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The door was bolted and the windows barred, so how was Mile Stangerson shot at, knocked unconscious, and left for dead? The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux Rouletabille……Nicholas BoultonSainclair…..Charles Simpsoninspector Larson….Geoffrey WhiteheadDarzac….Alastair DansonWith Becky Hindley, Hugh Dickson, Stephen Thorne, Brian ParrDirector: David Blount

In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut uses postmodernism in order to challenge modernist ideas. This novel is oftentimes referred to as an “anti-war book” An adaptation, dramatised by Dave Sheasby, of Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war novel, which tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, prisoner of war, optometrist and time-traveller. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Narrator……John GuerassioBilly Pilgrim….An...

Bangers and Mash was a single-series radio comedy program that aired from January to February 1999. There were six half-hour episodes and it was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Written by Katie Hims, and starring Mark Straker, Gerard McDermott, and Catherine Harvey, the show centered on former nun Martina and her (mis)adventures working for a financially troubled catering company. Bangers and Mash by Ka...

In a dilapidated hospital in a Russian town, a young doctor joins as a staff member and soon becomes concerned over the state of the ward housing, as well as the mental well-being of the people residing there. Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov

One night, on an English farm, Major the boar recounts his vision of an utopia where his fellow creatures own the land along with the means of production and are no longer the slaves of humans. Before long, his dream comes true and for a short while all animals really are equal. But the clever pigs educate themselves and soon learn how to extend their own power, inevitably at the expense of the re...

The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

Alan Harris' adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic 1915 novella about a man's involuntary and tragic transformation and both his and his family's subsequent struggle to adapt to an entirely new set of social circumstances. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Narrator ... Peter MarinkerGregor Samsa ... Tom BasdenGrete Samsa ... Emma SidiFather ... Kenneth CollardMother ... Felicity MongauJuri ... Simon Ludd...

In the heart of Northern England, three respectable couples, married on the same day, at the same church, and by the same vicar, join to celebrate 25 years of blissful matrimony. Or so they think. Priestley's premise is simple enough: three Yorkshire couples discover, as they are about to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary, that they were never legally married When We Are Married By J.B. P...

Ten guests are separately invited to an island by a person none of them knows very well, if at-all. When they arrive, it seems they have all been invited for different reasons. Nothing quite adds up. An anonymous voice accuses each of them of having murdered someone. By the end of the first night, one of the guests is dead. Stranded by a violent storm and tormented by the nursery rhyme 'Ten Little...

From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in...

An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims to have found a route to the earth's core. Professor Lidenbrock can't resist the opportunity to investigate, and with his nephew Axel, he sets off across Iceland in the company of Hans Bjelke, a native guide. The expedition descends into an extinct volcano toward a sunless sea, where they encounter a...

1984 by George Orwell Winston Smith ... Richard WidmarkJulia ... Marian SeldesO'Brien ... Alan Hewitt

Teacher Andrew Crocker-Harris is on the verge of retirement - and a divorce. But he has a shot at trying to redeem his dignity when a young schoolboy gives him an unexpected parting gift. The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan

It's London, 1907. Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because he is too prosaic, decides to go in search of adventure and fame to prove himself worthy of her. Soon after, he meets Professor George Challenger, a scientist who claims to have discovered a 'lost world' populated by pterodactyls and other prehistoric monsters. The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleProfessor Chal...

Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident – the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies – a husband and wife – shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into a cr...

In The Bookseller, we find Mr Buggage and his secretary Miss Tottle hard at work in the back room of Mr Buggage’s book shop in London’s Charing Cross Road. It soon becomes clear that they are running a most successful business but the fortune they are amassing is not from the sale of books. The Bookseller by Roald Dahl Storyteller…. Charles Dance Mr Buggage…. Toby Jones Miss Tottle…. Celia Imrie M...

Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettStephen Ouimette ... Estragon Tom McCamus ... Vladimir James Blendick ... Pozzo Tim MacDonald ... Lucky Joe Dinicol ... The Boy  Directed by Brian Bedford

The Stranger by Albert Camus is a work of existential literature set in post-war Algiers. It follows Meursault, who is detached from societal norms. After an impulsive act of violence, he confronts the absurdity of existence through his trial. The Stranger by Albert CamusAlex Lanipekun.......Meursault Director: David HunterBBC Radio 3

Joseph K. is an unexceptional man. He lives a quiet life and works in a bank. But one ordinary morning he is woken by two men. and finds himself under arrest. What is his crime? From that moment on, Joseph K. enters a strange, bewildering world of nightmare. The Trail by Franz Kafka Joseph K……Mike Gwilym Willem…….David Peart Franz……..Stuart Organ Frau Grubach……..Madi Hedd Inspector…….Simon Hewitt...

The story of Roald Dahl's childhood is filled with excitement and wonder but also terror and great sadness. We learn of his experiences at cruel boarding schools, his daring Great Mouse Plot, the dangers of Boazers, the pleasure/pain of the local sweetshop and his time as a chocolate taster. Just some of the marvelous, extraordinary events that no doubt went on to inspire his best-selling books. A...