THE CLOD HOPER by Angela Neville

Following his divorce, Lewis is encouraged by his daughter to take up metal detecting again. Finding a gold ring, he then meets Judy, who claims the ring was hers. But Lewis gradually begins to wonder if Judy is a real. Is her voice only in his headphones? A ghost or just a figment of his imagination? Would he ever really risk falling in love again.

26 min 30 secs

CHANNEL HOPPING by Derek Webb

If you want to save your marrage it's essential to talk to each other. Ann and Steve are good at talking, but hopeless at listening. Indeed Ann has got to the stage where she letsthe drink do mthe talking and if that doesn't work, theres always the television

28 min 30 secs

Essex has long been noted for its historical collection of somewhat eccentric characters and unusual events. In this collection of short features, John Glasscock has lovingly researched old county library records and dug deep into his archives to uncover these stories of the events of our county, and of Essex men great and not so great, who have helped to create our reputation as the daftest county in England.

1. Kitty Granham.	Time 4 min 30s
2. Fairlop Fair	Time 7 min 43s
3. It takes one to know one	Time 9 min 19s
4. Barking Mad	Time 7 min 48s
5. All gas and gatecrashers	Time 7 min 32s
6. Welcome to fat fighters	Time 5 min 26s
7. A hell of a way to go	Time 7 min 56s
8. Put up or shut up	Time 7 min 10s
9. Strange news out of Suffolk	Time 7 min 44s
10. The three cups at Harwich	Time 6 min 33s
11. Optional musical introduction to all segments	Time 0 min 07s

THE BOWMEN .... Part The First .... By John Glasscock
It's June 1192. King Richard is away at the Crusades as usual. In an England dominated by lawless gangs of hoodies, Prince Johns attempts to maintain justice are hampered by a hopeless poistal service. The nororiously incompetent Child Support Agency and Ron Of Bexley, later know as Riding Boot.
With his vertically challenged companion Alan the Lad. sets out of a mysterious quest to find the legendary lost cit of Lewisham. - mainly as a way to rvade his ex wife - the lady Self Maid Marian.
29 min 30 secs

THE BOWMEN... Part The Second... By John Glasscock

Wherein we hear how our hero planns to raid a Post Office with for them predictable results. They have better luck springing a Prisoner from Maidstone Gaol, which turns out to be a dancing Bear.

29 min 34 secs

THE BOWMEN... Part the Third... By John Glasscock

When Axe-grinder Wolfgang Von Kubmeister, Alias Schmadt Schmidt gets his call up papers the rest of Robin Boots gang of Incompetent outlows try to hide him away in the green wood.

28 min 12 secs

THE BOWMEN... Part The Forth.... By John Glasscock

In this fun packed episode, the gang make a fine start by hijacking a prison cart- supposed to be conveying Boots Son to Borstall. But get more then the bargans for when the release him. His mother !

29 min 30 secs

THE BOWMEN... Part the Fifth ..... By John Glasscock

( ev are still in 1192, a very good year for it ) But now its September and the nasty Prince John is trying to raise a ramson for King Richard. And what better way then by holding a great feast and Fair. So lets all guess where Robin Boot is going.

29 min 30 secs

THE BOWMEN... Part the Sixth.... By John Glasscock

At ling last the final episode in which King John returns and everybody has a group hug.. and exit left singing the theme song...... Well no... Doom Disaster and an Ox Roast eating contest..

29 min 30 secs

BELLY LAUGHS..... By Angela Neville

In her late forties, and still single Wendy has worked in the same village shop since she left school thirty years ago. Still living with her aged mother, out of a missplaced sence of loyalty and lack of ambition. In short for Wendy life has become somewhat boring. But a Poster in the village shop is about to change her dull life for the better, and all thanks to the seductive power of the dance.

28 min 30 secs

The Great Detective by Roger Johnson

A drama Documentary which a must for all fans of the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle creator of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes.
Taken from a stage production writen by Roger Johnson, rather then use a large cast, this production is unque in that actor David Davis plays all the parts.

60 min 00 secs

Mr HUMPHREYS & HIS INHERITANCE
By M.R.JAMES
M.R.James wrote some of the most memorable ghost stories in the English Language, many of which were adapted for Television in the 1970s starring Michael Horden. They are more difficult to adapt for Radio because horrible things usually happen to the main character while he is alone. This is necessarily, then, a rather free adaptation but we hope the author, who died in 1936, will not disapprove… Because if he does, he could well come back and do horrible things to us…. One at a time.. While we're alone.

28 min 30 secs

ONE IN THE EYE
By Derek Webb

Horatio Nelson was the greatest naval hero Britain has ever seen. What is not quite so well known is that he had an older brother…Maurice. When Lady Hamilton (reputed to be a good friend" of Horatio's) announces she is to host a ball to celebrate his victory at the Battle of the Nile, it is up to Maurice to keep Horatio's wife and mistress apart. But will his heroic efforts succeed? With his clerk disguised as King George III and the King himself given to bouts of insanity (rather like most of us) the result is a comedy of epic proportions. (No pigeons were harmed during the making of this production – but several fops were severely hurt by unkind remarks about their wigs).

28 min 30 secs

BE THERE IN NO TIME
By JOHN GLASSCOCK

To the crew of a returning war time Lancaster badly damaged and almost out of fuel, the sight of a beach long enough to enable them to safely land must have been the answer to their prayers. But on landing all was not as it seemed. For the crew found that this was an alternative universe where the horrors of war were unknown. How had this happened? Why did one survivor of the project start suffering nightmares of the one flight he was sure he had avoided? And why were there certain people still interested in his memories?

28 min 30 secs

A FAIR DEAL
By Jill Woods

Bernie's lottery win, making him a triple millionaire, is not the cause for celebration it should be, when he resolves to share it with the teenager who saved his life. The result is an unexpected case of blackmail

28 min 30 secs

DOUBLE BILL 12
By Dennis Rookard
SHE'LL HAVE TO GO by Dennis Rookard
They were a happy gang. All long term unemployed and because of their age, all very unlikely to find another job. Wasn't their fault that a succession of Governments wanting to hide the true state of the Nations unemployment problem had hidden the true figure by inventing ways of massaging them off the lists and into early retirement. And how nice that Petra down at the job centre had found all those extra benefits they could claim. The only snag was that someone was out to get them back to work and that was a situation not in their game plan for the future, And that someone would have to go !
Time 30 mins

DOUBLE BILL 12

CATTY TALK by Anglia Nevell.
It's the time of the full moon. A time when strange things can happen. After a stressful day, Katie is about to discover this when she returns home and the welcome of her pet cat. But be very careful what you wish for.

Time 27 min 45 s

DOUBLE BILL No 11
WAITING FOR GORDON by Derek Webb timed at 30 minutes
Set in a night school, the action concerns the ladies activities whilst waiting for the missing Gordon - their teacher

DOUBLE BILL No 11

ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD by Anne French. times at 30 minutes
When Rosemary moves into her new warden controlled flat, she has a secret agenda that not even her daughter is aware off. But the arrival of a ghostly visitor explains all.

FENCHURCH
By Dennis Rookard
When her evil brother swindles the cantankerous Lady Caroline Tipstandley out of house and home. Her Butler - Fenchurch realising that because she is now broke, and so can't afford to pay his wages shows his loyalty by dumping here.
Whilst hunting a new position his butters employment agency tells him about a TV production company with a cunning plan for a new reality show featuring a Butter placed in an unusual situation. Even better for Fenchurch - the moneys fantastic.

ROOM TO LET
By Margery Allingham
Thirty years ago as a young PC, Curly Minter was present at the prefect crime that has still yet to be solved. They called it the case of the shot without a gun. But now his fellow detectives try to offer an explanation.

FOR A FEW GALLONS MORE
By Dennis Rookard
A Gentle comedy that that reveals the truth behind the great fuel train robbery and the part played in it by a certain Mr Robin Hood. And all - so the authors claim, to have been very losely based on a true event.

MINES A PINT. series two
By Dennis Rookard
Read by John Glasscock. More stories concerning the many activities of the rather eccentric regulars of the TRAVELLERS REST, that home from home for the dedicated lover of real ale. The author tells us that he did intensive research and many missspent hours at two waterholes collecting the material for these stories and assures us that they are all based on fact -but does admit a little embellishment.

11. Bloody Quiz Night	Time 10 min 55s
12. Twitchers	Time 6 min 25s
13. Disappearing Pianos	Time 7 min 11s
14. Charlie Mark Two	Time 7 min 48s
15. Sharons Back !	Time 4 min 55s
16. Dodgy History - The Romans	Time 4 min 26s
17. Dodgy History - Alfreds Cake	Time 2 min 44s
18. Dodgy History - Pilgrims	Time 3 min 30s
19. Dodgy History - Straw Trade	Time 2 min 58s

MINES A PINT series one
By Dennis Rookard
Read by John Glasscock. These are a collection of short stories concerning the many activities of the rather eccentric regulars of the TRAVELLERS REST, that home from home for the dedicated lover of real ale. The author tells us that he did intensive research and many missspent hours at two waterholes collecting the material for these stories and assures us that they are all based on fact -but does admit a little embellishment.

1. Introducing the Gang	Time 6 min 08s
2. The Trainee Village Idiot	Time 6 min 24s
3. The Viking Funereal	Time 5 min 10s
4. The Ghost Dog	Time 7 min 58s
5. Gold under the Car Park	Time 5 min 35s
6. The new Roles Royce	Time 7 min 47s
7. The Lost Pub Outing	Time 6 min 34s
8. Pickled Carrots	Time 7 min 50s
9. Jacks Girl Friend	Time 8 min 53s
10. The Visit	Time 8 min 17s

MYSELF AND LADY M
By Angela Howard
Will Lynne realise her greatest ambition and play Lady Macbeth in the local Am-Dram production? Or will svelte, sophisticated rival actress, Serena Vello, return from Katmandu in time to dash her dreams? And what are husband Les and his twin brother Laurie up to, on their mysterious evening excursions? All is revealed in the tale of a tortured quest for the glories of stardom.

THE LITTLE WOMAN
By Angela Neville
How would you react is you woke up one fine morning and found that you were just six inches tall, worse it was all because a wish made when you were six years old had been granted. and you were now a fairy, worse Eyebright another fairy has to explain what has happened.

OVER OUR DEAD BODIES
Adapted by John Glasscock from a short story by Angela Howard
If you want to create a tangled web, it isn't always necessary to PRACTISE to deceive. Here, an off-the -cuff white lie about a smear of blood and a garage door leads two young twins to alarming assumptions about their well-meaning but not entirely blameless father

CATRACKED
by John Carter as Adapted by John Glasscock
This was going to be a bad hair day for Julie. The only thing that can bring her comfort and get her through the day is her CAT. Problem is the beast had friends down the road who feed him. Result a stuck cat in the cat flap. What follows next develops into utter farce.

TREVOR ECCLESTONES BIG DAY
By Vivienne Allan
Hen pecked Trevors having to face up to his retirement party. His wife on the other hand copuld not care less. She is far miore interested in the mysterious and good looking stranger at her Bridge Club. But life is about to take a dramatic change. But will it be for the better.

BANDITS AT 4 O'CLOCK
By Tony Phillips
Nothing is as it seems in this tale of the interrogation of a possible Terrorist. But is he? For not is what it seems in this tangled web of deception

DARSTARDLY DEEDS
By Angela Howard
This 30 minute melodrama is a short version of the longer Booby Trap and is designed to fit in with those with a requirement for thirty minute drama productions. For details of plot please see Booby Trap

JUST A LITTLE FIDDLE
By Dennis Rookard
Set on a modern British Railway station, this is a tale about a very cunning and crafty porters money making scheme, and his fellow workmates drawn into the great Plastic Flower scam.

IS THAT LOUISE'S MUM
By Vivian Allan
A mysterious telephone call, and a badly behaved child, combined with a marriage under threat all go towards buiding up the tension.

JACOB CREBER
By Gerry McKee
When headstrong Teresa gets sent home from school in disgrace, her parents sentance her to detention in her room. But Teresa has other ideas, and spying their part time gardener Scobey, she see's and escape route.
It's the start of an adventure for the pair of them, during which Teresa discovers hidden talents. As for her parents. Their chase following the clues left by their wayward daughter becomes a life changing experience for both of them.

THE MANGLE WAR
By Bill Farrow
Being an account in words and music of the great Anglo-French Mangle War of 1897, and the patriotic roll a Music Hall song played in its outcome.
Both the script and music were writen by Mr William Farrow, that the great aging matinee idol and thespian (for which he is still taking the tablets) for your plesure and performed for money by the Mangle Theatre Company.
NOTE. It has been brought to our attention that some disbelieving hospital broadcasters doubt that any such war took place, and that this hilarious riot of fun and music is an entirely fictional load of porkie pies. Oh come on. How do you explain that the Fench never imported their Mangles into the UK. And nobody likes the French do They !

WHO ARE YOU ALISON !
By John Glasscock
IN this story set in London and North West Norfolk during the recent Gulf War, we folow the adventures of Alison Fulbarrowe, a soon to be married Air Stewardesses as she sets out tio discover with her soon to be mother in law the background to her unusual name and late English Fathers family history. It's a task that leads her to a small village near Kings Lynn in Norfolk and what seems to be a conspriracy of local silence.
Produced in the studio and on location. This production received rave reviews by the blind and partially sighted listeners of the UK Audio network, and we feel this one of the best drama scripts John Glasscock has writen for Hosiprog.

FAIRLY ULTIMATE REALITY - PART THREE
By John Glasscock
We're still trying to figure this one out. Set in the beginning of the world, it features God, who it seems was mum to a whole pack of nutters, Adam and Eve. Beelzebub who thinks he's a snake and has this deal going down in Romford and of course Wayne. If we say that this programme also features author John Glasscock playing the roll of Terry the Pterodactyl. We think you'll know what to expect.
WARNING = Not advisable for broadcasting to those of a strong religious nature. But a recent broadcast of this production went down a storm in the USA, So go on - We dare you to order it up for your listeners

A BENCH IN THE PARK
Written by Diane G Paul MA,
This drama concerns the dedication of a bench in a park and the reactions to a tramp who decides to sit on it. But the tramp is not all he seems. We think you will enjoy this programme and it's comedy of errors.

THE FITLOW MANGLE
By Bill Farrow
A wild and wacky saga of how an old Mangle found in Egypt came to be smuggled back to London and how a bunch of retired Music Hall entertainers came to ruin a crafty plot to make a great deal of money.

THE ASSASSIN
By Bill Farrow
Yet another in our stories about the many miss-adventures of those retired Music Hall entertainers, now as they say resting in a theatrical retirement home in East london..

ALL IN THE BLOOD
By Bill Farrow
Back in the magical days of the Music Hall, Eddie Fitlow and Ernie Turpin, better known as the Mangle Boys were star turns, each topping many a bill. Two generations latter, Bill Fitlow grandson of the great Eddie contacts Jack grandson of Ernie in the hopes of once again reviving the Mangle Boys act and taking it back on the road.

COCKOOS DON'T COCKOO IN DAGENHAM
By Tony Phillips
Jack was an old time rocker who is going to sing one more time. But will his dysfunctional family back him up,or will it all end in tears.

GULLIVER AND THE LOST PAINTING
By Tony Phillips
It's hard being a nineteen forties style private eye these days. But Gulliver Singhurst tries very hard, assisted by the low life of Blackheath in South London, who all pitch into help him find that lost painting.

SUNDAY
By Gerard McKee
Sunday is a comedy of deception and flawed underwear. A tale that tackles the great contemporary issues of family. morality and rice puddings.

PULP FAIRIES
By Angela Neville
Do you believe in faries ? Those precious little creatures - with clothes made from flower petals and holding magic wands. You won't - not after hearing about and meeting our bunch of Pulp Faries, The evil Prfofessor Fregg and a very grumpy Santa.

THE FALL OF THE ROMAN UMPIRE
It wasn't just the computers was it. Most of us seem to have been bitten by that dreaded millennium bug. For as the end of the nineties approached, people in every town and village were getting together to decide how they were going to mark the great event. One such was the small North Essex village of Midsummer Laver, where they came up with a bright idea. The snag was that things didn't work out as planned.

No 2 DING STREET
a Production from the pen of Bill Farrow, One of Hosiprogs stable of writers, Both productions are set in a home for aged theatricals, where the residents have no intention of giving up life on the stage. In No 2 Ding Street they get their chance again, when a young Clayton Seymore inherits a show business management agency, little knowing what is in store for himself.

ALL IN KNOTS
A Production from the pen of Bill Farrow, One of Hosiprogs stable of writers, Both productions are set in a home for aged theatricals, where the residents have no intention of giving up life on the stage. In No 2 Ding Street they get their chance again, when a young Clayton Seymore inherits a show business management agency, little knowing what is in store for himself.

THE FRANCHISE AFFAIR
By Josephine Tey
It's the late forties, and having returned from the excitement of war time army life. Solicitor Robert Blair is now bored with small town life returning to, what is, now to him - a seemingly pointless civilian lifestyle. So when Marian Sharpe comes to him for help, he leaps at the chance. For what at first sight seems to be a simple case of abduction by the Sharpe mother and daughter soon develops into a case that will change his life.

A BORDERLINE CASE..........Time 58 minutes
By John Glasscock
How do you launder nearly a quarter of a milion in notes that are not only years out of date, but quite possible forgeries ? And how do did the dammed things turn up in the first place ? This tale of two equally crackpot schemes fifty years apart shows just how far some of us will go to avoid honest work.

THE LAST OF THE MANGLE BOYS
Written by By Bill Farrow
The great days of the music hall have long gone, but the players live on - even if it is only in a theatriacal old folks home. But when one of those music hall greats dies, the old troopers turn out to remember him. One of them is Ernie Turpin who is invited to appear on a special TV trubute show.

THE HERMIT
Written by Tony Phillips
In this play , we step back in time to the 1800's to the Hertfordshire village of Redcoat Green, and the home of the eccentric Loar James Lucas -better known as the 'Mad Hermit of Recoat Green.' In this play he receives a vistor, but is he whe he say's he is.. ?

FAIRLY ULTIMATE REALITY - TWO
Written by John Glasscock
In promoting this epic we can do no more then quote it author "I know what your thinking.Whatever happened to Fairly Ultimate Reality - One ? Well if you remember the book,the earth was without form and void, and you try putting that across on radio ! This is the earlest part with dialouge - and scrabble, In the beginning was the word, and the word was DOG - as St John the Dyslexic so aptly expresses it." No frankly we'er none the wiser... but it's worth a listen.

WAVING TO A TRAIN
By Martyn Read
Two weeks and two hundred miles from the rain socked Coronation in late June 1953. A Midsummer the way we remember it - when there was time to prepare a picnic after school and the last though train to London passed in bright evening sunshine. Savour it, for nothing lasts - least of all childhood.

THE AMOROUS GOLDFISH...Time 58 minutes
By Michael Voysey
The year is 1902, and Betsy Coppard's dearest wish is to visit London to see the Coronation of Edward V11. But her husband has more ambitious ideas. He wants land, possessions. money and all the women he fancies, and woe betide anyone who get in his way.

THE HARK AT US TAPES
Written by Bill Farrow
In this production we are taken back to the year 1953 and a series of never before broadcast recordings that have for over fifty years gathered dust deep in the BBC archives... Back Then, Producer Glen Windsor and Interviewer Desmond Jeferies thought they had all the makings of a good radio show. Pick an old East End Pub, get hold of the residents of a home for retired music hall artists, and ply then a few drinks for their collective memories of old songs and stories. But as you'll hear, their idea for a radio production soon, as the booze flowed freely, desended into utter chaos..

TWO EMMA TOCH - WRITTLE ..Time 62 minutes
By Tim Wander & Dennis Rookard
In early February 1922, from a small ex-army hut in a field just outside the Essex village of Writtle near Chelmsford. A small team or pioneering wireless engineers working for the Marconi company established Britain's first regular radio broadcasting station. In it's short year long history, the station using the call sign of 2MT, or as it soon became known to its many fans - Two Emma Toch, became a broadcasting legend. For led by Captain P.P.Eckersley, its engineers became it's on-air staff who in that short year on air, developed and establsihed most of the ground rules for broadcasting as we know it today. It's small wonder that apart from one engineer who stayed with Marconi, The others all went on to join and help establish the early BBC, which came on the air, almost a year latter.
Please Note that because of its length, this production can be edited down to a broadcast time of around 58 minutes by cutting down the conclusion of the production.

WHO IS SILVIA
Written by Angela Howard.
It's the run uop to Christmas, and Silvia seems trapped in her life of domestic drudgery. But lo and behold, Melanie Garth-Wilton and her French boy friend come on the scene and things begin to change. For Melanie is more then a little mad, and Silvia re-discovers a talent which amazes her family. A seaonal tonic for any bored housewife.

AIRMAIL FROM CYPRUS
By Willis Hall
The action of this play takes place in the East Midlands home of Mrs Sarah Hodgson and her daughter, Mary. The timeis late 1958, a time when in Cyprus an army mostly made up of young national servicemen were involved in fighting the Nationlist movements who wanted independence for Cyrus. For the lonely servicemen, contact with home was by blueys or Airmail letter, andas the play begins, one is about to be delivered to the Hodgson house.

REMEMBER ME
Written by Jill Hyem.
It seemed like an idea away from it all holiday. A week spent in the idyllic surroundings of a Peak District Guest House. But little did Paul and Margot Sutton realise that far from being a relaxing time, their Holiday would turn into a time of stark terror.

AURA OF CONFUSION
by Angela Howard
Double bookings at a country cottage bring more then confusion to those involved.

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PARENT POWER
by Angela Howard
Geoffry lives in a world of his own, escaping from his over bearing mother up in his room to write the great British Novel. But all this changes the day he joins a Animal Protection Society and meets and falls in love with the aristocratic Helen. But problems arise for him inthe shape of his mother who tried to poor cold water over his frendship with Helen. But love will find a way and it comes after Helen turns her old Manor house into an animal sanctuary and call on Geoffrey's help. His wild idea is to hold a grand opening of the sanctuary woth a cheque presentation from the society. But there is one slight snag, for our Geoffrey is afraid of animals, and the manor house and it's grounds are full of them.

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CANNING TOWN BLUES
Written by Bill Farrow
A musical dram that should not be taken too seriously. For if you thought that Blues music came to us from across the Atlantic. Think again, for we can reveal that this musical art form came to us in fact in the early nineteen hundreds from that area of London's dockland known as Canning Town