Saturday Play
The weekly play on Radio 4. Thrillers, mysteries, love stories and detective fiction, as well as an occasional special series
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Playing With Trains
By Stephen Poliakoff. The story of the rise and fall of a maverick inventor
Rebus: Black and Blue
Scottish detective Rebus investigates the death of a North Sea oil worker
Rebus: Strip Jack
Ian Rankin's crime thriller sees Inspector Rebus investigate the death of an MP's wife
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12th century coroner Sir John de Wolfe, aided by his clerk, investigates mysterious deaths
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The story behind the bestselling novel and film: The Nun's Story.
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Jon Sen's play recalls the events of the last days of Martin Luther King's life.
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New radio production of David Mercer's 1968 play about tangled relationships.
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By David Edgar. Crowds gather in the streets of a fictional eastern European country.
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Michael Dobbs' play follows Margaret Thatcher's last traumatic days in power.
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Shell-shocked WW1 survivor Tom Birkin finds welcome recovery in a remote Yorkshire village
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Jonathan Holloway's drama is based on the story of the death of Lana Turner's boyfriend.
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A Voyage round My Father: John Mortimer's touching memoir of his early life and career.
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Who was the inspiration for Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary?
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Joy Wilkinson's adaptation of Agatha Christie's psychological thriller.
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Dramatisation of Remarque's story about a group of First World War German soldiers.
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By Ronald Harwood. The true story of Second World War traitor John Amery.
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By JB Priestley. A family celebration is disrupted by the visit of a police inspector.
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Ten guests are invited to an island. By the end of the first night, one of them is dead.
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Tom Stoppard's acclaimed comedy, set in the early 19th and late 20th centuries.
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Mike Walker's drama focuses on how a family coped with the terrible events of 7/7.
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A volunteer at a homeless shelter becomes intrigued by one of its residents. By Jill Hyem.
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Robin Glendinning's play recalls the publication of Boris Pasternak's classic Dr Zhivago.
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By Gary Brown. A market trader becomes mixed up in a post-war terrorist plot.
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David Hare's play contrasts the WWII experiences of an Englishwoman with her later life.
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Stephen Poliakoff's 1996 National Theatre play about a scientific fraud in a university.
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At a seance at his house, a writer receives a ghostly visitation from his dead first wife.
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Testimony of soldiers and a former member of the Official IRA.
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By Lynne Truss. A painting holiday organised by an art historian is rudely disturbed.
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Historical thriller that follows the future Charles II after his father's execution.
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Stephen Poliakoff's modern classic, set in post-revolutionary Russia.
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Detective story by Robert L Pike. Lieutenant Clancy is assigned to protect a Mafia witness
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Drama based on a play about Tony Blair's handling of Iraq by The Tricycle Theatre.
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By ER Braithwaite. Jack faces up to life after the fatal stabbing of his twin brother Dave
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Anthony Minghella's award-winning radio play.
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Opposing factions within the Vatican meet to elect the successor to Pope John Paul I.
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Dark comedy by AL Kennedy, set in 1870s London and based on a true story.
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By Paul Viragh. In 1956, Peter, a student in Budapest, falls in love with Eva.
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By Marcy Kahan. Noel Coward sets off on an unexpected posthumous career as a detective.
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Adam Thorpe's play explores civilian grief during and after the Great War of 1914-1918.
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Comedy thriller by Joyce Porter about the kidnap of a police officer.
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By Paul Mendelson. Inspector Dover investigates when a girl in a coma is finally murdered.
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Comedy thriller by Joyce Porter, set in the 70s, featuring Scotland Yard's laziest sleuth.
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Comedy thriller by Joyce Porter about a murder in a holiday camp.
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Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran's play postulates an imaginary but historic meeting.
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When a lawyer studies the last will of his friend Dr Jekyll, his suspicions are aroused.
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By David Ashton. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell tackle the London underworld of 1781.
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Hugh Whitemore's dramatisation of Ian Fleming's novel, to celebrate the author's centenary
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By Willy Russell. The relationship between a feisty working-class OU student and her tutor
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Adaptation of the comic children's detective novel by Erich Kaestner.
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Satyajit Ray's Bengali detective Feluda investigates the theft of a statuette of Ganesh.
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Play about the tense negotiation following the 2010 General Election.
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By Lynne Truss. A firefighter struggles to come to terms with the death of his friend.
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World War II drama by Simon Passmore. It is 1940 and England fears a German invasion.
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By Ian Fleming. James Bond uncovers plans for a daring heist - and mass murder.
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Haunted Hospital: Ghost story set in a Rochdale hospital featuring two parallel storylines
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By Joanna Murray-Smith and starring Diana Rigg and Martin Jarvis.
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Award-winning comic drama by Charlotte Jones, adapted for radio by Steven Canny.
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Owen Sheers's play reveals how casualties of war are emotional as much as physical.
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An adventure for Satyajit Ray's famous Bengali sleuth Feluda, specially recorded in Mumbai
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Samina Baig's tale of sibling rivalry, jealousy, forbidden passion and murder.
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Terry Johnson's story of an extraordinary confrontation in a New York hotel room in 1953.
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By Hattie Naylor. Inspired by an article written by Emile Zola about the Dreyfus Affair.
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Written and directed by Patrick Barlow. Comic interpretation of the story of Joan of Arc.
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Julian Simpson's adaptation of the 1950s science fiction series created by Charles Chilton
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A tribute to Charles Chilton's iconic 1960s series Journey into Space.
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Alan Ayckbourn's celebrated 1977 bittersweet comedy about love, marriages and mothers.
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Two murder witnesses are put under police protection pending a High Court trial.
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Comedy by Christopher William Hill about the appointment of a new Archbishop of Canterbury
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By Andy McNab. An 18-year-old soldier has to confront the realities of war in Afghanistan.
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Simon Gray's play is inspired by Claire Tomalin's book The Invisible Woman.
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Peter Goodchild's dramatised reconstruction of the Lockerbie bombing trial.
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By Alan Ayckbourn. A criminal turned TV celebrity agrees to participate in a reality show.
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Joseph Stalin invites Prokofiev and Shostakovich to the Kremlin for a music lesson.
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A new production of Athol Fugard's award-winning masterpiece, recorded in South Africa.
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By Simon Gray. Brothers Michael and Jason vie with each other for the attention of Anita.
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Simon Bovey's story of a daring jewel heist set during London's Great Exhibition of 1851.
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The troubled relationship between child analyst Melanie Klein and her own children.
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Clifford Flush and the Asterisk Club establish themselves as 'homicide consultants'.
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By David Hare. Events take a dangerous course for Craig, the new Ambassador to Uzbekistan.
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By Nigel Planer. Two fresco plasterers in the Sistine Chapel wait for Michelangelo.
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Mike Walker's adaptation of Solzhenitsyn's portrayal of life in Stalin's prison camps.
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One Man on a Stage: Comedy by Judith French, based on Jerome K Jerome's theatrical memoir.
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Northern Broadsides theatre company's version of Shakespeare's tragedy of love turned sour
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By Marcy Kahan. Noel Coward's neighbour Ian Fleming wants him to resume his work as a spy.
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Melissa Murray's romantic drama about two people who meet at a genealogy course.
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Peter Nichols's acclaimed study of betrayal and adultery.
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Jonathan Myerson's play explores pressures on US diplomacy in the 1973 Middle East War.
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By Peter Jukes. Eliot it thrust into danger when his gangster friend hands him a phone.
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Chronicling the events of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, which killed 167 men in 1988.
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By Francis Turnly. Security fears surround an African leader's visit to a peace summit.
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By Noel Coward. Divorced couple Amanda and Elyot meet again on their second honeymoons.
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Comedy by Simon Gray, set in a school for teaching English to foreigners in the 1960s.
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Dramatisation of the crime novel by Anne Cleeves, set in Shetland during midwinter.
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By Douglas Livingstone. Two 80-year-old former Bevin Boys reunite for a miners' gala.
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By William Trevor. A penniless sculptor's wife devises a shocking plan to make ends meet.
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Eduardo de Filippo's comedy about an extended Neopolitan family.
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Scam, by John Arden. Cressida faces a challenge when a dubious email lands in her inbox.
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Crime caper based on the extraordinary story behind the theft of Edvard Munch's painting.
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Daphne du Maurier's bittersweet love story, adapted by Moya O'Shea.
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By William Nicholson. The true story of the relationship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.
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Gregory Burke's moving story of two brothers who are separated in the trenches of WW1.
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Meera Syal is Shirley Valentine - a middle-aged housewife who reveals her hidden thoughts.
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Dramatisation of the celebrated anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut.
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A group of actors and a producer grapple with re-enacting stories about the slave trade.
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David Pownall's account of Anglo-French attempts to negotiate with the USSR in 1939.
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By David Edgar. A man commissions a picture of an imagined event.
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Amanda Dalton's adaptation of the novel on which Hitchcock's Spellbound was based.
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Moving drama by Mike Walker about the most famous British fighter aircraft in history.
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By Kwame Kwei-Armah. Kwaku's latest misjudged policy proposal is about to explode.
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By Robin Glendinning. On the day of the 1945 General Election Labour are expecting to lose
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Kingsley Amis's satire on life and culture in a Welsh seaside town in the 1950s.
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By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. Andrei's estranged son Victor forces him to reveal his secrets.
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Adaptation of JM Barrie's satire about the fortunes of Crichton, the perfect butler.
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Craig Stephens's boisterous comedy about infamous Victorian balloonist Henry Coxwell.
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Comedy drama by Frank Cottrell Boyce about a Christian pop band in 1960s Liverpool.
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Melissa Murray's dramatisation of Daphne Du Maurier's classic horror story.
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Beryl Bainbridge's story, set in 1970, dramatised for radio by Jane Rogers.
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A tramp rescued from a fight is offered a job as caretaker, in Harold Pinter's play.
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George Smiley investigates when a schoolmaster's wife is found bludgeoned to death.
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George Smiley investigates when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide.
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Dramatisation by Michael Eaton of the events that led to the 1993 Downing St Declaration.
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Ian Curteis's dramatisation of how the Thatcher government went to war in 1982.
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A new version of Dostoevsky's 'The Gambler' written by Poet Glyn Maxwell.
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By John Fletcher. Why are people falling ill all over 19th-century Brighton?
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By Peter Goodchild. In 1925, one of the most unusual trials in US legal history took place
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A mother commissions Victorian lady detective Dorcas Dene to save her son from the gallows
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Simon Bovey's murder mystery is set in London in 1860.
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By Lynne Reid Banks. 11-year-old Omri's plastic Native American Indian figure comes alive.
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By Adrian Mitchell. The story of the Jubilee Singers' tour of Europe in the 19th century.
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Drama about the dirty tricks campaign against Citizen Kane and its creator Orson Welles.
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A man's world crumbles when a friend is murdered.
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John Tydeman's adaptation of the stage play by Frank Marcus.
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Alan Bennett's relationship with an eccentric old vagrant who lived in in his front garden
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Roger Crane's conspiracy thriller set at the time of the death of Pope John Paul I.
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A former boy actor reminisces in old age about the time he spent acting with Shakespeare.
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Psychological thriller by Steve Gough set in the year 2036.
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Adrian Bean's dramatisation of the novel that inspired Hitchcock's Vertigo.
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By Amelia Bullmore. A close family is brought to its knees by one momentary indiscretion.
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Thriller by Michael Butt. An ex-pat taxi driver returns to Moscow to a world of violence.
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By Leonard Wibberley. The tiny country of Grand Fenwick is forced to declare war on the US
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Duet for piano and voice charting one man's remarkable story of courage and survival.
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Robin Maugham's sinister tale of a lawyer dominated by a servant. Adapted by Ronald Frame.
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John Fletcher's Edwardian murder story is based on real events.
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Richard Stevens' dramatisation of Nigel Balchin's tense Second World War thriller.
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A young composer arrives in Northumberland in search of the writer of a love song.
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By Jonathan Smith - a love story set in England and India during WWII.
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Psychological thriller by Peter Whalley. John Newland has been living a lie for 20 years.
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Tim Krabbe's cult novella dramatised by Oliver Emanuel.
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By Annie Caulfield. The famous story of the Von Trapps told from another perspective.
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Robert Forrest's chilling tale of the supernatural, set on a schooner in 1867.
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Christopher Hampton's play about his childhood in Alexandria in the 1950s.
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Adaptation of Paul Theroux's stage play about Rudyard Kipling's time in America.
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Robin Glendinning's comedy based on the disappearance of Wallis Simpson's jewels in 1946.
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Dramatisation of L Frank Baum's children's classic.
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Pamela Branch's comic murder mystery set in London in 1951, adapted by Mark Gatiss.
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Musical instrument inventor Leon Theremin leads a double life as a Soviet spy.
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An adaptation of David Dodge's 1952 novel, later made into a classic film by Hitchcock.
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Michael Hastings's study of the troubled marriage of TS Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood.
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Brian Friel's play about language and power, set in a village in 1830s Donegal.
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Drama about Dalton Trumbo's ordeal in the Hollywood communist witch-hunts.
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Harry Secombe's son dramatises his father's brilliantly funny novel of postwar Britain.
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Anthony Minghella's tender and comic account of a provincial Easter six hundred years ago.
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One-man play by Greg Berger. A Dutch librarian recounts his quest to justify his life.
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By Bruce Chatwin. An academic in 1960s Prague meets an eccentric porcelain collector.
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By Matthew Broughton. Behind the scenes of the making of classic film Witchfinder General.
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Cash-strapped Gerald inherits a valuable watch, but it sparks an ethical conflict.
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By David Cook. Ian McKellen stars as Walter, a man with learning difficulties.
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A woman is offered a job by an old schoolfriend.
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David Pownall's play explores George Orwell's time in Wigan in the early months of 1936.
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Naylah Ahmed's play, set in rural India, is a parallel tale of two romances.
The Complete Ripley
Series of five plays based on the novels by Patricia Highsmith
The Dark Side
Comic adventure by David Chapel about an idealistic researcher
These Are the Times
Trevor Griffiths's dramatisation of Thomas Paine's life