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Jm Barrie, What Every Woman Knows1983102920240329/30 (BBC7)JM Barrie's story set in Scotland towards the close of the 19th Century. With Phyllis Logan as Maggie Wylie and David Hayman as John Shand.

Maggie Wylie hides her capabilities to let her husband, John Shand think he has done it all by himself to get into the Houses of Parliament. But during the newly established 'ladies committees', Lady Sybil becomes a distraction. Who is really behind John Shand's success?

'Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.'

Maggie Wylie - Phyllis Logan

John Shand - David Hayman

Teller of the Tale - Tom Fleming

Alick Wylie - Tom Watson

David Wylie - John Shedden

James Wylie - Ray Dunsire

Lady Sybil - Hetty Baynes

Comtesse de la Briere .....Vivienne Dixon

Venables - Alan Rothwell

Written by J.M. Barrie

Adapted for radio by Stewart Conn

Director Marilyn Ireland

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1983.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself'.

Rediscovered plays, as part of the Centenary of Radio Drama project.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself.' With Phyllis Logan and David Hayman. From 1983.

Kingsley Amis, The Riverside Villas Murder1976062620240328/29 (BBC7)'Don't grow up too fast, Peter. When I was your age I couldn't wait to get out into the world, because I thought it was going to be so marvellous. Well. it isn't. Things like this - they're happening all the time. And it isn't fair. It isn't fair at all.'

Set in 1936, an adolescent boy's coming of age is blighted by a local murder.

One of our Lost Gems, this is an off-air recording and the only known copy. It has been equalised as best we can for intelligibility, but is restricted in technical quality.

Kingsley Amis's novel was first published in 1973 and dramatized for radio by Frederick Bradnum.

Peter Furneaux - Ian Sharrock

Mrs Trevelyan - Norma Ronald

Colonel Manton - Peter Jeffrey

Mr Langdon - Malcolm Reid

Daphne Hodgson - Deborah Paige

Captain Furneaux - Stephen Thorne

Detective Con Barrett - Paul Meier

Mrs Ellington - Anne Jameson

Mr Trevelyan - Leslie Heritage

Mr Hodgson - Clifford Norgate

Mr Inman - Steve Hodson

Inspector Cox - Garard Green

Sergeant Duke - Douglas Blackwell

Mrs Furneaux - Joanna Wake

Music performed by Bert Soper's Rhythm Boys.

Director: Harry Catlin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1976.

Rediscovered plays, as part of the Centenary of Radio Drama project.

It's 1936: an adolescent boy's coming of age is blighted by a local murder. Stars Ian Sharrock and Norma Ronald. From 1976.

No Thoroughfare1964071820240326/27 (BBC7)‘As I strolled past the Foundling Hospital in Bloomsbury the other day I thought of the many babes who had lain in the basket outside the Hospital's gate: and of the many footsteps that had hurried away from that spot, leaving a small life behind them. Of one set of footsteps in particular, and the strange story with its mystery and its terror, which began in eighteen hundred and thirty-five, on a chill November night....

In 1835, at London's Foundling Hospital, two babies are given the same name with disastrous consequences.

Written by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins for the London stage in 1867.

Adapted by Mollie Hardwick.

The Lady - Nicolette Bernard

Sally Goldstraw - Molly Rankin

Walter Wilding - Lewis Stringer

Mr Bintrey - Patrick Barr

Joey Ladle - Tom Bowman

Jarvis/1st house agent - Alan Haines

George Vendale - John Justin

Jules Obenreizer - Gabriel Woolf

Marguerite Obenreizer - Marika Mann

Madame Dor - Dorothy Black

Morris/2nd house agent - Garard Green

Maitre Voigt - Arthur Ridley

Treasurer/Bank clerk - Kevin Flood

Producer: Hugh Stewart

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in July 1964.

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No Thoroughfare' is part of Radio 4 Extra's Hidden Treasures collection selected from titles returned to the BBC by various collectors.

Our thanks go to the Radio Circle.

1835, the Foundling Hospital: two babies get the same name with disastrous consequences.

Rediscovered plays, as part of the Centenary of Radio Drama project.

In 1835, at London's Foundling Hospital, two babies are given the same name with disastrous consequences. Stars Lewis Stringer.

The Dumb Waiter20240324First broadcast in 1981, this Hidden Treasure play by Harold Pinter stars Bob Hoskins as Ben and Roy Kinnear as Gus. It has not been heard for over 40 years.

In this sinister, menacing comedy, two armed men wait in a basement - but for what and for whom?

With thanks to Keith Wickham, Dr Steve Arnold, Ruby Churchill, Louisa Britton, Alison Hindell, Matthew Dodd, Claire Coss, Carl Davies, Helen Toland, Richard Culver, Andrew Jupp, James Peak, BBC Archives and the Radio Circle.

Remastering by Essential Radio.

A sinister comedy by Harold Pinter. Two men wait, but for what and for whom?

Rediscovered plays, as part of the Centenary of Radio Drama project.

This Hidden Treasure play from 1981 is a sinister, menacing comedy. Two armed men wait - but for what and for whom? Written by Harold Pinter, starring Bob Hoskins and Roy Kinnear.

Traitor20240325First broadcast in 1981, this Hidden Treasure play by Dennis Potter stars Denholm Elliott as Harris and Ian Ogilvy as James. It has not been heard for over 40 years.

In a dingy flat in Moscow, he sits alone - a traitor to his family, his friends, his colleagues. Then the international press descend upon him and he gives his first interview - an interview which brings forth terrible, haunting memories.

Adapted for radio and directed by Derek Hoddinott

A BBC World Service Drama production

With thanks to Keith Wickham, Dr Steve Arnold, Ruby Churchill, Louisa Britton, Alison Hindell, Matthew Dodd, Claire Coss, Carl Davies, Helen Toland, Richard Culver, Andrew Jupp, James Peak, BBC Archives and the Radio Circle.

Remastering by Essential Radio.

A Hidden Treasure play from 1981, by Dennis Potter. With Denholm Elliott and Ian Ogilvy.

Rediscovered plays, as part of the Centenary of Radio Drama project.

Dennis Potter's Traitor, with Denholm Elliott and Ian Ogilvy. In a dingy Moscow flat sits a traitor to his family, friends and colleagues. Then the international press descend.