Best Bbc Radio Plays - April 2024

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Secondary Phase (Dramatized)

A dynamic remastering of the second BBC Radio 4 full-cast serial - Fit the Seventh to Fit the Twelfth - which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legend. The second original series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy remastered by Dirk Maggs (director of the Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases) to give a full, vibrant sound, now with Philip Pope's version of the familiar theme tune and specially re-recorded announcements by John Marsh. Stranded on Prehistoric Earth since the end of the first series, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are once again trying to hitch their way off the planet.... [Read More]

• ASIN: B001LFBNIQ
• ASIN: B001LFBNIQ
• Manufacturer: BBC Worldwide Limited

War and Peace: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

New BBC TV tie-in edition of the original masterpiece by Leo Tolstoy, with an introduction by Andrew Davies.      The eagerly awaited BBC TV adaptation of Tolstoy's enthralling epic War and Peace is due to appear on our screens. This is the official tie-in edition with an exclusive introduction by Andrew Davies.     Tolstoy's beguiling masterpiece entwines love, death and determinism with Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on those swept up by the terror it brings. The lives of Pierre, Prince Andrei and Natasha are changed forever as conflict rages throughout the early ninet... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1785294563
• ASIN: 1785294563
• ISBN: 1785294563
• Manufacturer: BBC Books

Cabin Pressure: A-Z: The BBC Radio 4 Airline Sitcom

Every episode of the hit BBC Radio 4 airline sitcom is collected together in this special box set, including the Christmas special final episode and several bonus features. Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline, staffed by two pilots—one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether flying a cat to Abu Dhabi, dealing with a nervous bassoonist, hunting for a cleverly-hidden lemon, or attempting to celebrate Christmas in seven minutes, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, MJN Ai... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1910281999
• ASIN: 1910281999
• ISBN: 1910281999
• Manufacturer: BBC Physical Audio

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Complete Radio Series

This really is the ultimate answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything—all five radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy collected together for the first time, in a handsome box with magnetic lid. From the original Primary and Secondary Phases, through to the more recent Tertiary, Quandary, and Quintessential Phases, these are the adventures of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, and their assorted human, robotic, and alien companions. These full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramas star Simon Jones, Peter Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Stephen Moore, and Susan Sherida... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0563504196
• ASIN: 0563504196
• ISBN: 0563504196
• Brand: BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
• Manufacturer: BBC Books

The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: 38 Fully-Dramatized Plays

[Performed by a Full Cast, including Eileen Atkins, Joseph Fiennes, Sir John Gielgud,Imogen Stubbs, Ciaran Hinds, Simon Russell Beale] For the first time in audio publishing history, all of Shakespeare's plays are available in one extraordinary, definitive collection. Based on ''The Complete Pelican Shakespeare'', here are all of the master's 38 plays, complete and unabridged, fully dramatized on CDs with an original score and sound design for each play. A monumental project that spanned five years and cost $3 million, ''The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare'' represents the collective vision of f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1932219005
• UPC: 601531590024
• ASIN: 1932219005
• ISBN: 1932219005
• Manufacturer: BBC Audiobooks America

Death On The Nile (BBC Radio Collection)

Linnet Ridgeway has led a charmed life. Blessed with beauty, enormous wealth and a devoted husband, she has everything anyone could wish for. But as the happy couple set out on an idyllic honeymoon cruise on the Nile, storm clouds are gathering... Linnet's former friend, Jacqueline de Bellefort, follows her and Simon wherever they go and Linnet senses she is in danger. At first her fears seem groundless. But an attempt is made first on her life and then on her husband's. Eventually the killer is successful, and Linnet is found horribly murdered. With an obvious suspect who cannot possibly have... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0563536713
• ASIN: 0563536713
• ISBN: 0563536713
• Manufacturer: BBC Books

Agatha Christie: The Lost Plays: Three BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramas: Butter in a Lordly Dish, Murder in the Mews & Personal Call

A triple bill of archive BBC radio dramas, believed lost for over half a century and only recently rediscovered. Butter in a Lordly Dish, written specially for radio in 1948, features Richard Williams as Sir Luke Enderby KC, whose infidelities lead him into trouble when he goes to meet his latest flame. Williams also stars as Hercule Poirot in Murder in the Mews, a 1955 adaptation of a short story. A young woman is found dead in her flat, the day after Guy Fawkes night. Did she die by her own hand, or someone else's? In Personal Call, also written specially for radio by Agatha Christie, a dist... [Read More]

• ASIN: 178529153X
• ASIN: 178529153X
• ISBN: 178529153X
• Manufacturer: BBC Books

TuneIn Radio

• ASIN: B00E8TA7NY
• ASIN: B00E8TA7NY
• Brand: TuneIn
• Manufacturer: TuneIn

Murder on the Links: A BBC Full-cast Radio Drama (BBC Audio Crime)

This BBC Radio full-cast dramatization stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. When Poirot arrives in France, following an urgent appeal for help, he finds he is too late. His client, a South American millionaire, has been stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Meanwhile the millionaire's wife is found bound and gagged in her room. Poirot launches an investigation and the baffling mystery begins to unfold.

• ASIN: 0563510110
• ASIN: 0563510110
• ISBN: 0563510110
• Brand: Brand: AudioGO Ltd.
• Manufacturer: BBC Books

Romeo and Juliet (BBC Radio Presents)

The permanent popularity, now of mythic intensity, of Romeo and Juliet is more than justified, writes eminent scholar Harold Bloom, "since the play is the largest and most persuasive celebration of romantic love in Western literature."William Shakespeare (1564-1616) based his early romantic tragedy on Arthur Brooke's 1562 poem The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet. Shakespeare's resulting masterpiece, in turn, has inspired countless retellings around the world in mediums that include literature, dance, stage, and screen. "It is Shakespear all over, and Shakespear when he was young," decl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0553455370
• ASIN: 0553455370
• ISBN: 0553455370
• Brand: Brand: Random House Audio
• Manufacturer: Random House Audio

Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Tragedies: Hamlet; Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet

Three powerful radio productions from the BBC archives starring Ian McKellen, Ronald Pickup, and Paul Scofield and a host of celebrated acting talent . These three legendary plays, performed by some of the best-known theatrical actors of the 20th Century, are the perfect way to commemorate England's greatest dramatist. In Romeo and Juliet, the Montagues and the Capulets are sworn enemies, so when Romeo Montague falls in love with Juliet Capulet, tragedy ensues. This fateful tale of two young star-crossed lovers is one of Shakespeare's most popular dramas. First broadcast in 1970, starring Ian ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1785293079
• ASIN: 1785293079
• ISBN: 1785293079
• Manufacturer: BBC Books

Murder On The Orient Express: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection)

An international cast of suspects, all passengers on the crowded train, are speeding through the snowy European landscape when a bizarre and terrible murder brings them to an abrupt halt. One of their glittering number lies dead in his cabin, stabbed a mysterious 12 times. There is no lack of clues for Poirot—but which clue is real and which is a clever plant? Poirot realizes that this time he is dealing with a murderer of enormous cunning and that in a case fraught with fear and inconsistencies only one thing is certain—the murderer is still aboard the train waiting to strike again. . . J... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0563478349
• ASIN: 0563478349
• ISBN: 0563478349
• Manufacturer: BBC Books

The Complete Collection

Bill Hicks’ legacy has been compiled into one comprehensive box set. The Complete Collection captures every commercially-released album and special, over ten hours of unreleased performances, and a photo book of rare and never-before-seen photos. Now through Comedy Dynamics his work will once again step into the spolight and will be enjoyed by and influence another generation of comics and fans. CONTENTS VIDEO Live At Comedy Annex Houston ‘81 Live At Comedy Annex Houston ‘84 Live In Indianapolis ‘85 Live At Comedy Annex Houston ‘86 The Early Years TV Interview The Outlaw Comics The O... [Read More]

• ASIN: B011BSQ3YG
• UPC: 705438046421
• ASIN: B011BSQ3YG
• Brand: New Wave Dynamics
• Manufacturer: Comedy Dynamics

John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: Series 6: BBC Radio 4 comedy sketch show

The award-winning BBC Radio 4 sketch show returns, written by and starring John Finnemore. Winner of the 2015 BBC Audio Drama Award for 'Best Scripted Comedy with Live Audience', the programme was described as 'one of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite some time' by The Guardian. The sketches and skits feature Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. Duration: 2 hours 50 mins approx.

• ASIN: 1785295950
• ASIN: 1785295950
• ISBN: 1785295950
• Manufacturer: BBC Books

Neverwhere: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation

**Neil Gaiman was the WINNER of the BBC Audio Drama Award 2015 for Outstanding Contribution to Radio Drama**Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations, a somewhere that is Neverwhere. . . An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into the strange world of London Below. There he meets the Earl of Earl's Court, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with the Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington. Accompanied by the myst... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1471316475
• ASIN: 1471316475
• ISBN: 9781471316470
• Manufacturer: BBC Books

The News Quiz: The Best of 2017 : The Topical BBC Radio 4 Comedy Panel Show

Books : NEWS QUIZ THE BEST OF 2017 UNABRIDGED

• UPC: 382739822

Michael Caine - Famous Quotes Laminated POSTER PRINT 24x20 - Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop song

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• UPC: 152588839
• Color: Multicolor

Diva In Me, The (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play) - Audiobook

Diva In Me, The (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon

• UPC: 822868564

On The Ceiling (BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play) - Audiobook

High up on the wooden scaffolding tower of the Sistine Chapel, two fresco plasterers get on with the day’s work preparing the ceiling for their boss Michelangelo who has not bothered to turn up for

• UPC: 878839924

Payback (BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play) - Audiobook

It is 6th October 1973. Golda Meir has become Prime Minister of Israel in her seventies. Syrian and Egyptian troops are massing on Israel's borders, but despite eleven warnings of impending war in the past

• UPC: 671068076

Leverage (BBC Radio 4 The Saturday Play) - Audiobook

A fast-paced psychological thriller from BBC Radio 4's 'Saturday Play' slot, originally broadcast 26 March 2011. A city banker is found dead in an opulent apartment. At the funeral, his former girlfriend Helen is unexpectedly

• UPC: 161774160

Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, The (BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play) - Audiobook

Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, The (BBC Radio 4 Saturday

• UPC: 248109543
• Rating: 4.04

Agatha Christie: The Lost Plays : Three BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramas: Butter in a Lordly Dish, Murder in the Mews & Personal Call

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• UPC: 53959360
• Rating: 4.0

Just a Minute: Best of 2017 : 4 Episodes of the Much-Loved BBC Radio 4 Comedy Game

9781785298912

• UPC: 939572348

BBC RADIO 2 FOLK AWARDS 2013 [BOX]

BBC RADIO 2 FOLK AWARDS 2013 [BOX]

• UPC: 104191476

Best Radio Plays of 1982 : BBC Giles Cooper Award Winners by Stoppard, Tom

• UPC: 223402140829
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 7 USD

Best Radio Plays of 1984 : BBC Giles Cooper Award Winners-ExLibrary

• UPC: 223402015889
• Category: School Textbooks & Study Guides
• Price: 3 USD

THE RADIO BIG BAND ‎– Playing The Best Of British 1972 BBC UK Press

• UPC: 293144911837
• Category: Records
• Price: 0 GBP

BBC Presents - The Radio Big Band Playing the Best of British - 1972 UK 12-track

• UPC: 232354386517
• Category: Records
• Price: 9 GBP

BBC Presents The Radio Big Band Playing The Best Of British 1972 REC 131S EX/EX

• UPC: 362674695309
• Category: Records
• Price: 4 GBP

The Radio Big Band – Playing The Best Of British BBC Records – REC 131S LP 1972

• UPC: 183172255198
• Category: Records
• Price: 5 GBP

Best Radio Plays of 1984 : BBC Giles Cooper Award Winners-ExLibrary

• UPC: 273709938375
• Category: School Textbooks & Study Guides
• Price: 3 USD