| Programme Name: | Details: |
|---|---|
| Blaze | ...George is dead - but he's got a con job for Blaze, who can still hear him. WILLIAM HOPE reads Stephen King's 'lost' thriller.... |
| Bow Echo | ...By Lisa Schlesinger. An elegiac new play, set on a farm in Iowa, by the winner of the 1997 BBC World Service Playwriting Competition. A father's love for his sick daughter forces him to make a choice between his conscience and the law. When his daughter's pain becomes insufferable and one last storm blows over his head, he is compelled to take action. With WILLIAM HOPE, Buffy Davis and Harper Marshall. Director: Andy Jordan.... |
| Brideshead Revisited | ...... |
| Complete Ripley, The | Series of plays based on the novels by Patricia Highsmith about the suave and amoral Tom Ripley. ...... |
| Cowboy And The Tenderfoot, The | ...By Alan Wilkinson. The story of Owen Wister, an educated young man from the East who wrote `The Virginian', a classic tale of the American West. With WILLIAM HOPE and Kerry Shale... |
| Delores, The | ...By Phyllis Nagy, based on Euripides' `Andromache'. With Nichola McAuliffe, Madeleine Potter, Katherine Tozer, Oliver Cotton, WILLIAM HOPE and Nicholas Le Prevost ... |
| Flash For Freedom | ...lincoln....WILLIAM HOPE... |
| Garbo And Gilbert In Love | ...King Vidor....WILLIAM HOPE... |
| Gates Of Eden | ...Five stories from new fiction writer Ethan Coen, best known for his film scripts `Fargo' and `The Big Lebowski'. 5: `Gates of Eden' read by WILLIAM HOPE.... |
| Graduate, The | ...WILLIAM HOPE reads the dark comic novel by Charles Webb, abridged in ten parts by Brian McCabe. First published in 1963, the story of disaffected college boy Benjamin Braddock inspired the classic film starring Dustin Hoffman, as well the new stage version currently wowing West End audiences.... |
| Great Short Stories | ...By Raymond Carver, read by WILLIAM HOPE.... |
| Hard Way, The | ...Barbara Barnes, Eric Loren and WILLIAM HOPE star, with music composed and performed by Simon Russell.... |
| Harpo Goes To Leningrad | ...... |
| Heartburn | ...mark....WILLIAM HOPE... |
| Hotel For The Holidays | ...A story by Jay Mcinerney. How not to have a family reunion at the St Regis Hotel. Read by WILLIAM HOPE.... |
| House On The Borderland, The | ...Two students find an old manuscript of the amazing tale of a former occupant. WILLIAM HOPE Hodgson's fantasy read by Jim Norton.... |
| I Don't Know How She Does It | ...A comedy drama about a high-flying fund manager and mother of two, who constantly juggles her double life. With Samantha Bond and Jonathan Keeble, Teresa Gallagher, WILLIAM HOPE By Allison Pearson, dramatised by Penny Leicester.... |
| Interpretation Of Murder, The | ...Read by WILLIAM HOPE and Martin T Sherman.... |
| Love In A Cold Climate | ...WILLIAM HOPE (Cedric)... |
| Map Of The World, A | ...By Jane Hamilton, read by WILLIAM HOPE (4/10).... |
| Marcus Mundy's Change Of Life | ...In Alexandra Caddell's comic play, which takes place in real time, Marcus Mundy has 44 minutes in which to park his car, get to the theatre and propose to his girlfriend. But a lot can happen in 44 minutes... With Simon Pegg, Jasmine Hyde, WILLIAM HOPE, Andrew Wincott and Helen Ayres. Directed by Marion Nancarrow... |
| Medical Detectives, The | ...Two ambitious young doctors tackle a yellow fever epidemic in 19th-Century Cuba. Starring Colin Stinton and WILLIAM HOPE.... |
| On The Beach | ...dwight towers....WILLIAM HOPE... |
| Operation Overflight | ...Forty years ago today Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of an American U2 spy plane, was shot down over the Soviet Union. His capture and trial became one of the most infamous events of the Cold War. WILLIAM HOPE reads five extracts from Powers's autobiography.... |
| Patchwork Planet, A | ...Barnaby uncovers the source of his family's fortune and hopes for the same angelic intervention. Read by WILLIAM HOPE.... |
| Piano Shop On The Left Bank, The | ...A secret, glass-topped workshop opens up the magical history of the piano to an American journalist in PARIS. T E Carhart's atmospheric book is read by WILLIAM HOPE. Abridged by Sally Marmion (1/5).... |
| Poetry Please | ...Readers are Stephanie Cole, Rebecca Smart and WILLIAM HOPE ... |
| Portrait Of A Lady, The | ...Narrator....WILLIAM HOPE... |
| Prayer For Owen Meany, A | ...... |
| Saturday Play, The | ...Tennesse Williams....WILLIAM HOPE... |
| Small Crimes In An Age Of Abundance | ...Read by WILLIAM HOPE ... |
| Stone Diaries, The | ...... |
| Tank Man, The | ...With WILLIAM HOPE, Laurence Bouvard, Mark Meadows, Martin T Sherman, Jacob Gaffney, Steven Beckingham and Peter Brooke.... |
| Thirty-nine Steps, The | ...John Buchan's 1915 spy thriller, dramatised in two parts by Bert Coules. 1: `The Milkman Sets out on His Travels'. When a man is murdered in Richard Hannay's flat, he goes on the run, pursued by police and a gang of German spies intent on recovering a secret notebook which could destroy the British naval fleet. With David Robb, Tom Baker, WILLIAM HOPE and Struan Rodger. Director: Bruce Young ... |
| Three Cups Of Tea | ...Read by WILLIAM HOPE.... |
| Tunnel Under The World, The | ...Frederick Pohl's influential science fiction tale, dramatised by Mike Walker. Guy wakes each morning from the same terrifying dream, but each day it is soothed away by special offers and an abundance of consumer goods. Then, one day, he begins to recall a little more. With WILLIAM HOPE, Bob Sherman, Laurel Lefkow and Beth Chalmers. Directed by Ned Chaillet... |
| Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? | ...Nick....WILLIAM HOPE... |
| With Great Pleasure | ...Milton Shulman, who was theatre critic of the London Evening Standard for 30 years, chooses his favourite literary extracts, including pieces by William Congreve, Shakespeare and Edmund Rostand. They are read for him by Alice Arnold and WILLIAM HOPE ... |
| Womanizer, The | ...WILLIAM HOPE reads the first episode of a five-part story by Richard Ford, abridged by Kate Campbell. While on business in Paris, Austin meets the beautiful Josephine. But he is only there for three days.... |
| Words And Music | ...WILLIAM HOPE and Yolanda Vasquez read poetry and prose on a theme of Two Americas, North and South including work by Walt Whitman, TS Eliot, Robert Frost, Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda. With music inspired by the Americas from Villa-Lobos, Aaron Copland, Astor Piazzolla and Charles Ives.... |
| Young Playwrights' Festival 1991 | ...SBH:INFINITE SPACES: Play by Adisakdi Tantimedh. The post-modernist Ashen Plaza in Los Angeles is a living building. Its architecture changes shape according to time, mood and the personalities of those inside. Or is it more than that? With Samantha Bond, WILLIAM HOPE and Charles Gray. Produced by Peter Kavanagh.... |