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  • Pownall: Plays Two

    by David Pownall ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the plays Beef, The Viewing, My Father’s House and Black StarBeef, a winner of the John Whiting Award, has so far only been published in radio form. In The Viewing a family buy a house which is haunted by God, while My Father’s House, commissioned by Birmingham Rep, looks at British politics through the eyes of Joseph Chamberlain and family. Black Star centres around the black American ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Innocent Screams

    by David Pownall ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Dawn, Coronation Day 1953. The artist Francis Bacon works on his portrait of Pope Innocent X, inspired by Velazquez' masterpiece and his own deep absorption in human carnality. The chaotic studio is populated by characters possessing the power of change, who come to life in a satirical interplay of art, history, sex and politics. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Poems

    by David Pownall ...
    Poetry has always played its part in David Pownall's life as an author. During his distinguished career as a playwright and novelist, two collections of verse have been published, plus contributions to literary magazines and anthologies. Poems is his selection of the best from new and previously published work. ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Lancaster Plays

    by David Pownall ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the plays Gaunt, Lile Jimmy Williamson, Buck Ruxton and A Tale of Two Town HallsWritten between 1972 and 1976, a time of high hopes for the rebirth of a national network of regional theatres, these four plays were major building blocks in successfully creating an audience for the new Duke’s Playhouse in Lancaster.Gaunt and Lile Jimmy Williamson focuses on the myth and reality of power ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Sound Theatre

    Thoughts on the Radio Play

    by David Pownall ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    "Sound theatre is a performance art of special purity, cousin to music."A meditation on the nature of sound how it shapes and colours our daily experiences. Sound Theatre is a series of short missives, both whimsical and profound, that collectively form an intimate portrait of the award-winning playwright and his artistic philosophy, providing a great insight into writing drama for the radio, a ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Nijinsky: Death of a Faun

    by David Pownall ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    The stormy love affair between the legendary dancer Nijinsky and his mentor Diaghilev is the best known scandal in the history of ballet. Set in a mental asylum, as Nijinsky hears of the death of the great impresario and fears for his own life. With and introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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    Behind the Author's Desk: Dramas of Famous Writers' Real Lives

    A BBC Radio 4 drama collection

    by Mary Cooper, Jonathan Tafler, Anna Linstrum, Alistair McGowan, Elizabeth Lewis, Robin Brooks, Lucy Caldwell1, Sarah Wooley2, Stephen Wakelam4, Frances Bingham6, David Pownall8, Katie Hims0, Ian Billings2, Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre3, Judith Adam4 ...
    Narrated by Andrew Scott, Alistair McGowan, Glenda Jackson, Toby Jones, Haydn Gwynne0, Ian McDiarmid3, Richard Dormer5, Full Cast7, Paul Ritter9, Tom Goodman-Hill1 ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 33 min

    18 biographical dramas based on the lives and loves of celebrated writersThese surprising, revealing dramas take a behind-the-scenes look at some of our best-loved authors, mingling fact and fantasy to explore their extraordinary hidden lives. From love affairs, friendships and family relationships to traumas, tragedies and journeys of self-discovery, we glimpse the unwritten worlds that shaped ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Assassins

    A series of full-cast dramas exploring the minds of three of history’s most infamous killers

    by David Pownall ...
    Narrated by Samantha Bond, Gerard Murphy, Nathan Osgood, David Horovitch, Carlos Antonio ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 15 min

    Three full-cast dramas exploring the minds of history**’s most infamous killers**This powerful trilogy of radio dramas examines the motives and moral reasoning of the people who carried out some of the most culturally impactful political assassinations of the eighteenth and nineteenth century.The Virgin Knife: On 13 July 1793 Charlotte Corday, a young woman from Caen in Normandy, travelled to ... Read more

    $19.11 USD

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    Prayer Mask

    A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

    by David Pownall ...
    Narrated by Akbar Kurtha, Inam Mirza, Jonathan Tafler, Joseph Fiennes, Natasha Pyne, Paul Rider, Rasmus Hardiker, Roger Hammond ...

    Unabridged

    43 min

    Joseph Fiennes stars as the young Lieutenant Richard Burton who in 1853 disguised himself as an Afghani pilgrim and undertook an expedition to Mecca. His aim was to explore the Holy of Holies. He chronicles this journey fraught with dangers and misadventure. But can he hide his identity from his two young guides? With Akbar Kurtha, Rasmus Hardiker, Paul Rider, Roger Hammond, Inam Mirza, Jonathan ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    by Philippa Gregory ...
    Series series The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels
    The final book of the Tudor series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous women in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king’s half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

    A Novel of Forgiveness

    by Paulo Coelho ...
    From Paulo Coelho, the renowned author of The Alchemist, comes a deeply moving and poetic work of spiritual fiction that explores the timeless depths of love, forgiveness, and self-discovery.By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept tells the heartfelt story of Pilar, a strong yet guarded woman, and her childhood friend, now a charismatic spiritual leader. Reuniting after eleven years in a poignant ... Read more

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  • The Pandemic Plot

    by Scott Mariani ...
    Series Book 23 - Ben Hope
    The gripping new Ben Hope thriller from the Number One bestseller.When ex-SAS major Ben Hope is urgently recalled to the UK from his base in France to assist with a family crisis, little does he know that he’s about to be drawn into one of the most dangerous missions of his career: his son Jude has been accused of a brutal murder, and all the evidence points to his guilt.To prove Jude’s innocence ... Read more

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