RADIO DRAMATISATIONS  


KEY:
 
For BBC Radio 4 - except where indicated as under:
[R2] For BBC Radio 2   [R3] For BBC Radio 3   [WS] For BBC World Service    [R4E]  For BBC Radio 4 Extra   [CR] For commercial radio[SRT] For Shoestring Radio Theatre, San Francisco   
† [AUD] Published on audio cassette and/or CD in the BBC Radio Collection 

TITLE - AUTHOR - EPISODES x LENGTH (mins) - (YEAR OF FIRST BROADCAST)  


"PARTY GOING" - Henry Green 1x90 (1981)

"THE SWORD IN THE STONE" - T H White 1x120 (1981)

"THE DAUGHTER OF TIME" - Josephine Tey 1x120 (1982)

"ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE" - Agatha Christie 1x90 (1983)

"THE POISONED CHOCOLATES CASE"- Anthony Berkeley 1x90 (1984)


"THE SERPENT'S SMILE" - Olga Heskey 1x90 (1985)

"SHADOWS OF DOUBT" - Palma Harcourt 6x30 (1985)

"REGENCY BUCK" - Georgette Heyer 1x90 (1986)

"THE KING'S COMMISSAR" - Duncan Kyle 1x90 (1988)

"THE SKULL BENEATH THE SKIN"- P D James 2x90 (1989)


"THE STRANGE CASE of Dr JEKYLL and Mr HYDE" - R L Stevenson (1989)  [CR] 

†"THE NORMAN CONQUESTS" - Alan Ayckbourn 3x90 (1990)  [WS] [AUD]

†"AN UNSUITABLE JOB FOR A WOMAN" - P D James 4x30 (1991)  [AUD]             

†"COVER HER FACE" - P D James 4x30 (1993)  [AUD]      

"SPANISH GOLD" - George A Birmingham 5x30 (1993)  [WS] 

       
"THE MURDER OF THE MAHARAJAH" - H R F Keating 1x90 (1993)

†"INTO THE BLUE" - Robert Goddard 8x30 (1994)  [WS] [AUD] **

†"SAINT OVERBOARD" - Leslie Charteris 1x60 (1995)  [AUD]

†"THE SAINT PLAYS WITH FIRE" - Leslie Charteris 1x60 (1995)  [AUD]

"HOUSE OF CARDS" - Michael Dobbs 6x30 (1996)  [WS] 


"MAUGHAM'S EYE VIEW" - Somerset Maugham 6x30 (1996)
                     - The Creative Impulse

                     - The Vessel of Wrath

                     - The Round Dozen

                     - Footprints in the Jungle

                     - The Facts of Life

                     - Before the Party        

"A PIECE OF JUSTICE" - Jill Paton Walsh 1x60 (1998)

†"DEVICES AND DESIRES" - P D James 6x30 (1998)[AUD]

"THE LADY VANISHES" - Ethel Lina White 1x60 (1999)  [WS] 

"BEL-AMI" - Guy de Maupassant 1x60 (2000)  [WS] 


"THE WYNDHAM CASE " - Jill Paton Walsh 1x60 (2001)

"WATERSHIP DOWN" - Richard Adams 2x60 (2002)

"THE TURN OF THE SCREW" - Henry James 1x60 (2004)

"THE TENTH MAN" - Graham Greene 1x60 (2004) [R4 & WS]

"FRIEND OR FOE" - Michael Morpurgo 6x10 (2004)  [R4E] 


"NOW, VOYAGER" - Olive Higgins Prouty 1x60 (2004) [WS]

†"A CERTAIN JUSTICE" - P D James 1x90 (2005)[AUD]

†"A TASTE FOR DEATH" - P D James 10x15 (2008)  [AUD]

†"THE PRIVATE PATIENT" - P D James 10x15 (2010)  [AUD]

"HOTEL DU LAC" - Anita Brookner 5x15 (2014) [SRT] 


"THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS STONE - Tennessee Williams 2x30 (2014)  [SRT] 

"CHARLEY'S AUNT" - Brandon Thomas 3x30 (2015)  [SRT] 

"BOX AND COX" - J B Morton 1 x 30 (2015)  [SRT] 
"LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET" - Mary Elizabeth Braddon 3x30 (2016) [SRT] 

"THE VALLEY OF FEAR" - Arthur Conan Doyle 2 x 30 (2017) [SRT]


"R.U.R" - Karel Capek  2 x 30 (2017) [SRT]

"OZMA OF OZ"  -  L Frank Baum  2 x 30  (2017) [SRT]

"THE FOUR JUST MEN" - Edgar Wallace (2018) 3 x 30 [SRT]

"AFTERWARD" - Edith Wharton (2018) 1 x 30 [SRT] 

"THE LOOKING GLASS" - Edith Wharton (2018) 1 x 30 [SRT] 


"THE PROBLEM OF CELL 13" - Jacques Futrelle  1 x 30 (2018) [SRT} 

"THE FATAL CIPHER" - Jacques Futrelle 1 x 30 (2018) [SRT] 

"THE DAMNED THING" - Ambrose Bierce 2 x 30 (2019) [SRT] 

" THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG" - Mark Twain  2 x 30 (2019) [SRT] 

"CHIP OF THE FLYING U" - B M Bower  2 x 30 (2019) [SRT]- 2 x 30 (2020) [SRT]


"THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER" - Edgar Allan Poe  2 x 30 (2020) [SRT] 

"SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY" - Edgar Allan Poe  1x30 (2021) [SRT] 

"RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE" - Zane Gray  2x30 (2021) [SRT]

"ANIMAL FARM" - George Orwell 2x30 (2022) [SRT]

"THE ADVENTURE OF THE VEILED LODGER" [SRT] - Arthur Conan Doyle  1 x 30' (2024)

ORIGINAL RADIO DRAMA, DOCUMENTARIES AND FEATURES 
"Married Daughter" (1978) 1 x 30 (Wendy Hiller as Queen Victoria)
"The Horror at Bly" (1978)  [R3] 

"The Queen and the Kaiser" (1980) 1 x 30 (Wendy Hiller as Queen Victoria)

"Dizzy and the Faery Queen" (1981) 1 x 30 (Wendy Hiller as Queen Victoria)
"Royal Necklace" (1984) 1 x 60 (Dorothy Tutin as Queen Victoria)  [WS] 
"The Deserted Child"[2 x 30] (1991) (Wendy Hiller as Queen Victoria)
"The Stars and Stripes Forever" (1993) 1 x 60 (featuring Sam Wanamaker)  [R2] 
"Mistresses of the Music Hall" 6 x 30 (1995) (featuring Barbara Windsor)  [R2] 
"I Can't Begin to Tell You - The Betty Grable Story" (1995) 1 x 60 (featuring Jerry Hall)  [R2] 

 "They Called Me Al - the Story of Al Bowlly" (1995) 1 x 60 (featuring John Thaw)  [R2] 

"The Israel Philharmonic - Orchestra and People" [2 x 120] (1998) (featuring Sheena McDonald)  [R3] 
"Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" (2003) 1 x 60 (with musical soundtrack by Paul Oakenfold)  [WS] 
"The Ghost Ship" - based on a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle (2015) 1x30 [SRT] 

"Little Boy Lost"  1 x 20 (2022)  [SRT}


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A fair number of these radio productions are available via the BBC's Radio Drama Collection CDs marketed by Audible and online via Archive.org.  The following is an incomplete list, which is updated from time to time as new information comes to light.


In the Radio Drama Collection marketed by Audible.org.uk are the following dramatisations for radio of novels by P D James:


The Skull Beneath the Skin

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

Cover Her Face

Devices and Desires

A Certain Justice

A Taste for Death

The Private Patient


These short stories by W Somerset Maugham, originally broadcast under the generic title "Maugham's Eye View"


The Creative Impulse

The Vessel of Wrath

The Round Dozen

Footprints in the Jungle

The Facts of Life

Before the Party        


Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer

The Norman Conquests  by Alan Aykbourn





Available online from Archive.org are:


Devices and Desires            https://archive.org/details/pdjames-dalgliesh-devices-and-desires

 

The Daughter of Time          https://archive.org/details/josephine-tey-the-daughter-of-time

 

The Lady Vanishes              https://archive.org/details/ethel-lina-white-the-lady-vanishes

 

The Murder of the Maharajah https://archive.org/details/h.r.f.-keating-the-murder-of-the-maharajah


The Poisoned Chocolates Case https://archive.org/details/TPCC1929Clean


The Saint Overboard           https://archive.org/details/1-leslie-charteris-the-saint-overboard

 

The Saint Plays With Fire   https://archive.org/details/3-leslie-charteris-the-saint-plays-with-fire

 

The Serpent's Smile https://archive.org/details/olga-hesky-the-serpents-smile


The Sword in the Stone      https://archive.org/details/t.-h.-white-the-sword-in-the-stone

 

The Turn of the Screw         https://archive.org/details/HenryJames_turnscrew/2004-08-15+The+Turn+of+the+Screw+(adapted+by+Neville+Teller).mp3

 

The Wyndham Case            https://archive.org/details/the-wyndham-case-by-jill-paton-walsh

 

       



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