4 FULL-CAST DRAMATISATION]
 
 
Description:
A Radio 4 dramatization of Dickens's episodic and amusing adventures of Mr Samuel Pickwick and his fellow-members of the Pickwick Club.

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BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation - The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

This is the very f irst Poirot/Hastings story. Set in 1916, we meet Captain Hastings as he is invalided out of the Great War and goes to convalesce at Styles Court, the family home of his great friend, John Cavendish.
 
 
 
By an extraordinary coincidence, billeted in the village is a brilliant little retired detective with an egg-shaped head, who made a considerable impression on the Captain when he was in Belgium. Styles is not a happy household and in the blistering summer heat, tensions mount. Even so, the tragic murder, which occurs is not expected.
 
 
 
The entire family is drawn into the case but with their reluctant permission, Hastings calls upon the services of the diminutive Belgian. Thus begins one of the great partnerships and friendships in the history of crime. John Moffatt stars as Hercule Poirot, Simon Williams as Captain Hastings and Philip Jackson as Detective Inspector Japp, who already has reason to be indebted to the distinguished and unique hero of so many mysteries.
 
 
 
A destroyed will, a shattered coffee cup, an old envelope - such are the seemingly unrelated details surrounding the murder of Mrs Inglethorp, mistress of Styles Court. With a thoroughness that is to become legendary, Hercule Poirot, the methodical little Belgian, begins his first - and perhaps most fascinating - investigation. Cast includes Philip Jackson, Nicola McAuliffe and Simon Williams.


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BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

An international cast of suspects, all passengers on the crowded train, are speeding through the snowy European landscape when a bizarre and terrible murder brings them to an abrupt halt.


One of their glittering number lies dead in his cabin, stabbed a mysterious 12 times. 

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BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation - The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie

In this delightful tale, an Eastern Prince arrives in England with some family jewels for his fiance. However, the Prince also has a mistress; she asks to wear one particularly enchanting piece, and then promptly disapppears with it.


Poirot discovers a connection with a house party at the home of Colonel and Mrs. Lacey, and in order to pursue his investigation an invitation is procured for him to the Laceys, ostensibly to enjoy an old-fashioned Christmas.

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BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation - Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie

A charming, classic English country house mystery is brought to life in this radio dramatization. Hercule Poirot investigates the poisoning of a young woman following the death of a wealthy widow. Poirot is given a charming, astute characterization without overdoing it.
 
  
The full cast of actors and complete sound track vividly create scenes, adding dimension a single narrator cannot. Gossipy whispering among servants, musical bridges and quick scene changes to advance the plot effectively build suspense and suspicion. This performance leaves the listener hoping Bantam will present more of Christie's tales--many well suited to the audio format.

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BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation - Right Ho Jeeves by PG Wodehouse Disc2

A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster begins to wonder whether Jeeves is losing his touch when he offers Gussie Fink-Nottle some advice, which results in his becoming badly unstuck at a fancy dress party.

Download:  http://huyhuu.com/news/19931/BBC-Radio-4-Full-Cast-Dramatisation---Right-Ho-Jeeves-by-PG-Wodehouse-Disc2
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BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation - Peter Pan by JM Barrie

When Peter Pan flies into the night nursery of Wendy, John and Michael Darling, he takes them on the journey - and the adventure - of a lifetime. Mermaids, wolves and Indians weave their spell in the magical Never Never Land - where also lurks the wicked Captain Hook...
 
 
Toyah Willcox stars as Peter Pan, with Ron Moody as Captain Hook, Roy Hudd as Smee and June Whitfield as Mrs Darling in this spectacular BBC Radio 4 dramatisation, recorded in Dolby Surround Sound with stunning sound effects and specially composed music.

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BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation - Peril at End House by Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot and his good friend Captain Hastings are enjoying a well-deserved break on the Cornish Riviera. 


Wandering along the terrace of the Hotel Majestic on the first morning of their stay, Poirot literally falls at the feet of a pretty, dark-haired girl and, much to Hastings' delight, insists that she join them for a cocktail. 

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BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation - One Two Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie

Poirot has always hated visiting the dentist, but this time his check-up is painless and soon over. As he leaves Mr. Morley's surgery, he observes a woman wearing patent leather shoes with large buckles.


She catches one of the buckles on the taxi door and wrenches it off, and as Poirot hands it back, he is reminded of the children's rhyme "One, two, buckle my shoe." 

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BBC Radio 4 full Cast Dramatisation - Murder On The Links by Agatha Christie

This BBC Radio full-cast dramatization stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. When Poirot arrives in France, following an urgent appeal for help, he finds he is too late.


His client, a South American millionaire, has been stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. 

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BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation - Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple, the sharp-witted spinster sleuthIn the sleepy little English country village of St. Mary Mead, all is not as it seems.


Under a seemingly peaceful exterior lurks intrigue, guilt, deceptionand murder. 


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BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation - Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

For generations, the legend has been passed down. A satanic tale of a gigantic hell-hound, a devil incarnate who stalks the wastes of Dartmoor wreaking a bloody and terrible vengeance upon the heirs of the house of Baskerville.
 
  
While a country doctor brings the bizarre and seemingly unearthly circumstances surrounding the death of Sir Charles Baskerville to the attention of Sherlock Holmes, it is the beginning of one of the strangest cases of the great detective's career.
 
 
Convinced by the arrival of an extraordinary warning that Sir Charles' heir, Henry, is in danger of his life, Holmes dispatches Dr. Watson to accompany the young man to the dark and somber house deep within the bleak Devon moor. With peril at every hand and a murderous escaped convict at large, the mystery deepens. Is the ancient legend true, or is the hideous creature merely a part of a sinister conspiracy whose origins are all too diabolically human?

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