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| And June Whitfield | ...June Whitfield begins the story of her life, from humble beginnings in Streatham to meeting NOEL COWARD.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...Using the beautiful music of Ivor Novello and the wonderful wit of NOEL COWARD, Kit Hesketh Harvey traces the story of their intertwined careers.... |
| Better Half, The | ...... |
| Blithe Spirit - A Centenary Of The Words And Music Of Noel Coward | |
| Blithe Spirit | ...By: NOEL COWARD... |
| Blithe Spy | ...NOEL COWARD....Malcolm Sinclair... |
| 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 ... |
| Christmas Cocktails | ...Dance band music of wartime romance recorded in Britain and America during the Second World War. With the orchestras of Carroll Gibbons, Harry Roy, Joe Loss and Geraldo; Glenn Miller and the Squadronaires; and vocalists NOEL COWARD, Harry Roy, Wendy Clare, Paula Green, Celia Lipton, Dorothy Carless, Jimmy Miller and Judy Garland.... |
| Closet Culture | ...He starts with a look at stars of the 1920s such as NOEL COWARD and Cole Porter ... |
| Cocktails | ...With numbers from the Savoy Havana Band, the orchestras of Ray Noble and Joe Loss, NOEL COWARD, Chick Henderson, and Betty Dale and the Blue Notes.... |
| Coward, The Poet | ...A regularly overlooked aspect of NOEL COWARD's remarkable career is the significant amount of poetry he wrote throughout his life. Friends and fans including Anna Massey, Imogen Stubbs, Alistair Mcgowan discuss a selection of his poems, offering a unique insight into a deeper and somewhat darker aspect of Coward's personal life.... |
| Daunt And Dervish | ...... |
| Death At The Desert Inn | ...Three hundred thousand dollars are left in a satchel in NOEL COWARD's Las Vegas suite. Coward sets off on his unexpected posthumous career as a detective. The Desert Inn, scene of one of his greatest cabaret triumphs, is the setting for a murder mystery complete with Judy Garland, a showgirl, a Broadway agent, an unlikely croupier and a US Congressman, with half of Hollywood in the audience.... |
| Design For Living | ...NOEL COWARD's subversive comedy of sexual manners in which three people design a relationship which flouts society's rules. Starring Cheryl CAMPBELL, Alex JENNINGS and Michael KITCHEN. Produced by Ned CHAILLET.... |
| Design For Murder - A Noel Coward Murder Mystery | |
| Dress Circle [radio Scotland] | ...Billy Differ plays tracks from NOEL COWARD and Ivor Novello, presents a tribute to the musical Blood Brothers and talks to How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? star Connie Fisher.... |
| Duckie | ...NOEL COWARD/Eddie....David Holt... |
| Easy Virtue | ...... |
| Elaine Paige On Sunday | ...Elaine celebrates her 200th edition of the programme with a special interview featuring Sir Cameron Mackintosh, recorded on the stage of the NOEL COWARD theatre in London. Some of Cameron's most successful productions are given an airing, including music from Les Miserables, My Fair Lady, Cats, Mary Poppins, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and Avenue Q.... |
| Fanshawe Gets To The Bottom Of | ...Featuring archive material from Dorothy Parker, Mrs Shufflewick and NOEL COWARD.... |
| Hands Across The Sea | ...Set in 1935, NOEL COWARD's frothy cocktail catches the cream of London society in a mad whirl. Piggie and Peter Gilpin find themselves receiving tedious and unwanted visitors and are determined not to endure them alone. Adapted by Malcolm McKee. With Stephanie Beacham and Michael Cochrane. Director Sue Wilson.... |
| Hay Fever | ...By: NOEL COWARD... |
| Important Passenger, An | ...A strangely familiar collection of characters - Laura Jesson and Dr Harvey from Brief Encounter, NOEL COWARD, a soldier and a parson - find themselves on a train journey. Their conversation is interrupted by a hideous voice - then there's a scream.... |
| Lair Of The White Worm, The | ...Next week you can hear the supernatural spine tingler Mrs Morrison's Ghost and the following week we present the classic ghost story, Blithe Spirit by NOEL COWARD.... |
| Mad About The Boy | ...The Songs of NOEL COWARD... |
| Man About Town | ...PRE:Extracts from Agate's diaries, letters & criticism. Comments on 'Oh Kay'. His early life. Obsessions. Comments on NOEL COWARD's 'Cavalcade', opening of 'The Private Life of Henry VIII'. The Garrick Club. W.C. Fields in 'David Copperfield'. The BBC. Silver Jubilee of King George V. Charles Laughton's view of Hollywood. 'Modern Times'. Luxurious living. NTS:Extracts taken from Agate's published diaries 'Ego'. OTN:SLN029/90FR0079 TXN/TDT:R4 05-Sep-1990... |
| Marquise, The | ...By: NOEL COWARD... |
| Master And Mrs Tucker, The | ...Drama based on the story of the friendship between NOEL COWARD and E Nesbit.... |
| Max Bygraves - Stars In My Eyes | ...Max Bygraves presents an eight-part series recounting stories of showbiz friends past and present. In this first programme, he recalls Jimmy Durante, NOEL COWARD and Geoff Love.... |
| Nude With Violin | ...By: NOEL COWARD... |
| Poetry Please | ...01: To a poet a thousand years hence - Elroy Flecker [1.10] 02: A strike among the poets - Anon [1.22] 03: Tea with a poet - Adrian Henri [0.52] read by the poet 04: The boy actor - NOEL COWARD [3.30] from LP recording 05: Roundabouts & swings - Patrick Chalmers [1.56] 06: To a waterfowl - William Cullen Bryant [1.32]... |
| Presence Of Laughter - Coward's Second Century, A | ...Patricia Hodge and John Standing join Christopher Cook and eminent others in celebrating NOEL COWARD's life and work.... |
| Present Laughter | ...by NOEL COWARD, starring Ian Ogilvy, Yeardley Smith, Christina Pickles and Carolyn Seymour. In this delicious comedy, a gallery of friends, lovers, relatives and theatre acolytes buzz around stage star Garry Essendine like bubbles in fine champagne. While Garry struggles to plan his upcoming trip to Africa, his elegant London flat is invaded by a love struck ingenue, an adulterous producer and a married seductress - not to mention Garry's estranged wife and the memorable Roland Maule, an aspiring playwright who is quite, quite mad.... |
| Private Lives | ...by NOEL COWARD, starring Rosalind Ayres and Ian Ogilvy. On the French Rivera, the lights of a yacht are reflected in the water and in the eyes of four hilariously mismatched lovers. Perhaps Coward's greatest comedy, Private Lives shimmers with wit, romance, desire and bittersweet truth. The broadcast includes the short play Thirteen Things about Ed Carpolotti by Jeffrey Hatcher, performed by Rue McClanahan. A newly widowed suburban matron finds her world crashing about her - only to be rescued by love from beyond the grave. Thirteen Things about Ed Carpolotti is one of three interweaving monologues in Jeffrey Hatcher's Three Viewings.... |
| Private Passions | ...Dearie and NOEL COWARD, Fanny Mendelssohn, Mozart and Strauss.... |
| Quadrille | ...By: NOEL COWARD... |
| Relative Values | ...By: NOEL COWARD... |
| Reprise | ...The Dancing Years: Edward Seckerson introduces recordings by NOEL COWARD, Vivian Ellis and Ivor Novello ... |
| Richard Addinsell And Noel Coward | |
| Sexton's Tales, The | ...George Cole as the sexton of Highgate Cemetery, with five stories about people who are buried there. 4: George relates the story of the celebrated singer and pianist Leslie Hutchinson, whose circle of friends included Cole Porter, NOEL COWARD, Edwina Mountbatten and Jessie Matthews. With Ellie Haddington, Emlyn Harris, Tony Howes, Melanie Hudson, Ian Lavender, Roger May and Christopher Strauli.... |
| Song At Twilight, A | ...By: NOEL COWARD... |
| Songs Of Noel Coward - 20th-century Blues, The | ...The Songs Of NOEL COWARD - 20th-century Blues... |
| Soul Music | ...NOEL COWARD wrote Mad About the Boy in 1932 for the review, Words and Music, to celebrate the powerful appeal of the silent movie star. Most recently it's been taken up as a gay anthem.... |
| South Sea Bubble | ...By: NOEL COWARD... |
| South, The | ...South London is not a glamorous place. Yet Philip Hensher feels at one with Clapham boy NOEL COWARD, whose description of the bus ride to the West End reveals it is worth living south of the river in order to make the journey across it regularly.... |
| Stage And Screen | ...Mad Dogs And Englishmen Edward Seckerson marks the 30th anniversary of the death of NOEL COWARD in conversation with Sheridan Morley. Includes vintage recordings of Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself in Private Lives and The Stately Homes of England, plus a wartime song banned by the BBC.... |
| Steve Ross In Cabaret | ...A four part series of sypper-club songs, including standards from Cole Porter, Vernon DUKE, NOEL COWARD, Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome KERN. Recorded at The Pizza on the Park. Produced by Jonathan James-Moore.... |
| That Reminds Me | ...From NOEL COWARD to the Oliviers - the late broadcaster recalls his career highs and lows.... |
| This Happy Breed [drama] | ...NOEL COWARD's play covering 20 years from when the Gibbons family moves in to their new home to when they leave it.... |
| This Happy Breed | ...NOEL COWARD's play covers 20 years of the Gibbon family, from when they move into their new home until they leave it.... |
| This Sceptred Isle - The 20th Century | ...NOEL COWARD in the West End, the general strike, the first television pictures, it's all in this ongoing story of Britain.... |
| Tickling The Ivories | ...Featuring the talents of Tom Lehrer, Peter Sellers, Beatrice Lilley, Flanders and Swann, Peter Ustinov, Anthony Hopkins, Lonnie Donegan, NOEL COWARD and Liberace.... |
| Tin Pan Alley | ...Michael Freedland presents a five-part series focusing on the greatest writers and music to come out of Tin Pan Alley. This programme explores the role of songwriters from the First World War through to the Depression in the 1930s. Featuring archive recordings of Irving Caesar, Louis Armstrong, Ivor Novello and NOEL COWARD ... |
| View With A Room - Burgh Island Hotel, A | ...Twelve years ago Tony and Beatrix Porter heard that the Burgh Island Hotel, off the coast of Devon, was coming up for sale. They headed to the south coast with plans to restore the hotel to its former glory - the days when celebrities such as Edward and Mrs Simpson, NOEL COWARD and Agatha Christie strolled along the terraces.... |
| Voices | ...Iain Burnside doffs his cap at all those upper-class toffs as he surveys the vexed world of class consciousness and snobbery. Includes songs by composers as varied as Jacques Brel, NOEL COWARD, Campion, Blow, Wolf, Poulenc, Walton, and Lord Berners.... |
| Vortex, The | ...By: NOEL COWARD... |
| Waiting In The Wings | ...By: NOEL COWARD... |
| Words And Music | ...Readings include words by Samuel Johnson, Wordsworth, Verlaine, George Orwell and Fleur Adcock, and a range of music from Gibbons, NOEL COWARD, Elgar, Boulez and Yves Montand.... |