Episodes
| Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Road to Ferrara | 20190919 | Raymond has long since divorced, but is still not resigned to his single status. When his mother dies, he looks to her carer for help of a different sort.
An invitation to go with her to Ferrara to witness the oldest Palio in Italy seems to open up the possibility of romance, but Ferrara is a city with a history of lust, betrayal and revenge - and Raymond's visit there has unexpected echoes of the past.
Written by Douglas Livingstone
Drama inspired by extensive recordings made at the 2019 Palio at Ferrara.
Raymond.....Peter Wight
Director: Jane Morgan
A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2019.
From 1425 to 2019, two ill-starred love triangles, set at the oldest horse race in Italy. A selection of radio dramas by Douglas Livingstone | |
| Road to Ferrara | 20190919 | 20211123 (R4) | Raymond has long since divorced, but is still not resigned to his single status. When his mother dies, he looks to her carer for help of a different sort.
An invitation to go with her to Ferrara to witness the oldest Palio in Italy seems to open up the possibility of romance, but Ferrara is a city with a history of lust, betrayal and revenge - and Raymond's visit there has unexpected echoes of the past.
Written by Douglas Livingstone
Drama inspired by extensive recordings made at the 2019 Palio at Ferrara.
Raymond.....Peter Wight
Director: Jane Morgan
A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2019.
From 1425 to 2019, two ill-starred love triangles, set at the oldest horse race in Italy. A selection of radio dramas by Douglas Livingstone |
| Road to Lautrec | 20171130 | The hilltop community in the medieval village of Lautrec is one of the most beautiful villages in France. It holds a festival to celebrate the harvest of their distinctive pink garlic.
This two day event on the first weekend of August, attracts thousands of visitors with its bewildering array of garlic twining competitions, garlic sculptures, dancing, processions, elaborate church services, markets, culinary contests, a vast dole of free garlic soup and a huge communal dinner held under the stars.
Three oddly assorted people from a London cookery course take advantage of an offer to visit the fete, staying with a local ex-pat.
What follows is a comic romance of gastronomy, lost love and prodigious amounts of garlic and rose wine, played out in a truly extraordinary place in the shadow of Brexit.
Written by Douglas Livingstone.
Mary ..... Cheryl Campbell
Director: Jane Morgan
A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2017.
Romance set at a garlic festival in Lautrec. With Cheryl Campbell and Robin Ellis. A selection of radio dramas by Douglas Livingstone | |
| Road to Lautrec | 20171130 | 20191230 (R4) | The hilltop community in the medieval village of Lautrec is one of the most beautiful villages in France. It holds a festival to celebrate the harvest of their distinctive pink garlic.
This two day event on the first weekend of August, attracts thousands of visitors with its bewildering array of garlic twining competitions, garlic sculptures, dancing, processions, elaborate church services, markets, culinary contests, a vast dole of free garlic soup and a huge communal dinner held under the stars.
Three oddly assorted people from a London cookery course take advantage of an offer to visit the fete, staying with a local ex-pat.
What follows is a comic romance of gastronomy, lost love and prodigious amounts of garlic and rose wine, played out in a truly extraordinary place in the shadow of Brexit.
Written by Douglas Livingstone.
Mary ..... Cheryl Campbell
Director: Jane Morgan
A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2017.
Romance set at a garlic festival in Lautrec. With Cheryl Campbell and Robin Ellis. A selection of radio dramas by Douglas Livingstone |
| Road to Lisbon | 20181015 | Patron saint of lovers and lost things, St. Anthony presides over days of celebrations.
There's fado - the wonderful songs of melancholy and longing peculiar to the Portuguese capital - there are nights of street parties, with sardines and sausages hissing on grills at every corner; there are dance competitions, parades and a mass wedding in the cathedral.
But this is more than a story of sardines and sangria - we learn about life under the dictatorship of Dr. Salazar and the effect that the curiously named Carnation Revolution had on one man. 45 years ago Tony's father was one of the Returnados'.
After the fall of the Portuguese fascists, he was forced to leave his home and business in colonial Mozambique and found himself equally unwelcome in his native Lisbon. He made a new life in England and it's only on his death that his son discovers a clue to the secret that Paulo thought he had taken with him to the grave.
Written by Douglas Livingstone
Series using a specially recorded soundtrack of major festivals to create new stories - this drama using 2018's joyous summer festival of St. Anthony in Lisbon.
Tony ..... Carl Prekopp
Director: Jane Morgan
A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2018.
St Anthony\u2019s Festival this year is the setting for the story of a 40-year old secret. A selection of radio dramas by Douglas Livingstone | |
| Road to Lisbon | 20181015 | 20200106 (R4) | Patron saint of lovers and lost things, St. Anthony presides over days of celebrations.
There's fado - the wonderful songs of melancholy and longing peculiar to the Portuguese capital - there are nights of street parties, with sardines and sausages hissing on grills at every corner; there are dance competitions, parades and a mass wedding in the cathedral.
But this is more than a story of sardines and sangria - we learn about life under the dictatorship of Dr. Salazar and the effect that the curiously named Carnation Revolution had on one man. 45 years ago Tony's father was one of the Returnados'.
After the fall of the Portuguese fascists, he was forced to leave his home and business in colonial Mozambique and found himself equally unwelcome in his native Lisbon. He made a new life in England and it's only on his death that his son discovers a clue to the secret that Paulo thought he had taken with him to the grave.
Written by Douglas Livingstone
Series using a specially recorded soundtrack of major festivals to create new stories - this drama using 2018's joyous summer festival of St. Anthony in Lisbon.
Tony ..... Carl Prekopp
Director: Jane Morgan
A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2018.
St Anthony\u2019s Festival this year is the setting for the story of a 40-year old secret. A selection of radio dramas by Douglas Livingstone |
| Road to Oxford | 20161130 | David is the first of his family to go to university. The young student goes up to Oxford full of hope and with his parents bursting with pride, but finds that it's not all plain sailing.
Matters come to a crisis during the chaotic festivities of May Day.
Written by Douglas Livingstone
The production team went to Oxford to record the overnight festivities and shivered with the rest of them, town and gown, but managed to avoid the temptation of a warming nip of alcohol - a temptation which quite a few other people succumbed to.
A number of the actors are making their radio debuts and are graduates of the Oxford School of Drama or from The University of Oxford itself.
Bernard |