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| Addiction | ...Read by JONATHAN FIRTH ... |
| Angel On The Roof | ...By Shirley Hughes, read by JONATHAN FIRTH. Lewis Brown leads a solitary life until he discovers that an angel is living on the roof of his parents' house.... |
| Byron's Fancy, The | ...David Pownall's play, set in Cambridge in 1807, focuses on Lord Byron as a 19-year-old undergraduate - already a published poet and an established dissolute. During an intrigue, he is badly beaten up and so goes into training at gentleman John Jackson's Boxing Academy. For payment, the bankrupt poet will teach the champion wrestler to write verse. Cast: JONATHAN FIRTH (Byron), Gareth Corke, Amanda Root, David Troughton, Jennifer Piercey , David Allister, Alison Petitt and Ben Crowe. Directed by Marina Caldarone.... |
| Captain's Daughter, The | ...Alexander Pushkin's classic novella, read by JONATHAN FIRTH. A swashbuckling tale of love, heroism and civil war on the RUSSIAn Steppes, from the father of the RUSSIAn novel. Abridged by Doreen Estall (1/5).... |
| Captured Enemy, The | ...Cowdray....JONATHAN FIRTH... |
| Chemistry | ...With Martha Kearney and guests. 10.45 Chemistry, by Maggie Allen. Young Jayne's mission to educate a naive young soldier has terrible consequences. With Jill Balcon, Stella Gonet and JONATHAN FIRTH. Director Celia de Wolff (1/5).... |
| Crown Of Wild Myrtle, A | ...... |
| Dear Brother | ...By Penny Gold The climactic years in the short intense life of the painter Vincent Van Gogh. Based entirely on letters and memoirs of the time, the play marks the 150th anniversary of his birth. Robert Glenister....Vincent Van Gogh JONATHAN FIRTH....Theo, his brother Kika Markham....Joanna, Vincent's sister-in-law Kenneth Cranham....Paul Gaugin ".... |
| Dear Jayne Browne | Cast and Crew |
| Diamonds | ...John Peacock's trilogy follows the progress of a flawed light Cape diamond and the fortunes of the Hallam family over 120 years. 1: `Stars of the Orange River'. South Africa 1871. The diamond is discovered and a terrible error made. With JONATHAN FIRTH, Gerard McDermott and Miles Anderson. Director David Hunter.... |
| Dorabella Variation, The | ...A chance encounter on the Malvern Hills between an unsettled teenager and a famous ghost proves alarming and instructive to both. Elgar....David Collings Dora White....Kate Maberly Bridget White....Jemma Redgrave Luke....JONATHAN FIRTH Richard....Samuel Collings Mrs Tilsley....Jean Trend... |
| Emerald Green Show, The | ...With Llewella Gideon, Jonathan Keeble, Sheila Reid, JONATHAN FIRTH and Dean Hill. Director Pam Fraser Solomon.... |
| End Of Summer, The | ...Helen Dunmore's specially-commissioned story, read by JONATHAN FIRTH, is set aboard a ferry where a young traveller on his way to Stockholm encounters the intriguing teenager Sophie, just as strange storm clouds begin to appear over the water. Does this just herald the end of summer or is there something more complex at work?... |
| Eye Of The Day, The | ...The Story Of Mata Hari. 8/10. Mata Hari finds real love for the first time. Mata Hari....Victoria Hamilton Vadime....JONATHAN FIRTH Ladoux....Phillip Joseph Madame....Lynne Verrall Clunet....David Collings Anjelica....Jaimi Barbakoff Written by Michael Butt. Directed by Marc Beesby. [Rpt of today 10.45am]... |
| Fascination | ...His mother 'entertains' every afternoon, so he leaves the house to cycle the lanes and meet people. Read by JONATHAN FIRTH.... |
| Female Ghost, The | ...With Stephanie Turner, JONATHAN FIRTH and Alison Pettitt.... |
| First Born | ...Tony....JONATHAN FIRTH... |
| French Lieutenant’s Woman, The | ...John Hurt leads the cast as the Narrator, with JONATHAN FIRTH as Charles and Emily Bruni as Sarah.... |
| French Lieutenant's Woman, The | ...Charles....JONATHAN FIRTH... |
| Golden Triangle, The | ...... |
| Good Behaviour | ...Richard....JONATHAN FIRTH... |
| Hearts Of Oak | ...Read by JONATHAN FIRTH ... |
| How Now Tv | ...Hassan....JONATHAN FIRTH... |
| In Search Of Lost Time | ...... |
| Lady Audley's Secret | ...The first of a three-part dramatisation by Bryony Lavery of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's book. 1: Essex, the 1860s. Sir Michael Audley is besotted with his young second wife, Lady Lucy Audley, but his daughter cannot tolerate her new stepmother and his barrister nephew thinks there is something about her that does not add up. With Robert Bowman, Terrence Hardiman, Francesca Annis and JONATHAN FIRTH. Director Annie Castledine.... |
| Late Dinner, A | ...JONATHAN FIRTH reads from Paul Richardson's account of his travels around Spain to discover the country's gastronomic secrets, abridged by Katrin Williams.... |
| Letters From A Lost Generation | ...The story of Vera Brittain's correspondence with four men who were on the front in the First World War - her brother, her lover and their two best friends. Adapted by Mark Bostridge. With Rupert Graves, Amanda Root, JONATHAN FIRTH, James Wallace and Robert Portal (Part 1). / With Martha Kearney and guests. Drama: `Letters from a Lost Generation', by Vera Brittain, adapted by Mark Bostridge. The story of Vera Brittain's correspondence with four men who were on the front in the First World War - her brother, her lover and their two best friends. With Rupert Graves, Amanda Root, JONATHAN FIRTH, James Wallace and Robert Portal ... |
| Lucinda Brayford | ...... |
| Luck Of The Bodkins, The | ...By P G Wodehouse, dramatised by Patricia Hooker. Farcical goings-on aboard the luxury liner the Atlantic, involving mistaken identity, thwarted love, broken engagements, a smuggled pearl necklace and a plush brown Mickey Mouse toy. With Nicholas Boulton, JONATHAN FIRTH and Eleanor Tremain. Director: Gordon House. Director Gordon House ... |
| Man Who Knew Everything, The | ...The young and glamorous Adelaide Bartlett's husband has died of chloroform poisoning: is it suicide or murder? With Julie Cox, JONATHAN FIRTH and Jasper Britton. Directed by Clive Brill ... |
| Mr Percy And The Prophet | ...By Wilkie Collins, adapted for radio by John Arden. A meeting with a clairvoyant has extraordinary consequences for a sceptical Percy Linwood. But even prophecies do not always go according to plan. With Ronald Pickup, JONATHAN FIRTH and Mark Payton. Director Rosalynd Ward.... |
| Parasites, The | ...niall....JONATHAN FIRTH... |
| Radio 4 At The Word | ...Shirley Hughes, read by JONATHAN FIRTH. Lewis Brown leads a solitary life until he discovers that an angel is living on the roof of his parents' house.... |
| Red House Mystery, The | ...By A A Milne, dramatised by Sue Rodwell. A country house party turns into a murder trial for amateur sleuth Antony Gillingham and his willing Watson, Bill Beverley, as they investigate the mysterious disappearance of their host. With Alex Jennings, JONATHAN FIRTH, John Telfer, Christian Rodska, Jenny Coverack, David Lloyd, Nicole Arumugam and Angela Newmarch. Director Sara Davies ... |
| September Tide | ...evan....JONATHAN FIRTH... |
| Shakespeare For The Millennium - Sunday Play - Julius Caesar | ...A BBC studio production of Shakespeare's play directed by Eoin O'callaghan and set in Rome in 1925 under the shadow of Fascism. Julius Caesar, a new Roman dictator, has swept to power. He has eliminated Pompey, and the way is now clear for him to assume total control - unless a coup led by Cassius and Brutus can alter the tide of history. With a cast including Nicholas Farrell (Brutus), Samantha Bond (Portia), Gerard Murphy (Julius Caesar), Stella Gonet (Calphurnia), JONATHAN FIRTH (Mark Anthony), Colin Mcfarlane (Cassius) and Nicholas Grace (Casca).... |
| Something Happened | ...JONATHAN FIRTH (Actor)... |
| Time For Mrs Milliner | ...Susan has broken her leg and is chair bound - surely nothing now can prevent thirty minutes of uninterrupted heaven with Mrs Milliner? What's more the Mrs Milliner episode is the last ever made, and Susan's heroine has gained a royal commission - to design a new Busby. But Susan hadn't bargained on her husband staying home to look after her. Mrs Milliner....Jane Asher Susan....Caroline Harker Gerald....Jonathan Coy Jamie....JONATHAN FIRTH Elsie....Beth Chalmers Mr Sparrow....Stephen Critchlow ... |
| Weather In The Streets, The | ...Rosamond Lehmann's classic account of the joy and anguish of an illicit love affair continues the story of Olivia, whose rite of passage into adulthood was described in Invitation To The Waltz. Now living a faintly bohemian life in the London of the early 1930s, Olivia meets up again with Rollo, the handsome and unhappily married son of Lord and Lady Spencer, and falls prey once more to his charm and confidence. Dramatised by Hattie Naylor. Olivia....Eve Best Rollo....JONATHAN FIRTH Lady Spencer....Diana Quick Kate....Jenny Coverack Anna....Dee Sadler Simon....Ben Tinniswood Mrs Curtis....Jacqueline Tong Marigold....Rachel Lewis With Paul Dodgson, Joshua Boyden and Olivia Crook.... |