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| Backward Shadow, The | ...... |
| Captain's Wife, The | ...By JULIET ACE. Every two years, there is a new captain - and a new captain's wife. Mattie, played by Patricia Hodge, is there for them all, moving, over the years, from the centre of the table to the captain's side. She observes the Navy at play and provides exotic relief - until she is ready to change herself. Director Ned Chaillet.... |
| Chocolate Frigates | ...... |
| Dead-heading The Roses | ...By JULIET ACE. Jill Balcon is joined by her son, Daniel Day-Lewis, in a sparkling new drama specially written to celebrate her 60th year of performing on radio. She takes the role of Ariadne, a naval officer's wife who has become the benign queen of death, arranging tasteful memorial services - which will include her husband's. But before his departure, her husband has plotted a final surprise. Ariadne Fitz-John....Jill Balcon Felix Brown....Daniel Day-Lewis Phyllis Beacon....Cheryl Campbell George Fitz-John....Graham Crowden Ephraim Cohn....William Hootkins ... |
| Her Infinite Variety | ...Five modern plays for Shakespeare's women by JULIET ACE.... |
| Love Story | ...JULIET ACE's dramatisation of Erich Segal's potent romantic novel of the 1970s. With Ingri Damon, Mark Leake and Patrick Allen. Director Ned Chaillet ... |
| L-shaped Room, The [serial] | ...By Lynne Reid Banks. This ground-breaking story of middle-class Jane, pregnant and unmarried, has remained in print ever since it was first published in 1960. In her squalid, L-shaped bedsit, Jane has to overcome both her own prejudices and those of 1950's society against her. Dramatised in 10 episodes by JULIET ACE.... |
| Marseilles Trilogy, The | ...By Marcel Pagnol, adapted from the film by JULIET ACE, from a translation by Margaret Jarman.... |
| Money For Old Rope | ...By JULIET ACE... |
| New Look, The | ...a sequence of plays by JULIET ACE that focus on Mattie Jones' childhood in a small town in the South Wales of the 1950s.... |
| On The Cusp | ...By JULIET ACE, read by Celia Hewitt.... |
| Private Papers | ...Martha Kearney with interviews and discussions from a woman's point of view. Drama: `Private Papers' by Margaret Forster, dramatised by JULIET ACE. Rosemary finds some papers, written by her mother, hidden at the back of a drawer. They contain her mother's version of their family history. Rosemary secretly adds her views (1/10). / By Margaret Forster, dramatised by JULIET ACE. Rosemary finds some papers, written by her mother, hidden at the back of a drawer. They contain her mother's version of their family history. Rosemary secretly adds her views. With Angela Pleasence, Nichola McAuliffe and Simon Armstrong. Director: Tanya Nash ... |
| Small Parts | ...By JULIET ACE. Patricia Hodge stars as Mattie in the first of two plays written specially for her. Seduced by the theatre, Mattie joins a repertory company in Wales where she finds that the quick-change artistry of bit parts is a kind of preparation for life. Director: Ned Chaillet... |
| Spur, The | ...Monday play by JULIET ACE. Piers, an ex-farmer, is about to make a killing in a land deal; while Graham, the school caretaker, runs an illegal cock-fighting ring. But what of their wives? Are they going to heal the wounds caused by their men?... |
| Young Victoria | ...Ten-part serial based on the letters and diaries of the young Queen Victoria, by JULIET ACE, With Imogen Stubbs, Adrian Lukis, Anna Massey and Christopher Cazenove. Directed by Cherry Cookson... |