Re-play of the 2012 BBC Series “The Mumbai Chuzzlewits,” adapted by Ayeesha Menon from the Charles Dickens novel “Martin Chuzzlewits,” and transposed to Modern India. Produced by John Dryden of Goldhawk Productions. Convinced his relatives are after his money, miserly old recluse Martin Chuzzlewit (Roshan Seth), adopts orphan girl, Mary (Nimrat Kaur), to be his […]
RDR From the Vault: Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Part 2 of 3
March 29, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Re-play of the 2012 BBC Series “The Mumbai Chuzzlewits,” adapted by Ayeesha Menon from the Charles Dickens novel “Martin Chuzzlewits,” and transposed to Modern India. Produced by John Dryden of Goldhawk Productions. Convinced his relatives are after his money, miserly old recluse Martin Chuzzlewit (Roshan Seth), adopts orphan girl, Mary (Nimrat Kaur), to be his […]
RDR From the Vault: Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Part 1 of 3
March 12, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Re-play of the 2012 BBC Series “The Mumbai Chuzzlewits,” adapted by Ayeesha Menon from the Charles Dickens novel “Martin Chuzzlewits,” and transposed to Modern India. Produced by John Dryden of Goldhawk Productions. Convinced his relatives are after his money, miserly old recluse Martin Chuzzlewit (Roshan Seth), adopts orphan girl, Mary (Nimrat Kaur), to be his […]
Episode 426 – A Trip to Tumanbay, Sultry and Sordid
December 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Tumanbay, the beating heart of a vast empire, is threatened by a rebellion in a far-off province and a mysterious force devouring the city from within. Gregor (Rufus Wright), Master of the Palace Guard, is charged by Sultan Al-Ghuri (Raad Rawi) with the task of rooting out this insurgence and crushing it. Epic saga inspired […]
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Episode 368 – Return of Severed Threads (3 of 3)
February 14, 2014 By 1 Comment
Part 3 of 3 Fred’s final entry from Lesotho on a spell-binding sunrise as he presents the encore retelling of John Dryden’s masterful 3-part drama Severed Threads. Vengeance is all that’s on schoolboy Ben’s mind as he pieces together the events surrounding his father’s death. Four thousand miles away in India, journalist Prem is drawn […]
Episode 313 – Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Part 3: Closing in to Martin
January 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
We feature the stunning conclusion “The Mumbai Chuzzlewits” by Goldhawk Productions, produced by John Dryden, a Sony and Peabody Award winning radio producer whose work is regularly commissioned for BBC Radio 4. The show, adapted by Ayeesha Menon, transposes Charles Dickens’ satire on the corrosive power of money to the hot, hectic streets of modern-day […]
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Episode 312 – Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Part 2: Murder, Alliances and Greed
January 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Having survived the Apocalypse, our show today features the work of Goldhawk Productions, lead by John Dryden, a Sony and Peabody Award winning radio producer whose work is regularly commissioned for BBC Radio 4. The show transposes Charles Dickens’ satire on the corrosive power of money to the hot, hectic streets of modern-day Mumbai, India. […]
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Episode 311 – Mumbai Chuzzlewits Sets Dickens in India
December 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Having survived the Apocalypse, our show today features the work of Goldhawk Productions, lead by John Dryden, a Sony and Peabody Award winning radio producer whose work is regularly commissioned for BBC Radio 4. The show transposes Charles Dickens’ satire on the corrosive power of money to the hot, hectic streets of modern-day Mumbai, India. […]
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Episode 298 – The Handmaid Makes a Break for It
September 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This week we wrap up our feature of John Dryden’s radio drama adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” produced for BBC Radio 4. In a world not so far in the future, the land of “Gilead” is ruled by the law of the Good Book and women’s rights are dramatically scaled back. One woman […]
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Episode 297 – The Handmaid Takes Her Assignment
September 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This week we feature the second installment of John Dryden’s radio drama adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” produced for BBC Radio 4. In a world not so far in the future, the land of “Gilead” is ruled by the law of the Good Book and women’s rights are dramatically scaled back. One woman […]
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Episode 296 – The Handmaid Returns to Tell Her Tale
September 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In a rare return to a previously played episode, this week on RDR we re-play the masterful Goldhawk adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a story about a woman caught in a totalitarian society where fertile woman are used as surrogates to keep society going… Regardless of how they may feel about the deal. […]
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