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Drama of the WeekFaith, Hope and Glory Series 5 - Joy and HopetonBy Rex Obano1988. Margaret Thatcher is now in her third term as Prime Minister. Hopeton is lonely and frustrated, living at his friend's boxing gym while fighting to get Joy and his family back. Meanwhile Joy is fighting to build a new life with Dhiren, combining their differing cultures. Can both of them succeed in getting their life back?Joy ..... Cherrelle Skeete
Hopeton ..... Solomon Israel
Dhiren Patel ..... Vikash Bhai
Duke/Waiter ..... David Webber
Glory ..... Trinity Benjamin
Gujarati woman/Customer ..... Chetna Pandya
Job Centre Assistant/Boxer/Store Manager ..... Lloyd ThomasProduction Co-ordinators are Maggie...2025-03-2844 min
SoA SoundsThe SoA Advisory Clinic: The Wonderful World of Audio Drama: A centenary celebration and an advisory tale SoA Advisory Clinic hosts Johanna Clarke and Theo Jones invite you to come celebrate with them, and a host of stars, as 2023 marks the centenary celebrations of 100 years of audio drama on the BBC! Shining a light of this most brilliant of forms, they showcase the SoA’s work in running and administering their two awards for audio drama writing, celebrated each year at the BBC, and walk writers through the importance of the organisation’s role in collective bargaining on behalf of their members – and writers more generally – in this field and what it means for them.2023-09-251h 30
Listen, Relax and Enjoy the Wonders of Full AudiobookRex Obano: Five BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramas: Lovers Rock, The Moors of England and more Audiobook by Rex ObanoListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 649501
Title: Rex Obano: Five BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramas: Lovers Rock, The Moors of England and more
Author: Rex Obano
Narrator: Cyril Nri, Freddie Fox, Full Cast , John Heffernan, Jude Akuwudike, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Lucian Msamati, Paapa Essiedu, Pippa Nixon, Ray Fearon, Tobi Bakare
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:47:32
Language: English
Release date: 07-27-23
Publisher: PGRH UK
Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Black Literature
Summary:
A selection of contemporary dramas from leading Black playwright Rex Obano - plus bonus programme
Rex Obano has written for the stage, television, radio and film. His...2023-07-276h 47
Listen, Relax and Enjoy the Wonders of Full AudiobookFaith, Hope and Glory: Series 3-5: An epic BBC Radio 4 drama Audiobook by Carol RussellListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 643277
Title: Faith, Hope and Glory: Series 3-5: An epic BBC Radio 4 drama
Author: Carol Russell, Rex Obano, Roy Williams
Narrator: Danielle Vitalis, Full Cast , Gary Beadle, Martins Imhangbe, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Shiloh Coke, Stefan Adegbola
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:32:45
Language: English
Release date: 03-16-23
Publisher: PGRH UK
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Black Literature
Summary:
Three more series of the landmark, century-spanning historical drama
Faith, Hope and Glory charts the lives of three African-Caribbean families, connected forever by the theft of a beautiful pram in Tilbury in 1946. As they...2023-03-166h 32
Download New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalFaith, Hope and Glory: Series 3-5: An epic BBC Radio 4 drama by Carol Russell, Rex Obano, Roy WilliamsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643277to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Faith, Hope and Glory: Series 3-5: An epic BBC Radio 4 drama
Series: #2 of Faith, Hope and Glory
Author: Carol Russell, Rex Obano, Roy Williams
Narrator: Martins Imhangbe, Shiloh Coke, Danielle Vitalis, Stefan Adegbola, Gary Beadle, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Full Cast
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Release date: March 16, 2023
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Three more series of the landmark, century-spanning historical drama Faith, Hope and Glory charts the lives of three African-Caribbean families, connected forever by the theft of a beautiful pram in Tilbury in 1946. As they live through the e...2023-03-166h 32
Listen, Relax and Enjoy the Wonders of Full AudiobookFaith, Hope and Glory: Series 1 and 2: An epic BBC Radio 4 drama Audiobook by Rex ObanoListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 561922
Title: Faith, Hope and Glory: Series 1 and 2: An epic BBC Radio 4 drama
Author: Rex Obano, Roy Williams, Winsome Pinnock
Narrator: Danielle Vitalis, Full Cast , Pippa Bennett-Warner, Shiloh Coke
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:37:19
Language: English
Release date: 03-03-22
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction
Summary:
A major BBC Radio series charting the history of post-war Britain through the lives of Hope Kiffin, Eunice Lamming and Gloria de Soto, bound forever by one moment in 1946.
London, 1946. Struggling to cope with the idea of raising her daughter in...2022-03-036h 37
Download Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+The Price of Oil: 7 BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas by Rex Obano, Tamsin Oglesby, Joy Wilkinson, Jonathan Meyerson, Nigel WilliamsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551449to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Price of Oil: 7 BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas
Author: Rex Obano, Tamsin Oglesby, Joy Wilkinson, Jonathan Meyerson, Nigel Williams
Narrator: Faye Marsay, Raad Rawi, Anna Maxwell-Martin, Nicholas Le Provost, Alun Armstrong, Jemma Redgrave, Nadine Marshall, Full Cast
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Release date: January 6, 2022
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
A collection of factual dramas exploring the history of oil - and the price we pay for it Ever since it was first drilled over 150 years ago, oil has been both a blessing and a curse. It has enabled...2022-01-065h 31
Not Quite Right For UsWorkWhen is a job ‘not quite right’? For Colin Grant it was when he encountered structural racism in the heart of the BBC establishment; for Johny Pitts, it was when he learned the hard lesson that the 1990s wasn’t a post-racial world; and for Fergal Harte’s narrator, it’s when an editor suggests only certain people can be ‘bad guys’.
Very few of us can avoid working but, even if we do manage to hook that ‘dream’ job, it doesn’t stay perfect for long. Sooner or later, we find we – or the job – is ‘not quite rig...2021-10-2624 min
London by LockdownNQRFU — TravelThe idea of travel brings with it the promise of exotic places filled with interesting people, and images of glittering beaches and crystal clear water, or adventure, relaxation, or even a family holiday. But that’s for those who are able to come and go as they please: one person’s exploration is another’s exploitation. For many, ‘travel’ has been ‘not quite right’ for centuries, bringing conquest and oppression, inequality and ecological disaster, prejudice, and at times walls to keep out ‘the other’.
Celebrating ten years of Speaking Volumes, this anthology is a warning shot, an affirmation, an ed...2021-10-1124 minNot Quite Right For UsTravelThe idea of travel brings with it the promise of exotic places filled with interesting people, and images of glittering beaches and crystal clear water, or adventure, relaxation, or even a family holiday. But that’s for those who are able to come and go as they please: one person’s exploration is another’s exploitation. For many, ‘travel’ has been ‘not quite right’ for centuries, bringing conquest and oppression, inequality and ecological disaster, prejudice, and at times walls to keep out ‘the other’.
Honouring ten years of Speaking Volumes, Not Quite Right for Us is a warning shot...2021-10-0718 min
Front RowBen Hopkins, Luke Jerram, Winsome Pinnock, Rex ObanoScreenwriter and novelist Ben Hopkins talks to Tom about his ambitious new novel, Cathedral. It's a portrait of the construction of the medieval period's greatest buildings, featuring a cast of intriguing characters all vying for power - from the bishop to his treasurer to local merchants and lowly stone cutters.Faith, Hope and Glory is a new drama series on Radio 4 which sees British playwrights Roy Williams, Rex Obano, and Winsome Pinnock chart the history of postwar Britain through the intersecting lives of three women. Starting in 1946, a week of 15 minute dramas which set the scene: Hope...2021-02-1128 min