Spark, Muriel

Last Edited: 12-Nov-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
21-May-2006
28-May-2006
Memento Mori Geoffrey Whitehead, Marcia Warren, Prunella Scales, Elizabeth
Spriggs, Windsor Davies, Thelma Barlow, Trevor Martin, John
Rowe, Frances Jeater, Tracy Wiles, Thomas Wheatley, Anthony
Glennon, Kim Wall
dramatised by Diana Griffiths
Director Pauline Harris
56:57, 53396, S
57:06. 53538, S
BBC R4
13-Jan-2018
Memento Mori
Patricia Hodge, Jim Norton, Colette O'Neill, Monica Dolan,
William Gaminara, Kath Weare, Ellie Darvill, Neil McCaul,
Isabella Inchbald, Georgie Glen
Adapted by Robin Brooks
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane

16-Nov-2006 Bang Bang You're Dead Adjoa Andoh, Emma Currie,
Mark McDonnell, Lucy Paterson, Nick Underwood
dramatised by Gowan Calder
Director David Ian Neville
13:46, 12910, S
21-Jan-2013 to
25-Jan-2013
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
read by Gerda Stevenson
The abridger is Sally Marmion
The producer is Di Speirs
13:47, 12908, S
13:48, 12928, S
13:47, 12911, S
13:43, 12844, S
13:52, 12987, S
BBC R4
12-Mar-1973
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Gudrun Ure, Nigel Graham, Sandra Clark, Rose McBain,
Madeleine Christie, Christine McKenna, Judith Carey, Anthony
Hall, Lee Collier, Andrew Robertson
Dramatised By: Jay Allen
Producer: Stewart Conn
90:00, 84373, M
BBC R4
25-Aug-2002
01-Sep-2002

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Eileen McCallum, Gerda Stevenson, Carol Ann Crawford, Ann
Scott Jones, Irene MacDougall, Gregor Powrle, Vicki Uddelle,
Frances Thorburn, Hannah Thornton, Jenny Shaw, Gemma
Stroyan, Kirsty MacKay
Dramatiser: Patricia Hannah
Director: Bruce Young
57:17, 33576, S
57:06, 33463, S
29-Dec-2014 to
02-Jan-2015
The Girls of Slender Means
  1. All the Nice People Were Poor
  2. This Marvellous Dress
  3. It's Just a Girls' Hostel
  4. Let Them Enjoy Themselves
    while They're Young
  5. It Was All a Question of Time
reader Emilia Fox
Abridger    Sally Marmion
Producer    Justine Willett
13:44, 12857, S
13:44, 12863, S
13:46, 12896, S
13:31, 12658, S
13:48, 12916, S
BBC R4
01-Aug-1998
The Girls of Slender Means
Amanda Root, Joanna Monro, Abigail Docherty, Christopher
Wright, Charles Simpson, Jack Ellis, Caroline Strong, Frances
Jeater, Richenda Carey, Geoffrey Whitehead, Eleanor Bron,
Sarah-Jane Holm, Emma Fielding
adapted for radio by Colin Davis
Director: Marion Nancarrow
56:51, 79950, S
BBC R4
08-Jan-2018 to
19-Jan-2018
A Far Cry from Kensington
read by Maggie Service
Abridged by Rosemary Goring
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie
10 files
2:17:07, 125 MB,
S
BBC R4
27-May-2000
A Far Cry from Kensington
Cella Imrle, Sorcha Cusack, Bill Wallis, Joanna Kanska, Lisa
Coleman, Mark Straker, Phillip Manlkum, Ric Jerrom, Susie
Brann, Elizabeth Morgan, Kim Hicks, Sally Cookson
Dramatised by Jennifer Phillips
Directed by Viv Beeby
56:40, 53115, S
BBC R4
16-Nov-1981
The Abbess of Crewe
Sian Phillips, Margaret Robertson, Pauline Letts, Theresa
Streatfeild, Rosalind Adams, Jill Lidstone, Angela Phillips,
Gary Cady, Nicholas Courtney, Spencer Banks
Dramatised by Pauline Spender
Produced by David Spenser
72:12, 42305, S
BBC R4
14-Jan-2018
The Driver's Seat
Shauna Macdonald, Alexandra Mathie, Robert Jack, Robin
Laing, Cesare Taurasi, Georgie Glen, Alasdair Hankinson,
Karen Bartke
Adapted by Beatrice Colin
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane
56:18, 52784, S
BBC R3
30-Jul-2006
The Ormolu Clock
read by Stella Gonet
19:14, 11275, m
BBC R4
28-Nov-1989
The Party Through the Wall
Diana Olsson, James Cairncross, Vivienne Dixon, Pat
Williams, Yonnie Howgill
Directed by Stewart Conn
29:45, 27833, S

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