Rapacious Bishop Odo meets his match in Anglo-Saxon ex-queen, Edith. He wants her wealth: she wants to survive. Armed only with a needle, she leads a group of women in a bid to outwit their violent Norman oppressors. Her plan? To save her skin, an
Read more…Sweeney Todd and The String of Pearls
Rosalind Ayres directs a stellar cast in this masterly, rediscovered, horror-thriller. Joanne Whalley stars as Mrs Lovett and Martin Jarvis as barber Sweeney Todd with Rufus Sewell, Jonathan Cake, Julian Sands,
What has caused a ten-year-old boy to firebomb the home of his elderly, house-bound neighbour?
Child psychologist Vivienne McKay has never seen a case like it: the boy, Neville, is from an ordinary loving family and has never been in trouble before.
Read more…An original play by Stephen Sharkey , inspired by Daniel Defoe 's novel A Journal of the Plague Year.
Henry Foe , a milliner, decides against all advice to remain in London during the 1665 plague. Amid the devastation of the city he has to grapple
Read more…Lucy Caldwell has written a trilogy of plays looking at different ways families say ‘Goodbye’.
At Sea
Set in a near future where we find ourselves in a refugee camp in Berwick Upon Tweed filled with families fleeing from a Cholera torn London. We
Read more…A story like this doesn't fall into your lap every day. Livvy is a podcaster with a taste for conspiracy and a keen eye for injustice.
Her ex-boyfriend's gone missing on a gap year adventure. This is the story that will make her name. It's got every
Read more…A topical drama about how living in enforced isolation can lead to the forging of new relationships, and to the revitalisation of old ones.
It starts with a skinny slip of paper posted through Nina’s letter box: Dear Neighbour. My name is Max. I am
Read more…When devious Dennis Vyner's financial empire collapses, there's only one thing for it: disappear - and fast! He hits on an outrageously simple plan: to go on a luxury Scandinavian cruise, aided and abetted by his wife, Sylvia, and girlfriend, Julie
Read more…Clutter
Not long after their mother's death, sisters Maureen and Lesley are packing up their mother’s clothes to take to the charity shop.
It's a painful duty, with Maureen trying to control the worst of Lesley’s projectile lamenting. A man comes
Read more…In 10 parts from December 2020
By Charles Dickens
Kate Dickens tells the story of her father’s final and unfinished novel, a fast-moving thriller set in the cathedral town of Cloisterham.
Edwin visits his fiancé Rosa at Miss Twinkleton’s Academy, but
Read more…Wife and mother to a dynasty of kings, crusader, prisoner and formidable political operator, this is the story of the young Eleanor of Aquitaine. At 16 she has one ambition - to become the Duchess (and ruler) o the Aquitaine. But her father has other
Read more…Set in August 1912 in the Summer House of The Tyrones by the sea in Connecticut, the four main characters are considered to be the semi-autobiographical representations of O'Neill himself, his older brother, and their parents.
James Tyrone is a tig
Read more…Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein
Drama on 3
By Sarah Wooley.
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein had one of the most famous musical partnerships of the 20th century – creating THE SOUND OF MUSIC and OKLAHOMA! But before Rodgers and Hammerstein, the
Read more…Various authors
2004
1 - Repeat After Me
By Sheila Goff
Maureen, a bored ex-pat who lives in Spain, fills her time interacting with the voice of a teach-yourself-Spanish tape.
With Barbara Windsor, Jacey Salles, and Bruno Lastra.
Producer
Read more…Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt
Graham Green's comic 'entertainment' is set in rural Spain a few years after the death of Franco.
In Part 1, Father Quixote makes a friend of an Italian bishop - with unexpected consequences.
In Part 2, A robber is h
Read more…A series of plays about the impact of communication and information technology on our lives.
1/4 The World in My Ear
By Paul Farley.
Fiddling with his MP3 player and not looking where he was going, a man in his 40s has fallen down the stairs
Read more…Operation Crucible
Drama
The Sheffield Blitz. On 12th December 1940 the city suffered 9 hours of sustained bombing as the Luftwaffe sought to destroy its heavy industry. Kieran Knowles' drama tells the story of 4 steelworkers who fled to what they ho
Read more…Five quietly unsettling short stories by Elspeth Davie , who has been described as one of Scotland's finest and most underrated writers.
Allergy
A lodger develops a close relationship with his landlady - until she spots him on the arm of anoth
Read more…Dedicated young physicist, Jane, makes a discovery that she believes will enable nuclear fusion and pave the way for limitless clean energy. She confides in her opera-singer flatmate, Elvira. But Elvira realises that her brilliant, idealistic frien
Read more…By Dorothy Baker, adapted by Peter Flannery
Cassandra Edwards is a clever, popular and attractive 24 year-old grad student at California’s Berkeley University. But she is missing one thing - her much-loved identical twin sister, Judith. Cassandra’
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