Tag Archives: Radio drama

Plaza Suite by Neil Simon (1968) | Radio Drama (1989) | Comedy

BBC Radio Drama presents the LA Classic Theater Works in the first radio production of Neil simon’s highly-acclaimed three-part stage play. With Ed Asner, Marsha Mason and Hector Elizondo , Alfred Molina , Joe Spano and JoBeth Williams. With special appearances by Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving. Each part takes place in the same suite… Read More »

No Commitments (01/13)by Simon Brett | Radio Drama | black comedy , Thirty-Minute Theatre

A comedy by Simon Brett following the fortunes of three fortysomething sisters. In Rod Beacham ‘s black comedy Simon is disturbed to find, on return from holiday, that everything at work from personnel to paperwork is strangely different. Director Matthew Walters Contributors Unknown: Rod Beacham Director: Matthew Walters. Simon: Brian Miller Erica/Jean: Kate Binchy Security… Read More »

Our Betters by Somerset Maugham (1923) | Radio Drama | Comedy

Our Betters, a Comedy in Three Acts. Written in 1915. Just after her wedding, American hardware heiress Pearl Saunders overhears her husband, Lord George Grayston, telling his mistress that he only married her for her money. Disillusioned, she grows hard and cynical. adapted for radio by PEGGY WELLS with Patience Collier as Duchesse de Surennes… Read More »

Hay Fever (1925) by Noel Coward | Radio Drama (1971) | Comedy

First produced in 1925, Hay Fever is technically a masterpiece. A comedy of bad manners which starts with the arrival of four guests, invited independently by different members of the Bliss family for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead. The promise of an idyllic and peaceful weekend is quickly trounced by the self-absorbed… Read More »

All in good time by Bill Naughton (1965) | Radio Drama | Comedy

This domestic comedy explores the drama of a teenage marriage and the effects on a working-class British family. By the author of Alfie, this 1960’s Broadway hit was made into the film The Family Way which starred John and Hayley Mills. source