BBC Drama Catalogue - BBC Radio International

Audio Diaries
by Kay Stonham
5 x 30'
1998
Aunt Julia And
The Scriptwriter
by Mario Vargas
Llosa
6 x 30'
1996
Bards Of Bromley
1 x 44’
2004
Crampton Hodnet
by Barbara Pym
6 x 30'
1993
Fred Rimble
John B Keane
1 x 45'
2003
Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes
by Anita Loos
4 x 30'
1995
4. Comedy
A diverse range of comedy serials, from adaptations of modern
classic novels to original radio drama; they all have one thing in
common, the ability to make your audience laugh.
Delightful parodies in a series that follows ordinary people through a
momentous period in their lives.
DR0028
Imagine a radio station has a huge audience for its soap operas.
They are all written, performed and directed by one man. Imagine he
loses his marbles and gets the soap plots hopelessly mixed up. Add
the story of a young writer in love with his aunt and you have all the
ingredients of a fabulous romantic comedy.
DR0001
Jacqueline Swerdlow's creative writing class in Bromley attracts an
unusual range of would-be authors: A.A. Milne, William Wordsworth,
August Strindberg, George Eliot and Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
Passions run high and unlikely alliances unfold as they make no
bones what they think about each other's work.
DR0119
One of Barbara Pym's distinctive comedies of middle class life and
manners, set in sleepy 1930s Oxford. Starring Elizabeth Spriggs,
Samantha Bond and Stephen Moore.
TCD1073
Written by John B Keane, dramatised by Kerry Lee Crabbe, and
starring Ardal O'Hanlon. This play about Jim Conlon's fervent
attempts to cure his hypochondriac mother, is being broadcast on
what would have been the Irish author's 75th birthday to
commemorate his death last year.
DR0105
Sparkling 1920s comedy about a not-so-dumb blonde and a showgirl
who go to Paris in search of rich husbands. An adaptation of Anita
Loos' novel, so memorably filmed in 1953 with Jane Russell and
Marilyn Monroe.
TCD1199
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