Aurra Studios Presents The Wireless Theatre Company

Stephen Fry comedy audio play. Rob Sterling Davies is on the crest of a wave: a celebrated scriptwriter, actor, TV personality, the new doyen of Just a Minute, and apparently, Stephen Fry's new best friend.  But all isn't quite as it seems, and when Stephen discovers that Rob's BAFTA-winning script was stolen, he undertakes to expose Rob for the fraud he is. New audio comedy We Are The BBC is the follow-up to the hugely popular 2011 hit, We Are Not The BBC, and features Nicholas Parsons and Stephen Fry as themselves.

Multi Award Winning Audio Drama, based on the mysterious Victorian urban legend of Springheel'd Jack. The first episode of the first series of the critically acclaimed Springheel Saga featuring the late great Nicholas Parsons and Julian Glover. Who, or what, is the terrifying attacker with glowing eyes, white oilskin suit, and amazing jumping ability?

Smith's desperate race to capture the mysterious Springheel'd Jack before he strikes again sends him on a dangerous hunt

Smith and Charlotte must escape the villainous Lord Wayland and solve the mystery of Springheel'd Jack

Folly Ditch, 1845. When a fire-breathing maniac kills 13-year-old Maria Davis, Springheel Jack is blamed. Detective Inspector Jonah Smith is hot on the trail but soon finds himself accused of an equally terrible crime… Written by: Gareth Parker & Robert Valentine

Hunted by the police and stalked by a sinister new enemy, Jonah Smith risks all to clear his name by going behind the scenes at Bartholomew Fair… in search of Springheel Jack!

With Jonah Smith dead and the murder of Maria Davis still a mystery, there is little hope that the forces of good will triumph as a runaway train speeds towards it's explosive destination. All aboard –  The Engine of Doom!

UNITED KINGDOM, 1877. When Aldershot Barracks is attacked by the flame-wreathed ‘Night Terror', Jonah Smith is called out of retirement by Her Majesty's Government and sent on one final, deadly mission – to capture Springheel'd Jack! The Secret of Springheel'd Jack – The Peril of the Empires

Pursued by agents of the Kaiser, Jonah Smith must join forces with an old enemy in his search for Springheel'd Jack. But will they survive… the Tunnels of Death?! The Secret of Springheel'd Jack – The Tunnels of Death Written by: Gareth Parker & Robert Valentine Starring: Christopher Finney, Andrew Shepherd, Ben Whitehead, David Forest, Jonathan Hansler, Paul Anthoney, Clive Greenwood, Maggie Robson, Silas Hawkins, with Louis Tamone, Jenny Runacre, David Benson and Matthew Kelly.

With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Jonah Smith must fight to fulfil his destiny and finally discover the secret of Springheel'd Jack. But as his ruthless adversaries close in, who shall become… the Lords of the World? Written by: Gareth Parker & Robert Valentine. Starring: Christopher Finney, Andrew Shepherd, Jonathan Hansler, Ben Whitehead, Tom Slatter, Matthew Woodcock, Silas Hawkins, with Jenny Runacre, David Benson, Jeremy Stockwell, Nicholas Parsons, Matthew Kelly, Shane Rimmer and Katy Manning.

Narrated by Cameron K. McEwan, investigates the world of Wireless Theatre's The Springheel Saga. With exclusive interviews, commentary and clips, this specially extended File #1 not only documents the production of the first series and explores the facts behind the fiction, but also looks at what lies ahead in Series Two… Narrated by Cameron K. McEwan With contributions from the cast of The Strange Of Springheel'd Jack Featuring the music of Francesco Quadraroupolo, Production assistant, Emily Best, Credits by James Duckworth, Edited by Marie Tueje, With thanks to George Maddocks, Produced by Jack Bowman and Robert Valentine for Wireless Theatre

The Springheel Files, narrated by Cameron K. McEwan, investigates the world of Wireless Theatre's The Springheel Saga. With exclusive interviews, commentary and clips, File #2 documents the production of The Terror of London, the first episode of the second series, explores the facts behind the fiction with Fortean expert Steve Ash, and also examines how things have changed in the world of The Springheel Saga since the first series – and how the world of Jonah Smith will never be the same again… Warning: This file CONTAINS SPOILERS for The Terror of London, so make sure you've listened to that before! Narrated by Cameron K. McEwan. With contributions from the cast of The Legend Of Springheel'd Jack.

The Springheel Files, narrated by Cameron K. McEwan, investigates the world of Wireless Theatre's The Springheel Saga. With exclusive interviews, commentary and clips, we explore the world of The Carnival of Horrors, the second episode of the second series of The Legend of Springheel'd Jack. Looking at the facts behind the real-life Bartholomew Fair with Fortean expert Steve Ash, File #3 also explains how the characters have coped with the events of the series so far… and how the events and decisions of this episode change the destiny of the characters involved with Springheel Jack forever… Warning: This file CONTAINS SPOILERS for The Carnival of Horrors, so make sure you've listened to that before!

Life at Death's Door. Radio documentary. When it comes to death, we are bad consumers. Because we don't plan ahead, because we don't talk about it, we are in a state of shock and exhaustion. We don't question, we don't shop around and it makes us very vulnerable potentially. This award winning audio documentary deals with our universal attitudes to death and dying. The first episode, in two parts, is narrated by the magnificent Brian Blessed. The following episode, also in two parts, is narrated by the fabulous Jo Brand.

When it comes to death, we are bad consumers. Because we don't plan ahead, because we don't talk about it, we are in a state of shock and exhaustion. We don't question, we don't shop around and it makes us very vulnerable potentially. This award winning audio documentary deals with our universal attitudes to death and dying. The first episode, in two parts, is narrated by the magnificent Brian Blessed. The following episode, also in two parts, is narrated by the fabulous Jo Brand.

  In this episode, we look at some of the incredible ways we can commemorate our dead and find out how we can conduct our own unique funeral celebrations, to better reflect the lives our loved ones have lived. Narrated by Jo Brand. What drives us to wear black, have a wooden coffin and to give our loved ones what we consider to be a “dignified” funeral at staggering expense? Before Queen Victoria, we used to bury our own – now it is almost the exclusive domain of the funeral industry and with an average funeral costing £3,500, perhaps it's time we looked for alternatives?

In this episode, we look at some of the incredible ways we can commemorate our dead and find out how we can conduct our own unique funeral celebrations, to better reflect the lives our loved ones have lived. Narrated by Jo Brand. What drives us to wear black, have a wooden coffin and to give our loved ones what we consider to be a “dignified” funeral at staggering expense? Before Queen Victoria, we used to bury our own – now it is almost the exclusive domain of the funeral industry and with an average funeral costing £3,500, perhaps it's time we looked for alternatives?

Purdy and Chase is a 4 part audio sitcom from the pen of the exceptionally funny Dawn Crumpler. Novice private investigating duo and best friends Pen Purdy and Daisy Chase negotiate a heady mix of insurance fraud and mystery shopping, whilst dealing with their own assortment of doubts and fears in small town Wexton. Pen and Daisy are tiptoeing towards their thirties, desperately trying to face their uncertain future and the inevitable fate looming in the background – having to grow up.  A peculiar pair thrown into unusual situations, Purdy & Chase explores their humorous inadequacies and unexpected heroics, as they embark on their new adventure, together.

‘The Honeymooners'. New private investigating duo and best friends Pen Purdy and Daisy Chase are mystery shoppers at The Shingle Hotel, small town Wexton.  As Pen gets acquainted with the mini-bar and a maroon velvet jumpsuit, Daisy finds the guests at the Hotel are all too familiar. A peculiar pair thrown into unusual situations, Purdy & Chase explores the humorous inadequacies and unexpected heroics, as they embark on their new adventure, together.

‘Eyes Wide Open'. We finally meet Daisy's boyfriend, Matt as he helplessly gets drawn into the investigative world of Purdy & Chase, while Pen is finally on a date with Izzy (when she's not in the loo). As the evening progresses, it's more than friendship that brings them together.

In our final episode ‘Texas, Maybe' Pen and Daisy are beginning to show signs of competence.  As they embark on a future together, we are left feeling that it could all start to work out for them both in Wexton, maybe. A peculiar pair thrown into unusual situations, Purdy & Chase explores the humorous inadequacies and unexpected heroics.

A perfectly ordinary, past-its-best English seaside town. Except why has everyone there been turned to stone? Two seriously out-of-their-depth police officers uncover the strange tale of what happened when middle-aged and romantically disappointed hairdresser Marjorie Briggs found something in a polythene bag on the beach that didn't belong there, something ancient and terrible – something with the power to seriously muck up the lives of Marjorie and all those she loves and hates, as surreal comedy shifts towards a very strange sort of Greek tragedy….

Night of the Orchid is a contemporary Gothic drama of desire and death, and of love and vengeance beyond the grave, from acclaimed playwright Marty Ross. Madeleine Loughran has fled her wedding, seeking shelter with her beloved Great Aunt at her house in the snowbound Scottish countryside. In the house's ruined glasshouse, the blossoming of a single living flower is the first sign of a passion that will strip bare the secret history of a house and its inhabitants.

  The Cask of Amontillado is Edgar Allan Poe's short but enigmatic masterpiece. Set in an unnamed Italian City we hear the story of how Montresor lures Fortunato through the catacombs into the Montreso family vault and there chains him up and bricks him in for eternity. Why he does it we will never know, but he does so with a casual savagery that is truly chilling. “'Cask' was recorded on location in ancient vaults. Every footstep and cough, every brick and every echo are captured. You will never forget hearing the final, faraway declamation: ‘In pace requiescat!'”

An atmospheric ghost story set on the wild Atlantic coast of North Devon, told through the eyes of Jenny, a girl of nearly nineteen, whose recently deceased grandmother, Mary, has bequeathed her ‘Windover,' the cottage where she is staying with her father and his girlfriend during the summer vacation. Before long Jenny starts to be troubled by visions of two teenage girls, and learns, from a photograph taken in 1934, that these girls are her grandmother, Mary and her friend Cathy. As the days go by and Jenny  becomes increasingly disturbed by the visions, she befriends Stephen, a neighbouring farmer and tries to enlist his help in making sense of what's happening to her. Stephen, however, is evasive and little by little Jenny finds herself drawn into the tragic events that occurred nearly eighty years earlier. This supernatural radio play stars Emma Kelly, Sean Baker, Richard Holt, Colleen Prendergast, Beth Eyre, Amy Raine Jackson, Richard Reed and Pamela Binns

Based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe, The Grimm of Stottesden Hall was recorded in front of a terrified live audience on the 7th May 2009. Come with us as we take you on a journey of madness, terror and gruesome, GRUESOME MURDER! The decaying walls of Stottesden Hall are the setting for our LIVE recording of an original gothic horror radio play by award winning team, writer Stuart Price and composer Michael Bruce.

Jason Davis is an ordinary man who's just witnessed an extraordinary crime. Alone and afraid, and with only one pair of trousers, he needs the help of London's very best detective… Join us for episode one of our six-part comedy series from David K Barnes (writer of Wooden Overcoats)

Drayton Trench, written by David K Barnes (Wooden Overcoats). Renowned archaeologist Sir Percy Price has been kidnapped and Drayton is on the case! But danger strikes as she finds herself looking down the barrel of a gun!

Drayton Trench has tracked kidnapped archaeologist Sir Percy Price to the Hotel Addison, but an encounter with the sadistic Violet Darkbloom has left her spinning – in the downstairs washing machine!

Drayton Trench episode 4. Jason Davis is an ordinary man whose uncle – Sir Percy Price, archaeologist and disgraced character actor – had been kidnapped in a most extraordinary crime. Fortunately, detective Drayton Trench and her secretary Marjorie were cheap, available, and on the case! With Jason, they tracked Sir Percy to Paris and rescued him from the clutches of the suave Nathaniel Swan, and his deadly assistant Violet Darkbloom. But whilst our heroes have got Sir Percy, the villains have stolen a series of precious Roman artefacts relating to Julius Caesar – and nobody knows why! Least of all Drayton Trench, who finds herself plummeting to her doom from the top of the Eiffel Tower…  

Drayton Trench Episode 5. In pursuit of the fiendish Nathaniel Swan, our heroes have travelled to Transylvania and accepted the hospitality of the Countess. But Sir Percy has been bitten by a werewolf and there's a full moon out tonight!

Drayton Trench, Episode 6. Our heroes have escaped the clutches of the Countess, but Nathaniel Swan has gone to Rome to complete his malevolent master plan – to raise the spirit of Julius Caesar from the dead! Drayton is hot on his tracks – but can Nathaniel be stopped before it's too late?

Mr Ten Days is a romantic comedy radio play written by Jon Baker. Andy is a neurotic commitment-phobe. He prides himself on not doing relationships longer than ten days. Then he meets Emma, bright, attractive, optimist, training to be a marriage guidance counsellor. Emma fixes relationships, Andy doesn't do relationships.

Newly qualified Police Officer PC Gifty Zahra has at last fulfilled a lifelong ambition to join the force. Now on the beat with her mentor DS Angela Appleby she is determined to impress and to keep the streets of North West England safe. After making a gruesome discovery, the pair find themselves at the centre of a tangled web of local corruption.

Newly qualified Police Officer PC Gifty Zahra has at last fulfilled a lifelong ambition to join the force. Now on the beat with her mentor DS Angela Appleby she is determined to impress and to keep the streets of North West England safe. After making a gruesome discovery, the pair find themselves at the centre of a tangled web of local corruption.

Newly qualified Police Officer PC Gifty Zahra has at last fulfilled a lifelong ambition to join the force. Now on the beat with her mentor DS Angela Appleby she is determined to impress and to keep the streets of North West England safe. After making a gruesome discovery, the pair find themselves at the centre of a tangled web of local corruption.

Omega. Newly qualified Police Officer PC Gifty Zahra has at last fulfilled a lifelong ambition to join the force. Now on the beat with her mentor DS Angela Appleby she is determined to impress and to keep the streets of North West England safe. After making a gruesome discovery, the pair find themselves at the centre of a tangled web of local corruption.

The winning script of our Young Writer's Competition, The Chicken Salad of a Troubled Mind is set in the deep and murky subconscious of a troubled mind. We follow the footsteps of Sarah as she attempts to lunch with her mum, and bond with her sister, without her innermost thoughts brimming over the edge. Helen Monks is a writer from Birmingham, who's poetic style of writing caught the judges attention. Helen became Birmingham's first Young Poet Laureate in 2005, played Pip Archer in The Archers, Co-founded LUNG theatre, and played William Shakespeare's daughter in Upstart Crow. Helen is an accomplished playwright, winning many awards. Helen starred in Raised by Wolves on Channel 4. Helen wrote Chicken Salad of a Troubled Mind at the age of 20.

DELETE is a play about women, friendship and the Internet. Tanya needs to serve her community sentence by teaching Patricia how to use the internet. Sue is Tanya's parole officer, and she's dating. Mostly men with beards. A funny, poignant and ultimately shocking play about an unlikely friendship between three women in a world saturated in online abuse, sexual violence and addiction. A funny, poignant and ultimately shocking audio play about an unlikely friendship between three women in a world saturated in online abuse, sexual violence and addiction. Delete explores friendship between women of different generations, and the risks and online harm women and men can so easily experience. A complex, moving story that uses very strong language in places.

Ladies was inspired by the very real and very fraught campaign at the turn of the 20th Century to build a ladies' loo just outside Camden Town tube. Restricted toilet facilities for women were causing social, political and economic problems at the time, to address the issue a proposal to build a women's public convenience on Park St was made to the St Pancras Vestry council, and greeted with unsurprising but enthusiastic horror. The story behind this radio play is very real, though these characters have been created purely for your titillation. Starring Alison Steadman.

Christopher Timothy comedy audio play. A light-hearted look at the radio drama production process as seen by the members of an amateur dramatics society in a sleepy suburb of Swansea. It can't be that difficult to make your own play for radio can it? And with a LAMDA-trained professional actor at the helm, surely nothing could go wrong? After their attempt at Mike Leigh-inspired improvisation doesn't exactly produce satisfactory results, things start to look up when a visiting celebrity agrees to step in and play the lead role.

Gino Ginelli's Dead. Charles and Ollie Ginelli haven't seen their father for over twenty years, when out of the blue they discover he has passed away and they must go to their childhood home-town of Swanborough on sea to organise his funeral. What begins as an unfortunate family accident mounts into a disaster of unparalleled proportions for the two brothers as they encounter the strange, the incompetent and the the unusual during the ceremony and remember why they were so glad they left in the first place.

In part two of our hit sit-com, Charles and Ollie are still in Swanborough and their father, Gino, is still dead. Neither can decide whether to go back to their normal life in London, or to stay in Swanborough and get to know the rest of the locals… Lionel Blair doing Punch and Judy in the style of Reservoir Dogs – you do not want to miss this one!

After one funeral, no donkey rides, hundreds of lost Krazy Golf balls, a livid bingo caller, the most violent Punch & Judy show ever, two heavies with bad knees, countless ill-advised conversations and the most inept Lawyer in the business it looks like Charles and Ollie are finally going to be leaving Swanborough and going back to their old lives… if their Mother, played by Linda Robson (Bird's of a Feather, I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here) gets her way that is. The final part of the epic Ginelli trilogy answers all the questions that need to be answered and a bunch that don't.

Part Two of Burke and Hare, the infamous 19th Century Scottish Grave-robbers who weren't Scottish and didn't rob graves. They were actually Irish and as robbing graves to supply the needs of Edinburgh's anatomists proved to be rather hard work, they just took to murdering people – usually their neighbours – for profit. In collaboration with their common-law wives they set about supplying corpses for Dr John Knox an eminent Scottish surgeon with considerable enthusiasm and gusto. Episode two sees their murdering business heading speedily towards disaster!

Burke and Hare. This is the story of the infamous 19th Century Scottish Grave-robbers who weren't Scottish and didn't rob graves. They were actually Irish and as robbing graves to supply the needs of Edinburgh's anatomists proved to be rather hard work, they just took to murdering people – usually their neighbours – for profit. In collaboration with their common-law wives they set about supplying corpses for Dr John Knox, an eminent Scottish surgeon, with considerable enthusiasm and gusto. The play follows their business exploits from small beginnings, through their days of peak output to the final reckoning – set against a world that is becoming recognisably modern.

Trapped in a nightmarish court room and charged with endangering the public and his friends, Holmes is forced to relive some of his most bizarre cases with only Doctor Watson to aid his defence. Gasp at the Adventure of the Lizard's Hands! Work your brain into a frenzy of confusion as our heroes uncover the mystery of a dead man found in the middle of Regent Street! Steady your nerves as you bear witness to some snakes…. On a train! Is all this evidence enough to satisfy a mysterious judge with a vendetta against our hero?

For one night only The Wireless Theatre Company resurrected the world's greatest detective partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson for a live audio recording; Sherlock Holmes Strikes Back Written and performed by Matthew Woodcock and Peter Davis, Sherlock Holmes Strikes Back! takes you on a funny, fast-paced adventure against some of England's deadliest foes, with all the excitement of a live radio recording.

The St Valentine's Day Murder explores the happenings at the ‘Running out of Fish' Valentine's Day speed dating event. It's Valentine's Day and events turn less than romantic when one of the members of a dating site is murdered. Can detective Jean-Pierre LePoulet find the killer?

Painted Blind. Few things are as invigorating as a gin and tonic with ice and a slice, don't you agree? Mind you, I've never been to Lourdes or white water rafting. That Strongbow was a mistake though. A definite mistake. These hot tears tumble from eyes who see all and yet see not, wings spread, I soar through the memory, our joining, our lot.

A new Radio Four spoof from Mackenzie & McGuire. On Radio Hoo hah today: In My Mind delves into the thoughts of Leonora Velvety Constable-Wheeler, and her passion for Pugs, Shakespeare and taking her clothes off when she totally doesn't realise. Popular soap opera The Burgers has a few surprises in store this week when Mrs White slips on some conditioner in the hairdressers, and What's New has an exclusive look into Dorothy Ahlwhala's latest novel “Raspberry Ripple, Iron Hoof”, the latest theatre and music releases, as well as handling the political hot potato – Globalisation. Contains lots of bad language. And swearing.