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01/07/200520070202

Running away with the Hairdresser

By Helen Raynor.

Nearly a year has passed since Catrin returned from Thailand after a bomb in a nightclub killed her boyfriend and brought their holiday to a tragic end. Now she feels trapped in her Welsh village, but not simply by grief.

Catrin ...... Mali Harries
Rhys ...... Oliver Wood
Mum ...... Maxine Evans
Sugar ...... Catrin Rhys

Directed by Alison Hindell.

A woman, dealing with her boyfriend's death, begins to feel trapped in her small village.

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29/04/200520070119

A story of menace, mendacity and malice set among the landfill sites of outer London, written and directed by Mike Hodges.

King Trash ...... George Sewell
Honey ...... Cherie Lunghi
Inspector Hoban ...... Michael Culkin
Clint ...... Burn Gorman
Johnny ...... Paul Reynolds
Vera ...... Tessa Worsley
Polly ...... Daisy Beaumont
Eddy ...... John Surman
Ginger Fitzmaurice ...... Bruce Byron
Vic and the Policemen ...... Darren Saul
Yocker ...... Dave Alexander
Craig ...... Frank Dooley Boyle
The Nurse ...... Jessica Treen
Sammy/The Old Bum ...... Geoff Bell.

Dark drama set amongst the landfill sites of outer London, by Mike Hodges.

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A Hit to the Heart20090522

By Rachel Joyce. The man with everything finds his perfect world blown apart when his daughter is linked to an act of terrorism.

Peter ...... Nicholas Farrell
Verity ...... Niamh Cusack
Michael ...... Timothy Bentinck
Sara ...... Emma Fielding
Lucy ...... Angela Terence
Frank ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Jim Hall ...... Jon Strickland

With original music by David Chilton and Lucinda Mason Brown.

Directed by Gordon House.

A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4.

By Rachel Joyce. A man's world is blown apart when his daughter is linked to terrorism.

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After the Accident20100226

By Julian Armitstead. A couple's young daughter is killed in a head-on car crash. Four years later the parents summon the courage to meet the young lad responsible.

Leon ...... Jack O'Connell
Petra ...... Lia Williams
Jimmy ...... Russell Boulter
Mr E ...... Duncan Bonner
Leon's Mum ...... Amanda Horlock

Directed by Mark Smalley.

By Julian Armitstead. A couple meet the young man responsible for their daughter's death.

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After the Accident2010022620120525 (R4)

By Julian Armitstead. A couple's young daughter is killed in a head-on car crash. Four years later the parents summon the courage to meet the young lad responsible.

Leon ...... Jack O'Connell
Petra ...... Lia Williams
Jimmy ...... Russell Boulter
Mr E ...... Duncan Bonner
Leon's Mum ...... Amanda Horlock

Directed by Mark Smalley.

By Julian Armitstead. A couple meet the young man responsible for their daughter's death.

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Albert's Bridge20070629Tom Stoppard's comedy about a man whose chosen profession is painting a huge bridge.

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All American Boys20070706Paul Brodrick's dramatisation of the court martial which followed the My Lai massacre.

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Almost Blue20070727By Carlo Lucarelli. A blind radio hack hears voices which drive him from his room.

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An English Tragedy20120413Based on actual events at the end of World War Two, this play by Oscar winner Ronald Harwood stars Derek Jacobi.

May 1945: victory in Europe, and a Labour landslide. English traitor John Amery is arrested in Italy and brought back to London for trial. If convicted, he faces the death penalty. But his father is a senior politician; surely the Establishment will look after its own...

The play charts the weeks leading up to the execution, following John's arrest in Italy and trial in London. Like a real-life Sebastian Flyte, he clutches his teddy bear, lies, boasts and jokes as the day of execution draws inexorably nearer. Meanwhile his distraught parents try everything in their power to save him.

John Amery was the Harrow educated son of Churchill's Secretary of State for India, Leo Amery. His brother Julian was later to become a prominent Conservative MP. A troubled man, who had been expelled from Public School and bankrupted as a young entrepreneur, John became a passionate fascist. He broadcast pro-Nazi propaganda during World War 2 and ran a programme recruiting British POWs to fight for Germany on the Eastern Front. Unlike his brother Julian, John was a wild boy - bisexual, hedonistic and unstable. Why?

Ronald Harwood's work as a screen writer includes The Pianist, which won him an Oscar for Best Screenplay and his films The Dresser and The Diving Bell and The Butterfly also won Oscar nominations.

John Amery ..... Geoffrey Streatfield

Leopold Amery ..... Derek Jacobi

Bryddie Amery ..... Isla Blair

Warder/ Sergant ..... Christopher Knott

The Major / Judge ..... Pip Donaghy

Dr Rosemary Pimlott ..... Melanie Jessop

Written by Ronald Harwood

Adapted for Radio by Bert Coules

Directed by Philip Franks

The producer is Frank Stirling, and this is a Unique production for BBC Radio 4.

By Ronald Harwood. The true story of Second World War traitor John Amery.

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An Unhappy Countess20080418

Documentary film maker Paul Watson's play is based on the story of Mary Eleanor Bowes, a sensual young woman who inherited a legacy of 600,000 pounds, a huge sum in 1786. Every adventurer in the land was seeking a slice of her good fortune, and she was to discover that nobody could be trusted.

Lady Strathmore ...... Susannah Harker
Stoney Bowes ...... John Lynch
Paddy's Progress ...... Robert Glenister
Walker ...... Russell Floyd
Gray ...... Nicholas Farrell
Mary Morgan ...... Joanne Froggatt
Mingay/Bate ...... Ian McNeice
Dorothey/Landlady ...... Sara Markland
Battie/Erskine ...... Ian Masters
Judge/Peacock ...... Keith Drinkel
Constable Smith/Vicar ...... Andrew Branch
Lucas/Witness Hull ...... Sam Dale
Witness Foot/Landlord ...... Ian Shaw
Servant ...... Tom Watson.

Paul Watson's play is based on the story of a woman who inherited a huge legacy in 1786.

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An Unhappy Countess2008041820090904 (R4)

Documentary film maker Paul Watson's play is based on the story of Mary Eleanor Bowes, a sensual young woman who inherited a legacy of 600,000 pounds, a huge sum in 1786. Every adventurer in the land was seeking a slice of her good fortune, and she was to discover that nobody could be trusted.

Lady Strathmore ...... Susannah Harker
Stoney Bowes ...... John Lynch
Paddy's Progress ...... Robert Glenister
Walker ...... Russell Floyd
Gray ...... Nicholas Farrell
Mary Morgan ...... Joanne Froggatt
Mingay/Bate ...... Ian McNeice
Dorothey/Landlady ...... Sara Markland
Battie/Erskine ...... Ian Masters
Judge/Peacock ...... Keith Drinkel
Constable Smith/Vicar ...... Andrew Branch
Lucas/Witness Hull ...... Sam Dale
Witness Foot/Landlord ...... Ian Shaw
Servant ...... Tom Watson.

Paul Watson's play is based on the story of a woman who inherited a huge legacy in 1786.

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Ariel20080104By David Spencer. Volunteers for a rape counselling service try to work with the police.

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Bad Dad20080229Comedy by Colin Hough about a prolific sperm donor whose chickens come home to roost.

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Banished: Mugabe of Zimbabwe20101217

By Andrew Whaley. It is 2000, and Aurelia, studying in London, returns home to Zimbabwe following her father's death. Years before he had worked with Robert Mugabe, and now Aurelia learns that the President is to attend the funeral. Their meeting is the start of a dark and frightening journey.

Aurelia ...Tariro Foote
Ignatius ... Danny Sapani
Mother ...Adjoa Andoh
Ratidzo.. .Gbemisola Ikumelo
Robert Mugabe...Lucian Msamati
Ruth.. . Pamela Nomvete
Paradzai...Jude Akuwudike
With Ben Onwukwe, Lloyd Thomas, Michael Shelford
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer

Andrew Whaley's most recent play 'Great Escape' (broadcast on Radio 3 in 2009) is, like his earlier play 'The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco', an analysis of his native Zimbabwe.

By Andrew Whaley. A young woman's journey into the heart of Zimbabwe.

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Binge Drunk Britain: The Musical20081205

Comedy by Paul Dodgson about three blokes from Newport - Oddie, Tank and Shave It - who wake up at Severn Bridge Services face down in bowls of salad. Gradually, the excesses of the night before come back to them - a night in Bristol that had started so well.

Oddie ...... Ian Puleston Davies
Tank ...... Richard Elfyn
Shave It/Nigel ...... Richard Nichols
Manager/Policewoman ...... Eiry Thomas
Psycho ...... Dick Bradnum
Driver ...... Huw Davies

Music composed by Paul Dodsgon; arranged and performed by Sarah Moody, Luke Carver Goss and Oliver Wilson Dickson.

Directed by Kate McAll.

Comedy by Paul Dodgson about three blokes from Newport who wake up after the night before.

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Blood, Sweat and Tea20080404By Richard Monks, adapted from paramedic Tom Reynolds's book of the same name.

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Blue Flu20120504Blue Flu by Peter Bleksley

Blue Flu is a contemporary drama set in the near future. It explores the 'what if' scenario of a 'police strike' and the fall out of the strike across one day. We will follow three characters across the day of strike action: Mick Harley a dedicated frontline police officer; Jackie Raymond a senior member of the police federation who represent officers and Tom Dunkley, the junior minister who has inherited the responsibility of implementing cuts to a disaffected police service.

Mick Harley loves his job and is proud of his work as a 'response officer' but he resents the way cuts have put officers at risk. A colleague of his is injured on duty, for the police this is the true cost and consequence of government cuts. Mick decides to take a militant stand, by triggering 'blue flu' a coordinated action of officers calling in sick.

CAST

Mick Harley - Shaun Dooley

Jackie Raymond - Roberta Taylor

DAC Chad Parker - Ron Cook

Tom Dunkley - Don Gilet

Lisa Harley - Nina Sosnaya

Ian Marsh - Harry Livingstone

PC Darren Woolcraft - Philip Correia

Jack Benjamin - Peter Hamilton Dyer

Nurse Sharon - Tracy Wiles

DI Richard Jarrett - Peter Bleksley

Produced by Stephen Wright.

Contemporary drama exploring the 'what if' scenario of a police strike.

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Breaking Point20070810By Philip Palmer. A career soldier undergoes training to become an army interrogator.

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Breath20081121

Drama by Michael Symmons Roberts, set in the aftermath of a fictional civil war. When Jamie is killed, his father, a hospital manager, gives permission for one of his lungs to be flown north for a transplant, where Baras, a war veteran, waits for it. While transporting the lung the young pilot, Jude, feels herself becoming close to the spirit of Jamie.

Baras ...... Alexander Morton
Karla ...... Kathryn Hunt
Pascale ...... Tracy Wiles
Dr Geoff Andrews ...... Jonathan Keeble
Jamie ...... Adam Paulden
Jude ...... Claire Cordier
Ross/Tom ...... James Nickerson

Flute performance by Dermot Rafferty.

Drama by Michael Symmons Roberts, set in the aftermath of a fictional civil war.

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Broken English20080215Frank Deasy's play tells the story of a Kurdish family detained in Dungavel for a year.

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Bullitt20110603Bullitt by Robert L Pike, Dramatised by Adrian Bean

Starring Jason Isaacs as Lieutenant Clancy.

A gritty detective story set in New York's rough 52nd Precinct in 1963. Lieutenant Clancy, head throbbing from days without sleep, is assigned to protect an important Mafia witness Johnny Rossi. But when he's found dead, Clancy has only a matter of hours to find the killer before his enemy Assistant District Attorney Chalmers finds out.

The famous film transposed the action to San Francisco and Steve McQueen's casting and the iconic car chase sequence were famously added, and so the coolest of cop films was born. But this radio adaptation goes back to the original novel.

LIEUTENANT CLANCY........Jason Isaacs

ADA CHALMERS/BARNETT/RENICK/

JOHNNY ROSSI............Kerry Shale

DETECTIVE KAPROWSKI......Lou Hirsch

CAPTAIN WISE/JOHNNY ROSSI/

SHIPS OFFICER.......... John Biggins

DR WILLARD/PETE ROSSI..... Stephen Hogan

DOC FREEMAN/SERGEANT.....Bruce Alexander

DETECTIVE MARY KELLY......Sasha Pick

ANN RENICK/LAPD OFFICER.....Emerald O' Hanrahan

HOTEL MANAGER/

CHALMERS' SECRETARY......Kate Layden

DIRECTED BY PAULINE HARRIS

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Detective story by Robert L Pike. Lieutenant Clancy is assigned to protect a Mafia witness

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Buried20070504

Steve Jacobi's play tells the story of his friend Mark Higson, a civil servant who blew the whistle on the Iraqi arms scandal in 1989. A backdrop of news extracts from the period accompanies this study of a brilliant but troubled man who lost everything when he acted on his conscience.

Mark ...... John Lloyd Fillingham
Steve ...... Michael Begley
Man from FO/Journalist ...... Malcolm Raeburn
Lord Justice Scott ...... Rob Pickavance
Teddy ...... Wilson
Presiley Baxendale/Cheryl ...... Deborah McAndrew

Directed by Melanie Harris.

Steve Jacobi's play tells the story of whistle-blowing civil servant Mark Higson.

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Buried2007050420090515 (R4)

Steve Jacobi's play tells the story of his friend Mark Higson, a civil servant who blew the whistle on the Iraqi arms scandal in 1989. A backdrop of news extracts from the period accompanies this study of a brilliant but troubled man who lost everything when he acted on his conscience.

Mark ...... John Lloyd Fillingham
Steve ...... Michael Begley
Man from FO/Journalist ...... Malcolm Raeburn
Lord Justice Scott ...... Rob Pickavance
Teddy ...... Wilson
Presiley Baxendale/Cheryl ...... Deborah McAndrew

Directed by Melanie Harris.

Steve Jacobi's play tells the story of whistle-blowing civil servant Mark Higson.

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Choice Of Straws20110408by ER Braithwaite. London's East End 1960. Twins Jack and Dave Bennett are a happy-go-lucky, rootless pair of Teddy boys. If they do occasionally rough-up a black guy it's just a game to them. Until a victim in Whitechapel fights back and Dave pulls a knife. From the writer of To Sir With Love.

Jack.....Harry Hepple

Dave.....Luke Norris

Michelle.....Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Mum.....Ellie Haddington

Dad.....David Hargreaves

Ruth.....Annabelle Dowler

Mr Spencer..... Alex Lanipekun

Officer.....Stephen Hogan

Dramatised by Roy Williams

Director Claire Grove.

By ER Braithwaite. London 1960: Teddy boys pull a knife but this victim fights back.

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Conclave20110225Gripping drama by Hugh Costello.

After the short reign and mysterious death of Pope John Paul I, the election of a new Pope takes place in an atmosphere of high tension between opposing factions within the Vatican, including those who want to elect the first non-Italian Pope for over four hundred years.

Cardinal Franz Koenig - David Calder

Hannah Popper - Alison Reid

Cardinal Giovanni Benelli - Nicholas Le Prevost

Cardinal Karol Wojtyla - Andrew Hilton

Cardinal Jean Villot - Nigel Anthony

Cardinal Aloisio Lorscheider ......Paul Humpoletz

Cardinal Giuseppe Siri - Paul Nicholson

Cardinal John Krol - Christian Rodska

Monsignor Virgilio Noe - Jonathan Nibbs

Cardinal Johannes Willebrands - Bill Wallis

Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns - David Collins

Uli Melzer - Paul Dodgson

With John Sandeman and Kristian Phillips.

Opposing factions within the Vatican meet to elect the successor to Pope John Paul I.

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Consideration20090424

By Robert Messik. Eleanor did not hesitate to donate a kidney to her husband when he needed it. But two years later Peter left her and their children for another woman. Now she is suing him for the return of her kidney.

Eleanor ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman
Peter ...... Paul Bown
Eleanor's barrister/Simon ...... Richard Derrington
Peter's barrister/Mary ...... Tracy Wiles
Alexia/Miss Tonnel ...... Alison Pettitt
Tony/Judge ...... Andrew Sachs
Dr Rosen/Ben Grant ...... David Bannerman

Directed by David Ian Neville.

By Robert Messik. Eleanor sues her ex-husband for the return of the kidney she donated.

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Cottonopolis20110415Cottonopolis is created and written by Nick Leather

Cottonopolis follows local Manchester Evening News journalist Gemma Hayes, as she uncovers the truth behind the disappearances of women in Manchester; one of whom was an old school friend.

This Friday play is a stand-alone, but concludes the Woman's Hour drama, which contained five different stories exploring what happens when fear changes people's behaviour.

Cast:

Gemma Hayes - Lisa Millett

Drew .....Will Ash

Peter - David Crellin

Christie - Paula Wolfenden

Imogen - Lisa Brookes

Alex - Mark Jordon

Producer/Director: Justine Potter

A Red production for BBC Radio 4.

Local reporter Gemma uncovers the truth behind the disappearances of women in Manchester.

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Cuba20070817By Jennie Buckman and Ulises Rodriguez Febles. Castro's land is on the brink of change.

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Deep Cut20100115

Written by Philip Ralph. Adapted from his original stage play of the same name.

Deep Cut is a radio adaptation of the award-winning production which has been performed at the Edinburgh Festival, in London and on tour in the UK. The central characters are Des and Doreen James, and the play follows their search for an answer as to why their 18 year old daughter Private Cheryl James was found shot dead at Deepcut training barracks on November 27th 1995.

The play was drawn together by writer Philip Ralph from verbatim transcripts of interviews, alongside publicly available documents. It traces the events surrounding Cheryl's death from the points of view of her parents and her female Army friend Jonesy, weaving in the statements by Nicholas Blake QC, who was commissioned to carry out the judicial review, as well as, among others, comments from the independent forensics expert Frank Swann, and the journalist Brian Cathcart.

Des and Doreen are at the heart of the play and their poignant memories of their daughter alternate with bewilderment at her sudden and unexpected death. Cheryl was one of four recruits, each of whom was found shot dead between 1995 and 2002. The result of the review by Nicholas Blake in 2006 affirmed that the most likely explanation was suicide, and that there would not be a further public enquiry. Des and Doreen feel passionately that there are questions still to be answered.

Cast:
Des James ..... Pip Donaghy
Doreen James ..... Janice Cramer
Nicholas Blake QC ...... Simon Molloy
Jonesy ...... Amy Morgan
Frank Swann ....... Robert Willox
Brian Cathcart ...... Derek Hutchinson
Colonel Nigel Josling ....... Adam James
Bruce George ...... Rhydian Jones

Music & Sound Design: Mike Furness
Recorded & Edited by Richard Bignell

Director: Mick Gordon
Producer: Richard Bannerman
A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4.

The powerful story of 18-year-old Cheryl James, found shot dead at Deepcut barracks.

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Deep Cut2010011520111104 (R4)

Written by Philip Ralph. Adapted from his original stage play of the same name.

Deep Cut is a radio adaptation of the award-winning production which has been performed at the Edinburgh Festival, in London and on tour in the UK. The central characters are Des and Doreen James, and the play follows their search for an answer as to why their 18 year old daughter Private Cheryl James was found shot dead at Deepcut training barracks on November 27th 1995.

The play was drawn together by writer Philip Ralph from verbatim transcripts of interviews, alongside publicly available documents. It traces the events surrounding Cheryl's death from the points of view of her parents and her female Army friend Jonesy, weaving in the statements by Nicholas Blake QC, who was commissioned to carry out the judicial review, as well as, among others, comments from the independent forensics expert Frank Swann, and the journalist Brian Cathcart.

Des and Doreen are at the heart of the play and their poignant memories of their daughter alternate with bewilderment at her sudden and unexpected death. Cheryl was one of four recruits, each of whom was found shot dead between 1995 and 2002. The result of the review by Nicholas Blake in 2006 affirmed that the most likely explanation was suicide, and that there would not be a further public enquiry. Des and Doreen feel passionately that there are questions still to be answered.

Cast:
Des James ..... Pip Donaghy
Doreen James ..... Janice Cramer
Nicholas Blake QC ...... Simon Molloy
Jonesy ...... Amy Morgan
Frank Swann ....... Robert Willox
Brian Cathcart ...... Derek Hutchinson
Colonel Nigel Josling ....... Adam James
Bruce George ...... Rhydian Jones

Music & Sound Design: Mike Furness
Recorded & Edited by Richard Bignell

Director: Mick Gordon
Producer: Richard Bannerman
A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4.

The powerful story of 18-year-old Cheryl James, found shot dead at Deepcut barracks.

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Des Res2009050120111021 (R4)Black comedy by Ed Jones. Scriptwriter Luke loses his TV job and has to downsize from a bohemian terrace in a leafy Manchester suburb to the dark heart of Salford. The house is a bargain and he's lived in worse; and he can handle those scallies that use his front doorstep as a youth club, can't he?

Luke - Ian Puleston-Davies

Toto - Szilvi Naray-Davey

Kenny - Luke Broughton

Adele - Michelle Tate

Ryan - Warren Brown

Lotta - Fiona Clarke

Script Editor - Natasha Byrne

Policeman - Greg Wood

Directed by Gary Brown.

Black comedy by Ed Jones. Scriptwriter Luke loses his TV job and has to downsize his home.

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Black comedy by Ed Jones. Scriptwriter Luke loses his TV job and has to downsize from a bohemian terrace in a leafy Manchester suburb to the dark heart of Salford. The house is a bargain and he's lived in worse; and he can handle those scallies that use his front doorstep as a youth club, can't he?

Luke - Ian Puleston-Davies

Toto - Szilvi Naray-Davey

Kenny - Luke Broughton

Adele - Michelle Tate

Ryan - Warren Brown

Lotta - Fiona Clarke

Script Editor - Natasha Byrne

Policeman - Greg Wood

Directed by Gary Brown.

Black comedy by Ed Jones. Scriptwriter Luke loses his TV job and has to downsize his home.

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Direct Red2011031120120803 (R4)How does it feel to hold someone's heart in your hands? How do you tell a young patient that he's dying? What do you do when, on a quiet ward in the middle of the night, a patient you've grown close to invites you into his bed? This vivid portrayal of the day-to-day life of young female surgeon, and the medical and moral dilemmas she faces, is based on the memoir by Gabriel Weston. One of few women in an alpha male world, she finds herself continually questioning where a doctor should draw the line between being detached and being human. And it's the conflict between these opposing forces - the personal and professional - that lies at the heart of this powerful play, which has been adapted for radio by Tina Pepler.

A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll.

A vivid and bloody portrayal of the day to day dilemmas faced by a young female surgeon.

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Enquirer20121116A radio adaptation of the acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland and London Review of Books production.

An investigation into the current crisis in newspaper journalism in the UK, based on interviews with leading figures from the industry by Paul Flynn, Deborah Orr and Ruth Wishart.

Music by Davey Anderson.

Co-edited by Andrew O'Hagan.

Edited and directed by Vicky Featherstone and John Tiffany.

Producers: Clara Glynn and Carolynne Sinclair Kidd.

A Hopscotch Films production for BBC Radio 4 in association with the London Review of Books and the National Theatre of Scotland.

An investigation into the current crisis in newspapers - in the words of the journalists.

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Flesh and Blood20090821

Poignant drama by Gillies Mackinnon, set and recorded in Glasgow.

Three generations of men have continually failed to understand one another. Kenny's teenage son leaves home without explanation. Kenny does not tell his own elderly father, Roddy, who he visits every day. But the old man, an ex-cop, smells a rat, and is determined to find his only grandchild.

Kenny ...... Gary Lewis
Roddy ...... David Hayman
Callum ...... Anthony Martin
Fiona ...... Kate Donnelly
Luke ...... Scott McKay
Tony ...... Kenny Blyth
Mags ...... Natalie McConnon.

By Gillies Mackinnon. Kenny's teenage son leaves home without explanation.

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Forgiving20080328Tina Pepler's story of a family torn apart by one act of violence.

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Four Trees Down From Ponte Sisto2012062920140321 (R4)Twenty five years ago in Rome, an American student named Geoffrey Charde fell to his death from a wall above the river Tiber, late at night and with no witnesses, four trees down from Ponte Sisto.

Since then, his mother, the poet Sharon Charde has been writing her way through all the dimensions of her son's death; writing her way back to life through a series of poems that combine her fearless examination of specific details and events with deep philosophical insights into the close proximity of death within every aspect of life.

Adapted and composed for radio by Gregory Whitehead. Performed by Anne Undeland.

Producer Jeremy Mortimer.

Sharon Charde's poems in response to her son's death. Performed by Anne Undeland.

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Twenty five years ago in Rome, an American student named Geoffrey Charde fell to his death from a wall above the river Tiber, late at night and with no witnesses, four trees down from Ponte Sisto.

Since then, his mother, the poet Sharon Charde has been writing her way through all the dimensions of her son's death; writing her way back to life through a series of poems that combine her fearless examination of specific details and events with deep philosophical insights into the close proximity of death within every aspect of life.

Adapted and composed for radio by Gregory Whitehead. Performed by Anne Undeland.

Producer Jeremy Mortimer.

Sharon Charde's poems in response to her son's death. Performed by Anne Undeland.

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Fragile!20080509Tena Stivicic's darkly witty play about the reality of the immigrant experience in London.

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Fragments20070831Why does affluent and well educated teenager Kelly Ryan become a murderess?

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God's President: Mugabe of Zimbabwe20101210

Kwame Kwei-Armah's drama tells the story of the tense negotiations around the Lancaster House Conference, and the road to Zimbabwe's Independence.

On 4th March 1980 the Shona majority in Rhodesia was decisive in electing Robert Mugabe to head the first post-independence government as Prime Minister. Six weeks later, on April 18th, Zimbabwe celebrated its first Independence Day.

On the 21st December 1979, following three months of talks, the Lancaster House Agreement finally brought independence to Rhodesia following Ian Smith's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965.

Margaret Thatcher's government had invited Bishop Muzorewa and Ian Smith, and the leaders of the Patriotic Front, led by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe to participate in a Constitutional Conference at Lancaster House in London, to be chaired by the foreign secretary, Lord Carrington.

The purpose of the Conference was to discuss and reach agreement on the terms of an Independence Constitution, and to ensure that elections should be supervised under British authority to enable Rhodesia to proceed to legal independence and the parties to settle their differences by political means.

Robert Mugabe .... Lucian Msamati
Edgar Tekere ..... Danny Sapani
Bishop Muzorewa ..... Chuk Iwuji
Lord Carrington ..... Richard Cordery
Robin Renwick ..... Tony Bell
Joshua Nkomo ..... Jude Akuwudike
Ian Smith ..... William Gaminara
Sir Shridath Ramphal ..... Kwame Kwei-Armah
Kenneth Kaunda ..... Ben Onwukwe
Bob Marley ..... Lloyd Thomas
With Sean Baker, David Seddon, Alison Pettit

Directed by Jeremy Mortimer.

By Kwame Kwei-Armah. The story of how Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe.

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God's President: Mugabe of Zimbabwe20171202

Kwame Kwei-Armah's drama tells the story of the tense negotiations around the Lancaster House Conference, and the road to Zimbabwe's Independence.

On 4th March 1980 the Shona majority in Rhodesia was decisive in electing Robert Mugabe to head the first post-independence government as Prime Minister. Six weeks later, on April 18th, Zimbabwe celebrated its first Independence Day.

On the 21st December 1979, following three months of talks, the Lancaster House Agreement finally brought independence to Rhodesia following Ian Smith's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965.

Margaret Thatcher's government had invited Bishop Muzorewa and Ian Smith, and the leaders of the Patriotic Front, led by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe to participate in a Constitutional Conference at Lancaster House in London, to be chaired by the foreign secretary, Lord Carrington.

The purpose of the Conference was to discuss and reach agreement on the terms of an Independence Constitution, and to ensure that elections should be supervised under British authority to enable Rhodesia to proceed to legal independence and the parties to settle their differences by political means.

Robert Mugabe .... Lucian Msamati
Edgar Tekere ..... Danny Sapani
Bishop Muzorewa ..... Chuk Iwuji
Lord Carrington ..... Richard Cordery
Robin Renwick ..... Tony Bell
Joshua Nkomo ..... Jude Akuwudike
Ian Smith ..... William Gaminara
Sir Shridath Ramphal ..... Kwame Kwei-Armah
Kenneth Kaunda ..... Ben Onwukwe
Bob Marley ..... Lloyd Thomas
With Sean Baker, David Seddon, Alison Pettit

Directed by Jeremy Mortimer.

By Kwame Kwei-Armah. The story of how Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe.

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Greed All About It20100514

It is 1986 and Alice longs to be taken seriously as a proper journalist. So when Greg 'from management' takes a shine to her and mentions that he is involved in setting up a new newspaper in a high tech office in Wapping, she senses an opportunity.

A sharp, satirical look at the Wapping dispute by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. Part of the Eighties season on TV and Radio.

Alice ..... Sally Hawkins
Ted ..... Ron Cook
Greg ..... Richard Dillane
Harry ..... Clive Russell
Eileen ..... Marion Bailey
Andy ..... Freddie White
Charles ..... Nigel Hastings
Graham ..... John Biggins
Reporter ..... Keely Beresford

Producer Gary Brown.

Satirical take on the 1986 Wapping dispute by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman.

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Greed All About It20120511It is 1986 and Alice longs to be taken seriously as a proper journalist. So when Greg 'from management' takes a shine to her and mentions that he is involved in setting up a new newspaper in a high tech office in Wapping, she senses an opportunity.

A sharp, satirical look at the Wapping dispute by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. Part of the Eighties season on TV and Radio.

Alice ..... Sally Hawkins

Ted ..... Ron Cook

Greg ..... Richard Dillane

Harry ..... Clive Russell

Eileen ..... Marion Bailey

Andy ..... Freddie White

Charles ..... Nigel Hastings

Graham ..... John Biggins

Reporter ..... Keely Beresford

Producer Gary Brown.

By Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. Satirical look at the Wapping dispute.

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Guardian Angel20080208Gill Adams's drama is set in Hull, during the floods.

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How Now TV20080425

By Paul Watson.

Television presenter Daniela Cross, a legend in her own lunchtime, must have started her career somewhere. Pearly teeth and a saccharine nature are not enough to climb the industry's greasy pole. A helping hand from friends in high places will help, as will a seductive smile. But it's acceptable gimmicks that are most needed in delivering an audience, and it is the acceptable that is fast running out in today's TV.

So acceptable must give way to the difficult, the new, the so-called radical and more often the once unacceptable. A programme idea that can be justified by bums sat on seats and by revenue produced. And that was Daniela's gift to telly, an idea so awful but so justifiable that she was bound to succeed.

Daniela ...... Victoria Shalet
Daddy (John Cross) ...... Nicholas Farrell
Deborah ...... Frances Barber
Averill ...... Lizzy McInnerny
Gary ...... Leo Bill
Hassan ...... Joseph Marcell
Samuel ...... Jonathan Firth
Crispin ...... Mathew Baynton
Permindah ...... Manjinder Virk
Picture Editor ...... Keith Drinkel
Young Director ...... Tom Watson

Directed by Paul Watson.

By Paul Watson. How did TV presenter Daniela Cross' career start?

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How Now TV2008042520091204 (R4)

By Paul Watson.

Television presenter Daniela Cross, a legend in her own lunchtime, must have started her career somewhere. Pearly teeth and a saccharine nature are not enough to climb the industry's greasy pole. A helping hand from friends in high places will help, as will a seductive smile. But it's acceptable gimmicks that are most needed in delivering an audience, and it is the acceptable that is fast running out in today's TV.

So acceptable must give way to the difficult, the new, the so-called radical and more often the once unacceptable. A programme idea that can be justified by bums sat on seats and by revenue produced. And that was Daniela's gift to telly, an idea so awful but so justifiable that she was bound to succeed.

Daniela ...... Victoria Shalet
Daddy (John Cross) ...... Nicholas Farrell
Deborah ...... Frances Barber
Averill ...... Lizzy McInnerny
Gary ...... Leo Bill
Hassan ...... Joseph Marcell
Samuel ...... Jonathan Firth
Crispin ...... Mathew Baynton
Permindah ...... Manjinder Virk
Picture Editor ...... Keith Drinkel
Young Director ...... Tom Watson

Directed by Paul Watson.

By Paul Watson. How did TV presenter Daniela Cross' career start?

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I Am Emma Humphreys20090925

Dramatisation by Shelley Silas of the true story of Emma Humphreys, who in 1985, aged 16, murdered her pimp, Trevor Armitage, who had found her homeless on the streets of Nottingham.

Emma's case changed the law and may yet contribute to further controversial changes in the defence laws for murder.

Emma Humphreys ...... Joanne Froggatt
Trevor Armitage ...... Stephen Critchlow
Stuart ...... Delroy Brown
Vera Baird ...... Susan Jameson
Harriet Wistrich ...... Lynne Verrall
Lord Justice Hirst ...... David Hargreaves
Nottingham Judge ...... Stephen Hogan

Directed by Claire Grove.

By Shelley Silas. The true story of Emma Humphreys, who, aged 16, murdered her pimp.

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I Am Emma Humphreys2009092520110218 (R4)

Dramatisation by Shelley Silas of the true story of Emma Humphreys, who in 1985, aged 16, murdered her pimp, Trevor Armitage, who had found her homeless on the streets of Nottingham.

Emma's case changed the law and may yet contribute to further controversial changes in the defence laws for murder.

Emma Humphreys ...... Joanne Froggatt
Trevor Armitage ...... Stephen Critchlow
Stuart ...... Delroy Brown
Vera Baird ...... Susan Jameson
Harriet Wistrich ...... Lynne Verrall
Lord Justice Hirst ...... David Hargreaves
Nottingham Judge ...... Stephen Hogan

Directed by Claire Grove.

By Shelley Silas. The true story of Emma Humphreys, who, aged 16, murdered her pimp.

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I'm the Boss20090417By Karen Brown. HR manager Diane's life is turned upside down by online bullying.

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I'm the Boss2009041720110826 (R4)By Karen Brown. HR manager Diane's life is turned upside down by online bullying.

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In Denial: The Story of Paul Blackburn20070413Kevin Fegan's play tells the true story of a man wrongly imprisoned at the age of 15.

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Landfall20120713Five misfits travel to a mysterious planet to recover ore left by a mining operation and encounter a truly extraordinary intelligence. An original Science Fiction adventure by Mike Walker.

Cally ... Nicola Miles-Wilden

Intaba ... Cyril Nri

Hudson ... Clare Perkins

JD ... Alex Tregear

Hussam ... Adeel Akhtar

Sound design by Pete Ringrose and Colin Guthrie

The director is Marc Beeby

When five lost souls, recruited by the Company travel to an abandoned planet, all they know is that they are to retrieve the only known sample of an ore left over from an old mining operation. But their task becomes considerably more complicated when one of their party has a close encounter with the indigenous plant life - plant life which seems to have some very odd, very powerful properties. Soon they are battling not only to stay alive, but to hang on to the very things that make them human.

Five misfits travel to a mysterious planet. A science fiction adventure by Mike Walker.

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Landscape20090102

Two plays by Harold Pinter.

1/2. Landscape

A man and a woman sit deep in recollection. While the man's thoughts are of his day in the park and a quarrel in the pub, the woman's are of an idyllic day spent many years ago on a beach with the man she loved.

Duff ...... Harold Pinter
Beth ...... Penelope Wilton

2/2. The Examination

A chilling yet playful monologue in which a man about to be questioned summons up every mental resource to empower himself over his interrogator.

With Michael Gambon.

Directed by Peter Kavanagh.

Two short plays by Harold Pinter.

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Last Night, Another Soldier20110211By Andy McNab

A gripping story from the frontline of Afghanistan. Eighteen year old Briggsy is just three weeks into his first posting and he's thrilled to be part of the action. But when his Rifle Section loses a man in battle, Briggsy is forced to confront the realities of war.

Briggsy - Russell Tovey

Si - Lloyd Thomas

Flash - Paul Rider

Toki - Damian Lynch

Mackenzie/John - Stephen Hogan

Mum/Helicopter pilot/Radio Operator - Janice Acquah

Emma/Tannoy - Caroline Guthrie

Newsreader/Cookie - Matt Addis

Produced by Vernee Samuel.

Gripping portrayal of life on the frontline in Afghanistan by the bestselling Andy McNab.

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Let's Murder Vivaldi20100129A radio production of David Mercer's 1968 BBC TV Wednesday Play.

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Leverage2011032620120720 (R4)By Simon Passmore.

A city banker is found dead in an opulent apartment. At the funeral, his former girlfriend Helen is unexpectedly questioned about when she last saw him. Did he mention computer files, or give her anything as a keepsake? Helen's suspicions mount as she retraces his last movements. Her discoveries put her in the firing line. A fast-paced, psychological thriller.

Cast:

Helen . . . . . Claire Foy

David . . . . . Blake Ritson

Mark . . . . . Charlie Cox

Kendra . . . . . Sally Orrock

Clare . . . . . Joanna Monro

Jamie . . . . . Nyasha Hatendi

Ray . . . . . Sean Baker

Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.

Simon Passmore's fast-paced psychological thriller. Starring Claire Foy.

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Like Minded People2011020420120727 (R4)by David Eldridge

A heady mix of marriage, class and politics as Gillian and Ray attempt to keep their relationship alive over 25 years of social change.

David Eldridge is one of our most exciting young playwrights; From 'Under The Blue Sky', 'A Knot of the Heart' and 'In Basildon' to dramatisations of 'Festen' and 'The Wild Duck' his work has been acclaimed on the London stage. He also has a long relationship with Radio Drama. In 2008 he won the 'Prix Europa' for his play 'The Picture Man' and now he returns with a play that follows the relationship of one couple over 25 years set against a backdrop of political and social change. Starring Ruth Wilson and Tom Brooke.

Gillian and Ray meet at University. She's from a privileged background whilst his father works in a hardware shop and his mother's a dinner lady. Despite this disparity they embark on a relationship. A relationship that may well have burnt itself out except for a car accident which binds them together through a mixture of guilt and need. As their lives progress we are given an intimate portrait of the ups and downs of marriage and the political and social changes that help shape our lives.

Ruth Wilson has been seen as Jane Eyre and Small Island on BBC TV. In theatre her credits include 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Through A Glass Darkly'.

Tom Brooke recently was in 'Jerusalem' and 'The Boat that Rocked'.

David Eldridge's play follows a marriage as it falters over 25 years of political change.

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London, This Is Washington2006041420071221 (R4)By Mark Lawson. A middle-aged prime minister encounters America's sexiest ever president.

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By Mark Lawson. A middle-aged prime minister encounters America's sexiest ever president.

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Lorilei20081107The true story of a Louisiana mother who testified to keep her son's killer from death row

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Martha's Metamorphosis20070330Martha is waiting to hear whether her Primary Care Trust will agree funding for treatment.

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Mia and Maia20070316Mia and Maia are conjoined twins who long to be separate.

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Midsummer2011081920130524 (R4)Midsummer - a play with songs by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre.

Starring Cora Bissett and Matthew Pidgeon.

It's a Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Two thirtysomethings are sitting in a New Town bar waiting for something to turn up.

Midsummer is the story of Bob and Helena and a great lost weekend of bridge burning, wedding bust-ups, chases, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and horrible hungover self loathing misery. A warm hearted adult romantic comedy!

Midsummer was first produced by the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh. It was widely acclaimed at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has since toured to Ireland, Canada and England.

Producer/director - David Ian Neville.

A warm-hearted musical romantic comedy by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre.

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Money Magic20070223

Comic thriller by Judith Johnson.

A pyramid investment scheme first draws in and then bankrupts the women in one street, setting friend against friend.

Beth ...... Rachel Bavidge
Josie/Suzanna ...... Christine Kavanagh
Kathy ...... Christine Bottomley
Izzy ...... Fiona Southworth
Taz ...... Lee Ingleby
Dave ...... Anthony Glennon
Nancy ...... Marlene Sidaway
Miranda/Mary ...... Jasmine Callan

Directed by Jonquil Panting.

A pyramid investment scheme first draws in and then bankrupts the women in one street.

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Murder Every Monday20090918

Mark Gatiss' adaptation of Pamela Branch's comedy.

Asterisk Club founder Clifford Flush hasn't murdered anyone for years, but when the urge comes on him to bump off his bridge partner, he and the rest of the Club are forced to leave London in a hurry. Once out of harm's way in the rural hamlet of Krunte Abbas, they acquire dilapidated Dankry Manor, where they establish themselves as 'homicide consultants'.

Armitage/Paget ...... Simon Williams
Clifford Flush ...... John Castle
Mrs Barratt ...... Barbara Kirby
Colonel Quincey ...... Graham Crowden
Creaker ...... David Ryall
Cyril Revere ...... Mark Gatiss
Chloe Carlisle ...... Stephanie Beacham
Manelli ...... Mark Benton
Bill Thurlow ...... Ian Hallard
Dina Parrish ...... Cal Jaggers.

Clifford Flush and the Asterisk Club establish themselves as 'homicide consultants'.

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Ob'owa20110114Ob'owa is the story of when eight-year-old Francesca and her brother six-year-old Joseph are kidnapped by their father to their parents' homeland of Nigeria, life is very different to they one they had in Peckham. Thirty years later, it's time to return to Nigeria.

As Francesca reveals the story of their kidnap and life at their Grandfather's house in Benin City with his three wives and his many children, it's clear many adjustments had to be made to survive in a world where everyone looks like you but are so very foreign. Peckham could not have prepared the children for the mosquitoes, lizards and sweltering heat of sub-Saharan Africa; the slaughter of animals in the backyard; a diet consisting of yam, yam and more yam and the painful ritual of tribal markings carved with a razor blade into young flesh.

Ob'owa is inspired by real events. Created by Director, Christiana Ebohon and Writer, Moya O'Shea. The play examines themes of belonging and home. Is home the place where your family originates or where you were born? It is told in present day, with flashbacks to the 70s and that fateful trip to Nigeria.

The cast stars Rhiannon Baccus, Jayden Jean-Paul-Denis, Tracey Ifeachor (Welcome to Thebes), Nonso Anozie (Death and the King's Horseman), Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Death and the King's Horseman), May Owen, Susan Agbabi, Isobel Akpobire, Abi Enola and Lorcan Bolger.

The play was partly recorded on location in Lagos, Nigeria

Producer: Frank Stirling

An Unique production for BBC Radio 4.

An eight year old's holiday to Nigeria turns into an eight month custody battle.

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OK Computer2007101920090410 (R4)

By Joel Horwood, Chris Perkins, Al Smith and Chris Thorpe.

A man wakes up in a hospital in Berlin. He has no memory of who he is, or where he comes from. Once the details of his life are recovered, he is repatriated to Britain and into his former life. But he is haunted by the suspicion that this is not his real life at all.

The play celebrates Radiohead's seminal 1997 album OK Computer and draws on themes from each of its 12 tracks.

Paul ...... Tom Brooke
Sarah ...... Liz White
Helen ...... Federay Holmes
Owen ...... Pieter Lawman
Boss ...... Chris Thorpe.

A man wakes up in a hospital in Berlin with no memory of who he is, or where he comes from

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By Joel Horwood, Chris Perkins, Al Smith and Chris Thorpe.

A man wakes up in a hospital in Berlin. He has no memory of who he is, or where he comes from. Once the details of his life are recovered, he is repatriated to Britain and into his former life. But he is haunted by the suspicion that this is not his real life at all.

The play celebrates Radiohead's seminal 1997 album OK Computer and draws on themes from each of its 12 tracks.

Paul ...... Tom Brooke
Sarah ...... Liz White
Helen ...... Federay Holmes
Owen ...... Pieter Lawman
Boss ...... Chris Thorpe.

A man wakes up in a hospital in Berlin with no memory of who he is, or where he comes from

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Phone20110304By Peter Jukes

Eliot is stuck in a rut. When Roy, his friend and local gangster, is taken ill, he hands Eliot his mobile phone. 'Just wait for it to ring,' he tells him. And so it begins - the phone thrusts Eliot into an underworld which is sometimes glamorous, often dangerous, always unexpected.

Cast:

Eliot . . . . . Freddy White

Kathleen . . . . . Jemima Rooper

Sparky . . . . . Jimmy Akingbola

Roy Peters . . . . . Richard Ridings

Iverson . . . . . Caroline Guthrie

Crimp . . . . . Paul Rider

Ze . . . . . Nabil Elouahabi

Rachel . . . . . Lizzy Watts

Baltazar . . . . . Matt Addis

Sarasi . . . . . Janice Acquah

Vince . . . . . Jonathan Tafler

Teenager . . . . . Benjamin Askew

Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.

By Peter Jukes. Eliot it thrust into danger when his gangster friend hands him a phone.

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Porshia20070427

By Ed Harris.

Thomas is a no-hope poet obsessed with Porshia, a young woman at the office. When one day he literally wakes up inside her head, he begins to experience the life of his fantasy woman from closer than he might like, including when her hunky boyfriend pays a visit.

Thomas ...... Robert Webb
Porshia ...... Laura Rogers
Ethan ...... Oliver J Hembrough
Louisa ...... Mina Anwar
Eva ...... Ella Kenion
Tim ...... Kieran Bew

Directed by Graham Frost.

By Ed Harris. Thomas, obsessed with Porshia, literally wakes up inside her head.

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Porshia20080905

By Ed Harris.

Thomas is a no-hope poet obsessed with Porshia, a young woman at the office. When one day he literally wakes up inside her head, he begins to experience the life of his fantasy woman from closer than he might like, including when her hunky boyfriend pays a visit.

Thomas ...... Robert Webb
Porshia ...... Laura Rogers
Ethan ...... Oliver J Hembrough
Louisa ...... Mina Anwar
Eva ...... Ella Kenion
Tim ...... Kieran Bew

Directed by Graham Frost.

By Ed Harris. Thomas, obsessed with Porshia, literally wakes up inside her head.

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Recordings Recovered from the House of Leaves20111028

Adapted by Mike Walker.

"The Navidson Record now stands as part of this country's cultural experience and yet, in spite of the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have seen it, the film continues to remain an enigma. Some insist it must be true, others believe it is a trick on a par with the Orson Welles radio romp The War of the Worlds. Many more have never even heard of it."

With these words Zampano preludes the excerpts from an extraordinary film, cut together by Will Navidson from cameras located within his house and those he took with him into the labyrinth that had sprung up there over the course of a few days.

According to the Navidson record, it was when the family returned to the house from a trip to Seattle that they first discovered the additional door and the space behind it. Will Navidson, celebrated adventure photographer, was intrigued, his partner Karen insisted that the door be permanently locked. But one night after a row, Navidson opened the door and went in. He found rooms beyond rooms, all windowless, all unlit, and only narrowly escaped becoming lost forever in the labyrinth. Not long afterwards the spiral staircase appeared, corkscrewing downwards to a dark infinity. So Navidson equipped his brother Tom and others for an expedition, as if they were embarking on a quest into some architectural jungle. The cameras rolled and they descended, and here's the audio.

House of Leaves is the remarkable cult novel by Mark Z Danielewsky, a labyrinth of its own kind with its multiple interwoven narratives and textual tricks. This dramatic piece re-imagines the terrifying heart of the story.

The narrator in this production is Jim Norton who recently received both an Olivier award for the National Theatre production and a Tony for the hit Broadway production of Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, and is currently appearing again at the National in McPherson's new play The Veil.

Producer/Director: John Taylor
A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4.

A closet becomes a hallway and a hallway a vast labyrinth in a odd house in Virginia.

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Recordings Recovered from the House of Leaves2011102820140329 (R4)

Adapted by Mike Walker.

"The Navidson Record now stands as part of this country's cultural experience and yet, in spite of the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have seen it, the film continues to remain an enigma. Some insist it must be true, others believe it is a trick on a par with the Orson Welles radio romp The War of the Worlds. Many more have never even heard of it."

With these words Zampano preludes the excerpts from an extraordinary film, cut together by Will Navidson from cameras located within his house and those he took with him into the labyrinth that had sprung up there over the course of a few days.

According to the Navidson record, it was when the family returned to the house from a trip to Seattle that they first discovered the additional door and the space behind it. Will Navidson, celebrated adventure photographer, was intrigued, his partner Karen insisted that the door be permanently locked. But one night after a row, Navidson opened the door and went in. He found rooms beyond rooms, all windowless, all unlit, and only narrowly escaped becoming lost forever in the labyrinth. Not long afterwards the spiral staircase appeared, corkscrewing downwards to a dark infinity. So Navidson equipped his brother Tom and others for an expedition, as if they were embarking on a quest into some architectural jungle. The cameras rolled and they descended, and here's the audio.

House of Leaves is the remarkable cult novel by Mark Z Danielewsky, a labyrinth of its own kind with its multiple interwoven narratives and textual tricks. This dramatic piece re-imagines the terrifying heart of the story.

The narrator in this production is Jim Norton who recently received both an Olivier award for the National Theatre production and a Tony for the hit Broadway production of Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, and is currently appearing again at the National in McPherson's new play The Veil.

Producer/Director: John Taylor
A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4.

A closet becomes a hallway and a hallway a vast labyrinth in a odd house in Virginia.

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Rio Story20120316Written by Chris Thorpe.

Corrupt ex-cop Marcelo (Charles Paraventi) keeps pregnant teenager Liza (Julia Bernat) in his apartment. Rafael (Matheus Oliveira) an idealistic street-kid wants to rescue her and take her far away.

Set in one of Rio de Janeiro's most crowded favelas, this ambitious ensemble drama by Chris Thorpe is part love-story and part thriller revolving around a single day in the lives of a couple of thieves, a crooked policeman, a charity worker, a priest, a blind revolutionary and a pregnant teenager.

Recorded in Brazil, it was made with the help of the N s do Morro theatre in Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro.

Casting: Ana Dias Carter and Estela Albani

Production coordinator: Jazmin Castillo

Sound design: Steve Bond

Producer in Brazil: Jan Roldanus

Producer/Director: John Dryden

A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4.

Fast-paced thriller by Chris Thorpe, set in one of Rio de Janeiro's most crowded favelas.

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Rio Story20131101

Written by Chris Thorpe.

Corrupt ex-cop Marcelo (Charles Paraventi) keeps pregnant teenager Liza (Julia Bernat) in his apartment. Rafael (Matheus Oliveira) an idealistic street-kid wants to rescue her and take her far away.

Set in one of Rio de Janeiro's most crowded favelas, this ambitious ensemble drama by Chris Thorpe is part love-story and part thriller revolving around a single day in the lives of a couple of thieves, a crooked policeman, a charity worker, a priest, a blind revolutionary and a pregnant teenager.

Recorded in Brazil, it was made with the help of the N s do Morro theatre in Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro.

Casting: Ana Dias Carter and Estela Albani
Production coordinator: Jazmin Castillo
Sound design: Steve Bond
Producer in Brazil: Jan Roldanus

Producer/Director: John Dryden
A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4.

Fast-paced thriller by Chris Thorpe, set in one of Rio de Janeiro's most crowded favelas.

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RIP Boy20100507

Eleven years ago Zahid Mubarek was beaten to death by his cellmate, teenager Robert Stewart in Feltham Young Offenders Institution. In Neil McKay's new factual drama, prison offer John acts as our narrator, leading us through an overloaded prison system to reveal how a known racist with psychopathic tendencies ended up sharing a cell with a quiet Asian lad serving only 90 days for petty theft.

Stewart's manipulative actions get him moved round the country from one YOI to another as his behaviour becomes increasingly violent and erratic, from tattooing RIP onto his forehead, to inciting the murder of a fellow inmate during a cookery class. He eventually ends up in the huge, overcrowded nightmare that is Feltham, where cells designed for one hold two, and boys are banged up for twenty-three hours out of twenty-four. Astonishingly, Stewart's long record of violence and racist behaviour fails to reach Swallow wing, where the only spare bed is in Zahid Mubarek's cell.

It is now ten years since Zahid's death and many of the recommendations of the public inquiry have still not been fully implemented. Prisons remain overcrowded and overstretched. Violence is rife. More than 70% of prisoners suffer two or more mental health disorders. As prison officer John in the play observes: "But it's all out of sight so we keep it out of mind. It shouldn't be, for the sake of everyone. Zahid could have been your son or mine. Remember him. Remember his name. Zahid Mubarek."

RIP Boy is written by Bafta award-winning TV dramatist Neil McKay (Mo, See No Evil, Dunkirk, The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper) who specializes in dramatizing stories about real lives. Matthew NcNulty (Five Days, Unforgiven, The Mark of Cain) plays Robert Stewart and Ross Boatman (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Cassandra's Dream) plays John. Zahid Mubarek is played by Darren Kuppan who has just appeared in East is East at Birmingham Rep.

Robert Stewart ..... Matthew NcNulty
John ..... Ross Boatman
Zahid Mubarek ..... Darren Kuppan
Jamie Barnes ..... Ashley Gerlach
Karen Stewart, Nurse ..... Fiona Clarke
Prison Officers ..... Nick Underwood
Prison Officers ..... Greg Wood
Travis ..... John Cattrell
Simmo ..... James Adler

Directed by Melanie Harris. This is a Red production for BBC Radio 4.

11 years ago Robert Stewart killed his cellmate in Feltham. Has anything changed?

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RIP Boy2010050720110527 (R4)

Eleven years ago Zahid Mubarek was beaten to death by his cellmate, teenager Robert Stewart in Feltham Young Offenders Institution. In Neil McKay's new factual drama, prison offer John acts as our narrator, leading us through an overloaded prison system to reveal how a known racist with psychopathic tendencies ended up sharing a cell with a quiet Asian lad serving only 90 days for petty theft.

Stewart's manipulative actions get him moved round the country from one YOI to another as his behaviour becomes increasingly violent and erratic, from tattooing RIP onto his forehead, to inciting the murder of a fellow inmate during a cookery class. He eventually ends up in the huge, overcrowded nightmare that is Feltham, where cells designed for one hold two, and boys are banged up for twenty-three hours out of twenty-four. Astonishingly, Stewart's long record of violence and racist behaviour fails to reach Swallow wing, where the only spare bed is in Zahid Mubarek's cell.

It is now ten years since Zahid's death and many of the recommendations of the public inquiry have still not been fully implemented. Prisons remain overcrowded and overstretched. Violence is rife. More than 70% of prisoners suffer two or more mental health disorders. As prison officer John in the play observes: "But it's all out of sight so we keep it out of mind. It shouldn't be, for the sake of everyone. Zahid could have been your son or mine. Remember him. Remember his name. Zahid Mubarek."

RIP Boy is written by Bafta award-winning TV dramatist Neil McKay (Mo, See No Evil, Dunkirk, The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper) who specializes in dramatizing stories about real lives. Matthew NcNulty (Five Days, Unforgiven, The Mark of Cain) plays Robert Stewart and Ross Boatman (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Cassandra's Dream) plays John. Zahid Mubarek is played by Darren Kuppan who has just appeared in East is East at Birmingham Rep.

Robert Stewart ..... Matthew NcNulty
John ..... Ross Boatman
Zahid Mubarek ..... Darren Kuppan
Jamie Barnes ..... Ashley Gerlach
Karen Stewart, Nurse ..... Fiona Clarke
Prison Officers ..... Nick Underwood
Prison Officers ..... Greg Wood
Travis ..... John Cattrell
Simmo ..... James Adler

Directed by Melanie Harris. This is a Red production for BBC Radio 4.

11 years ago Robert Stewart killed his cellmate in Feltham. Has anything changed?

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Scream20120406Written by Boz Temple-Morris and Kris Hollington.

A crime caper telling the extraordinary but true story behind the theft of Edvard Munch's expressionist masterpiece from an Oslo museum in 2004.

Oslo police are closing in on the criminal mastermind behind an audacious cash robbery when two incompetent criminals burst into the Munch Museum and ask for directions to Norway's most famous painting. Amazingly, they emerge with two paintings, The Scream and The Madonna. So begins a high profile and often bizarre game of cat and mouse as police attempt to track down these national treasures and arrest those behind the robbery.

Could it be that the criminal mastermind, David Toska, has commissioned the theft of the Scream simply to divert police resources from the investigation into his cash robbery? So believes Iver Steinback, Norway's no 1 detective.

Even after Toska's arrest the police seem no closer to recovering the painting but police develop a bizarre negotiating tactic after Toska develops a voracious appetite for - chocolate.

Scream is made in collaboration with investigative journalist Kris Hollington and recorded entirely on location in Olso with Norway's leading actors.

Cast:

Kjell ....... Christian Rubeck

Inspector Steinbeck ....... Jargen Langhelle

Thomson ....... Mats Eldaen

Siegried ........ Henrik Horge

Petter ........ Stig-Henrik Hoff

Karl ....... Aksel Hennie

Elina ....... Ingrid Bolsa Berdal

Paal Enger and David Toska ....... Eric Madsen

Other parts were played by

Siri Ingul, Catherine Gram, Lars Engebretsen,

Endre Haukland, Josefine Coward, Bettina Fleischer and Axel Aubert.

Sound and music by Alisdair McGregor and Howard Jacques.

Director: Boz Temple-Morris

A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4.

Crime caper based on the extraordinary story behind the theft of Edvard Munch's painting.

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Shirleymander20091127

By Gregory Evans.

A tragic comedy about hubris and political manipulation, depicting the principal events of Shirley Porter's time as 'The Westminster Whirlwind' in the 1980s.

Leader ..... Tracy Ann Oberman
Wet ..... Maggie Steed
Senior Council official ..... Joseph Cohen-Cole
Exec Director ..... Piers Wehner
Deputy ..... Stephen Hogan
The Doctor ..... Sagar Arya
District Auditor ..... Bruce Alexander
QC, Father ..... Ewan Hooper
Chairman, Tesco ..... Philip Fox
Labour Councillor ..... John Biggins
Female interviewer ..... Tessa Nicholson

Directed by Marc Beeby.

A tragic comedy about Shirley Porter's leadership of Westminster Council by Gregory Evans.

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Shirleymander2009112720111014 (R4)

By Gregory Evans.

A tragic comedy about hubris and political manipulation, depicting the principal events of Shirley Porter's time as 'The Westminster Whirlwind' in the 1980s.

Leader ..... Tracy Ann Oberman
Wet ..... Maggie Steed
Senior Council official ..... Joseph Cohen-Cole
Exec Director ..... Piers Wehner
Deputy ..... Stephen Hogan
The Doctor ..... Sagar Arya
District Auditor ..... Bruce Alexander
QC, Father ..... Ewan Hooper
Chairman, Tesco ..... Philip Fox
Labour Councillor ..... John Biggins
Female interviewer ..... Tessa Nicholson

Directed by Marc Beeby.

A tragic comedy about Shirley Porter's leadership of Westminster Council by Gregory Evans.

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Siege20100910

Peter and Veronica Pleasance are residents of Skylarks Residential Home for the Elderly. They haven't spoken to their high-flying son - Managing Director of Trixel Technologies - for over twenty years. When one of his employees, Oludayo Akano is kidnapped in Nigeria, son Jerome Akano decides it is time for some action.

Along with his friends Damien (trying to make a name for himself as an activist) and Chalky (along for the ride), they attack the residential home in order to hold Peter and Veronica Pleasance ransom in the name of Akano.

Siege - which came from an idea by writer Francesca Joseph, was developed through a series of improvisation workshops with the cast, who provided the dialogue for the piece.

This fast-moving tragi-comic piece hurtles towards a surprising climax.

Siege by Francesca Joseph, improvised by the cast.

Peter ..... Karl Johnson
Veronica ..... Marlene Sidaway
Jack ..... David Hargreaves
Leo ..... Peter Martin
Tracy ..... Christine Brennan
Jerome ..... Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Damien ..... Danny Dalton
Chalky ..... Stefan Gumbs
PC Singh ..... Muzz Khan

Director Susan Roberts.

Tragi-comic drama about a hostage siege at a residential care home.

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Siege2010091020120420 (R4)

Peter and Veronica Pleasance are residents of Skylarks Residential Home for the Elderly. They haven't spoken to their high-flying son - Managing Director of Trixel Technologies - for over twenty years. When one of his employees, Oludayo Akano is kidnapped in Nigeria, son Jerome Akano decides it is time for some action.

Along with his friends Damien (trying to make a name for himself as an activist) and Chalky (along for the ride), they attack the residential home in order to hold Peter and Veronica Pleasance ransom in the name of Akano.

Siege - which came from an idea by writer Francesca Joseph, was developed through a series of improvisation workshops with the cast, who provided the dialogue for the piece.

This fast-moving tragi-comic piece hurtles towards a surprising climax.

Siege by Francesca Joseph, improvised by the cast.

Peter ..... Karl Johnson
Veronica ..... Marlene Sidaway
Jack ..... David Hargreaves
Leo ..... Peter Martin
Tracy ..... Christine Brennan
Jerome ..... Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Damien ..... Danny Dalton
Chalky ..... Stefan Gumbs
PC Singh ..... Muzz Khan

Director Susan Roberts.

Tragi-comic drama about a hostage siege at a residential care home.

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Sins of the Grandfathers20080201Dan Tetsell's comedy show about the perils of having a grandfather who was in Hitler's SS.

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Slaughterhouse 30,00020071214A young film maker sets out to expose the working conditions in a large slaughterhouse.

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Solomon20071012By Peter G Morgan. A professional ethicist must decide whether to allow a patient to die.

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Sound Barriers20070824By Sarah Daniels. What is wrong with Mel's baby?

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Sunny Afternoon20090529

The normality of a sunny London afternoon is brutally shattered when a man is killed in the street, in broad daylight. Screams fill the air as passers-by try to help the victim or helplessly observe the drama unfold before them. Their lives will never be the same again.

Doug Lucie's powerful and satirical drama examines the impact of such a shocking event, as recounted by passers-by and residents who witnessed it: Roy the local window cleaner; Johnny, an Investment Banker; Kayleigh, a young part-time beauty therapist; WPC Flanagan; Pam who cares full-time for her husband Brian, and Avelina, the victim's wife. Their testimonies unfold revealing not only the personal repercussions of such an event but contemporary attitudes to violence, immigration, and community, across the social and cultural strata which jostle for space in our cities.

Cast

Johnny ..... Tom Hollander
Pam ..... Cheryl Campbell
Roy ..... Michael Begley
Kayleigh ..... Tashie Jackson
David ..... Richard McCabe
Avelina ..... Christianne Oliverira
Translator ..... Teresa Gallagher
WPC Flannagan ..... Colette Brown
Producer/Director ..... Heather Larmour.

By Doug Lucie. A normal sunny afternoon is shattered when a man is killed in the street.

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Sunny Afternoon2009052920120518 (R4)

The normality of a sunny London afternoon is brutally shattered when a man is killed in the street, in broad daylight. Screams fill the air as passers-by try to help the victim or helplessly observe the drama unfold before them. Their lives will never be the same again.

Doug Lucie's powerful and satirical drama examines the impact of such a shocking event, as recounted by passers-by and residents who witnessed it: Roy the local window cleaner; Johnny, an Investment Banker; Kayleigh, a young part-time beauty therapist; WPC Flanagan; Pam who cares full-time for her husband Brian, and Avelina, the victim's wife. Their testimonies unfold revealing not only the personal repercussions of such an event but contemporary attitudes to violence, immigration, and community, across the social and cultural strata which jostle for space in our cities.

Cast

Johnny ..... Tom Hollander
Pam ..... Cheryl Campbell
Roy ..... Michael Begley
Kayleigh ..... Tashie Jackson
David ..... Richard McCabe
Avelina ..... Christianne Oliverira
Translator ..... Teresa Gallagher
WPC Flannagan ..... Colette Brown
Producer/Director ..... Heather Larmour.

By Doug Lucie. A normal sunny afternoon is shattered when a man is killed in the street.

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Talking to Strangers20080411Comedy by Charlotte Jones. A perennially shy man sets himself a challenge.

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The Accountant of Solyanka Square20100122

By Sebastian Baczkiewicz.

Now that Andrei's business interests are legitimate, he never talks about how he made his millions. But when he is kidnapped by his estranged son Victor, who will stop at nothing to get answers, he is forced to reveal his secrets.

Set against the backdrop of Russia's turbulent recent past - from the Soviet Union's fall to Putin's rise - this slick thriller explores the period which gave birth to the now infamous 'oligarchs'.

Andrei ...... Steven Mackintosh
Victor ...... Steven Webb
Alina ...... Kate Ashfield
Chubatkin ...... Struan Rodger
Valentin ...... Ben Crowe
Orlovsky ...... John Rowe
Verzirov ...... Stephen Critchlow
Uzrovskaya ...... Liz Sutherland

Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.

By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. Andrei's estranged son Victor forces him to reveal his secrets.

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The Angel of Covent Garden20070518By Colin Bytheway. Lee doesn't believe in love .... until he meets an Angel.

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The Bid20111202After five years of planning and an 18-month campaign to win votes costing more than £15m, England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup ended in humiliation in front of millions of TV viewers around the world.

Exactly a year after FIFA President Sepp Blatter walked onto the stage at the Messe Centre in Zurich and revealed that Russia would be hosting the 2018 World Cup, this drama tells the behind-the-scenes story of what happened in Zurich in the days leading up to the announcement on 2nd December 2010.

Focusing on the England bid team - which included David Cameron, Prince William and David Beckham - the drama is based on interviews with many of those who were there, and on published material, and uses actors to play all the key characters.

The England bid team arrived in Zurich with high hopes. They were well organized, had a strong technical bid and their formal presentation to the FIFA voting executives went without a hitch - it was heartfelt, passionate and had the biggest A-list celebrities.

But behind England's super-confident presentation, a desperate struggle was taking place in hotel rooms and the corridors of FIFA's HQ in Zurich as England jostled with other countries, courting FIFA executive members, lobbying for votes and making deals.

This is a gripping story of hope, broken promises and disappointment - a compelling and entertaining insight into the business behind the game.

Cast:

Andy Anson - Adrian Rawlins

Geoff Thompson - Richard Ridings

David Dein/Sepp Blatter - John Sessions

David Beckham/Prince William - James Hurn

David Cameron - Christopher Villiers

Jack Warner - Larrington Walker

Eddie Afekafe - Jermaine Liburd

Chuck Blazer - Glenn Wrage

Mohamed Bin Hamman - Nadim Sawalha

Voiceover - Justine Greene

Other parts - Dolya Gavanski & Tracy Ifeachor

Writen by Matthew Solon

Matthew is an award-winning writer whose work has regularly been heard on Radio 4. His drama about the collapse of Lehman Brothers, 'The Day That Lehman Died' won a coveted Peabody Award in the US as well as silver at the 2010 Sony Radio Awards. He also wrote 'Five Days In May', broadcast on Radio 4 last year, a dramatic reconstruction of the tense negotiations between the political parties after the last UK general election.

John's dramas for BBC Radio include the Sony Award winning 'Q & A' (Aka Slumdog Millionaire), Bleak House, Fatherland, A Suitable Boy, A Tokyo Murder, The Cairo Trilogy, The Day That Lehman Died, Five Days In May and Severed Threads.

Director: John Dryden

A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4.

Dramatised account by Matthew Solon of England's failed bid to host the FIFA World Cup.

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The Birds20100430

Daphne Du Maurier's classic horror story about the natural world turning on mankind, starring Neil Dudgeon.

Nat battles to protect his family as birds begin to ruthlessly attack humans.

Nat.....Neil Dudgeon
Sue.....Nicola Walker
Maggie.....Jade Williams
Mr Trigg.....Gerard Horan
Jonathan.....Carl Grose
Newsreader.....John Dougall
Mary.....Rachel Bavidge

Music & Sound Design: David Pickvance
Dramatist: Melissa Murray
Director: Sally Avens.

Melissa Murray's dramatisation of Daphne Du Maurier's classic horror story.

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The Black Bono20090828

By Gabriel Bisset-Smith. Gideon Gordon, film star and celebrity campaigner for human rights, is murdered in Africa, and the main suspect is his brother Ken. What can have driven the brothers apart?

Christine Giddis ...... Chipo Chung
Simon Giddis ...... Gabriel Bisset-Smith
Gideon Gordon ...... Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Ken Gordon ...... Jude Akuwudike
Juliet Gordon ...... Clare Perkins
Peter Champion ...... Philip Fox
Detective Bolton ...... Paul Rider
Danni/African Woman ...... Janice Acquah
Sian ...... Caroline Guthrie

With Matt Addis, Stephen Hogan, Jonathan Tafler.

Directed by Jeremy Mortimer.

By Gabriel Bisset-Smith. Film star Gideon Gordon is murdered in Africa.

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The Broken Word20130920

Adam Fould adapts his own poem about a white family caught up in the Mau Mau time in 1950s Kenya. Tom comes home for his last holiday before university and is recruited by the English colonial vigilantes and finds himself acquiring an unexpected taste for blood. Narrated by Anton Lesser with Gunnar Cauthery, Hattie Morahan, Gemma Lawrence, Pippa Haywood, Kenneth Cranham, David Collins, John Mackay, David Birrell, Mark Meadows, Ivanno Jeremiah and Fiston Barek. Music and Sound Design by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee.

Adam Fould adapts his poem about a white family caught up in the Mau Mau time in Kenya.

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The Day King Hammer Fell from the Sky20080321By Gregory Whitehead. A headless body falls to earth at a leading American university.

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The Dependent20091218

By Angela Clarke. When Sonia, full-time carer to her disabled son Jack, injures herself and is forced to call on support services, Jack gets a taste of what he's been missing.

Sonia ...... Julia Ford
Jack ...... Paul Henshall
Les ...... Paul Wyett
Lil ...... Angela Clarke
Stephanie ...... Annabelle Dowler

Directed by Nadia Molinari.

By Angela Clarke. A carer injures herself and has to call on the help of support services.

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The Dinner Party20070323As the King family settle down to a celebratory dinner party, a stranger arrives.

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The Employee20070406Iain Adam is Head of Maintenance in the intelligent building, The Elm.

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The Events20140704

Radio adaptation of David Greig's powerful play which garnered five-star reviews at Edinburgh 2013 and a Fringe First. The Events centres on Claire, a priest, and her desperate, compulsive and all-encompassing search for understanding after surviving a mass shooting event in which many members of her multicultural community choir were killed.

Challenging and thoughtful and at times surprisingly funny, this play touches on some of the most fraught areas of contemporary politics - immigration, tribalism, religion and ideas of isolated, demoralised and dangerous youth.

If you'd like to join the discussion on social media search for the hashtag #TheEvents

Directed by Ramin Gray and Allegra McIlroy
Produced by Allegra McIlroy

The Events was commissioned by Actors Touring Company and originally directed on stage by Ramin Gray for ATC.
The community choir taking part are The Bloomsburys, Choir director Laka D, pianist Magnus Gilljam.
Original music composed and arranged by John Browne.

By David Greig. A woman's compulsive search for understanding after surviving an atrocity.

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The Forbidden20130628

A run down housing estate fizzes with supernatural forces.

The Forbidden is a chilling, urban horror dramatised for radio by Duncan MacMillan. It's adapted from
Clive Barker's original novella, first published in 1985 and the inspiration for the cult 1992 horror film, Candyman.

The film was set in America, but the original short story was located in Britain, on a dilapidated council estate. This radio dramatisation takes it back to its roots: the story has been modernised, but set in a post-riot Britain, where materialism and greed are increasingly prevalent in all spheres of society.

Helen and her husband Trevor have recently moved into a gated community in the area where she originally grew up. She is becoming more and more disturbed by a nightmare, where she finds herself in a basement on her old estate and knows someone else is there. But who? And what do they want from her?

As Helen insists on exploring the old estate, meeting an old friend and encountering mysterious, frightened teenagers, her home life is affected badly. As she grows increasingly suspicious that Trevor is being unfaithful, she returns to the basement which now haunts her sleep. What she discovers there is both a horrific shock and a sense of coming home, at last.

Recorded on location in London, with an original score from composer John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized).

Music composed by John Coxon, recorded and mixed by Rupert Clervaux and John Coxon.
Sound design by Eloise Whitmore.

Producer: Polly Thomas
Executive Producer: Joby Waldman

A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4.

A run-down housing estate fizzes with supernatural forces. The original Candyman.

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The Forbidden2013062820140322 (R4)

A run down housing estate fizzes with supernatural forces.

The Forbidden is a chilling, urban horror dramatised for radio by Duncan MacMillan. It's adapted from
Clive Barker's original novella, first published in 1985 and the inspiration for the cult 1992 horror film, Candyman.

The film was set in America, but the original short story was located in Britain, on a dilapidated council estate. This radio dramatisation takes it back to its roots: the story has been modernised, but set in a post-riot Britain, where materialism and greed are increasingly prevalent in all spheres of society.

Helen and her husband Trevor have recently moved into a gated community in the area where she originally grew up. She is becoming more and more disturbed by a nightmare, where she finds herself in a basement on her old estate and knows someone else is there. But who? And what do they want from her?

As Helen insists on exploring the old estate, meeting an old friend and encountering mysterious, frightened teenagers, her home life is affected badly. As she grows increasingly suspicious that Trevor is being unfaithful, she returns to the basement which now haunts her sleep. What she discovers there is both a horrific shock and a sense of coming home, at last.

Recorded on location in London, with an original score from composer John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized).

Music composed by John Coxon, recorded and mixed by Rupert Clervaux and John Coxon.
Sound design by Eloise Whitmore.

Producer: Polly Thomas
Executive Producer: Joby Waldman

A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4.

A run-down housing estate fizzes with supernatural forces. The original Candyman.

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The Forgotten20090116

Bee has been suffering alarming lapses of memory, losing time and numbers, and is forced to return home to live with her mother May and niece Thea. Desperate to understand Bee and what is happening to her May and Thea begin reading Bee's private notebooks, while Bee becomes increasingly frustrated with her inability to function in the world. There is something important she has forgotten.
And then one day, in the park, she meets a rather odd creature, known only as The Forgotten. A mysterious being, he declares to Bee that he is all the things she has forgotten, the memories and experiences she tries to piece together in understanding what is happening to her.
Taking her on a journey through her disparate memories we travel into Bee's increasingly isolated and solitary world, to explore where the mind might go when enslaved by a dementia that will not let it function meaningfully with the world, and to discover what secret it is that Bee has 'forgotten'.
Writer
Anne Devlin is an award-winning dramatist and screen writer. Her film and TV credits include 'Vigo', 'Titanic Town', 'The Venus de Milo Instead' 'Naming the Names' and dramatisations of 'Wuthering Heights' and 'The Rainbow', while her stage plays include 'After Easter', 'Heartlanders' and 'Ourselves Alone'. Anne adapted some of her screenplays for radio 'After Easter' (1997), 'Naming The Names' (1986) and 'The Long March' (1986).

All other parts were performed by members of the cast.
'The Forgotten' was written by Anne Devlin and directed in Belfast by Heather Larmour.

By Anne Devlin. While suffering from lapses in memory, Bee meets a strange creature.

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The Forgotten2009011620130208 (R4)

Bee has been suffering alarming lapses of memory, losing time and numbers, and is forced to return home to live with her mother May and niece Thea. Desperate to understand Bee and what is happening to her May and Thea begin reading Bee's private notebooks, while Bee becomes increasingly frustrated with her inability to function in the world. There is something important she has forgotten.
And then one day, in the park, she meets a rather odd creature, known only as The Forgotten. A mysterious being, he declares to Bee that he is all the things she has forgotten, the memories and experiences she tries to piece together in understanding what is happening to her.
Taking her on a journey through her disparate memories we travel into Bee's increasingly isolated and solitary world, to explore where the mind might go when enslaved by a dementia that will not let it function meaningfully with the world, and to discover what secret it is that Bee has 'forgotten'.
Writer
Anne Devlin is an award-winning dramatist and screen writer. Her film and TV credits include 'Vigo', 'Titanic Town', 'The Venus de Milo Instead' 'Naming the Names' and dramatisations of 'Wuthering Heights' and 'The Rainbow', while her stage plays include 'After Easter', 'Heartlanders' and 'Ourselves Alone'. Anne adapted some of her screenplays for radio 'After Easter' (1997), 'Naming The Names' (1986) and 'The Long March' (1986).

All other parts were performed by members of the cast.
'The Forgotten' was written by Anne Devlin and directed in Belfast by Heather Larmour.

By Anne Devlin. While suffering from lapses in memory, Bee meets a strange creature.

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The Friday Play: Life after Scandal20070803Robin Soans's play offers a reconstruction of the private stories behind public scandal.

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The Harder They Fall20070615Kerry Shale's dramatisation of Budd Schulberg's classic novel, recorded in New York City.

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The Heroic Pursuits of Darleen Fyles20080222

The Heroic Pursuits of Darleen Fyles

Esther Wilson's drama is inspired by a true story.

Darleen is a young woman with learning difficulties who has become obsessed with the emergency services and who occasionally sets fire to things. Helen is a volunteer helper trying to help Darleen to rebuild her life, but she too has her own secret reasons for volunteering.

Directed by Pauline Harris.

Esther Wilson's drama is inspired by a true story of a woman with learning difficulties.

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The Heroic Pursuits of Darleen Fyles2008022220140329 (R4)

The Heroic Pursuits of Darleen Fyles

Esther Wilson's drama is inspired by a true story.

Darleen is a young woman with learning difficulties who has become obsessed with the emergency services and who occasionally sets fire to things. Helen is a volunteer helper trying to help Darleen to rebuild her life, but she too has her own secret reasons for volunteering.

Directed by Pauline Harris.

Esther Wilson's drama is inspired by a true story of a woman with learning difficulties.

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The Johnny Cash Hi-Jack Roadshow20081114

Michael Butt's high-tension tale of a hijack on the M1. When two out-of-work Sheffield lorry drivers steal a petrol tanker and set off for the Houses of Parliament, they start to question their lives and past events begin to set them against each other.

Paul ...... Ray Fearon
Vic ...... Philip Jackson
Dougie ...... Des O'Malley
Robert and Andy ...... Rupert Degas
Susan and Mandy ...... DeNica Fairman
Marie/Iris ...... Rosalyn Wright

Directed by Dirk Maggs.

Two Sheffield lorry drivers steal a petrol tanker and set off for the Houses of Parliament

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The Last Time I Saw Richard20081128

Drama documentary about the life and death of the Sri Lankan journalist and TV newsreader Richard de Zoysa, who was abducted and killed in February 1990.

Set in the preceding years, when the Sri Lankan government was undertaking a bloody crackdown of the ultra-Marxist JVP organisation with which de Zoysa was suspected to be allied. Inspired by interviews with those who knew and worked with him, with some fictional scenes.

Richard de Zoysa ...... Jehan Aloysius
Ravi ...... Wassam Ismael
Manorani ...... Tracy Holsinger
Rajiva Wijesinha ...... Sean Amarasekera
And Kandy ...... Nigel da Silva
Ranjan Wijeratne ...... Rohan Ponniah
Madura ...... Ruvin da Silva
Police Chief ...... Delon Weerasinghe
Ranjani ...... Subha Wijesikiwardena
Kusim ...... Mahomed Adamally
Young Richard ...... Hiran Abeysekera

Directed by Willi Richards.

Drama documentary about Sri Lankan journalist Richard de Zoysa. Some fictional scenes.

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The Late Mr Shakespeare20091225

By Robert Nye, dramatised by Jonathan Broadbent.

As a boy actor, Pickleherring played Viola, Juliet and Cleopatra; he was Shakespeare's favourite. Now, in his eighties, he finally discovers what it means to fall in love.

Pickleherring ...... Jim Broadbent
Boy ...... George Longworth
Polly ...... Jill Cardo
Pompey Bum ...... Dan Starkey

Directed by Jeremy Mortimer.

By Robert Nye. A former Shakespearean boy actor discovers what it means to fall in love.

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The Listener20080822

Julian Simpson's fast-paced psychological thriller about a man trying to uncover his true identity, set against the backdrop of a war on terror.

Mark Willis ...... Mark Bazeley
Mia ...... Indira Varma
Doctor Gruber ...... Nicola Walker
Samson ...... Mark Lewis Jones
Charlie ...... Jimmy Akingbola
Lenny ...... Paul Panting

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.

Julian Simpson's psychological thriller about a man trying to uncover his true identity.

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The Listener2008082220100108 (R4)

Julian Simpson's fast-paced psychological thriller about a man trying to uncover his true identity, set against the backdrop of a war on terror.

Mark Willis ...... Mark Bazeley
Mia ...... Indira Varma
Doctor Gruber ...... Nicola Walker
Samson ...... Mark Lewis Jones
Charlie ...... Jimmy Akingbola
Lenny ...... Paul Panting

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.

Julian Simpson's psychological thriller about a man trying to uncover his true identity.

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The Loved One20070217

By Evelyn Waugh, adapted by Jonathan Holloway.

California, just after the Second World War: An elderly Englishman, who once made a living as a Hollywood scriptwriter, has taken in a younger version of the same species who is also struggling to make his way in the new world.

He thought he was a poet once, but now earns a living in a pet cemetery. Preoccupied with dead things, he meets a young female embalmer and suddenly everything begins to go right.

Evelyn Waugh's novel has been called 'one of the funniest and most significant books of the 20th century'.

Dennis Barlow ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Mr Joyboy ...... Mark Gatiss
Aimee ...... Jennifer Lee Jellicorse
Sir Francis Hinsley ...... Clive Swift
Sir Ambrose Abercrombie ...... David Troughton
Mrs Heinkel/Mrs Joyboy/Telephonist ...... Barbara Barnes
Mr Heinkel/Schultz/Slump ...... Peter Marinker.

A struggling writer, working in a pet cemetery, meets a young female embalmer.

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The Loved One2007021720081226 (R4)

By Evelyn Waugh, adapted by Jonathan Holloway.

California, just after the Second World War: An elderly Englishman, who once made a living as a Hollywood scriptwriter, has taken in a younger version of the same species who is also struggling to make his way in the new world.

He thought he was a poet once, but now earns a living in a pet cemetery. Preoccupied with dead things, he meets a young female embalmer and suddenly everything begins to go right.

Evelyn Waugh's novel has been called 'one of the funniest and most significant books of the 20th century'.

Dennis Barlow ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Mr Joyboy ...... Mark Gatiss
Aimee ...... Jennifer Lee Jellicorse
Sir Francis Hinsley ...... Clive Swift
Sir Ambrose Abercrombie ...... David Troughton
Mrs Heinkel/Mrs Joyboy/Telephonist ...... Barbara Barnes
Mr Heinkel/Schultz/Slump ...... Peter Marinker.

A struggling writer, working in a pet cemetery, meets a young female embalmer.

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The Monkey's Mask20090403

Detective tale set in Sydney, adapted from the best-selling verse novel by Australian poet Dorothy Porter.

When street-smart private investigator Jill Fitzpatrick is hired to work on the case of a missing University student, she falls for the girl's poetry tutor, the intellectual Dr Diana Maitland. Soon the smell of death around the case is getting all mixed up with the sick intoxication of love.

Jill Fitzpatrick ...... Federay Holmes
Dr Diana Maitland ...... Kerry Fox
Lou ...... Linda Marlowe
Steve ...... Sam Dale
Bill McDonald ...... Danny Webb
Tony Knight ...... Richard Dillane
Mickey Norris ...... Rachel Morris
Mrs Norris ...... Carolyn Pickles
Nick Maitland ...... Matt Dyktynski

Directed by Jonquil Panting.

Detective tale set in Sydney, adapted from the novel by Australian poet Dorothy Porter.

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The Monstrous Mother20080111Comedy chiller by Mike Harris. Young Cathy's imagination can sometimes get out of control.

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The Mother Of...20071026By Georgia Fitch. A mother sets out to discover why her son became a suicide bomber.

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The Song Thief20090808

By Michael Chaplin

A young composer arrives in Northumberland, looking for an old man reputed to have written a hauntingly beautiful love song. The old man only sang it once - after his wife left him - and says he'll it sing it no more.

The composer embarks on a cold-hearted campaign to make the old man's daughter fall in love with him.

In the long summers of Edwardian England, a stream of educated young men trickled out of London and meandered into the country. Composers and musicologists, they carried with them specially-adapted phonographs and a missionary zeal to excavate their country's unrecorded folk culture - the songs of the mill, market and meadow - and by embellishment turn it into high art. They included men - Vaughan Williams, Delius and Percy Grainger - who became famous for their "discoveries". While with a passion for this lost music, they were also aware it might make their careers. Some might call it homage, others theft.

This play draws on this story to follow one man's quest for his holy grail - a mythically beautiful song written by a Northumbrian shepherd in praise of the wife who abandoned him. It leads him in his turn to other betrayals -of his own values and the shepherd's daughter who tries to help him.

Entwined around two love stories and the beautiful song that joins them, this is a play about music - its capacity to redeem and corrupt - and the vexed question of who owns it.

Concertina/Fiddle Sheena Masson

Directed by Marilyn Imrie
Produced by Catherine Bailey
A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.

A young composer arrives in Northumberland in search of the writer of a love song.

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The Song Thief2009080820130222 (R4)

By Michael Chaplin

A young composer arrives in Northumberland, looking for an old man reputed to have written a hauntingly beautiful love song. The old man only sang it once - after his wife left him - and says he'll it sing it no more.

The composer embarks on a cold-hearted campaign to make the old man's daughter fall in love with him.

In the long summers of Edwardian England, a stream of educated young men trickled out of London and meandered into the country. Composers and musicologists, they carried with them specially-adapted phonographs and a missionary zeal to excavate their country's unrecorded folk culture - the songs of the mill, market and meadow - and by embellishment turn it into high art. They included men - Vaughan Williams, Delius and Percy Grainger - who became famous for their "discoveries". While with a passion for this lost music, they were also aware it might make their careers. Some might call it homage, others theft.

This play draws on this story to follow one man's quest for his holy grail - a mythically beautiful song written by a Northumbrian shepherd in praise of the wife who abandoned him. It leads him in his turn to other betrayals -of his own values and the shepherd's daughter who tries to help him.

Entwined around two love stories and the beautiful song that joins them, this is a play about music - its capacity to redeem and corrupt - and the vexed question of who owns it.

Concertina/Fiddle Sheena Masson

Directed by Marilyn Imrie
Produced by Catherine Bailey
A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.

A young composer arrives in Northumberland in search of the writer of a love song.

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The Testament of This Day20140418

A new radio play written and directed by Edward Bond, one of our greatest living playwrights, who turns 80 this year. In true Bond style, this confronting and disturbing drama connects with realities of our lives and societies. A young man embarks on two journeys, He is in control of only one. He soon discovers there is no going back, from either. An arresting drama about the world today.

As one of the most important and prolific post-war playwrights, Edward Bond has been at the forefront of radical, political and influential drama for over 50 years. He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe. He was born in London in 1934. He had virtually no formal education and left school at 15. The Royal Court Theatre staged Saved in 1965. The play created a national scandal, which was instrumental in the abolition of censorship of the English stage, and established Bond as a major British playwright. He has written more than 50 plays, including Lear, The Sea, Bingo, The Woman, Restoration, The War Plays and 'The Paris Pentad' (Coffee, Crime of the Twenty-first Century, Born, People, Innocence). Many of these have attained the status of radical classics.

The Testament Of This Day is Edward Bond's third original radio drama, the previous two, also for Radio 4, Chair, and Existence having both become stage versions that have been translated and performed in many countries. Bond has found a passion and a new voice in the writing of original radio dramas, produced through his long term collaboration with radio drama producer Turan Ali.

Producer - Turan Ali
Writer and Director - Edward Bond

A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4

Overflow and notes:

Edward Bond has also written poetry as well as texts for the cinema and opera, and a large body of theoretical work on drama. He also works as a director (often of his own work), including this radio drama, his radio directing debut.

By Edward Bond. A young man embarks on two journeys. He is in control of only one.

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The Testament of This Day2014041820160220 (R4)

A new radio play written and directed by Edward Bond, one of our greatest living playwrights, who turns 80 this year. In true Bond style, this confronting and disturbing drama connects with realities of our lives and societies. A young man embarks on two journeys, He is in control of only one. He soon discovers there is no going back, from either. An arresting drama about the world today.

As one of the most important and prolific post-war playwrights, Edward Bond has been at the forefront of radical, political and influential drama for over 50 years. He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe. He was born in London in 1934. He had virtually no formal education and left school at 15. The Royal Court Theatre staged Saved in 1965. The play created a national scandal, which was instrumental in the abolition of censorship of the English stage, and established Bond as a major British playwright. He has written more than 50 plays, including Lear, The Sea, Bingo, The Woman, Restoration, The War Plays and 'The Paris Pentad' (Coffee, Crime of the Twenty-first Century, Born, People, Innocence). Many of these have attained the status of radical classics.

The Testament Of This Day is Edward Bond's third original radio drama, the previous two, also for Radio 4, Chair, and Existence having both become stage versions that have been translated and performed in many countries. Bond has found a passion and a new voice in the writing of original radio dramas, produced through his long term collaboration with radio drama producer Turan Ali.

Producer - Turan Ali
Writer and Director - Edward Bond

A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4

Overflow and notes:

Edward Bond has also written poetry as well as texts for the cinema and opera, and a large body of theoretical work on drama. He also works as a director (often of his own work), including this radio drama, his radio directing debut.

By Edward Bond. A young man embarks on two journeys. He is in control of only one.

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The Wild Ass's Skin Reloaded20110121Balzac's classic novel is relocated to contemporary London. Rupert, an unemployed investment banker, is distracted from his suicidal despair by a magic skin which can grant his every wish. Inevitably, there is a price to pay. By Adrian Penketh.

Rupert ... Elliot Cowan

Pauline ... Naomi Frederick

Miss Givings/Glen ... Don Gilet

Sebastian ... Chris Porter

Shopkeeper/Tom ... Inam Mirza

P@Rick ... Lloyd Thomas

Stripper ... Sally Orrock

Other parts were played by Jude Akuwudike and Christine Kavanagh

Directed by Toby Swift.

Adrian Penketh's modern take on Balzac's classic tale. A sacked banker finds a magic skin.

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Then We Came to the End20091211

Dramatisation by Jeff Young of the tragi-comic novel by Joshua Ferris.

A dysfunctional company of misfits in an advertising agency try to come to terms with the effects of the downturn, as boom turns to bust and the lay-offs begin.

The Voice ...... James Marsters
Tom Mota ...... Gregory Itzin
Benny Shassburger ...... Stuart Pankin
Benny's Dad ...... Alan Mandell
Karen Woo ...... Sandra Tsing Loh
Hank Neary ...... Chuma Gault
Marcia Dwyer ...... Sarah Rafferty
Lynn Mason ...... Susan Sullivan
Chris Yop ...... Fred Willard
Co-ordinator ...... Jeanie Hackett
Carl Garbedian ...... Kyle Colerider-Krugh
Marilynn ...... Shannon Cochrane
Joe Pope ...... Reed Diamond
Genevieve ...... Jen Dede

Music by Ed Millington.

Directed by Kate McAll.

By Joshua Ferris. The story of a dysfunctional group of misfits in an advertising agency.

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They Have Oak Trees in North Carolina20080829

They Have Oak Trees in North Carolina
by Sarah Wooley

1986; Ray and Eileen's five year old son, Patrick, vanishes in Florida.
22 years later; Clay, a good-looking American arrives in their small village claiming to be their missing son.
A suspenseful drama about a marriage in crisis, a split-second decision and the choices we make to try to ensure our future happiness.

Ray ...... Alexander Morton
Eileen ...... Ellie Haddington
Clay ...... Simon Harrison
Other parts played by Kenny Blyth and Gayanne Potter

Producer/DirectorGaynor Macfarlane.

Sarah Wooley's suspenseful drama about a split-second decision and the choices we make.

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They Have Oak Trees in North Carolina2008082920100416 (R4)

They Have Oak Trees in North Carolina
by Sarah Wooley

1986; Ray and Eileen's five year old son, Patrick, vanishes in Florida.
22 years later; Clay, a good-looking American arrives in their small village claiming to be their missing son.
A suspenseful drama about a marriage in crisis, a split-second decision and the choices we make to try to ensure our future happiness.

Ray ...... Alexander Morton
Eileen ...... Ellie Haddington
Clay ...... Simon Harrison
Other parts played by Kenny Blyth and Gayanne Potter

Producer/DirectorGaynor Macfarlane.

Sarah Wooley's suspenseful drama about a split-second decision and the choices we make.

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This Is a True Story20080815

The story of Howard Neal, based on his own handwritten accounts and adapted for radio by Pia Di Mattina from a stage version by Nick Harrington and Tom Wright.

Howard, who has a low IQ, has been in prison for 25 years. Proceedings will soon be completed in the US courts to have him finally removed from death row on account of his mental impairment.

Howard ...... Tom Wright

Directed by Susan Roberts.

The true story a man with a low IQ who has been on death row in a US prison for 25 years.

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This Is a True Story2008081520110610 (R4)

The story of Howard Neal, based on his own handwritten accounts and adapted for radio by Pia Di Mattina from a stage version by Nick Harrington and Tom Wright.

Howard, who has a low IQ, has been in prison for 25 years. Proceedings will soon be completed in the US courts to have him finally removed from death row on account of his mental impairment.

Howard ...... Tom Wright

Directed by Susan Roberts.

The true story a man with a low IQ who has been on death row in a US prison for 25 years.

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Tough Love20090508

By Andrea Gibb

At first, parents Laura and Mark don't see the warning signs: the bottles not taken to the bottle bank, the missing bank card, the tumbling grades at school. Then the terrible realisation dawns - their son, Danny, is an addict. He's always been the golden boy - not like his big brother, Paul, who has been a thorn in their side. Paul is moody and uncommunicative. Danny, on the other hand, has always been sunny and easy. And now he's in trouble.

This is a mother's story and as Danny spirals into drugs counselling and failed rehab treatment, his mum has to make the hardest decision of her life.

Andrea Gibb is the award-winning screenwriter of Dear Frankie and Afterlife and is currently working on a feature film version of Swallows and Amazons for television, an original feature, ATLANTIC BRIDGE, an adaptation of Rose Tremain's MUSIC AND SILENCE for BBC.

Produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.

By Andrea Gibb. Parents Laura and Mark learn the terrible truth about their golden boy.

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Tough Love2009050820130215 (R4)

By Andrea Gibb

At first, parents Laura and Mark don't see the warning signs: the bottles not taken to the bottle bank, the missing bank card, the tumbling grades at school. Then the terrible realisation dawns - their son, Danny, is an addict. He's always been the golden boy - not like his big brother, Paul, who has been a thorn in their side. Paul is moody and uncommunicative. Danny, on the other hand, has always been sunny and easy. And now he's in trouble.

This is a mother's story and as Danny spirals into drugs counselling and failed rehab treatment, his mum has to make the hardest decision of her life.

Andrea Gibb is the award-winning screenwriter of Dear Frankie and Afterlife and is currently working on a feature film version of Swallows and Amazons for television, an original feature, ATLANTIC BRIDGE, an adaptation of Rose Tremain's MUSIC AND SILENCE for BBC.

Produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.

By Andrea Gibb. Parents Laura and Mark learn the terrible truth about their golden boy.

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Trouble with Caves20070309Ian is hearing voices, apparently coming from underground. Who is down there?

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Twenty Cigarettes20071228By Marcy Kahan. Oscar attempts to give up smoking and win the woman of his dreams.

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Vent20091120

Ben has survived a crippling brain lesion, but he won't engage with the world around him, preferring to stay safely in his own fantasy world. A funny and moving drama about not being dead.

Cast:

Ben... Neil Pearson
Mary... Fiona Allen
Mum... Josie Lawrence
Blitz... Leslie Ash
Naz... Robert Webb
Ellie... Rachel Isaac
Bitch nurse... Joanna Brookes
Karl / H G Wells... Matthew Kelly
Katy... Laura Doddington
Mr Arcola... Bruce Alexander
Bea... Scarlett Milburn-Smith

Directed by Nigel Smith
Produced by Gareth Edwards.

By Nigel Smith. Ben has survived a crippling brain lesion but won't engage with the world.

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Vent2009112020111007 (R4)

Ben has survived a crippling brain lesion, but he won't engage with the world around him, preferring to stay safely in his own fantasy world. A funny and moving drama about not being dead.

Cast:

Ben... Neil Pearson
Mary... Fiona Allen
Mum... Josie Lawrence
Blitz... Leslie Ash
Naz... Robert Webb
Ellie... Rachel Isaac
Bitch nurse... Joanna Brookes
Karl / H G Wells... Matthew Kelly
Katy... Laura Doddington
Mr Arcola... Bruce Alexander
Bea... Scarlett Milburn-Smith

Directed by Nigel Smith
Produced by Gareth Edwards.

By Nigel Smith. Ben has survived a crippling brain lesion but won't engage with the world.

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Walking the Line20080912

Taut drama-documentary by Stephen Phelps.

A prison officer finds himself caught between a vulnerable young prisoner and a senior colleague who believes that his job is to discipline and control and no more. The separate worlds of home and work start to overlap.

With Andy Nyman, Ralph Ineson, Saikat Ahamed, Sam Dale.

Directed by Toby Swift.

By Stephen Phelps. A prison officer's separate worlds of home and work start to overlap.

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Wasted20070302

By Shelagh Stephenson.

Martha heads up marketing for an alcopop, aimed unashamedly at the teenage market. But when the 16-year-old son of her oldest friend is admitted to hospital in an alcoholic coma, some hard questions have got to be answered.

Martha ...... Juliet Aubrey
Tom ...... Julian Wadham
Mike ...... Mark Lambert
Mary ...... Marion O'Dwyer
Pete ...... John McAndrew
Charlie ...... Miche Doherty
Luke ...... Greg Fox.

Martha heads up the marketing campaign for an alcopop, aimed unashamedly at teenagers.

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Wasted2007030220081031 (R4)

By Shelagh Stephenson.

Martha heads up marketing for an alcopop, aimed unashamedly at the teenage market. But when the 16-year-old son of her oldest friend is admitted to hospital in an alcoholic coma, some hard questions have got to be answered.

Martha ...... Juliet Aubrey
Tom ...... Julian Wadham
Mike ...... Mark Lambert
Mary ...... Marion O'Dwyer
Pete ...... John McAndrew
Charlie ...... Miche Doherty
Luke ...... Greg Fox.

Martha heads up the marketing campaign for an alcopop, aimed unashamedly at teenagers.

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We Outnumber You20100423

By Ed Hime

A hand-held horror, reconstructed from amateur recordings discovered after the event, in which we relive the humiliation of a major oil company at the gala opening of their new zoo in 2013.

David ..... Kenneth Cranham
Roman ..... Luke Treadaway
Clair ..... Joanna Monro
Shelley ..... Georgia Groome
Ashifa ..... Vineeta Rishi
Billy .....Ben Crowe
Courtney ..... Caroline Paterson
Craig ..... David Seddon
Michael ..... Sam Dale
Tamzin ..... Keely Beresford
Clive ..... Nigel Hastings
Presenter ..... Alison Pettitt
Steven ..... Michael Shelford

Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

Eco-terrorists plot the humiliation of a major oil company in this hand-held horror.

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We Outnumber You2010042320111125 (R4)

By Ed Hime

A hand-held horror, reconstructed from amateur recordings discovered after the event, in which we relive the humiliation of a major oil company at the gala opening of their new zoo in 2013.

David ..... Kenneth Cranham
Roman ..... Luke Treadaway
Clair ..... Joanna Monro
Shelley ..... Georgia Groome
Ashifa ..... Vineeta Rishi
Billy .....Ben Crowe
Courtney ..... Caroline Paterson
Craig ..... David Seddon
Michael ..... Sam Dale
Tamzin ..... Keely Beresford
Clive ..... Nigel Hastings
Presenter ..... Alison Pettitt
Steven ..... Michael Shelford

Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

Eco-terrorists plot the humiliation of a major oil company in this hand-held horror.

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Well20070209A doctor becomes obsessed with his patient's need to feel well. By Jane Bodie.

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Wes Bell20080502Matthew Broughton's dark play about a lonely young man who finds a home amongst strangers.

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What I Heard about Iraq20070511

Eliot Weinberger's long and continuing prose poem draws on reports, newspapers, official utterances and eye-witness accounts to paint a terrifying picture of the war in Iraq.

Adapted for radio by Simon Levy.

With Tony Pasqualini, Bernadette Speakes, Darcy Halsey, Marc Casabani, Ryun Yu.

Directed by Tim Dee.

Eliot Weinberger's long and continuing prose poem paints a picture of the war in Iraq.

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What I Heard about Iraq2007051120081212 (R4)

Eliot Weinberger's long and continuing prose poem draws on reports, newspapers, official utterances and eye-witness accounts to paint a terrifying picture of the war in Iraq.

Adapted for radio by Simon Levy.

With Tony Pasqualini, Bernadette Speakes, Darcy Halsey, Marc Casabani, Ryun Yu.

Directed by Tim Dee.

Eliot Weinberger's long and continuing prose poem paints a picture of the war in Iraq.

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When The Bough Breaks20081219Inspired by Julia Hollander's dilemma over whether to have her disabled child adopted.

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When The Bough Breaks2008121920110617 (R4)Inspired by Julia Hollander's dilemma over whether to have her disabled child adopted.

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Y.t. And The Soprano20110128Film maker Penny Woolcock makes her radio writing and directing debut in this romantic comedy set in the contrasting back stage worlds of grime rap and opera. She brings international hip hop artist Sway together with rising young soprano Claire Watkins.

Sway plays rapper Y.T. sent to collect a debt from a conductor at the opera house. He hears Gabrielle sing the beautiful aria 'Signore, ascolta' from Puccini's Turandot and falls in love. But she's fixated on the conductor and is appalled when Y.T. pursues her down the street, rapping to beats on his phone.

Desperate, he steals a recording of her aria and mixes a club tune that becomes a huge underground hit. Clubbers demand more opera! He persuades her to sing on his radio show, and as their music collides, Puccini never sounds quite the same again. But gangster brother Honey Monster casts a long shadow over the young lovers. He wants his money back, and he's not choosy about his methods.

Penny Woolcock is a Bafta-award winning writer and director of documentaries, TV drama, feature films and opera. She has been awarded a Grierson Trustees Award in recognition of her outstanding documentary film-making - most recently On the Streets about homeless people in London. Claire Watkins' latest operatic roles include Leila in The Pearl Fishers for English National Opera and Micaela in Carmen for Scottish Opera.

Acclaimed producer and one of the UK's most sought after rappers, Sway has received twelve major awards, sold over 100,000 albums, and released seven mixtapes. His third studio album is out in early 2011.

Y.T. and the Soprano was recorded on location, with a specially composed soundtrack by Sway, featuring the voice of Claire Watkins.

Cast:

Y.T. - Sway

Gabrielle - Claire Watkins

Scoobs - Ashley Gerlach

Honey Monster - Mark Monero

Lily - Claire-Louise Cordwell

Adam - Marc Warren

Sound design by Eloise Whitmore.

Producer: Melanie Harris

Director: Penny Woolcock

A Crosslab Production for BBC Radio 4.

Hip hop and high notes collide when rapper Y.T. falls in love with a young soprano.

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You Need Changing20070420Jackie Pavlenko's play is set in the mother and baby unit of a prison.

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0201The Prodigal Fraudster20090731

Second series of three political dramas.

By Mike Harris.

MP Bobby Khan has his sights set on a ministerial post, but things don't go quite to plan. Bobby's mother Elizabeth is also delivered a shock which changes the family dynamics forever. An unexpected visitor brings danger to the Khan household as the murky world of fraud and double dealings are brought to the fore.

Bobby Khan ...... Zubin Varla
Elizabeth Khan ...... Barbara Marten
Lucy Khan ...... Nicola Stephenson
Imran Khan ...... Bhasker Patel
Mike Winters ...... Michael Feast
Wasim ...... Christopher Bisson
Barry ...... Lee Boardman
Isabella ...... Fiona Clarke
David Hart ...... James Quinn
Sara Khan ...... Millie Rose Kinsey

Directed by Pauline Harris.

By Mike Harris. MP Bobby Khan has his sights set on a ministerial post.

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0202The Enemy Within20090807Second series of three political dramas.

By Jon Sen. MP Bobby Khan is blackmailed over an alleged homosexual affair he had at university.

Bobby - Zubin Varla

Imran - Bhasker Patel

Lucy - Nicola Stephenson

Wasim - Christopher Bisson

David Hart/Geraint - James Quinn

Terry - John McArdle

Shazia/Woman - Balvinder Sopal

Ali - Darren Kuppan

Graham - Jonathan Keeble

Sara - Millie Rose Kinsey

Political adviser Andrew Russell

Directed by Pauline Harris.

By Jon Sen. Bobby is blackmailed over an alleged homosexual affair he had at university.

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0203Animal Magic20090814

Second series of three political dramas.

By Avie Luthra.

MP Bobby Khan's marriage to Lucy is very unsettled. Bobby backs the opening of a new laboratory involving animal testing in his constituency which leads to a violent backlash, and an old flame of Lucy's is inextricably linked to the whole affair.

Bobby ...... Zubin Varla
Lucy ...... Nichola Stephenson
Elizabeth ...... Barbara Marten
Terry ...... John McArdle
Karl ...... Graeme Hawley
David ...... James Quinn
Minister ...... Malcolm Raeburn
Helen ...... Christine Brennan
Sara ...... Millie Rose Kinsey
News reporter ...... Shari Vahl

School children from St Mary's Church of England Infant and Junior School, Manchester.

Political adviser Andrew Russell

Directed by Pauline Harris.

By Avie Luthra. MP Bobby Khan backs a new lab involving animal testing in his constituency

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