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The Woman Who Laughed
Joyce Carol Oates describes writing this radio drama
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Review of Peter H酶eg's book, a thriller set in Denmark and the island of Gela Alta
Salad Days
Ned Sherrin discusses the musical Salad Days by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade
Miss Julie
The themes of sex and class make Strindberg's play appealing to British audiences
Mules
Commissioned by the Clean Break Theatre Company and written by Winsome Pinnock
Arthur Miller's Broken Glass
Director David Thacker talks about the play set in November 1938 about Kristallnacht
London Film Exhibition
How London has been the subject of and setting for films over the last 100 years
Play Not Known
Being involved in both the stage and radio version of a play
Passionate Playing
With themes of nationality, passion, relationships - and a grandma with a mysterious past
Medea in the Mirror
Jose Triana's Medea in the Mirror is set in pre-revolutionary Cuba
The Cherry Orchard
A light comedy or a serious drama?
Faust
A discussion of the play of Faust by Goethe and today's notions of sin and evil
This Lime Tree Bower
Irish playwright, Conor McPherson on his play set in an out of season seaside town
Jack, Vera and Hilary are travelling to Australia - Stephen is their steward on their ship
Shakespeare's Othello
A discussion of Shakespeare's Othello and its issues of race and nationality
Passion and Heathcliff
Helen Hobson on singing in musicals and playing Clara in Passion and Cathy in Heathcliff
Scottish Drama at the Edinburgh Festival
Christopher Cook interviews an unspecified speaker about writing
Jane Austen
Her family and private life, in particular her relationship with her sister Cassandra
Truman Capote
A flamboyant writer who lived his life in public
Athol Fugard
Writing for radio "It's as free as the human imagination" says South African Athol Fugard
Julian Garner
Julian Garner discusses his play The Flight into Egypt
Penecost
Play by Stewart Parker set in Belfast with four characters and a ghost
Making the Environment Funny
"Some of the ideas I was having could end up being far too earnest"
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
How Neil Simon first went to New York and began to write for comedian Sid Caesar
John Matthew
"It is a farce about a serious subject" John Matthew's play set in Kerala in South India
"Writing for the page, writing for the eye is much different from writing for the ear"
Radio Drama
Launch of the International Radio Playwriting Competition
Television and the Classic Serial
Alan Davies talks about dramatising classic novels of English literature
Lyceum Theatre
There has been a Lyceum Theatre for 300 years - its restoration is discussed
Interview on a play about the frailty of old age, the deviousness of old age, unfaithfulness, lies and deceit.
Martin Guerre
Discussion of Cameron Macintosh musical Martin Guerre