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| 1829 | ...... |
| American Wife, The | ...ANTON LESSER (Actor)... |
| Arctic Stories | ...By Leo Tolstoy, read by ANTON LESSER. In the depths of a RUSSIAn winter, the hunt for a bear unfolds in a dramatic way. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude.... |
| Available Means | ...... |
| Bamboo | ...William Boyd takes this old Chinese saying as the inspiration for these essays, read by ANTON LESSER.... |
| Baptism, The | ...SBH:THE BAPTISM: Short story by Guy de Maupassant. Translated by Craig Warner. Read by ANTON LESSER. Produced by Caroline Raphael.... |
| Beast, The | ...This story by the German author Michael Kruger describes how a man's creativity is threatened by the appearance of a strange pet. Read by ANTON LESSER... |
| Between The Ears | ...The second of six newly commissioned experiments in creative radio. `Eating at Coopers'. By Rod Tinson. With mango sauce on the wall, a partner allergic to food, and a mysterious commis chef, will Cooper ever get his two stars in Hershel's restaurant guide? With ANTON LESSER, Belinda Sinclair, Cathy Sara and Simon Carter. Music by Rod Tinson. Director Sue Wilson ... |
| Beware Of The Trains | ...Godfrey Page....ANTON LESSER... |
| Beyond The Canvas | ...Nicholas McInerny's drama tells the story of Gauguin's painting, a response to the death of his wife's baby. Gauguin responded with one of his most striking paintings, depicting his wife as a nude Venus in a tropical setting, with a raven gazing over the scene. With ANTON LESSER and Inika Leigh Wright. The painting is discussed by Prof John House.... |
| Brave New World | ...ANTON LESSER reads from Aldous Huxley's classic 1932 tale about cloning, consumerism and chemical abandon; a vision of a world in which happiness is controlled by science. Abridged by Neville Teller.... |
| Breaking The Silence | ...Nikolai....ANTON LESSER... |
| Bringing Eddie Home | ...major ashton....ANTON LESSER... |
| Candide | ...ANTON LESSER reads Voltaire's classic satire of the 1700s which follows the adventures of the hero and the beautiful Cunegonde. Translated by John Butt, abridged by Andrew Simpson (1/8).... |
| Chess Wars | ...Boris Spassky....ANTON LESSER... |
| Comedy Of Errors, The | ...By William Shakespeare. In this new dramatisation by Sue Wilson and Malcolm McKee, it is 1936 and a cruise liner arrives at Ephesus, where BBC travel reporter Gervaise Ffoulkes finds himself caught up in some strange local customs. With Peter Jeffrey, Michael Maloney, ANTON LESSER, Brian Parr and Clive Kneller. Director Sue Wilson ... |
| Constable In Love | ...ANTON LESSER reads Martin Gayford's account of the early career of John Constable and his long battle to win the hand of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on correspondence between the pair.... |
| Country Wife, The | ...By William Wycherley, adaped by Martyn Read. LONDON, 1675. The King's Players give the first performance of William Wycherley's new play, in which Harry Horner, an unredeemed rakehell hits upon a remarkable stratagem for conquering new bedchambers! Starring Julia McKenzie as Lady Fidget, Michael Hordern as William Wycherley, and a cast including ANTON LESSER, Stephen Moore, Cathryn Bradshaw, Norman Rodway, Gary Bond, Michael Cochrane... |
| Crime And Punishment | ...Dramatised by Mike Walker Directed by John Taylor Baranby Kay (Rodya Raskolnikov) Robert Lang (Marmelodov) Poppy Miller (Sonia) ANTON LESSER (Luzhin) Paula Jacobs (Alyona Ivanovna) Jim Norton (Porfiry Petrovich) Penny Layden (Dunia) Oliver Milburn (Dmitri) Penny Downie (Mrs. Raskolnikova) Sophie Ward (Paulenka) Jonathan Keeble (Police Sergeant) Deborah Berlin (Nastasia) Jonathan Tafler (Zamyotov; Polish man) Ian Brooker (Policeman) Frances Jeeter (Katarina) Rachel Atkins (Amalia) John Rogan (Captain Koch) ... |
| Death Of Ivan Ilyich, The | ...ANTON LESSER (Actor)... |
| Death Of Sigmund Freud, The | ...Mark Edmundson's story of the great psychiatrist's final years, abridged by Penny Leicester and read by ANTON LESSER.... |
| Deep Blue Sea, The | ...... |
| Doctor Faustus | ...emperor....ANTON LESSER... |
| East Of The Sun | ...By Carey Harrison. Intrigued by the unexpected death of Thomas Harrell, the last and greatest of Britain's Victorian explorers, journalist Daniel Bacon attempts to retrace Harrell's journey in one of the loneliest deserts in the world. As he journeys into the unknown - in tantalising but apparently fruitless pursuit of his hero - Bacon's view of himself and the world undergoes a sea change. Daniel....ANTON LESSER Lady Harrell....Elizabeth Spriggs Majid....Roshan Seth Whitaker....William Gaunt Kitty....Mary Wimbush Lady Olwen....Auriol Smith Mutesa....Alan Cooper Mother....Richenda Carey With Clare Corbett, Kenny Blyth and Alex Trinder. Original music by David Chilton. Directed by Gordon House ... |
| Easy Virtue | ...... |
| Falco - Venus In Copper | ...Probing a professional bride with a habit of outliving her husbands, the Roman detective faces temptation. Stars ANTON LESSER.... |
| Fantastic Journeys | ...HG Wells' tale, read by ANTON LESSER.... |
| Fatherland [drama] | ...John Dryden's dramatisation of Robert Harris's bestselling novel. 1964: Detective Xavier March is asked to investigate the suspicious death of a retired German senior civil servant. His enquiries lead him to uncover a terrifying secret that has so far been hidden from the world. With ANTON LESSER, Graham Padden, Robert Portal and Peter Ellis. Director John Dryden.... |
| Fatherland | ...A chilling drama set in an imaginary Hitler-led post-war Germany. ANTON LESSER stars as Kriminalpolizei detective Xavier March.... |
| Five Short Stories By A E Coppard | ...Abridged by Roy Apps, read by ANTON LESSER, directed by Joanna Green.... |
| French Collection, The | ...By Alphonse Daudet, read by ANTON LESSER. It is the winter of 1870 and Paris is under siege during the Franco-Prussian war. A childish bit of fun turns into tragedy when the story's young hero unwittingly acts as a spy for the Prussians.... |
| Glittering Prizes, The | ...... |
| Gray's Elegy | ...By Stephen Wyatt. How far did a passionate quarrel with Horace Walpole influence Thomas Gray's much-loved poem, `Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', first published nearly 250 years ago? With Michael Maloney and ANTON LESSER. Director: martin jenkins ... |
| Gurney | ...By Tim Sanders. A dramatised account of the life of Ivor Gurney, a brilliant composer scarred by the trenches of the First World War. With ANTON LESSER, Geraldine Alexander, Carol Drinkwater and Jamie Glover. Director Andy Jordan.... |
| Heart Of Darkness [reading] | ...Joseph Conrad's famous tale of Marlowe's journey upriver and into the jungle in search of the enigmatic Mr Kurtz. With Redmond O'Hanlon and ANTON LESSER. Abridged in five parts by Katie Campbell... |
| Hermit Lucas | ...The strange tale of Victorian recluse James Lucas, who stayed in his house for 25 years. Martyn Wade's play with ANTON LESSER.... |
| How To Be An Internee With No Previous Experience | ...... |
| I Was Vermeer | ...By Frank Wynne, abridged by Katrin Williams and read by ANTON LESSER.... |
| Inland Sea, The | ...Brian Chase....ANTON LESSER... |
| Iron Hand Of Mars, The | ...falco....ANTON LESSER... |
| Kind Hearts | ...Robert Hamer....ANTON LESSER... |
| Konfidenz | ...By Ariel Dorfman, dramatised by Ariel and Rodrigo Dorfman. It is PARIS, 1939, just before war is declared. Barbara, a young German, has come to meet Martin, but is rung by `Leon', who tells her that Martin is in grave danger, working for the German resistance. Truth and illusion begin to blur. With ANTON LESSER, Luisa Bradshaw-White, Gavin Muir and Andrew Wincott. Directed by Rosalynd Ward.... |
| Latin Shorts | ...by Julio Ramon Ribeyro, read by ANTON LESSER. A huge, mirrored wardrobe, central to family life, is damaged in a football game, bringing the narrator's childhood to an abrupt end.... |
| Letters Of Abelard And Heloise, The | ...Written in the 12th century, the letters between the ill-starred Abelard and Heloise form some of the most passionate and enduring love correspondence of all time. Read by Lynsey Baxter and ANTON LESSER. With the songs of Pierre Abelard. Director Peter Kavanagh ... |
| Lorenzaccio | ...Alfred de Musset's drama set amid the turmoil of Renaissance Florence. With Jonathan Cake, Bernard Hepton, Susan Lynch, George Baker and ANTON LESSER. Directed by Peter Kavanagh ... |
| M R James At Christmas | ...George Goodman....ANTON LESSER... |
| Measure For Measure | ...By William Shakespeare In a world of sexual harassment, unwed mothers and the inability of the law to deal with either the Duke hands over his powers to his puritan deputy. Duke....Chiwetel Ejiofor Escalus....Clive Swift Angelo....ANTON LESSER Isabella....Nadine Marshall Mistress Overdone....Claire Benedict Pompey....Ewan Bailey Lucio....Lloyd Hutchinson Claudio....Jude Akuwudike Provost....Colin McFarlane Mariana....Adjoa Andoh Original music composed by Helen Chadwick. Directed by Claire Grove ... |
| Memorials To The Missing | ...During the Great War, an internal battle is fought - for decent burials and graves. Starring ANTON LESSER and Michael Maloney.... |
| Minghella Remembered | ...Including Hang Up, Minghella's award-winning play first broadcast in 1987. Centred around a late-night phonecall between two lovers, the play is a study of lost innocence, deception and treachery. With ANTON LESSER and Juliet Stevenson. Directed by Robert Cooper.... |
| Moliere, Or The League Of Hypocrites | ...Written in 1929, but never performed in the author's lifetime, Bulgakov's play dramatises the last days of France's great comic writer as he is persecuted by the corrupt churchmen his plays have satirised. Michael Pennington (Moliere), Isla Blair (Madeleine), ANTON LESSER (Louis XIV), Charles Kay (Charron), Daniel Betts (Moirron), John Grillo (Bouton), Struan Rodger (One-Eye), Barnaby Kay (Lagrange), Frances Grey (Armande), Jonathan Newth (Brother Faith), John Normington (Brother Strength), Abigail Thaw (Mariette/Masked Woman), John Baddeley (Just Shoemaker). Director Don Taylor ... |
| Mort | ...narrator....ANTON LESSER... |
| Moving And The Still, The | ...November....ANTON LESSER... |
| My Father's Glory | ...Childhood memories of Provence by Marcel Pagnol, the author of `Jean de Florette' and `Manon des Sources'. Abridged by Neville Teller, read by ANTON LESSER (1/5).... |
| No Man's Land | ...Read by ANTON LESSER.... |
| Of Rats And Men | ...ANTON LESSER (Actor)... |
| Other Man, The [drama] | ...By Bernhard Schlink. Adapted by Mike Harris. After many years of marriage a man's wife dies. Shortly after a letter arrives for her from another man - passionate words from an ex-lover. Obsessed with finding out the truth the man impersonates his dead wife, determined to find out about a love he cannot understand. The Man....ANTON LESSER The Other Man....Ciaran Hinds The Wife....Stella Gonet The Daughter....Lucy Robinson.... |
| Paradise Lost | ...Read by ANTON LESSER.... |
| Pass The Parcel | ...Adam....ANTON LESSER... |
| Places Where They Sing | ...Thomas....ANTON LESSER... |
| Poetry Please | ...Don Taylor introduces the story of the poet Andrew Marvells two years in literary seclusion, at Nunappleton House in YORKshire, with the retired Lord General of the New Model Army, Sir Thomas Fairfax. Marvell....ANTON LESSER Fairfax....Edward Petherbridge Directed by Ellen Dryden.... |
| Porterhouse Blue | ...ANTON LESSER begins a nine-part reading of Tom Sharpe's satire set in Cambridge University. 1: The new Master of Porterhouse threatens a break with tradition in the most conservative of Cambridge's colleges, to the horror of the Fellows and of the Porter - the redoubtable Skullion.... |
| Poseidons Gold | Dramatisation by Mary Cutler of the novel by Lindsey Davis, featuring her Roman detective, Falco. ...Falco....ANTON LESSER... |
| Principia Scriptoriae | ...ANTON LESSER (Actor)... |
| Recollection, A | ...By Mavis Gallant, read by ANTON LESSER. A Jewish woman, about to flee Paris during the Nazi occupation, takes with her a yellow star as a souvenir.... |
| Remains Of The Day, The | ...By Kazuo Ishiguro Dramatised by James Friel. 1/2. Darlington Hall Based on the award-winning novel, this is a haunting tale of lost causes and lost love. It is a celebrated evocation of life between the wars in a great English country house, and the echoes of the violent upheavals spreading across Europe in the 1930s. Stevens....Ian McDiarmid Miss Kenton....Julia Ford Lord Darlington....Oliver Ford Davies Father....Peter Sallis Dupont/Sir David Cardinal....ANTON LESSER Reginald Cardinal....Adrian Scarborough Lewis....Garrick Hagon Faraday....Ed Bishop Graham....Tom George Landlady....Maggie McCarthy Mechanic....Ben Crowe Announcer....Tracy Wiles [Rptd Sat 9.00pm] / The Remains Of The Day By Kazuo Ishiguro Dramatised by James Friel. 1/2. Darlington Hall Based on the award-winning novel, this is a haunting tale of lost causes and lost love. It is a celebrated evocation of life between the wars in a great English country house, and the echoes of the violent upheavals spreading across Europe in the 1930s. Stevens....Ian McDiarmid Miss Kenton....Julia Ford Lord Darlington....Oliver Ford Davies Father....Peter Sallis Dupont/Sir David Cardinal....ANTON LESSER Reginald Cardinal....Adrian Scarborough Lewis....Garrick Hagon Faraday....Ed Bishop Graham....Tom George Landlady....Maggie McCarthy Mechanic....Ben Crowe Announcer....Tracy Wiles [Rpt of Sun 3.00pm] / Based on the award-winning novel, this is a haunting tale of lost causes and lost love. It is a celebrated evocation of life between the wars in a great English country house, and the echoes of the violent upheavals spreading across Europe in the 1930s. Stevens....Ian McDiarmid Miss Kenton....Julia Ford Lord Darlington....Oliver Ford Davies Father....Peter Sallis Dupont/Sir David Cardinal....ANTON LESSER Reginald Cardinal....Adrian Scarborough Lewis....Garrick Hagon Faraday....Ed Bishop Graham....Tom George Landlady....Maggie McCarthy Mechanic....Ben Crowe Announcer....Tracy Wiles [Rpt of Sun 3.00pm]... |
| Resurrection [drama] | ...A confrontation between love and radicalism and political authority - this time between the Roman Civil Governor of Judaea, Pontius Pilate and a troublesome, itinerant preacher, Yeshua Ben Youssef. Yeshua Ben Youssef....ANTON LESSER Pontius Pilate....David Calder Mary of Magdala....Julia Ford Caiaphas....Sam Dastor Shimon Annas....Raad Rawi Nicodemus....John Rowe Claudia Procla....Mia Soteriou Titus Flavius....Chris Moran Other parts were played by James Hayes, Jon Glover and Danny Sapani. Music by Mia Soteriou and performed by Steve Bentley Kline, Merlin Shepherd and William Lyons. Directed by Jeremy Mortimer... |
| Ring And The Book, The | ...Browning....ANTON LESSER... |
| Ruth | ...Benson....ANTON LESSER... |
| Savage Girls And Wild Boys | ...ANTON LESSER reads from Michael Newton's book about feral children. He begins in 1726 with Peter the Wild Boy.... |
| Sea, The, The | ...By Edward Bond. A remote Sussex village, 1907. The drowning of Mrs Rafi's nephew is the catalyst for unleashing a storm which will change the life of this small community for ever. Rosemary Leach (Mrs Rafi), Ronald Pickup (Evens), ANTON LESSER (Hatch), Josephine Tewson (Jessica Tilehouse), David Tennant (Willy Carson), Richard Derrington (Hollarcut), Cathy Sara (Rose Jones), Stephen Boswell (Vicar), Sunny Ormonde (Mafanwy Price), Christopher Scott (Thompson), Terry Molloy (Carter), Tracy Wiles (Jilly), Tina Gray (Rachel), Joyce Gibbs (Davis). Director: Sue Wilson ... |
| Servant, The | ...Barrett....ANTON LESSER... |
| Shadows In Bronze | ...ANTON LESSER returns as Lindsey Davis's witty and popular detective patrolling the streets of First Century Rome.... |
| Silver Pigs, The | ...ANTON LESSER brings the best-selling Roman detective to life in the first of Lindsey Davis's witty and enthralling adventures.... |
| Small Gods | ...narrator....ANTON LESSER... |
| Sound Of Fury, The | ...ANTON LESSER, as Billy Fury, leads a star-studded cast in a dramatised reconstruction about the 'British Elvis'. From 1994.... |
| Speak, Memory | ...Vladimir Nabokov's earliest recollections of his childhood in the Russia of the tsars. Abridged by Andrew Simpson, read by ANTON LESSER (1/5).... |
| Stalingrad Kiss | ...Eyewitness to the Battle of Stalingrad, Vassily Grossman was loved by the front line soldiers for his vivid portrayal of their struggle. But twenty years later his great war novel Life and Fate, was banned by the KGB. It would never see print in his lifetime. Vassily Grossman....ANTON LESSER Sasha....Jimmy Chamberlain Valentin....Steven Webb Valentin (older)....Raymond Coulthard Anya/Olga....Gillian Bevan Commissar Bruk....Matthew Marsh Colonel Gurtiev/Polyakov....Fred Pearson Petrov....Andrew Tiernan Grekov....Stephen Critchlow Yuri/Concierge/Third Soldier....Ben Crowe Corporal Tanya Driabin....Carla Simpson Freddy Parkhomenko....Nicholas Boulton Albert/Concierge....Kenneth Collard Marya....Laura Doddington Lyusia....Laura Martin-Simpson Grossman's Mother....Jennie Stoller With Scott Brooksbank, Simon Donaldson and Richard Firth Assistant Producer: Janice Thomas Director: Mark Burman Producer: Jeremy Mortimer ... |
| Stories By W Somerset Maugham | ...ANTON LESSER reads stories with a twist from a past master.... |
| Strangers On A Train | ...ANTON LESSER (Actor)... |
| Tennyson's Ulysses Revisited | ...Featuring a powerful new reading of Ulysses by ANTON LESSER.... |
| Terry Pratchett's Discworld | ...... |
| Three Chickens | ...By William Stanton. On a magic island in Brazil, the ENGLISHman William Marlow is seduced by tales of witchcraft. In a story about three chickens, he finds uncanny and uncomfortable echoes of a life he thought he had left behind him. With ANTON LESSER, Valerie Braddell and Suzanna Hamilton... |
| Tiger In The Smoke | ...ANTON LESSER reads Margery Allingham's evocative story of a mysterious treasure hunt in postwar London.... |
| Time After Time | ...Carter....ANTON LESSER... |
| Tom Jones | ...Tom and Partridge encounter generous gypsies and hopeless highwaymen. Starring ANTON LESSER.... |
| Tom Morton (summary) | ...... |
| Transit Of Venus | ...By Maureen Hunter. Kelly Hunter won a Sony Award this year for her performance as Celeste, the fiancee of astronomer Le Gentil. In 1760, he set out to chart the transit of Venus, leaving her at home. Six years later, he returns to find that she is older, wiser and less willing to be kept waiting. With ANTON LESSER, Dinah Stabb, Doreen Mantle and Simon Ludders. Director Alison Hindell ... |
| Twenty Cigarettes | ...Oscar attempts to give up cigarettes and win the woman of his dreams. By Marcy Kahan, and starring ANTON LESSER and Stephen Mangan.... |
| Venus In Copper | ...ANTON LESSER stars as the Roman detective, based on the best-selling Falco novels by Lindsey Davis.... |
| Victorian Marriage Beds | ...By Nicholas McInery, with commentary by Asa Bergenheim and Margaretha Fahlgren. Part of a series about Victorian sexuality, this drama documentary about the marriage of Swedish playwright August Strindberg and his second wife, Frida Uhl, explores the issue of women's rights and attitudes to sexuality in Europe more than a century ago. With ANTON LESSER, Annabelle Dowler and Teresa Gallagher ... |
| W H Auden | ...ANTON LESSER (rdr)... |
| We | ...d-503....ANTON LESSER... |
| When We Were Orphans | ...The new novel by Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, read by ANTON LESSER, abridged in ten parts by Chris Wallis.... |
| Where The Old Shed Used To Be | ...William....ANTON LESSER... |
| Whims And Oddities | ...By Natalia Power. Thomas Hood (1799-1845) wrote many poems and ditties, and is best known for his political treatise on behalf of working men and women, `The Song of the Shirt'. His life was happy, but he died young. With ANTON LESSER, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Clare Corbett and Charlie Simpson. Directed by Cherry Cookson ... |
| White Spider, The | ...ANTON LESSER reads from Heinrich Harrer's classic account of the early attempts on the north face of the Eiger.... |
| Wilt Alternative, The | ...ANTON LESSER reads a nine-part adaptation of Tom Sharpe's anarchic comedy.... |
| With Great Pleasure | ...Entrepreneur and bookseller, Phillip Blackwell, presents some of his favourite pieces of prose and poetry. Hes joined by actors ANTON LESSER and Alice Arnold at the original branch of Blackwell's in Oxford, as they celebrate 125 years in the book business.... |
| Words And Music | ...Musical evocations of mountains by Sibelius, Strauss and Liszt sit with poems by Shelley and Petrarch. ANTON LESSER and Lesley Sharp read works by Ted Hughes, Pablo Neruda and EE Cummings which describe the world of birds in flight, and music by composers including Haydn, Honegger and George Benjamin evokes the same subject.... |
| Writing Russia | ...Read by ANTON LESSER ... |