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Rent: The complete series 1-4: A BBC Radio comedy drama
All four series of the award-winning house-share comedy starring Barbara Flynn and Patrick Barlow Maria and Richard Reynolds are happily married, but broke. With debts piling up and their house falling down, there's only one thing for it: they have to start taking in lodgers. Their new housemates are two equally cash-strapped students - Ruby, who's conscientious and dedicated, and Paul, who finds academic pursuits more of a challenge. Over the course of 24 episodes, the foursome go from being complete strangers to close friends. Richard and Maria discover they're not as young and groovy as they'd thought, Paul gets his heart set on Ruby, and Maria hears her biological clock ticking very loudly. The arrival of baby Piglet leads to havoc chez Reynolds, as the preparations for her naming ceremony reach a climax, and Paul and Ruby consider their future. And as both couples find themselves saddled with unwanted guests, can they send them packing and get their lives back? Written by Lucy Flannery, Rent won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy. It stars Barbara Flynn as Maria and Patrick Barlow as Richard, with Diane Louise-Jordan and Vivienne Rochester as Ruby and Toby Longworth and Dave Lamb as Paul. Cast Maria - Barbara Flynn Richard - Patrick Barlow Amy - Linda Polan Ruby - Diane Louise-Jordan (Series 1)/Vivienne Rochester (Series 2-4) Paul - Toby Longworth (Series 1 & 2)/Dave Lamb (Series 3 & 4) Ellen - Helen Atkinson Wood With Chris Emmett, Sally Grace, Sarah Parkinson, Joanna Brookes, Matthew Bell, Brian Bowles and Amanda Davies Produced by Liz Anstee First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 6 May-10 June 1993 (Series 1), 25 January-1 March 1995 (Series 2), 29 January-5 March 1997 (Series 3), 28 May-2 July 1998 (Series 4)
Lucy Flannery (Author), Barbara Flynn, Patrick Barlow (Narrator)
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Animal Terror - A Short Story Volume. Volume 1
The human race prides itself on being the most organised of animals. We manage the fate of all other species. All other animals bow to our control or suffer. In diminishing numbers we allow some to live in the wild but in increasing numbers we domesticate them and whether they become part of the family, a best friend or wonderfully decorative accessory we take their compliance for granted. Such a shame then when these creatures take umbrage and prepare their revenge on us they do so in ways designed to show that when the tables turn 'mercy' is just a word that we humans plead for, expect, but, of course, is always denied.
Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, Saki (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Patrick Barlow, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)
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Saki: 'Music on the Hill', 'The Cobweb', 'The Interlopers', and 'The Hounds of Fate'
Saki was the pen-name of Hector Hugh Munro. One of the wittiest of all short-story writers, he was born in 1870 in Burma where his father, a Scots army officer, was stationed. He was one when the family returned to England to live in North Devon. When his mother died his father, returning to serve in India, put Hector and his brothers and sisters into the care of his own mother and two sisters. The children's childhood with their aunts was miserable. The aunts hated each other, quarrelled fiercely, and bullied the children mentally. They saw little of other children, and Hector's main enjoyment was drawing. After some tuition with a governess he went to school in Exmouth, and later to Bedford Grammar School. In 1886 his father retired . A kindly man, he took the children to Normandy, to Dresden, to Prague , and to Davos, where they rode, climbed and played tennis, and Hector took lessons in pastel from a painter of birds of prey. As a young man, Hector went as a Police Official to Burma, but returned after two years, made ill by the climate. Recovering, he became a political correspondent for the 'Morning Post', living in the Balkans, in Warsaw, in Petersburg, and in Paris. He also began publishing the entertaining short stories that made him famous. In 1908 he settled in London, writing stories, playing bridge, and enjoying theatre and ballet. When the Great War broke out he enlisted in the ranks. On 14th November 1916, crouching with others in a shallow muddy shell-crater before an attack on Beaumont Hamel, he was heard to shout 'Put that bloody cigarette out' A moment later he was shot through the head. This volume includes four of his best loved stories; The Man On The Hill, The Cobweb, The Interlopers and The Hounds Of Fate and are read by Patrick Barlow. Patrick has appeared on stage nationwide in such productions as Loot and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, and his many television appearances include The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole and Victoria Wood - As Seen On TV, but he is probably best known for creating the character of Desmond Oliver Dingle, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of The National Theatre Of Brent, that amazing two-man company which has presented on stage and television such productions as Charge Of The Light Brigade, Zulu, The Messiah and The Greatest Story Ever Told
Saki (Author), Patrick Barlow (Narrator)
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National Theatre Of Brent Giant Ladies Who Changed The World
Spoof theatre company 'The National Theatre of Brent' take on the story of the Suffragette Movement in this hilarious Radio 4 series, first heard on the Woman's Hour Drama slot. The award-winning National Theatre of Brent aka Desmond Olivier Dingle and Raymond Box present the entire epic struggle of the Suffragettes or the Giant Ladies as they was also known. In other words the fight for ladies to have the vote so they can vote like we do today. Few people realise what they went through and what the men done to stop it and it wasn't just the vote they won but a great revolution that the world needs today more than any other revolution actually before it all goes pear-shaped basically. This is their historic story. Told over a single week in five hard-hitting and historically researched historic episodes - the first time in the history of the BBC that the whole history and many historic ladies of the fight for Women's Suffrage has been played by two men. 'The National Theatre of Brent' has decided to tell this historic and revolutionary tale through the eyes of their heroine, Little Dorrit Written and performed by the 'National Theatre of Brent', who are Patrick Barlow and John Ramm, 'Giant Ladies that Changed the World' is produced by Liz Anstee and directed by Patrick Barlow. 'The National Theatre of Brent are miracle-workers creating a blissful comedy of incompetence that somehow touches upon the profound' - Daily Telegraph
Patrick Barlow (Author), John Ramm, Patrick Barlow (Narrator)
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Maureen Lipman and Patrick Barlow star in a full-cast dramatisation of the classic children's tale. When Dorothy and her dog, Toto, are whisked away from Kansas by a cyclone, they arrive in the strange land of the Munchkins. Setting off on a magical journey, they are befriended by the Tinman, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion, all of whom join Dorothy's quest to find the wonderful Wizard of Oz. Barbara Barnes, Philip Franks, Patrick Barlow, Bradley Lavelle and Kerry Shale also star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation. The wonder and excitement of L Frank Baum's unforgettable story live on in this full-cast dramatisation, complete with evocative music and sound effects.
L. Frank Baum (Author), Full Cast, Maureen Lipman, Patrick Barlow (Narrator)
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