Radio Plays - 1996 - other authors
1996 The Years Between, by Daphne du Maurier
1996 Stolen Kisses, by Bill Taylor
1996 Whisky Galore, by Compton MacKenzie
1996 A Raging Fury, by Christopher Reason
1996 Body of Glass, by Marge Piercy
1996 Kirton's Story, by James Woolf
1996 The queen of revenge, by T. Granquist
1996 Antigua Penny Puce, by Robert Graves
1996 United States, by Tony Coult
1996 Holding Hands, by Helen Kluger
1996 The great subterranean adventure, by Joe Turner
1996 One fine day, by L. Brito
1996 The Proud Walker, by Keith Darvill
1996 A breath of fresh air, by Graeme Fife
1996 Mortmaine, by J. Metcalfe
1996 Potted History, by Andrew Dallmeyer
NOTES
The Years Between....1996
By Daphne du Maurier. R4,3.2.1996/1950,Diana Quick/Roger Allam.Saturday Night Theatre. 90m.
Stolen Kisses....1996
By Bill Taylor,R4,24.2.1996/1950,Paul McGann/Neil Pearson/Louise Lombard.Saturday Night Theatre. 90m. Sombre
tale of dark deeds in a hotel.
Whisky Galore....1996
By Compton Mackenzie,R4,2.3.1996/1950,Bernard Holley/Dolina. Saturday Night Theatre. 90m. The famous comedy about the shipwrecked bottles of whiskey.
A Raging Fury....1996
By Christopher Reason,R4,9.3.1996/1950,James Aubrey/John Branwell/Stephen Hall. Saturday Night Theatre. 90m.
Psychological drama with a passing reference to the "Captain Hurricane" stories from the
"Valiant", in the 1960s.
Body Of Glass....1996
By Marge Piercy,R4,13.4.1996/1950,Eleanor Bron/Penny Downie. Saturday Night Theatre. 90m.
Dram. by Michelene Wandor.
KIRTON'S STORY....1996
R4, 30 Apr 96. A romantic comedy set in a school.
THE QUEEN OF REVENGE....1996
R4, 4 Jun 96. A child's fairy tale merges with reality.
ANTIGUA PENNY PUCE....1996
R4, 15 Jun 96. A dramatisation of Robert Graves' comic novel about
the titanic struggle between a brother and sister over the ownership of
a stamp collection. 90m.
UNITED STATES....1996
R4, 17 Jun 96. The story of the Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. 90m.
HOLDING HANDS....1996
Honeymoon secrets re-surface. 9 Jul 96, R4.
THE GREAT SUBTERRANEAN ADVENTURE....1996
An underground theme park in an old mine...90m. R4, 28 Sep 96.
A tale of disaster.
ONE FINE DAY....1996
R4, 23 Jul 96, R4. The negro maid in "Gone with the Wind" returns
twenty years later with an axe to grind.
The Trials of Oscar Wilde....1996
R4, 5 Oct 96. 90m and 60m (2 parts). By Christopher Fitz-Simon.
Simon Russell Beale as Oscar Wilde; Nigel Davenport as the Marquis of Queensberry, who is hounding Wilde for corrupting his son. Wilde can either ignore Queensberry or risk having his private life dragged through the courts. With Alex Lowe, Nathaniel Parker, Richard Pearce and Peter Sallis. Part 1 directed by Peter Kavanagh; part 2 directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. Repeated on BBC7, 10 Apr 05 and 17 Apr 05.
THE PROUD WALKER....1996
A play about the saving of Winchester Cathedral, which, about
3 generations ago, was starting to tilt. A man named Walker, a diver,
swam through the flooded foundations carrying bags of concrete, and stabilised it. It took him many years, and thousands of journeys.
R4, 15 Nov 96. 45m. Afternoon play.
MORTMAINE....1996
A ghost story, by J. Metcalfe. R4, 30 Nov 96.
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR....1996
The French revolution, and the French chemist Lavoisier. 5 Dec 96,
R4,2.02pm, 55m.
POTTED HISTORY....1996
Ruben has invented a machine which can listen to pots. Now he
needs someone to steal some from the museum. R4, 55m, 19 Dec 96. There's
more about this play on the Science Fiction Plays page.
Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
Most of above plays known to exist in VRPCC collections. We don't have "A Raging Fury" by Christopher Reason.
