BBC Radio Collection

February
2006

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Available from 6 February 2006

Doctor Who
The Reign of Terror

William Hartnell, William Russell, Jaqueline Hill and Carole Ann Ford star in this original television soundtrack of a classic Doctor Who adventure.

The TARDIS brings the Doctor and his companions to Robespierre's Paris, where they discover the French Revolution to be in full swing. Separated from each other, the group find themselves caught up in history as they struggle to stay alive and find their individual way back to the TARDIS.

Linking narration is provided by Carole Ann Ford, who played Susan in the original series. In a short bonus interview she recalls the time she spent working on the programme.


2 CDs, 2hrs 25mins, ISBN 0563 523425 £13.99

Ladies of Letters Go Global
Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales star in the popular Radio 4 series, Ladies of Letters.

Patricia Routledge is Vera Smalls and Prunella Scales is her friend (or maybe enemy), Irene Spencer. The two pass their time in regular correspondance and not an event goes by that is left unrecorded by the ladies of letters.

Always polite but not always nice, the two ladies' letters are often acerbic, one might even say bitchy yet their subtle put downs create wonderful letters full of humour and insight into the ups and downs of family life.


1 CD, 1hr, ISBN 0563 504455 £8.99
1 cassette, 1hr, ISBN 0563 504404 £8.99

Steptoe & Son
The Very Best Episodes: Volume 1

A well-known advocate selects four favourite episodes from the evergreen radio series, starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert Steptoe and Harry H Corbett as his long-suffering son, Harold.

Created and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson (of Hancock's Half Hour) this is the series which combined comedy with pathos in almost every episode. As the denizens of Oil Drum Lane bickered about women, work and general standards and hygeine, so Harold's schemes for self-betterment were continually foiled by the intervention of his lazy, good-for-nothing old dad.

As with other volumes in the Very Best Episodes range, the advocate of these four favourite episodes has also provided some specially written sleeve notes.


2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 504382 £12.99

The Lee Mack Show
Lee Mack, star of ITV's The Sketch Show and BAFTA Award Winner and British Comedy Award nominee, had his first six part radio series broadcast on Radio 2 in March and April this year. Special musical guests on the first of the Lee Mack series include Toyah Wilcox, Midge Ure, Suggs, Sophie Ellis Bexter, Tom Robinson and Tony Hadley. Alongside the musical guests, other guests include the comedians Dermot O'Leary, Noel Britton, Mick Miller, Milton Jones, Rhod Gilbert and Mike Wilmot. Also included in the proceedings is bandleader Steve Brown who fulfilled a similar role in the Knowing Me Knowing You TV series.
3 CDs, 3hrs, ISBN 1846 070686 £15.99