BBC Radio 4 - The Great Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel, a portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, is perhaps the greatest book on the fallibility of the American dream. 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.

 

Nick ..... Bryan Dick

Gatsby ..... Andrew Scott

Tom ..... Andrew Buchan

Daisy ..... Pippa Bennett-Warner

Jordan ..... Melody Grove

Wolfsheim ..... Karl Johnson

Klipspringer ..... Sam Dale

Wilson ..... Gerard McDermott 

Myrtle ..... Susie Riddell

Catherine ..... Tracy Wiles

Chester ..... Patrick Brennan

Lucille ..... Christine Absalom

Alice ..... Amaka Okafor

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BBC Radio 4 - The Diaries of Adam and Eve

The story tells of the events that took place in the Garden of Eden prior to the entrance of the deceitful serpent. Adam and Eve are not exactly getting along.

Through the struggles listed in their diaries, one can safely assume that these two very different human beings are each other s greatest source of frustration. Intended as a comical insight into the complex relations between men and women, The Diaries of Adam and Eve displays a progression from continual annoyance to a perfect partnership.

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BBC Radio 4 Dramatization - A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities won the Bronze Sony Award for Best Drama last year.

  

Written and published in weekly instalments in 1859, A Tale of Two Cities is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

 

 It shows the plight of the French people under the brutal oppression of the aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality of the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the years immediately following.

 

  

The story follows several characters through these events, notably Charles Darnay, a French former aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who tries to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.

 

  

Although the events covered in A Tale of Two Cities cover eight years, the plot develops and builds powerfully from the moment that the story opens, with the coded rumours of Dr Manette being 'restored to life' and Dickens orchestrates the wider political picture behind the story of Lucie, Darnay and Carton, with his customary brilliance.

  

Music by Lennert Busch

 

Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer

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BBC Radio 4 Drama- Gullivers Travels

Jonathan Swift's classic satire, in a brand new dramatisation starring Arthur Darvill [Dr Who.]

 

 

Gulliver is shipwrecked on the Island of Lilliput where the natives are tiny people living in a miniature society. With his unique overview of this realm, Gulliver discovers a world of petty politics and small minds. Coerced into a war between two nations who disagree on the best way to eat boiled eggs, Gulliver finds himself betrayed by friends and battered by enemies - escape is his only option if he wants to survive!

  

 

Gulliver's adventures in Lilliput are hilarious, disturbing and profound. This is a story of dishonest politicians, mindless ceremony and wars based on unconvincing arguments. A satire as potent now as it ever was!

  

Gulliver's Travels quickly became a classic. The book has become not only the defining work of its author but also of its genre - a landmark in English Literature to which all satirists today can trace a heritage.

   

Gulliver's Travels is adapted for radio by Matthew Broughton, and is a BBC Cymru/Wales production, directed by Sam Hoyle.

  

Gulliver's Travels stars Arthur Darvill as Gulliver. Other members of the company are Matthew Gravelle, Sam Dale, Bethan Walker, Judith Faultless, Richard Nichols, Chris Pavlo, Claire Cage, Lynne Seymour.

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BBC Radio 4 Comedy - Clare in the Community

Clare in the Community is a British comic strip in The Guardian newspaper, written by Harry Venning. The title is a play on words relating to care in the community. The strip has been successfully adapted for radio on BBC Radio 4, starring Sally Phillips as Clare.

 

 

 

Clare is a social worker with all the right jargon who likes to sort out other people's problems while ignoring her own. She is white, middle class and heterosexual - but doesn't like to be reminded of it. She is a control freak but both her personal and professional lives are out of control.

 

 

Clare Barker...... Sally Phillips

Megan Whardby ...... Nina Conti

Helen Golightly.....Liza Tarbuck (Gemma Craven Series 1 - 4)

Brian Harris ...... Alex Lowe

Ray Bishop ...... Richard Lumsden

Irene ...... Ellen Thomas (Series 1 - 5)

Simon Burrows...... Andrew Wincott (Series 1 - 5 and 7, Philip Pope Series 6)

Nali Jakovlivicz "Ramsbottom" ...... Nina Conti (from Series 5)

Libby McKenzie...... Sarah Kendall (from Series 6)

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BBC Radio 4 - Hay Fever by Noel Coward

BBC R4 - Noël Coward's 'Hay Fever' 

 

 

Broadcast November 14, 1992

 

 

Comedy of manners where the comfort of guests of a family at a country house is wrecked by familial in-fighting.

 

 

A sparkling, witty comedy by one of our most famous and successful playwrights. It is the 1920s, and the self-absorbed Bliss family is hosting an unconventional house party. Everyone has invited a guest for the week-end -- but without consulting the others.

 

  

Of course the situation rapidly becomes complicated, with delicious shades of farce, when the family starts trying to seduce one another's guests.

 

Cast

Judi Dench - Judith Bliss

Michael Williams - David Bliss

Geoffrey Palmer - Richard Greatham

Celia Imrie - Myra Arundel

Patricia Brake - Jackie Coryton

Christopher Blake - Sandy Tyrell

Patrick Pearson - Simon Bliss

Alison Reid - Sorel Bliss

Patricia Hayes - Clara

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BBC Radio 4 - Clarissa of The History of a Young Lady

Dramatisation by Hattie Naylor of the 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson.

 

 

 

The beautiful young heiress Clarissa Harlowe is dangerously attracted by the wiles of the notorious libertine Robert Lovelace. Threatened by an imminent marriage arranged with the odious suitor her family have found for her, Lovelace persuades Clarissa to flee with him.

 

 

 

Clarissa Harlowe ...... Zoe Waites

Robert Lovelace ...... Richard Armitage

James Harlowe ...... Oliver Milburn

Solmes ...... Stephen Critchlow

Bella Harlowe ...... Sophie Thompson

Lady Harlowe ...... Alison Steadman

Lord Harlowe ...... John Rowe

Mrs Norton ...... Deborah Findlay

Anna Howe ...... Cathy Sara

Directed by Marilyn Imrie

A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4

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