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Blood and Ice & other plays: Five Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions

"Five full-cast dramas by the celebrated Scottish writer Liz Lochhead, plus a short story Liz Lochhead is a widely recognised poet, playwright and performer. She was the Makar, Scotland’s national poet, between 2011 and 2016, and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2015. The six pieces in this anthology are characterised by their evocative language and focus on different facets of female identity: from schoolgirls, wives and mothers to convention-defying creators and ‘cunning women’. Blood and Ice – Summer, 1816. Following their scandalous elopement, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Shelley decamp to Lake Geneva. There, they are joined by Lord Byron and his mistress Claire Clairmont, and one night, in a villa by the shore, they challenge each other to write a ghost story. Mary’s tale will become the most famous Gothic novel of all time – and the creature at its centre will haunt her for the rest of her life. Starring Gerda Stevenson, Stephen Boxer, Jack Klaff and Stella Gonet. Quelques Fleurs – Liz Lochhead plays lonely, ‘born to shop’ housewife Verena, with Stuart Hepburn as her oil-rig worker husband in these tragicomic intercut monologues, which paint a portrait of a childless couple trapped in an unhappy marriage. Maleficium – Taking its title from a Latin word meaning ‘malevolent sorcery’, this chilling play draws on real accounts of witch trials to create voices for three women: Alice, Margery and Jinnet – a farm labourer, a farmer's wife and an elderly wisewoman. When two of them are accused of witchcraft by the other, they are brought to the point of tragedy… Starring Clare Corbett, Siobhan Redmond and Freda Dowie. Fancy You Minding That – Separated by three generations and by the 400 miles from London to Glasgow, a grandmother, mother and daughter recall their very different, very painful memories of the men in their lives. With Phyllis Logan as Valerie, Jennifer Piercey as Ina and Catherine Clarke as Kate. Cuba – Scotland, 1962. With the Cuban Missile Crisis at its height, best friends Barbara and Bernadette believe the world is about to end. They decide to spend their last days making a stand for women and peace – only to find themselves facing a very personal betrayal. Julie Wilson Nimmo, Pauline Lockhart and Liz Lochhead star. ‘The Cure’ – Hoping to impress her handsome house captain, a schoolgirl takes to the athletics track – but the course of true love does not run smoothly. Read by Grace Glover. Text copyright © Liz Lochhead 1982 (Blood and Ice), 1986 (Fancy You Minding That), 1991 (Quelque Fleurs), 1994 (‘The Cure’), 1998 (Cuba), 2001 (Maleficium) © 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd"

Liz Lochhead (Author), Catherine Clarke, Clare Corbett, Full cast, Gerda Stevenson, Jack Klaff, Jon Glover, Liz Lochhead, Phyllis Logan, Siobhan Redmond, Stella Gonet (Narrator)

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A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic ? Birthdays

"'A dime a dozen' as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English 'cheap as chips' but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit 'A Rhyme a Dozen' as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Birthdays - An Introduction 2 - A Birthday by Christina Rossetti 3 - On My Mother's Fiftieth Birthday by Lucretia Maria Davidson 4 - On My Thirty Third Birthday, January 22nd 1821 by Lord Byron 5 - To My Father on His Birthday by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 6 - Song of the Democratic Review of it's Birthday, October the 1st 1857 by William Ross Wallace 7 - Stella's Birthday, March 13th 1727 by Jonathan Swift 8 - On Tea by Edmund Waller 9 - To H W L on His Birthday 27th February 1867 by James Russell Lowell 10 - To Mrs Jane Forster, On Her Birthday, August 4th 1724 by Henry Baker 11 - To the Memory of Mrs Lefroy Who Died December 16 My Birthday by Jane Austen 12 - Shakespeare. An Ode for His Three-Hundreth Birthday by Martin Farquhar Tupper 13 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton"

Christina Rossetti, Edmund Waller, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Baker, James Russell Lowell, Jane Austen, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Lord Byron, Lucretia Maria Davidson, Martin Farquhar Tupper, William Ross Wallace (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Stella Gonet, Warren Keyes (Narrator)

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Nicholas Freeling: Van der Valk & Castang: Six BBC Radio thrillers featuring Piet Van der Valk & Ins

"The collected BBC adaptations of Nicolas Freeling's bestselling thrillers - plus bonus documentary Acclaimed as 'the most thoroughly European of British crime writers' (The Guardian), Nicolas Freeling was well known for his novels featuring Dutch sleuth Van der Valk and French policeman Henri Castang. Included in this collection are six stories showcasing both detectives, as well as a bonus programme exploring Van der Valk and his creator. Love in Amsterdam - Martin's former lover has been murdered. He's the prime suspect, his alibi is thin, and he's lying - but is he the killer? It's up to Van der Valk to find out... David Troughton reads the first novel in the Van der Valk series. Gun Before Butter - The Dutch detective finds himself dealing with a body, an abandoned Mercedes and the beautiful daughter of a dead conductor. Ian Hogg and Sophie Thompson star in this dramatisation of Freeling's 1963 novel, the winner of France's Grand Prix de Roman Policier. King of the Rainy Country - A handsome, middle-aged millionaire and a naked girl disappear. Can Van der Valk find them? Martin Jarvis stars in this adaptation of the sixth Van der Valk novel, which received a 1967 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Arlette - When her husband is shot in the street, Arlette Van der Valk takes the law into her own hands. Starring Stella Gonet as Arlette and Nigel Anthony as Piet Van der Valk. The Nightlords - A dead man in the boot of a Rolls-Royce in Normandy threatens to disrupt Anglo-French relations. Keith Barron stars in this dramatisation of Freeling's first book featuring Henri Castang. Not as Far as Velma- Newly-promoted Commissaire Henri Castang probes the case of a missing hotel owner, the bombing of a convent and an elusive British journalist... Starring Keith Barron as Castang. Foreign Bodies: Netherlands - Commissaris Van Der Valk - As part of a series looking at European history through crime fiction, Mark Lawson takes a trip to Amsterdam in search of Van der Valk, and asks how Freeling's fiction reflected changes in postwar Dutch society. Text copyright © Nicolas Freeling 1962 (Love in Amsterdam), 1963 (Guns Before Butter), 1966 (The King of the Rainy Country), 1978 (The Night Lords), 1979 (The Widow), 1989 (Not as Far as Velma) © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd"

Nicholas Freeling (Author), David Troughton, Full Cast, Ian Hogg, Keith Barron, Martin Jarvis, Nigel Anthony, Sophie Thompson, Stella Gonet (Narrator)

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The Poetry of Weddings

"‘From this day forward…’ are words intoned in every conventional marriage ceremony as two people interweave their lives with all its plans, its hopes and dreams on a love-strewn path to the future, even eternity. From here life has its own way of changing, modifying and disrupting the true course of married love for many of us. In this volume of fifty poems our classic poets delve with storied verse into every facet of this institution. From the good, the bad and even the ugly, from the Wedding day to the realisation that divorce and separation maybe the better path. Between these two frontiers other avenues and facets are explored by the pens of many including Shakespeare, Khalil Gibran, Emily Dickinson and the Rossetti’s."

Christina Georgina Rossetti, Khalil Gibran, W B Yeats (Author), Alex Jennings, Ghizela Rowe, Stella Gonet (Narrator)

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A Rhyme A Dozen - Kissing

"'A dime a dozen' as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English 'cheap as chips' but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit 'A Rhyme a Dozen' as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Kissing - An Introduction2 - Ae Fond Kiss by Robert Burns3 - The Kiss by Charlotte Dacre4 - How By a Kiss He Found By Both His Life and Death by Sir Thomas Wyatt5 - Sonnet 128 - How Oft When Thou My Music, Music Play'st by William Shakespeare6 - That Kiss by Daniel Sheehan7 - The First Kiss of Love by Lord Byron8 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley9 - The Kiss by Sara Teasdale10 - The Kiss by Dante Gabriel Rossetti11 - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why by Edna St Vincent Millay12 - The Phantom Kiss by Paul Laurence Dunbar13 - The Bedtime Kiss by Anonymous"

Charlotte Dacre, Percy Bysshe Shelley (Author), Stella Gonet (Narrator)

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Sixty Women Who Changed the Word

"Whether we understand it or recognise it, it is women who have shaped the course and journey of humanity. We are all born from women and usually raised by women. Half the world's population is female but many of them are trodden down by misogyny, religious misinterpretation, failing systems of education and welfare and all manner of other ills that shame us all. In a world where, gender, colour, race and orientation are still stumbling blocks to inclusion, women's words are too often unheard and neglected.Whilst the world has moved measurably forward in recent decades, although not enough, some progress has been made. Our poets wrote at a time when their basic rights as human beings were restrictive and oppressive. Against the odds, they were able to write verse, which in varying degrees, moved the literary needle and perhaps influenced their society in positive ways.This volume pays tribute to 50 different women poets, some well-known whilst others undeservedly forgotten but all contributing a single poem which we hope might nudge listeners to discover more of their verse.1 - Sixty Women That Changed the Word. The Classic Poets - An Introduction2 - Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend by Jane Austen3 - The Disappointment by Aphra Behn4 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet5 - Night by Anne Bronte6 - Speak of the North, A Lonely Moor by Charlotte Bronte7 - Remembrance by Emily Jane Bronte8 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning9 - What Constitutes A Negro by Eva Carter Buckner10 - Prairie Dawn by Willa Cather11 - The Hunting of the Hare by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle12 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson13 - Hermes of the Ways by Hilda Doolttle14 - In A London Drawingroom by George Eliot15 - Ardelia To Melancholy by Anne Kingsmill Finch16 - In Memorium. Alphonse Campbell Fordham by Mary Weston Fordham17 - The Little Waves of Breffney by Eva Gore-Booth18 - Song of the Worker's Wife by Alice Gray Jones19 - Expecting The Lord by Ann Griffiths20 - The Angel's Visit by Charlotte L Forten Grimke21 - A Twilight Fancy by Radclyffe Hall22 - Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances E W Harper23 - Acceptance by Janabai24 - You Men by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz25 - Tears Ere Thy Death by Khansa26 - Love, the Soul of Poetry by Anne Killigrew27 - Vakh - They Who Have Gained Experience by Lal Ded28 - Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon29 - Afterword by Emily Lawless30 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus31 - Lilacs by Amy Lowell32 - Would a Circling Surface Vulture by Akka Mahadevi33 - Night Scented Stock by Katherine Mansfield34 - Infelix by Adah Isaacs Menken35 - The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew36 - Regrets by Alice Meynell37 - Drink the Nectar by Mirabai38 - Negro Heroines by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer39 - Before Winter by Edith Nesbit40 - The Gift of India by Sarojini Naidu41 - Impressionist by Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson42 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato43 - Envy by Adelaide Anne Proctor44 - In Love by Rabia al Basri45 - A Birthday by Christina Rosseti46 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay47 - Hymn to Aphrodite by Sappho48 - Stanzas by Mary Shelley49 - Sonnet LXX - On Being Cautioned..... by Charlotte Smith50 - On Foot I Had to Cross the Solar System by Edith Sodergran51 - Colored Hats from Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein52 - O Lord in Me there Lieth Naught by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke53 - There Will Come Soft Rain by Sara Teasdale54 - To Mother by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva55 - Any Woman by Katharine Tynan56 - An Autumn Sunset by Edith Wharton57 - To a Lady and Her Children on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother by Phyllis Wheatley58 - Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox59 - For the Courtesan Ch'ing Lin Wu Zao60 - A Crowded Trolly Car by Elinor Wylie61 - Black Hair by Akiko Yosano"

Ann Plato, Emily Dickinson, The Brontes (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lewkow, Stella Gonet (Narrator)

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Weird Tales: A BBC Radio collection of chilling plays inspired by H.P. Lovecraft

"Eleven uncanny stories inspired by the master of uncanny terror, H.P. Lovecraft One hundred years ago, H.P. Lovecraft created the Necronomicon, a grimoire of lost souls, magical rites and forbidden lore. Now, locked away, the hoarder of horror is after new voices, new blood, to add to his collection. Listen as he shares the tales that come to him, whispered through the keyhole and written in the dust. From ghost stories to encounters with demons, haunted houses and a fateful Celtic goddess, they will draw you into his claustrophobic and disturbing world, stir your imagination and awaken your deepest fears and nightmares... Introduced by Stephen Hogan as H.P. Lovecraft, these chilling, intimate dramas feature full casts including Elizabeth Berrington, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Stella Gonet, Derek Riddell, Jamie Glover, Adjoa Andoh, Sara Poyzer and Eddie Marsan. Track listing: 1 - Out of the Depths by Melissa Murray 2 - The Loop by Chris Harrald 3 - Bleeder by Ed Hime 4 - The Fly by Lynn Ferguson 5 - Connected by Melissa Murray 6 - Split the Atom by Lynn Ferguson 7 - The House on Pale Avenue by Richard Vincent 8 - Original Features by Christopher William Hill 9 - The Burial of Tom Nobody by Richard Vincent 10 - Louisa's by Amanda Whittington 11 - Night Terrors by Lizzie Nunnery"

Various (Author), Adjoa Andoh, Derek Riddell, Eddie Marsan, Elizabeth Berrington, Full Cast, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Jamie Glover, Sara Poyzer, Stella Gonet, Stephen Hogan (Narrator)

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BBC Radio Shakespeare: A Collection of Three Roman Plays

"Three full-cast BBC Radio productions of Shakespeare's most famous Roman plays Featuring all-star casts and introduced by Sir Richard Eyre, these three iconic productions of Shakespeare's dynamic Roman histories are full of political intrigue, passion and tragedy. Julius Caesar This updated version of Shakespeare's classic play is set in Italy in 1925. Julius Caesar, a new Roman dictator, has swept to power, and his way is clear to assume total control - unless a coup by Cassius and Brutus can alter the tide of history. Nicholas Farrell stars as Brutus and Gerard Murphy as Julius Caesar. Coriolanus When Rome's greatest hero, the warrior Coriolanus, divides the people and the patricians through his arrogance, he is driven into exile. Samuel West stars as Coriolanus, with Susannah York as Volumnia. Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare's last great tragedy is an action epic set against the political backdrop of the Roman Empire and the centre of Egyptian culture, Alexandria. But at the heart of the play is the story of what happens when two people fall in love. Starring Frances Barber as Cleopatra and David Harewood as Mark Antony."

William Shakespeare (Author), David Harewood, Frances Barber, Full Cast, Gerard Murphy, Nicholas Farrell, Samuel West, Stella Gonet, Susannah York (Narrator)

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D. H. Lawrence: A BBC Radio Collection: 14 dramatisations and radio readings including Lady Chatterl

"Dramatisations and readings of selected works by DH Lawrence – plus a radio play by Dan Allum and two bonus documentaries exploring Lawrence’s life and writings Crowned ‘the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation’ by EM Forster, DH Lawrence has an undisputed place in England's canon of great authors. In this wide-ranging collection, dramatisations and readings of some of his major works are brought together, exploring themes such as romantic love and sexual desire, individual freedom, class division, war, the beauty of nature and the ugliness of industrialisation. This rich and varied anthology contains the radio productions of five of Lawrence’s classic novels, and nine short stories and novellas. It includes: Goose Fair, The Christening, Daughters of the Vicar, Her Turn, Love Among the Haystacks, The Shades of Spring, Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, The Fox, The Ladybird, Kangaroo, Rawdon’s Roof and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Also featured is an original radio drama by Dan Allum, The Gypsy (inspired by Lawrence’s The Virgin and the Gypsy), while two bonus radio documentaries – Great Lives and Michael Rosen: On the Trail of DH Lawrence – provide further insight into the inner life of the controversial author. Due to the archive nature of these recordings, sound quality may vary. With thanks to Keith Wickham, Greg Linden and Roy McMillan."

D.H. Lawrence (Author), Andy Hockley, Benedict Sandiford, Cathy Sara, Clare Holman, David Bradley, Douglas Hodge, Elizabeth Estensen, Full Cast, Ian Hogg, Leo Mckern, Matthew Parris, Michael J. Rosen, Peter Meakin, Philip Jackson, Rachel Atkins, Samuel Edward- Cook, Stella Gonet (Narrator)

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The Female Poets of the Eighteenth Century - Volume 1

"For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in the shadows of our culture. Whilst this traditional view has some merit it is not entirely accurate.Here, gathered together in these volumes, we can, through their words, experience their lives; we can hear their voices, their thoughts, joys, loves and losses.For the Female Poet there was always the confining hand of men to instruct that their time was perhaps spent more productively elsewhere. These lines, these gilded verses often protest otherwise.The contribution of women in these earlier centuries is immense and in this series we bring together poets who have created some of the most beautiful and expressive verses ever written. And remember these words, these telling lines, have been written against the grain of society's male bias. With their remembered words these female poets have given us a history that we can all now share.This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations."

Ann Griffiths, Charlotte Smith, Hannah Moore (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley, Stella Gonet (Narrator)

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The Archers: Looking For Love 1968-1986

"For over fifty years, Britain's most popular radio drama has captured the imagination of listeners throughout the country. Ambridge and its residents have been constant companions to millions throughout the highs and lows of five successive decades. Covering the years 1968 to 1986, Joanna Toye's novel follows the fortunes of Dan and Doris's grandchildren, as they search for happiness and love in the changing world of the 70s and early 80s. Jennifer's struggles as an unmarried mother look to be over with marriage to the gorgeous Roger, but a happy ending is not to be. Lilian has her share of tragedy with the death of her first husband Nick and illness of her second, Ralph. There is happiness for Shula, though, with new-found love Mark Hebden and Tony is lucky to meet Pat."

Joanna Toye (Author), Stella Gonet (Narrator)

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Time And The Conways (Classic Radio Theatre)

"Time and the Conways follows the fortunes of one family over a period of years, and offers a moving perspective on the abstract nature of the past, present and future. It is 1919, the War is over and the Conway family are celebrating their daughter Kay's 21st birthday. But her sudden premonition of their lives in 1937 casts a shadow over their dreams and expectations. This BBC Radio production features a distinguished cast including Marcia Warren, Stella Gonet, Belinda Sinclair, Amanda Redman and Toby Stephens."

J.B. Priestley (Author), Full Cast, Marcia Warren, Stella Gonet (Narrator)

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