Dimsdale Podcasts

Eleven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of Mary Queen of Scots and the Stuart royals Under the Stuarts, Britain entered the modern world. But with great change came turmoil, and for 111 years, the Stuart monarchs faced dynastic struggles, religious conflict, the rise of parliamentary democracy – and civil war. These dramas […] The post The Stuarts appeared first on Dimsdale P...

A complete collection of this eclectic puntastic Radio 4 sketch comedy Bringing together both The Wildebeest Years and Forty Nights in the Wildebeest, this fantastic collection showcases the brilliant, pop-culture-filled and one-liner-rich comedy of Nick Romero and Dan Freedman. From Incy Wincy Quincy, spider pathologist, and The Archers abroad (and in a new sci-fi format) […] The post The W...

Leslie Phillips stars in this eight-part radio comedy thriller Famous Mayfair hairdresser Hilaire knows all the secrets of feminine beauty. His VIP clients trust him implicitly and take him into their confidence, telling him things they wouldn’t dare tell their husbands or lovers. But unbeknownst to them, he leads a double life as a secret […] The post The House Of Unspeakable Secrets appear...

Season 1 Young, beautiful and courageous, Milady de Winter is a cunning spy, talented thief, and ruthless killer. She glides with ease through the streets and gilded halls of 17th-century France and England, turning heads or, with a click of her fingers, disappearing anonymously into a crowd. Driven by intellect and fierce desire, she is […] The post Milady appeared first on Dimsdale Podcast...

High comic drama among the humble members of a local council in the Home Counties Broadcast live from the Club Akimbo, Bletchley, this is Britain’s first public access cable radio show, presented by a group of Buckinghamshire district councillors who really should know better. Chairman of the Ways and Means committee Mr Dutton is our […] The post Truly, Madly, Bletchley A BBC Radio 4 C...

Ambulance service – is the patient breathing and conscious?’ It’s a simple question, but call handler Carrie never knows where it might lead. Some calls are life-or-death, others hoaxes – and it’s not always easy to tell the difference. The truth is often in the words her callers aren’t saying – and it’s only by […] The post Life Lines appeared...

John Taylor has written and created six new tales that were inspired by the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Simon Callow stars as Sherlock Holmes and Nicky Henson as Dr. Watson in these fresh stories that were originally heard on BBC Radio. “The Wandering Corpse”: the professor claimed he could resurrect the […] The post Unopened Casebook Of Sherlock Holme...

2017 is the 130th anniversary of the publication of A Study in Scarlet, the first recorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson. What an amazing journey it’s been! In addition to the pitifully few sixty tales originally presented in The Canon, published between 1887 and 1927, there have been literally thousands of […] The post Imagination Theatre Sherlock Holmes appeared first...

A major BBC Radio series charting the history of post-war Britain through the lives of Hope Kiffin, Eunice Lamming and Gloria de Soto, bound forever by one moment in 1946. London, 1946. Struggling to cope with the idea of raising her daughter in a hostile environment, African-Caribbean nurse Hope makes the difficult decision to entrust […] The post Faith, Hope and Glory appeared first on Dim...

A pair of thriller series from prolific radio writer Wally K. Daly Award-winning dramatist Wally K. Daly penned numerous plays for BBC Radio across a range of genres, including the beloved sci-fi ‘Scream Trilogy’ and the sitcoms Anything Legal and Give Or Take. Featured here are two of his gripping thriller series: the tense spy […] The post Orphans in Waiting and The Children of Witchwood T...