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BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard. In the acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre. Revitalised, original and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the...
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When Cal Weaver stops at red light on a rainy night while driving home, he ignores the bedraggled-looking teenaged girl trying to hitch a lift - even when she starts tapping on his window. But when she says, 'hey, aren't you Scott's dad?' and he realizes she's one of his son's classmates, he can't really ignore her. OK, so giving a ride to a teenage girl might not be the smartest move, but how much harm could it do? Over the next 24 hours, Cal soon...
6) Faces
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Just before Danny Cadogan's 14th birthday, his father leaves. Having drunkenly run up a gambling debt he cannot pay, Big Dan Cadogan takes the easy way out. Determined to protect his mother, brother and sister, something changes in Danny and, overnight, he turns into a young man set on making his way in a violent and dangerous world.
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Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front of World War II, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He will not speak of what happened to him and his family. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal's uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France. There, Hannibal lives with his uncle and his uncle's beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki, who helps...
8) In the dark
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Historical, domestic and sexy, this is a story of war, meat and desire on the home front, set in South London's dark and dirty wartime streets during World War I.
10) The road home
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Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daugher and his outrageous friend Rudi who - dreaming of the wealthy West - lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Ahead of Lev lies the deep strangeness of the British: their hostile streets, their clannish pubs, their obsession with celebrity. London holds out the alluring possibility of friendship, sex, money and a...
12) Going Dutch
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2008
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When Jo's husband trades her in for a younger model, she finds herself living in a houseboat on the Thames. Used to having her feet firmly on dry land, she realises she'll need more than a few culinary skills to keep herself afloat. Getting last-minute cold feet, Dora has ditched her fiance, fled village life and a domineering mother.
13) Name to a face
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2008
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When Tim Harding agrees to represent a friend at an auction in Penzance, he is unaware of the secrets that tie the ring he is sent to buy to three separated events: the loss of HMS Association with all hands in 1707; an unsolved murder in Penzance 30 years later; and a fatal accident during a dive to the wreck in 1999.
14) Rough justice
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Sean Dillon returns in an action-packed tale of lies, deceit and deadly power play. Dillon has his hands full after a British cabinet minister, whilst on a tour of Kosovo, shoots a Russian soldier who is about to commit an atrocity.
16) The walking dead
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2008
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A young man starts a journey from a dusty village in Saudi Arabia, believing it will end with his death in faraway England. For honour, for glory, for victory, if his mission succeeds, he will go to his god a martyr - and many innocents will die with him.
18) All that jazz
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The events of one fateful night change two sisters' lives forever ... February, 1921. When influenza claims the life of their mother, Daisy Cooper and her younger sister Mary are suddenly all alone in the world. Daisy works long hours to keep a roof over their heads, but she worries she's neglecting Mary. Mary is thrilled when the moving pictures come to Rotherhithe, and she loves watching the silver screen flicker into life. But, for Daisy, the magic...
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