Literature -- General, Traditional, Anthologies

Last Edited: 14-Jan-2012 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

Date

Title

Cast

Parameters

Broadcast
12-Jan-2004 to
16-Jan-2004

Rare Books, Rare People

  1. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
  2. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
  3. Ulysses, James Joyce
  4. Three Stories and Ten Poems, Ernest Hemingway
  5. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

Written and Presented
by Rick Gekowski
Performed by Brian Ralf
Produced by Ivan Howlett

14:11, 9977, S
13:05, 9209, S
14:12, 9993, S
13:58, 9830, S
14:04, 9903, S

Broadcast
01-Nov-2004 to
05-Nov-2004

Still Angry after All These Years?

  1. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
    A Kind of Loving – Stan Barstow
  2. Kes –  BarryHines
  3. The Sporting Life – David Storey
  4. Up the Junction – Nell Dunn

Alan Sillitoe
Presented and produced
by Claire Jenkins

14:28, 13574, S
14:20, 13440, S
14:19, 13423, S
14:14, 13353, S
14:13, 13332, S

02-May-2005 to
06-May-2005

Cornish Tales

  1. Tommyknockers
  2. Giants
  3. Smugglers, Pirates and Wreckers
  4. Strange Love Stories
  5. Mermaids and Standing Stones

Produced by Karen Rose

14:03, 6593, m
13:27, 6308, m
13:58, 6551, m
14:19, 6715, m
13:50, 6489, m

21-Nov-2004

From Essex to the Alps
Mountains and Writers

Written and presented by
Lavinia Greenlaw
Produced by Tim Dee

27:49, 26089, S

R7:
20-Dec-2004 to
23-Dec-2004

Children’s Hour – Once upon a Time 

  1. Larry the Lamb – A Portrait of the Mayor (1952);
    Boys of Glenmarrow – The Pavilion Mystery (1955)
  2. Norman and Henry Jones (1950),
    Eeyore’s House from The House at Pooh Corner (1947)
  3. The Showing Up of Larry the Lamb (1962);
    Toad’s Adventure from The Wind in the Willows (1950)
  4. Wandering with Nomad; Eeyore’s Birthday from the House
    at Pooh Corner (1953); Smokey a Dragon’s Tale (1960)

Sandy Chalmers

59:11, 55500, S
59:49, 56094, S
59:12, 55516, S
58:16, 54629, S

R7:
28-Mar-2005 to
01-Apr-2005

Children’s Hour – Once upon a Time 2

  1. The Unhappy Dragon, The Fishing Bear, The Conversion of Mr. Growser
  2. Will o’the Wisp, A Story of Bran the Cat,
    The Extraordinary Affair of Ernest the Policeman
  3. Mr. Fizzle in Trouble, A Dragon’s Tale, Toytown – A Sea Voyage
  4. Dabchicks in Danger, In Memory of Romany, Golf, Toytown Rules
  5. The Nightingale, Toytown – Dreadful Doings in Ark Street

Sandy Chalmers

59:00, 55324, S
59:01, 55330, S
59:00, 55328, S
58:59, 55306, S
59:00, 55322, S

R7:
27-Dec-2004

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

Said Jaffray, Patrice Myambane, Nina
Wadia, Paminda Nagra, Giles Terrera
Musical soundtrack by Paul Okenfalls

58:05, 54465, S

17-Jul-2006 to
20-Jul-2006

A Thousand and One – Scheherazade

Robert Irwin
Produced by Joe Glanville
Readings by Rene Killarney

14:02, 13158, S
13:50, 12982, S
13:54, 13041, S
13:55, 13064, S

27-Dec-2004

If the Slipper Fits 
The international variations of the Cinderella story

Produced by Kim Normanton
and Nigel Atchison

27:55, 26176, S

19-Feb-2005

Losing the Children
The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin

Michael Rosen
Readings by Andrew Sachs
Produced by Liz Pearson

27:53, 26154, S

03-Mar-2005
10-Mar-2005

Out of the Blue
How writers have been inspired by strange weather

  1. The Long Hot Summer of 1976
  2. The Great Storm of 1987

Peggy Reynolds
Readings by Richenda Carey
and Martin Hyder
Produced by Phil Tinline

28:01, 26270, S
28:01, 26270, S

18-May-2006

Dons and Dragons

Michael Rosen is joined
by Phillip Pullman, Jonathan Miller
and AN Wilson
Produced by Sarah Jane Hall

28:10, 26407, S

01-Jun-2006

The Accidental Entertainers
The Brothers Grimm

Michael Rosen
Readers: Paul Copley and Siriol Jenkins
Produced by Deborah Preston

27:56, 26196, S

22-Jun-2006 to
13-Jul-2006

Imagining Albion –  The Great British Future
Britain in Science Fiction and Fantasy

    1. Utopias and Dystopias
    2. Nightmare of Invasion
    3. Albion Unbound
    4. Starmakers

    Francis Spufford
    Gwinneth Jones, Iain M Banks,
    Ian McMillan, Arthur C Clarke,
    Produced by Laura Thomas,
    Mark Berman

    28:15, 26486, S
    28:11, 26423. S
    28:13, 26456, S
    28:21, 26580, S

    05-Dec-2006 to
    02-Jan-2007
    16-Jul-2007 to
    20-Jul-2007

    The Four o’Clock Friends
    The John Murray publishing house and document collection

    Vanessa Collingridge
    Produced by Lynn Mennie

    14:04, 13189, S
    14:07, 13251, S
    13:59, 13111, S
    14:05, 13205, S
    14:07, 13239, S

    27-Sep-2007
    13-Jan-2008

    Guilty Pleasure – A Hundred Years of Mills and Boon

    Lucy Porter
    Produced by Suzie Matthews

    28:01, 26280, S

    11-Oct-2007

    A Smile and a Shoeshine –
    The traveling salesman

    Laurie Taylor
    Produced by Jeff Byrd

    28:22, 26608

    18-Oct-2007

    The Dance of the Seven Veils

    Reem Kelani
    Produced by Megan Jones

    28:46, 26979, S

    25-Oct-2007
    05-Apr-2008

    A Nasty Case of the Vapours
    The lives, deaths and immune systems of heroines of English literature

    Vivienne Parry
    Introduced by Simon Hollis

    28:15, 26491, S

    20-Apr-2010

    Madwomen in the Attic

    Vivienne Parry
    Introduced by Simon Hollis

    28:12, 26449, S

    27-Mar-2008

    The Reading Group Commissions

    Produced by Mary Ward Lowery

    28:24, 26632, S

    06-Apr-2008

    Voices at 40

    Judith Palmer
    Produced by Julian Wilkinson

    24:57, 23404, S

    12-Aug-2008
    19-Aug-2008

    From the Ban to the Booker -- the development of the lesbian novel

    Val McDermid
    produced by Nicholas Sordes

    28:01, 26275, S
    28:00, 26267, S

    28-Aug-2008

    The Ancient Novel

    Tibor Fischer
    produced by Gavin Hurd

    27:30. 25783, S

    18-Nov-2008

    Arvon at 40 - The Arvon Foundation and Creative Writing

    Mavis Cheek
    produced by Christine Hall

    28:06, 26349, S

    22-Jan-2009

    Five Meet to Make Up Myths

    The creative connections between five Victorian authors: Oscar Wilde,
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, JM Barrie and
    Bram Stoker

    Gyles Brandreth
    produced by Libby Cross

    28:49, 27027, S

    26-Apr-2009

    Bringing the War Home – anthology

    1. Jennifer Maiden's satiric verse drama 'Guarding the Cenotaph'
    2. Kieran Finnane's powerful monologue 'The Prisoner'
    3. 'The Covenant' by Merlinda Bobis
    4. an excerpt from Eliot Weinberger's What I Heard About Iraq,
      a documentary prose poem

    Jane Ulman

    51:14, 48033, S

    12-May-2009

    By Jove Carruthers!

    Miles Jupp
    produced by David Stenhouse

    28:08, 26382, S

    30-Jun-2009

    Sitting for Fay
    photographer Fay Godwin's portraits of leading literary figures

    Christine Finn
    produced by Maria Burgess

    28:19, 26556, S

    30-Jul-2009

    Frequently Asked Questions
    The relationship between authors and their readers through
    the changing nature of the correspondence between them

    Ian Samson
    produced by sara Davies

    27:50, 26095, S

    06-Oct-2009

    I Have Heard The Mermaids Singing

    Janet Ellis
    produced by Jeff Byrd

    28:01, 26267, S

    22-Apr-2010

    Here Be Dragons

    Janet Ellis
    produced by Jeff Byrd

    27:50, 26109, S

    27-Dec-2009

    The Kalevala: Finland's National Epic

    Nick Hennessey
    produced by Phil Smith
    and Simon Jacobs

    25:00, 23439, S

    03-Jan-2010

    Miles Jupp's Muscular Lines

    Miles Jupp
    produced by David Stenhouse

    25:04, 23513, S

    12-Jan-2010

    Midnight Feasts and Lashings of Ginger Beer

    Michael Rosen and Julia Donalsom
    produced by Cecile Wright

    28:04, 26324, S

    11-Feb-2010 to
    01-Apr-2010

    Capturing America -- Mark Lawson’s History of Modern American
    Literature

    1. Fighters and Writers
    2. The Crucible of Capitalism
    3. Divided States
    4. Landscapes, Interiors, Underworlds
    5. Making Sex Safe
    6. Small Wars
    7. The Celebrity Tour
    8. Goodbye Soldiers, Hello Everyone

    Mark Lawson
    produced by Robin Reid

    27:52, 26142, S
    27:51, 26117, S
    27:55, 26185, S
    27:57, 26211, S
    27:58, 26233, S
    28:00, 26263, S
    27:58, 26228, S
    28:00, 26263, S

    04-May-2010

    Pistols at Dawn -- real-life duels and the literature they influenced

    Professor Justin Champion
    Producer: Sarah Taylor

    27:52, 26141, S

    25-May-2010

    Sidekick

    Frank Cottrell Boyce
    produced by Jeff Byrd

    27:57, 26206, S

    01-Jul-2010

    Carnegie Classics -- winning the Carnegie Medal for
    children's literature

    Anne Fine
    Producer: Angela Sherwin

    28:03, 26300, S

    14-Sep-2010

    Character Assassins

    Fiona Lindsay
    Producer: Chris Eldon Lee

    28:04, 26316, S

    14-Oct-2010

    In Search of Faust

    Twm Morys
    produced by Chris Taylor

    27:50, 26110, S

    R7:
    28-Jul-2010
    29-Jul-2010

    Faking the Classics

    1. Shakespeare
    2. Mozart

    Jonathan Vaite, John Joe O’Neill,
    Matt Ryan
    No credits

    27:49, 26091, S
    27:46, 26033, S

    08-Mar-2011

    Emerald Noir: The Rise of Irish Crime Fiction

    Val McDermid
    Producer: Robyn Read

    27:53, 26148, S

    01-Apr-2011

    The Artiness of Naughtiness

    Presenter: Toby Amies
    Producer: Rob Alexander

    27:57, 26207, S
    26-Apr-2011

    Tales from the Digital Archive -- authors writing on computers

    Christine Finn
    Producer: Marya Burgess

    		 27:51, 26113, S
    31-May-2011

    In for the Kill -- the coming of age of black British crime fiction

    Mike Phillips
    Producer: Paula McGinley

    		 27:44, 26013, S
    23-Jun-2011

    Vampires V Zombies!

    Natalie Haynes
    produced by James Cook

    		 28:02, 26285, S
    30-Jun-2011

    Does Happiness Write White?

    Catherine Blyth
    produced by Faith Lawrence

    		 27:31, 25810, S
    05-Jul-2011

    Tim Key's Suspended Sentence

    Tim Key
    produced by Stephen Rodger

    		 27:40, 25897, S
    30-Aug-2011
    06-Sep-2011

    Cat Women of the Moon

    1 relationships between the sexes
    2 babies

    Sarah Hall
    produced by Nicola Swords

    		 27:45, 25977, S
    27:38, 25861, S
    08-Sep-2011

    Comp Lit

    Nick Baker
    Producer: Tamsin Hughes

    		 27:37, 25854, S
    21-May-2012

    Miles Jupp in a Locked Room

    Miles Jupp
    produced by David Stenhouse

    		 27:56, 26145, S

    Collections by various authors

    Date

    Title

    Cast

    Parameters

    Broadcast
    12-Jan-2004 to
    16-Jan-2004,
    18-Jan-2004
    27-Dec-2004 to
    31-Dec-2004

    2000 Tales

    The Canterbury Tales retold
    in a contemporary setting
    1. Robert Glennister, Francis Tolty, Karl Gross, Eleanor Bron,
      Zeta Satter,
      Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, Christina Reid, Nick Dark, Marcy Kahan
      Music by Sylvia Hallett, Directed by Jeremy Mortimer
    2. Eleanor Bron, Elizabeth Spriggs, Madaf Sharma,  Paul Battatcharjee,
      Myra Sayal, Prianga Annan, Richenda Carey, Mary Wimbush,
      Barbara Lee-Hunt, Zeta Satter
      Written by Marcy Kahan, Peter Sanson, Ruksana Ahmed, Carl Miller
      Music by Sylvia Hallett, Directed by Tracey Neill and Jeremy Mortimer
    3. Joseph Fines, Warren Mitchell, Lesley Manville, Zeta Satter
      Written by Glyn Maxwell, Jeremy Front, Sarah Dangles
      Music by Sylvia Hallett, Directed by Mary Peete
    4. Barbara Lee-Hunt, Mary Wimbush, David Swift, Terence Edmond,
      Richenda Carey, Susannah Hamilton, Tom George, Andrew Scott,
      Maureen O’Brien, Sophie Walsh, Doreen Keogh, Zeta Satter
      Written by Cara Miller, John Mortimer, Lynn Coughlin
      Music by Sylvia Hallett, Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Tracey Neill
    5. Jessica Stevenson, Joss Acklund, Henry Goodman, Pitt Donahy,
      Dominca Cinque, Darren Tighe, Zeta Satter
      Written by Jill Adams, Angela Risik, Sebastian Baczkiewicz
      Music by Sylvia Hallett, Directed by Mary Peete
    6. Tim Pigott-Smith, Trevor Nichols, Melinda Walker, Maureen Beatty,
      Jimmy Mystery, Penny Derby, Forbes Masson, Tracey Wiles,
      Charles Simpson, Susannah Hamilton, Victor Spinetti, Paul Battercharjee,
      Richenda Carey, Mo Sessi, Michael Legg, Robert Glennister,
      Thomas Arnold, Helen Ayres, Kenny Blythe, Claire Corbett,
      Jasmine Hyde, Alex Trinder, Zeta Satter
      Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, Lee Jackson, Ian Hegley, Howard Baines,
      Mahesh Titani,  Liz Lockhead, Barry Keith, Sally Ponkling (?)
      Music by Sylvia Hallett, Directed by Tracey Neill, Mary Peete, Jeremy Mortimer

    43:38, 40916, S

    44:07, 41369, S

    44:07, 41369, S

    44:00, 41266, S

    44:05, 41330, S

    117:52, 82885, S

    08-Sep-2006

    The Unexpected
    European

    Made in six European countries, these plays explore and challenge our
    perception of ourselves, providing a snapshot of Europe today.

    • The Unexpected Dane, Danish Radio by Kasper Hoff, translated by
      Jonathan Sydenham
      Ian Burns, Peter Zhelder
      Sound design Helga Prip; director Anders Lundorph;
      producer Jesper Bergmann. With thanks to David Petri
    • The Unexpected Finn, YLE, Finland, by Harri Virtanen,
      translated by Aleksis Meaney
      Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Taisto Oksanen
      Sound Anders Wiksten; director Mikko Ahonen; producer Pekka Kyro
    • Rehn Dogs, Radio Bremen, Germany, by Alexander Adolph
      Svenja Pages, Lutz Herkenrath
      Sound Peter Nielson and Claudia Jira;
      assistant director: Wolfgang Seesko;
      director: Hans Helge Ott; producer Holger Rink
    • Rain in My Suitcase, BBC Radio Drama, Manchester, by Rommi Smith
      Beru Tessema,Will Tacey
      Lullaby sung by Nahla Eljack; Sound design: Steve Brooke;
      broadcast assistant: Joanne Wheatcroft; producer Polly Thomas.
      With thanks to Ali Hussein, chair, Leeds Sudanese Association
    • Donald and I, Radio France, by Fabrice Melquiot,
      translated by Myriam Heard
      Gregoire Oestermann, Nicolas Raccah
      Sound design: Claude Niort; director Myron Meeron.
      With thanks to Frank Smith and Blandine Masson
    • Expecting Rain, HRT, Croatia, by Dubravko Mihanovic,
      translator/editor/director Mislav Brecic
      Jelena Miholjevic, Rakan Rushaidat
      Music editor Mate Matisic; sound engineerLana Gospodnetic

    A collaboration between Danish Radio, Finnish Radio, Radio Bremen,
    BBC Radio Drama, Radio  France and Croatian Radio. It was produced with
    the assistance of the EBU Radio Development Fund.

    57:30, 53922, S

    25-Apr-2011

    Ten Lessons in Love

    Lesson 1: You never know when you're going to fall in love By Nick Warburton
    Sean Baker, Nyasha Hatendi, Alex Tregear

    Lesson 2: More often than not, your dream date will be a nightmare
    By Bola Agbaje
    Zawe Ashton, Femi Oyeniran

    Lesson 3: Beware of skeletons in the closet Written and performed
    by Josie Long

    Lesson 4: Remain interested; don't yawn at least By Tim Key
    Tim Key, Alex Tregear, Stuart McLoughlin

    Lesson 5: When your heart freezes it's time to leave the building
    By Rebecca Lenkiewicz
    Sally Orrock, Daniel Rabin

    Lesson 6: Love is fickle Written and performed by Josie Long

    Lesson 7: Being alone doesn't have to mean being lonely By Nick Payne
    Stuart McLoughlin, Alex Tregear

    Lesson 8: Love's worth fighting for The real-life story of Dane and Lenka
    Produced by Rich Ward

    Lesson 9: Love can't be pinned down Written and performed by Josie Long

    Lesson 10: Ignore all previous lessons
    Sean Baker, Jane Whittenshaw, Nyasha Hatendi, Alex Tregear,
    Stuart Mcloughlin

    Directed by James Robinson

    43:37, 40892, S
    09-Jan-2012 to
    13-Jan-2012

    Stop What You're Doing and Read This

    1. Memories and Expectations by Michael Rosen
    2. A Bed. A Book. A Mountain by Jeanette Winterson
    3. Mindful Reading by Tim Parks
    4. True Daemons by Carmen Callil
    5. The Right Words in the Right Order by Mark Haddon
    1. Read by Michael Rosen
    2. read by Jeanette Winterson
    3. read by Tim Parks
    4. read by Carmen Callil
    5. read by Mark Haddon

    abridged by Mark McCallum
    Producer: David Roper

    14:06, 13208, S
    14:06, 13202, S
    14:05, 13186, S
    13:57, 13062, S
    14:04, 13169, S

    Folklore

    Date

    Title

    Cast

    Parameters

    23-Oct-2006
    07-Jan-2007

    Storytellers

    Adrian Chiles

    28:07, 26365, S

     

    The Night the Animals Talked

    Ian Macmillan
    Reading by Alice Arnold
    Produced by Viv Beebe

    28:07, 26365, S

    26-Apr-2007

    Three Sisters

    Sheila McClennon
    Producer Geoff Bird

    28:21, 26586, S
    05-Dec-2011

    Three Wishes

    Janet Ellis
    Producer Geoff Bird

    		 27:49, 26035, S

    Anonymous and Traditional Literature

    Date

    Title

    Cast

    Parameters

    04-Feb-2007
    11-Feb-2007
    18-Feb-2007

    The Mahabharata

    Paul Battacharjee, Nitin Ganatra, Raad Rawi, Sam Dale, Zubin
    Varla, Paul Bazely, Danny Sapani, Sasha Behar, Sudha Buchar,
    Indira Joshi, Jude Akuwudike
    Dramatised by Jatinder Verma and Claudia Mayer
    Composer Niraj Chag; director Claire Grove

    57:11, 53616, S
    57:11, 53612, S
    57:11, 53614, S

    04-Jan-2008

    Maadai-Kara - the epic Altai poem from southern Siberia

    Benjamin Zephaniah
    Produced by Ruth Hedges

    28:13, 26465, S
    10-Jul-2011

     Pearl -- anonymous 14th century poem

    Julian May

    		 27:37, 25850, S

    Commonwealth Stories -- A collection by various authors

    Date

    Title

    Cast

    Parameters

    11-Dec-2006 to
    15-Dec-2006

    Commonwealth Stories

    1. The Moon, the Cat and the Donkey, by Erin Soros in Canada, read by Garrick Hagon
      Down South, by Peter James in Australia, read by Matt Dyktynski
      Clean Sheets      , by Sue Seah in Singapore, read by Jason Chan.
    2. Recycling by Eleanor Verbicky-Todd in Canada, read by Barbara Barnes
      Wings of Vedanthangal by Anupama Chandrasekhar in India, read by Lyndam Gregory
      The List      , by Sue Perkins in New Zealand, read by Susan Curnow.
    3. Considering Cuckoo Clocks)by Fran Hunnisett in the UK, read by Stephen Critchlow
      Living by Bread, Alone, by Becky Apteker in South Africa, read by David Bailie
      You Got a Problem      , by Carin Makuz in Canada, read by Liza Ross.
    4. From the Cane written and read by Lawrence Scott.
    5. The Immigrants by Nigerian writer Helon Habila, read by Colin MacFarlane

    Producer Mary Ward-Lowery

    13:50, 6492, m
    14:08, 6629, m
    13:34, 6360, m
    13:39, 6406, m
    13:07, 6153, m