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| 625y | ...A scientist discovers a gene that could determine a man or woman's natural lifespan. wally k daly's drama stars AMANDA ROOT.... |
| Ancient Mariners Wife, The | ...Laura Sparrow....AMANDA ROOT... |
| Baldi | Stars David Threlfall ...... |
| Balkan Beats | ...... |
| Ball And Chains | ...... |
| Bards Of Bromley | ...Mrs Swerdlow....Julia Mckenzie William Wordsworth....Timothy West George Eliot....AMANDA ROOT August Strindberg....Paul Rhys A.A. Milne....John Moffat Johann Wolfgang von Goethe....John Rowe Dr. Chekhov....Philip Fox... |
| Before The Party [reading] | ...AMANDA ROOT reading an unabridged version of William Somerset Maugham's Before the Party specially commissioned by BBC 7.... |
| Beneath The Skin | ...Read by AMANDA ROOT ... |
| Bequest To The Nation, A | ...frances, lady nelson....AMANDA ROOT... |
| Between The Ears | ...One of the first poems in the language to explore PREGNANCY and childbirth, Sylvia Plath's powerful, long poem for three voices describes three different experiences, using characteristically strong, stark language. Lindsey Duncan (The wife), Harriet Walter (Secy), AMANDA ROOT (The girl). With a specially composed electronic soundtrack written and performed by Robin Rimbaud, better known in the electronic music world as Scanner.... |
| Birthday Girl | ...April....AMANDA ROOT... |
| Black Orchids | ...AMANDA ROOT reads from Gillian Slovo's love story, set in 1950s Ceylon and London.... |
| Book At Bedtime | ...AMANDA ROOT reads from Gillian Slovo's love story, set in 1950s Ceylon and London.... |
| Bringer Of Peace, The | ...Isobel Holst....AMANDA ROOT... |
| 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.... |
| Caesar! | ...... |
| Chapters And Verses - Treasures Of The British Library | ...`The Marie Stopes Story' told by Maggie Allen. The remarkable life of Dr Marie Stopes - passionate pioneer and shocking self-publicist - told through her letters and journals, beginning a celebration of the riches of the British Library's arcHIVes. With Barbara Jefford, AMANDA ROOT and Elizabeth Bell. Director: Jonquil Panting (1/10).... |
| Cops And Robbers | ...By Katie Hims. A dry-cleaner's assistant falls for a customer who chats her up and then, on leaving, is knocked down. How can she ever forget him? With AMANDA ROOT, Philip Jackson and Nicholas Boulton. Directed by Peter Kavanagh ... |
| Dangerous Thing, A | ...Martha 'Pattie' Blount....AMANDA ROOT... |
| Daughter Of Fortune | ...The new novel from best-selling author Isabel Allende is an epic story of love and adventure set in colonial Chile and the California of the gold rush. Read by AMANDA ROOT, abridged by ALISON JOSEPH (1/10).... |
| David's Birthday | ...By Gillian Plowman. Maggie and Liz have conflicting feelings about their younger, handicapped brother. As they all meet to celebrate his twenty-fifth birthday, the prospect of his return to the family brings back memories of the past which will threaten their relationships with their respective partners. With AMANDA ROOT, Clare Holman and Richard Curnow. Director: Sue Wilson ... |
| Eclipse 1999 | ...Astronomer Heather Couper introduces five readings of poetry, prose and diary extracts to mark the end of the millennium. Words are provided by sun worshippers such as Queen Victoria, Emily Dickinson, Malcolm Muggeridge and Oscar Wilde. Readers Denys Hawthorne, Mona Hammond, Lisa Eichorn, Derek Griffiths and AMANDA ROOT. Part 1. / With Sheila McClennon and guests. Reading: `Eclipse 1999' (1/5).... |
| Experiment With An Air Pump, An | ...Shelagh Stephenson's psychological thriller set in the house of scientist and political radical Joseph Fenwick on the eve of the 19th century. Directed by Eoin O'callaghan, with Lindsay Duncan (Susannah Fenwick), Tim Piggot Smith (Joseph Fenwick), Simon Russell Beale (Peter Mark Roget), Tim McInnerny (Armstrong), AMANDA ROOT (Maria Fenwick), Rebecca Saire (Harriet Fenwick) and Pauline Lockart (Isobel Bridie).... |
| Five Women | ...by Clare Girvan, read by AMANDA ROOT. Lucy loves to visit the Talbot family at their house, Fairwinds. They are very different from her own parents, who are always arguing. But no-one would understand Lucy's Fairwinds visits, because, after all, Fairwinds is only a doll's house.... |
| Framley Parsonage | ...by Anthony Trollope David Haig (Mark Robarts) Anna Massey (Lady Lufton) Livia Williams (Fanny Monsell Robarts) John Carlisle (Nathaniel Sowerby) Christopher Scott (Lord Lufton) Rosemary Leach (Mrs. Proudie) Selena Caddell (Miss Dunstable) David Horovich (Dr. Proudie) Stephen Moore (Dr. Grantly) Abigail Docherty (Lucy Robarts) Gilly Bond (Mrs. Grantly) Shirley Dixon (Mrs. Smith) Sean Baker (Harold Smith) Alice Arnold (Griselda Grantly) Ioan Meredith (Duke of Omnium, Lord Dumbello) Kenneth Cranham (Josiah Crawley) Gabrielle Lloyd (Mrs. Crawley) John Wood (Dr. Thorne) AMANDA ROOT (Mary Thorne) Sean Baker (Fothergill) Dramatised by Martyn Wade Directed by Cherry Cookson ... |
| Frederica Quartet, The | ...AMANDA ROOT - Agatha... |
| Genevieve | ...Adapted by Adrian Bean from the original screenplay by William Rose. Remember the classic 1953 film starring Kenneth More, John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kay Kendall and two vintage cars? Probably the first British road movie as well as a wonderful romantic comedy, Genevieve is the story of two men behaving badly with their cars and their women on the annual LONDON to Brighton car run. Alan....Michael Maloney Wendy....AMANDA ROOT Ambrose....Robert Bathurst Rosalind....Samantha Bond Miss Windsor....Jennie Stoller Commentator....David Holt Roger....Kenny Blyth Policeman....Phillip Joseph Harry....Jonathan Keeble Mechanic....Alex Trinder Old Gent....Gordon Reid Sidney....Jack Miller Directed by Tracey Neale.... |
| Gentleman Almadeo-almadine, The | ...By Damiene Sheehan, read by AMANDA ROOT. A mother takes her daughter on a pilgrimage to meet an unlikely relative in this romantic ghost story set in Canada.... |
| Go Ask Alice | ...By Annie McCartney. When Alice, an ASTHMA sufferer, starts angling for special attention, it does not seem to be anything unusual. But before long her parents find themselves reeling in disbelief as their lives start to unravel before their very eyes. With Ellie Beaven, Georgie Alexander and AMANDA ROOT. Director: Eoin O'callaghan ... |
| Hearts And Bones | ...By Annie McCartney. A mother faces a major dilemma when tests for a much-needed bone-marrow transplant reveal that her husband may not be the father of her child. With AMANDA ROOT, Kenneth Cranham and Ellie Beaven. Director Eoin O'callaghan ... |
| Hopes And Desires | ...... |
| Importance Of Being Earnest, The | ...... |
| Jericho Players - Rogues And Vagabonds, The | ...By Bernard Kops. It is 1881, and a group of RUSSIAn actors fleeing the pogroms arrives in LONDON. The East End won't know what hit it! With Timothy West as Wolf, AMANDA ROOT as Sonia, Mark Bonnar as Aaron and David Horovitch as Rivkin. Director Peter Kavanagh ... |
| Let's Make A Festival | ...Imogen Holst....AMANDA ROOT... |
| 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 ... |
| Life's Little Ironies | ...By Eric Pringle. Ella Marchmill longs to meet the poet she has always most admired, and the more elusive he remains, the more ardent her desire grows. With AMANDA ROOT, Sean Baker and Shirley Dixon. Director Clive Brill ... |
| Lost Child, The | ...Sarah....AMANDA ROOT... |
| Love In A Cold Climate | ...Nancy Mitford's comedy drama of English manners sees Fanny emerge into the world of an aristocratic family. Stars AMANDA ROOT.... |
| Loving | ...... |
| Lunar Effect, The | ...By Dominic Power and read by AMANDA ROOT.... |
| Magic | ...by Isla Dewar, read by AMANDA ROOT. At school, Tilly dreams of being an opera singer, but is too much of a tearaway to join the choir.... |
| Mansfield Park [drama 1997] | ...Dramatised in three parts by Elizabeth Proud. With Hannah Gordon, AMANDA ROOT and Michael Williams. Director Sue Wilson.... |
| Mansfield Park [drama 2003] | ...... |
| Marble Woman, A | ...By Louisa May Alcott, dramatised by Lavinia Murray. Sexual repression, opium addiction and love collide in this gothic tour de force. Recently orphaned Cecilia Stein turns up at the door of brilliant sculptor Bazil YORKe. Jilted by the child's mother many years ago, YORKe decides to use the daughter to punish the sins of the mother. With Bill Paterson, AMANDA ROOT and John Mcardle. Director: Pauline Harris ... |
| Midsummer Night Dreams | ...Hermia....AMANDA ROOT... |
| Noisy Bodies | ...By Clare McIntyre. Peter is forced to confront what is really wrong with him. But to what end? With Bill Nighy, AMANDA ROOT and James Laurenceson. Director: Celia de Wolff ... |
| Northanger Abbey | ...... |
| Opening Lines | ...By Elizabeth Sarkany, read by AMANDA ROOT.... |
| Orley Farm | ...... |
| Other Garden And Collected Stories By Francis Wyndham, The | ...After a dull night at the cinema, a woman is approached by someone on the way home. Read by AMANDA ROOT.... |
| Paradise | ...By Nick Warburton. Antonia chucks in her job in the City and buys an idyllic cottage out in the countryside. She soon finds out why it was going so cheaply. With AMANDA ROOT, Liz Smith and George Baker. Directed by Peter Kavanagh ... |
| Pin To See The Peep Show, A | ...Mrs Almond/Lady Belfon....AMANDA ROOT... |
| Postscript | ...Five dramatised documentaries adapted from the KGB's literary archive by Vitaly Shentalinsky and presented by Professor James Riordan. 4: `Seventh Heaven: the File on Nina Hagen-Torn'. Until recently unknown and unpublished, ethnographer and daring free thinker Nina Hagen-Torn wrote vividly about her suffering in the vast gulag of Kolyma. With AMANDA ROOT as Hagen-Torn, and Eleanor Bron ... |
| Red Room - Ghost Stories For Christmas, The | ...by Mary Braddon. With Lia Williams, Ciaran Hinds, AMANDA ROOT and Charlie Simpson. Directed by Clive Brill ... |
| Shakespeare Season - Sunday Play - A Midsummer Night's Dream | ...Richard Eyre introduces a production of `A Midsummer Night's Dream' as part of the Shakespeare season. David Threlfall (Theseus/Oberon), Sylvestra Le Touzel (Titania/Hippolyta), Samuel West (Lysander), AMANDA ROOT (Hermia), Nick Bagnall (Demetrius), Kathryn Hunt (Helena), Richard Griffiths (Bottom). With Donald McBride, Peter Sallis, Derek Walmsley, Andy Cryer, Malcolm Hebden, Becky Simpson, Thomas Pinnock, William Haigh and Holly Grainger. Music composed and performed by Robin Rimbaud. Directed by Susan Roberts ... |
| She Stoops To Conquer, The | ...By Oliver Goldsmith, adapted by Sue Wilson. When Young Marlow comes to court Kate Hardcastle at her father's house in Yorkshire, he finds himself the butt of a mischievous prank. Tony Lumpkin revels in the misunderstanding he causes during `the mistakes of a night'. Cast includes Julia Mckenzie, Clive Francis, AMANDA ROOT, Adrian Scarborough, Norman Rodway, Martin Ball, Jonathan Clarke, Cathy Sera, Terry Molloy, Ian Brooker, Naomi Harris and Richard Neale. Music composed and played by Anthea Gomez with Martha Ann Brooks (trombone) and Katherine Gittings (violin). Director: Sue Wilson ... |
| Sirens Of Fleet Street | ...by Lavinia Murray and introduced by Kate Perry. Bessie Parkes and her friend Barbara Bodichon were the founders of the ENGLISH Woman's Journal, the first newspaper owned, written and printed by women. This drama tells Bessie's story. With AMANDA ROOT and Sarah Parks. Director Susan Roberts ... |
| So Very Secret | ...By Barbara Pym, dramatised by Elizabeth Proud. This comedy thriller set in ENGLAND in 1941 focuses on the sudden disappearance of Harriet Jekyll of the Foreign Office. With AMANDA ROOT, Miriam Margolyes, Nigel Anthony, Chris Emmett, Josie Kydd, Chris Pavlo and Elizabeth Proud ... |
| Soeur Sourire | ...By Bruce Stewart. A play inspired by the life of Jeanine Decker who shot to fame with her song, Dominique, and whose life ended tragically. Jeanine....Kelly Hunter Annie....AMANDA ROOT Mere Bernard....Jill Balcon Soeur Chantal....Marian Diamond Candy....Nicola Barber Music arranged and played by Mia Soteriou ... |
| Soldier's Debt, A | ...Powerful drama starring AMANDA ROOT.... |
| Souer Sourire | ...Annie....AMANDA ROOT... |
| Spring Sonata | ...Starring: AMANDA ROOT/Richard Pearce.... |
| Three Sisters Two | ...Set in post-revolutionary Russia, Reza de Wet's play offers both a sequel to Chekov's `Three Sisters' and - in its investigation of the confusions resulting from political upheaval - a comment on the author's homeland of South Africa at the end of the 20th century. With Janet Maw (Masha), Anna Calder-marshall (Olga), AMANDA ROOT (Irena), Bernard Hepton (Vershinin), Bill Nighy (Andrey), Eve Matheson (Natasha), Sean Baker (Igor), Clare Corbett (Sofia) and Barbara Lott (Anfisa). Music composed and performed by Janet Davey. Directed by Gordon House ... |
| Well Of Loneliness, The | ...The concluding part of Radclyffe Hall's ground-breaking tale of lesbian love - the story of one woman's desperate attempt to love and be loved. Adapted in two parts by Sarah Woods. With Valerie Edmond, AMANDA ROOT and Roberta Kerr. Director Melanie Harris ... |
| With Great Pleasure | ...AMANDA ROOT (rdr)... |
| Words And Music | ...AMANDA ROOT and Rory Kinnear take an imaginative journey around the clock over the course of 24 hours with poems and prose by Fleur Adcock, John Clare, Shakespeare, Byron, Walt Whitman and Carol Ann Duffy, and music by Sibelius, Debussy, Elvis Costello, Copland and Falla.... |
| Wuthering Heights | ...Mr Lockwood visits Heathcliff's unwelcoming house on the moors. Emily Bronte dramatisation with John Duttine and AMANDA ROOT.... |
| Yeats And Margot | ...Yeats And Margot compiled by Cicely Herbert. A portrait of the three year relationship between WB Yeats and Margot Ruddock told through their letters and poetry. Yeats was 69 and Margot 27 when they met. Margot was an actress, beautiful, twice married and with two small children when she first wrote to Yeats in 1934 to ask his advice about setting up a poets' theatre in LONDON. The ensuing correspondence is affectionate, colourful and informative about Yeats' later life, his poetry, and ideas. The poems he wrote for Margot echo his longing to recapture the nights of his youth. WB Yeats....Timothy West Margot Ruddock....AMANDA ROOT Music by Gary Yershon. Directed by Katherine Beacon.... |