BBC Radio Drama Collection - Ronald Frame torrent

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Ronald Frame is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, and dramatist. He was educated in Glasgow, and at Oxford University.
His first TV film Paris won the Samuel Beckett Award and PYE’s ‘Most Promising Writer New to Television’ Award.
He has written many original plays and adaptations for BBC Radio. Collected here are five original Frame dramas, two adaptations as well as readings of three of Frame’s short stories.
Blue Wonder
Throughout the period of the Cold War in the late 1960s and early 1970s, ‘romeo spies’ were operating, targeting bright and susceptible young women. Alice Reeves, a young secretary from London, unwittingly becomes romantically involved with Otto Hanhart – an East German spy. The encounter leads to unexpected consequences for all parties, changing their lives forever.
Alice ….. Clare Corbett
Otto ….. Jamie Glover
Ben ….. Nick Sayce
Henry ….. Gunnar Cauthery
Mr Hodges ….. Stephen Critchlow
Tricia ….. Cressida Trew
Doctor ….. Dan Starkey
Mrs Crosby ….. Liza Sadovy
Wɾitten ḅy Ronald Frame
Produced and directed by David Ian Neville
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in September 2008
Don’t Look Now
John and Laura Bennett are on holiday in Venice, trying to get over the tragic death of their daughter. They seem to be succeeding, until a blind psychic starts relaying messages from beyond the grave….
Laura Bennett …… Anna Chancellor
John Bennett …… Michael Feast
Sister …… Colette O’Neil
Elidah …… Carolyn Pickles
Policeman …… Sean Baker
Waiter …… Ewan Bailey
Porter …… Carl Prekopp
Written by Daphne du Maurier
Dramatised by Ronald Frame
Director: Patrick Rayner
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001
Greyfriars
With petty thieves at work in the high street and a gang of ruthless house breakers at work in both the Old and New Town area of Edinburgh, new police recruits John Gray and his faithful dog have their work cut out. John Gray served as an Edinburgh policeman for several years in the 1850s. Like other officers on the beat back then, he had to provide his own police dog - the faithful Skye terrier that came to be known as Greyfriars Bobby.
Bobby …… Crawford Logan
Jock (John Gray) …… Paul Young
Aeneas Cairncross …… Kenny Blythe
Bridie …… Gayanne Potter
Lachlan Cairncross …… Simon Tait
Sergeant Mitchell …… Iain Agnew
McCrae …… Steven McNicol
Lady Cairncross …… Vivienne Dixon
Wɾitten ḅy Ronald Frame
Produced by David Ian Neville.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002
Pinkerton
In the new immigrant community of 1840s America, Scotsman Allan Pinkerton turns detective when an influx of counterfeit dollars threatens the local economy.
Allan Pinkerton …… Forbes Masson
Joan Pinkerton …… Rachel Ogilvy
John Craig …… Sam Dale
Mrs O’Riordan / elderly Woman …… Marcella Riordan
Nathan Madison / Croupier / Elderly Man …… Robert Jezek
Lisl …… Alison Pettitt
Jack Paige / Police Officer …… John Biggins
Wolf / Bank Teller / Dr Morgan …… Bruce Alexander
Wɾitten ḅy Ronald Frame
Directed by David Ian Neville
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010
The Shell House
In 1972, a spinster scientist with private means meets an exiled Czech architect whose career has stalled. She offers him a commission to design a weekend house on some land she owns on the Suffolk coast. The strange, daring and beautiful building that results will haunt both their lives.
Barbara …… Sylvestra Le Touzel
Jaromir …… Struan Rodger
Wɾitten ḅy Ronald Frame
Directed by David Ian Neville
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2008
Before the Fact
In the early 1930s, Lina, a girl in her late twenties from a wealthy family is in danger of becoming a spinster. But life then changes for the better when she meets Johnnie Aysgarth, a charming stranger who proposes marriage. Johnnie saves Lina from a boring life with her parents and whisks her off on an extravagant honeymoon. But on their return Lina begins to discover that Johnnie is not all he seems. His gambling threatens to ruin them, but is her growing suspicion that he is also a murderer founded on reality or her imagination?
Lina …… Emilia Fox
Johnnie …… Ben Caplan
Miss Sedbusk …… Patricia Hodge
Capt Melbeck …… Sam Dale
Thwaite …… David Timson
Ethel …… Hannah Wood
Dr Fielding …… Rick Warden
Written by Frances Iles
Dramatised by Ronald Frame
Directed by David Ian Neville
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013
The Razor’s Edge
Traumatised young veteran Larry Darrell returns to Chicago after the First World War, but finds it difficult to fit back into society. To the dismay of his fiancée, Isabel, he heads for Paris, where he embarks on a spiritual quest to find the answers to his many questions.
W Somerset Maugham …… Nicholas Le Prevost
Larry …… John Light
Isabel …… Megan Dodds
Elliott …… Edward Petherbridqe
Maturin/Brabazon …… David Bannerman
Gray …… Sam Dale
The Swami …… Amerjit Deu
Sophie …… Laurel Lefkow
Mrs Bradley …… Carolyn Pickles
Written by W Somerset Maugham
Dramatised by Ronald Frame
Directed by Gaynor MacFarlane
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2005
The End of the Season
Rhona has run away from her relationship problems. At her hotel, after much people watching, she comes to an understanding.
Wɾitten ḅy Ronald Frame
Narrated by Jilly Bond
Producer: David Hunter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995
The Trinket Box
To her observers, Mrs Bradley always seemed that bit too glamorous for a small gift shop owner…
Wɾitten ḅy Ronald Frame
Narrated by John Gordon Sinclair
Producer: David Hunter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1996
The Waitress at the Glockenspiel
“For two years, ever since she set out West, she has planned what to do…” A waitress in Berlin serves coffee to her bitterest enemy and imagines how she will get her revenge.
Wɾitten ḅy Ronald Frame
Narrated by Becky Hindley
Producer: David Hunter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1995
Ronald Frame is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, and dramatist. He was educated in Glasgow, and at Oxford University.

His first TV film Paris won the Samuel Beckett Award and PYE’s ‘Most Promising Writer New to Television’ Award.

He has written many original plays and adaptations for BBC Radio. Collected here are five original Frame dramas, two adaptations as well as readings of three of Frame’s short stories.

Blue Wonder
Throughout the period of the Cold War in the late 1960s and early 1970s, ‘romeo spies’ were operating, targeting bright and susceptible young women. Alice Reeves, a young secretary from London, unwittingly becomes romantically involved with Otto Hanhart – an East German spy. The encounter leads to unexpected consequences for all parties, changing their lives forever.
Alice ….. Clare Corbett
Otto ….. Jamie Glover
Ben ….. Nick Sayce
Henry ….. Gunnar Cauthery
Mr Hodges ….. Stephen Critchlow
Tricia ….. Cressida Trew
Doctor ….. Dan Starkey
Mrs Crosby ….. Liza Sadovy
Wɾitten ḅy Ronald Frame
Produced and directed by David Ian Neville
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in September 2008

Don’t Look Now
John and Laura Bennett are on holiday in Venice, trying to get over the tragic death of their daughter. They seem to be succeeding, until a blind psychic starts relaying messages from beyond the grave….
Laura Bennett …… Anna Chancellor
John Bennett …… Michael Feast
Sister …… Colette O’Neil
Elidah …… Carolyn Pickles
Policeman …… Sean Baker
Waiter …… Ewan Bailey
Porter …… Carl Prekopp
Written by Daphne du Maurier
Dramatised by Ronald Frame
Director: Patrick Rayner
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001

Greyfriars
With petty thieves at work in the high street and a gang of ruthless house breakers at work in both the Old and New Town area of Edinburgh, new police recruits John Gray and his faithful dog have their work cut out. John Gray served as an Edinburgh policeman for several years in the 1850s. Like other officers on the beat back then, he had to provide his own police dog - the faithful Skye terrier that came to be known as Greyfriars Bobby.
Bobby …… Crawford Logan
Jock (John Gray) …… Paul Young
Aeneas Cairncross …… Kenny Blythe
Bridie …… Gayanne Potter
Lachlan Cairncross …… Simon Tait
Sergeant Mitchell …… Iain Agnew
McCrae …… Steven McNicol
Lady Cairncross …… Vivienne Dixon
Wɾitten ḅy Ronald Frame
Produced by David Ian Neville.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002

Pinkerton
In the new immigrant community of 1840s America, Scotsman Allan Pinkerton turns detective when an influx of counterfeit dollars threatens the local economy.
Allan Pinkerton …… Forbes Masson
Joan Pinkerton …… Rachel Ogilvy
John Craig …… Sam Dale
Mrs O’Riordan / elderly Woman …… Marcella Riordan
Nathan Madison / Croupier / Elderly Man …… Robert Jezek
Lisl …… Alison Pettitt
Jack Paige / Police Officer …… John Biggins
Wolf / Bank Teller / Dr Morgan …… Bruce Alexander
Wɾitten ḅy Ronald Frame
Directed by David Ian Neville
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010

The Shell House
In 1972, a spinster scientist with private means meets an exiled Czech architect whose career has stalled. She offers him a commission to design a weekend house on some land she owns on the Suffolk coast. The strange, daring and beautiful building that results will haunt both their lives.
Barbara …… Sylvestra Le Touzel
Jaromir …… Struan Rodger
Wɾitten ḅy Ronald Frame
Directed by David Ian Neville
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2008

Before the Fact
In the early 1930s, Lina, a girl in her late twenties from a wealthy family is in danger of becoming a spinster. But life then changes for the better when she meets Johnnie Aysgarth, a charming stranger who proposes marriage. Johnnie saves Lina from a boring life with her parents and whisks her off on an extravagant honeymoon. But on their return Lina begins to discover that Johnnie is not all he seems. His gambling threatens to ruin them, but is her growing suspicion that he is also a murderer founded on reality or her imagination?
Lina …… Emilia Fox
Johnnie …… Ben Caplan
Miss Sedbusk …… Patricia Hodge
Capt Melbeck …… Sam Dale
Thwaite …… David Timson
Ethel …… Hannah Wood
Dr Fielding …… Rick Warden
Written by Frances Iles
Dramatised by Ronald Frame
Directed by David Ian Neville
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013

The Razor’s Edge
Traumatised young veteran Larry Darrell returns to Chicago after the First World War, but finds it difficult to fit back into society. To the dismay of his fiancée, Isabel, he heads for Paris, where he embarks on a spiritual quest to find the answers to his many questions.
W Somerset Maugham …… Nicholas Le Prevost
Larry …… John Light
Isabel …… Megan Dodds
Elliott …… Edward Petherbridqe
Maturin/Brabazon …… David Bannerman
Gray …… Sam Dale
The Swami …… Amerjit Deu
Sophie …… Laurel Lefkow
Mrs Bradley …… Carolyn Pickles
Written by W Somerset Maugham
Dramatised by Ronald Frame
Directed by Gaynor MacFarlane
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2005

The End of the Season
Rhona has run away from her relationship problems. At her hotel, after much people watching, she comes to an understanding.
Wɾitten ḅy Ronald Frame
Narrated by Jilly Bond
Producer: David Hunter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995

The Trinket Box
To her observers, Mrs Bradley always seemed that bit too glamorous for a small gift shop owner…
Wɾitten ḅy Ronald Frame
Narrated by John Gordon Sinclair
Producer: David Hunter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1996

The Waitress at the Glockenspiel
“For two years, ever since she set out West, she has planned what to do…” A waitress in Berlin serves coffee to her bitterest enemy and imagines how she will get her revenge.
Wɾitten ḅy Ronald Frame
Narrated by Becky Hindley
Producer: David Hunter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1995