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The riddle of Sherlock Holmes' disappearance after the Reichenbach Falls is at last solved. And the real reason for Professor Moriarty's power is revealed... Starring Simon Callow, Ian Hogg and Karl Johnson. Nicholas Meyer's Gold and Silver Dagger Award-winning novel, first published in 1974. Dramatised by Denny Martin Flinn. Sherlock Holmes .... Simon Callow Dr Watson .... Ian Hogg Sigmund Freud .... Karl Johnson

A Prairie Home Companion was a long-running live radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor, airing from 1974 to 2016. It also inspired a 2006 film directed by Robert Altman, set behind the scenes during a fictional final broadcast of the show.

"The Cowboy and the Lady" aired on Hollywood Radio Theater starring Gene Autry and Merle Oberon. Poor Mary Smith can't go night-clubbing or have any other fun because any hint of scandal could damage her father's political career. She decides to rebel and convinces her two maids to let her go along with them on a blind date with some rodeo performers.

Indiana Jones and the Bridge to Yesterday is an epic, feature-length fan-made audio drama released by the IndyCast in 2019. Developed by Raiders Radio over five years, it features high-quality voice acting, original music, and cinematic sound effects. The story follows Indy into the Devil's Triangle as he attempts to right past wrongs.

It's 1948. Sleuth Easy Rawlings is drawn into a web of murder and corruption. Walter Mosley's thriller, read by Paul Winfield

A BBC radio full-cast dramatization of this much-loved classic adventure about a dog named Buck. In Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, strong sled dogs were in high demand. Buck is stolen from his comfortable home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively feral in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs. Sold to a group of inexperienced gold hunters, he is eventually saved by John Thornton, with whom he forms a deep bond. Exciting and action-packed, The Call of the Wild explores the timeless relationship between man and dog, and the draw of primitive instincts that pull Buck away from humanity towards the wilderness. Starring Robert Jack, Finn Den Hertog, Robin Lane, Nick Underwood and Melody Grove.

Sea Change Drama on 3 By John Fletcher. This is the story of the battle between appeasers and anti-appeasers in the period before - and just after - the start of the Second World War, and the formation of a coalition which, like the election of 2010, abruptly ruptured all previous political alignments. New political alliances and social organizations - which had first arisen in the Bridgwater by-election of 1938, but which had been ignored by the London-based political and media establishments - united in their fight against appeasement. Suddenly and dramatically, in May of that year, this new united front rose against the government and, in the space of only three days, overthrew it. Somewhat surprisingly, the magnificent story behind this overthrow is little known. It is a story of ferocious loyalty and betrayal, outrageous media manipulation, blackmail, prejudice - and not a little courage. The appeasers are principally represented by Neville Chamberlain and his ruthless, over-protective spin doctor Joseph Ball - a man who would have eaten Alistair Campbell for breakfast. The anti-appeasers, battling through various foreign policy crises, are a disparate group: an Australian, Rex Leeper, the Foreign Office's press officer, constantly - and largely unsuccessfully - countering Ball's pro-appeasement spin from Number 10; Harold Nicolson MP, bravely opposing appeasement amid the innuendos of fellow backbenchers and Ball's press smears; Vernon Bartlett, a radical foreign correspondent for the News Chronicle, who is asked to stand as the anti-appeasement candidate in the Bridgwater by-election; and Guy Burgess, anti-appeasement patriot, communist and BBC political producer, who is blackmailed over his homosexuality by Ball into couriering secret messages between Chamberlain and the dictators. The fascinating and little known story of the struggle to establish the coalition government of 1940 - a story of idealism, blackmail, and political skulduggery. Based on real events.

The fastest gun in the West only wants to avoid the next gunfight. Gregory Peck, Wally Maher, Byron Kane, Ted de Corsia, Sam Edwards, Grace Lenard, Tom Holland, Ruth Paris, Betty Lou Gerson, Jeffrey Silver, Henry King (screen director), George Sidney (head of the Screen Director's Guild), Bill Cairn (director), Howard Wiley (production supervisor), Jimmy Wallington (announcer),

Mary Poppins By P L Travers, dramatised by Hazel Marshall. Poised, punctilious and always practically perfect in every way, Mary Poppins brings her own blend of magic to the role of nanny. The radio play draws on previously undramatised adventures involving Mary Poppins and her young charges, Jane and Michael Banks. The production features original music specially composed by David Chilton

Can a young country girl lead an army? Joan has no plans on saving France from the English but when the brutes turn up and put her beloved crows to death by fire she knows she has to do something. And if she saves France at the same time, well that is just a wonderful side-effect. Guided by her guardian angels, St Catherine and St Margaret, Joan decides to take a stand and fight for what she knows is right. Dawn French plays Joan in this funny and poignant take on the story of Joan of Arc. The cast also includes Anne Reid, Maggie Steed, Kevin Eldon and Jim Broadbent. Written and directed by Patrick Barlow, an actor, comedian and playwright. He is one half (along with Jim Broadbent) of the British comedy double act, The National Theatre of Brent.

n the spring of 1943, a group of Air Force officers began work on an ambitious plan to tunnel their way out of a German POW camp called Stalag Luft Three. A year later the tunnel was ready and seventy-six made their escape. All but three were recaptured, but fifty were then systematically executed on orders from German High Command. This much was made internationally famous by Hollywood in the film The Great Escape, which mixes a meticulous depiction of the tunnelling plan with highly fictionalised American characters on motorbikes. But there is a stranger part of the story which starts where the film leaves off, and reveals the real history behind the nation-building legend. The British Government vowed to avenge the murders, and within weeks of the war's end, sent RAF investigators into the ruins of Germany, with orders to track down the killers, and bring them to exemplary justice. Award-winning dramatist Robin Brooks and internationally best-selling novelist Robert Radcliffe tell the extraordinary story of the escape, the murders, and the postwar manhunt in the chaos of divided Germany, through the eyes of one of the senior investigating officers: a straightforward by-the-book detective from Blackpool CID.

A hotel on a remote and crumbling headland. There is only one guest and everyone has a motive to murder. Kitchen knives go missing, stairs creak and surprises lurk in locked rooms. Will there be a victim before the sea takes its sacrifice? Starring Estelle Kohler and Robert Whelen. Disturbing psychological thriller written by Chris O'Connell. Heather .... Estelle Kohler Drew .... Robert Whelen Lawrence .... Jim Pyke Lisa .... Annabelle Dowler Danny .... Paul Rattray Griffin .... Trevor Harrison Music by Derek Nesbitt. Director: Sue Wilson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001.

Adapted from the novel by Karen Blixen The story follows Emily, a woman in 1868 Bristol haunted by a lost love, who adopts a slum child named Jack who seems to have eerie, intimate knowledge of her past.

It’s been many years since Mr. Satterthwaite has seen Mr. Harley Quin, so when Satterthwaite, awaiting his broken down car, goes to a tea shop called the Harlequin café, he begins to think of his friend. A self-described snob, Satterthwaite orders coffee and examines the coloured china when a bolt of sunlight comes in and the very same Mr. Quin walks through the door. Enigmatic as ever Mr. Quin and his diligent dog Hermes stay for a Turkish coffee with the excitable Satterthwaite whilst the car is fixed, and Satterthwaite cannot help but bore Mr. Quin with the very long history of the family he is off to visit. Their conversation is interrupted by the abrupt entrance of the member of that very same family intent upon replacing her harlequin cups. Satterthwaite desperately persuades Quin to accompany him, but, all the bereft Satterthwaite is left with is one word, ‘Daltonism.’ What is the importance of Quin turning up at the tea shop on that day and what does that word have to do with anything?

SPRING STORM by Tennessee Williams. A radio adaptation of the Royal and Derngate, Northampton production, broadcast to mark the centenary of the playwright's birth. Heavenly Critchfield has almost everything a young woman could desire, but when she's forced to decide between respectable suitor Arthur and handsome, wild lover Dick, her actions cause a chain of consequences that tear their lives apart. Tennessee Williams was born on 26th March, 1911. 'Spring Storm', one of his first plays, was written in 1937, when he was twenty-six. It didn't receive its first production until 1995 in Berkeley. The European Premier took place at the Royal & Derngate Northampton on 15 October 2009, running alongside Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill. Both productions subsequently transferred to the Royal National Theatre in 2010 to the Cottesloe Theatre.

"Forgive me for being personal, but you have several peculiarities: your teeth, white face and staring, red eyes ... the fact that our mahogany mirror over the fireplace seems to ignore your existence - and what are you doing in Bognor Regis?" A couple receives an unusually diabolical visitor, but this guest may get more than he bargained for... Starring Margot Boyd and Philip Voss. Written by JCW Brook.

The Afternoon Play, 6 August 1986, 15.00-15.47 Rebroadcast on Radio 4 Extra, Sun 11 Sept 2016 John writes books about unusual phenomena around the world, but has never penetrated "our own mysterious Celtic back yard". So he travels deep into Cornwall, where he finds the Valley of Trelamia and a girl who lives at one with it ...

Saturday Playhouse, 28th October 1995 Duration: 88 minutes In this tale of the supernatural, journalist Ellie Rogers is sent to Norfolk to investigate witchcraft. Exceedingly sceptical, she soon witnesses some terrifying incidents which just can't be explained.

After a rancher who treated him like a son is killed by a gang, Bowdrie joins McNelly's Texas Rangers to track down the killers.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's romantic thriller about guilt and redemption,

Shane is the archetypal western hero: the high-plains drifter. No-one knows where he came from or where he is going, but he makes the present safe. Adapted for radio by Nick McCarty. With Howard Keel as the narrator and Stacy Keach as Shane.

"Close Enough To Touch" is the dramatised story of the loss of the submarine HMS Thetis in Liverpool Bay on 1st June, 1939, which cost 99 lives. The HMS/M Thetis was a brand new submarine, the third of the then modern and new class of submarine boats... the "T" class boats. She was the first submarine built on Merseyside by Cammell Laird. She was the pride of the navy, of the men who built her and the men who sailed in her. To so very many, ninety nine of them, she was soon to become their tomb. On her very first dive, her very first venture into the element for which she had been designed and built, she died. Those with her, save four died too. So close to safety, with the stern above water, the steel hull that should have protected them from the dangers of the deep, became their coffin wall. Why did this tragedy happen? The play was recorded on location at the historic warship site, Birkenhead, Merseyside.

Red Velvet Saturday Drama by Lolita Chakrabarti. Adrian Lester stars in a radio version of the Tricycle Theatre's award-winning production, directed by Indhu Rubasingham, about the first black actor of note to play Othello. The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1833. Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, has collapsed on stage whilst playing Othello. A young black American actor has been asked to take over the role. But as the public riot in the streets over the abolition of slavery, how will the cast, critics and audience react to the revolution taking place in the theatre? Imagined experiences based on the true story of Ira Aldridge. Lolita Chakrabarti won Most Promising Playwright at The Evening Standard Awards and the Critics' Circle Awards after the 2012 run of Red Velvet at The Tricycle. Adrian Lester's performance earned him the Best Actor Award at the Critics' Circle Awards. Music by Paul Englishby Directed by Indhu Rubasingham Studio Production by Anne Bunting, Keith Graham and Mike Etherden Produced by Abigail le Fleming

One-hour music intensive documentary presents rock music legend, Roy Orbison, through his own words and music, and comments by artists inspired by his legacy. Interview subjects include Roy Orbison, himself, recorded throughout his career, Chet Atkins, Bruce Springsteen, Don Was, Jeff Lynne, Barry, Maurice & Robin Gibb, former Monument Records president Fred Foster, and others.

Elvis grows from his childhood in Tupelo and Memphis to become, at various times, the King of Rock & Roll, a threat to America's moral fiber, an honorable soldier serving his country, and one of Hollywood's biggest film stars. Close friends (Jerry Schilling, Patty Parry) and historians (Pete Guralnick, Ernst Jorgensen) detail his earliest influences, struggles and successes on his path to stardom alongside Elvis' own words and some of his best known recordings. As his popularity grew, he consistently earned more respect from those who initial saw him as a threat to American youth. By the 1960s, Elvis was the ultimate symbol of goodness, thanks to his two years in the army and his dizzying production schedule of 31 movies in eight years.

The 1997 BBC radio adaptation of "The Queen of Spades" was a 90-minute drama based on Alexander Pushkin's famous short story. This version aired as part of BBC Radio 4’s Afternoon Drama series and featured Greg Wise and Amanda Root in leading roles. The adaptation was written by Michelene Wandor, who is known for her radio plays and dramatizations of classic literature. This production is distinct from opera or other adaptations and is a dramatized version specifically created for BBC radio, emphasizing atmosphere, character, and suspense true to Pushkin’s source material.

The classic western story about a strange lawman and his unusual methods. Jimmy Stewart, Joan Blondell. William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Thomas Hanlon (second announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), Frances Robinson, Leo Cleary, Ken Christy, Noreen Gammill, Tommy Cook, Charles Seel (doubles), Dorothy Scott, Joseph Du Val, Ruby Dandridge, Tyler McVey (doubles), Franklyn Parker (doubles), Doris Singleton (singing voice for Joan Blondell, commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Truda Marson (commercial spokesman: as Merle Oberon), Nancy Gates (intermission guest), Felix Jackson (screenwriter), Gertrude Purcell (screenwriter), Henry Myers (screenwriter), Max Brand (author), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects),

Two brothers are accused of murder, but which one did the deed? A new attorney, Mr. Lincoln, handles the case. Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, Jeff Chandler, Frank Wilson (writer), Leith Stevens (composer, conductor), Dee Englebach (producer, director), Hugh Brundage (announcer).

After the death of his outlaw brother, Jesse, Frank James seeks revenge on his killers. Henry Fonda, Wendell Niles (announcer), Burl Ives (ballad singer), Lurene Tuttle, Ernest Whitman, Joseph Kearns, Conrad Binyon, Milton Geiger (adaptor), Alfred Newman (music supervisor), Robert L. Redd (director).

John Wayne, Mel Ferrer, Mala Powers, Barton Yarborough, William Johnstone, George Neise, Wally Maher, Norman Field, Dan Riss, Paul Dubov, Edward Marr Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack.

A tough man makes the first cattle drive with a 10,000 head herd, over the Chisholm Trail. Walter Brennan, Jeff Chandler, William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), John Wayne, Joanne Dru, Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Fred MacKaye (director).

A story of gold and greed in the mountains of Mexico. The last commercial has been deleted. Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Frank Lovejoy, William Keighley (host), John Milton