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European Plays

Travelling to Europe to find the next play that spells success for a UK audience

• 3 mins

Bondagers

A discussion of Sue Glover's play Bondagers

• 3 mins

The Woman Who Laughed

Joyce Carol Oates describes writing this radio drama

• 4 mins

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

• 4 mins

Salad Days

Ned Sherrin discusses the musical Salad Days by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade

• 3 mins

Miss Julie

The themes of sex and class make Strindberg's play appealing to British audiences

• 4 mins

Mules

Commissioned by the Clean Break Theatre Company and written by Winsome Pinnock

• 4 mins

Arthur Miller's Broken Glass

Director David Thacker talks about the play set in November 1938 about Kristallnacht

• 4 mins

London Film Exhibition

How London has been the subject of and setting for films over the last 100 years

• 4 mins

Play Not Known

Being involved in both the stage and radio version of a play

• 4 mins

Passionate Playing

With themes of nationality, passion, relationships - and a grandma with a mysterious past

• 4 mins

Medea in the Mirror

Jose Triana's Medea in the Mirror is set in pre-revolutionary Cuba

• 4 mins

The Cherry Orchard

A light comedy or a serious drama?

• 3 mins

Faust

A discussion of the play of Faust by Goethe and today's notions of sin and evil

• 4 mins

This Lime Tree Bower

Irish playwright, Conor McPherson on his play set in an out of season seaside town

• 3 mins

Play Not Known

Jack, Vera and Hilary are travelling to Australia - Stephen is their steward on their ship

• 3 mins

Shakespeare's Othello

A discussion of Shakespeare's Othello and its issues of race and nationality

• 4 mins

Passion and Heathcliff

Helen Hobson on singing in musicals and playing Clara in Passion and Cathy in Heathcliff

• 4 mins

Scottish Drama at the Edinburgh Festival

Christopher Cook interviews an unspecified speaker about writing

• 3 mins

Jane Austen

Her family and private life, in particular her relationship with her sister Cassandra

• 4 mins

Truman Capote

A flamboyant writer who lived his life in public

• 4 mins

Athol Fugard

Writing for radio "It's as free as the human imagination" says South African Athol Fugard

• 3 mins

Julian Garner

Julian Garner discusses his play The Flight into Egypt

• 3 mins

Penecost

Play by Stewart Parker set in Belfast with four characters and a ghost

• 4 mins

Making the Environment Funny

"Some of the ideas I was having could end up being far too earnest"

• 4 mins

Laughter on the 23rd Floor

How Neil Simon first went to New York and began to write for comedian Sid Caesar

• 4 mins

John Matthew

"It is a farce about a serious subject" John Matthew's play set in Kerala in South India

• 4 mins

Play Not Known

"Writing for the page, writing for the eye is much different from writing for the ear"

• 4 mins

Radio Drama

Launch of the International Radio Playwriting Competition

• 3 mins

Television and the Classic Serial

Alan Davies talks about dramatising classic novels of English literature

• 28 mins