BBC Radio 2006 - The Radio Detectives - As My Whimsy Takes Me
Broadcast on BBC7 - Thu 24 Aug - 18:00 - Approximately 30 minutes of high quality MP3.
Jeffrey Richards investigates Lord Peter Wimsey with help from Ian Carmichael, Simon Brett (original radio producer),and Jill Paton Walsh (novelist who completed Sayers "Thrones, Dominations" fragment).
THE RADIO DETECTIVES is a radio series that looks back in time at the many detectives whose cases have graces the airwaves in the United Kingdom and the United States. They are the product of Professor Jeffrey Richards and were presented as three series of five programs each series. Each show covered the history of one detective, not only discussing the radio shows, but the detective's origins, printed works and films, where applicable. Excerpts from radio shows or film soundtracks were frequently included.
This week we are discussing the speed of light. The medium most of you are listening by, radio waves, travel at the speed of light. And those of you closer to the radio transmitter will hear In Our Time fractionally before someone further away. Here's another curious fact to ponder: For anybody listening who is aged 50, the light that reaches us from some of the stars in the galaxy left those stars before you were born.
This is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer's epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by award-winning poet Simon Armitage, and starring Tim McInnerny and Amanda Redman 'My fame is written in the heavens, and my fate too...' So speaks Odysseus as he starts to recount his struggles to sail home to Ithaca, in one of the greatest pieces of storytelling in Western literature. It is his incredible traveller's tale - and also the story of his faithful wife, Penelope who waits for him, besieged by suitors, and their son, Telemachus who has a quest of his own.
"The Pickwick Papers"
by Charles Dickens
[A BBC RADIO 4 FULL-CAST DRAMATISATION]
A Radio 4 dramatization of Dickens's episodic and amusing adventures of Mr Samuel Pickwick and his fellow-members of the Pickwick Club.
"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley [A BBC RADIO DRAMA]
Mary Shelly's classic tale of terror is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young student, who learns the secret of imparting life into a creature that he has constructed from corpses he finds.
BBC Radio 2006 - The Radio Detectives - 
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