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The Angina Monologues by Chris Green
Medium: Radio. Email: chris@tinac.net
Monologues, Ida Barr introduces to her world. We learn that she is to be the subject of a reality radio project. Her social worker visits and Ida tells her that she is worried about her friend Maude Edwards. We hear Ida on a trip to resent a radio show with her home boyz, performance poet El Crisis and DJ Treble T. On returning to Ida's flat, Ida and the boys work out that Maude has been quiet and withdrawn since Ida's been live on the radio. Maude and Ida thrash out the reasons why Maude's been silent - and there are some major revelations. All ends well though and Ida rounds off the night with a rousing chorus of her song Notorious IDA.

A Bench in the Park by Diane Paul
Medium: Radio. Email: di@pauld50.fsnet.co.uk
A Bench in the Park is a radio comedy drama about hypocrisy and prejudice. The Westbury Civic Society commemorates a bench in the rose garden to Bobbie’s dead husband. When she discovers he has been having an affair for years, Bobbie throws herself in the lake and is rescued by Hayden, an alcoholic vagrant, who is accused of pushing her in. The community choose to ignore the words of a drunk; a child and an elderly lady because they lack credibility and the only witnesses are bent on saving their own skins

Charity by Kitty Fitzgerald and Lorna Powell
Medium: Radio. Email: wolfitz@freenetname.co.uk
Iris Rankin tries to run her charity shop like a military operation. Unfortunately neither the general public nor her staff seems willing to cooperate. Julie is too arty and Andy has an attitude problem. Tensions mount as the day progresses because the BBC is filming a documentary featuring the shop that afternoon. Most of the plans Iris has made go astray when the TV crew arrive early. Iris is slighted but thorn in her side, Jimmy, saves the day for her with his motley collection of hospital cast offs

Fyfield Park by Mark Angus
Medium: Radio. Email: MarkAngus@compuserve.comuk
A bourgeois radio comedy exploring the complexity of family relationships, and how even seemly confident, articulate people can find real communication almost impossible. A middle class family group gather in the grounds of a stately home for a classical music concert.

Goodkin & D'Souza by Bettina Gracias Medium: Radio
Email: bettina@gracias.fsnet.co.uk
Pilot sitcom/comedy drama for Radio 4, first episode. Charlie and Francis run a fairly successful small hotel in Goa. In this episode Charlie's parents are coming to stay so Francis is relegated to his mother's bedroom.

Help Yourself by Barnaby Benson Medium: Radio
Email: barnabybenson@yahoo.co.uk
35 year old LAURA refuses to speak or get out of bed. Her grouchy MOTHER gets the VICAR to visit but he brings two colleagues. They're debt collectors who fancied a day accompanying the VICAR in lieu of payment. They turn out to be surprisingly helpful

Home from the Front by Peppy Barlow Medium: Radio
Email: peppytrack@aol.com
Pauline has decided to have a past life regression, she thinks it might just be fun. On the way to her appointment, she almost walks under the wheels of a taxi. When she arrives at the practitioner's house, Anna explains that things run much deeper than this. The point of clearing past lives is because they can affect us in this life. After the session, she realises that she has been living her whole life in the shadow of this experience and that clearing it may change the way she feels about everything

I’m Going to Live Forever by Chris Green
Medium: Radio. Email: christophergreen@onetel.net.uk
Written as a radio sitcom and set in a residential stage school for children. Populated by a bunch of eccentric teachers and pupils, it is the tradition of St Trinians, Grange Hill, Harry Potter and of course Fame. This episode deals with the visit of the Osted inspectors to the school

I want to hold your hand by John Edwards
Medium: Radio. Email: john@cedwards0.freeserve.co.uk
Never hold hands with a boy – never ‘do it’! This is the way of it for small town ten year olds Marie, Patricia and Anne. But when new priest Father Joe Walsh starts ‘doing it’ in church, the girls have only two choices – leave town or stay and have babies

Learning to Yodel by David Dandridge
Medium: Radio. Email: ddandridge@cwcom.net
A radio play set in the East End of London - about love, friendship and change. Bryan has always lived with is mother, who has just died. His brother Billy is bullying him into selling the house she left but Bryan can't let go of the past. He can't even bring himself to scatter her ashes. Then he meets Midge, a scally lad in his twenties. A relationship develops between them and Bryan finds the strength to move on... as does Midge when his past catches up with him.

Jallebies and Tea by Bettina Gracias
Medium: Radio. Email: bettina@gracias.fsnet.co.uk
Asha, having left her cosy family environment in Kerala to be with her husband, Ajay, finds herself in London, bored, lonely and isolated. To keep up her spirits she begins to invent imaginery guests to her tea-parties, but things take a turn when her guests become 'real' ….. or do they?

Party On by John Edwards
Medium: Radio. Email: john@cedwards0.freeserve.co.uk
After thirty years of bad blood, Eve’s dying wish is to reunite Anne and Magenta her feuding daughters. Eve’s posthumous plan is simple - together, from Eve’s old corner shop in Liverpool, Anne and Magenta will run an ‘events’ business, organising parties and functions. ‘Chalk and cheese’, though, doesn’t even begin to describe these middle-aged siblings. But in the strange world of parties, their differences may just cater for every event.

Ode to Joy by Darren Tunstall
Medium: Radio. Emails: darren@dvtunstall.freeserve.co.u
A self-efffacing, 35 year old housing officer wants nothing more than a quietly boring life - but fate conspires to turn every day for her into a series of insane, catastrophic adventures

Searching for Alice by Yvonne Sampson
Medium: Radio. Email: yvonne@sampson1.clara.net
Celia keeps in touch with her daughter Alice, who is trekking around Latin America via email messages and games. When emails stop arriving, Celia begins a search which becomes for her, a journey of self discovery.

Shh by James Woroniecki
Medium: Radio. Email: jimworoniecki@yahoo.com
Shh is a short piece ultimately intended for the 23:00 - 23:15 slot that radio 4 uses ot showcase material that is controversial or just plain weird. Notionally, it's a sci-fi tale narrated by God (yes God) set in the near furutre in which 2 dim-witted cockney's (Thuggs Malloy and Tony Scumbag) go on a bit of a bender after stealing a genetic modification formula from research scientist Dr Oliver.

Silent Letters by Yvonne Sampson
Medium: Radio. Email: yvonne@sampson1.clara.net
Tom, a young man with learning difficulties spent eight years in prison during which he educated himself and composed a long letter to Becky, his alleged murder victim. Now free, he embarks on a desperate search for her. This leads him to discover that he can gain notoriety through crime.

Spacewalking by Yvonne Sampson
Medium: Radio. Email: yvonne@sampson1.clara.net
Candy returns to the small Welsh village where she was brought up in a foster home. She meets Jo and appears eager to trace her other fosters brothers and sisters. In particular Billy

Struck by Andrew Walker
Medium: Radio. Email: andy@walkiesuk.freeserve.co.uk
A 45 minute radio play. Robbed of her speech and confined to a wheelchair after a severe stroke, an overbearing wife and mother must come to terms with deep rooted secrets and her past actions in order to entice her husband’s attention from an unknown female caller.

The Insomniacs by Simon Warne
Medium: Radio. Email: swarne@rdcomms.com
The Insomniacs is a late night comedy series that was originally developed for radio, but may translate to television. It centres on a group of six single people who meet up in each other's houses once a week because they can't sleep. Each episode takes place in a different Insomniac's home - thus altering the setting and character focus. We learn more about the characters and their strange nocturnal world as the series progresses. What you are about to hear is the opening few minutes of the pilot episode where the host is Sheila, a born and bred Brummie, with a direct approach to life.

Therapy Anyone? by Nancy Hogg
Medium: Radio. Email: Nancy Hogg
This radio play is based around three characters. An American therapist and best selling writer, Stevo and a thirty-something married couple, Brian and Janet Fortisque. The action takes place during a marriage guidance session during which Stevo, adopting many of the metaphors of his books, attempts to solve the problems of Janet and Brian. However, Janet and Brian are not completely understanding of Stevo's style of speech, or the contents of his books. Thus their attempt to participate in the discussion causes confusion and culminates in all three characters using increasingly ridiculous metaphors.

THE VISIT by Jod Mitchell
Medium: Radio. Email: jodmitchell@yahoo.com
The supernatural insight of a young child unearths a terrible secret, shattering the tranquility of a weekend in the country. It has been five years since DAMIEN and SERENA last visited the ARTLES' - the night of GEORGE ARTLE's birth - and the night of the death of his sister TILLY. SERENA and DAMIEN were trusted with TILLY's care on that night. GEORGE's matter-of-fact insistence that he knows about the circumstances surrounding his sister's death causes DAMIEN to relive a past he's long denied, even to himself. Earthly passions and paranormal perceptions push THE VISIT inexorably towards its fatal finale.

Me, King Kenny & Nat King Mole by Norman Revill
Medium: Film. Email: nrevill@aol.com
“Bev’s a widower and Nat Cole fan; a charmer with a secret talent who drinks too much now his daughter and grandson have moved away. One Saturday, drinking before the Match, young ‘Dixie’ Dean gets drawn into Bev’s company. Next day, Dixie invites Bev to a comic football match with his young sons. Soon Bev’s a surrogate uncle and changed man. He wins a talent show. As Liverpool reach the 1985 European Cup Final, Bev’s poised to become a local star. Then tragedy strikes. But Bev had a dream, and his friends are determined to see it realised.

World Enough by Patrice Lawrence
Medium: Radio. Email: patrice200@hotmail.com
Moving, always moving. The time has come to be stil. Harlow Bennett, now a restless old man, waits to be moved to his final destination. For Phyllis, too, an aging carer, the time has come to rest. Soon the rest home will close down and the comfort of their friendship will be broken. This is a play about stories, recreating truth, rediscovering opportunities. As their time together diminishes, they relive shared memories. Their first meeting on the boat coming over from Trinidad forty years ago. Flirtation, wooing, separation. Memories of events that may never have happened. And a rebellion with a toy xylophone that certainly did.


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