Radio Plays with same / similar titles
These plays are listed alphabetically by title.
A FAIR HEARING....1980
By J.C.Wilsher.
A FAIR HEARING....1997
By Steve May. Radio 3.
COLD CALL....1997
By Collin Johnson. R4,22 Jul 97; excellent play set in an advertising agency call
centre.
COLD CALLING....2003
By Lynne Truss (see her page). Play based in a call centre. (ND)
DAVID....1997
Both Nick Warburton and Sebastian Bacziewicz have written plays
based on the life of the biblical King David. Nick's two plays (both
60m) went out in 1997 on radio 4; no other details at present.
Sebastian's series was broadcast in 2002 under the title "Kings" and
consisted of five plays. See his page for full information. (CL) An
unrelated play, I am David, about a refugee child looking for his mother,
by Ann Holm, dramatised by John Peacock, was broadcast on two successive days
in late October 2004.
The Deep End....1989
By Alan Downer.
Recorded in studio B10 from 31/1/89 to 2/2/89. The cast:
Neil Dickson,
Rosalind Adams,
Benjamin Ramsland,
Dominic Rickhards,
Cara Kelly,
Reginald Marsh,
Petra Davies,
Ian Michie,
Michael Deeks,
Philip Sully,
and Ken Cumberlidge.
Thanks, Ken, for sending this information ....ND
THE DEEP END....1999
Radio always has the potential of making magic, and Pete
Lawson's second play for radio did just that. In an ordinary
city street, in a municipal swimming baths, he finds a secret
world and invites the listener to share it. Leni is a woman
with powerful yearnings, swimming relentlessly to submerge
the memories of a lost child. Her yearnings echo, underwater,
and reach the world of merman and mermaids, summoning a magical
relationship that might spare her more worldly pain. Michelle
Holmes is Leni, exchanging the "soap" world of Emmerdale for
the cleansing depths of the deep end, recorded in the swimming
baths of Kentish Town, in London, Autumn 1999.....(taken from
Ned Chaillet's intro. to the BBC7 repeat)
The Doppelganger....1977
Creepy tale of the supernatural by JCW Brook; stars Jack May. See
JCW's page.
The Doppelganger Machine....1974
Story in which a plane takes off in 1933
and lands in the 70s - only not the 70s we know. By James
Follett. (ND)
FEVER....1990s
.....part of a late night series in the early
1990's, about rock and roll stars who are no longer with us but who left
their mark on pop music. I know I have them all, but don't remember the
title of one of them. Fever was about "Little Willie John". Another play
of the same title has been broadcast. Not sure of date (....CL)
Ice....1979
By Max Williams. A cleverly plotted murder - but where's the weapon?
Ice.....1986
By James Follett. Classic sci-fi; part of the polar icecap is
melting. An iceberg as big as a country is heading for America. (ND)
The Colour Norman....1995
Science student Norman invents a new colour, and is
besieged by all and sundry, anxious to get their hands
on it. A superb comedy by Stephen Dinsdale and Jerome Vincent.
Norman....2004
By Mike Stott. One of the best comedies of the
year. Directed by Bruce Hyman; stars Johnny Vegas.
"Norman Conquest"...various dates
The series of plays "Table Manners" has a character "Norman
Conquest"; nothing to do with the detective play "Conquest Marches
On" and others. (CL)
PS I LOVE YOU....1997
By Graeme Curry, (R4 1430 5 July) set in the world of secondhand record shops. Gwen's husband has just died; she discovers that he had a secret life....not a secret lover, however, as her husband had been on the track of what could have been the rarest record in the world..........Gwen & Eddie take up the search. Philip Jackson & Celia Imrie take the lead parts.
PS I LOVE YOU....2005
By Cecilia Ahern & Wendy Oberman: Saturday play, 13.08.05. (ND)
RIPPLES....1976
By Maisie Moscow. 90m, 8 Feb 76.
RIPPLES....1983
By Gurmeet Kasba. 1 Jun 83. Tilly Vosburgh, Chris Chescoe, David Milner.
comment from Simon Palmour:
I
do not have a recording of the play, but can tell you a bit about it. I worked
with Gurmeet, who died in 1990. The play concerned a
failing relationship between a disabled man and his girlfriend, who was
leaving for university. Ripples is the name of a piece of music that
runs through the play - it's also rhyming slang,
raspberry ripple = cripple - fortunately a term we no longer hear.
The play was quite autobiographical. Gurmeet went on to write a TV
movie with Faye Dunaway - called Raspberry Ripple.
RIPPLES....1993
4.9.93, by Maggie Allen; with Kenneth Haigh, Victoria Carling
and Albert Welling.
RIPPLES....2001(?)
By Debbie Kent. 8 Feb 01. Fay adores a good bath, where she does most of her thinking. Joe prefers a quick shower.
Will this affect their relationship?
SAY IT WITH FLOWERS....1999
By Kevin Wong. R4 5 Feb 99. Light-hearted drama. 45m,
afternoon play.
Saying It with Flowers ....1997
Thirty Minute Theatre: By Julia Stoneham. When Mr Jennings has
an accident, Rhoda and Nicola take on the role of Good Samaritans.
But Mr Jennings is not all he seems. With Lynn Farleigh,
Tamsin Heatley and Graham Padden. Director Brian Lighthill. (CL)
A VISITATION....1998
By Don Haworth. 06 Jun 98. Can't remember details at present.
A VISITATION....2000
By Don Taylor. A respectable middle-aged man behaved despicably, just once, to a
young lady he knew whilst a student. Twenty years later, he
receives a 'phone call from her. This was a subtle story of
love and revenge. John Wood was Victor (not an apt name, in the
circumstances), Prunella Scales was Artemis, and Don
Taylor was the director. (CL)
Who goes there?....1991
By Bob Shaw, dir. Glyn Dearman. It's AD 2386 and Warren Peace has joined the
Space legion to forget something. He can't remember what. 55m.
Who goes there?....2002
By John W. Campbell, adapted by Mike Walker. 30m. Six men are
trapped in an Antarctic research station by a snowstorm. They allow
a strange creature they have found to thaw out. It's an alien.
Dir. Rachel Horan; executive producer Ned Chaillet. (ND)
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE....1986
By Alan Bennett. Original broadcast 01.01.86, rpt. BBC7, wb 25 Jan 04: -
starring Patricia Routledge and directed by Richard Wortley.
Routledge plays Margaret Schofield, a middle-aged spinster who
reminisces cheerfully about her world of office work and canteen
gossip.
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
By Oscar Wilde. Several radio versions have been broadcast. (CL)
Clive Lever & Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
Most of these plays known to exist in VRPCC collections
