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Last Edited: 12-Mar-2018 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.


Date Title Cast Parameters
Publ. 1941
R7:
09-May-2007 to
11-May-2007
Frenchman’s Creek
Restoration Romance

Laura Hyron, Struan Rodger, Michael Tudor-Barnes, Michael
Cochrane, Norman Bird, Christopher Godwin, Susan Sheridan,
Christopher Good, Elizabeth Mansfield, Vincent Brimble, Michael
Kilgarrith, Joe Dunlop
Dramatized by Micheline Wandor
Directed by Cherri Cookson
28:50, 27038, S
27:12, 25504, S
27:03, 25364, S
26:25, 24780, S
29:01, 27219, S
28:02, 26293, S
BBC R4
17-Apr-1976
Frenchman’s Creek
Sheila Ruskin, David Buck, Geoffrey Matthews, Paul Lavers,
Nicholas Loukes, Denis Raymond, Paul Nicholson, Christopher
Ashley, Edwina Wray, David Sharp, Brian Gear, Tony Robinson,
Esmond Rideout, Hubert Tucker
Cornett played by: Michael Laird
Adapted by Brian Gear
Directed by Mary Price

87:23, 163846, S
24-Dec-2012 to
04-Jan-2013

Read by Adjoa Andoh
Abridged by Eileen Horne
Produced by Clive Brill
13:57, 13061, S
13:42, 12835, S
13:55, 13034, S
13:59, 13094, S
14:00, 13111, S
12:48, 11985, S
14:04, 13170, S
13:40, 12791, S
13:56, 13049, S
13:54, 13010, S
BBC WS
10-Dec-1982
My Cousin Rachel
Jennie Linden, James Aubrey, Charles Kay, Kate Binchy
Dramatised by Patricia Maze
Directed by Derek Hoddinott
45:43, 10716, M
45:12, 10595, M
42:56, 10064, M
45:39, 10700, M
Publ. 1951
R4:
04-Dec-1994
My Cousin Rachel
Mystery/Romance

Francesca Annis, Adam Godley, Philip Voss, Terence Edmond,
Malcolm Ward, Una Beason, Rachel Atkins. Alex Edivin, David
Shaw, Steve Jacobs, Giles King, Will Coleman
Dramatized by Bryony Lavery
Directed by Claire Grove
88:13, 62031, S
Publ. 1951
R4:
06-May-2007
13-May-2007
My Cousin Rachel
Carl Prekopp, Lia Williams, Damian Lewis, Emily Wachter, Nicholas
Murchie, Paul Jesson, Carol Macready, Hugh Ross, John McAndrew,
John Rogan, Robin Brooks
adapted by Robin Brooks
Producer Clive Brill
57:24, 53823, S
57:25, 53837, S
BBC WS
06-Jul-1975 to
27-Jul-1975
Jamaica Inn

George Raistrick, Richenda Carey, Norman Tyrrell, Kim Hartman,
Angela Brooking, Esmond Rideout, Jack Watson, Elizabeth Boxer,
Paul Lavers, Alan Moore, Stephen Sylvester, Laurence Payne,
Clifford Norgate, Liane Aukin, Timothy Kightley, Hannah: June
Barrie, Rex Holdsworth, Hubert Tucker, David Hyde, Jack Harding
dramatised for radio by Brian Gear
Producer: Brian Miller
53:11, 12469, M
53:38, 37713, s
52:22, 36822, s
52:27, 36881, s
BBC WS
26-Feb-1983
Jamaica Inn

Maureen O'Brien, Adrian Egan, Peter Marinker, Geoffrey Beavers,
David Timson, Mattie Head, Patricia Mott, Nigel Graham, Richard
Mitchley, Peter Starbutts, Anthony Haremdell
Dramatised for radio by Barry Campbell
directed by Derek Hoddinott
58:24, 13693, M
R7:
08-Sep-2003 to
11-Sep-2003
Jamaica Inn
Susanna Corbett, John Woodbine, Oriol Smith, Mark Straker, John
Hartley, Joanna Wake, Eric Allen, Robert Portal, Alan Bond, John
Church, Anne Windsor, Ronald Herdman, James Laurenceson,
Vincent Brimble, Anne Jameson, Shaun Arnold, Andrew Wyncote,
Emma Fielding, Joanna Myers, Alan Barker, Peter Gunn, Catherine
Parr, Brett Usher, Matthew Sym
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell
Directed by Enyd Williams
56:08, 52636, S
57:07, 53556, S
57:08, 53568, S
57:06, 53546, S
20-Dec-2010 to

Jamaica Inn
read by Tamsin Greig
Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
Producer: Alison Crawford
13:47, 12934, S
13:46, 12923, S
13:41, 12836, S
13:49, 12956, S
13:51, 13000, S
13:48, 12951, S
13:52, 13005, S
13:46, 12913, S
13:44, 12879, S
13:49, 12970, S
R7:
13-May-2007
The Years Between
Diana Quick, Roger Allem, David Collings, Frederick Treves, Peter
England, Tessa Worseley, Michael Tudor Barnes, Gilly Bond,
Derek Waring
Adapted by Jill Hyem
Directed by Cherry Cookson
89:12, 83631, S
Broadcast
Oct-2003
R7:
01-Dec-2004 to
03-Dec-2004
The Birds
Read by Charlie Barnekut
Produced by Gemma Jenkins
30:10, 14147, m
30:59, 14526, m
31:08, 14600, m
BBC R4
20--Nov-1974
The Birds
Howard Goorney, Chris Harris, Elizabeth Boxer, Norman Tyrrell,
Ruby Luscombe, Douglas Leach, Teresa Rogers, Tracey Ann Miller
dramatised by John Wilkie
Producer: Brian Miller
50:36, 17790, S
BBC R4
01-Feb-2017 to
03-Feb-2017
The Birds

read by Tristan Sturrock
Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Elizabeth Allard
13:52, 12993, S
13:51, 12984, S
13:52, 13005, S
26-May-2007
R7:
14-Aug-2010
The Birds
Neil Dudgeon, Nicola Walker, Jade Williams, Gerard Horan, Carl
Grose, John Dougall, Rachel Bavidge
Music and Sound Design by David Pickvance.
dramatised by Melissa Murray
Directed by Sally Avens
56:30, 52970, S
R7:
12-May-2007
19-May-2007
The Blue Lenses
Read by Emma Fielding
Produced by Gemma Jenkins
28:25, 26651, S
28:24, 26635, S
17-May-2006
09-Dec-2007
Rebecca (excerpt)
read by Emma Fielding
Producer Lisa Osborne
13:48, 6472, m
27-Dec-1989
R7:
06-May-2007
Rebecca


Christopher Casnow, Janet Moore, Rosalie Crutchley, Nickolas
Grace, Frederick Treves, Irene Sutcliffe, John Gabriel, Margaret
Courtney, Danny Schiller, Elizabeth Lansky, Brian Miller, John Bull,
Geoffrey Whitehead
Dramatised by Brian Miller
Directed by Cherry Cookson
87:09, 81705, S
BBC WS
04-Jul-1976
Rebecca Martin Jarvis, Anna Calder-Marshall
Directed by Dickon Reed
60:12, 14111, M
Campbell
Playhouse
09-Dec-1938
Rebecca Orson Welles
59:57, 28100, M
BBC R4
25-Dec-1976
Rebecca Flora Robson, Richard Pasco, Jane Asher, Charles Hodgson, Paul
Meier, Joan Matheson, Douglas Blackwell, Jeffrey Segal, William
Eedle, Denis McCarthy, Michael Tudor Barnes
Pianist: Mary Nash
adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughe
Produced and directed by Graham Gauld
87:04, 81620, M
BBC R2
05-May-2006 to
23-Jun-2006
Rebecca
Read by Alex Kingston
Abridged by Neville Teller
8 files
2:00:48, 166 MB, S
Publ. 1948
R4:
02-Apr-2005
R7:
18-May-2007
September Tide


Paula Wilcox, Jonathan Firth, Alice Hart, John Rowe,
Susan Jameson
Adapted by Moya O'Shea
Directed by Tracey Neale
55:27, 51999, S
08-May-2007
The Alibi


Michael Maloney, Lia Williams, Joanna Wake, Richard Heap,
Ben Crowe, Nicholas Collett, Jane Purcell
dramatised by Vanessa Rosenthal
Producer/director Chris Wallis
44:00, 41253, S
21-Jul-2005
The Little Photographer


Sian Thomas, John McAndrew, Nickie Rainsford, Robert Harper,
Pauline Whitaker, Alice Ford
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor
Directed by Geni Hall-Kenny
43:49, 41091, S
BBC R4
24-Nov-1973
The House on the Strand
Ian Richardson, Rosalind Shanks, Richard Hurndall, Bonnie Hurren,
Elizabeth Morgan, Brian Haines, Frank Duncan, Judy Bennett,
Vernon Joyner, Julie Hallam, David Sinclair, David March,
Manning Wilson, Anthony Hall, David Timson
adapted for radio by Philip Leaver and Kay Patrick
Producer: Betty Davies
87:00, 163140, S
Broadcast
R7:
22-Sep-2005 to
 
The House on the Strand


Read by Julian Wadham
Abridged by Doreen Estelle
Produced by Lawrence Jackson
29:02, 27226, S
28:38, 26846, S
28:34, 26786, S
29:03, 27246, S
28:36, 26818, S
28:34, 26784, S
28:12, 26440, S
28:00, 26264, S
27:16, 25570, S
27:50, 26106, S
28:28, 26692, S
28:29, 26718, S
21-May-2007
And His Letters Grew Colder
read by Nigel Havers
produced by Sarah Davies
13:54, 13092, S
03-May-20011 to
05-May-2011
The Doll

  1. East Wind
  2. The Doll
  3. The Happy Valley


  1. Reader: Anna Madeley
  2. Reader: Ed Stoppard and Sean Baker
  3. Reader: Hattie Morahan
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Elizabeth Allard (1-2), Lucy Collingwood (3)
13:57, 13083, S
13:54, 13048, S
14:04, 13189, S
BBC R4
25-Apr-1995
The Supreme Artist
Read by Michael Drew
Producer Sara Davies
13:49, 8095, m
BBC R4
29-Mar-2004 to
02-Apr-2004
The Parasites

Tim Pigott-Smith, Flora Montgomery, Jonathan Firth, Poppy Miller,
Susan Brown, Jasper Britton, Nicholas Rowe, Madeleine Dunn,
Julia Dunn, Kelly Hunter, Sarah Eedle, Lara Haworth, Geoffrey
Whitehead
Adapted by Robin Brooks
Directed by Clive Brill
Produced by Fiona McAlpine
13:44, 19321, S
14:11, 19957, S
13:51, 19483, S
14:13, 19995, S
14:10, 19937, S
low volume
BBC R4
09-Dec-2001
BBC R7
22-Apr-2009
Don't Look Now
Michael Feast, Anna Chancellor, Ewan Bailey, Sean Baker, Collette
O'Neal, Karl Prekop, Caroline Pickles
Dramatised for radio by Ronald Frame
Directed by Patrick Rayner
56:44, 53755, S
BBC WS?
21-Dec-1774
La Sainte Vierge
Jane Seymour, Peter Gilmore
Written, produced and adapted by Derek Hoddinott
30:10, 7074, M
BBC R4
20-Jun-1970
11-Jul-1970
The Days That Are Gone
  1. The Blowing of the
    Glass
  2. Fire in the Glass
MISSING

Barbara Bliss, Patricia Laffan, Margaret Wedlake, Frederick Treves,
Elizabeth Proud, Michael Spice, Adam Richardson, Judith Coke,
Margaret Wolfit, Jane Knowles, Ian Lubbock, Cecile Chevreau,
Gladys Spencer, Nigel Lambert, Dorit Welles, Sean Arnold,
Andrew Sachs
adapted by Philip Leaver
Produced by Archie Campbell
MISSING

86:06, 80722, M
BBC WS
1974
BBC R4X
04-Mar-2018
The Chamois
Christopher Cazenove, Anna Cropper, Alexis Gallnos, Gabriel Woolf,
Nikolas Janis
Dramatised by Michael Bartlett
Producer Derek Hoddinott
27:01, 25331, S

Documentaries and Collateral Material
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
15-May-2007
25-Dec-2007
Rebecca’s Daughters


Justine Picardie, Sally Beauman, Sarah Dunant, Michele
Roberts, Helen Taylor, Anne Willmore
28:13, 26461, S
26-May-2007
A Letter for Daphne


Julie Myerson
Read by Anna Massey
Produced by Emily Palmer
28:15, 26499, S