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BBC Radio: "The Plough and The Stars"

Posted by:	TimDunleavy 03:52 pm EST 11/22/14

Saturday 22nd November - Friday 28th November The long list for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2015 was announced on Tuesday and Maxine Peake features in three of the nominated productions. She's also the author and plays the lead in My Dad Keith, the story of a woman who's obsessed with drumming on any nearby surface, and a certain infamous drummer who may, or may not, be her father. And if you've ever wondered why none of the astronauts on the Apollo missions were women, Mercury 13 tells the true story of the discrimination that prevented certain dreams coming true. ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017ss4b Drama on 3 The Plough and the Stars Sean O'Casey's classic play set in the midst of the Easter Rising of 1916. The impact of events is viewed through the eyes of ordinary people inhabiting a Dublin tenement. O'Casey's masterpiece paints a vivid portrait of a city and a nation in turmoil. The Plough and the Stars was chosen for Drama on 3 by the playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah. Kwame also introduces this new production of the play. Nora ... Elaine Cassidy Jack ... Padraic Delaney Bessie ... Gabrielle Reidy Fluther ... Finbar Lynch Peter ... Stephen Hogan The Covey ... Jonathan Forbes Mrs Gogan ... Fiona Clarke Mollser ... Rebecca Gleeson Rosie ... Jane McGrath Capt Brennan ... Matthew McNulty Lieut. Langan ... Sam Smith Tomorrow 22:00 BBC Radio 3 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04pvp7v Afternoon Drama My Dad Keith Maxine Peake writes and stars in this tale of teenage angst, mid-life crisis and drumming. The play debuts Mike Joyce the drummer from The Smiths in his first acting role. Reaching her 40th birthday and with her grandad in hospital, Steph begins to reflect on her life, loves and the quest to find out who her dad was. As a teenager a fractious relationship with her mother pushes Steph towards her grandad and together they set out to piece together the clues to the identity of her dad. They come to a startling conclusion about him. Steph loves drumming - on anything. She's not got a drum kit but taps out her life using kitchen utensils and releases her tensions and worries on any surface available. 45 minutes Next Friday 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04pss4s Afternoon Drama Mercury 13 In the early 1960s Wally Funk and Jerrie Cobb were two of thirteen young women pilots who secretly took NASA's gruelling astronaut selection tests. They passed with flying colours, in some cases beating the scores of the men. Anita Sullivan's drama-documentary explores why they were never allowed to go into space. Narrated by Laurel Lefkow and featuring an interview with astronaut candidate, Wally Funk. 45 minutes Jerrie Cobb ... Samantha Dakin Randolf Lovelace ... William Hope Tom Harris ... William Hope John Glenn ... William Hope Jackie Cochran ... Laurel Lefkow Brigadier General Flickinger ... Morgan Deare Dr Shurley ... Morgan Deare Congressman Anfuso ... Morgan Deare Jane Hart ... Claire Inie-Richards Wednesday 14:15 BBC Radio 4 FM only ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04prh8z 15 Minute Drama Syria: Bread and Bombs Episode 1 of 5 Black comedy by Tina Pepler. Hassan, Jamil and Samara are taking the hazardous journey through Turkey across the Syrian border with a convoy of lorries loaded with nappies, baby milk and food parcels. But there's tension in the group of aid workers. Jamil is old school and likes to do things by the book. Hassan is a maverick, used to doing things his own way and getting his own way. And Samara has brought her puppets along.. Bashi ... Paul Chahidi Bouthy ... Paul Chahidi Khaled ... Yucef Bouabdelli Sadouki Jamil ... Amir El-Masry Mahmoud ... Kae Bahar Hassan ... Tariq Jordan Samara ... Betsabeh Emran Sami ... Monty d'Inverno Youssef ... Monty d'Inverno Soldier ... Paul Heath Helper ... Paul Heath Monday 10:45 BBC Radio 4 Monday 19:45 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rg1gr Afternoon Drama Lost in Mexico Episode 1 of 2 British backpackers, Rachel (Olivia Darnley) and Sally (Lucy May Barker) falsely claim they have been robbed in order to get a pay-out from their travel insurance when they get home. Unfortunately, they get caught out when the Mexican police decide to go back to their hotel and search their room. Charged and arrested for insurance fraud, unable to speak Spanish, the girls are sucked into the vortex of the Mexican penal system. It's a life-changing experience that tests their friendship to the limit, in this two-part coming-of-age drama by Ingeborg Topsøe, recorded in Mexico. Written by Ingeborg Topsøe 45 minutes Monday 14:15 BBC Radio 4 Part two airs on Tuesday. ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01j5j2n Afternoon Drama Homeowners Written by Kellie Smith Wrapped up in the excitement of moving into their first home, Kate and Mark receive the shock of their lives when they discover that the house's previous owners have neglected to move out. Their dream home suddenly turns into a nightmare. A dark, unsettling thriller starring Frances Barber. Kate ... Rebecca Callard Mark ... Graeme Hawley Penny ... Frances Barber Derek ... Russell Richardson Thursday 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jqp9 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women Episode 1 of 6 3 weeks left to listen Christmas is coming, as the March sisters go to a party in 19th century New England. Stars Buffy Davis and Jemma Redgrave. ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04prh8v Book of the Week My Life in Houses Episode 1 of 5 I Was a Lucky Girl 'I was born on May 25, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.' So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses she's lived in, from the sparkling new council house, built as part of a utopian vision by Carlisle City Council, to her beloved London house of today, via Oxford, Hampstead and the Lake District. Forster's houses aren't just bricks and mortar, but homes which have all meant something to her and which have all had a profound effect on her - from her writer's 'room of one's own', to the family hub and finally a sanctuary in times of illness. It is also a sideways look at the life of one of the greatest contemporary British novelists. Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster is the author of many successful and acclaimed novels, including Have the Men Had Enough?, Lady's Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Is There Anything You Want?, Keeping the World Away, and Over, bestselling memoirs (Hidden Lives and Precious Lives) and biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lives in London and the Lake District. Reader: Sian Thomas Monday 09:45 BBC Radio 4 FM only Tuesday 00:30 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ps3bl Book at Bedtime In Love and War Episode 1 of 10 "[He] unfolds a portrait of himself in gouache [...] It is a good likeness, he thinks, if a little tragic, and big-eared. She has drawn a man - given him something to grow into." Esmond Lowndes's father is a leading light in the British Union Of Fascists. In 1937, Esmond is sent down from Cambridge in disgrace and dispatched instead to Florence to set up Radio Firenze - an English-language radio station aiming to form closer ties between Fascists in Italy and England. Esmond finds love and loss, and his journey of self-discovery becomes increasingly and - as Italy moves into war - more tightly intertwined with the fortunes of Florence, the city he has made his home. And at every turn, he comes up against the local Blackshirt leader, the brutal Mario Carita. Episode 1 (of 10) April 1937. At Croydon Aerodrome, Esmond says goodbye to his family and begins his journey to Florence. Alex Preston lives with his family in London. His first novel, This Bleeding City, was selected as one of Waterstones New Voices 2010. His second, The Revelations, was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. Alex is a journalist and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Kent. Reader: Carl Prekopp Monday 22:45 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ptw Podcast Drama of the Week: Inquest The inquest into the death of a female soldier reveals she has been sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier but did she take her own life? By Richard Monks. Also available on iTunes. =====

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