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The Raj Quartet Radio 4 Aired: 10 April to 5 June 2005 as Daphne Manners Episode 1 Download Episode 2 Download Episode 3 Download Episode 4 Download Episode 5 Download Episode 6 Download Episode 7 Download Episode 8 Download Episode 9  Download

Words and Music - Self-Improvement Radio 3 Aired : 1st May 2011 Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Macfadyen explore through poetry and prose a subject that has exercised some of the greatest minds of all time: self-improvement. What is the value of seeking out knowledge, physical improvement and enlightenment through self-teaching and motivation? With words of wisdom from a variety of sources across the ages including Confucius, Kant, Tennyson, Charlotte Bronte and Alan Bennett, together with music by Elgar, Clementi, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Bob Dylan.   DOWNLOAD

Portrait of a Lady Radio 4 Aired: 19th & 26th July & 2nd Aug 2008  1.Innocence  Young and beautiful, Isabel Archer thinks that she is in control of her fate. Little does she know, however, that others behind the scenes are pulling the strings. Download 2. Deceit The beautiful and free-spirited Isabel Archer is now a very rich woman. Two men have declared their love for her but she does not want to be married. Resolved to enjoy her fortune, she begins her travels. Download 3. Truth Isabel has been married to the handsome and urbane Gilbert Osmond for three years. Like a sparkling and brilliant jewel, she is part of his collection of beautiful things, but she is about to discover a startling truth. Download Thank you to Marnix for this.

Labyrinth Aired : 27th March 2011 Radio 3 What lies at the heart of the labyrinth? Minotaur or man? Fear or delight? We're all fascinated by labyrinths - whether they're an impenetrable jumble of box hedges in the garden of a stately home or the multiplying reflections in a hall of mirrors. We move through them at the speed of dreams - sometimes as quick as a flicker of lightning sometimes as slow as the drift of sand in an hour glass. From inside they can appear both menacing and beguiling. From outside they can be treated as an engaging puzzle but one where the solution is never in doubt. This evening - should you accept their invitation - you can join Rory Kinnear and Anna Maxwell Martin in a maze of words and music. Along the way you are likely to bump into George Herbert, Thelonious Monk, Arvo Part, Erik Satie, Jorge Luis Borges, Edwin Muir, Bach and Francis Seyrig - some of them more than once....even if you don't lose your way or your nerve. DOWNLOAD

Julvenile Jane Radio 4 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 DOWNLOAD Summary Jane Austen's surprisingly neglected but delightfully precocious and revealing early works celebrated by Austen expert Janet Todd with the help of the writer and illustrator Posy Simmonds and the actor Anna Maxwell Martin. Considering how frequently Jane Austen's six great novels are adapted for film, radio and television, it is perhaps surprising that the three small exercise books containing twenty two little stories and plays written during her teen years have not received more notice. Some of these stories - with titles such as "The Adventures of Mr Harley", "The Generous Curate" and "The Beautiful Cassandra" - are only a few lines long but others run to many pages and provide both entertainment and surprising insights into the development of the mature writer. Austen expert Janet Todd leafs through two of the precious volumes which are held at the British Library in London...

  Aired: August 15th 2010 Character: Vittoria Download Summary The wealthy Brachiano conceives a violent passion for the married Vittoria Corombona. Her brother Flamineo, Brachiano's secretary, plots to bring his sister and his master together, in the hope of advancing his own career. Their plans are impeded by the return to Rome of Isabella - Brachiano's wife, and sister to the powerful Francisco. Desperate for Vittoria, Brachiano arranges to have both Isabella and Vittoria's husband murdered. And in so doing makes an implacable enemy of the deadly Francisco... The play was first performed in 1612, but this production sets the action in a murky underworld of the 1950s - a world that seeks to hide its shifting alliances, betrayals and sudden violence beneath a flaky veneer of honour and respectability.

Radio 4 Air Date: 1st August 2010 The Wings Of The Dove Ep 1/3 DOWNLOAD Kate and Merton need money. Milly needs love. How far will they go to get what they want? Kate Croy is in love with Merton Densher; a poor writer. Her rich aunt Maud disapproves. Maud has offered Kate a wealthy existence but if Kate chooses to marry Merton she risks losing it all. When American Heiress Milly Theale steps into her London society, Kate sees a way out. Ep 2/3 DOWNLOAD  Milly confides in Kate that she believes herself to be gravely ill and Kate begins to see a way for her and Merton to have a future. When Merton returns to London, Kate sets out to bring her lover and her friend together. With Kate's assurances that there is nothing between them, Milly allows herself to hope that Merton may be the one great passion in her short life. Ep 3/3 DOWNLOAD Milly, now gravely ill, is staying in Venice. Kate's plan to bring Merton and Milly together is gaining pace. But Merton begins to r...

Radio 4 Air Date: 25 September to 3 November 2006 Anna was one of several readers in the last eight episodes. The invention of childhood - a narrative history covering a thousand of British childhood in thirty episodes. Download

Anton Chekhov - Seven and a Half Years  BBC Radio 3  Air date: 24 January 2010   Anna plays the role of Olga in Three Sisters  Summary of Programme. ( Source ) Susannah Clapp explores why the unforgettable Russian playwright Chekhov believed that he would be remembered for no more than seven and a half years. Shortly before he died, the great Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov, confided in a friend that he believed he would be remembered for seven, perhaps seven and a half years. One hundred and seven and a half years later, in the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth - and now that Chekhov is second only to Shakespeare in popularity as a playwright across the globe - Susannah Clapp explores his obsession with memory and the passage of time, and his fear of being forgotten. She gathers a special Chekhov repetory company, including Anna Maxwell Martin, at the BBC's Maida Vale studios, to discuss and perform new translations...

Crooked House Air Date: 8th to 29th Febuary 2008 Anna plays the role of Sophia Leonides. About Three generations of the Anglo-Greek Leonides family live together in a large, seemingly crooked house, under the patriarchy of Aristide. He is an ageing millionaire who originally moved to England from Smyrnahis granddaughter Sophia tells her fiancé Charles Hayward, the story's first person narrator, that she can't marry him until the killer is apprehended; so, desperate for her hand in marriage, he begins his own investigation.

 Villette Original Airdate : 3 to 7 August and 10 to 14 August 09 on BBC Radio 4.  Radio 4 recently did a dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Villette, Anna voiced the main character Lucy Snowe, with thanks to Marnix I'm able to bring you audio downloads of the wonderful 10 part drama they're roughly 14 mins long.

Au Pairs Original Air date: 7th -11th September 09 at 7.45. On BBC Radio 4 Episode 1  DOWNLOAD Comedy by David and Caroline Stafford about manners, morals, accidental chaos and heavy-duty childcare. The story follows the fortunes of two au pairs, Alvy from Ireland and Dorkia from Hungary, who bond over their mutual condemnation of modern parenting. Dorika ...... Anna Maxwell Martin Alvy ...... Sharon Gavin Directed by Marc Beeby. Episode 2 DOWNLOAD  Alvy and Dorika have a night off. And that's just their first mistake. Episode 3 DOWNLOAD It is Louis' birthday. The cake is prepared and the games are organised - what could possibly go wrong?   Episode 4 DOWNLOAD Alvy and Dorika go to the zoo. Lock up your children. Episode 5 DOWNLOAD Major life changes beckon. If only Alvy and Dorika can get that vase off Louis' head. Credit & thanks to the original uploader BedtimeBear.