Frayn, Michael

Last Edited: 25-Jul-2017 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

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Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
16-Nov-1993
Jarvis' Frayn Too
Martin Jarvis
Produced by Pete Atkin
28:49, 6758, m
BBC WS
28-Mar-1994
Make And Break
Adapted for radio and performed by Martin Jarvis
Rosalind Ayres, Christopher Godwin, John Bettine, Mark
Payton, Elaine Claxton, Neville Jason, Gareth Armstrong,
David Jarvis
Directed by David Hitchinson
88:52, 20831, m
BBC WS
BBC R4
17-Sep-1993
Towards the End of the Morning
Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres, Sean Probert, Katherine Halbert,
Fenella Fielding, Trevor Martin, Peter Whitman, John Green,
Sean Arnold, Lockwood West, Rosalind Adams, Miranda
Forbes, Stephen Garlic, Ronald Herdman, Andrew Lodge
dramatised by Geoffrey M Matthews
directed by Dickon Reid
83:54, 49170, m
04-Sep-2005
11-Sep-2005
Towards the End of the Morning
James Wilby, Clive Francis, Martin Freeman, Rosalind Ayres,
Serena Evans, Roger Hammond, Tom Ellis, Archie Scotney,
Finty Williams, Nigel Anthony, Sophie Langham, Kenneth
Danziger, John Hudson, Jane Goddard, Alexandra Mannion
dramatised by Robert Shearman
Directed by Martin Jarvis
56:55, 53372, S
56:55, 53368, S
BBC WS
BBC R4
14-Mar-1987
Alphabetical Order
Martin Jarvis, Penelope Wilton, Rosalind Ayres, Marcia Warren,
Deryck Guyler, Nigel Lambert, Geoffrey Matthews
adapted by Dickon Reid
Directed by David Hitchinson
86:56, 81513, S
Broadcast R7:
31-Jan-2005 to
11-Feb-2005
Spies


Read by Martin Jarvis
14:00, 6567, m
14:07, 6620, m
14:05, 6603, m
14:01, 6573, m
14:06, 6616, m
14:08, 6626, m
14:04, 6595, m
14:12, 6658, m
14:13, 6668, m
14:03, 6591, m
Broadcast R7:
16-Aug-2004 to
27-Aug-2004
Headlong


Read by Martin Jarvis
Abridged by Paul Kent
14:05, 13208, S
13:53, 13018, S
13:37, 12780, S
14:00, 13140, S
14:16, 13386, S
13:52, 13010, S
13:47, 12936, S
13:54, 13044, S
13:51, 12990, S
14:04, 13196, S
19-Jan-2013 Headlong Toby Jones, Gina McKee, Tim McInnerny, Denise Gough,
David Shaw Parker, Edward Max
dramatised by Robin Brooks
Directed by Clive Brill
86:50, 81237, S
Broadcast R7:
05-Jun-2006 to
13-Jun-2006
Sweet Dreams


Read by Martin Jarvis
Abridged and produced by Paul Kent
14:07, 13237, S
14:07, 13236, S
14:18, 13412, S
13:54, 13046, S
14:31, 13616, S
14:21, 13465, S
14:31, 13616, S
29-May-1995
R7:
07-Sep-2008
Here
Samuel West, Lucy Tregear, Margaret Courtney
directed by Matthew Walters
86:23, 81000, S
04-Oct-1987
R7:
06-Sep-2008
Clouds
Dinsdale Landon, Marak Hood, Don Fellowes, Paul Chapman,
Arturo Vanegas
directed by Matthew Walters
88:58, 83416, S
12-Jan-2013 Skios
Hugh Bonneville, Tom Hollander, Lisa Dillon, Janie Dee,
Stacy Keach, Susan Sullivan, Ian Ogilvy, Joanne Whalley,
Amita Dhiri, Agni Scott, Jon Glover, Matthew Wolf,
Nigel Anthony, Kerry Shale, Jennifer Bassey, Cindy Katz,
Andre Sogliuzzo, Darren Richardson, Janine Barris, Alan Shearman
Dramatised by Archie Scottney
Sound design: Mark Holden and Wes Dewberry
Producer Rosalind Ayres
Director Martin Jarvis
86:54, 81296, S
25-Jul-1992
Birthday
Dawn French, Deborah Findlay, Thomas Wheatley, Liz
Crowder, Peter Gunn, Matthew Morgan, John Webb, Una
Beaton, Joanna Wake, Anne Winter
adapted and directed by Matthew Waters
73:06, 34271, m
BBC R3
23-Feb-2014
Copenhagen
Greta Scacchi, Simon Russell Beale, Benedict Cumberbatch
adapted for radio and directed by Emma Harding
introduction
2:00, 1890, S
performance
116:59, 109436, S
27-Nov-2015
04-Dec-2015
11-Dec-2015
18-Dec-2015
Michael Frayn's Matchbox
Theatre
  1. Charles Edwards, Sophie Winkleman, Joanna Lumley,
    Roger Allam, Lisa Dillon, Alex Jennings, David
    Attenborough, Martin Jarvis
  2. Patricia Hodge, Joanna Lumley, Adam Godley, Mathew
    Wolf, Sophie Winkleman, Charles Edwards. Stephen Fry,
    Tom Hollander, Nigel Anthony, Julian Sands, Martin Jarvis
  3. Alex Jennings, Patricia Hodge, Roger Allam, Rosalind Ayres,
    Mathew Wolf, Ian Ogilvy, Julia McKenzie, Sophie Winkleman,
    Julian Sands, Janie Dee, Richard Sisson, Martin Jarvis
  4. Rosalind Ayres, Lisa Dillon, Adam Godley, Tom Hollander,
    Julia McKenzie, Lloyd Owen, Ian Ogilvy, Martin Jarvis,
    Nigel Anthony and Matthew Wolf
Written by Michael Frayn
Producer: Rosalind Ayres
Director: Martin Jarvis
27:35, 25811, S
27:30, 25733, S
27:49, 26032, S
27:50, 26098, S
BBC R3
11-May-1990
Benefactors
Michael Kitchen, Barbara Flynn, Harriet Walter, Clive Francis
Directed by Matthew Walters
108:16, 63385, m

Documentaries and Collateral Material
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
R7:
05-Feb-2007
Book Club about Headlong
James Naughtie
26:57, 25273, S