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William Boyd: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- A Good Man in Africa, An Ice Cream War, Restless and More
- Narrado por: Alan Rickman, Alison Steadman, Bill Paterson, Bill Nighy, Tom Goodman-Hill, Ben Miles, Niamh Cusack, Fenella Woolgar, Eileen Aitkin, full cast
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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A collection of BBC dramatisations and readings of William Boyd's award-winning novels and short stories.
One of Britain's foremost contemporary writers, William Boyd is renowned worldwide for his bestselling novels, which have been translated into over 30 languages. He has won numerous awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award (for A Good Man in Africa), the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for An Ice-Cream War) and the Costa Book Award (for Restless).
Collected here are the BBC radio productions of all three acclaimed books. Starring Alan Rickman, Alison Steadman and Bill Patterson, A Good Man in Africa tells the satirical story of a buffoonish diplomat's struggles in a fictional West African country. In the espionage thriller Restless, it is 1976, and Ruth discovers that her very English mother, Sally, is in fact a Russian emigré and former British spy. Eileen Atkins stars as Sally, with Fenella Woolgar as Ruth. And in An Ice-Cream War, as millions face slaughter on the Western Front, British and German colonists in East Africa try to emulate their European counterparts. Nickolas Grace and William Hootkins star in this darkly comic drama.
Also included are dramatisations of three of Boyd's superb short stories. 'On the Yankee Station' is a gripping tale of revenge on an American aircraft carrier; 'The Destiny of Nathalie X' features an African filmmaker's encounter with Hollywood and its grotesque inhabitants; and in the eerie 'A Haunting', a landscape architect finds himself taken over by an unseen presence. Peter Whitman, Keith Edwards, John Sessions and Maynard Eziashi are among the star casts.
We conclude with five further stories, read by Ben Miles, Jonathan Firth, Bill Nighy, Niamh Cusack and Tom Goodman-Hill. 'Adult Video' features an Oxford post-graduate who 'rewinds', 'fast forwards' and 'plays' through his life; 'Varengeville' sees a young boy go exploring and meet a painter - as his mother entertains her 'friend'; 'Lunch' reveals a diner's eventful days through his restaurant receipts and pithy comments; 'Fantasia on a Favourite Waltz' centres around a prostitute's encounter with a talented young pianist; and 'The Pigeon' takes us into the world of a sickly author facing romantic betrayal and family fissures.
Cast and credits:
Written by William Boyd
Text copyright © William Boyd 1981 (A Good Man in Africa, 'On the Yankee Station'), 1982 (An Ice Cream War), 1995 ('The Destiny of Nathalie X'), 1998 ('Varengeville'), 2000 ('A Haunting'), 2004 ('Adult Video', 'Lunch', 'Fantasia on a Favourite Waltz', 'The Pigeon'), 2006 (Restless)
A Good Man in Africa
Dramatised by Stephen Davis
Directed by Richard Wortley
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 18 March 1985
Restless
Dramatised by Melissa Murray
Directed by Marc Beeby
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 6-17 April 2009
An Ice Cream War
Dramatised by John Peacock
Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 19 May-16 June 1994
'On the Yankee Station'
Adapted by William Boyd
Directed by Richard Wortley
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 9 May 1985
'The Destiny of Nathalie X'
Directed by Dave Batchelor
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 20 November 1998
'A Haunting'
Directed by Dave Batchelor
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 28 December 2001
William Boyd - Fascination
Abridged by Neville Teller
Produced by Duncan Minshull
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 15-19 November 2004
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The Guy de Maupassant BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Full-Cast Dramatisations of Un Vie, Bel Ami & More
- De: Guy de Maupassant
- Narrado por: Miriam Margolyes, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Adam Nagaitis, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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Guy de Maupassant is renowned as one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protégé of Flaubert, he was celebrated for his naturalistic fiction, and wrote over 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books and one volume of verse in his short but highly productive lifetime. He died in an asylum aged just 43. This collection brings together dramatisations of some of his finest works.
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First Class
- De Anonymous User en 10-25-23
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Goethe: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Six Full-Cast Dramatisations Including Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther and More
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Simon Callow, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jack Farthing, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 5 m
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a colossus of German literature and a true Renaissance man. A novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist and philosopher, he wrote the first international bestseller, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and his epic masterpiece Faust is one of the most famous and celebrated dramas of all time.
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Patrick Hamilton: Rope, Gaslight, Hangover Square and More
- Seven BBC Radio Full-Cast Productions
- De: Patrick Hamilton
- Narrado por: Alan Rickman, Amanda Redman, David Thorpe, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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Patrick Hamilton is renowned for his gritty, slice-of-life tales chronicling the hopes, dreams and obsessions of London's working class in the inter-war years. This collection brings together his key pieces, together with some lesser-known classics and a bonus 2004 documentary exploring his achievements and legacy.
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Alan Rickman
- De Aidan O'Reilly en 08-22-23
De: Patrick Hamilton
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John Wyndham: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Six classic BBC radio adaptations
- De: John Wyndham
- Narrado por: Bill Nighy, Peter Sallis, Barbara Shelley
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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Bill Nighy, Barbara Shelley and Peter Sallis are among the cast in six classic BBC Radio dramatisations of stories by one of Britain's most popular science fiction authors. 'The Day of the Triffids', first broadcast in 1968, is set in a world in which most people have been left blind after a meteor shower, and lethal carnivorous triffids are roaming the land. 'The Kraken Wakes', dramatised for radio in 1998, is a gripping story of monsters from the deep, alien invasion and ecological disaster.
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The best (and the worst) of BBC radio adaptations
- De Old Man Parker en 07-25-20
De: John Wyndham
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Blood, Sex and Money
- A BBC Radio 4 Serialisation of Zola's Epic Saga
- De: Émile Zola
- Narrado por: Paul McGann, Alison Steadman, Samuel West, y otros
- Duración: 23 h y 18 m
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First published between 1870 and 1893, Émile Zola’s 20-book cycle chronicling four generations of the Rougon-Macquarts was a shocking exposé of the decadence, degradation and moral decay of 19th-century France. It included some of his greatest novels, among them his masterpiece, Germinal. These innovative, ambitious dramas, first broadcast on Radio 4 over 24 hours in 2015-16, are a radical reimagining of Zola’s classic series, introducing us to 104-year-old matriarch, Dide, imprisoned in an asylum in southern France.
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Addictive, Edifying Fun - Truly Outstanding
- De Aaron en 10-12-19
De: Émile Zola
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BBC Radio Shakespeare: A Collection of Eight Comedies
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Anne-Marie Duff, David Tennant, Full Cast, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 28 m
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A collection of BBC Radio 3's iconic Shakespeare productions: eight comedies with all-star casts including David Tennant, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Martin Jarvis, Siân Phillips and Miriam Margolyes. The plays included in this collection are: Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, and All's Well That Ends Well.
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Not told entirely
- De Gabsalot en 12-11-21
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Love Is Blind
- A Novel
- De: William Boyd
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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When he is hired as the personal piano tuner for a brilliant pianist, Brodie Moncur suddenly finds himself swept up into a life of luxury that he could never have imagined. But while accompanying his new employer on tours from Paris to St. Petersburg, Brodie falls madly in love with the Russian soprano, Lika Blum: beautiful, worldly, seductive - and forbidden. Though seemingly doomed from the start, Brodie’s passion for Lika only grows as their lives become increasingly more intertwined, more secretive, and, finally, more dangerous.
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Captures the protagonist's struggles
- De galcarm en 10-15-18
De: William Boyd
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The Leo Tolstoy BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Full-Cast Dramatisations of War and Peace, Anna Karenina & More
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Simon Russell Beale, Amanda Redman, Emily Mortimer, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 35 m
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One of the greatest novelists of all time, Leo Tolstoy is famed worldwide for his masterpieces of realist fiction, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. This comprehensive collection contains both those iconic works, as well as his final novel, Resurrection, his autobiographical essay 'A Confession', Stephen Wakelam's dramatic account of his tempestuous marriage, Mrs Tolstoy, and In Our Time: Tolstoy.
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Excellent adaptation..No chapter titles
- De Anna B. en 01-07-22
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Chief Inspector Dover Mysteries
- Six BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Crime Dramas
- De: Joyce Porter, Paul Mendelson
- Narrado por: Kenneth Cranham, Stuart McQuarrie, full cast
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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Cantankerous and dishevelled, Chief Inspector Dover is no one's idea of a model detective - but he does have an uncanny knack for solving crimes. In these radio dramas, set in the 1960s and '70s, he and his long-suffering sergeant, Charlie McGregor, investigate sinister cases of kidnap and murder. The first four are adapted from Joyce Porter's novels, while the latter two are original stories based on her characters.
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Mildly entertaining
- De wisconsinclark en 02-26-22
De: Joyce Porter, y otros