Ned Chaillet#Betrayal
{{short description|American radio director, writer (b. 1944)}}
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Edward William Chaillet, III ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ʃ|aɪ|eɪ}} {{respell|SHY|ay}}; born 29 November 1944) is a radio drama producer and director, writer and journalist.
Chaillet, American by birth, was born in Boston, Massachusetts,[http://www.bardradio.com/compromise/compromise/BBC_Ned.html Author profile (with photo) on the article Erik Bauersfeld, American radio dramatist and producer, Ned Chaillet, Bay Area Radio Drama, 2007] but is a "native of Washington" according to The New York Times.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/24/arts/tv-view-the-telly-s-take-on-americans-texans-all.html?pagewanted=3 |title=TV VIEW; The Telly's Take On Americans? Texans All|first= Russell |last=Davies|newspaper=The New York Times|date= 24 March 1991}} He has lived in Britain since 1973.
His newspaper career began at the Washington Evening Star in 1964, interrupted by service in the United States Army. He then lived in Europe, founded the Free State Theater company in Maryland, and studied at the University of Maryland, College Park and California Institute of the Arts.
Chaillet moved to London in 1973 to work at The Times Literary Supplement for the editors Arthur Crook and John Gross 1974–76. He was deputy drama critic (to Irving Wardle) for The Times 1975–83. In 1983, he joined the BBC as Editor, Radio 3 Plays, before becoming a producer for BBC Radio Drama. At the same time (1983–86), he wrote drama criticism for The Wall Street Journal – Europe.[http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/nchaillet.html Ned Chaillet's radio play listing at Diversity website]
His radio programmes have received five Sony Radio Academy Awards, and the Prix Italia for Fiction in 1997. In 2005, he was nominated by the Directors Guild of Great Britain for Outstanding Achievement in Radio.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1252376 2nd Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards – Nominee for Outstanding Achievement in Radio] Between 2008 and 2012, Chaillet taught Radio and Microphone Technique at the Central School of Speech and Drama (London).[http://www.cssd.ac.uk/staff/academic-staff/visiting-staff Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London – Visiting Staff] In 2013, working with Chris Wallis at Autolycus Productions, he completed the recording of David Suchet's single-voice reading of the entire Bible (New International Version, 2011) for CTVC.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jul/09/david-suchet-records-bible-poirot |title=David Suchet records entire Bible between Poirot performances|first=Maggie |last=Brown|newspaper=The Guardian|date=9 July 2013}}
Radio plays
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! colspan=6 style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Radio plays directed or produced by Ned Chaillet |
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! style="background-color:#ccc;"| Date first broadcast ! style="background-color:#ccc;"| Play ! style="background-color:#ccc;"| Author ! style="background-color:#ccc; "class="unsortable"| Cast ! style="background-color:#ccc; "class="unsortable"| Synopsis ! style="background-color:#ccc;"| Station |- id="Salesman in Beijing" | {{dts|format=dmy|1984-8-9}} – {{dts|format=dmy|1984-8-12}} | {{sortname|Arthur|Miller}} abridged in four parts by {{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} | Read by Arthur Miller | Arthur Miller reads from his account of his journey to Beijing to direct a production of his play Death of a Salesman in Chinese. |- id="Marion" | {{dts|format=dmy|1985-2-5}} | Marion | {{sortname|Alan|Drury|dab=British playwright}} | Maggie McCarthy, Jill Gascoine and Brian Kelly | Anne (Jill Gascoine) and Brian return from their mother's funeral to encounter an unexpected visitor: an unknown woman who makes some startling claims and revelations. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Where Are You Wally?" | {{dts|format=dmy|1986-5-17}} | Where Are You Wally? | {{sortname|Barry|Wasserman}} from a story by Barry Wasserman and Patrick Carroll | Alfred Molina, Bill Paterson, Shaun Prendergast, Jennifer Piercey, Pauline Letts, Edward de Souza, Deborah Makepeace, Janis Winters, Ronald Herdman, Louis Mahoney, Paul B. Davies, Andrew Branch, Garard Green, Natasha Pyne, Stephen Rashbrook and Avril Clarke | When Albert picks up a passenger in his mini-cab he is left with a bag full of money as the passenger rushes to catch a train. £275,000 proves too great a temptation, and he goes on the run. The Detective Sergeant who pursues him finds that Albert clings to his radio and finally establishes contact via the airwaves, but the police are not the only people interested in finding Albert. |- id="Optimistic Tragedy" | {{dts|format=dmy|1986-11-18}} | {{sortname|Vsevolod|Vishnevsky}} translated and adapted by {{sortname|Richard|Crane|dab=playwright}} and {{sortname|Faynia|Williams}} | Toyah Willcox, Shaun Prendergast, Trader Faulkner, Linda Marlowe, Stephen Boxer, Richard Durden, John Church, Paul Barber, Trevor Allan Davies, Garard Green, James Goode, Brian Hewlett, George Parsons, Pauline Letts, Elaine Claxton and David Learner | Vishnesvsky's Soviet classic from 1932/3 celebrates the indomitable spirit of the new Soviet navy in the turbulent years following the Revolution. A young female commissar is appointed to represent the revolution on a ship's company, but Anarchists undermine the Communists at every turn and make them vulnerable to the Germans. |- id="On Mayday" | {{dts|format=dmy|1986-11-23}} | On Mayday [http://www.paulcopley.com/writings.htm Paul Copley – Main Writing Credits][http://sites.google.com/site/radio4theatre1990s/onmayday Radio 4 Theatre – On Mayday] | {{sortname|Paul|Copley}} | Natasha Pyne, Jan Winters, Bryan Pringle, Christopher Fairbank, Garard Green, Daniel Kodicek, Wayne Howard, Peter Howell, Deborah Makepeace and Kim Wall | Tom tries to reach his wife in the USSR as the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl spreads across Europe. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Sweet Tooth" | {{dts|format=dmy|1987-8-27}} | Sweet Tooth | {{sortname|Mel|Calman}} | Steve Hodson, Richard Griffiths, Melinda Walker, Denis Lawson, Tim Reynolds, Morag Hood, Steven Harrold, Julie Berry and John Holmstrom | A would-be adulterous affair consisting of meetings in a tea shop may be frustrating to George and Alice, but it is a matter of life or death to the Rum Baba and his friends on the cake shelf. |- id="Languages Spoken Here" | {{dts|format=dmy|1987-12-11}} | Languages Spoken Here | {{sortname|Richard|Nelson|dab=playwright}} | Colin Stinton, Emily Richard, Renny Krupinski, Jiri Hanak, Peter Craze, Steven Harrold, John Samson and Karen Archer | Michael believes he is doing a favour for the Polish émigré writer, Janusz, by translating his book. But whose cause is he serving? A morally ambiguous comedy. |- id="Tickertape and V-Signs" | {{dts|format=dmy|1988-3-1}} | Tickertape and V-Signs [http://www.literaturewales.org/writers-of-wales/?s_n=peter+cox&sg_0=true Peter Cox, The Writers of Wales Database] | {{sortname|Peter|Cox|dab=playwright}} | Brian Bovell and Stephen Tompkinson | A black soldier returning from the Falklands War finds himself the subject of racial taunts. |- id="Hancock's Last Half Hour" | {{dts|format=dmy|1988-6-21}} | Hancock's Last Half Hour | {{sortname|Heathcote|Williams}} | Richard Briers with Steve Hodson and Zelah Clarke | Tony Hancock died on 25 June 1968. His last half-hour is a solitary affair and his audience has dwindled to a telephone, some clippings and a bottle of vodka. |- id="Haunted by More Cake" | {{dts|format=dmy|1989-3-22}} | Haunted by More Cake | {{sortname|Steve|Walker|nolink=y}} | Graham Crowden, Joan Mattheson, Stephen Tompkinson, Victoria Carling, John Bull, Richard Pearce, Philip Sully, John Warner, Joan Walker, Nicholas Courtney, Jo Kendall and Charlotte Green | Ginger's nephew Lionel has a problem; there's a tea party going on in his stomach and he's fallen in love with one of the guests. What can Ginger do to help? |- id="The Bass Saxophone" | {{dts|format=dmy|1989-9-29}} | {{sortname|The|Bass Saxophone|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Josef|Škvorecký}}, adapted by {{sortname|Nigel|Baldwin|nolink=y}} | John Woodvine, Jonathan Cullen, Joe Dunlop, Elizabeth Mansfield, Danny Schiller, Michael Kilgarriff, Michael Graham Cox, Ken Cumberlidge, David King, Jo Kendall and John Bull | "You were Eve and it was the apple" is Old Joseph's admonition to his younger self, remembering when a German band appeared in his German-occupied town in Czechoslovakia. The apple was the band's bass saxophone and the temptation was to play it for a German audience. |- id="Eating Words" | {{dts|format=dmy|1989-10-30}} | Eating Words | {{sortname|Richard|Nelson|dab=playwright}} | John Woodvine, Sheila Allen, Ed Asner, Emily Richard, Charles Simpson, Vincent Brimble, John Bull, David King, Elizabeth Mansfield, Simon Treves, Joe Dunlop, Christopher Good and Danny Schiller | Won a Giles Cooper Award in 1989.Best Radio Plays of 1989 Methuen/BBC 1990 |- id="Rabbit Man" | {{dts|format=dmy|1989-11-4}} | Rabbit Man | {{sortname|Mel|Calman}} | Jim Broadbent, Maggie McCarthy, Carolyn Backhouse, John Moffatt, Ken Campbell, Susan Sheridan, Melinda Walker and David Goudge | A man sprouts rabbit ears. |- id="Joe Allen" | {{dts|format=dmy|1990-4-1}} | Joe Allen | | Presented by Daily Mail theatre critic Jack Tinker | A profile of the restaurateur Joe Allen |- id="True Believers" | {{dts|format=dmy|1990-9-8}} | True Believers Produced by Ned Chaillet, directed by David Greenwood | {{sortname|Mike|Walker|dab=radio dramatist}} | Dhirendra Kumar, Meera Syal and Elizabeth Mansfield | 'Tony' has turned his back on his Sikh family and married an English girl. But his brother's activities threaten to destroy his happiness. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Betrayal" | {{dts|format=dmy|1990-10-9}} | Betrayal [https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/dramaon3/pip/fi57c BBC – Drama on 3 – Betrayal] | {{sortname|Harold|Pinter}} | Harold Pinter, Patricia Hodge, Michael Gambon, Christopher Good and Elizabeth Mansfield | A study of triangular infidelity and friendship. |- id="Advice to Eastern Europe" | {{dts|format=dmy|1990-12-27}} | Advice to Eastern Europe | {{sortname|Richard|Nelson|dab=playwright}} | Andrew Wincott, John Bull, Simon Treves, Joanna Myers, Jenny Howe, Tara Dominick, Oliver Cotton, Colin Stinton and Edita Brychta | The barriers between East and West have fallen to open up economic and artistic ambition for Eastern Europe. Helena come to England with a project, only to meet a love-smitten American script editor... |- id="Diary of a Madman" | {{dts|format=dmy|1991-2-3}} | Diary of a Madman {{Cite web |url=http://www.britishcomedy.org.uk/kwas/madman.html |title=Diary of a Madman – Kenneth Williams Appreciation Society – British Comedy and Drama Website |access-date=12 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130905212905/http://www.britishcomedy.org.uk/kwas/madman.html |archive-date=5 September 2013 |url-status=dead }}[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/26/letters-richard-williams-obituary Richard Williams Obituary – Ned Chaillet, The Guardian, 26 Aug 2019] | Gogol, adapted by {{sortname|James|Burke|nolink=y}}, re-mixed for radio by John Whitehall | Kenneth Williams and Richard Williams | Kenneth Williams, directed by the animator Richard Williams, performs triumphantly in the 1963 soundtrack of an uncompleted film of Nikolai Gogol's demented masterpiece. |- id="When We Dead Awaken" | {{dts|format=dmy|1991-4-28}} | {{sortname|Henrik|Ibsen}} translated and adapted by {{sortname|Robert|Ferguson|dab=author}} | Paul Scofield, Cheryl Campbell, Imogen Stubbs, Jon Strickland, Terence Edmond, Joanna Myers, Alan Barker, Joanna Myers and Danielle Allan | In Henrik Ibsen's last play, a celebrated sculptor returns to Norway with his young wife and confronts Irene, the tormented model of his masterpiece. |- id="The Ashes" | {{dts|format=dmy|1991-7-3}} | {{sortname|The|Ashes}} | {{sortname|Sue|Townsend}} | Ronald Herdman, Stephen Tompkinson, Fraser Kerr, David Sinclair, Joanna Myers, Karen Archer, Robin Weaver, Brian Johnston and Peter Barker | The captain of the England team is going to be a father, but Louise is not his wife... |- id="Japan Season – The Romance of the Road" | {{dts|format=dmy|1991-10-5}} | Japan Season – {{sortname|The|Romance of the Road|nolink=y}} | | Alan Booth, famous for a 2,000-mile walk through Japan, talks about a new walk he took with a reluctant companion. |- id="Japan Season – Yabuhara, the Blind Master Minstrel" | {{dts|format=dmy|1991-10-13}} | Japan Season – Yabuhara, the Blind Master Minstrel | Inoue Hisashi translated and adapted by {{sortname|Marguerite|Wells}} | John Woodvine, Roger Allam, Mia Soteriou, David Bannerman, Ronald Herdman, Sirol Jenkins, Charles Millham, Joanna Myers, Margaret Shade, Susan Sheridan, Auriol Smith and Andrew Wincott | Hisashi Inoue's bawdy comedy charts the rise of a blind minstrel to the top ranks of Japanese society through murder, theft and extortion |- id="Japan Season – Kyōgenii" | {{dts|format=dmy|1991-10-14}} | Japan Season – Kyōgenii, The Monkey-Skin Quiver BBC data credits "Producer: E. Chaillet"; however Ned says "I didn't direct the Kyōgen. In fact, I curated the whole drama side of the Japan Season, but only Yabuhara, Performing Rites, Alan Booth, were mine." | Utsubozaru translated by {{sortname|Don|Kenny}} | Andrew Wincott, Joanna Myers, Alan Barker and Matthew Sim | Second of three short comedies taken from the traditional Japanese theatre. |- id="Japan Season – Performing Rites" | {{dts|format=dmy|1991-10-18}} | Japan Season – Performing Rites | | Dr Brian Powell | Dr Brian Powell of Keble College Oxford examines the development of the modern Japanese theatre, talking to its leading dramatists, directors, critics and performers. |- id="The Little Walls" | {{dts|format=dmy|1991-11-2}} | {{sortname|The|Little Walls}} | {{sortname|Winston|Graham}}, dramatised by {{sortname|Juliet|Ace}} | Alex Jennings, Roger Lloyd Pack, Kate Bufferey, Vivian Pickles, Norman Jones, Helen Cooper, Terence Edmond, Timothy Morand, Eric Allen, Ronald Herdman, Siriol Jenkins, Cassie MacFarlane, Neil Roberts, David Sinclair, Matthew Sim and Auriol Smith | Winston Graham's novel was the first winner of the Crime Writers' Association Crossed Red Herring award for best crime novel of the year. Philip has returned to Europe from America after his brother appears to commit suicide in Amsterdam. His search for the truth takes him from England to the Netherlands and Italy. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Design for Living" | {{dts|format=dmy|1991-12-22}} | {{sortname|Noël|Coward}} | Cheryl Campbell, Alex Jennings, Michael Kitchen, Joanna Myers, James Laurenson, Alan Barker, Bradley Lavelle and Linda Marlowe | Three terminally stylish friends who share rivalrous affections attempt to uncoil their twisted love triangle in this sexy and scandalous gem. |- id="The Wench is Dead" | {{dts|format=dmy|1992-3-23}} | {{sortname|The|Wench is Dead|The Wench is Dead#Television and radio adaptations}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007lmbz BBC – Inspector Morse – The Wench is Dead] | {{sortname|Colin|Dexter}} dramatised by {{sortname|Guy|Meredith}} | John Shrapnel, Robert Glenister, Garard Green, Joanna Myers, Peter Penry-Jones and Kate Binchy | After he's rushed into hospital, Inspector Morse becomes intrigued by an old crime. |- id="Introducing Fagan" | {{dts|format=dmy|1992-5-27}} | Introducing Fagan | {{sortname|Maurice|Leitch}} | T. P. McKenna and Anita Dobson | A dark, claustrophobic play. |- id="Who Killed Palomino Molero?" | {{dts|format=dmy|1992-6-8}} | {{sortname|Mario|Vargas Llosa}} | Charles Simpson, Ray Fearon, Steve Hodson, Melanie Hudson, Jonathon Taffler, Linda Marlowe, Madelaine Kemms, Jo Kendall, John Bull, Gordon Reid, Nicholas Murchie, Jonathon Addams, John Church and Mia Soteriou | 1954. Peru. Northern desert. Military base. A recruit is found murdered. The resulting investigation is flawed by indifference and the commanding officer's stonewall. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Dictator Gal" | {{dts|format=dmy|1992-6-23}} | Dictator Gal | {{sortname|David Zane|Mairowitz}} | Josette Simon and Joe Melia | A musical satire |- id="The Facts Speak for Themselves" | {{dts|format=dmy|1992-11-7}} | {{sortname|The|Facts Speak for Themselves|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Mark|Leech|nolink=y}} | Larry Dann, Meg Davies, Struan Rodger, Steve Hodson, Kate Binchey, Mathew Morgan, Keith Drinkel, Eric Allan, Phillip Anthony, Nicholas Murchie, Melanie Hudson, John Webb and Jonathon Taffler | What at first seems to be an open-and-shut case turns out not to be so straightforward. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="McSorley's Wonderful Saloon" | {{dts|format=dmy|1992-11-30}} – {{dts|format=dmy|1992-12-9}} | McSorley's Wonderful Saloon [http://www.patrickcarroll.co.uk/?p=111 The Ghost of New York City, Patrick Carroll, 24 June 2011] | {{sortname|Joseph|Mitchell|dab=writer}} abridged by {{sortname|Patrick|Carroll|dab=writer}} | Read by Eli Wallach | Eli Wallach reads eight stories from Joseph Mitchell's classic collection of tales from the New Yorker, beginning with the first part of a celebrated portrait of New York's oldest saloon, McSorley's. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Right Result" | {{dts|format=dmy|1993-7-17}} | {{sortname|The|Right Result|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Peter R.|Simpkin}} | Malcolm Rennie, Brian Croucher, Adé Sapara, Paul Shane, Michael Melia, Mona Hammond, Ray Lonnen, Oscar James, Malcolm Kaye, Don Gilét, Michael Onslow, Vivienne Rochester, Andrew Wincott, Gary Lawrence, Steve Hodson, James Telfer, John Evitt, John Fleming and John Webb | When a black youth dies in a violent incident on the London Underground, the subsequent investigation uncovers a pervasive racism that appears to reach to the top ranks of the police themselves. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Lake" | {{dts|format=dmy|1993-10-18}} | {{sortname|The|Lake|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Ellen|Dryden}} | James Aubrey, Karen Archer, Pauline Yates, Frances Jeater, Barry Woolgar, Teresa Gallagher, David Thorpe, Nicholas Boulton, Steve Hodson, Isabelle Hewitt, John Prendergast and Hayley Thomas | Childhood memories draw Ben Wheeler back to a lake, but when a child disappears his obsession provokes suspicion. |- id="Waiting For Lefty" | {{dts|format=dmy|1994-3-11}} | Waiting for Lefty [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/radio--workers-of-the-world-robert-hanks-on-nigel-bryants-hardnosed-adaptation-of-oliver-twist-and-clifford-odets-stilted-waiting-for-lefty-1429238.html Clifford Odets' stilted Waiting For Lefty, Robert Hanks, The Independent, 15 March 1994] | {{sortname|Clifford|Odets}} | Ed Bishop, William Hootkins, Bob Sherman, Bradley Lavelle, Teresa Gallagher, Malcolm Ward, Paul Panting, Melanie Hudson, Jonathon Tafler and Michael Fitzpatrick | Series of related vignettes, framed by the meeting of cab drivers who are planning a strike |- id="Tipperary Smith" | {{dts|format=dmy|1994-3-24}} | {{sortname|Paul|Copley}} | Natasha Pyne and Barbara Durkin | The adventures of a Bradford woman in the Far East. |- id="Shakespeare's Sonnets" | {{dts|format=dmy|1994-4-9}} – {{dts|format=dmy|1994-4-15}} | Shakespeare's sonnets [http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/AV67266 British Universities Film & Video Council – Shakespeare's Sonnets] | | Six programmes, broadcast daily, in which Simon Callow explores the hidden meaning of the Sonnets by following a radical reordering by John Padel. Believing that the W.H. is William Herbert, it suggests that the poems were initially commissioned to convince W.H. to marry. The later passions and anguish of the poems then reveal the Poet. |- id="Last Seen Wearing" | {{dts|format=dmy|1994-5-28}} | Last Seen Wearing [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k4jl BBC – Inspector Morse – Last Seen Wearing] | {{sortname|Colin|Dexter}} dramatised by {{sortname|Guy|Meredith}} | John Shrapnel, Robert Glenister, Miles Anderson, Melinda Walker, Donald Sumpter, Frances Jeater, Terence Edmond, Tamsin Greig, John Hartley and Emily Woof | Colin Dexter's grumpy detective Inspector Morse is reluctant to take over an old missing person case from a dead colleague, but murder is Morse's speciality and the case soon has complications. |- id="Inugami, The Dog God" | {{dts|format=dmy|1994-6-12}} | Inugami, The Dog God | {{sortname|Shūji|Terayama}} translated by {{sortname|Carol Fischer|Sorgenfrei}} | Pauline Letts, Susan Sheridan, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Auriol Smith, Ann Windsor, Charles Milham, David Banerman, James Taylor, Joanna Myers, Siriol Jenkins, Margaret John and Rachel Atkins | In a remote village in Japan, a woman is attacked by a dog. Nine months later she gives birth to a son, Tsukio, and the village treats him with apprehension. A powerful mythic drama by one of the 20th century's most important Japanese writers, Shūji Terayama. |- id="Virtual Radio" | {{dts|format=dmy|1994-8-2}} | Virtual Radio | {{sortname|Andrew|Dallmeyer}} | Stephen Tompkinson, Jennie Stoller, Buffy Davis, Larry Dann and Anthony Jackson | Virtual reality is so seductive to Bob that his entire life becomes devoted to escape into his machinery – but where will it take him when the bailiffs come? | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Friday's Child" | {{dts|format=dmy|1995-1-28}} | Friday's Child [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jq09 BBC – Georgette Heyer – Friday's Child] | {{sortname|Georgette|Heyer}} | Mary Wimbush, Eva Stuart, Susan Sheridan, David Bannerman, Tessa Worsley, Nicholas Boulton, Simon Russell Beale, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Ian Hughes, Jilly Bond, Paul Panting, Cathy Sara, Peter Kenny, David Antrobus, Annabel Mullion, James Frain and Elli Garnett | Viscount Sheringham is fast spending his money, and cannot inherit until he marries. Will his choice of bride bring happiness to them both? | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Green and Pleasant Land" | {{dts|format=dmy|1995-4-23}} | Green and Pleasant Land | {{sortname|Jeremy|Nicholas|dab=writer}} | Written and presented by Jeremy Nicholas | Sony Gold Award for Best Feature Programme 1996 | BBC Radio 2 |- id="Silver's City" | {{dts|format=dmy|1995-4-24}} | Silver's City [http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9559c376797a4a49b30183f433d08e10 Monday Play Silver's City], Radio Times | {{sortname|Maurice|Leitch}} | Brian Cox, Freddie Boardley, James Nesbitt, Clare Cathcart, John Rogan, Sean Caffrey, Michael McKnight, Ethna Roddy, Valerie Lilley, Catherine White, Conleth Hill, Toby E. Byrne, Robert Patterson, Joshua Towb, and James Greene |Brian Cox stars as 'Silver' Steele in Maurice Leitch's play based on his Whitbread Prize-winning novel. Freed from imprisonment for terrorism by a Loyalist raid on his hospital room, Silver finds that his ideals have made him a dangerous anachronism in a changing Northern Ireland. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Telephone in the Deep Freeze" | {{dts|format=dmy|1995-5-13}} | Telephone in the Deep Freeze | {{sortname|Janet|Plater}} | Barbara Durkin, Polly James, Oliver Cotton, Eric Allan, Sandra Voe, Hazel Holder, Colin Pinney, Donald Sumpter, George Parsons, Lyndam Gregory and Gary Lawrence | "Only people like us, who have lived with an alcoholic, can understand the mental agony that goes with it. We're co-alcoholics." Janet Plater's deeply moving play follows the fortunes of members of a support group for "co-alcoholics". |- id="The Sound of Silents" | {{dts|format=dmy|1995-5-28}} | {{sortname|The|Sound of Silents|nolink=y}} [http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2e39013bb651435b8b718a11d646b867 Radio Two Arts Programme], Radio Times | {{sortname|Neil|Brand}} | Contributors: Carl Davis, David Robinson, Kevin Brownlow Lisa Hull | In cinema's centenary year, Neil Brand - composer and accompanist to silent films at the National Film Theatre - explores the great years before the coming of sound. Also including a 'silent film for radio' written and read by Miles Kington to the piano accompaniment of Neil Brand. | BBC Radio 2 |- id="Biography Races" | {{dts|format=dmy|1995-9-3}} | Biography Races | | Presented by John Walsh, Literary Editor of The Independent. | | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Begin at the Beginning" | {{dts|format=dmy|1995-9-10}} | Begin at the Beginning | | Presented by John Walsh, Literary Editor of The Independent. | Children's storytelling has become a global industry where books sell upwards of 30 million copies. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Literature of Rock 'n' Roll" | {{dts|format=dmy|1995-9-17}} | {{sortname|The|Literature of Rock 'n' Roll|nolink=y}} | | Presented by John Walsh, Literary Editor of The Independent. With Nik Cohn, Lucy O'Brien and Jon Savage. | Are books about rock the new rock'n'roll? | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Burglar" | {{dts|format=dmy|1995-9-25}} | {{sortname|The|Burglar|nolink=y}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k4xz BBC – Inspector Morse – The Burglar] | {{sortname|Colin|Dexter}} | Read by John Turner | Neighbourly concern about a suspicious stranger sets a new puzzle for Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis in a story specially written for the Nottingham Boucheron. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Death of an Ugly Sister" | {{dts|format=dmy|1995-12-30}} | Death of an Ugly Sister | {{sortname|John|Peacock|dab=dramatist}} | Roy Barraclough, Paul Shane, Linda Regan, John Alstead, Tina Grey, Jilly Mears, Gordon Reid, Annabel Mullion, Christopher Sidon, Oliver Senton, David Lerner, Crawford Logan, Peter Yapp, Michael Tudor Barnes. Becky Hindley, Sandra Bowe and James Beatty | A very dark comedy of pantomime, serial murder, crack addiction and secret gay sex....... | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Proust Screenplay" | {{dts|format=dmy|1995-12-31}} | {{sortname|The|Proust Screenplay|Remembrance of Things Past (play)#The Proust Screenplay}} [https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/giving-proust-the-pinter-treatment-1262063.html Giving Proust the Pinter treatment, Robert Hanks, The Independent, 17 May 1997] | {{sortname|Harold|Pinter}} adapted for radio by {{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} | Douglas Hodge, John Wood, Emma Fielding and Harold Pinter | Harold Pinter's film script of Marcel Proust's novel À la recherche du temps perdu has never been produced for the screen, but in this radio adaptation Harold Pinter himself guides us through the story, speaking the 'big print' of the script as it sets each scene and describes establishing shots, closeups, long shots, scenes without dialogue ... all in the immediately recognisable language of film. | BBC Radio 3 |- id="The American Wife" | {{dts|format=dmy|1996-1-25}} | {{sortname|The|American Wife|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Richard|Nelson|dab=playwright}} | Melinda Walker, Zoë Wanamaker, Anton Lesser, Emily Richard, Oona Beeson, Oliver Cotton, John Sharian and Alan Marriott | | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn" | {{dts|format=dmy|1996-2-10}} | {{sortname|The|Silent World of Nicholas Quinn|The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn#Radio play}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k4rk BBC – Inspector Morse – The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn] | {{sortname|Colin|Dexter}} dramatised by {{sortname|Guy|Meredith}} | John Shrapnel, Robert Glenister, Richard Pasco, Meg Davies, Stephen Critchlow, David Timson, John Hartley, Lyndam Gregory and Roger May | Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse faces a puzzling trip into the world of deaf people with the murder of an invigilator in a foreign exam syndicate. |- id="Heartache" | {{dts|format=dmy|1996-2-15}} | Heartache | {{sortname|Mel|Calman}}, text completed by {{sortname|Deborah|Moggach}}. | Richard Griffiths, David Timson, Jim Broadbent, Tracy Wiles, Lee Montague, David de Keyser and Meg Davies | Cartoonist Mel Calman, who died two years previously, left a final play for radio in which all of a man's body parts rise up to resist his heart attack. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Chips Are Down" | {{dts|format=dmy|1996-2-22}} | {{sortname|The|Chips Are Down|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Israel|Horovitz}} | Alice Arnold, Jane Whittenshaw, Ann Beach, Nicky Henson, Bob Sherman, Zulema Dene, Frances Tomelty and Israel Horovitz | A comedy of anxiety in New York City. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Everybody Comes to Schicklgruber's" | {{dts|format=dmy|1996-7-8}} | Everybody Comes to Schicklgruber's | {{sortname|Marcy|Kahan}} | Clive Swift, David Kossoff, Jane Whittenshaw, Keith Drinkel, Kerry Shale, Alice Arnold, Ann Beach, Bruce Purchase, Cyril Shaps, Kim Wall, Kristin Millward, Lee Montague, Steven Crossley, Timothy Bateson and Wolfe Morris | The war's been over for fifty years. Then Edward Schicklgruber, Adolf's cake cook brother, turns up in Vienna, just where he's been all along, doing what he does best. |- id="American Faith" | {{dts|format=dmy|1996-9-30}} | American Faith | {{sortname|Mike|Walker|dab=radio dramatist}} | Alan Marriott, Colin Stinton, William Roberts, William Dufris, John Sharian, Kate Harper, Ed Bishop, Garrick Hagon, Bob Sherman, Tara Hugo, Morgan Deare, Steven Crossley, Norman Chancer and William Hootkins | Richard Milhous Nixon's road to Watergate. |- id="The Voluptuous Tango" | {{dts|format=dmy|1996-11-18}} (Recorded on 21 April 1996) | {{sortname|The|Voluptuous Tango|nolink=y}} | {{hs|Mairowitz, David Zane}}Text: David Zane Mairowitz | Maria Friedman and Alan Belk | In Dominic Muldowney's score an erotically charged collision between two of the cultural stars of the 20th century makes for operatic radio. Isadora Duncan and F. T. Marinetti vie for carnal domination over a futurist meal... | BBC Radio 3 |- id="By Jeeves" | {{dts|format=dmy|1996-12-14}} | By Jeeves [http://jeeves.alanayckbourn.net/J_Timeline.htm A Timeline For Jeeves & By Jeeves, Alan Ayckbourn]{{Cite web |url=http://jeeves.alanayckbourn.net/J_media.htm |title=By Jeeves: The Songs – BBC Radio Adaptation, Alan Ayckbourn |access-date=22 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217062755/http://jeeves.alanayckbourn.net/J_media.htm |archive-date=17 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}[http://jeeves.alanayckbourn.net/J_BJsongs.htm By Jeeves – Radio (1996), Alan Ayckbourn][http://castalbums.org/recordings/By-Jeeves-1996-BBC-Radio-2-Cast/24126 CastAlbums » By Jeeves » BBC Radio 2 Cast] | {{sortname|P. G.|Wodehouse}} | Steven Pacey, Malcolm Sinclair, Robert Austin, Diana Morrison, Simon Day, Nicholas Haverson, Lucy Tregear, Cathy Sara, Nicolas Collicos, Richard Long, Denise Silvey, Giles Taylor and Mike Windsor | Recorded with an audience at the BBC Radio Theatre, with the West End cast playing to piano accompaniment with the West End recording of the songs mixed in later. |- id="The Westward Journey" | {{dts|format=dmy|1997-7-12}} | {{sortname|The|Westward Journey|nolink=y}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jzmq BBC – The Westward Journey] | {{sortname|Ellen|Dryden}} | Carolyn Jones and Marcia Warren | "We are now beyond the Missouri River. We have left the States behind. Ahead of us lie the great uncivilised plains." On the wagon trains of the perilous migration across America to Oregon and California, the strength of women was tested against the ambition and pride of their men. |- id="Love Story" | {{dts|format=dmy|1997-8-30}} | Love Story [https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/why-doesnt-chopping-onions-make-stephen-bayley-cry-1248193.html Love Story review, Sue Gaisford, The Independent, 31 August 1997] | {{sortname|Erich|Segal}} dramatised by {{sortname|Juliet|Ace}} | Ingri Damon, Mark Leake, Patrick Allen, Sheila Allen, John Guerrasio, David Brooks, William Dufris, Gerrard McDermott, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Christopher Wright Harpsichord: David Roblou | "What do you say about a twenty-five-year old girl who died? That she was brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me." The most potent romantic novel of the 1970s in a new dramatic version by Juliet Ace. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="As You Like It" | {{dts|format=dmy|1997-9-1}} | As You Like It [http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/AV67207 British Universities Film & Video Council – As You Like It] | {{sortname|William|Shakespeare}} adapted by {{sortname|Ned|Chaillet|nolink=y}} | Imogen Stubbs, Toby Stephens and Ronald Pickup | Shakespeare's comedy of true love, misplaced love, gender confusion and reconciliation. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Goodbye Kiss" | {{dts|format=dmy|1997-10-23}} | Goodbye Kiss | {{sortname|Ronald|Harwood}} | Tom Courtenay and Peggy Phango | For Master Donny, a return to the South Africa he left as a youth offers a fragile hope of reconciliation. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Bell, Book and Candle" | {{dts|format=dmy|1997-12-20}} | {{sortname|John|Van Druten}} adapted by {{sortname|Ned|Chaillet|nolink=y}} | Beatie Edney, Stephen Moore, Ann Beach and Nicholas Boulton | Bewitched and bewildered, Anthony Henderson wanders into the Christmas cauldron of a Knightsbridge witches' coven just when Gillian Holroyd decides that she wants a new man in her life. |- id="Fighting over Beverley" | {{dts|format=dmy|1997-12-29}} | Fighting over Beverley | {{sortname|Israel|Horovitz}} | Rosemary Harris, Ian Carmichael, Elizabeth McGovern and Israel Horovitz | A Yorkshireman belatedly flies to America to reclaim the war bride taken from him by an American war hero 45 years earlier. |- id="Last Man Out" | {{dts|format=dmy|1998-1-6}} | Last Man Out | {{sortname|Steve|May|nolink=y}} | Louise Lombard and Donald Sumpter | At the end of a night of jazz, only the drummer and the bar manager remain, packing up and picking over the ruins of their lives. |- id="Phone Tag" | {{dts|format=dmy|1998-2-3}} | Phone Tag [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jwb2 BBC – Phone Tag] | {{sortname|Israel|Horovitz}} | John Guerassio, Elizabeth Mansfield and Doreen Mantle | A transatlantic love affair is played out on the telephone as calls are missed, messages are left and confusion reigns. |- id="Old Times" | {{dts|format=dmy|1998-3-16}} | {{sortname|Harold|Pinter}} | Julia Ormond, Michael Pennington, Cheryl Campbell and Harold Pinter | A darkly erotic drama. In an isolated country house, the past is about to come calling. |- id="Summer with Monika" | {{dts|format=dmy|1998-4-6}} | Summer with Monika [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00bws4x BBC – Roger McGough – Summer with Monika] | {{sortname|Roger|McGough}} | Mark McGann and Katy Carmichael | Roger McGough's dramatisation of his magical poem of love in the 1960s. |- id="The Monkey Bin" | {{dts|format=dmy|1998-4-16}} | {{sortname|The|Monkey Bin|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Bob|Sherman|dab=actor}} | William Hootkins, Stefan Dennis and James Laurenson | British actors and would-be Mel Gibsons have flocked to Los Angeles for the 'pilot season', and Billy Bob's apartment house is the venue for high ambition and low plots. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Captain's Wife" | {{dts|format=dmy|1998-5-8}} | {{sortname|The|Captain's Wife|nolink=y}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k17c BBC – Afternoon Play – The Captain's Wife] | {{sortname|Juliet|Ace}} | As the years pass, a navy spouse moves from craving conformity to rebellion. |- id="Stations of the Cross" | {{dts|format=dmy|1998-6-15}} | Stations of the Cross | {{sortname|Israel|Horovitz}} | Israel Horovitz, Nicky Henson and Joanna Monro | David has returned from America, the land of his father, to make a farcical, poetic rail crossing of England to the home of his sister – and to an unforgettable funeral. |- id="Love, Pray, and Do the Dishes" | {{dts|format=dmy|1998-7-3}} | Love, Pray, and Do the Dishes | {{sortname|Robert|Smith|dab=playwright}} | Paul Bradley, Struan Rodger and Alice Arnold | A mobile phone ringing out in the middle of a Sunday service is the start of a media roller coaster ride for Father Andrew. Only his employer would ring him at work... |- id="Trust me, I'm a Policeman" | {{dts|format=dmy|1998-7-15}} – {{dts|format=dmy|1998-8-19}} | Trust me, I'm a Policeman | {{sortname|Robert|Smith|dab=playwright}} | John Woodvine, David Antrobus and Jan Winters | Detective Sergeant Matrix takes a reluctant work-experience youth on a stakeout and passes the time with highly unreliable tales of police work. |- id="Victorville" | {{dts|format=dmy|1998-8-14}} | {{sortname|Marcy|Kahan}} | Stanley Kamel, David Ogden Stiers and William Hootkins | In Los Angeles last month, three actors recreated a crucial hour in cinema history – when Orson Welles delivered his verdict on the screenplay for Citizen Kane. At stake is the credit for the film, being written by Herman J Mankiewicz and overseen by John Houseman. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Dish" | {{dts|format=dmy|1998-8-21}} | {{sortname|The|Dish|nolink=y}} [http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/90ee900ed14e412b9538680f817124ea BBC – The Friday Play – The Dish] | {{sortname|Paul|Hallam}} | Bette Bourne stars as China Dish, the role he played on stage to great critical acclaim. The intimate radio version provides an equally funny and chilling insight into the dying days of a Bournemouth bed-and-breakfast that has seen both joy and Aids. Music: Laka Daisical. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Father" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-2-7}} | {{sortname|The|Father|dab=Strindberg}} | {{sortname|August|Strindberg}} | Ronald Pickup, Cheryl Campbell, Eleanor Moriarty, Tom Mannion, Christopher Good, Eve Pearce, Ben Crowe and Paul Panting | A mother knows her own child, but the seed of paternal doubt can poison a father's mind. |- id="The Hairy Hand of Dartmoor" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-2-8}} | {{sortname|The|Hairy Hand of Dartmoor|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Michael|McStay}} | Struan Rodger, Emily Richard and Angela Pleasence | Alcohol, anger, infidelity and stories of Dartmoor witches and the "hairy hand" are the ingredients in a cocktail party that goes dangerously awry for Geoffrey. |- id="J Edgar Hoover: Red Scare" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-3-26}} | {{sortname|J Edgar|Hoover}}: Red Scare | {{sortname|Mike|Walker|dab=radio dramatist}} | William Hootkins, Bob Sherman, Kate Harper and Patrick Allen | The 24-year-old Hoover is charged with orchestrating America's first campaign against communism. |- id="J Edgar Hoover: Public Enemy" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-4-2}} | {{sortname|J Edgar|Hoover}}: Public Enemy | {{sortname|Mike|Walker|dab=radio dramatist}} | William Hootkins, Michael Neill, John Guerrasio, William Roberts, Mac MacDonald, Adam Sims and Dave Brooks | Hoover sheds his younger self and moves into the orbit of Walter Winchell, America's radio pundit, as they wage war against gangsters, creating and destroying heroes. |- id="J Edgar Hoover: They Call Him Bobby" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-4-9}} | {{sortname|J Edgar|Hoover}}: They Call Him Bobby | {{sortname|Mike|Walker|dab=radio dramatist}} | William Hootkins and John Sharian | A powerful duologue for US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover. It is set in the volatile years of the Kennedy administration, when the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. and the war against the American Mafia were high on the Kennedy agenda. |- id="J Edgar Hoover: Private and Confidential" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-4-16}} | {{sortname|J Edgar|Hoover}}: Private and Confidential | {{sortname|Mike|Walker|dab=radio dramatist}} | William Hootkins and David Soul | J. Edgar Hoover's life is reviewed by his lifelong companion and assistant director, Clyde Tolson. |- id="The Old Man and the Sea" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-6-11}} | {{sortname|The|Old Man and the Sea}} [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/aug/02/tvandradio The Old Man and the Sea, Harold Jackson, Radio Pick of the day, The Guardian, 2 August 2002] | {{sortname|Ernest|Hemingway}} | Rod Steiger, Ramon Estevez and David Allister | A dramatisation of the book which led to Hemingway's Nobel Prize for Literature. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Bent's Business: Talk's Cheap" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-10-7}} | Bent's Business: Talk's Cheap | {{sortname|Peter R.|Simpkin}} | James Faulkner, Amy Shindler and Brian Croucher | The glamour, and particularly the corruption, of the international art trade is Anthony Bent's business. |- id="Bent's Business: An Old Flame" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-10-14}} | Bent's Business: An Old Flame | {{sortname|Peter R.|Simpkin}} | James Faulkner, Amy Shindler and Brian Croucher | The glamour, and particularly the corruption, of the international art trade is Anthony Bent's business. |- id="On the Eve of the Millennium" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-10-29}} | On the Eve of the Millennium | {{sortname|Barrie|Keeffe}} | Warren Mitchell, Karl Johnson, Cathy Tyson and Ioan Meredith | In a comic and touching performance, Mitchell evokes the rich humanity of a father determined to pass on a hidden heritage to his son – when his bouts with Alzheimer's disease permit. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="1000 Years of Spoken English: Know What I Mean?" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-11-30}} | 1000 Years of Spoken English: Know What I Mean? | {{sortname|John|Mortimer}} | Patricia Hodge, Michael Kitchen and Sylvester Williams | A marriage between a barrister and a management consultant is under threat when a Caller comes to visit, but they have the armoury of their professional languages on their side. |- id="1000 Years of Spoken English: The Verger Queen" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-11-30}} | 1000 Years of Spoken English: The Verger Queen | {{sortname|Neil|Bartlett|dab=playwright}} | An ancient verger in a historic church is disturbed by a tour party who sparks him into memories of hundreds of years of the church, forgotten pleasure gardens, and the coded world of a once-secret sexual culture. |- id="Her Infinite Variety – Writing to Veronica" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-12-6}} | Her Infinite Variety – Writing to Veronica | {{sortname|Juliet|Ace}} | Five 15-minute plays inspired by Shakespeare's Women. Faced with parental disapproval of the boy of her choice, a young Juliet of today at least has the internet and agony aunt Veronica. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="A Shout in the Distance" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-12-7}} | {{sortname|A|Shout in the Distance|nolink =y}} [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/1999/1204/99120400245.html Radio Previews, Laura Kernan, The Irish Times, 4 December 1999 (Subscription required)] [http://www.irishtimes.com/search/index.html?rm=listresults&filter=dateasc&keywords=bunching&rows=10&start=1380 (Free index page)] | {{sortname|Maurice|Leitch}} | Andrew Scott, Sorcha Cusack, T. P. McKenna, James Greene, Gavin Muir, Gavin Stewart, Valerie Lilley and Elizabeth Bell | A comedy of Irish manners is the last thing young Winston expects when he is uprooted from Northern Ireland and transplanted to London. But there is more than rhyming slang that he must learn to understand. |- id="Her Infinite Variety – Diary of a Dutiful Daughter" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-12-8}} | Her Infinite Variety – Diary of a Dutiful Daughter | {{sortname|Juliet|Ace}} | Faced with a doddering dad and a nursing home she runs as a business, what can a modern Goneril do but offer him the box room? | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Her Infinite Variety – And All That Jazz" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-12-9}} | Her Infinite Variety – And All That Jazz | {{sortname|Juliet|Ace}} | Count Orso offers a modern Viola a spectacular twelfth night, with a wardrobe beyond most cross-dressers' dreams. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Her Infinite Variety – Dirty Linen" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-12-10}} | Her Infinite Variety – Dirty Linen | {{sortname|Juliet|Ace}} | Elizabeth Bell and Oliver Cotton | Everyone thought Rocky would tame the shrewish Cat, but 20 years of their tempestuous marriage is played out in a national newspaper. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Alphabox" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-12-14}} | Alphabox | {{sortname|Jeff|Noon}} | Conrad Nelson, Gemma Saunders, Beth Chalmers, Harry Myers, Christopher Kellem, Tom George and Rosie Cavillero | Alphabox is a mysterious and almost fairytale-like short story based on letters and their relationship to story-telling. In the book, a writer has his letters hand-delivered to him each day one by one, in a mysterious wooden box. |- id="The Deep End" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-12-27}} | {{sortname|The|Deep End|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Pete|Lawson}} | Michelle Holmes, Patrick Nielsen and Stephen Hogan | A magical underwater world awaits Leni – if her cry from the depths of the public swimming baths can be heard. |- id="Design for Murder" | {{dts|format=dmy|2000-1-8}} | Design for Murder | {{sortname|Marcy|Kahan}} | Malcolm Sinclair, Eleanor Bron, Kristin Milward, Tam Williams, Nicholas Boulton, Gemma Saunders, Joe Dunlop and Don McCorkingdale | Actor, playwright, songwriter, director and star, Noël Coward never quite added sleuth to his astonishing achievements. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Father! Father! Burning Bright" | {{dts|format=dmy|2000-3-6}} – {{dts|format=dmy|2000-3-10}} | Father! Father! Burning Bright | {{sortname|Alan|Bennett}} | Read by Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett reads his comic story in five parts. |- id="Joe Gould's Secret" | {{dts|format=dmy|2000-3-13}} – {{dts|format=dmy|2000-3-17}} | {{sortname|Joseph|Mitchell|dab=writer}} abridged by {{sortname|Patrick|Carroll|dab=writer}} | Read by Eli Wallach | A classic literary mystery by New Yorker journalist Joseph Mitchell, describing his true-life encounter with a Greenwich Village bohemian in the 1940s who claims to have written a great American book. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Lost Journals of Marina Tsvetayeva" | {{dts|format=dmy|2000-3-14}} | {{sortname|The|Lost Journals of|nolink=y}} Marina Tsvetayeva | {{sortname|Alan|Pascoe|nolink=y}} | Based on the life of the Russian poet Marina Tsvetayeva, who went into exile after the Revolution. |- id="Jagged Prayer" | {{dts|format=dmy|2000-3-17}} – {{dts|format=dmy|2000-4-7}} | Jagged Prayer | {{sortname|Robert|Smith|dab=playwright}} | Cheryl Campbell and Timothy Spall | Comedy drama combining crime, convents, police and perdition. |- id="Zero Tolerance" | {{dts|format=dmy|2000-5-16}} | Zero Tolerance | {{sortname|Lloyd|Evans|nolink=y}} | Nicky Henson, Ronald Pickup and Tom George | With trade advantages, increased tax revenue, and a handy mathematical superiority over the Pope's insistence on Roman numerals, should the doge of Venice declare war on the Vatican, particularly considering the doge's interest in his mathematician's wife? |- id="Small Parts" | {{dts|format=dmy|2000-8-21}} | Small Parts [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k18n BBC – Afternoon Play – Small Parts] | {{sortname|Juliet|Ace}} | Seduced by the theatre, Mattie Potter joins a repertory company in Wales where she finds that the quick-change artistry of bit parts is a kind of preparation for life. |- id="Three Chickens" | {{dts|format=dmy|2000-10-3}} | Three Chickens | {{sortname|William|Stanton|William Graham Stanton}} | Anton Lesser, Valerie Braddell and Suzanna Hamilton | On a magic island in Brazil, the Englishman William Marlow is seduced by tales of witchcraft. |- id="A Slight Ache" | {{dts|format=dmy|2000-10-13}} | {{sortname|A|Slight Ache}} | {{sortname|Harold|Pinter}} | Harold Pinter and Jill Johnson | A husband and wife encounter a strange, mute matchseller. They each see something different in him. |- id="Dr. Ibsen's Ghosts" | {{dts|format=dmy|2000-11-26}} | Dr. Ibsen's Ghosts | {{sortname|Robert|Ferguson|dab=playwright}} | Paul Scofield, Morag Hood, Edna Doré and Michael N. Harbour | The story of the illegitimate son and the forgotten mother of the great Norwegian poet and playwright Henrik Ibsen. |- id="Into the Ether" | {{dts|format=dmy|2000-12-4}} | Into the Ether | {{sortname|Andrew|Dallmeyer}} | John Sharian and Holley Chant | At the height of the Cold War, American and Russian scientists lined up their psychics and telepaths in the service of the military. |- id="Man in Snow" | {{dts|format=dmy|2000-12-19}} | Man in Snow [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jx59 BBC – Afternoon Play – Man in Snow] | {{sortname|Israel|Horovitz}} | Israel Horovitz, Marcia Warren, Dick Vosburgh and Burt Kwouk | As a climber escorts a group of honeymooners up Alaska's highest mountain he recalls his relationship with his dead son. |- id="The Tunnel Under the World" | {{dts|format=dmy|2000-12-22}} | {{sortname|The|Tunnel Under the World|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Frederik|Pohl}} | William Hope, Bob Sherman, Laurel Lefkow and Beth Chalmers | Guy wakes each morning from the same terrifying dream, but each day it is soothed away by special offers and an abundance of consumer goods. |- id="The Man Who Came to Dinner" | {{dts|format=dmy|2000-12-25}} | {{sortname|The|Man Who Came to Dinner}} | {{sortname|Moss|Hart}} and {{sortname|George S.|Kaufman}} | Simon Callow, Elizabeth McGovern, Conleth Hill, Cheryl Campbell and John Sessions | A broken leg turns a visiting celebrity into a tyrannical house guest who mercilessly abuses a family's hospitality, in this classic 30s comedy. |- id="The Polish Soldier" | {{dts|format=dmy|2001-1-24}} | {{sortname|The|Polish Soldier}} | {{sortname|Gregory|Evans|dab=dramatist}} | Jeremy Northam, Teresa Gallagher, Jillie Mears and Tom George | James, a man haunted by the disturbing image of a figure in an old-fashioned military uniform, is struggling to break the walls he has built around himself, but he must confront the pain and mystery of what happened in his childhood. |- id="Feng Shui and Me" | {{dts|format=dmy|2001-2-10}} | Feng Shui and Me | {{sortname|Barrie|Keeffe}} | Phillip Joseph, Janet Maw, Jimmy Yuill and Gordon Reid | Chanting seems to help, but not even a Buddhist romance can quite quell Mick's craving for alcohol. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="I'll be George" | {{dts|format=dmy|2001-5-18}} | I'll be George | {{sortname|Snoo|Wilson}} | Jane Lapotaire, Simon Callow, Federay Holmes, Jennie Stoller, Jasmine Hyde, Jonathan Keeble and Gordon Reid | George Sand was one of literature's freest spirits, and when she is evoked in present-day Paris by an Australian tour guide the result is a bawdy fantasia of mother and daughter relationships. With an incarnated Charles Dickens, the 19th century and 21st century collide in a turbulent and gritty morality tale. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="A Dangerous Game" | {{dts|format=dmy|2001-8-4}} | {{sortname|A|Dangerous Game|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Shirley|Cooklin}} | Suzanna Hamilton, Ray Lonnen, Roger May and Terence Edmond | When a paroled murderer kills after his release, all new paroles are frozen by the Home Office. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Marseilles Trilogy: Marius" | {{dts|format=dmy|2001-9-1}} | {{sortname|The|Marseilles Trilogy|nolink=y}}: Marius | {{sortname|Marcel|Pagnol}} | Richard Johnson, Simon Scardifield, Monica Dolan and Andrew Sachs | Marius, son of César, feels the pull of the sea, and is prepared to sacrifice his family and his love for beautiful Fanny to fulfil his dreams. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Marseilles Trilogy: Fanny" | {{dts|format=dmy|2001-9-8}} | {{sortname|The|Marseilles Trilogy|nolink=y}}: Fanny | {{sortname|Marcel|Pagnol}} | Monica Dolan, Richard Johnson, Andrew Sachs and Simon Scardifield | The story of a lovely young woman abandoned by César's son Marius, who is unaware she is pregnant. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Marseilles Trilogy: César" | {{dts|format=dmy|2001-9-15}} | {{sortname|The|Marseilles Trilogy|nolink=y}}: César | {{sortname|Marcel|Pagnol}} | Richard Johnson, Simon Scardifield, Monica Dolan, Andrew Sachs, Tam Williams, Steve Hodson, Stephen Thorne, Struan Rodger, Phillip Joseph and Sean Baker | Twenty years after the events of the first play, the sad comedy of lost love is touched by a rich comedy of death and disclosure. A mother's secrets send her son off in search of a father he never knew. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Free Gift" | {{dts|format=dmy|2001-9-17}} | Free Gift | {{sortname|Israel|Horovitz}} | Maureen Lipman, Sophie Okonedo and Daniel Anthony | An Englishwoman in New York finds the most wonderful free gift when a child was left on her doorstep, but she lives in fear that the gift might be taken away. |- id="Groupie" | {{dts|format=dmy|2001-11-23}} | Groupie | {{sortname|Arnold|Wesker}} | Barbara Windsor and Timothy West | Matty reads the memoirs of a well-known artist from the East End, and she writes to him. He is down on his luck, living as a recluse, and has no work. Eventually, they meet, a few illusions are shattered and things develop in a way they had not foreseen. |- id="The Gold Bug" | {{dts|format=dmy|2001-12-15}} | {{sortname|The|Gold Bug}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00grs8w BBC – The Saturday Play – The Gold Bug] | {{sortname|Edgar Allan|Poe}} | Clarke Peters, John Sharian, Rhashan Stone and William Hootkins | Set in 1838, this is Poe's story of piracy, slavery and a treasure hunt, with a critical overhaul to excise the 19th-century casual racism from this compelling tale of obsession. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Hecuba" | {{dts|format=dmy|2001-12-16}} | Hecuba | Euripides | Olympia Dukakis, Timothy West, Emma Fielding, Greg Hicks and Nicholas Woodeson | Greek tragedy |- id="It's a Wonderful Divorce" | {{dts|format=dmy|2001-12-17}} | It's a Wonderful Divorce | {{sortname|Anthony|Green|nolink=y}} | David Bamber and Sarah Paul | The love of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life could become grounds for divorce as the season of goodwill approaches. |- id="Damned If I Do" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-1-11}} | Damned If I Do | {{sortname|Dick|Vosburgh}}, {{sortname|Peter|Vincent|Peter Vincent (British writer)}}, {{sortname|Fran|Landesman}} and {{sortname|Simon|Wallace}} | | Mini-musical. New songs from songwriter Connie are laid out as a trap for her best friend Zoe. |- id="Who Goes There?" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-1-24}} | Who Goes There? [http://www.old-time.com/otrlogs2/chl.log.txt Chillers]Produced by Ned Chaillet, directed by Rachel Horan | {{sortname|John W.|Campbell}} | Liam Brennan, Ioan Meredith, Cyril Nri, Christopher Godwin, Harry Myers and Colin Adrian | Six men are trapped by a vicious snowstorm in an Antarctic research station. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Swan Song" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-1-28}} | {{sortname|Agatha|Christie}} | Maria Friedman, Emily Woof, Sylvester Morand and Ray Lonnen | As if from nowhere, a soprano has emerged to become the Tosca of our day – but like Tosca she carries in her heart a terrible need for revenge. |- id="I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-1-31}} | I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream | {{sortname|Harlan|Ellison}} | David Soul, Harlan Ellison, Abi Eniola, Ewan Bailey, David Timson and Jason O'Mara | After a computer wins mankind's last war, there is a final battle still to come, between it and the five surviving humans. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Magnolia Blossom" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-2-4}} | Magnolia Blossom [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jzckt BBC – Agatha Christie – Magnolia Blossom] | {{sortname|Agatha|Christie}} | Emilia Fox, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Alex Jennings and Ewan Bailey | A woman's place is definitely not in the luxury home created for her by her financier husband. But in times of trouble a woman's loyalty can challenge the presumption of men – and infidelity can be a small crime compared to others. |- id="Delta Sly Honey" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-2-7}} | {{sortname|Lucius|Shepard}} | Corey Johnson, Robert Petkoff, Sam Douglas and Ben Onwukwe | A country boy exorcises his demons in Vietnam by making late-night broadcasts to phantom military units – until one of them answers his call. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Corona" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-2-14}} | {{sortname|Samuel R.|Delany}} | Josie Kook-Clarke, Walter Lewis, Doña Croll, John Moraitis, William Roberts and Bill Bailey | When a telepathic girl and a damaged young man are hospitalised, their two minds become entwined as the nightmares of his brutal past draw her in. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Titanic Inquiry – Part One" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-4-11}} | {{sortname|The|Titanic Inquiry – Part One|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Bob|Sherman|dab=actor}} | Kenneth Haigh, Nickolas Grace, Jill Johnson, John Sharian, Conrad Nelson, Ben Crowe, Barbara Barnes, Bob Sherman, Peter Marinker and Tom George | When the Titanic sank the owners of the White Star Line made every effort to return straight to England. An inquiry set up by the United States Senate held the surviving witnesses ashore in New York until questions could be answered. |- id="The Titanic Inquiry – Part Two" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-4-12}} | {{sortname|The|Titanic Inquiry – Part Two|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Bob|Sherman|dab=actor}} | Kenneth Haigh, John Sessions, John Sharian, Peter Marinker, Conrad Nelson, Ben Crowe, Tom George and Barbara Barnes | Testimony from the archives of the United States Senate investigation into the sinking of the Titanic moves on to an early confrontation with cheque book journalism in 1912. The inventor of the wireless, Guglielmo Marconi, takes the stand. |- id="In Extremis" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-4-18}} | In Extremis | {{sortname|Neil|Bartlett|dab=playwright}} | Sheila Hancock and Corin Redgrave | It is March 1895, and Oscar Wilde consults a palm reader to help him with a momentous decision. |- id="Meet Mr. Mulliner: Honeysuckle Cottage" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-4-29}} | Meet Mr. Mulliner: Honeysuckle Cottage | {{sortname|P. G.|Wodehouse}} | Richard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Peter Acre, Martin Hyder, David Timson and Tom George | An engaging new series that brings one of Wodehouse's most entertaining characters to radio begins with one of the best loved of the tales. Richard Griffiths stars as the storytelling Mr Mulliner whose narratives enlist the regular tipplers of the Angler's Rest as participants. One of the Mulliner clan writes tough detective stories, but when he inherits the cottage of another family author he finds it haunted by the spirit of all her cloying romantic fiction. Marital bliss seems inevitable. |- id="Meet Mr. Mulliner: A Slice of Life" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-5-6}} | Meet Mr. Mulliner: {{sortname|A|Slice of Life|dab=short story}} | {{sortname|P. G.|Wodehouse}} | Richard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Peter Acre, Martin Hyder, David Timson and Tom George | A gothic comedy of beauty preparations, thwarted love, a spooky old house, and a determined suitor. The regulars of the Angler's Rest parlour bar step into yet another of Mr Mulliner's quirky stories. |- id="Meet Mr. Mulliner: The Smile that Wins" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-5-13}} | Meet Mr. Mulliner: {{sortname|The|Smile that Wins}} | {{sortname|P. G.|Wodehouse}} | Richard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Peter Acre, Martin Hyder, David Timson and Carl Prekopp | In the bar parlour of the Angler's Rest, the regulars are drawn into another of Mr Mulliner's peculiar tales. When a dyspeptic detective member of the Mulliner family receives a doctor's prescription to smile, the frightening knowingness of his grin spreads terror throughout the titled classes. |- id="Meet Mr. Mulliner: Open House" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-5-20}} | Meet Mr. Mulliner: Open House | {{sortname|P. G.|Wodehouse}} | Richard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Peter Acre, Martin Hyder, David Timson and Marlene Sidaway | Never more Wodehousian than when faced with frightening aunts, terrifying ingenues and resourceful butlers, Mr Mulliner's tale today touches on a Mulliner whose callous dismissal of one young woman opens the door to vengeful neighbours, animal cruelty – and exile. |- id="Meet Mr. Mulliner: Came The Dawn" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-5-27}} | Meet Mr. Mulliner: Came The Dawn | {{sortname|P. G.|Wodehouse}} | Richard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Peter Acre, Martin Hyder, David Timson and Tom George | A transparent visage is the striking feature of Mr Mulliner's relative Lancelot in today's tale of indomitable love, poetry, parental obstruction and unexpected opportunities. Mr Mulliner stretches the credulity of his captive fellow tipplers in the Angler's Rest parlour bar, but as ever they are drawn into his story where the glitter of silent movies proves irresistible. |- id="Meet Mr. Mulliner: Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-6-3}} | Meet Mr. Mulliner: Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo | {{sortname|P. G.|Wodehouse}} | Richard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Peter Acre, Martin Hyder, David Timson, Carl Prekopp, Tom George and Sandra Clark | Pale young curates are rapidly going out of fashion. Augustine Mulliner, in particular, is transformed overnight into a tiger of a churchman when his aunt sends some of Uncle Wilfred's latest invention, a tonic called Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo. |- id="The Doctor's House" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-7-9}} | {{sortname|The|Doctor's House|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Alan|Drury|dab=British playwright}} | | A spectre is said to haunt a small Somerset village. Gerald's circumstances make him particularly vulnerable – but what is the real secret of the Doctor's House? |- id="Coriolanus" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-10-20}} | Coriolanus [http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/AV67353 British Universities Film & Video Council – Coriolanus] | {{sortname|William|Shakespeare}} adapted by {{sortname|Ned|Chaillet|nolink=y}} | Samuel West, Adrian Dunbar, Susannah York and Kenneth Haigh | Shakespeare's powerful Roman play The Tragedy of Coriolanus | BBC Radio 3 |- id="The Crucible in History" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-10-21}} – {{dts|format=dmy|2002-10-25}} | {{sortname|The|Crucible in History|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Arthur|Miller}} | Read by Arthur Miller | An account of the postwar anti-Communist paranoia which gripped America at the height of McCarthyism. |- id="Evaristo's Epitaph" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-11-25}} | Evaristo's Epitaph | {{sortname|Patrick|Carroll|dab=writer}}, based on a true story. | Jasmine Hyde, Geoffrey Hutchings, Seun Shote, Diana Berriman, Samantha Robinson and Ben Crowe | The inscription on a tombstone in a Cornish churchyard tells the tale of a remarkable friendship between a master and an African slave. Unravelling the historical mystery of the genuine epitaph, Patrick Carroll's play is an inspired and tender re-creation of a remarkable true story. |- id="My Life as Me" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-12-2}} – {{dts|format=dmy|2002-12-6}} | My Life as Me | {{sortname|Barry|Humphries}} | Read by Barry Humphries | Barry Humphries casts off his Dame Edna Everage mantle to read from his hilarious autobiography in his own voice. |- id="A Man's Head" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-12-3}} | {{sortname|A|Man's Head}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fwdll BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: A Man's Head] | {{sortname|Georges|Simenon}} | Nicholas Le Prevost, Julian Barnes, Ron Cook, Paul Birchard, Beth Chalmers, Philip Fox, Ifan Meredith, Tom George, Jane Whittenshaw and Ben Crowe | Maigret bends the rules to investigate a double murder in a Paris suburb. |- id="The Bar on the Seine" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-12-10}} | {{sortname|The|Bar on the Seine}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fz0g3 BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: The Bar On The Seine] | {{sortname|Georges|Simenon}} | Nicholas Le Prevost, Julian Barnes, Ron Cook, Timothy Watson, Sylvester Morand, Jonathan Tafler, Tracy Wiles, Rebecca Egan, Martin Hyder, Richard Firth, Scott Brooksbank, Emma Woolliams and Laura Doddington | Maigret puts his holiday on hold to tackle an unsolved murder. |- id="Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-12-15}} – {{dts|format=dmy|2002-12-29}} | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | {{sortname|Mark|Twain}} | Mark Caven, Christopher Jacot, Martin Roach, Kay Hawtrey and Sandy Webster | The classic tale following Huck and the runaway slave Jim on their journey down the Mississippi on a raft. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="My Friend Maigret" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-12-17}} | My Friend Maigret [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fz0y3 BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: My Friend Maigret] | {{sortname|Georges|Simenon}} | Nicholas Le Prevost, Julian Barnes, Neil Dudgeon, Jonathan Keeble, Jilly Bond, Maggie McCarthy, Bunny Reed, Ewan Bailey, Martin Hyder, Richard Firth, Emma Woolliams, Simon Donaldson and Carla Simpson | On the seductive island of Porquerolles, a man is murdered when he claims the friendship of Chief Inspector Maigret. With a Scotland Yard detective in tow, Maigret is sent from Paris to investigate the death, and finds a dangerous and tempting dissolution – and some old acquaintances. |- id="The Five of Us" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-12-20}} | {{sortname|The|Five of Us|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Barrie|Keeffe}} | Phil Davis, Nicholas Deal, Claire Rushbrook, Steven Diggory, Annabelle Apsion, Tony Rohr and Michael N. Harbour | Sex and drugs and rock and roll are the illusory dreams of Bruce in his mid-life crisis. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Madame Maigret's Own Case" | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-12-24}} | Madame Maigret's Own Case [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fyk3y BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: Madame Maigret's Own Case] | {{sortname|Georges|Simenon}} | Nicholas Le Prevost Julian Barnes, Ron Cook, Julie Legrand, Paul Sirr, Victoria Carling, Nicholas Boulton, Carl Prekopp and Martin Hyder | Maigret's wife finds herself entangled in a case of murder when two human teeth are found in a bookbinder's furnace. |- id="The Piano Player" | {{dts|format=dmy|2003-1-28}} | {{sortname|The|Piano Player|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|William|Bedford|nolink=y}} | Karl Johnson, Christopher Kelham, Kate Dudley, Philip Jackson, Paul Downing, Stephen Critchlow, Carolyn Backhouse and Martin Hyder | A pianist's marathon performance in a seaside town provides the evocative soundtrack for a tale of young love and first heartache. The music that conjures up a week in the 1950s still has the potency to bring back pain. |- id="In a Glass Darkly" | {{dts|format=dmy|2003-2-24}} | In a Glass Darkly [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jzwdq BBC – Agatha Christie – In a Glass Darkly] | {{sortname|Agatha|Christie}} | Neil Dudgeon and Rebecca Egan | In a mirror, a man witnesses a murderous attack on a young woman just before he meets the woman and falls in love with her. |- id="Righteous Brothers" | {{dts|format=dmy|2003-2-24}} | Righteous Brothers | {{sortname|Neil|Brand}} | John Woodvine, Clive Swift, Tom George, Ioan Meredith, David Timson, Peter Luke Kenny and Carolyn Jones | Harmony is the joyful noise that Brother Caradoc wishes to offer to the Lord. He dreams of taking his fellow monks to a higher musical plane with him. |- id="The Dressmaker's Doll" | {{dts|format=dmy|2003-3-10}} | {{sortname|The|Dressmaker's Doll|Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories#List of stories}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jzy3m BBC – Agatha Christie – The Dressmaker's Doll] | {{sortname|Agatha|Christie}} | Juliet Aubrey, Beth Chalmers, Stephen Critchlow, Gemma Saunders, Emma Woolliams and Connie Gurie | When a doll with a mind of its own comes into your life, it might be worth finding out what it wants. |- id="One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" | {{dts|format=dmy|2003-4-6}} | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d7pdc BBC – The Saturday Play – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich] | {{sortname|Aleksandr|Solzhenitsyn}} | Neil Dudgeon, Philip Jackson, Paul Chan, Jonathan Tafler, Ben Onwukwe, Bruce Purchase, Matthew Morgan, Marty Rea, Stephen Critchlow, Ben Crowe, Seun Shote and Peter Darney | When Solzhenitsyn's shattering picture of Stalin's prison camps became an international bestseller in 1962, it seemed to signal a thaw in the Cold War. But Solzhenitsyn was a prophet about to be dishonoured in his own land, and the uncensored version of the novel did not appear until 1991 – the year after Solzhenitsyn's citizenship was restored in Russia. Following the routine of a single day in the camps, the story is a dynamic demonstration of human resilience. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Swan-song for the Nightingale" | {{dts|format=dmy|2003-4-10}} | Swan-song for the Nightingale [http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1ac29690942f4259a667701dfbf70a9b BBC - Afternoon Play - Swan-song for the Nightingale] | {{sortname|Maurice|Leitch}} | Sorcha Cusack, Marty Rea, James Ellis, John Rogan, Stephen Hogan, James Greene and Norma Sheahan | The sound of country music rings alarm bells for young Kevin, when it means that his 'has-been alcoholic' mother hits the comeback trail in Ireland, and wants to take him along. |- id="Speaking Well of the Dead" | {{dts|format=dmy|2003-9-12}} | Speaking Well of the Dead | {{sortname|Israel|Horovitz}} | Jill Clayburgh, Lily Rabe and Israel Horovitz | Penelope speaks well of her husband, who was killed at the World Trade Center, and her daughter, Willa, wants to speak the truth. It would mean killing her father again. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Chicken Woman" | {{dts|format=dmy|2003-10-14}} | {{sortname|The|Chicken Woman|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Eryl|Maynard}} [http://www.erylmaynard.com/p/writing.html Eryl Maynard] | Eryl Maynard, Jean Heywood, Fine Time Fontayne and Matilda Ziegler | Chickens first come into the Chicken Woman's life while she and her husband strive for children. |- id="A Bullet at Balmain's" | {{dts|format=dmy|2003-11-8}} | {{sortname|A|Bullet at Balmain's|nolink=y}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t5jmj BBC – A Bullet at Balmain's] | {{sortname|Marcy|Kahan}} | Malcolm Sinclair, Eleanor Bron, Tam Williams, Linda Marlowe, Susy Kane, Jaimi Barbakof, William Hootkins and Frances Jeater | Noël Coward is in post-liberation Paris, 1948, to play the lead, in French, in his own play "Present Laughter". But the murder of a promiscuous mannequin provides him with a crime to solve |- id="Dead-Heading the Roses" | {{dts|format=dmy|2003-12-12}} | Dead-Heading the Roses [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076j6q BBC – Afternoon Play – Dead-Heading the Roses][https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/dec/12/tvandradio.radio Dead-Heading the Roses – Radio Pick of the Day – Phil Daoust, The Guardian, 12 December 2003][https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/dec/15/tvandradio.radio1 Dead-Heading the Roses review – Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 15 December 2003] | {{sortname|Juliet|Ace}} | Jill Balcon, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cheryl Campbell, Graham Crowden and William Hootkins | Ariadne, a naval officer's wife, has become the benign queen of death, arranging tasteful memorial services – which will include her husband's. But before his departure he has plotted a final fling. |- id="A Kind of Home – James Baldwin in Paris" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-1-9}} | {{sortname|A|Kind of Home|nolink=y}} – James Baldwin in Paris [https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/11_november/27/radio4_quarter1_drama.pdf BBC – Friday Play – A Kind of Home: James Baldwin in Paris] | {{sortname|Caryl|Phillips}} | Ricky Fearon, Ronald Pickup, Tom Silburn, Alibe Parsons, Declan Wilson, Lydia Leonard, Jaimi Barbakoff, Damian Lynch, Lisa Davina Phillip, Ryan McCluskey, Roger May, Timothy Morand, Bob Sherman, Rachel Atkins and Chris Moran | Covers the period from the war's end to the publication of Go Tell It on the Mountain. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="More Mr. Mulliner: The Bishop's Move" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-2-6}} | More Mr. Mulliner: {{sortname|The|Bishop's Move}} | {{sortname|P. G.|Wodehouse}} | Richard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Tom George, David Timson, Martin Hyder and Peter Acre | Mr Mulliner returns to the Angler's Rest public house, where the regulars are once again ready to be transported into the roles of the characters in his fabulous stories. It is their urging that brings him back to the massively potent tonic, Buck-U-Uppo, which can transform a timid cleric into a tiger, and is even more dangerous when a bishop imbibes it. |- id="More Mr. Mulliner: The Ordeal of Osbert Mulliner" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-2-13}} | More Mr. Mulliner: {{sortname|The|Ordeal of Osbert Mulliner|List of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse#Mr Mulliner}} | {{sortname|P. G.|Wodehouse}} | Richard Griffiths, Peter Darney, Matilda Ziegler, David Timson, Martin Hyder, Peter Acre and Stephen Critchlow | This time, it is the timid Osbert Mulliner whose trials and tribulations begin when he falls in love, putting him at risk from a ferocious explorer and an even more ferocious uncle of the damsel. Rarely can a man have been so grateful for burglars. |- id="More Mr. Mulliner: The Knightly Quest of Mervyn" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-2-20}} | More Mr. Mulliner: {{sortname|The|Knightly Quest of Mervyn|List of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse#Mr Mulliner}} | {{sortname|P. G.|Wodehouse}} | Richard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Tom George, Martin Hyder, David Timson, Peter Acre, Joanna McCallum and Gbemisola Ikemelo | Only one of Mr Mulliner's many relatives appears to be a 'chump', young Mervyn Mulliner who demands a knightly quest to prove his love to the glamorous Clarice. It is December, in the 1920s, and she craves strawberries. |- id="More Mr. Mulliner: The Truth About George" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-2-27}} | More Mr. Mulliner: {{sortname|The|Truth About George}} | {{sortname|P. G.|Wodehouse}} | Richard Griffiths, Matilda Ziegler, Peter Darney, Martin Hyder, David Timson, Peter Acre, Damian Lynch and Lydia Leonard | Mr Mulliner's final tale to the regulars at the Angler's Rest public house is about his crossword obsessed nephew, George, and his attempt to be as fluent in his speech to his beloved as he is in a crossword puzzle. Once again, the regulars fall into the story in a crazed journey across the English countryside, pursued by lunatics and farmers. |- id="Skin" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-3-8}} | Skin | {{sortname|Juliet|Ace}} | Mattie's road to liberation and success sees her shedding her clothes on a naturist beach only to be asked for her autograph; but the sun also has its shadows. A wry and powerfully affecting tale of sun, flesh, naturism and mortality. |- id="Maigret and the Burglar's Wife" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-4-19}} | Maigret and the Burglar's Wife [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fzwp1 BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: Maigret and the Burglar's Wife] | {{sortname|Georges|Simenon}} | Nicholas Le Prevost, Julian Barnes, Julie Legrand, Rachel Atkins, Jill Johnson, Philip Franks, Tom George, Scott Brooksbank, Jennie Stoller, Philip Fox and Alice Hart | A thief's wife comes back from the detective's past. |- id="The Yellow Dog" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-4-26}} | {{sortname|The|Yellow Dog|Maigret and the Yellow Dog}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fyyd5 BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: The Yellow Dog] | {{sortname|Georges|Simenon}} | Nicholas Le Prevost, Julian Barnes, Cherie Taylor, Chris Moran, Phillip Joseph, Philip Fox, Michael Fenton Stevens, Ioan Meredith, Joe Dunlop, Steven Diggory, Damian Lynch, Francis Jeater and Rachel Atkins | The Yellow Dog finds Maigret away from his Paris patch, in a sordid tale set in Brittany where one of the town worthies has been shot – through a letter box – and a wandering dog spreads panic among the citizens. |- id="Inspector Cadaver" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-5-3}} | Inspector Cadaver [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g1hb0 BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: Inspector Cadaver] | {{sortname|Georges|Simenon}} | Nicholas Le Prevost, Julian Barnes, Michael N. Harbour, David Bannerman, Karen Archer, Philip Fox, John Rowe, Alice Hart, Joanna McCallum and Scott Brooksbank | It was only as a favour to his inspecting magistrate that Chief Inspector Maigret agreed to investigate rumours about a death in the village of St Aubin. |- id="Maigret's Little Joke" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-5-10}} | Maigret's Little Joke [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes//b00g1rsm BBC – Afternoon Play – Maigret: Maigret's Little Joke] | {{sortname|Georges|Simenon}} | Nicholas Le Prevost, Julian Barnes, Julie Legrand, Phillip Joseph, Philip Fox, Harry Myers, Jaimi Barbakoff, Cherie Taylor-Battiste, Chris Moran, Rachel Atkins and Ioan Meredith | When a particularly sensational murder takes place in Paris, Chief Inspector Maigret is on holiday and must follow the investigation like any member of the public, through newspapers and news flashes. |- id="Stan" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-7-30}} | Stan | {{sortname|Neil|Brand}} | Tom Courtenay, Ewan Bailey, Ed Bishop and Barbara Barnes | As death finally threatens to separates the greatest double-act in film comedy, Stan Laurel tries to say the things which have been left unsaid, in a poignant and powerful farewell to Oliver Hardy. |- id="The Coast of Maine: Miss Tempy's Watchers" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-8-23}} | {{sortname|The|Coast of Maine|nolink=y}}: Miss Tempy's Watchers | {{sortname|Sarah Orne|Jewett}} | Joanna McCallum, Sheila Allen and Susan Jameson | Miss Tempy's Watchers sees two estranged friends finding their old bonds of affection as they watch over the body of a beloved friend the night before her funeral. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Coast of Maine: The Queen's Twin" | {{dts|format=dmy|24 August 2004}} | {{sortname|The|Coast of Maine|nolink=y}}: {{sortname|The|Queen's Twin|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Sarah Orne|Jewett}} | Susannah York, Nathan Osgood, Joanna McCallum and Brian Flaherty | Mrs Abby Martin, a woman born at exactly the same moment as Queen Victoria (allowing for the time difference between England and New England), tells the tale of their parallel lives. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Coast of Maine: Captain Littlepage" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-8-25}} | {{sortname|The|Coast of Maine|nolink=y}}: Captain Littlepage | {{sortname|Sarah Orne|Jewett}} | Alec McCowen, Jon Glover, Tam White, Joanna McCallum and Barbara Barnes | A sea captain with a memory to share of meeting an ancient Scots mariner who sailed into uncharted waters, and discovered a strange land with no place for the living. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Coast of Maine: Miss Esther's Guest" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-8-26}} | {{sortname|The|Coast of Maine|nolink=y}}: Miss Esther's Guest | {{sortname|Sarah Orne|Jewett}} | Susan Engel, Joanna McCallum, Jon Glover and Nancy Crane | Seeing it as a duty to provide a country break for a city-dwelling church member, Miss Esther offers to take in a guest from Boston. The visitor is not the old lady she expects. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Coast of Maine: The Town Poor" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-8-27}} | {{sortname|The|Coast of Maine|nolink=y}}: {{sortname|The|Town Poor|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Sarah Orne|Jewett}} | Angela Pleasence, Carolyn Jones, Joanna McCallum, Alice Hart, Jennifer Hilary and Eve Pearce | Having fallen on hard times, the Bray sisters have been placed out of sight on a remote farm where they won't disturb the town's conscience. A chance visit by two old friends puts their lives in shocking contrast. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Hippomania" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-9-26}} | Hippomania [https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/dramaon3/pip/s67rj BBC – Drama on 3 – Hippomania] | {{sortname|Snoo|Wilson}} | Anthony Calf, Anastasia Hille, Patricia Leventon, Andrew Woodall, Victoria Woodward, Ian Masters, Owen Sharpe, Katherine Igoe, Stephen Hogan, Renee Weldon, Aoife McMahon, Gerard Murphy, John Rogan, Nicholas Boulton, Jimmy Akingbola, Ndidi del Fatti, Andrew Scott, Tam Williams, Snoo Wilson, Alex Tregear, Emily Wachter, Jason Chan, Robert Hastie and Stuart McLoughlin | With Laurence Olivier preparing to film the patriotic epic Henry V in neutral Ireland during the Second World War, and the poet John Betjeman attracting the suspicious attention of the IRA, it is a heady time in Dublin. | BBC Radio 3 |- id="The Two of Us – My Life with John Thaw" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-10-18}} – {{dts|format=dmy|2004-10-22}} | {{sortname|The|Two of Us|nolink=y}} – My Life with John Thaw | {{sortname|Sheila|Hancock}} | Read by Sheila Hancock | Sheila Hancock reads from her enthralling new book about her deep and passionate partnership with her late husband, John Thaw. |- id="Death at the Desert Inn" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-12-11}} | Death at the Desert Inn [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t6v8d BBC – The Saturday Play – Death at the Desert Inn] | {{sortname|Marcy|Kahan}} | Malcolm Sinclair, Eleanor Bron, Tam Williams, Belinda Lang, Jake Broder, Meredith MacNeil, Peter Swander, Nathan Osgood and William Hootkins | Three hundred thousand dollars are left in a satchel in Noël Coward's Las Vegas suite. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Salamander Letter" | {{dts|format=dmy|2005-1-15}} | {{sortname|The|Salamander Letter|Salamander letter}} | {{sortname|Dylan|Ritson}} | Glenn Conroy, Adam Sims and Jason Chan | Drama about crooked antiques dealer Mark Hofmann, who nearly succeeded in rewriting American history and bringing down the LDS Church when his forgeries fooled experts around the world. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Something Cool" | {{dts|format=dmy|2005-2-23}} | Something Cool | {{sortname|Maurice|Leitch}} | Linda Marlowe, Jim Norton, Alyson Coote, Bruno Lastra and Claudio Rojas | In a Spanish bar, far out of the tourist season, Rose sits and waits for something to happen. |- id="Scenes of Seduction" | {{dts|format=dmy|2005-3-7}} | Scenes of Seduction [http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/AV68694 British Universities Film & Video Council – Scenes of Seduction] | {{sortname|Timberlake|Wertenbaker}} | Michael Maloney, Jasmine Hyde and Harriet Walter | Five-scene drama involving courting couples in various stages of life. The scene entitled Summer rewrites the wooing scene of Shakespeare's Henry V. |- id="Hotel Cristobel" | {{dts|format=dmy|2005-3-13}} | Hotel Cristobel [https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/dramaon3/pip/fzqtj BBC – Drama on 3 – Hotel Cristobel][http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/feature.php/6994/radio-review-drama Radio review – Drama, Moira Petty, The Stage, 21 March 2005] | {{sortname|Caryl|Phillips}} | Rosemary Harris, Michael Potts and Stephen Spinella | Caribbean independence is re-imagined in a struggle for control of a fading hotel on a small and beautiful island. | BBC Radio 3 |- id="Claw Marks on the Curtain: The Lumber Room" | {{dts|format=dmy|2005-5-2}} | Claw Marks on the Curtain: {{sortname|The|Lumber Room|nolink=y}} | Saki | Susan Engel, Ben Tibber and Alex Tregear | When young Nicholas is punished by his aunt, he seeks refuge in the magical lumber-room; but when his aunt seeks him in the garden, he can exact retribution. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Claw Marks on the Curtain: The Schartz-Metterklume Method" | {{dts|format=dmy|2005-5-3}} | Claw Marks on the Curtain: {{sortname|The|Schartz-Metterklume Method|Saki#"The Schartz-Metterklume Method"}} | Saki | Philip Fox, Emily Wachter, Timothy Morand, Jennie Stoller and Jemma Churchill | When Lady Carlotta is mistaken for Miss Hope, the new governess, she takes up the job with relish, applying a freshly invented technique of child-rearing to her new charges. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Claw Marks on the Curtain: Fur" | {{dts|format=dmy|2005-5-4}} | Claw Marks on the Curtain: Fur | Saki | Bertie Carvel, Helen Longworth, Lydia Leonard and Alex Tregear | Eleanor and Suzanne are best friends, but not for much longer. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Claw Marks on the Curtain: The Toys of Peace" | {{dts|format=dmy|2005-5-5}} | Claw Marks on the Curtain: {{sortname|The|Toys of Peace|nolink=y}} | Saki | Anton Rice, Ben Tibber, Anthony Calf, Beth Chalmers and Alex Tregear | Harvey is encouraged by his right-thinking sister to give her two sons toys that cannot be used for war. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Claw Marks on the Curtain: The Open Window" | {{dts|format=dmy|2005-5-6}} | Claw Marks on the Curtain: {{sortname|The|Open Window|Saki#"The Open Window"}} | Saki | Susan Jameson, Paul Brooke, Michael Kilgarriff, Joanna McCallum and Emily Chenery | Packed off around Britain in a search for a cure for his nerves, Framton Nuttel arrives at the Sappletons' house with a letter of introduction from his sister. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="The Miracle of Reason" | {{dts|format=dmy|2005-6-2}} | {{sortname|The|Miracle of Reason|nolink=y}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/thewire/pip/fkwau BBC – The Wire – The Miracle of Reason][https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/jun/03/tvandradio.radio Staying power, Radio review, Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 3 June 2005] | {{sortname|Nick|Dear}} | Frances Tomelty and Jasper Britton | A menacing drama about a dirty weekend that spirals into abject terror. | BBC Radio 3 |- id="Grief" | {{dts|format=dmy|2005-6-7}} | Grief | {{sortname|Ellen|Dryden}} | Abigail Thaw, Michael Pennington, Isla Blair and Michael N. Harbour | Simon's despair at the sudden death of his wife, Sarah, is only too clear to everyone. |- id="I Enjoyed Myself Today" | {{dts|format=dmy|2005-8-2}} | I Enjoyed Myself Today | Alex Tregear and Samantha Bond | Freya's diaries reflect the world around her in the 1960s: the Vietnam War, whether to dye her hair. |- id="Voices" | {{dts|format=dmy|2005-10-10}} | Voices [https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/09_september/13/pinter.shtml World premiere of Pinter's dramatic work on Radio 3, BBC Press Office, 13 September 2005][https://web.archive.org/web/20081207170313/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/harold-pinter-fighting-cancer-but-still-manages-to-produce-a-searing-new-play-509848.html Harold Pinter: Fighting cancer but still manages to produce a searing new play, Alice Jones, The Independent, 7 October 2005] | {{hs|Pinter, Harold, Clarke, James}}Text: Harold Pinter | Harry Burton, Anastasia Hille, Andy de la Tour, Douglas Hodge, Gabrielle Hamilton, Roger Lloyd Pack, Gawn Grainger, Harold Pinter and Indira Varma | An experimental collage of voice and sound. |- id="The Lost Love of Phoebe Myers" | {{dts|format=dmy|2006-11-28}} | {{sortname|The|Lost Love of Phoebe Myers|nolink=y}} [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/nov/29/radio.broadcasting The Lost Love of Phoebe Myers, Moira Petty, Radio review, The Guardian, 29 November 2006][http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/feature.php/15007/radio-review The Lost Love of Phoebe Myers, Elisabeth Mahoney, Radio review, The Stage, 27 November 2006]
| {{sortname|Bernard|Kops}} | Tracy-Ann Oberman, David de Keyser, Heather Coombs, Qarie Marshall, Lucy Middleweek and Miranda Keeling | Bernard Kops's new play evokes the resilience and passions of wartime London and embarks on a journey through heartache and abandonment, while offering a promise of ultimate contentment and the exorcism of ghosts. |- id="A House to Let" | {{dts|format=dmy|2006-12-11}} – {{dts|format=dmy|2006-12-15}} | {{sortname|A|House to Let}} | {{sortname|Charles|Dickens}}, {{sortname|Wilkie|Collins}} and {{sortname|Elizabeth|Gaskell}} dramatised by {{sortname|Martyn|Wade}} | Marcia Warren and Alec McCowen | Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell's Victorian tale of a woman worried about an unsettling sign of life in a derelict house. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Needle" | {{dts|format=dmy|2008-3-11}} | Needle [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0093v45 BBC – Afternoon Play – Needle] | {{sortname|Christina|Balit}} | Peter Marinker, Jade Williams, Meg Davies, Kate Williams, Liz Sutherland, Liza Sadovy and Ben Onwukwe | Creating the Bayeux Tapestry for their Norman conquerors is a bitter task for the women of Canterbury. |- id="A Long Way from Home" | {{dts|format=dmy|2008-3-30}} | {{sortname|A|Long Way from Home|nolink=y}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009md7p BBC – Drama on 3 – A Long Way from Home][https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/dramaon3/pip/r574n BBC – Drama on 3 – A Long Way from Home (more detail)] | {{sortname|Caryl|Phillips}} | O-T Fagbenle, Kerry Shale, Alibe Parson, Rhea Bailey, Rachel Atkins, Damian Lynch, Ben Onwukwe and Major Wiley | Caryl Phillips' original drama imagines the conflicting forces in the iconic singer Marvin Gaye's life, including family, stardom, love, sex and drugs. The story focuses on his final years, when he was offered a lifeline in the unlikely setting of Ostend in Belgium, where he composed the song Sexual Healing before he returned America and was murdered by his own father. | BBC Radio 3 |- id="Bora Bora" | {{dts|format=dmy|2008-9-20}} | Bora Bora [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00djnw2 BBC – The Saturday Play – Bora Bora] | {{sortname|Lynne|Truss}} | Derek Jacobi, Corin Redgrave, Cheryl Campbell, Adrian Bower, Eve Pearce, Jill Johnson, Stephen Critchlow and Rachel Atkins | Art historian Alec, the brother of a famous actor, has lived his life in the shadows following a traumatic event in his childhood. | BBC Radio 4 |- id="Hyde Park-on-Hudson" | {{dts|format=dmy|2009-6-7}} | Hyde Park-on-Hudson [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kssvn BBC – Drama on 3 – Hyde Park-on-Hudson] | {{sortname|Richard|Nelson|dab=playwright}} | Barbara Jefford, Emma Fielding, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nancy Crane, Julia Swift, Sylvia Syms, John Chancer, Corin Redgrave, Kika Markham and Jamie Newall | No reigning British monarch had ever been to the United States before George VI's visit in 1939, just on the cusp of a new world war. | BBC Radio 3 |} Notes: Sources:
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