The Lost Love of Phoebe Miles By Bernard Kops. Phoebe, a young woman in wartime London, works in a dress factory. She meets and falls in love with an American serviceman but he disappears into Europe and the war. Years later - they meet again.

Wooden Heart - By Hatty Nailer. A drama about the life of Anna a Yemish Gipsy girl born in Switzerland during the 1970's and taken from her family and placed in an orphanage. The play highlights the Swiss policy of taking Gipsy children from their families in order to disolve the race.

The Word Man. Chris Harrald's vivid and imaginative play about Henry Fowler, the creator of the Concise Oxford Dictionary and Fowler's Modern English Usage. Celebrating the beauty of language, the joy of words and the wonder of finding love later in life, this is a witty and erudite comic romance.

The Canterville Ghost. A radio adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic ghost story about a tormented spirit who is finally laid to rest through a display of true love.

Be Prepared. By Andy Rashleigh. Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement, looks back upon a life embodying the spirit of imperial adventure. From the balcony of his home, he regrets, he gives thanks, and he wonders if he has at last found something like harmony and peace.

Belgian Nurse. By Kathryn Hulme. The story of a friendship that created one of the 20th century's best-selling novels and films. When American writer Kathryn Hulme meets a Belgian nurse on a UN Relief Programme after the Second World War, she doesn't understand why Marie-Louise Habets is so unwilling to talk about herself. It's only later that Marie-Louise admits she has recently left her convent - a confession that reaches a worldwide audience through the book and then the film of The Nun's Story.

Charity Ends at Home. By Colin Watson. Inspector Purbright investigates dark deeds and anonymous letters in the quiet and respectable town of Flaxborough. (More Purbright here)

The Other Side of the Hill. It's a Long Way from Talavera: First of two plays by Peter Luke, which follows the Duke of Wellington and his peninsular campaign between 1808 and 1813.


The Other Side of the Hill. The Long Road to Waterloo: The 2nd of Peter Luke's plays of the Peninsular wars takes us from the Battle of Badajoz to the Battle of Waterloo.

A Pair of Blue Eyes describes the love triangle between a young woman and her two suitors. One is the socially inferior, but upwardly striving young man who adores her and connects her with her country past, while the other is the respectable, established, older man who represents London society. The heroine is caught between multiple expectations (those of the men, her parents, and society)and the desires of her own heart, which she does not always seem to know. The story is told lightly, however, never burying the reader with a gloomy shroud (until the very end). This is a good read for someone who enjoys Hardy and wants to sample his early works.

A Woman of No Importance Diana Rigg, Martin Jarvis and Annette Crosbie star in Oscar Wilde's tale of social scandal.

A Surfeit of Lampreys A gruesome way to go - Lord Wutherford meets a nasty death at the home of the Lampreys, a family with much charm but little cash.

Horses. By Dick Francis. An arsonist is wreaking havoc in a village south of Dublin, and Father Devoy takes a stranger in out of the rain. 5 Episodes

Women in Love. The story of two very different gentlemen, with two very different responses to love. Dramatisation of the DH Lawrence book.
Episode 1 of 4. Springtime.
Episode 2 of 4. Water Games.
Episode 3 of 4. Moonlight.
Episode 4 of 4. Mountain Shadows.

Trueman and Riley. By Brian B. Thompson.
Series 1
 1. Vanished: Detectives Trueman and Riley investigate the mysterious disappearance of a man en route from London to a new life in Leeds.
2. Story: A journalist has fallen from a building while working on a story, but was she pushed? Trueman and Riley are on the case.
3. Bond: Intrigue and suspicion at a James Bond convention as Trueman and Riley go in search of a stolen ring.
4. Speed: An angry Riley's been sent on a speed awareness workshop. But that puts him on the trail of an ex-con from the old days in Hull.
5. Love Bytes. Trueman and Riley's missing person inquiry takes a strange turn when they are sucked into the world of an online role play game.

Series 2
1. The Road To Nowhere. The Leeds detectives find themselves on assignment to the Student Crime Prevention.
2. The Three Degrees. A student reunion turns sour when a man ends up in the canal. Trueman and Riley must find out if he fell or was pushed.
3. A Man's World. Trueman and Riley return to CID to deal with a series of thefts from pregnant women. First in the frame is a male midwife with a gambling habit.
4. The Other Chic. Trueman and Riley are called in when a lingerie shop is burned down in an arson attack. Is Leeds about to suffer an outbreak of war in the world of underwear?

(More Detective stories here )

Harpo Goes to Leningrad. Lee Pressman's play is based on the true story of Harpo Marx's 1933 tour of Russia. Misunderstood as a comic, arrested as a terrorist and enlisted as a spy, Harpo finds himself alone in a strange country with only his burly female minder for company.

Adam Bede. A dramatisation of George Eliot's second novel. The story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. The novel revolves around a love triangle between beautiful but thoughtless Hetty Sorrel, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her, Adam Bede, her unacknowledged lover, and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent Methodist lay preacher.

Address Unknown - Tim Dee's adaptation of Kressmann Taylor's novel, published in 1938. Two old friends, former business associates in San Francisco, exchange letters. One is an American German Jew, the other an American German who, excited and energised by the new Germany of the 1930s, has gone home. Attitudes harden with the seemingly inexorable rise of Hitler, the Jew horrified by the change in his friend and his wholesale adoption of the rhetoric and ideology of Nazism.

Little Dorrit. Dickens's masterpiece set in a debtor's prison where Amy Dorrit cares for her imprisoned father. (More Dickens here.)

Inside Mr Enderby Anthony Burgess' Misadventures of Enderby: poet, drunk and centre of a world of chaos and bad verse.

The Small Back Room - Richard Stevens's dramatisation of Nigel Balchin's tense WWII thriller. Sammy Rice is called in to try and solve the mystery of a series of unexploded bombs that are being scattered after German air raids. They lie dormant and then inexplicably explode on human contact.

Mixed Messages and Secret Diplomacy. Gordon Corera reveals the hidden story behind the tangled relationship between Iran and the United States since 9/11.