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
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
Carrie is a call handler in an ambulance control room and never knows what the next emergency will be or the effect it might have on her, and sometimes she has to listen hard to find out exactly what's going on.
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.
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
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
The Brothers Karamazov by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY translated by DAVID MAGARSHACK dramatised in eight parts by MICHELENE WANDOR. With and 1: A Family Reunion Dostoevsky's last great masterpiece commences with the three brothers Karamazov brought together fo
Claire is a dedicated and highly successful secret agent, charged with the surveillance of potential terrorists. Her work is challenging but dangerous and, on a mission, she ignores instructions - with almost fatal consequences.
"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."
The Saturday Play: Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire, dramatised by Michelene Wandor, concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the privileged all-male domain of Judas College, Oxford. Everywhere