Archive for the ‘Drama’ Category
Vulcan 607
In April 1982 Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Islands. Britain was caught out, and needed an answer, fast. The response was one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their bombs into the dams of wartime Germany. This is the story of the most remarkable British air attack since the Second World War. It would take 15 Victor refuelling tankers and seventeen separate in-flight refuels to get a single Avro Vulcan and its load of twenty-one thousand pound bombs to the target and give it and its crew a chance to come back. An adaptation of Rowland White’s gripping novel Vulcan 607.
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Sweet Waters
This piece is adapted from a couple of scenes in the novel Sweet Thames by Matthew Kneale. It was made as part of a series of podcasts which would accompany a walk around London from the banks of the Thames, through the streets of Soho and out to the Crossness Pumping Station at Abbey Wood. The series gives a historical account of the development of the London sewers driven through fictional characters.
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Adapted and Produced by Emma Golby-Kirk.
Cast: Engineer - Nigel Roper, Servant - Matthew Rangecroft, Prostitute - Maria Corral.
My Spiritual Life
Have you ever been to church to find faith? Can singing songs, evangelical preaches and clapping bring you closer to God? Matthew hopes so.
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Cast: Matthew - Michael French
With special thanks to St.Stephen's Church Choir in Bournemouth.
My Paralysed Umbrella
Paralysed can be more perfect…
In the name of my white, red spotted umbrella.
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Mum’s gone missing
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Cast: Ann Cave
Memory of the Shore
Plug in your headphones, turn off your phone and for three minutes allow yourself to sit by the sea and simply listen.
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The Hunter
Now we are taken inside the mind of a hunter before he makes his kill.
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Gone Fishing
Bernard’s fishing trip has been his weekly retreat from the hustle and bustle of family life for years. But now the kids are grown, isn’t it about time he paid more attention to his wife? His fishing partner, Doreen certainly doesn’t think so.
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Cast: Doreen - Meriel Sheppard, Bernard - Neil Gwynne, Lizzie - Christine English.
Written by Barbara Reed.
A Dickens of a Stink!
What did Charles Dickens do when he wasn’t writing his great novels? He was writing great letters of complaint, that’s what. This piece is a reading of a letter that Charles Dickens wrote from Gad’s Hill on Wednesday July 7th 1858, in which he ‘kicked up a great stink’ about – well – the ‘Great Stink’ a term used to refer to the state of the River Thames at that time.
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Dear John
In today’s modern culture of emails, text messages and chat rooms is the personality of the heart felt correspondance lost in their speed and efficiency?
Is bigger, better, faster technology always the way to go or are we losing something unique and special?
Dear John is a monologue written from the perspective of a young woman named Francesca who is struggling with her love life as well as coming to terms with the ever changing modern culture in which she lives.