This is a series of five substantial plays, enough for a whole week of nightly radio dramas. It is one of the best things I've heard in radio drama both as individual plays and in the arc of the complete story.
Here's the description at Archive.org
1. Enoch's Machine
First broadcast: Mon 30th Dec 2013, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM
Enoch Cartwright, Victorian gentleman scientist, invests everything in the development of a machine to record the voice of his dead daughter, Emily, unaware that his living daughter Clara talks to her sister every night.
Enoch …. Michael Bertenshaw
Clara …. Eva Sayer
Emily …. Georgie Fuller
Wesley Blackburn …. Ben Crowe
Woman at door …. Carolyn Pickles
Joe …. John Hughes
Josie …. Priyanga Burford
After developing the means to make long distance radio transmissions, Marconi devoted much of the rest of his life to listening out for the voices of the dead. If radio can conjure a voice disembodied in space, he expected, as have legions of people since, that radio can capture the voices of those disembodied in other dimensions - in time, in ethereal planes.
As technology becomes more sensitive, more diverse, more obscure, there are pioneers always ready to harness the new to the service of this age old fascination.
This is the story of five generations of a family whose members can and can't hear the dead. It's an enterprise to explore the myriad ties, stories and quirks that bind families through the generations, across the spectrum of meanings of 'listening to the dead'.
Between allowing the echoes of a beloved's voice to live on, and the notion that the dead can engage in communicating new information, are vast grey areas of misinformation that beguile the bereaved and thrill the imagination.
2. Four Sons
First broadcast: Tue 31st Dec 2013, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM
It's 1914, and Clara Tully, a Leeds baker's wife and the proud mother of four beautiful boys, knows the war won't be over by Christmas. And she knows a much darker secret besides.
Clara …. Michelle Terry
Eloise …. Georgie Fuller
Charlie …. Harry Jardine
Robin …. Joel MacCormick
George …. John Norton
Customer …. Priyanga Burford
Customer …. Sabina Arthur
Customer …. Carolyn Pickle
Lloyd George …. Sean Murray
Finley …. Will Featherstone
Joe …. Will Howard
3. The Great Pretender
First broadcast: Wed 1st Jan 2014, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM
Ralf Little stars as a small-time 1950s psychic, who hungers for fame, despite his inability to read the thoughts of anyone, let alone the woman he works with.
Frank …. Ralf Little
TV presenter …. Arthur Hughes
Eloise …. Carolyn Pickles
Girl …. Carys Eleri
Betty …. Harry Jardine
Betty …. Joanna Monro
Peggy …. Lizzy Watts
Joe …. Sean Murray
4. Ruby's Shoes
First broadcast: Thu 2nd Jan 2014, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM
Ruby Tully grows up unaware of her clairvoyant heritage, and finds that her gift is a curse in an age of experimental psychology.
Ruby 8:…..Nell Herrin
Ruby:…..Ami Metcalf
Nish 8:…..Leon Human
Nish:….Hamza Jeetooa
Peggy:…..Lisa Stevenson
Frank:…..David Seddon
Doctor:….Michael Bertenshaw
Miss Violet:….Carys Eleri
Tuesday 3:…..Rosa Yevtushenko
Ralph:….Arthur Hughes
Emily:……Georgie Fuller
First broadcast: Mon 30th Dec 2013, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM
Enoch Cartwright, Victorian gentleman scientist, invests everything in the development of a machine to record the voice of his dead daughter, Emily, unaware that his living daughter Clara talks to her sister every night.
Enoch …. Michael Bertenshaw
Clara …. Eva Sayer
Emily …. Georgie Fuller
Wesley Blackburn …. Ben Crowe
Woman at door …. Carolyn Pickles
Joe …. John Hughes
Josie …. Priyanga Burford
After developing the means to make long distance radio transmissions, Marconi devoted much of the rest of his life to listening out for the voices of the dead. If radio can conjure a voice disembodied in space, he expected, as have legions of people since, that radio can capture the voices of those disembodied in other dimensions - in time, in ethereal planes.
As technology becomes more sensitive, more diverse, more obscure, there are pioneers always ready to harness the new to the service of this age old fascination.
This is the story of five generations of a family whose members can and can't hear the dead. It's an enterprise to explore the myriad ties, stories and quirks that bind families through the generations, across the spectrum of meanings of 'listening to the dead'.
Between allowing the echoes of a beloved's voice to live on, and the notion that the dead can engage in communicating new information, are vast grey areas of misinformation that beguile the bereaved and thrill the imagination.
2. Four Sons
First broadcast: Tue 31st Dec 2013, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM
It's 1914, and Clara Tully, a Leeds baker's wife and the proud mother of four beautiful boys, knows the war won't be over by Christmas. And she knows a much darker secret besides.
Clara …. Michelle Terry
Eloise …. Georgie Fuller
Charlie …. Harry Jardine
Robin …. Joel MacCormick
George …. John Norton
Customer …. Priyanga Burford
Customer …. Sabina Arthur
Customer …. Carolyn Pickle
Lloyd George …. Sean Murray
Finley …. Will Featherstone
Joe …. Will Howard
3. The Great Pretender
First broadcast: Wed 1st Jan 2014, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM
Ralf Little stars as a small-time 1950s psychic, who hungers for fame, despite his inability to read the thoughts of anyone, let alone the woman he works with.
Frank …. Ralf Little
TV presenter …. Arthur Hughes
Eloise …. Carolyn Pickles
Girl …. Carys Eleri
Betty …. Harry Jardine
Betty …. Joanna Monro
Peggy …. Lizzy Watts
Joe …. Sean Murray
4. Ruby's Shoes
First broadcast: Thu 2nd Jan 2014, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM
Ruby Tully grows up unaware of her clairvoyant heritage, and finds that her gift is a curse in an age of experimental psychology.
Ruby 8:…..Nell Herrin
Ruby:…..Ami Metcalf
Nish 8:…..Leon Human
Nish:….Hamza Jeetooa
Peggy:…..Lisa Stevenson
Frank:…..David Seddon
Doctor:….Michael Bertenshaw
Miss Violet:….Carys Eleri
Tuesday 3:…..Rosa Yevtushenko
Ralph:….Arthur Hughes
Emily:……Georgie Fuller
5. Tuesday's Child
First broadcast: Fri 3rd Jan 2014, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM
Tuesday grows up assuming her mother abandoned her, despite the voices in her dreams that try to tell her otherwise
Tuesday ..... Jeany Spark
Tuesday 11 ..... Rose Hilton Hille
Tuesday 3 ..... Rosa Yevtushenko
Frank ..... David Seddon
Peggy ..... Lisa Stevenson
Maggie ..... Carolyn Pickles
Ruby ..... Ami Metcalf
Nish ..... Paul Bazely
Oliver 20 ..... Joel MacCormack
Oliver 55 ..... Michael Bertenshaw
Dan ..... Harry Jardine
Melinda ..... Georgie Fuller
Boss ..... Sean Murray
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
First broadcast: Fri 3rd Jan 2014, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM
Tuesday grows up assuming her mother abandoned her, despite the voices in her dreams that try to tell her otherwise
Tuesday ..... Jeany Spark
Tuesday 11 ..... Rose Hilton Hille
Tuesday 3 ..... Rosa Yevtushenko
Frank ..... David Seddon
Peggy ..... Lisa Stevenson
Maggie ..... Carolyn Pickles
Ruby ..... Ami Metcalf
Nish ..... Paul Bazely
Oliver 20 ..... Joel MacCormack
Oliver 55 ..... Michael Bertenshaw
Dan ..... Harry Jardine
Melinda ..... Georgie Fuller
Boss ..... Sean Murray
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
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