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Agatha Christie The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd By Agatha Christie Dramatised by Michael Bakewell When Hercule Poirot retires to the country to grow v…
Endless Night By Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie - Endless Night Joy Wilkinson's adaptation This psychological thriller concerns the murderous ambitions of a young adventure…
Father Brown - Classic Radio Crime Drama
Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 wri…
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is the story of a motorcycle journey across America, a meditation on values and the concept of Qua…
Philosophy
BBC Radio 4 produced a unique series and aired a weekly podcast . Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of philosophy - from ancie…
Plum House - A BBC Radio comedy
A radio comedy about the inept staff at an historic house. Starring Simon Callow, Jane Horrocks and Miles Jupp. Every year, thousands of tou…
The Leopard in Autumn
BBC Radio comedy about the ruling family of Renaissance Italy's most inconsequential city-state. In Monte Guano, a ridiculously small and pe…
Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard 23 November 2018 Chekhov's celebrated stage play is given a new version by writer/composer duo, Katherine Tozer and John …
Bristow - A BBC Radio comedy
Michael Williams stars in all three series of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom based on Frank Dickens’ famous comic strip character. Bristow is a midd…
THE PRIVATE PATIENT BY PD JAMES
Charismatic police commander Adam Dalgliesh is ordered by Downing Street to investigate the murder of an investigative journalist.......
Stand-Up Specials
BBC Radio 4 stand-ups zoom through angst from all angles. The BBC comedy series brings together half-hour sets from established acts such as…
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads was a British TV sitcom broadcast in 1973 and 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour sequel to the mid-1960s h…
Rigor Mortis: BBC Radio Full-Cast Black Comedy
Meet Dr Anthony Webster and Dr Ruth Anderson, two pathologists attempting to live normal lives in an atmosphere of death, decay and seriousl…
Secret Agent X-9: BBC Radio Full-Cast Drama
Secret Agent X-9 was a comic strip created by writer Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) and artist Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon). Syndicate…
Classic Serial -The Mask Of Dimitrios
Eric Ambler's 1939 crime thriller is dramatised by Stephen Sheridan. 1 of 2: The Origins of an Obsession English crime novelist Charles Lati…
Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes: BBC Radio Comedy
Ian Hislop takes a hilarious look at some of Britain's oldest jokes The British are rather proud of their sense of humour - but where has th…
Ken Cheng - Chinese Comedian
A stand-up series exploring British Chinese culture with Ken Cheng. The BBC New Comedy Award finalist tackles many themes affecting ethnic m…
The Train at Platform 4
Comedy legends Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis bring a new sitcom to Radio 4, set in the claustrophobic carriages of a cross-country rail service…
Comedy-Drama on 4: BBC Radio Collection
A collection of full-cast BBC Radio comedy dramas. All My Life I've Wanted to Be Someone - Now Who Was It? A group of scatty 20-something fr…
Nick Fisher The Chimes Of Midnight
Fear on Four First broadcast: Thu 4th Sep 1997, 23:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM The Man in Black welcomes you to The Chimes…
James Acaster's Findings
Award-winning comedian and Hypothetical host James Acaster presents the remarkable results of his in-depth research into a variety of subjec…
King of Bath: A BBC Radio Comedy Series
The adventures and misadventures of 18th-century dandy Richard ‘Beau’ Nash In the fashionable spa town of Bath, one man is the arbiter of ta…
The Weather In The Streets Part 1
The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann with Angela Pleasence as Olivia and Simon Cadell as Rollo. Dramatised in two parts by Elspeth…
BBC Radio: One Person Found This Helpful
Frank Skinner hosts a radio panel game based on what many of us sit down and do at least once a day - shop online and leave a review, as an …
EF Benson: BBC Radio Comedy Dramas
A BBC Radio collection of social comedies, wry observations of Victorian society and ‘spook stories’ from the great humorist E. F. Benson. E…
Room 101: BBC Radio Comedy Interviews
Room 101 with Paul Merton Returning in its original one-to-one incarnation, Paul Merton interviews a variety of guests from the world of com…
Just A Minute - Series 86
Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game broadcast from 1967 until the present day. The object of the game is for panell…
What's Funny About . .
TV veterans Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman talk to the writers, producers, and performers behind Britain’s biggest TV comedy hits, and hear t…
His Master's Voice: BBC Radio Comedy Drama
Media mogul Lord Malan is the billionaire owner of The Blue Touch Paper, an old-fashioned, hard-right weekly magazine with traditional Conse…
ReincarNathan
Will Nathan ever learn to do the right thing and make it back to being a human again? Daniel Rigby, Josh Widdicombe, Diane Morgan and a host…
The Frequency of Laughter
The Frequency of Laughter: A History of Radio Comedy The Frequency of Laughter is a six-part history of radio comedy, covering 1975-20…
For the Love of Leo: BBC Radio Comedy Drama
Leo Fabiani is a renowned Edinburgh artist who tragically loses his wife in a traffic accident and seems, ever since, to have become a magne…
We’re in Business: A BBC Radio Comedy Series
Eight episodes from the vintage radio comedy starring Peter Jones and Harry Worth. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service, We’re in Busines…
Linda Marshall Griffiths The Invisible
Drama on 3: The Invisible Sun 23rd Jun 2019, 19:30 on BBC Radio 3 Original drama set in a speculative future London by Linda Marshall Griffi…
Protesting Too Much: BBC Radio Comedy
Set on the eve of the 1997 general election, bumbling Conservative MP George Dank climbs a tree in protest at the building of a new bypass t…
Lobby Land: BBC Radio Political Satire
A satirical comedy drama about life and work in the journalists' Westminster bubble. It centres on political editor Samantha Peakes of ficti…
In Our Time
BBC radio discussion series exploring the history of ideas, presented by Melvyn Bragg, since 15 October 1998. It is one of BBC radio's most …
Afternoon Drama Kokomo
A thriller by Julian Simpson. A single act of cyber-terrorism. A computer virus - incredibly advanced and coded in a language no one underst…
Stephen Wakelam Lying Low [Samuel Beckett]
Afternoon Drama: Lying Low First broadcast: Fri 22nd Sep 2017, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM Stephen Wakelam’s play about…
Afternoon Drama The Second Son
A chilling psychological mystery drama about identity, fraud and self belief. A son tracks down his estranged father only to discover that s…
Saturday Drama Before The Fact By Frances Iles
Emilia Fox, Ben Caplan and Patricia Hodge star in a dramatisation of the novel that Alfred Hitchcock based his film, 'Suspicion' on. Set in …
The Trial By Peter Whalley
Molly, a teacher, finds an interesting man on an internet dating site. She turns up to meet him but he looks a bit odd so on an impulse she …
Peter Whalley Reasons For Leaving
Reasons for Leaving by Peter Whalley Lauren thinks someone is breaking into her house and calls the police, only to discover it's Ian, her e…
The People Next Door By Shelley Silas
Sarah has never much liked her next-door-neighbours Samuel and Teresa - he plays his music too loud and she's just plain creepy, but are the…
Daphne Sounds Expensive
Sketch trio Daphne present peculiar characters, wacky scenarios, dodgy remarks and curious observations. Written by and starring Jason…
Lucy Gannon Undeniably Keith
Afternoon Drama: Undeniably Keith First broadcast: Mon 23rd Jul 2018, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM A warm, funny, contem…
Afternoon Drama Lost And Found By Ian Kershaw
Lost and Found by Ian Kershaw A tender and humorous drama about how a father and daughter explore the memories of the past in order to conne…
Cynthia Rogerson I Love You, Goodbye
15 Minute Drama: I Love You, Goodbye Written and adapted by Cynthia Rogerson 15 Minute Drama: First broadcast: Five episodes From Mon&n…
Julian Simpson A Time To Dance
Afternoon Drama: A Time To Dance First broadcast: Mon 10th Oct 2011, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM Written by Julian Simp…
Borgen - Outside The Castle
Borgen - Outside the Castle, by Tommy Bredsted, Rum Malmros and Joan Rang Christensen, in an English version by Joy Wilkinson Borgen - the D…
And The Winner Is: BBC Radio Panel Show
Matt Lucas hosts the most prestigious awards ceremony of the year - the perfectly-title 'Lucases'. Including awards for the Lamest Excuse of…
Going To Ground by Simon Passmore
1940, Kent. England is on full alert in anticipation of a German invasion. As church bells sound the alarm, a secret resistance unit springs…
Afternoon Drama Drone Pilots By Robert Myers
Drone Pilots by Robert Myers Two night shift operators fly a drone from a trailer in the American desert. He's a much-decorated fighter pilo…
Colin MacDonald Strummer And Me
In early 1982, The Clash, the greatest live rock band in the world, was in crisis. Their album had been panned and ticket sales for an upcom…
Caryl Phillips Dinner In The Village
Afternoon Drama: Dinner in the Village First broadcast: Tue 4th Oct 2011, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM Tensions between …
A Chapel Of Skins
Best of Natural History Radio Chapel of Skins Recorded high up in the Shropshire hills of the Welsh Marches and inspired by a livi…
Eoin McNamee Swans
Afternoon Drama: Swans First broadcast: Tue 23rd Oct 2018, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM ‘Swans’ by Eoin McNamee c…
Afternoon Drama Man In The Moon By Linda Marshall Griffiths
Man in the Moon by Linda Marshall Griffiths Linda Marshall Griffiths' bittersweet love story told from two perspectives across five differen…
Sarah Wooley Festival
Afternoon Drama: Festival First broadcast: Tue 31st Jul 2018, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Sarah Wooley A comedy dram…
Strike For A Kingdom By Menna Gallie
Dramatised by Diana Griffiths It's 1926 and in the small Welsh valleys village of Cilhendre, the miners are on strike. When the local mine's…
Alison Joseph Mitchener Black Box Detective
Alison Joseph's drama introduces a distinctive brand of detective. Mitchener is an air accident investigator, haunted by memories of a previ…
Paul Farley Singles Going Steady
Singles Going Steady 1961, Liverpool. Paul Farley's play tells the story of a love affair conducted between a young couple who never …
The Vertigo Trust By Jon Canter
Ronnie Sax is a sixty something multi-millionaire businessman, abrasive, cocky, three times divorced but on wife number four. He's egotistic…
Afternoon Drama Kindness By Julian Poidevin
Kindness by Julian Poidevin Happy family life is disrupted when Tom's son Simon comes to stay. His arrival unearths the past, catalysing a c…
Afternoon Drama Mind Hackers By Lou Stein
CREDIT GOES TO BOB129 A new drama by Lou Stein inspired by the phone hacking scandal. Jessica Brown-Findlay (Lady Sybil in Downton Abbey) st…
Afternoon Drama The Man In The Lift By Tom Connolly
The Man in the Lift by Tom Connolly A man has been contracted to repair the lift in a residential tower block. But trapped in a confined spa…
Afternoon Play Starry Eyes By Lucy Catherin
Starry Eyes by Lucy Catherine Leanne washes up in an all-night cafe. Remembering the lessons her father taught her, she finds consolation in…
Lying Undiscovered by Richard Monks
Lying Undiscovered by Richard Monks BBC Radio 4 - Friday Play Original Broadcast: 27-06-2003 & 10-09-2004 Re-broadcast BBC World S…
Afternoon Drama Helen By Virginia Gilbert
Helen by Virginia Gilbert A journalist is accused of molesting his stepdaughter in this powerful drama starring Ed Stoppard and Lia Williams…
The Morpeth Carol By Timothy X
The Morpeth Carol by Timothy X Atack 9 year old Harry goes on a mysterious Christmas Eve road trip with a very unusual and very dangerous Sa…
Anita Sullivan The Hedge
Afternoon Drama: The Hedge First broadcast: Fri 27th Apr 2012, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Anita Sullivan. Marion an…
Dan Rebellato - Negative Signs Of Progress
Negative Signs of Progress is a trilogy of radio plays which tell one unfolding story set against the background of the Arab Spring. A junio…
Bernardine Evaristo Hello Mum
Afternoon Drama: Hello Mum Fri 3rd Aug 2012, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM by Bernardine Evaristo Jerome w…
Claudine Toutongi The Inheritors
15 Minute Drama: The Inheritors First broadcast: Mon 4th Sep 2017, 10:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM Omnibus of the five-part…
Henry's Demons
Afternoon Drama: Henry’s Demons First broadcast: Mon 26th Sep 2011, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM Raps and song by Henry …
Julian Lloyd Webber Brother Of Mine
Afternoon Drama: Brother of Mine First broadcast: Fri 10th Aug 2018, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM by Nathaniel Price Dir…
Annie Mc Cartney The Biggest Issues
Afternoon Drama: The Biggest Issues First broadcast: Tue 24th Apr 2012, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM by Annie McCartney Sally Stone, a shock jock…
Kamal Kann Breaking Up With Bradford
Breaking Up with Bradford By Kamal Kaan Kasim's return to his hometown of Bradford after three years away at University isn't quite what he …
Jerome Vincent. Ciao Bella!
Afternoon Drama: Ciao Bella First Broadcast: Fri 18 March 2011 Written by Jerome Vincent. Eleanor Bron plays Nonna Grazia, and Cherie Lunghi…
Holding Back The Tide Selling The Capstan
Afternoon Drama: Holding Back the Tide Selling The Capstan First broadcast: Fri 7th Dec 2018, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 …
A Slow Air By David Harrower
Siblings Morna and Athol haven't spoken to each other for fourteen years. As they recount their troubled history, they tell the story of mod…
Afternoon Drama Helen By Virginia Gilbert
Helen by Virginia Gilbert A journalist is accused of molesting his stepdaughter in this powerful drama starring Ed Stoppard and Lia Williams…
Robert Mc Crum My Year Off
Afternoon Play: My Year Off Thu 20th Nov 2008, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Robert McCrum. At the age of 42, the ch…
The Domino Man Of Lancashire By Nick Leather
The Domino Man of Lancashire by Nick Leather Reclusive middle-aged Arthur Allen has never got on with his brassy neighbour, Annie Sweetlove.…
Meeting Of Minds By Virginia Gilbert
Frustrated Martin is offered an amazing opportunity, but is he brave enough to take it? CAST Joss Ackland Adrian Dunbar
Nick Perry Referee
Afternoon Drama: Referee First broadcast: Fri 13th May 2011, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Nick Perry Geoff is footbal…