BBC Radio Drama Collection - Kingsley Amis torrent

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A collection of BBC Radio adaptations of Kingley Amis’s novels and short stories.
Novelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest post-war writers. A master of comic fiction, he first came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of his stories, all imbued with his characteristic wit and social satire.
All Free Now
A comic observation of the late 1960s. “As you get older, you’ll find that absolutely straight-down-the-middle sex doesn’t strike you in quite the way it did.” Sir Roy’s pursuit of something more stimulating wreaks havoc in his own life - and everyone else’s…
Sir Roy Vandervane …. Robert Stephens
Douglas Yandell …. Christopher Timothy
Lady Kitty …. Eva Stuart
Meers …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Penny …. Kim Thomson
Sylvia …. Anna Mazzotti
Gilbert …. Okon Jones
Coates/Compere …. Michael Graham Cox
TV/Radio Broadcaster/Max …. Adrian Egan
Chris/Jimmy …. Richard Pearce
Vivienne …. Joan Walker
Himself …. Michael Dean
Based upon the Kingsley Amis novel ‘Girl 20’
Dramatised bу Tony Bilbow
Directed bу Matthew Walters
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1989
I Want It Now
The late 60s. Ronnie Apple-yard is an up-and-coming television personality - a bright young man with his own chat show. At a fashionable party he meets young Simona Quick and, after a bad start, decides that she’s the girl for him. Apart from her other assets, she’s rich. But the course of true love - if that’s what it is - has the proverbial vicissitudes.
Ronnie Appleyard ….. Nigel Anthony
Bill Hamer ….. David March
Antonia Reichenberger ….. Irene Sutcliffe
George Parrot ….. Bruce Beeby
Simona Quick ….. Anna Calder-Marshall
Juliette Baldock ….. Margaret Robertson
Chummy Baldock ….. William Fox
Burke-Smith ….. Alaric Cotter
Lord Upshot ….. Jonathan Scott
Lady Upshot ….. ..Penelope Reynolds
Sir Cecil Saxton ….. William Eedle
Lady Saxton ….. …Heather Bell
Student Mansfield ….. Harry Towb
Kyril Vassilikos ….. Harold Kasket
Based upon the Kingsley Amis novel
Dramatised bу Frederick Bradnum
Directed bу Betty Davies
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1977
The Riverside Villas Murder
“Don’t grow up too fast, Peter. When I was your age I couldn’t wait to get out into the world, because I thought it was going to be so marvellous. Well. it isn’t. Things like this - they’re happening all the time. And it isn’t fair. It isn’t fair at all.” Set in 1936, an adolescent boy’s coming of age is blighted bу a local murder.
Peter Furneaux …. Ian Sharrock
Captain Furneaux …. Stephen Thorne
Colonel Manton …. Peter Jeffrey
Mrs Trevelyan …. Norma Ronald
Mr Langdon …. Malcolm Reid
Daphne Hodgson …. Deborah Paige
Detective Con Barrett …. Paul Meier
Mrs Ellington …. Anne Jameson
Mr Trevelyan …. Leslie Heritage
Mr Hodgson …. Clifford Norgate
Mr Inman …. Steve Hodson
Inspector Cox …. Garard Green
Sergeant Duke …. Douglas Blackwell
Mrs Furneaux …. Joanna Wake
Based upon the Kingsley Amis novel, first published in 1973.
Dramatised bу Frederick Bradnum.
Directed bу Harry Catlin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1976
Ending Up
Tuppenny-Hapenny Cottage is home to a hodgepodge of oldsters forced to live together more out of financial consideration than mutual affection. A darkly hilarious satire of old age
Adela ….. Wendy Hiller
Bernard ….. John Mills
George ….. Michael Hordern
Shorty ….. Lionel Jeffries
Marigold ….. Googie Withers
Tracy ….. Victoria Burgoyne
Based upon the Kingsley Amis novel, first published in 1989
Dramatised bу Douglas Livingstone
Directed bу Peter Sasdy
First broadcast on BBC 2 in June 1990
Something Strange
The four observers in the space capsule have unusual experiences to report…..
With Noel Johnson, Garard Green, Nerys Hughes, Olive Gregg, Charlotte Mitchell, Frank Duncan, David Garth, Tom Watson, Brian Wilde and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Based upon the short story bу Kingsley Amis, first published in 1960
Produced bу Christopher Holme
First broadcast on BBC 2 in February 1962
To See the Sun
Vampires, a mad Scots librarian, a handsome Englishman and a Countess of uncertain age - all in Dacia in the 1920s.
Stephen Hillier …… Christopher Cazenove
Countess Valvazour …… Gayle Hunnicutt
Robert McNeil …… Graham Crowden
Innkeeper …… Alan Dudley
Magda …… Jennifer Piercey
Connie …… Zelah Clarke
Wɾitten bу Kingsley Amis
Dramatised bу John Scotney
Directed bу Jane Morgan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1987
The ‘Green Man’ Revisited
Kingsley Amis finds himself in a pub peopled bу characters which bear a remarkable resemblance to one of his own novels. Are the events which follow fact or fiction?
Wɾitten and presented bу Kingsley Amis
Produced and Directed bу Rosemary Hart
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in December 1972
Festival
A comedy drama about festivals and the start of a legendary literary romance. In 1962, novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard took on the job of running the Cheltenham Literary Festival. It was to be a baptism of fire.
Elizabeth Jane Howard ….. Melody Grove
John Moore ….. Tony Gardner
Colin ‘Monkey’ Howard ….. Will Howard
Kingsley Amis ….. Jonathan Forbes
Carson McCullers ….. Emma Handy
Gallery Owner ….. Emma Handy
Councillor ….. Emma Handy
James Douglas-Henry ….. John Lightbody
Councillor ….. John Lightbody
Peter Scott ….. John Lightbody
Based, in part, upon the diaries of Kingsley Amis
Wɾitten bу Sarah Wooley
Directed bу Gaynor Macfarlane
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2018
Interesting Things
Gloria Davis and Waldo Huws-Evans are on a date. They plan to go to the cinema, to dinner and then to a party. Over the course of the evening, the much older man realises he has fallen in love with the young woman. However, she isn’t interested in the slightest, and so problems arise…
Wɾitten bу Kingsley Amis
Read bу Carole Boyd
Produced and Directed bу Anne-Marie Cole
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1990
Lucky Jim
The academic and romantic tribulations of the eponymous James Dixon, a reluctant history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university.
Based upon the Kingsley Amis novel, first published in 1954
Abridged bу Pat McLaughlin
Read bу Martin Jarvis
Produced bу Pat McLaughlin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992

A collection of BBC Radio adaptations of Kingley Amis’s novels and short stories.

Novelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest post-war writers. A master of comic fiction, he first came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of his stories, all imbued with his characteristic wit and social satire.

All Free Now
A comic observation of the late 1960s. “As you get older, you’ll find that absolutely straight-down-the-middle sex doesn’t strike you in quite the way it did.” Sir Roy’s pursuit of something more stimulating wreaks havoc in his own life - and everyone else’s…
Sir Roy Vandervane …. Robert Stephens
Douglas Yandell …. Christopher Timothy
Lady Kitty …. Eva Stuart
Meers …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Penny …. Kim Thomson
Sylvia …. Anna Mazzotti
Gilbert …. Okon Jones
Coates/Compere …. Michael Graham Cox
TV/Radio Broadcaster/Max …. Adrian Egan
Chris/Jimmy …. Richard Pearce
Vivienne …. Joan Walker
Himself …. Michael Dean
Based upon the Kingsley Amis novel ‘Girl 20’
Dramatised bу Tony Bilbow
Directed bу Matthew Walters
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1989

I Want It Now
The late 60s. Ronnie Apple-yard is an up-and-coming television personality - a bright young man with his own chat show. At a fashionable party he meets young Simona Quick and, after a bad start, decides that she’s the girl for him. Apart from her other assets, she’s rich. But the course of true love - if that’s what it is - has the proverbial vicissitudes.
Ronnie Appleyard ….. Nigel Anthony
Bill Hamer ….. David March
Antonia Reichenberger ….. Irene Sutcliffe
George Parrot ….. Bruce Beeby
Simona Quick ….. Anna Calder-Marshall
Juliette Baldock ….. Margaret Robertson
Chummy Baldock ….. William Fox
Burke-Smith ….. Alaric Cotter
Lord Upshot ….. Jonathan Scott
Lady Upshot ….. ..Penelope Reynolds
Sir Cecil Saxton ….. William Eedle
Lady Saxton ….. …Heather Bell
Student Mansfield ….. Harry Towb
Kyril Vassilikos ….. Harold Kasket
Based upon the Kingsley Amis novel
Dramatised bу Frederick Bradnum
Directed bу Betty Davies
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1977

The Riverside Villas Murder
“Don’t grow up too fast, Peter. When I was your age I couldn’t wait to get out into the world, because I thought it was going to be so marvellous. Well. it isn’t. Things like this - they’re happening all the time. And it isn’t fair. It isn’t fair at all.” Set in 1936, an adolescent boy’s coming of age is blighted bу a local murder.
Peter Furneaux …. Ian Sharrock
Captain Furneaux …. Stephen Thorne
Colonel Manton …. Peter Jeffrey
Mrs Trevelyan …. Norma Ronald
Mr Langdon …. Malcolm Reid
Daphne Hodgson …. Deborah Paige
Detective Con Barrett …. Paul Meier
Mrs Ellington …. Anne Jameson
Mr Trevelyan …. Leslie Heritage
Mr Hodgson …. Clifford Norgate
Mr Inman …. Steve Hodson
Inspector Cox …. Garard Green
Sergeant Duke …. Douglas Blackwell
Mrs Furneaux …. Joanna Wake
Based upon the Kingsley Amis novel, first published in 1973.
Dramatised bу Frederick Bradnum.
Directed bу Harry Catlin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1976

Ending Up
Tuppenny-Hapenny Cottage is home to a hodgepodge of oldsters forced to live together more out of financial consideration than mutual affection. A darkly hilarious satire of old age
Adela ….. Wendy Hiller
Bernard ….. John Mills
George ….. Michael Hordern
Shorty ….. Lionel Jeffries
Marigold ….. Googie Withers
Tracy ….. Victoria Burgoyne
Based upon the Kingsley Amis novel, first published in 1989
Dramatised bу Douglas Livingstone
Directed bу Peter Sasdy
First broadcast on BBC 2 in June 1990

Something Strange
The four observers in the space capsule have unusual experiences to report…..
With Noel Johnson, Garard Green, Nerys Hughes, Olive Gregg, Charlotte Mitchell, Frank Duncan, David Garth, Tom Watson, Brian Wilde and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Based upon the short story bу Kingsley Amis, first published in 1960
Produced bу Christopher Holme
First broadcast on BBC 2 in February 1962

To See the Sun
Vampires, a mad Scots librarian, a handsome Englishman and a Countess of uncertain age - all in Dacia in the 1920s.
Stephen Hillier …… Christopher Cazenove
Countess Valvazour …… Gayle Hunnicutt
Robert McNeil …… Graham Crowden
Innkeeper …… Alan Dudley
Magda …… Jennifer Piercey
Connie …… Zelah Clarke
Wɾitten bу Kingsley Amis
Dramatised bу John Scotney
Directed bу Jane Morgan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1987

The ‘Green Man’ Revisited
Kingsley Amis finds himself in a pub peopled bу characters which bear a remarkable resemblance to one of his own novels. Are the events which follow fact or fiction?
Wɾitten and presented bу Kingsley Amis
Produced and Directed bу Rosemary Hart
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in December 1972

Festival
A comedy drama about festivals and the start of a legendary literary romance. In 1962, novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard took on the job of running the Cheltenham Literary Festival. It was to be a baptism of fire.
Elizabeth Jane Howard ….. Melody Grove
John Moore ….. Tony Gardner
Colin ‘Monkey’ Howard ….. Will Howard
Kingsley Amis ….. Jonathan Forbes
Carson McCullers ….. Emma Handy
Gallery Owner ….. Emma Handy
Councillor ….. Emma Handy
James Douglas-Henry ….. John Lightbody
Councillor ….. John Lightbody
Peter Scott ….. John Lightbody
Based, in part, upon the diaries of Kingsley Amis
Wɾitten bу Sarah Wooley
Directed bу Gaynor Macfarlane
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2018

Interesting Things
Gloria Davis and Waldo Huws-Evans are on a date. They plan to go to the cinema, to dinner and then to a party. Over the course of the evening, the much older man realises he has fallen in love with the young woman. However, she isn’t interested in the slightest, and so problems arise…
Wɾitten bу Kingsley Amis
Read bу Carole Boyd
Produced and Directed bу Anne-Marie Cole
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1990

Lucky Jim
The academic and romantic tribulations of the eponymous James Dixon, a reluctant history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university.
Based upon the Kingsley Amis novel, first published in 1954
Abridged bу Pat McLaughlin
Read bу Martin Jarvis
Produced bу Pat McLaughlin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992