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
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
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’
November 1933. Gregory Roberts is a young British spy on his first mission. Under the alias of a ball-bearings salesman, he heads to Vienna. But, in neighbouring Germany, Hitler has recently come to power and the Nazis are infiltrating Austria.
The new UK Prime Minister appoints a former spook to control her untrustworthy spy network and protect a Russian dissident under threat. Bob Trench is a veteran of international undercover missions, cool under pressure, wise, wry and lac
Bob Trench is charged by the Prime Minister to track down and confront a bitter former soldier who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Now she will stop at nothing to publish the truth as she recalls it and Bob faces a danger
Weary of life in the bustling Rwandan border town of Rusumo, Modeste, a blind and sickly homeless man resolves to return to his home village of Kibuye on the far side of the country with the help of his companion, Innocent, a cheek
By Agatha Christie as Mary Westmacott, adapted by Malcolm McKay
The Rose and the Yew Tree is set in a Cornish seaside town, during the election of 1945 when it was assumed Churchill would be re-elected as Prime Minister. It’s the story of an enig
The Great Impersonation by E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM dramatised for radio in five parts by BARRY CAMPBELL with and Leopold von Lagastein 1: Old Friends Meet Early in 1914, two men met in the wilds of German East Africa-one a German, the other an Englishm
by JOSEPH CONRAD dramatised for radio in six episodes by KEITH DARVILL Perhaps it was indeed an act of God that had brought disaster to the SS Patna. From the moment the mysterious and horrifying cable reached the Harbour Master's Office, t
Maureen and Jasper Britton play a mother and son who've always had a special relationship. Now she needs to persuade him it's time to strike out on his own - and she has three journeys to do it in.
Famous for her ingenious crime books and plays, Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart under the name of Mary Westmacott. Absent In The Spring, written under that name, is the book that Chris
Set in the South of France in the early 1950s, the heat is intense, roads are dusty and parched, cicadas are noisy, the coffee is strong and une omelette aux fines herbes at the local café is almost exot