Dramatisation of the story of the Mercury 13. Thirteen American women who, as part of a privately funded program, underwent some of the same physiological screening tests as the astronauts selected by NASA on April 9, 1
Sammy, a scientist working with a specialist "back room" team during WW2 is brought in to solve the problem of booby-trapped devices being dropped by Nazi bombers
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The parents of children living in Jamaica, afraid that the kids are growing up uncivilized, decide to send them to England. During the voyage, the childrens' ship is boarded by pirates with murderous results.
Stories of women quietly outperforming the men in their lives. Commissioned to mark 100 years since the birth of Ginger Rogers, who famously did everything that Fred Astaire did - only backwards and in high heels.
This drama is set in the near future. After months of continuous rain, all coastal areas of the UK are flooded. Bella and Jude are marooned on their farm in Kent with dwindling supplies, made all too clear by the arrival of a stranger who floats i
By Elizabeth von Arnim, dramatised by Vivienne Allen.
An advertisement in the Times newspaper lures a quartet of very different women away from rainy 1920s London to a castle on the Italian Riviera. The four women blossom in the Mediterranean suns
Scholarly young Oxford student Paul Pennyfeather remains ignorant of the high-life, until a fateful encounter with members of the notorious Bollinger Club draws him into a world of excess he never knew
Anton Lesser stars as a Berlin Detective who stumbles upon the 20th century's most terrifying secret in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Robert Harris's Bestselling Novel.
'Riveting adaptation... the drama is compelling from its opening
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Boots on the Ground by Don Webb Danny Marks arrives at a Military Research centre. He's a volunteer for speed reaction testing; trying to improve reaction times under duress. His mate Billy Rogers was on the same course, but he's gone missing. Has he
Stand-up comedian Kit enjoys satirising his monastic boarding-school days, but the past takes on a different light when he reads the obituary of an old school friend. Fired by guilt at having lost touch, Kit decides to confront the ma
The Cloths Of Heaven
Sue Eckstein's dramatisation of her own novel
Broadcast Monday 15 to Friday 19 March 2010 (Woman's Hour Drama)
British diplomat Daniel Maddison on his first posting to West Africa, finds himself rebelling against the traditiona
So successful were the forgeries by the antiquarian dealer Mark Hofmann that they undermined the faith of the Mormon Church and rewrote American history.
Dylan Ritson 's probing new drama examines Hofmann's compulsion to defraud and his transforma