Strada Drama Podcast

Strada Drama: GRIEF IS THE PRICE WE PAY FOR LOVE A distraught woman in her 50s has just left her beloved father, who has sadly died from a heart attack. Still trying to come to terms with this herself, she now faces and dreads the potentially devastating moment when she tells her late Dad's wife, her own mother - a lady in her 80s, that her loving husband of over 60 years has gone. Read by Creato...

Strada Drama: GETS ON MY GOAT GETS ON MY GOAT is a podcast from Strada Drama’s originator Thom McKeown - with actors voicing his irascible moaning grievances about contemporary life in a humorous format. The rants cover topics like snow, wasps, restaurants, cliches, shopping, etiquette, modern lazy language and obese people amongst other grumpy outburts! Written Edited and Produced by Thom McKeown...

Strada Drama: PERCY GIVES NOTES Percy Wynn, a rather camp, effeminate and flamboyantly enthusiastic individual, was once an assistant stage manager with the Ipswich and Suffolk Dramatic Society, but due to an unfortunate ‘personal’ incident, he felt it best to leave and move to pastures new. He is now based in Burley in Wharfedale, a West Yorkshire village between Otley and Ilkley in Yorkshire, wh...

Strada Drama: THE PAPER ROSE A now-single man is still attempting to come to terms with his emotions, as his girlfriend has left and ended their relationship. In an effort to console himself, he's been playing maudlin country and western music in his flat. One evening, he notices a postcard has landed on the floor underneath the letter box - and therein begins a major and life-changing new chapter...

Strada Drama presents: RETRIBUTION Set in the latter years of the 1970s, a brutal murder has been perpetrated against a black man in Yorkhire, England. Upon a tip-off, the police have arrested, under dubious and highly unorthodox methods, a young man, Michael Gallagher, on suspicion of having committed this heinous crime, which they believe was racially motivated. A veteran Detective Sergeant, Joh...

Strada Drama: A NIGHT IN Ireland – in a small location named Braniel on the south-east corner of Belfast - during the Covid pandemic. Married couple (Irish) Liam Flanagan and  his English wife Beccy, are in mid-disagreement about dinner, amongst several other things. Unfortunately due to the then Covid pandemic, they're unable to go out for a romantic meal, so Liam has suggested they instead order...

Strada Drama: THE FUNERAL A slightly camp funeral director/undertaker sits with a lower-working class Glasgow husband and his aspirational wife (who has delusions of a middle class existence) at the dining table of their home. The husband has a gruff, working-class Glasgow accent. The wife's father has passed away and the three are gathered together to discuss the arrangements. NOEL FRANSON as The...

Strada Drama: PATER NOSTER A mother and daughter begin a conversation. Family affairs, intertwined with melancholic recollections, ambiguous resentments and dark secrets slowly begin to unravel between the pair, leading to a shocking and unexpected conclusion. Cast: FREDA MACDONELL as Lorraine PENNI WEBB as Melinda STEWART ROSE as Father Written Directed and Edited by Thom McKeown A Strada Drama A...

Strada Drama: BARKING He is addressing Nathan - but what is the source of this lengthy utterance, and by whom - and why? Written Edited and Performed by Thom McKeown A Strada Drama Audio Production © 2019

Strada Drama: BLAME The plays opengs in a courtroom, where a woman is being examined by a solicitor, with regard to serious charges against her husband. These are - the murder of their young son, and of rape and multiple instances of domestic abuse including grievous bodily harm against the wife. Due to earlier proceedings having been halted due to the highly disruptive behaviour of the accused ma...

Strada Drama: A GREY AREA In a societal reversal, a caucasian man and a man of darker-skin begin a heated debate on culture and race in this alternative world. Written Edited and Performed by Thom McKeown A Strada Drama Audio Production © 2025

Strada Drama: CRUSH In the empty classroom of a school is Robert Duffy, a sensitive and decent school teacher - and Sandra McNamara, a diligent and fiercely intelligent teenage student in his class - who both become potential participants in a seemingly impossible romance. Cast: NOEL FRANSON as Robert Duffy    MAGGIE JOYCE as Sandra McNamara Written Directed and Edited by Thom McKeown © 2021  

Strada Drama: HOW DARE YOU! Chatty chums Larry and Fiona meet up for a coffee and chin-wag about their mutual recent supermarket outing, and a slight tiff develops! Cast: ANDREW MARTIN, MAGGIE JOYCE Written Directed and Edited by Thom McKeown © 2024