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Promenade produces projects for the theatre, television, film and radio.  It has projects in development including an original six-hour television drama serial Soho by Michael Hastings, set in the London underworld in the 1960’s.

Since 1994 it has produced a number of dramas for BBC Radio 4 including Alistair MacLean's HMS Ulysses, The Plutocrat by Booth Tarkington adapted for radio by Michael Hastings, Sacco and Vanzetti based on their letters and trial documents adapted for the radio by Bill Bryden, Volunteers by Donna Franceschild, Daisy Miller by Henry James and The Nativity, in a special Christmas Eve, 1999, broadcast of Bill Bryden's Royal National Theatre's production. It also produced The Passion and Doomsday to complete the recording of all three of The Mystery Plays.
   

It produced Samuel Beckett's All That Fall for BBC Radio 3 and John Osborne's The Charge of the Light Brigade for BBC Radio 4 with Sir Donald Sinden, Alec McCowen, Geoffrey Palmer, Joseph Fiennes,  Charles Dance and James Ellis and, also in 2002, an original play for radio, Voyages, by Michael Hastings. It produced a two-part adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night adapted by Michael Hastings and a short story by Charles Dickens, George Silverman's Explanation for BBC Radio 4 in 2003. For Christmas 2004 Promenade embarked on a four-part adaptation by Michael Eaton of Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers with Timothy Spall as Pickwick and Sue Johnston as Mrs Bardell. 
 

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In June 2000 Promenade presented Lucy Bailey's award winning production of Tennessee William's Baby Doll in London's West End at the Albery Theatre. 

It is currently developing several new West End theatre productions for presentation in 2009/10

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Promenade was created in 1994 by director, Bill Bryden, producer, Nicholas Newton and leading television executive, the late Brian Wenham to present The Big Picnic, an epic tale of a Scottish regiment in the First World War, at the Harland and Wolff Shed in Glasgow. It was recorded for BBC television and broadcast on BBC2 in the summer of 1996.

Promenade produces quality professional drama for theatre, television and radio ...