Drama Listings

 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 

**Link to BBC production, saved online

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

"PARTY GOING" - Henry Green 1x90 (1981)
           **https://archive.org/details/party-going

"THE SWORD IN THE STONE" - T H White 1x120 (1981)
           **https://archive.org/details/t.-h.-white-the-sword-in-the-stone

"THE DAUGHTER OF TIME" - Josephine Tey 1x120 (1982)
           **https://archive.org/details/JTeyBBCr4/18+The+Daughter+of+Time.mp3

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

"THE POISONED CHOCOLATES CASE"- Anthony Berkeley 1x90 (1984)
           **https://archive.org/details/TPCC1929Clean

"THE SERPENT'S SMILE" - Olga Heskey 1x90 (1985)
           **https://archive.org/details/olga-hesky-the-serpents-smile

"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)
         **https://archive.org/details/PDJamesBBCRadioDramas

"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]
          **https://archive.org/details/PDJamesBBCRadioDramas
                  
†"COVER HER FACE" - P D James 4x30 (1993) [AUD]
        **https://archive.org/details/cover-her-face_202206

"SPANISH GOLD" - George A Birmingham 5x30 (1993) [WS] 
         **https://archive.org/details/george-birmingham-spanish-gold

"THE MURDER OF THE MAHARAJAH" - H R F Keating 1x90 (1993)
           **https://archive.org/details/h.r.f.-keating-the-murder-of-the-maharajah

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

†"SAINT OVERBOARD" - Leslie Charteris 1x60 (1995) [AUD]
            **https://archive.org/details/the-saint-bbc-radio
†"THE SAINT PLAYS WITH FIRE" - Leslie Charteris 1x60 (1995) [AUD]
            **https://archive.org/details/the-saint-bbc-radio

"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
        ** https://archive.org/details/MaughamX6

"A PIECE OF JUSTICE" - Jill Paton Walsh 1x60 (1998)
                 **https://archive.org/details/theimogenquydramas

†"DEVICES AND DESIRES" - P D James 6x30 (1998)[AUD]
                **https://archive.org/details/PDJamesBBCRadioDramas

"THE LADY VANISHES" - Ethel Lina White 1x60 (1999) [WS] 
                **https://archive.org/details/ethel-lina-white-the-lady-vanishes

"BEL-AMI" - Guy de Maupassant 1x60 (2000) [WS] 
"THE WYNDHAM CASE " - Jill Paton Walsh 1x60 (2001)
                 **https://archive.org/details/theimogenquydramas

"WATERSHIP DOWN" - Richard Adams 2x60 (2002)
             **Part One: https://youtu.be/9mFMNoUTocs?si=c3vNLj_rw2_q2iPl 
             **Part Two: https://youtu.be/Bf1Cu4wkteo?si=Dw7uUSJIVyk9h5bS:  

"THE TURN OF THE SCREW" - Henry James 1x60 (2004)
           **https://archive.org/details/HenryJames_turnscrew

"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]
         **https://archive.org/details/now-voyager_202210

†"A CERTAIN JUSTICE" - P D James 1x90 (2005)[AUD]
         **https://archive.org/details/PDJamesBBCRadioDramas
†"A TASTE FOR DEATH" - P D James 10x15 (2008) [AUD]
       **https://archive.org/details/JamesDeathX10

†"THE PRIVATE PATIENT" - P D James 10x15 (2010) [AUD]
        **https://archive.org/details/PDJamesBBCRadioDramas

"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"  - 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] 
             https://archive.org/details/BBC_Radio_4_Extra_20170801_101500_Neville_Teller__The_Horror_at_Bly

"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}

May 2024
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