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1 The Flump 2 The Ten O'Clock Horses 3 I Can Do That
4 Book of the Week "Houdini's Box" 5 Romantic Friction
6 With Great Pleasure 7 Book of the Week"Roots of Comedy"
8 Famous 9 Poetry Please 10 Rapid Eye Movement
11 Wind in the Willows 12 The Magic City 13 Duckie
14 Paperback Hell 15 Go For It 16 Amazing Maurice
17 The Gypsy 18 Maigret: The Yellow Dog 19 Once Seen 20 Science Not Art
21 Cemetery Confessions 22 WestwoodComedy drama for BBC Radio 4 (an Above the Title Production)
Featuring MFS, Charlotte Coleman, Johnny Vegas in his first radio production, Michael Winner and Andy Taylor. Produced by Bruce Hyman. Directed by Dirk Mags.
1. featuring MFS, Charlotte Coleman and Andy Taylor
2. featuring MFS, Johnny Vegas and Andy Taylor
A BBC Radio Bristol production by Viv Beeby of a new play by Laurie Graham (first broadcast 2nd June 2001) in which MFS plays Ronnie.
Set in the Midlands in the 1950's it is the tale of a frustrated man who wants more out of life than his monotonously regular meals presented to him by his plain wife, Eileen (Janine Duvitski). She can not understand why he retreats to the garden shed at every opportunity or why he always has his head buried in a book. Ronnie, on the other hand, dreams of being like Leonardo Da Vinci;of being an artist, not just a painter and decorator. His life is turned around when his daughter, Susan, introduces him to her dance teacher,Jackie.
CAST: Ronnie - Michael Fenton Stevens
Eileen- Janine Duvitski
Susan -Jemma McAlear
Jack -Roberta Taylor
Vic - Chris Donnelly
Pop - David CollinsRonnie is upset by Jack's 'working class' jibe
Ronnie (MFS) gets frustrated by his wife's lack of education
Ronnie shows his ignorance in front of Jack
Comedy series for BBC Radio 4. Partly improvised spoof documentary featuring Valerie Singleton as the main presenter, MFS, Andy Taylor and Jessica Martin as her research team and all other characters apart from the weekly guest who played the member of the public.
Each week, Valerie Singleton and her team would invite a member of the public to handle a difficult and unusual job; air traffic controller, surgeon, Middle East crisis negotiator, Wimbledon Tennis contestant or Mir space station salvager. These completely inexpert, indeed, untrained members of the public would be given a free hand to have a go simply because they claimed "I can do that!". The results were, usually, catastrophic, if not fatal.MFS plays Prof Totteridge, Middle Eastern History expert, who is being asked his advice on how to solve the Middle East crisis. TOP
A reading by MFS of Houdini's Box for BBC Radio 4.
5 ROMANTIC FRICTION
A BBC Radio production starring Samantha Bond and Hugh Bonneville and featuring Michael Fenton Stevens as "the book". Broadcast in 2001, the series was produced by Dawn Ellis and also featured performances by Cathy Murphy, Sue Elliott-Nicholls, Adjou Andoh, Beth Chalmers, Kammy Darweish and Michelle Read, the author of the four part comedy drama.
1. Episode One Intro
2. Episode Two Intro
3. Episode Three Intro
4. Episode Four Intro
5. Credits read by MFS
6 WITH GREAT PLEASURE
Christmas 2001. Broadcast at lunchtime on Christmas Day, this evergreen radio show was hosted by Michael Parkinson and featured readings of his favourite poetry by Eve Matheson, Michael Elwyn and Michael Fenton Stevens, with music provided by Laurie Holloway. The producer was Viv Beeby. Below are some extracts from the show.
1. The Whitsun Wedding by Philip Larkin
2. Valentine by John Fuller
3. I Found South African Breweries Most Hospitable by Kit Brooke
4. Disabled by Wilfred Owen
5. An Actor (musical monologue) by Billy Bennet TOP
7 BOOK OF THE WEEK
Excerpts from MFS's reading of "The Roots of Comedy" a book about Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
Produced by David Jackson Young (an original member of Radio Active)
1 The Consett Guardian describes Stan's father's opening night
2 Stan's father remembers his sons love of theatre
3 Oliver Hardy's roots
4 Young Oliver's weight problems
5 Stan and Ollie's early films
6 Their first film adapted from Stan's father's original sketch
7 How Stan and Ollie saw themselves
8 Oliver Hardy's marital problems
9 Oliver Hardy's letters to his wife, Myrtle
10 New York Times describes Laurel and Hardy's trip to the UK
11 Stan and Ollie in London
12 Stan's letters to friends
13 Stan's retirement years
14 Stan Laurel dies with a joke on his lips
15 Good bye to two great stars TOP
8 FAMOUS by Paul Dodgson
A BBC Radio 4 play about the life of a fictitious 70's pop star as seen through the eyes of her parents and manager. Starring Bill Wallis, Stephanie Cole and Michael Fenton Stevens. Mike plays the manager of a 70's pop star, a young girl he has discovered in Ireland and molded for stardom. The programme is set in the present day with the cast looking at her career which ended tragically early. Bill and Stephanie play her parents her never knew her as a star, only as the daughter who ran away from home and never contacted them again.
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9 POETRY PLEASE
The evergreen Radio Four programme of poetry readings selected by the public. Presented by Roger McGough and produced by Viv Beeby.
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10 THE RAPID EYE MOVEMENT
Described by the Observer as "the best and most original comedy for years", The Rapid Eye Movement area group of dream actors who live in the head of Chester Beetie and each night act out his dreams for him in an attempt to guide his life. Karl Minns, the author, has created the most bizarre set of characters since Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The cast includes the marvelous Martin Freeman (of The Office fame) as Chester, Chris Langham as the Narrator and Michael F S as Algernon Butterworth, the director of the Rapid Eye Movement. Also featuring Kim Wall, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Beth Chalmers, Owen Evans, Martin Hyder and the author, Karl Minns. The series is produced by Dawn Ellis and was recorded at the BBC Maida Vale studios.
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Photos from the recording session
11. WIND IN THE WILLOWS
Excerpts from a radio production of Wind in the Willows featuring Michael as Badger with Paul Bradley , Jackie Dankworth and Robin Fripps.
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12. THE MAGIC CITY
A Watershed Production of a two part radio drama for the BBC broadcast on New Year's Eve and Day and featuring Michael, David Jason, Jane Horrocks and Kate Isitt.
In the following extracts Michael plays the part of the Guard.
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Excerpt 2
A very out of focus photo of the cast. TOP
more photos
13. DUCKIE
A BBC Wales production broadcast as the afternoon play on Radio 4. Michael Fenton Stevens stars as Ivor Novello in a moving drama about his imprisonment during World War II and his subsequent rehabilitation back in to the theatre.
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14. PAPERBACK HELL
Four fifteen minute spoof book readings broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Produced by Lucy Armitage and featuring Michael Fenton Stevens, Rebecca Front, Mel Hudson, Alex Lowe and the writer Dan Tetsell. The programme was co-written by Danny Robins.
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15. GO FOR IT
A three part reading of My Mum's Going To Explode for BBC Radio 4's children's' programme Go For It.
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16. THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS
A Watershed Productions for the BBC directed by Chris Wallis and adapted from the Terry Pratchett children's story of the same name.
Excerpt (to be added)
17. THE GYPSY
An adaptation of an Agatha Christie short story produced by Bruce Hyman of Above The Title Productions for the BBC.
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18. MAIGRET: THE YELLOW DOG
From the Maigret series, Radio 4, produced by Ned Chaillet and starring Nicholas Le Prevost
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19. ONCE SEEN
The afternoon reading from a series of stories inspired by lonely hearts adverts in Time Out.
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20. SCIENCE NOT ART
A reading from Book Of The Week. Extract from the diary of a mathematician. extract 1 extract 2
21. CEMETERY CONFESSIONS
Produced by Sara Davies in Bristol. A series of readings in which Michael plays the famous pornographer Guillaume Apollinaire. The cast includes Bill Nighy, Zoe Wanamaker and Anna Massey. extract 1 (SOON)
22. WESTWOOD
Play by Lynne Truss set in the 1940's. extract 1 extract 2 (SOON)
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