Morpurgo, Michael

Last Edited: 05-Feb-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

21-May-2005

Why the Whales Came

Sarah Badel, David Bradley, Rosie Day, Rory Copus, Benedict
Smith, Ashley Jones, Jenny Funnell, Sam Dale, Andrew Branch
Dramatised by Roy Apps
Directed by Celia De Wolff

57:00, 53439, S

27-Dec-2006

And We Flew into Bethlehem

read by Paul Copley and Robert Hastie
Abridger/producer Gemma Jenkins

14:09, 6636, m

26-Nov-2007

No Trumpets Needed

Written and read by Michael Morpurgo
Producer Lu Kemp

13:36, 12760, S

24-Dec-2007

Aesop’s Fables

Written and read by Michael Morpurgo
with Chris Bianchi, Tom Wainwright, Benji Bower
Music composed and played by Benji Bower
Director Susan Roberts

44:04,41319, S

05-May-2010

Daredevil

Reader: James Bryce
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie

13:53, 13027, S
R7:
14-Nov-2010

War Horse

 Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethin, Bob Hoskins, Ben Adams,
David Beams, Jasper Britton, Gorn Grainger, Geoffrey Hughes,
Jack Leonard, Paul Slack, Like Treadaway, Angus Wright
directed by John Thames, produced by John Leonard		 58:37, 54968, S
04-Feb-2012

Private Peaceful

Ted Allpress, Harvey Allpress, Amy Reade, Daniel Houghton,
Paul Chequer, Mark Quartley, Annette Chown, Ben Allen,
Alison Reid, Nick Brimble, Christopher Bianchi, Peter Ellis,
Michael Morpurgo, Paul Chequer, Mark Quartley, Nicholas Lyndhurst,
Ben Allen, Jonathan Keeble, Terence Mann
The Organist was Marjorie Cleverdon
Music - Coope Boyes and Simpson
dramatised by Simon Reade
Directed on location by Susan Roberts

 87:00, 81383, S

Documentaries and Collateral Material

Date

Title

Cast

Parameters

29-Sep-2009

Morpurgo's Islands of Inspiration

Michael Morpurgo
produced by Susie Matthews

28:09,26393, S