Mike Dorrell's play about Charles Dickens as the author tries to make sense of things during a walk contrasts idealised scenes of marriage from Dickens's fiction with bitter reality. October 1857. As problems in Dickens's marriage come to a head, he
Selection of surviving episodes rescued from the BBC archive.
The third series of the adventures of writer Philip Levine’s fire investigating sleuth, Quentin ‘Q’ Barnaby. Levine’s fascination with arson “never waned”, with its “numerous motivations
‘DH Lawrence: Tainted Love’ is a pairing of two novels 'The Rainbow' and 'Women in Love' linked by Ursula Brangwen. Sexual awakenings, transgressive same sex love and internalised repression are explored as his characters try to find happiness and
How do you begin again when everything you've spent your life working for has been destroyed?
Broken-hearted and rootless after losing her whisky company in the 2011 tsunami, a Japanese businesswoman arrives on the Scottish island of Islay in searc
In Roy Apps's comedy, Penelope Keith plays Eleanor Prendergast - the wife of a newly imprisoned Tory MP who's been fiddling his expenses big time! She's driven to crime to make ends meet (she's got her Porsche to run after all, and the mortgage on S
For the first time on BBC Radio 4 Extra, one of radio’s legendary Sherlock Holmes - Carleton Hobbes - stars in Hans Christian Andersen’s timeless story. It’s also a chance to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of animal impersonator extraordinai
Radio 4 Extra celebrates the 75th birthday of the actress Maureen Lipman as she takes the starring role in Bernard Kops’ tale of sadness amidst the glitter.
To escape from the cold realities of life in Maida Vale, Sandra lives in the fantasy world
Here's what Caroline Raphael Former Head of Radio Drama says about this.
30 April 2021
Well, it's this announcement. And as a former Head of Radio Drama I need to say something. This is the first public acknowledgment in a very underhand way, if you know
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
The return of Shaun McKenna’s gripping historical drama about the young Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife and mother to Kings, crusader, prisoner and formidable political operator.
Guilt over the tragic events at Vitry sur Marne is driving a wedge between E
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.