Blandings: Heavy Weather by P. G. Wodehouse (1933) | Radio Drama (1988) | Humour - Comedy, Classic
Heavy Weather is part of the Blandings Castle series of tales, the fourth full-length novel to be set there, and forms a direct sequel to Summer Lightning (1929), with many of the same characters remaining at the castle from the previous story. It also features the re-appearance by Lord Tilbury, who had previously appeared in Bill the Conqueror (1924) and Sam the Sudden (1925).
Heavy Weather by P.G. WODEHOUSE adapted in four episodes by RICHARD USBORNE with Ian Carmichael as The Hon Galahad Threepwood
Episode(1): Trouble is brewing at Blandings Castle, home to Clarence, Earl of Emsworth, his brother, his sister and - most importantly of all - his prize pig.
???????? ?? ???, ??? ????? ?????????? ??????. The Terror by Arthur Machen dramatised by Pat Hooker During the First World War, a child s sudden and inexplicable death disturbs the peace of a quiet Welsh community. But the death of the child is only the beginning of a terror that will strike not only at the village, but nature itself.
Novelist: Arthur Machen
Dramatiser: Pat Hooker
Director: Gerry Jones
Dr Lewis: Douglas Blackwell
Secretan: Sam Dastor
Remnant: Manning Wilson
Merritt: Danny Schiller
Llewelyn: Sion Probert
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gleRr3IuMnc
A sinister discovery in a deed-box sets off a dramatic train of events in the office of a firm of fashionable solicitors.
by MICHAEL GILBERT
Producer NESTA PAIN
Writer: Michael Gilbert
Dramatised By: Nesta Pain
Directed By: Glyn Dearman
Inspector Hazlerigg: Hywel Bennett
Henry Bohun: Dominic Guard
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???????? ?? ???, ??? ????? ?????????? ??????. ' My God! The mill band marching through the snow up to their ankles. There's a bonfire up the road. People linking hands and circling round the fire. Talk about pagan rites! '
Even if the villagers have been tortured by a vindictive, spiteful grasping woman, Superintendent Baxter doesn't expect her murder to be a cause for celebration.
Unknown: Ken Whitmore
Directed By: Alfred Bradley
Sarah Minshull: Judith Barker
Norman Minshull/George Sarum: Russell Dixon
Martha Murrain: Sheila Price
Det Supt Baxter: John Franklyn-Robbins
Peter/Sgt Titus: John Jardine
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adapted for radio by ARCHIE CAMPBELL ????????: The scene is laid in the living-room of St. Michael and AU Angels Vicarage, Combermere, an industrial town in the South of England. with Jessie Matthews . . .
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Written By: St. John Ervine
Produced By: Norman Wright
Adapted By: Archie Campbell
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????????: Shaughraun Dion Boucicault 's witty melodrama, set in County Sligo at the time when Fenians were transported. Conn, the Shaughraun, is a lovable rascal whose irrepressible wit and courage foil the villains and outwit the English.
PLAY: The Shaughraun is a melodramatic play written by Irish playwright Dion Boucicault. It was first performed at Wallack's Theatre, New York, on 14 November 1874. Boucicault played Conn in the original production. The play was a huge success, making half a million dollars for Boucicault, which he squandered. Wikipedia
Originally published: 1874
Playwright: Dion Boucicault
Adaptations: Conn, the Shaughraun (1912), My Wild Irish Rose (1922)
[Full PLAY IN TEXT - https://archive.org/stream/shaughraunanorig00boucuoft/shaughraunanorig00boucuoft_djvu.txt]
AUTHOR: Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot, commonly known as Dion Boucicault, was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatre. Wikipedia
Born: 26 December 1820, Dublin, Ireland
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Sgt Wicker 's last week before retirement starts out with a less than thrilling case of a vandalised garden. But it soon escalates to something very much nastier.
Directed by Mattew Walters
Det Sgt Wicker: William Simons
Det Con Blake: Ian Targett
Jill Compton: Joanna MacKie
Mark Compton: Philip Sully
Ada: Barbara Atkinson
Dr Stanton: Laurence Payne
Wardley: Norman Bird
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Df3EAE-s4
???????? ?? ???, ??? ????? ?????????? ??????. She had been an odd little woman, but harmless and quite delightful. Why would anyone want to kill her?
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????????: A swashbuckling tale of English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll and his adventures in Ruritania.
The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope, is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Wikipedia
Originally published: 1894
Country: United Kingdom
Playwright: Anthony Hope
LC Class: PR4762.P7 1999
Characters: Rudolf Rassendyll, Colonel Sapt, Princess Flavia, MORE
Adaptations: The Prisoner of Zenda (1952), MORE
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It is 1895 in a Welsh mining village, a place where children are only children until the age of 12 and are then sent over the hills and down the mines. Into this environment comes the iron-willed, blue-stockinged English teacher Miss Moffat. She is determined to bully and inspire her prize pupil, Morgan Evans, up and out of the pits towards the liberating freedom of learning.
Anna Massey, Edward de Souza and Imelda Staunton star in a radio version of Emlyn Williams classic 1938 play, The Corn Is Green. Director: Gerry Jones
First heard on BBC Radio 4 in 1985.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtUBzrN2WdY