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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is the largest broadcaster in the world. Founded in 1922, the BBC broadcasts in many languages all over the world, providing news, music, information, and NEW RADIO PLAYS! You can find the BBC's home page at www.bbc.co.uk. The shows listed here are fairly recent.

Sample shows - left click headphones to listen, right-click & save-as to download

Show Title Broadcast Date File Size Length
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Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Inn At Lydda 4/28/00 13 00:57:00 The Apostle John tells of how the ailing Emporer Tiberius went in search of Jesus hoping to be healed..A play by John Wolfson.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Purvis 6/21/01 10 00:43:55 A vicar is blessed(?) with an over-enthusiastic volunteer.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Ben Hur(1 of 4) 5/25/04 11.9 00:52:05 A magnificent BBC audio production of Lew Wallaces 1880 novel. Part 1 - Judah Ben Hur and Masala begin as friends and part as enemies.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Ben Hur(2 of 4) 5/26/04 13 00:56:51 Judahs sentence as a galley slave turns out for the better.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Ben Hur(3 of 4) 5/27/04 14.2 00:57:02 The old enmity is revived.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Ben Hur(4 of 4) 5/28/04 13.4 00:56:59 Victory and redemption.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Harry In The Underworld xx/xx/04 10 00:43:46 A delightful comedy of literature and crime.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Visitation xx/xx/05 13 00:57:07 A journal of the year 1665, of the great plague in London.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Full Blown xx/xx/05 13 00:56:59 A drama produced for World Aids Day.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Getting The Joke xx/xx/05 8.94 00:44:13 An elderly and surprisingly straightlaced artist of saucy seaside postcards learns to lighten up.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Chameleon 7/7/07 10 00:43:43 An adventure in witness relocation, hiding from the Russian mob in Scotland.,with a not very cooperative witness.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Harpo Goes To Leningrad 9/11/07 10 00:43:46 Based on the true story of Harpo Marx's 1933 tour of Russia. With Garrick Hagen as Harpo.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Witness_ The Lake 12/17/07 10.8 00:43:34 The beginning of Jesus' ministry. By Nick Warburton. First of five plays from the Gospel Of Luke.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Wooden Overcoat 5/10/08 11.4 00:57:05 A black comedy involving the Astererix Club, a group of aquitted murderers, and their next-door neighbors.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Physicists 5/10/08 12.6 00:57:40 A trio of insane physicists in an asylum will drive you crazy, too.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download A Cruel Madness 10/28/08 16.6 00:72:27 A haunting story of two former lovers meeting in a mental hospital. Starring Robert Glenleister.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Police xx/xx/08 13.1 00:56:25 The last remaining political prisoner recants, leaving the secret police with nothing to do.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download To Be A Pilgrim xx/xx/08 10.7 00:44:12 Harold Fry, retired garden furniture salesman, gets wild and crazy.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Test xx/xx/08 12.9 00:56:57 The possibility of DNA testing re-opens a 2 year old murder case.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download A Cook's Tour Of Communism xx/xx/08 13.1 00:57:33 Two old communists, a soldier and a chef, reminisce about the old days.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Smoke And Mirrors 1/14/09 10.3 00:45:01 This magician has more up his sleeve than you might think.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Dreaming In English 1/28/09 10.1 00:44:15 The prick of conscience, the call of home.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download On The Ceiling 2/7/09 13 00:57:09 A plasterer's-eye account of the Sistine Chapel ceiling job.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Lady In The Van 2/21/09 19.9 00:87:11 Maggie Smith as an enigmatic old woman living in a broken down van on a middle-class residential street in England.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Bones Boys 4/3/09 6.18 00:26:58 Two medieval monks on the run in a play by Colin MacDonald.Starring Angus King and Mark MacDonald.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Paradise Island 4/5/09 4.08 00:17:49 A vacationing dentist discovers that paradise may not be all it's cracked up to be. Written by John Mortimer, with a brief introduction by his son.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Witness_Jerusalem 4/7/09 10 00:43:58 The progress of Jesus and his disciples from Gallilee to Jerusalem, as told by Judas and Peter. By Nick Warurton

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Mysterious Affair 4/12/09 3.2 00:13:58 A young boy is convinced his father has murdered his grandfather. By John Mortimer.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Witness_Beginnings 4/14/09 10 00:44:01 The last of 5 plays based on the Gospel of Luke, by Nick Warburton. This one flashes back and forth between Jesus' birth and his resurrection.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Consideration 4/24/09 13 00:56:55 A woman who donated her kidney to her husband demands it back.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Buried 5/15/09 13.2 00:58:01 A young man enters the British Foreign Office and becomes embroiled in a political scandal.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Summertime On Icarus 5/18/09 7.24 00:31:37 An astronaut stranded on an asteroid gets enough summer to last a lifetime.By Arthur C Clarke.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download On Ego 6/2/09 9.96 00:43:30 A hypothetical choice provides a riveting exploration of the nature of self.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Gandhi's Goat 6/17/09 10 00:44:03 An endearing story of two personal assistants, one for Ghandi and the other for Charlie Chaplin.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Qualms 6/25/09 10 00:44:01 Stands for 'Quality Life Minutes'. A strange meditation on the concept of 'quality of life'.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The King Of Sootland 7/20/09 10 00:44:01 A young Queen Victoria has an adventure amid the chimneys of the palace.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download 4359 Asassins 8/4/09 10.1 00:44:15 A professional killer brings his daughter along on a job, and runs into nothing but trouble.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Cold 9/10/09 10.1 00:44:06 A special medical research unit investigating the common cold is upset by unexpected developments.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Witness_Tested xx/xx/09 10.3 00:45:01 The last supper, trial, and death of Jesus told by those who saw him. By Nick Warburton.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Wodehouse In Hollywood xx/xx/xx 10 00:44:02 The creator of Jeeves comes to the land of the movies, and lives to tell the tale.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Small Parts xx/xx/xx 10 00:44:00 The recollections of a sometime stage actress in the 60's.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Fahrenheit 451 xx/xx/xx 19.9 00:87:19 A BBC production of the Ray Bradbury novel about an age of bookburning and constant diversion.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Witness_Outsiders xx/xx/xx 10.1 00:43:41 Jesus' teaching is beginning to attract opposition. Based on the Gospel Of Luke, and written by Nick Warburton.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download A Kapital Case xx/xx/xx 12.8 00:56:07 Political infighting turns deadly as Sherlock Holmes hunts for a kidnapped Karl Marx.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Habbakuk Of Ice xx/xx/xx 13 56:46 A seriously strange genius develops a battleship made of ice during WWII. A true story! see the Royal Navy website.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Kind Hearts And Coronets xx/xx/xx 20.4 00:89:29 A poor Englishman, 20th in line for a dukedom, works his way up the ladder. From a great film starring Alec Guiness.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Albert Speer's Walk Around The World xx/xx/xx 10 00:43:45 Nazi war criminal Albert Speer whiles away the time in Spandau Prison with an imaginary journey around the globe.

Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Vincent Price And The Horror Of The English Blood Beast xx/xx/xx 12.8 00:56:04 The story behind the filming of The Conqueror Worm.

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