The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen

Translated by Ann Jellicoe, Henrik Ibsen's classic drama of Ellida, who after a torrid affair with a sailor has settled for marriage to a kind,
elderly doctor. But the sailor returns....
The action of the play takes place during a summer in the 1880s in a small town on a fiord in northern Norway.   

Margaret Leighton and John Clements with Robert Ayres, Michael Gwynn and Richard Fasco 
Produced By: Charles Lefeaux

Third Programme, 19 September 1961  20.00
11-08-17 

The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen.mp3

A Small Union by Peter Tinniswood

A Small Union by Peter Tinniswood.mp3 

SNT - The Best Baby by William Andrew (1978)

With Gwyneth Guthrie, Diana Olsson and Finlay Welsh 

 'Twenty years ago my baby brother was kidnapped and abandoned on a hillside. The police asked a lot of questions of a lot of people but we never did find out who did it. Leave it alone, will you. No one can possibly find the answer now!' 

 Directed By: Gordon Emslie BBC Scotland

Pauline Browning: -Sheila Donald
Sylvia Dunn: Diana Olsson
a child: Marry Rrigans: Barrie
Emma Forrest: Gwyneth Guthrie
Peter Forrest: Finlay Welsh
Barrie Browning: Robert Trotter
Colin Teviot: Tom Cotcher
Dorothy: Isobel Gardne 

 Saturday-Night Theatre
BBC Radio 4 FM, 14 January 1978 20.30

 

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To Wake The Dead (part 2)

Publication date 1997-10-22

To Wake the Dead, a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. A mystery of the type known as a whodunnit.

To Wake The Dead 02.mp3

To Wake The Dead (part 1)

Publication date 1997-10-22

To Wake the Dead, a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. A mystery of the type known as a whodunnit.

To Wake The Dead 01.mp3

High Noon 1952

A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at high noon when the gang leader, an outlaw he sent up years ago, arrives on the noon train.

Stars: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell

Download: High Noon 1952

Shane 1953

A gunfighter attempts to settle down with a family who are homesteading on the range, but big ranchers with their cattle don't mix. And gunsmoke

comes into play.

Stars: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Ben Johnson, Jack Palance

Download: Shane 1953.mp4

Cleft Stick

Cleft Stick by R D Wingfield
Publication date 1973-12-19

A woman claims she was attacked by a stranger while walking home through some woods, and killed her attacker with her husband's gun. But when she is interviewed by the police, she denies that she ever told her husband of such an attack.


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King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines
by H Rider Haggard
Publication date 1990-12-29

Radio adaptation of the classic Victorian tale of adventure in darkest Africa. 

King Solomon's Mines.mp3

Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stephenson

Publication date 2007-02-03

Radio adaptation of the classic tale.

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Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton

Publication date 1968-10-26

Set in Victorian London, a wife notices that after her husband leaves each evening, the gaslight drops as if somebody else is in the house, turning on another light. Is this true, or is she going mad? Then she receives a stranger who tells her a peculiar story...... Classic mystery by Patrick Hamilton.

Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton.mp3

Gunsmoke - Uncle Finney

   

When Merry Florene's brothers return to Dodge to turn in their 103 year old Uncle Finney for fifty dollars, you know some shenanigan are afoot. 

Gunsmoke - Uncle Finney.mp4

Maverick - Shady Deal at Sunny Acres

   

Bret is picked clean & stranded in Sunny Acres by the burg's arrogant banker, so he puts together an M Team of con artists to take down & embarrass the handle-barred buzzard in Denver, while Bret sits whittling & rocking in a chair on a shady Sunny Acres porch, poor-mouthing all by-passers that he's "just working on" a plan. The small-town banker is way out of his league in silver-rich Denver with seductive Sam Crawford, intimidating Big Mike, slicksters Gentleman Jack & Dandy Jim etc. as Maverick's operatives in this classic episode.

 

Maverick - Shady Deal at Sunny Acres.mp4

 

Danny Meets Andy Griffith

Danny is arrested by Sheriff Andy Taylor for going through an unnoticed stop sign in the town of Mayberry.

Danny Meets Andy Griffith.mp4

Wyatt Earp Becomes a Marshal

 

Initially resistant to becoming a lawman, Wyatt Earp has a change of heart after seeing the sheriff of Ellsworth, Kansas murdered in cold blood by the inebriated brother of town scourge Ben Thompson.

Wyatt Earp Becomes a Marshal.mp4

The Cabin

 

To escape a potentially lethal blizzard, Matt seeks shelter in a cabin in which two psychopathic bandits have enslaved and repeatedly molested a young woman after murdering her father.

The Cabin.mp4

Maverick s01e01 War of the Silver Kings

War of the Silver Kings - Season 1, Episode 1 - 22 Sep. 1957 - We first glimpse Bret unshaven & dirty, lugging a rifle, trying to register at a classy hotel. Using the $1000 bill pinned inside his jacket, and adding some dollar-size strips cut from a newspaper, Bret cadges a room via a bulging envelope for the guest safe.

Maverick s01e01 War of the Silver Kings,mp4   

Bob Dylan - No Direction Home 2-2

"Bob Dylan: No Direction Home" is a two-hour, two-part music intensive radio special features exclusive music, interviews and other content from Bob Dylan's personal archives.

Bob Dylan - No Direction Home 2-2

Bob Dylan - No Direction Home 1-2

"Bob Dylan: No Direction Home" is a two-hour, two-part music intensive radio special features exclusive music, interviews and other content from Bob Dylan's personal archives.

Bob Dylan - No Direction Home 1-2

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth.mp3

90 Years of BBC Radio

90 Years of BBC Radio.mp3

Charlie Poole - You Ain't Talkin' to Me

Charlie Poole (1892-1931), groundbreaking banjoist/songwriter, is known as the "Robert Johnson of country music." With his banjo-fiddle-guitar trio, The North Carolina Ramblers, Poole wrote and recorded country music's first mega-hit single ("Don't Let Your Deal Go Down") and many other classic songs that gave birth to the music of both Bill Monroe and Hank Williams. In this one-hour music intensive documentary, host Laura Cantrell traces the origins of modern country music through the songs of Charlie Poole.

Charlie Poole - You Ain't Talkin' to Me.mp3

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple Black (April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014) was an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and public servant, most famous as Hollywood's number-one box-office star from 1935 through 1938. As an adult, she entered politics and became a diplomat, serving as United States Ambassador to Ghana and later to Czechoslovakia, and as Chief of Protocol of the United States.

Temple had her own radio series on CBS. Junior Miss debuted March 4, 1942, with Temple in the title role. The series was based on stories by Sally Benson first published in The New Yorker. Sponsored by Procter & Gamble, Junior Miss was directed by Gordon Hughes, with David Rose as musical director.

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Agatha Christie - Philomel Cottage

The recently married Alix Martin is obsessed with a recurring dream of her new husband’s murder.
Agatha Christie - Philomel Cottage.mp3

Agatha Christie - Witnesss for the Prosecution

Leonard Vole is arrested for the murder of Emily French, a wealthy older woman. Unaware that he was a married man, Miss French made him her principal heir, casting suspicion on Leonard.

Agatha Christie - Witnesss for the Prosecution.mp3