Books with title Romeo and Juliet: A BBC Radio 3 Full-Cast Dramatisation

New BBC TV tie-in edition of the original masterpiece by Leo Tolstoy, with an introduction by Andrew Davies. The eagerly awaited BBC TV adaptation of Tolstoy's enthralling epic War and Peace is due to appear on our screens. This is the official tie-in edition with an exclusive introduction by Andrew Davies. Tolstoy's beguiling masterpiece entwines love, death and determinism with Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on those swept up by the terror it brings. The lives of Pierre, Prince Andrei and Natasha are changed forever as conflict rages throughout the early nineteenth century. Following the rise and fall of some of society's most influential families, this truthful and poignant epic is as relevant today as ever.

A full-cast BBC Radio production of Shakespeare’s quick-witted summer tragedy. In a town full of hatred, where the streets ring with the Capulet/Montague feud, and swords are too easily drawn, Romeo and Juliet find each other - and love - and never let go. In Shakespeare’s famous play, first performed in 1595, the warring Capulets and Montagues have been sworn to keep the peace on pain of death. When Capulet’s daughter Juliet meets Montague’s son Romeo at a masked ball, they immediately fall in love. With the help of Friar Lawrence and Juliet’s Nurse, the pair decide to marry in secret. Disaster strikes when Romeo is banished for murder, and flees after just one night with his new wife. Juliet, meanwhile, is betrothed against her wishes to Count Paris. Friar Lawrence intervenes to help, but tragedy is at hand. Rising young stars Trystan Gravelle and Vanessa Kirby play the star-crossed lovers, with David Tennant as Prince Escalus, Rosie Cavaliero as the Nurse, and Ron Cook as Friar Lawrence.

**Neil Gaiman was the WINNER of the BBC Audio Drama Award 2015 for Outstanding Contribution to Radio Drama**Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations, a somewhere that is Neverwhere. . . An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into the strange world of London Below. There he meets the Earl of Earl's Court, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with the Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington. Accompanied by the mysterious Door and her companions, the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard Hunter, Richard embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to discover who ordered them to murder Door's family—all the while trying to get back to his old life in London Above. Adapted for radio by the award-winning Dirk Maggs, this captivating dramatization features a stellar cast including David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head, and David Schofield. Contains more than 25 minutes of additional unbroadcast material, including extended scenes, bloopers, and outtakes.3 CDs. 3 hrs 48 mins.

On a hot, Edwardian summer’s day, five children are playing in a gravel pit when they dig up something very peculiar: a funny, furry, fat litte creature with the feet of a monkey and bat’s ears! The Psammead is a magical sand fairy who has the power to grant wishes: but the children can only have one wish a day, and the wishes only last until sunset This delightfully whimsical drama, adapted by Malcolm McKee, stars Julia McKenzie as the older Jane and Mother, and Simon Carter as the Psammead.

SET THE STAGE in your classroom with this educational resource designed to spark and engage your students imaginations and to help you creatively present and teach great literature. Voted the nation's 3rd favourite audiobook in August 2008 and winner of a Spoken Word Award for Best Drama. The single MP3 disc includes a powerful full-cast audio drama that students enjoy and absorb with a teaching pack of audio-linked materials and read-along scripts as pdf files to print, view or project for the whole class to see. Romeo and Juliet is an audio voyage of discovery that not only presents the unabridged play as a powerful full-cast drama twice (with and without commentary) it also takes listeners back in time to EXPERIENCE the world in which Shakespeare lived and worked; to understand how and why his legacy is so important, so innovative and so influential and popular today. The teaching materials have been especially designed to accompany the drama and conversational commentary from the PassMaster, played by Joan Walker. Each project includes class discussion topics, research tasks, writing exercises, drama activities, essay and coursework suggestions, supported by worksheets, maps, diagrams, charts, timelines and text excerpts. Created by teachers and theatre-in-education experts this resource will help your students to develop crucial study strategies as well as formulate, support, and express ideas with confidence; to achieve their best grade in essays and coursework. Starring Kelham, Sara Bowes, Lucy Robinson, Andy Greenhalgh, David Gooderson , Katerina Jugati, Ben Crowe, John Albasiny, Harry Myers, David Thorpe, Colin Campbell, Phil Viner and Joan Walker as the PassMaster. Original music composed and performed by Harry Myers. The SmartPass range has won 3 Spoken Word Awards in total.

Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter are among the cast of BBC Radio 4's epic full-cast dramatisation. Adapted for radio by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Leo Tolstoy's epic story follows the fortunes of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic War. First broadcast on New Year's Day 2015, the drama also features Alun Armstrong, Natasha Little, David Calder, Phoebe Fox, Sam Reid and Joanna David. Duration: 10 hours approx.

A full-cast BBC Radio 3 production of Shakespeare’s quick-witted summer tragedy. In a town full of hatred, where the streets ring with the Capulet-Montague feud,and swords are too easily drawn, Romeo and Juliet find each other--and love--and never let go. In Shakespeare’s famous play, first performed in 1595, the warring Capulets and Montagues have been sworn to keep the peace on pain of death. When Capulet’s daughter, Juliet, meets Montague’s son, Romeo, at a masked ball, they immediately fall in love. With the help of Friar Lawrence and Juliet’s Nurse, the pair decide to marry in secret. Disaster strikes when Romeo is banished for murder,and flees after just one night with his new wife. Juliet, meanwhile, is betrothed against her wishes to Count Paris. Friar Lawrence intervenes to help, but tragedy is at hand… Rising young stars Trystan Gravelle and Vanessa Kirby play the star-crossed lovers, with David Tennant as Prince Escalus, Rosie Cavaliero as the Nurse, and Ron Cook as Friar Lawrence.