Springline Radio Players

Magwitch is mortally wounded while trying to escape and is sent to the prison hospital. There together with Pip, he meets his daughter, Estella for the first and last time. This has been an Our Kid and Me Production in partnership with Springline Radio Players.

Pip arranges for safe passage for Magwitch but is betrayed and his benefactor is captured by the Kings Men.

Pip travels back to Satis House to discover the secret of Estella and then returns to London to discover the truth behind Miss Havisham and his fortune.

Magwitch makes plans to settle in the City of London and Pip learns how he was betrayed which set him on the criminal path that led him to prison and deportation to Australia.

Magwitch illegally returns from abroad and announces that he is Pip's secret benefactor. Pip with the help of Herbert Pocket and Wemmick embark on a plan to save Magwitch from prison and remove him abroad but they are betrayed.

Pip meet Herbert Pocket and Wemmick, the clerk to Jaggers and establishes himself as a “Gentleman”.

Pip travels to London where he meet Jaggers, a lawyer who helps him begin his journey to become a gentleman. He grows increasingly fond of Estella but neglects to maintain contact with his family.

After working as a blacksmith's apprentice for a number of years, Pip grows up and is one day informed that he has come into a great deal of money. He assumes that this has come from Miss Havisham. The lawyer, Jaggers meets him and sets him on his way to the city of London.

Pip goes to Satis House where he meets the eccentric Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella. He returns on several occasions and meets people that will feature in his future life in the city of London.

Our audio play, "Great Expectations" was written by Charles Dickens in 1860 and 1861. It is presented in ten episodes with the first five episodes being released each day from Monday to Friday with the remaining five episodes all available the following day, Saturday. The mid-19th century was a time of great social change in Britain. There was increasing movement from the countryside to the towns, education was slowly improving and the legal system was being changed. The novel reflects such changes and follows the childhood and young adult years of Pip a blacksmith's apprentice in a country village. He suddenly comes into a large fortune (his great expectations) from a mysterious benefactor and moves to London where he enters high society. The young Pip meets and assists the escaped convict Magwitch on the marshes near his home where he lives with his sister and Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith.

Kate Webster was put to death in 1879 for the bestial act of butchering Mrs Martha Thomas and tossing her remains in the Thames. At her trial, Kate used all her wiles to evade the gallows by implicating innocent men as well as feigning pregnancy. But who was this Victorian woman? What drove her to commit such a heinous crime? The play presents a psychological study of this Irish woman with a dark past. This is the second play from the pen of Alan Kilpatrick, our first being "Shade", the story of Burke and Hare, the most notorious killers in Scotland's history.

Our Kid and Me Productions in partnership with Springline Radio Players is pleased to present "A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas", commonly known as "A Christmas Carol", is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet To Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.

On the 23rd December in the bleak midwinter of 1938 the esteemed medium Felicity Fermington is settling down to enjoy an evening with the radiogram and the fire. It is a very low fire indeed; nothing on such a bitter night.  She is obliged to sit close to it, and brood over it.   From within her own consciousness there comes a voice, a voice from the past, not from long past, but from her past. This is the fourth of our Dame Felicity's audio plays, written and directed by a Springline Radio Player, Karen McKivitt. Look out for "Séance for a Spy" which will air in early 2023.

"A Visit from St. Nicholas", more commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas" and "Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas" in 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837. The poem has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American" and is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today.

‘The Lockdown’ begins in December 2019 and charts the emergence of the Covid 19 pandemic and the effect it has on the lives of a middle-aged English couple and their relationship.  Miles is in the process of expanding his estate agency business, and Suzanne, his neglected wife, wants a break from her charity work and is keen to take a holiday in Italy, whilst Miles prefers to concentrate on the development of his company.  An unexpected opportunity arises for her to achieve her wish and this has a profound effect on their future relationship. Dealing with adult themes and containing some strong and graphic language, “The Lockdown” is the debut play by Ralph Wears.  Ralph’s aim with this play was to document some of the events that took place during 2019-2020 and the impact the pandemic had on the characters in the play, as a reminder of this unique period in our history.

Our audio play is based on “Dracula”, a novel by Bram Stoker and published in 1897. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby in North Yorkshire. A small group, led by Abraham Van Helsing, hunt Dracula and, in the end, kill him. Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes for the novel, drawing extensively from Transylvanian folklore and history. There is widespread disagreement on who the character of Dracula was based on, although Stoker's notes mention that he found the name Dracula in Whitby's public library while holidaying there, picking it because he thought it meant “devil” in Romanian.

What strange things find their way into the boot of your car? Old shoes, shopping, umbrellas, torches, blankets, plastic bags, leaflets, hats, deck chairs, buckets and spades, tins of beans, odd socks, oh and perhaps occasionally...a dead body! This play contains themes that some listeners may find disturbing. Please ensure no children are present whilst listening.

The celebrated medium, Dame Felicity Fermington requests the pleasure of your company at her wedding in the summer of 1938.  She hopes to spend her honeymoon basking in the sun and enjoying the thwack of the tennis balls on Wimbledon’s world famous grass.  However, things take a sinister turn at SW19 and her unique talents are required to save the tournament from embarrassment and potential disaster!  This is the third of our Dame Felicity's audio plays, written and directed by a Springline Radio Player, Karen McKivitt. Look out for "Felicity's Christmas Carol" which will air in December this year.

Mix five women cousins of a certain age with one book, one secret, and several glasses of wine for a fun and enjoyable visit. But please remember - what happens at the Cousins' Book Club, stays at the Cousins' Book Club. We are pleased to present our third audio play from the pen of Patricia Motto. Enjoy.

Sarah and Max have a love story. Well, maybe they have a "love" story, or maybe they have a "like" story. Where does the line exist between those two concepts exactly? And, in the end, isn’t the real question what is enough? This is our second audio play from the pen of Patricia Motto who lives happily with her shelter dog, Fosse, in Elmhurst in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, USA where she also choreographs for and dances with The Tree Town Tappers.