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| 1966 And All That | ...With Joss Ackland, ELEANOR BRON, Rory Bremner, John Humphrys, Ewan Bailey and Margaret Cabourn-Smith.... |
| 1989 - Writing On The Wall | ...Read by ELEANOR BRON.... |
| 2000 Tales | ...`Prologue' by Sebastian Bacziewicz; `The Funeral Orator's Tale' by Christina Reid; `The Fisherman's Tale' by Nick Darke; `The Disc Jockey who Used to Be a Nun's Tale - Prologue' by Marcy Kahan. With Robert Glenister, Zita Sattar, Frances Tomelty, Carl Grosse and ELEANOR BRON. Directed by Jeremy Mortimer.... |
| Age Of Innocence, The [serial] | ...... |
| Best Footlights Forward | ...Graeme Garden celebrates the last 50 years of the Cambridge University Footlights Society. With contributions from Clive Anderson, Bill Oddie, John Bird, ELEANOR BRON, Douglas Adams and Rory McGrath. Plus extracts of Footlights revues featuring Peter Cook, John Cleese, Fry and Laurie and Emma Thompson.... |
| Better To Have Loved | ...By Rose Tremain, dramatised by Eric Pringle. With Ursula Howells as Millicent and ELEANOR BRON as Alison. Millicent finds it difficult to come to terms with her diminishing success as a poet and is moving to Italy to start a new life with her partner Alison. But there are ghosts and memories from the past that still haunt her. Director: Cherry Cookson ... |
| Bitter Medicine | ...ELEANOR BRON (Actor)... |
| Blithe Spy | ...Lorn Loraine....ELEANOR BRON... |
| Body Of Glass | ...ELEANOR BRON as Malkah... |
| Bride Of Heaven | ...By Gwyneth Powell, adapted from the writings of E M Delafield. The moving story, set in Edwardian times, of a woman under extreme pressure to find a husband. With ELEANOR BRON... |
| Brideshead Revisited | ...... |
| Bullet At Balmain's, A | ...A Noel Coward Murder Mystery. By Marcy Kahan. Noel Coward in Post-Liberation PARIS, 1948: haute couture, existentialism, jazz... and death. The celebrated playwright/ actor/ composer/ amateur detective returns to Radio 4 in a new adventure. Coward is in PARIS to play the lead in his own play, Present Laughter, in French. But the murder of a promiscuous mannequin provides a stylish distraction. Noel Coward....Malcolm Sinclair Lorn Loraine....ELEANOR BRON Cole Lesley....Tam Williams Ginette Spanier....Linda Marlowe Monique....Susy Kane Beatrice....Jaimi Barbakoff Chester Flyte....Everal A Walsh Jean-Marc Delafosse....William Hootkins Vendeuse....Frances Jeater ... |
| Cadenza | ...By David Pownall, starring Michael Maloney, Joss Ackland, ELEANOR BRON, Richard Griffiths, Jonathan Coy, Tom Watt, Gavin Muir and Abigail Docherty. Alessandro Stradella, though a musical genius, is banished by Pope Innocent XI for his notorious philandering. But it is only after he has crossed the Doge of Venice that he finds his music may be the only thing between him and a bloody end.... |
| Cemetery Confessions | ...Sarah Bernhardt....ELEANOR BRON (by Louise Welsh)... |
| Charlotte Mew And Her Friends | ...Penelope Fitzgerald's poignant portrait of the Bloomsbury poet begins with scenes from Charlotte Mew's childhood and her first literary efforts. Read by ELEANOR BRON ... |
| Coconut Chaos | ...Read by ELEANOR BRON... |
| Complete Smiley, The | ...Elsa Fennan....ELEANOR BRON... |
| Cook's Tour | ...ELEANOR BRON unravles the twilight years and complex personalities of Sir... |
| Deadlock | ...ELEANOR BRON (Actor)... |
| Dear Little Burney | ...The journals and letters of Fanny Burney, adapted by Jennifer Howarth in 15 parts. 1: `A Most Important Event'. In 1778, Fanny Burney is 26 and her novel `Evelina' is published anonymously to instant acclaim. With Juliet Aubrey, Timothy West and ELEANOR BRON. Director: Sara Davies ... |
| Death At The Desert Inn | ...Lorn Loraine....ELEANOR BRON... |
| Design For Murder - A Noel Coward Murder Mystery | ...By Marcy Kahan. Actor, playwright, songwriter, director and star, Noel Coward never quite added sleuth to his astonishing achievements. But just before the war with Hitler, there is a gap in his memoirs - is there a murder mystery in those days? With Malcolm Sinclair, ELEANOR BRON and Kristin Milward. Director: Ned Chaillet ... |
| Diary Of A Provincial Lady | ...By E M Delafield, dramatised by Jane Rogers. The everyday 1930s journal of how to manage a household and still keep your sanity. With Imelda Staunton and Richard Hope. Director Clive Brill (9/15). / Jenni Murray's guest is actress ELEANOR BRON, who opens in LONDON this week in a trilogy of plays about love and war. Drama: `Diary of a Provincial Lady', by E M Delafield (9/15).... |
| Discourse Of Two Once Young Women, The | ...ida....ELEANOR BRON... |
| Element Of Water, The | ...Stevie Davies dramatises her prize-winning book, a love story which unfolds against a background of guilt, memory and the legacy of the Second World War. It is 1958, and Isolde takes up a teaching post at a British Forces school on Lake Ploen in Northern Germany, in the building which housed the rump Nazi command at the end of the war. Here, she finds not only the new life she is searching for, but also disturbing echoes of her own family's past. Isolde....Siriol Jenkins Renate....ELEANOR BRON Michael Quantz....Paul Humpoletz Wolfi Quantz / young Michael....Kenneth Collard Patterson / Paul Dahl....Alan Moore Frau Meier....Jennie Stoller Lynne....Rebecca Smart Susan....Amanda Horlock Young Paul....Andy Henderson Lennie....Susie Fugle Schoolchildren: Alice Crook, Joshua Boyden, Olivia Crook, Sarah Kenyon and Ellen White. Music composed by Elizabeth Purnell. Produced and directed by Sara Davies.... |
| Emigrants - Ambros Adelwarth, The | ...Adapted by Edward Kemp from W G Sebald's acclaimed novel about the experiences of Jewish emigrants. Inspired by an old photograph album to investigate the life of a lost relative, a man finds himself on a journey that traverses the 20th century, leading him from an American asylum to the shores of the Dead Sea. With John Wood (W), Henry Goodman (Ambros Adelwarth), ELEANOR BRON (Aunt Fini), Ed Bishop (Uncle Kasimir), Margaret Robertson (Aunt Lina), Andrew Sachs (Dr Abramsky), Cosmo Solomon (John Schwab), Thomas Arnold, Jamsine Hyde and Maximilian Graber. Music by Gary Yershon. Directed by Edward Kemp.... |
| Fantasies And Flipsides | ...By Michele Roberts. A poignant study of a less than ideal mother-and-daughter relationship. Read by ELEANOR BRON ... |
| Forty Years On | ...Alan Bennett's acclaimed satirical comedy. The retiring headmaster of Albion House is outraged by the school's traditional end-of-year play, which is being produced by his successor. The headmaster can only see his own beloved standards being mocked. Yet within the parody lies painful nostalgia for a more peaceful, vanished age. With Alan Bennett and ELEANOR BRON. Directed by Gordon House.... |
| Girls Of Slender Means, The | ...By Muriel Spark, adapted for radio by Colin Davis. It is 1945 and, enchanted as he is by the girls of slender means and their preoccupation with love, literature and chocolate, Nicholas Faringdon has no idea of their potential savagery. With ELEANOR BRON, Sarah-Jane Holm and Emma Fielding. Director Marion Nancarrow.... |
| Glory Of Love, The | ...Five readings for the week of Valentine's Day, featuring Juliet Stevenson, Geoffrey Palmer, Alex Jennings, Gerard Murphy and ELEANOR BRON.... |
| Hard Times | ...... |
| Heartbreak House | ...A fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes, by Bernard Shaw. In his 1919 preface, Shaw described the play as `cultured, leisured Europe before the war'. Begun in 1916, the play is a witty satire on the Bohemian classes, the horse-riding classes and the pragmatic politicians and capitalists who hover between the two. Amidst the farce, they are not indifferent to the impending danger but seem unable to help themselves, `like moths round a candle'. With John Wood, ELEANOR BRON, Cheryl Campbell and David Troughton. Director Janet Whitaker ... |
| Hopes And Desires | ...... |
| House Of Fear, The | ...1: `The House of Fear'. Reader ELEANOR BRON. 2: `The Oval Lady'. Reader Kate Beckinsale.... |
| How Guillaume Appollinaire Saved My Marriage | ...By Nick Warburton. Bill has two unfortunate hobbies: philately and philandering. His wife, Penny, needs help. But how can the French poet Guillaume Appollinaire, buried in a cemetery in Paris, help? With ELEANOR BRON, Nigel Anthony and Sean Baker. Directed by Peter Kavanagh ... |
| How Shall I Tell The Dog? | ...Things to learn before you die without leaving home; the cancer diet book; ELEANOR BRON's punctures.... |
| I Want To Be Alone | ...Read by ELEANOR BRON ... |
| I Was There Too! | ...Read by ELEANOR BRON ... |
| In A German Pension | ...Frau Fischer....ELEANOR BRON... |
| Letters From Africa | ...... |
| Losing Rosalind | ...By Ellen Dryden. When Edmund decides to bring all the friends and lovers of his youth together for an early-retirement party, he has no idea how dangerous it might be. How will his three wives cope when they meet each other? How will his son react? And can the romantic memories of his 20s survive now that he is in his 50s? With Michael Pennington, ELEANOR BRON and Joanne Pearce. Director: Don Taylor ... |
| Lucinda Brayford | ...... |
| Matisse The Master | ...ELEANOR BRON reads from Hilary Spurling's biography of the great French artist. Abridged by Doreen Estall.... |
| Murder In Paris | ...In 1978, the daughter of detective writer and Maigret creator Georges Simenon was found dead in her PARIS apartment. In Howard Ginsberg's play, a police inspector matches wits with Simenon as they investigate whether Marie-Jo committed suicide or was murdered. With Alan Bates, Bob Peck, Emilia Fox, Jacqueline Pearce and ELEANOR BRON. Director Andy Jordan.... |
| Penguin Book Of 20th-century Essays, The | ...Five essays from distinguished writers which form a portrait of the last century. 2: `The ENGLISH Aristocracy' by Nancy Mitford, read by ELEANOR BRON. Mitford's famous essay which developed the expressions `U' and `non-U' to define the upper-class speaker.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...ELEANOR BRON (reciter)... |
| Postscript | ...Five dramatised documentaries adapted from the KGB's literary archive by Vitaly Shentalinsky and presented by Professor James Riordan. 2: `Isolate but Preserve: the Files on Osip Mandelstam'. The story of the RUSSIAn poet who came under attack in the 1920s for being out of step with the Soviet regime and was first arrested in 1934 for a poem denouncing Stalin. He died in 1938 en route to a labour camp. With Alex Jennings as Osip Mandelstam, ELEANOR BRON and Jon Strickland.... |
| Prayer For Owen Meany, A | ...... |
| Price Of Light, The | ...Empress....ELEANOR BRON... |
| Price Of Water In Finistere, The | ...Read by ELEANOR BRON... |
| Protesting Too Much | ...A six-part comedy drama, set just before the last general election, written by Kate Brooke and Sally Phillips. A bumbling Conservative MP finds himself living in a tree to protest the new by-pass in his constituency. His wife, Hermione, sees her husband as the new Dante. With John Fortune, ELEANOR BRON and Louisa Milwood-Haigh.... |
| Quote Unquote | ...ELEANOR BRON, Chantal Cuer, Roy Kinnear, Auberon Waugh... |
| Reality Is An Illusion Caused By Lack Of N F Simpson | ...Contributors include John Mortimer, Jonathan Miller, John Fortune, Eric Sykes, Jonathan Coe, Armando Iannucci, David Nobbs, Barry Cryer, ELEANOR BRON, Ned Sherrin, and Simpson himself.... |
| Right Time, The | ...Stars ELEANOR BRON.... |
| Role Play | ...Five programmes in which Michael Billington talks to actors about key roles in the repertoire. 3: Rupert Brooke once described Webster's plays as `the ghastly turmoil of a nest of maggots'. Yet `The Duchess of Malfi' is one of the most frequently performed tragedies in the repertoire. Does Webster's gothic, morally chaotic, corrupt world speak directly to Britain in the 1990s? ELEANOR BRON and Juliet Stevenson discuss their experiences of playing the Duchess.... |
| Rose | ...By Nan Woodhouse, read by ELEANOR BRON. May 1835. A young girl's chance encounter with a poet changes her life for ever.... |
| Stone From Heaven, A | ...cundrie....ELEANOR BRON... |
| Strange Eventful History, A | ...ELEANOR BRON reads from Michael Holroyd's biography of Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, two greats of the Victorian stage.... |
| Sunday Feature | ...rope'. Great violence and haunting beauty have marked the metropolis ever since. On the 300th anniversary of its foundation, writer Kevin Jackson evokes the spirit of Peter's city and questions the legacy of the Tsar's enlightened despotism. With reflections from Count Nikolai Tolstoy, descendant of one of Peter the Great's ambassadors; Hermitage curator Aleksei Leporc; travel-writer Colin Thubron, and other distinguished contributors. Readers: ELEANOR BRON and Roger Allam ... |
| Symposium, Episode 4 | ...Part 4 (of 10) of Muriel SPARK's novel, read by ELEANOR BRON. Abridged and produced by Stewart CONN.... |
| Symposium, Episode 5 | ...Part 5 (of 10) of Muriel SPARK's novel, read by ELEANOR BRON. Abridged and produced by Stewart CONN.... |
| Symposium, Episode 6 | ...Part 6 (of 10) of Muriel SPARK's novel, read by ELEANOR BRON. Abridged and produced by Stewart CONN.... |
| Symposium, Episode 7 | ...Part 7 (of 10) of Muriel SPARK's novel, read by ELEANOR BRON. Abridged and produced by Stewart CONN.... |
| Symposium, Episode 8 | ...Part 8 (of 10) of Muriel SPARK's novel, read by ELEANOR BRON. Abridged and produced by Stewart CONN.... |
| Symposium | ...1/10. Novel by Muriel SPARK. Read by ELEANOR BRON. Abridged & produced by Stewart CONN.... |
| Tales The Countess Told | ...By Stephen Wyatt. ELEANOR BRON stars as the Countess D'Aulnoy, who read her fairy tales to enraptured audiences in the salons of 17th-century Paris. The adventures of princesses, serpents, yellow dwarves and tiny pagodas mirror the equally colourful life of the Countess. With Janine Wood, Adam Godley, Phillip Joseph and Kenny Blyth. Directed by Claire Grove... |
| Tales We Tell | ...by Michele Roberts, read by ELEANOR BRON. The fortunes of twin sisters Rose and Lily.... |
| Tennessee's Women | ...Lucretia Collins....ELEANOR BRON... |
| Tete A Tete | ...ELEANOR BRON reads from Hazel Rowley's biography of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.... |
| Third Soldier Holds His Thighs, The | ...Based on interviews, transcripts and diaries, this drama-documentary reconstructs the events of this famous freedom-of-speech case from rehearsals to the sensational trial at the Old Bailey. Peter Sproule and Greg Hicks, the actors who played the original controversial scene, appear as themselves, with ELEANOR BRON as Mary Whitehouse.... |
| Third Soldiers Holds His Thighs, The | ...25 years ago, the morality campaigner Mrs Mary Whitehouse brought a prosecution against Michael Bogdanov, director of the National Theatre production of Howard Brenton's The Romans In Britain, which included a simulated male rape. Based on interviews, transcripts and diaries, this drama-documentary reconstructs the events of this famous freedom-of-speech case, from rehearsals to the sensational trial at the Old Bailey. Peter Sproule and Greg Hicks, the actors who played the original controversial scene, appear as themselves with ELEANOR BRON as Mrs Mary Whitehouse ... |
| Unknown Matisse, The | ...By Hilary Spurling, read by ELEANOR BRON, abridged by Pat McLoughlin. A look at the wild young man who became one of the artistic geniuses of the century (1/5).... |
| Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox, The | ...Read by Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and ELEANOR BRON.... |
| Whatever Happened To? | ...Cinderella's siblings speak out, giving their version of what happened after the ball. Stars Prunella Scales and ELEANOR BRON.... |
| With Great Pleasure | ...ELEANOR BRON (Author)... |
| Woman's Hour (summary) | ...Lucretia Collins....ELEANOR BRON... |
| Words And Music | ...Read by Michael Elwyn and ELEANOR BRON... |
| Words On Words With Ian Hislop | ...John Sessions and ELEANOR BRON perform extracts from the finest writing on language, chosen and introduced by Ian Hislop as part of the celebration of a thousand years of spoken English (1/5).... |
| Zuleika Dobson | ...By Max Beerbohm. Dramatised by Michelene Wandor. Zuleika Dobson can only love a man who does not love her, but everywhere she goes, men fall at her feet. Then, on a visit to her grandfather, the Warden of Judas College, OXFORD, she meets the haughty Duke of Dorset, who snubs her, and she falls. But soon the Duke goes the way of all other males, with disastrous, and hilarious, consequences for the entire student population. Clio....ELEANOR BRON Zuleika....Kate Isitt The Warden....Clive Swift The Duke of Dorset/Melisande....Mia Soteriou Katie....Anna Madeley Noaks....Fine Time Fontayne... |