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- ↑ RADIO / The tides of the Marches: Georgina Brown reports on an adaptation for radio of Louisa May Alcott's classic Good Wives, Georgina Brown, The Independent 10 February 1993
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, Born to be Wilde: The Warhol Years".
- ↑ "BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Ninety Minutes with Stanislavski".
- ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – Mr Bridger's Orphan
- ↑ BBC – World Drama – The Porlock Poisoner
- ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – Incredibly Guilty: A Comic Moral Fable
- ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – Big In Samoa
- ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – Life Complicated – Status Pending
- ↑ BBC – Radio 4 – From Fact to Fiction: Artie & Zoe
- ↑ BBC – Radio 4 – From Fact to Fiction: The Heebie Jeebies
- ↑ BBC – World Drama – Worldplay – The Black Cat Murder Mystery, Nostrovia Fitzrovia
- ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Playwright and the Grammarian
- ↑ BBC – Friday Play – 20 Cigarettes
- ↑ "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ↑ BBC – Radio 4 – Psmith in the City
