Afternoon Play
Radio dramas which delight and surprise
Afternoon Play - 02/02/2007
Hide, by Paul Farley. Two bird watchers are peering through the slats of a hide and talking. Then something rare turns up outside and a visitor joins them inside.
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Afternoon Play - 05/05/2005
The Murder of My Aunt: John Peacock's adaptation of Richard Hull's novel, written in the 1930s. Edward attempts to rid himself of his extremely annoying relation.
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Afternoon Play - 05/07/2005
Mark Wilson's play is set in 1854. In the Criminal Wing of Bethlehem Hospital for the Insane, two rival doctors seek to reform the treatment of the mentally ill.
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Afternoon Play - 11/03/2005
The Wedding Vortex, by Elizabeth Lewis. When Esther starts to plan her wedding, she doesn't realise how many choices are involved, nor how many people want to get involved.
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Afternoon Play - 12 Shares
By Dennis Kelly. Kate is enjoying herself for the first time. Each week she checks in with a support group to tell them how things are going for a recovering alcoholic.
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Afternoon Play - 15/03/2006
The Midnight House: Jonathan Hall's period ghost story mixing fact and fiction is set in the Welsh tin quarries that housed the nation's treasures during the Second World War.
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Afternoon Play - 19/01/2007
My Blue Piano: Jerusalem, 1945. When eccentric German poet Else Lasker-Schüler is evicted by her landlady, she is forced to wander the city's troubled streets.
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Afternoon Play - 28
By Dawn King. Nathan, a schoolteacher tainted by connection with a terrorist, is detained for 28 days and then released without charge, after which he tries to rebuild his life.
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Afternoon Play - 29/03/2005
Candy Floss Kisses, by Simon Farquhar. When 18-year-old Londoner Billy encounters Isla, their shared summer turns out to be more of a rollercoaster than either of them expected.
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Afternoon Play - 30/12/2005
Ex Libris, by Nicholas McInerny. When she arrives at the cottage left to her by a distant relative, Jennifer discovers a great deal more than she expects.
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Afternoon Play - 3000
By Anna Symon. Fact-based dramatisation of the experiences of 15-year-old Afghan boy Mehrab, one of the 3000 unaccompanied displaced children who arrive in the UK every year.
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Afternoon Play - 31/12/2003
Cold Calling, by Lynne Truss. Daniella, Ryan and Raman are about to start another shift in a call centre. Before the day is through, they experience something totally unexpected.
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Afternoon Play - 43 Letters
Julia and David work in the family archives. One day, a mysterious envelope arrives for David, with letters from 43 women, all answering a lonely hearts advert he didn't place.
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Afternoon Play - 84 Charing Cross Road
84 Charing Cross Road: Helene Hanff's classic story, adapted by James Roose-Evans, chronicles the friendship between a feisty American writer and a reserved English gentleman.
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Afternoon Play - A Bit of Explaining to Do
By Graham White. Mark realises that he has made a potentially embarrassing mistake: there is a difficult-to-explain entry on his wife's credit card statement.
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Afternoon Play - A Bridge to the Stars
Dramatisation by John Retallack of Henning Mankell's tale of an imaginative boy, Joel, living with his seaman father in an icy, landlocked northern Swedish town.
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Afternoon Play - A Chaos of Wealth and Want
By Penny Gold. Henry Mayhew, chronicler of London's poor and dispossessed, learns the hard truth about charity when he takes in a homeless young man.
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Afternoon Play - A City Full of Swindlers
By Jenny Howarth. Cassandra Austen, sister of Jane, narrates the shocking story of her aunt's arrest and imprisonment for stealing a piece of lace.
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Afternoon Play - A City Killing
After a foolhardy trade in the City almost wipes out Harry Tower's hedge fund, he turns for help to family friend, Bob Glass, probably the most successful trader on Wall Street.
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Afternoon Play - A Coup
A Coup: Annie Caulfield's play is based on a true memoir by Bruce Chatwin, caught up in a revolution as the small African republic of Benin erupts into chaos.
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Afternoon Play - A Dangerous Thing
Biographical drama by John Sessions about the enduring friendship between two giants of 18th-century literature, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift.
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Afternoon Play - A Dose of Fame
By Stephen Wakelam. In the final stages of writing Howards End, EM Forster grapples with a mysterious death, his own sexuality and the seed of an idea for his next novel, Maurice.
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Afternoon Play - A Field of Hay
A Field of Hay: Gillian Clarke's play is a poetic celebration of rural summertime, set against the revelation of a family secret, previously concealed by religion and embarrassment.
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Afternoon Play - A Fire in the Sun
By Robin Mukherjee. A woman visits her parents in Spain after a fire which has destroyed their home. She discovers that her perceptions of her family history are not the full story.
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Afternoon Play - A Helping Hand
Dark comedy by Mike Stott. A drunk football supporter has been murdered on a train, and Dave 'Fat Boy' Davis is charged with solving the crime.
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Afternoon Play - A Killing
By Mike Walker. Prior to the credit crunch, four traders launch an aggressive new hedge fund. Two of them play it straight. The other two take a huge daring risk.
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Afternoon Play - A King's Speech
Alex Jennings stars as George VI in Mark Burgess's play, focusing on the close working relationship between the King and his Australian speech therapist, Lionel Logue.
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Afternoon Play - A Man Cut in Slices
A Man Cut in Slices, by Adrian Penketh. Paul Tate finds himself in the headlines across the world, unwittingly cast as the symbol of Londoners' defiance in the face of terrorism.
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Afternoon Play - A Man in Pieces
By Michael Symmons Roberts. Conor volunteers to test a new medical sonic scanner which records the sounds inside the body and which could revolutionise medical science.
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Afternoon Play - A Nice Little Holiday
By Sarah Wooley. 1961. Complex love affairs, breaking scandals and a famous letter of hatred to the British people turn playwright John Osborne's French holiday into a nightmare.
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Afternoon Play - A Night in the Ukraine
A Night in the Ukraine: Special adaptation of the Marx Brothers' award-winning musical, written by Dick Vosburgh and loosely based on Chekov's play The Bear.
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Afternoon Play - A Pattern in Shrouds
By Christopher Lee. In August 1979, after the IRA assassinate Lord Mountbatten and kill 18 British soldiers, three Whitehall grandees discuss the implications of the tragedy.
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Afternoon Play - A Place in the World
By Harriet O'Carroll. Following the 30 years war, Clara and Tobi flee Germany for the promise of a better life in Ireland. But what they find there is far from the Promised Land.
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Afternoon Play - A Prayer for Owen Meany
Five part adaptation of the John Irving novel, dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths. Beginning in New England in the 1950s, John Wheelwright narrates the story of his friendship with Owen Meany
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Afternoon Play - A Question of Royalty
Comedy by Andrew Lynch. Two bungling self-employed plasterers, ignorant of the constitutional crisis their actions could precipitate, steal The Queen's wedding certificate.
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Afternoon Play - A Regent's Tale
A Regent's Tale, by David Pownall. Having endlessly endured his father's refusal to give up the throne, an exasperated Prince of Wales turns to a playwright for some advice.
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Afternoon Play - A Second Life
Comic drama by Adam Beeson. Anxious to avoid all the mistakes in his life, a man appeals to Heaven to allow him to be born again with 'experience'.
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Afternoon Play - A Short Ride to Dusseldorf
By Janice Okoh. A chance meeting in a job centre offers Alison some easy money. All she has to do is fly to Germany and marry a complete stranger.
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Afternoon Play - A Shropshire Lad
A Shropshire Lad: A setting of AE Housman's famous poem, exploring the fleetingness of love and decay of youth, adapted for radio by Steven Canny. Performed by Simon Russell Beale.
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Afternoon Play - A Small Piece of Silence
By Katie Hims. When there is a fire in one of the flats managed by his council housing office, deaf Joe turns detective along with new recruit Shelly to find out what has happened.
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Afternoon Play - A Tiger for Malgudi
By R K Narayan, dramatised by Ronald Frame. An ageing tiger looks back on his life in a comic narrative viewing human absurdities through the eyes of a wild animal.
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Afternoon Play - A Two Pipe Problem
A Two Pipe Problem: By Michael Chaplin. Two inmates in a retirement home for members of the entertainment industry tackle a mystery involving a lost ventriloquist's dummy.
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Afternoon Play - A Warning to the Furious
By Robin Brooks. A feminist film-maker and her crew visit the Suffolk coast to make a documentary about ghost story writer MR James.
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Afternoon Play - A Wedding in Krakow
By Ewa Banaszkiewicz. Staszek returns to Krakow for his daughter's wedding. He has been dreading the visit, tortured by guilt and carrying a secret that he would like to keep.
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Afternoon Play - Abel's Law
Abel's Law: Hugh Costello's play is based on the story of Abel Ryder, an Oxfordshire shopkeeper who in 1875 broke the law and refused to have his child vaccinated against smallpox.
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Afternoon Play - Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams: By Mark Shand. When Abigail falls off the top of her tower block whilst painting a picture for her parents' anniversary, she contemplates her misfit teenage life.
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Afternoon Play - Accolades
By Christopher William Hill. In 1973, AL Rowse published Shakespeare The Man, in which he claimed to have decoded Shakespeare's sonnets. But was it simple misreading?
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Afternoon Play - Accomplices
Thriller by Simon Passmore. Former City lawyer Alice pays an increasingly high price to escape the grind of a life going relentlessly downhill.
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Afternoon Play - Address Unknown
Tim Dee's adaptation of Kressmann Taylor's novel, published in 1938. The rise of Nazism in Germany is encapsulated in an exchange of letters between two old friends.
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Afternoon Play - Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables: Michael Morpurgo's imaginative and humorous retelling of a clutch of Aesop's best-known stories, adapted from a stage production.
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Afternoon Play - Aftershock
Tina Pepler's drama-documentary tells the story of a young student who returns to Istanbul to find her friends there still trying to deal with the aftermath of the 1999 earthquake.
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Afternoon Play - Against the Grain
By Charlotte Greig. Young journalist Gemma is sent to interview former restaurateur Milo Markhov about his glossy new cookery book, which is the latest publishing sensation.
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Afternoon Play - Alan and Jean's Incredible Journey
Poignant comedy drama by Ian Kershaw. Alan and Jean are on vacation, but this is no ordinary holiday. They are spending it in their bedroom.
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Afternoon Play - Albert Speer's Walk Around the World
Michael Butt's play takes us on the imaginary journeys devised by Albert Speer throughout his 20 years in Spandau Prison in order to stay sane.
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Afternoon Play - Albert's Boy
By James Graham. Depicting the Albert Einstein's final years and the personal grief that prevented him from making one great final breakthrough.
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Afternoon Play - Alf Said I Was Great
Alf Said I Was Great: By Colin Shindler. Former league footballer Len Farley is less than impressed with today's pampered breed of player, including his son Will.
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Afternoon Play - Alice in Paris
Alice in Paris: Elizabeth Lewis' comic parable about the pitfalls of romantic fantasy. Alice is frightened of the reality of marriage to a farmer and runs away from her wedding.
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Afternoon Play - All At Sea
Topical thriller by Colin MacDonald. David Murdoch is on a post-redundancy cruise in the Indian Ocean when the ship runs into trouble off the pirate-ridden coast of Somalia.
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Afternoon Play - Amy's Spaghetti
Amy's Spaghetti: Colin Hough's comedy about love, sex, parenthood and dressing up as Sonny and Cher. Newly-widowed Eddie Beattie begins a desperate search for a woman.
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Afternoon Play - An Interlude of Men
An Interlude of Men, by Lesley Bruce. When Hilly breaks her wrist, her old friend Bren comes to help. They anticipate days of nostalgia, but their friendship is not that simple.
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Afternoon Play - An Unchoreographed World
Frances Byrnes's play explores a formative event in the life of the young dancer Margot Fonteyn, trapped in Holland during the German invasion of May 1940.
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Afternoon Play - Anaesthesia
By Richard Holmes. The story of how Humphry Davy, later celebrated for his miners lamp, came within a breath of discovering the anaesthetic powers of nitrous oxide.
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Afternoon Play - And the Rain My Drink
And the Rain My Drink, by Han Suyin. To mark the 50th anniversary of Malaysia's independence, an adaptation of the novel about the years leading up to the end of British rule.
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Afternoon Play - Annapurna
By Jod Mitchell. Tension mounts as a young English couple trek their way across a treacherous Himalayan mountain range and realise a mysterious Nepali is stalking them.
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Afternoon Play - Antimacassars and Ylang Ylang Conditioner
Comedy by Ian Potter. Eighty-year-old Frank is obsessed with coffee. One day, when he thinks he has run out, a trip to the shops turns into an odyssey.
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Afternoon Play - Apes and Angels
By Jim Eldridge. A clash over the teaching of creationism at a flagship academy school looks set to embarrass the schools minister and the industrialist behind the academy.
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Afternoon Play - Arabian Afternoons
Series of three plays set in Baghdad and inspired by tales from The Arabian Nights
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Afternoon Play - Aromatherapy
By Ed Harris. Robert returns from holiday in Thailand in crippling pain from an illness with a very unusual cure.
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Afternoon Play - Ashes to Antarctica
By Jim Eldridge. Widow Jill Foster is determined to scatter her husband's ashes on the wastes of Antarctica, to commemorate the work he did there years ago.
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Afternoon Play - Atching Tan
By Dan Allum. Young Traveller Lovvie has a decision to make. Does she marry her childhood sweetheart and live a traditional Traveller life, or defy her family to pursue her dreams?
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Afternoon Play - Audio Recordings of Human Traffic
Comedy thriller by Louise Wallinger. Confined to her flat after a skiing accident, Monica listens in to her neighbours' lives.
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Afternoon Play - August Birthdays
August Birthdays, by Frances Byrnes. On Katherine's 39th birthday, she walks the streets where she grew up and is drawn back to an earlier and more eventful birthday.
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Afternoon Play - Available Means
By Nick Warburton. Poet David witnesses the dark underbelly of an East European city and is forced, at a lecture he gives, to choose his words particularly carefully.
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Afternoon Play - Avenues of Eternal Peace
Student couple Kai-Liang and Chang Li join the Tiananmen Square protests, where their passions and ideas are put to the ultimate test.
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Afternoon Play - Away Day
Comedy by DJ Britton. At a regional airport somewhere in England, the ground services team are in disarray. So the boss decides it is time for a make-or-break away day.
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Afternoon Play - Bad by Default
Comedy by Leah Chillery. Tanya disappears with her mother's credit card to Jamaica to find her father, the man her mother said abandoned them.
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Afternoon Play - Bad Faith
By Peter Jukes. Jake Thorne is a Methodist minister and police chaplain who is battling with his own demons at the same time as trying to resolve the problems of his parishioners
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Afternoon Play - Badfellas
Comedy drama by Andy Lynch. The wheeler-dealer Brewer brothers find themselves in trouble with the American mafia on a trip to Las Vegas.
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Afternoon Play - Baguettes and Barms
Baguettes and Barms: Comedy by Christine Marshall. Anne has just started as a volunteer at a shelter for the homeless. She is also organising a big party for her husband.
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Afternoon Play - Baldi (series 5)
Series of murder mysteries for the Franciscan priest and philosophy lecturer
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Afternoon Play - Bang Went the Sun
By Mark Shand. Eva's mother is missing. But with her father sneezing in turquoise and acting orange, can Eva and her father even find each other, let alone their missing relative?
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Afternoon Play - Barbershopera!
By Rob Castell and Tom Sadler, with Sarah Tipple. When star tenor Tony quits his barbershop group on the eve of the Euro Barbershop Competition final, a replacement must be found.
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Afternoon Play - Baring Up
Comedy by Frank Rickarby. Fictionalised account of grandmother, town councillor and naturist Eileen Jakes' 1979 campaign to win the right to bare her naked body on Brighton beach.
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Afternoon Play - Be My Baby
Amanda Whittington's drama-documentary combines the fictional stories of young women who gave up their babies for adoption with the real stories of three adoptees.
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Afternoon Play - Bearing the Cross
Ken Blakeson's play tells the story of the Battle of Rorke's Drift and the effect it had on three of the soldiers who fought in it.
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Afternoon Play - Beijing's Slowest Elevator
Penny Leicester's adaptation of a specially commissioned short story by Xiaolu Guo. Zhang Yan has turned her back on her rural upbringing and is determined to make it in Beijing.
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Afternoon Play - Beirut Days
By Kris Kenway. A day in the life of the enigmatic city where east meets west. For three lost souls, this is the day when everything changes.
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Afternoon Play - Believe Me
When art teacher Rachel bumps into chef Tyrone on his first day in London it is the start of a sunny, passionate love affair, an affair that will take them into much darker places.
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Afternoon Play - Bell in the Ball
Comedy drama by Lloyd Peters. A blinded man tries to come to terms with his disability by reluctantly joining a blind cricket team.
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Afternoon Play - Belongings
Belongings, by Dominique Moloney. Two brothers breaking and entering face an awkward dilemma when they find the wife of their intended victim dead, with a suicide note by her side.
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Afternoon Play - Best Friends
By Clara Glynn. When Charlotte is convicted of killing her baby, her best friend Sam begins a campaign to clear her name and find out the truth.
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Afternoon Play - Betsy Coleman
By Katie Hims. When Betsy signs up to do some memory research to earn a bit of extra cash, she goes on a surprise journey through her tragic past.
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Afternoon Play - Bette and Joan and Baby Jane
Comedy by Tracy-Ann Oberman about the ongoing feud bewteen Bette Davis and Joan Crawford and the making of their 1961 film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Afternoon Play - Big in Samoa
By Marcy Kahan. Dog walker Caleb's life is about to change - an album he cut in his twenties and forgot about now has a huge online following.
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Afternoon Play - Big Pies
Comedy by Gill Adams about two lonely people and a lot of lying. Elaine and Ron are both too proud to admit what they are studying at night school or even that they like each other.
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Afternoon Play - Black and White Riot
By Edson Burton, set in the St Paul's Riots in Bristol. In the notorious Black and White Cafe, Ross is a princess and her dad is King of Hustlers. But he's about to lose his crown.
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Afternoon Play - Black Hearts in Battersea
Dramatisation by Lin Coghlan of Joan Aiken's classic children's adventure
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Afternoon Play - Black Out
Black Out, by Damian Barr and Laura Lockington. Dan and Lucy are to compete for the same job. They are also in denial about a recent one-night stand. Then they get stuck in a lift.
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Afternoon Play - Blame the Parents
Drama by Nicholas McInerny and Jonathan Myerson about teenagers caught up in a violent crime outside their school
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Afternoon Play - Blaze
By Ann Marie Di Mambro. As a young film maker follows Scottish designers and entrepreneurs Paul and Mhairi Blaze, their personal and professional world goes into freefall.
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Afternoon Play - Blinded by Science
By Paul Viragh. Rival research scientists Prof. Mike Hart and Dr Chris Murray compete with each other to be appointed the new government advisor on genetics.
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Afternoon Play - Blue Eyed Boy
Lindsey Coulson, Jane Godber and John Godber lead in the extraordinary true story of Lawrence Cross, the evacuee who never went home, by Helen Cross.
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Afternoon Play - Blue Sky Thinking
Ben Lewis's psychological thriller about love and identity. Karen is preparing for her wedding. But when a scrawny-looking stranger turns up, her life begins to fall apart.
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Afternoon Play - Boniface and Me
Boniface and Me, by Gillian Plowman. A recently widowed woman begins to write to an African child. The correspondence soon extends to his whole family and the teacher at his school.
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Afternoon Play - Books
By Tessa Hadley. The distinguished novelist Paul Sand died 20 years ago and now his wife has died too. At their seaside home, her daughter and a university researcher meet.
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Afternoon Play - Boom Boom
By Emily Steel. A car crash, and someone trapped in the wreckage. A middle-aged woman falls for a younger man. What's the connection? The link between the two stories is shattering.
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Afternoon Play - Brief Lives - Series 1
Series of four plays by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly set in a Manchester legal practice
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Afternoon Play - Brief Lives - Series 2
Series of four plays set in a Manchester legal practice, by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly
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Afternoon Play - Brief Lives - Series 3
Series of four plays set in a Manchester legal practice, by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly
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Afternoon Play - Bringing Eddie Home
Bringing Eddie Home: By John Peacock. A couple receive news that their soldier son has been killed in Aden. Thus begins a chain of events which will lead to changes in the law.
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Afternoon Play - Brought to Book
Brought to Book, by Joan Bakewell. Lucy has been appointed chair of the Widmerpool Prize for Fiction. As literary and personal pressures grow, can she maintain her high ideals?
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Afternoon Play - Buffalo Bill and Little Matty Dyer
By Peter Spafford. In 1903, the arrival in Leeds of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show changes the life of 15-year-old landlord's son Matty.
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Afternoon Play - Building Happiness
By Daniel Jamieson. Three lost people find unexpected meaning for their lives amidst the buildings and architecture of Bath.
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Afternoon Play - Burned to Nothing
By Rex Obano. Matthew Okpara leaves London for his native Nigeria in search of his son, Keith. Both are caught up in the politics of a land in turmoil.
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Afternoon Play - Caesar Price our Lord
By Fin Kennedy. Illusionist Caesar Price has reproduced most of the miracles of Jesus and built a cult following, but what will happen when he decides to stage the crucifixion?
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Afternoon Play - Can You Tell Me the Name of The Prime Minister?
Science fiction mystery by Martin Jameson. A week after the election, a psychiatrist is called to a secret government facility to interview a patient.
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Afternoon Play - Cancer Tales
By Nell Dunn, based on the real-life experiences of cancer patients and those close to them.
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Afternoon Play - Can't Live Without You
Psychological thriller by Kellie Smith. When Greg's partner Anna becomes ill and needs constant care Greg becomes intoxicated by her dependency.
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Afternoon Play - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Katie Hims's four-part dramatisation of Louis de Bernieres's best-selling novel
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Afternoon Play - Carbon Cleansing
By Sophie Woolley. When ex-banker Tabitha knocks 'green' activist Will off his bicycle with her 'Chelsea Tractor', two worlds literally collide.
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Afternoon Play - Carmella's Island
Lyrical drama by Jean Binta Breeze set on the Caribbean island of Maracou, a place where the power of masquerade can even reach out to an unhappy schoolteacher.
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Afternoon Play - Cats and Monkeys
Cats and Monkeys, by Catherine Shepherd. Eve has come to India following a bereavement. While everyone around her seeks enlightenment, she is only concerned with a legal document.
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Afternoon Play - Cattle Market
By Shane Connaughton. Finding love is proving elusive for one Northern Ireland farming community. If only these eligible farmers could find a way to advertise themselves.
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Afternoon Play - Cavalry
Cavalry, by Dan Rebellato. Four men are waxing saddles, cleaning spurs, polishing bridles and weapons. They are preparing for battle, but which one? And which century are we in?
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Afternoon Play - Cavity
Comedy drama by Sean Grundy. Kirsty is having an affair with a married man, Adrian. When his wife returns unexpectedly from a business conference, Kirsty hides in the attic.
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Afternoon Play - Chameleon
Comedy thriller by Vicky Meer. A London drug dealer, relocated under a witness protection scheme, becomes a vegetarian postman living in a former council semi in Gretna.
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Afternoon Play - Chameleon in Town
By Vicky Meer, reuniting the central characters from her play, Chameleon. DI Charles Baldico once again needs Mo to be a witness in another high-profile trial.
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Afternoon Play - Chatterton: The Allington Solution
The first radio play by historian Peter Ackroyd. Did the Romantic poet Chatterton commit suicide in 1770? Or was he killed? Historian Jeremy Allington investigates.
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Afternoon Play - Chequebook and Pen
Johnny Vegas pays tribute to Les Dawson in a comic flight of fancy, imagining how the BBC might have chosen Les to host gameshow, Blankety Blank.
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Afternoon Play - Children in Need: All the Blood in My Veins
Specially commissioned with Children in Need. Viola, a 14-year-old girl, has responsibilities beyond her age. With Shannon Tarbet and Elaine Lordan.
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Afternoon Play - Children in Need: Everything
One of two special Afternoon Plays, commissioned with BBC Children in Need, 'Everything' tells the story of 7 days in a refuge for runaways.
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Afternoon Play - Chloe
A darkly comic tour de force by Mike Stott. From the cell where she stays at Her Majesty's pleasure, Chloe Temple-Carstairs shares her story. With Alison Steadman.
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Afternoon Play - Chocolate Frigates
Chocolate Frigates, by Juliet Ace. Can life carry on as normal with a son away at war? Jack thinks it can and must, but his wife and son are less certain.
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Afternoon Play - Christmas Eve
Comic drama by Adam Beeson. As the snow falls on Christmas Eve in the Ukrainian village of Dikanka, a witch and a devil are in league to steal the moon and stars.
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Afternoon Play - Chronicles of Ait
By Michael Butt. Psychologist Alice Pyper arrives in the east coast settlement of Ait to investigate a young girl's claims to second sight.
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Afternoon Play - Churchill Confidential: Return to Power
Churchill Confidential: Return to Power. Penny Leicester's dramatisation of cabinet meetings during Winston Churchill's premiership between October 1951 and April 1955.
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Afternoon Play - Ciao Bella!
The Zebborini family run a deli in Brighton. Will the business survive now old Carlo's dead? An Italian feast of a play full of music, passion and pasta, to make a tasty listen.
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Afternoon Play - Cinders
Comedy by Ali Taylor lifting the lid on the ethics of publishing war-torn misery memoirs. Emma discovers a brilliant new talent in the unsolicited pile.
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Afternoon Play - Circus Train
Adaptation by Louis Nowra of a story by Margarita Sharapova. Abandoned by their train, two circus performers and a giant dog meet a succession of eccentric travellers.
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Afternoon Play - Clear Air Turbulence
By Dana Fainaru. Mel's idyllic existence is turned upside-down when she suddenly stops sleeping and embarks upon increasingly risky nocturnal adventures.
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Afternoon Play - Clear Water
Clear Water: By Stephen Phelps. In the autumn of 1999, Alan Maclean disappeared from a yacht travelling from the Seychelles to France. This charts his father's search for the truth.
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Afternoon Play - Close Your Eyes, Raise Your Arms
Close Your Eyes, Raise Your Arms, by Ewa Banasckiewicz. Elsa goes on holiday with her mum for what is intended to be a new beginning. But the past soon catches up with them.
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Afternoon Play - Cobwebs
Psychological drama by David Hodgson. Greg Drake is just getting his life back together after the death of his wife. But then his house is broken into when he is asleep.
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Afternoon Play - Cold
Comedy by Tony Bagley, set in 1959. Medical researchers are sure that a cure for the cold is just around the corner. But they haven't foreseen a revolution within their own walls.
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Afternoon Play - Corner
Corner: Edson Burton's smouldering thriller, set in inner-city Bristol. When an Asian shop is burnt down by two masked black men, community tensions rise and friendships are tested.
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Afternoon Play - Country Life
Shelagh Delaney's play is set on a smallholding during the Foot and Mouth epidemic of 2001. Three people all want to change the world but don't know how.
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Afternoon Play - Crime and Trial Rage on the Road
Documentary drama exploring the complex anatomy of a crime and trial. It becomes apparent that the killing of Lee Harvey was an incident even more astonishing than it first seemed.
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Afternoon Play - Cry Babies
Sci-fi drama by Kim Newman, set in the near future. A couple decide to have a daughter birthed by a surrogate mother and reared to adulthood in a cryogenic chamber.
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Afternoon Play - Curry Tales
Curry Tales, by Rani Moorthy. Four cooks share their secrets, including mood fusion curries for New Delhi society, a legacy in Malaysia, and an accountant's egg curry in London.
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Afternoon Play - Cut me and I Bleed Elvis
Cut Me and I Bleed Elvis, by Louise Wallinger. Sarah has 48 hours before she has to give up her favourite pastime of collecting voices on tape.
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Afternoon Play - Cut to the Heart
Cut to the Heart: Nicola Wilson's play explores the aftermath of an affair. When Ted leaves Alice for her best friend, it takes ten years for the ripples of betrayal to die down.
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Afternoon Play - Daphnis and Chloe
Daphnis and Chloe: Hattie Naylor's adaptation of Longus's ancient Greek story of two naive young lovers beset by pirates, aided by supernatural forces and the power of love.
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Afternoon Play - Darkness
Darkness, by DJ Britton. When he learns that he has inherited macular degeneration from his mother, surgeon Dan Walsh decides that he needs to know what living in the dark is like.
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Afternoon Play - Darling Alicia
Darling Alicia: The story of a relationship which began by correspondence, based on 160 unpublished letters from the 1960s. With Celia Meiras, Carl Prekopp.
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Afternoon Play - Dave the Dead Lefty
Dave, the Dead Lefty, by Mervyn Stutter. The surviving members of a radical 1970s theatre group are reunited at the funeral of their former roadie.
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Afternoon Play - Daybreak
Daybreak, by Tom Ray. A week after his wife has left him, Phil wakes up one morning to find that the sun has not risen. He is forced to reveal his extraordinary secret.
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Afternoon Play - Dear Writer
By Jane Rogers. Ten-year-old Polly sends an email to her favourite author, asking why there have been no new books published recently.
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Afternoon Play - Death of a Pirate
Death of a Pirate: The final broadcast of a pirate radio operator with outspoken views.
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Afternoon Play - DEIA
Two couples go on holiday to the beautiful Balearic village of Deia in Northern Majorca and an puzzle begins to unfold. Is there a rational explanation, or do ghosts really exist?
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Afternoon Play - Deja Vu
Performed in French and English, Alexis Zegerman's drama tells the story of a love affair between a woman from London and a Paris-based French Algerian man.
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Afternoon Play - Delayed Departures
By Matthew Solon. When a flight to Dubrovnik is delayed, the passengers are forced to wait. Among them is Laura Clarke, a doctor stuck in the past.
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Afternoon Play - Depth Charge
By Fiona Mackie. Den, a retired submariner, is short on cash and short on dreams until Joe enters his life and promises him the chance to breathe again.
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Afternoon Play - Desperate Measures
By David Ian Neville. As the economic downturn bites, Paul and Mhairi Blaze struggle to save their design business and their relationship.
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Afternoon Play - Development
Dark comedy by Doug Lucie. When property developer Mike's debts are called in, the family au pair's brother offers a solution. But is it what it seems?
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Afternoon Play - Devil in the Fog
Two-part dramatisation of Leon Garfield's thrilling 18th century mystery adventure
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Afternoon Play - Dewey Eyed
By Sarah Naomi Lee. When librarian Philippa's mother loses her wits through grief, she tries to communicate with her through the language of the Dewey cataloguing system.
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Afternoon Play - Diamond Lil
Linda Wilkinson's play is based on the story of a real-life transvestite double act who delighted audiences in pubs all over the East End during the 40s.
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Afternoon Play - Dickens Confidential
Series of plays looking at how Charles Dickens, as the head of a daily newspaper, would have bought the news to the masses
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Afternoon Play - Dickens Confidential
Series of plays looking at how Charles Dickens, as the head of a daily paper, would have tackled bringing the news to the masses
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Afternoon Play - Dignity
Semi-autobiographical drama by Laura McDaid about the turmoil that led her partner to pursue assisted suicide.
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Afternoon Play - Dinner in the Iguanodon
Dinner in the Iguanodon, by Chrissie Gittins. On New Year's Eve 1854, 21 leading scientists celebrate the creation of 33 life-size dinosaurs in the new Crystal Palace Park.
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Afternoon Play - Dog Dazed Afternoon
By Ben Crompton. Liam and Mickey's dog-walking scheme looks set to fail when, amid stolen cars and local gangsters, they lose their first client.
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Afternoon Play - Dolly
By Christopher Douglas, based on the real events surrounding the selection of Basil D'Oliveira for the England cricket team to tour his native South Africa in 1968.
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Afternoon Play - Do's and Don'ts for the Mentally Interesting
By Louise Ramsden, based on Seaneen Molloy's blog The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive, her account of learning to live and love with bipolar disorder.
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Afternoon Play - Dreaming in English
By John Godber and Jane Thornton. Since emigrating from Poland, Magda has made a good life for herself in Hull. But now her brother is coming to stay.
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Afternoon Play - Dropping Bombs
Bittersweet comedy by Paul Cotter. 65 years after a bungled bombing raid, a former RAF pilot visits Germany to deliver an apology. The trip turns out to be explosive for all.
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Afternoon Play - Drowning
Drowning, by Mike Walker. Richard Parker goes to Norfolk after receiving a message that his aunt has died. When he arrives, he finds that nothing is as it should be.
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Afternoon Play - Dude, Who Stole My Title?
Dude, Who Stole My Title?: Olly Smith stars in his own play about his quest to reclaim an ancient ancestor's title. But he only has 24 hours.
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Afternoon Play - East Coast Girls Are Hip
Comedy by Ian McMillan. What would have happened if Grimsby, rather than Liverpool, had been the cradle of pop music in the 1960s? With Fine Time Fontayne.
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Afternoon Play - Edith's Story
By Robin Glendinning. The true story of Edith Scholem, 16-year-old daughter to the leader of Germany's communists, who in 1934 was forced to flee Berlin.
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Afternoon Play - Edward Alleyn's Devil
Edward Alleyn's Devil: Nicola Baldwin's play is set in London in 1605. Edward Alleyn, the most famous actor of day, believes that he has seen a devil on stage.
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Afternoon Play - Eight Feet High and Rising
Comedy by Ali Taylor. Liam, an 8ft 6ins recluse, lives with his mother, who is too fat to leave the house and advertises for people to pay to come look at her giant son.
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Afternoon Play - Eight Feet High and Rising
by Ali Taylor. Giant. Upstairs. Ten quid a look. A touchingly real and comically disingenuous story about the awkwardness of being misshapen, and the misery of not fitting in.
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Afternoon Play - Eight Frames a Second
Eight Frames a Second: Gary Bleasdale's play focuses on a week in the life of William Friese-Greene, a pioneer in the field of motion pictures.
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Afternoon Play - Elephant and Castle
Romantic comedy by Robin Baker. Ian hates his job and is eternally single. In walks Kat and everything changes.
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Afternoon Play - Elevenses with Twiggy
Elevenses with Twiggy, by Simon Farquhar. The 1960s are nearly over and young Jackie Addison is running out of time if he is going to make it south to Swinging London.
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Afternoon Play - English in Afghanistan
By Ryan Craig. Two British soldiers embark on a perilous quest to retrieve a love letter. A modern-day fable set against the backdrop of war-torn Afghanistan.
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Afternoon Play - Envy
One day on the beach, Clare impulsively steals the handbag of a glamorous executive and sets about stealing her dream life. But there is a fine line between a dream and a nightmare.
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Afternoon Play - Escape from Gaza
By Justin Butcher and Ahmed Masoud. In summer 2009, Ahmed Masoud left his pregnant wife to visit his sick mother. An everyday occurrence for most, but Ahmed's family live in Gaza.
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Afternoon Play - Eve Blinked
Eve Blinked, by Margaret Heffernan. Four American businesswomen get caught in New York when their flight to Boston is cancelled. As the evening unfolds they share their stories.
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Afternoon Play - Every Child Matters
Social worker Joanne has been suspended from her job and her name plastered over the tabloids, but she can't resist getting back involved in a controversial case.
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Afternoon Play - Excerpt from a Dog's Ear
By Kavyasiddhi. Dodging impending fatherhood, Dan has escaped to the beach he used to visit as a child in search of answers.
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Afternoon Play - Excluded
A headmaster sends all the bad pupils on a field trip during inspection week. However, the teacher leading the expedition has problems of his own.
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Afternoon Play - Expand This
When Alex and Gemma are alerted to a picture of their daughter performing a sex act posted on the internet, they unite in adversity. But far worse is yet to come.
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Afternoon Play - Fair Play
Fair Play: By Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal and dramatised by Sue Glover. The play is a series of vignettes depicting the love between two older women.
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Afternoon Play - Family Soup
By Elizabeth Lewis. Charlie's ability to write his family newspaper column is tested when his family decamp to Italy, leaving him with a hyperactive father-in-law and a tame rat.
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Afternoon Play - Far North
By Louis Nowra. A boy and his young mother take to the road across Australia in search of the freedom and love she craves. Directed by Jane Ulman.
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Afternoon Play - Fear and Loathing in Crouch End
Comedy drama by Malcolm Burgess. Estonian au pair Monika discovers that paradise might not exist in Crouch End, especially in the Christmas period.
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Afternoon Play - Feather
By Rachel Joyce. Fern believes in magic and Father Christmas. She is collecting feathers because they can make wishes come true, and Fern has a big and important wish.
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Afternoon Play - Fifteen
By Deborah Wain. Neglected and secretly pregnant, 15-year-old foster child Ellie looks for love in the wrong place until it finds her with a power she never expected.
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Afternoon Play - Fifteen Ways to Leave Your Lover
Fifteen Ways to Leave Your Lover: Comedy by Carolyn Scott-Jeffs, following the fortunes of a couple who can't live together and can't survive apart.
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Afternoon Play - Filthy Rich
Black comedy by Michael Butt. Max is set to inherit a small fortune when he turns 25, but standing between him and the money is his sister Katrin. And then there's the grandmother.
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Afternoon Play - Final Demands
Series of plays by Frederic Raphael reuniting the characters from his novel The Glittering Prizes. Decades have passed, and we now catch up with Adam Morris and his friends (and enemies) in the 1990s
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Afternoon Play - Fire of the Dragon
Holed up in Harlech Castle, the bowed but unbeaten Owain Glyndwr determines to fight Henry IV to the last drop of Welsh blood. But reluctant recruit Huw has ideas of his own.
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Afternoon Play - Fireflies
By Tena Ã…Â tiviÄÂić. Chance encounters and strange revelations abound as six people wait in a weather-stricken airport.
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Afternoon Play - Fireworks at the Villa Lucia
Comedy by Paul Mendelson. A struggling writer tries to sell his screenplay to a cult movie director and pressgangs his wife into masquerading as a psychotic Venezuelan ex-soap star.
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Afternoon Play - First Bite of the Air
First Bite of the Air, by Stephanie Dale. In this drama-documentary, the people of Kerseley talk about their lives around the closure of their colliery, alongside a magical drama.
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Afternoon Play - Flaw in the Motor, Dust in the Blood
Exploration of life with bipolar disorder by Trevor Preston. When Thomas dreams, he's in the world of the crime thriller; his daily life is rather less glamorous.
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Afternoon Play - For Ever England
By Tom Green. Now living abroad, Steve discovers his estranged son Matt has been killed serving in Afghanistan. He returns to England anxious to do the right thing.
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Afternoon Play - Forty-Three Fifty-Nine
Forty-Three Fifty-Nine: By Mike Walker and John Dryden. Former FSB agent Dmitri Petrovich, now a dissident living in London, thinks someone is trying to assassinate him.
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Afternoon Play - Forty-Three Fifty-Nine- Assassins
By John Dryden and Mike Walker. Henry, a professional killer, is sent to Hastings to assassinate a hedge fund manager. But all is not right in Henry's mind.
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Afternoon Play - Forty-Three Fifty-Nine - Wake
Comedy by Katie Hims. Jess takes a day trip to kiss her dead first love goodbye. One lie leads to another and, before they know it, Jess and her mother Avril are in a real pickle.
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Afternoon Play - Forty-Three Fifty-Nine: Yara
Forty-Three Fifty-Nine: Yara. By Mike Walker and John Dryden. City worker Grant finds himself caught up in in a catastrophe in which many will die if he fails to act decisively.
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Afternoon Play - Foundling
By Nick Warburton. A man famous for finding lost people arrives in a small town. Why will he not help a young woman find her lost child?
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Afternoon Play - Four Steps to Heaven
Four Steps to Heaven: Comedy by Lloyd Peters. Can mild-mannered actor Chris Batty convert to Judaism and win the love of his girlfriend's parents?
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Afternoon Play - Frank
Comedy by poet Ian McMillan. Unemployed Frank starts fiddling the dole. He has to find someone to sign on in his place, so he creates a doppelganger.
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Afternoon Play - Fred Rimble
The charming story of Jim Conlon's fervent attempts to cure his hypochondriac mother. With Ardal O'Hanlon, Doreen Keogh, Tina Kellegher and Frank Kelly.
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Afternoon Play - Fridays When It Rains
By Nick Warburton. A girl on a late night train journey meets a man with a strange tale to tell. With Clive Swift, Lyndsey Marshal. Directed by Claire Grove.
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Afternoon Play - From Abstraction
By Robert Thorogood. Paul is young, rich and in love. So why does he lock himself in the library and refuse to open the door to anyone? But he cannot lock everyone out.
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Afternoon Play - From Abstraction
By Stephen Phelps. Matthew Coleman, Professor of English, has a sideline developing the art and science of linguistic forensics. His expertise is needed for a strange murder case.
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Afternoon Play - From Lagos with Love
By Janice Okoh. A lawyer in a London firm uncovers a fraud in a Nigerian oil company. He also falls in love with his contact in Lagos. Then she disappears.
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Afternoon Play - From Paradise to Heaven
Natalia Power's account of the life of former Poet Laureate John Masefield. Pain and sorrow alternate with joy and triumph as he travels the world.
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Afternoon Play - Funeral Games
Joe Orton's black comedy on the subject of religious hypocrisy helped create the climate of change that would end the power of the official censor over British theatre productions.
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Afternoon Play - Gandhi's Goat
By Matthew Coombes. Gandhi and Chaplin meet in London in 1931. But the real cultural exchange is taking place between members of their respective entourages.
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Afternoon Play - Gentleman Jim
Dramatisation by Raymond Briggs of his graphic novel of the same title. It is the story of Jim Bloggs, a toilet attendant who dreams of a better life for him and his wife Hilda.
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Afternoon Play - Gerontius
Stephen Wyatt's play explores the relationship between Cardinal Newman and Fr Ambrose St John, and the decision to open the grave in which both priests were buried.
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Afternoon Play - Getting the Joke
Getting the Joke: Neil Brand's play is based on Donald McGill, who created some of Britain's most popular seaside postcards. He was arrested on obscene publication charges.
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Afternoon Play - Getting to Four Degrees
By Sarah Woods. What if global warming reaches four degrees - or more? Three real-life climate change experts spin one average family into the future.
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Afternoon Play - Getting to Zero
By Sarah Woods. An expert panel set an average family the task of eliminating their carbon footprint in just six weeks - and living with the consequences.
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Afternoon Play - Gift
By Philip Palmer. A son offers to donate a kidney to his father. But there's more to this gift than either man wishes to let on, and the medics are faced with an ethical dilemma.
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Afternoon Play - Gilda and Her Daughters
Comedy drama by Carine Adler about a mother and her three daughters who gather at their family home after the death of the father.
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Afternoon Play - Girl from Mars
By Lucy Caldwell. Eleanor's sister Amy disappeared five years ago. Since then, her family have been waiting and wondering what happened to her and where she is.
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Afternoon Play - Giselle
Hattie Naylor's reworking of the ballet, a story of hidden identities, thwarted love and deceased brides who dance men to death.
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Afternoon Play - God Bless Our Love
Romantic comedy by Ray Connolly about a priest and a nun who fall in love and leave their orders to marry and begin a new life together.
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Afternoon Play - God Blind Me
God Blind Me: Sarah Daniels's play depicts the relationship between a teacher of Braille and an imprisoned child abuser. With Penelope Wilton, Ian Hogg, Ron Cook.
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Afternoon Play - Going for Broke
With debts rising and their pension scheme in meltdown, Colin and Marion set out to milk the system for all it's worth.
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Afternoon Play - Goldengrove
By Frances Byrnes. Spinster Margaret teaches Narn, a city child, how to shake hands, polish silver and identify birds. Most of all, she teaches her how to speak.
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Afternoon Play - Goldfish Girl
Goldfish Girl, by Peter Souter. Joe can remember everything about Ally, the love of his life for ten years. Ally, however, can remember nothing about Joe.
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Afternoon Play - Gold's Fool
Paul B Davies's play is based on the story of how Elizabeth I mounted a reckless foreign adventure, convinced that the black rocks of Baffin Island were rich in precious ore.
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Afternoon Play - Gondwanaland
Stephen Keyworth's drama inspired by the friendship between family planning pioneer Marie Stopes and explorer Captain Robert Scott.
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Afternoon Play - Good Evening
Roy Smiles' celebration of the Beyond the Fringe team takes a funny and affectionate look at how four young men from Oxbridge changed the face of British comedy.
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Afternoon Play - Grace
Intimate family drama by Mick Gordon and AC Grayling. Grace, a scientist and champion of atheism, is faced with the decision of her son Tom to become a priest.
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Afternoon Play - Gracey and Me
By Gillian Plowman. Kate returns to South Africa to meet Gracey, the woman she betrayed twenty-five years before at the height of apartheid.
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Afternoon Play - Grey Expectations
Graham Slater has 200 billion pounds to get rid of, since most of the world's toxic loans have materialised in his office - which happens to be in a parallel universe.
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Afternoon Play - Guilty Until Proved Innocent
By Deborah Davis. When Dina and Jake rush their baby daughter to hospital, little do they realise that it is the beginning of a nightmare from which it seems there is no escape.
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Afternoon Play - Hands
Hands, by Courttia Newland. Anissa Marie struggles to claim her ancestral gift, the power to heal with her hands. With Seroca Davies, Michael Obioro, Pooja Ghai, Nadine Marshall.
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Afternoon Play - Hard Frosts in Florence
Hard Frosts in Florence: By David Pownall, specially written for the late Paul Scofield. A troubled Michelangelo returns to Florence to view his statue of David for the last time.
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Afternoon Play - Hard Road
Hard Road, by Simon Vinnicombe. Struggling both at school and at home, Bradley decides he has to get away. But travelling is never that easy.
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Afternoon Play - Harpo Goes to Leningrad
Harpo Goes to Leningrad: Lee Pressman's play is based on the true story of Harpo Marx's 1933 tour of Russia. He finds himself alone with only his burly female minder for company.
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Afternoon Play - Harry and the Angels
By Bernard Kops. A story of lost love, kite flying, angels and tube station tragedy, set in London's East End.
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Afternoon Play - Haunted
A dark psychological thriller by Sally Griffiths in which a TV illusionist and a medium both have their belief systems tested when a voice from the past refuses to keep silent.
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Afternoon Play - Headliner
By Neil Brand. Important elections loom in the eastern European state of Khovakhia when up-and-coming stand-up comedienne Katya Kalugin is befriended by US comic Doug Stokowski.
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Afternoon Play - Heads You Win, Tails I Lose
A drama of risks and probabilities by Peter Kesterton. Nigel is trapped in a dead-end job. He meets Kat, who spins coins to decide her future.
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Afternoon Play - Heifers and Bulls
Heifers and Bulls, by Elizabeth Lewis. Resting Actress Honeysuckle Spriggs arrives in a remote Welsh village to set up a matchmaking agency for lonely, isolated Welsh hill farmers.
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Afternoon Play - Hell and High Water
Marlene encourages her friend Kay to spend a weekend at a spiritual health centre in the country. Will self-exploration and soul searching help them ring changes in their lives?
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Afternoon Play - Henry's Girls
Alan Stafford's reconstruction of the first performance of an English opera, Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, at a girls' boarding school in Chelsea in 1689.
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Afternoon Play - High Hopes
By Rob Kinsman. When he was nine, Charlie was kidnapped. He never knew who was behind it. Years later, when another child goes missing, he has a chance to discover the truth.
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Afternoon Play - High-Lites
Farce by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding, set in and around Bev's hairdressing salon, High-Lites, where a little lie spreads through the village like wildfire.
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Afternoon Play - Higher
Joyce Bryant's satire on tertiary education. Karen is the head of the Geography Department at Hayborough University. On open day, she is keen to attract the right students.
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Afternoon Play - Higher - Inspection
It is no coincidence that when David Poll is earmarked for disciplinary measures leading to possible dismissal, the Quality Assurance Inspectorate should turn up.
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Afternoon Play - Higher - Partners
Neurotic and emotionally-stunted lecturer David Poll is tasked with finding partners in industry to work with the Geography department.
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Afternoon Play - Highgate Letters
A quirky and darkly comic drama by Jeff Young about life in Highgate, north London. When Joe's daughter chalks on the pavement, he is accused of vandalism.
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Afternoon Play - Hindenburg
By Christopher William Hill. A reclusive English former photographer living in New York guards a complicated past involving her time in Germany just before the Hindenburg disaster.
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Afternoon Play - Hiraeth in Hughesovka
Hiraeth in Hughesovka: Colin Thomas's drama documentary is set in the steel town of Hughesovka, established in the Ukraine in the 1870s by Welsh capitalist John Hughes.
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Afternoon Play - Hitched
Two plays by Doug Lucie which satirise our obsession with weddings and happy-ever-afters
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Afternoon Play - Hive Mind
By Simon Bovey. The near future: farmer Sam Clark has struggled to raise a crop since the honeybee became extinct. But now, controversial new technology may provide the answer.
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Afternoon Play - HMS Surprise
Naval battles, political intrigue and romantic rivalry in Roger Danes's dramatisation of Patrick O'Brian's novel, set in 1804 in England, India and on the high seas
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Afternoon Play - Hoffnung - Drawn to Music
Comedy by Alan Stafford, exploring the bizarre world of musical humorist Gerard Hoffnung and his 1956 attempt to stage a music festival to bring his cartoon creations to life.
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Afternoon Play - Homesick
Comedy by Anita Sullivan. Jeff's mundane life changes when he is struck by a bolt from the blue. He starts hearing a voice in another language, meets a girl and falls in love.
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Afternoon Play - Homestead
By Francis Turnly. Daniel Brennan and his family downsize to a small farm in the country. Struggling to fit in, their hopes of a new start are dashed by a campaign of intimidation.
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Afternoon Play - Hong Kong by Night
Love story by In-Sook Chappell. Locked out of her apartment, Poppy can either wait in the lobby for morning or accept Arthur's invitation to explore Hong Kong by night.
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Afternoon Play - Horst Buchholz and Other Stories
By Matthew Wilkie. George is desperate for his team to win the pub quiz. He has bet a large sum, which he doesn't have, that they will do so.
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Afternoon Play - House Rules
House Rules, by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. Burnt-out gambler Spike just wants a quiet life. But when his own son comes to him with a proposition for one last game, how can he refuse?
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Afternoon Play - How Are You Feeling, Alf?
By James Graham, set in 1979. Can Labour stalwart Alf, ill and dying in a Leeds hospital, make it down to London in time for a crucial vote to help the ailing government?
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Afternoon Play - How Not to Run a Foreign Policy
How Not to Run a Foreign Policy: Comedy by John Fletcher, set in 1937. Chamberlain needs to come to an accommodation with Hitler and Mussolini, and Anthony Eden is sure to object.
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Afternoon Play - How to Be a More Interesting Person
How to Be a More Interesting Person, by Gary Ogin. Donald is convinced that he is too boring for Amy. Maybe someone could show him how to be more interesting?
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Afternoon Play - How To Be An Internee With No Previous Experience
Drama by Colin Shindler based on the controversy that surrounded PG Wodehouse's wartime radio broadcasts from a Nazi internment camp.
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Afternoon Play - How To Be An Internee With No Previous Experience
By Anita Sullivan. Drew is brought into A&E by a car-driver who saw him come off his motorbike. He is concussed but that's not all. Andrew has forgotten who he is.
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Afternoon Play - How to Make Your First Billion, part 1
By Matthew Solon. Entrepreneur Jake and technical whizz Subash decide to go into business together with a vision for an internet business which they believe will change the world.
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Afternoon Play - How to Make Your First Billion, part 2
By Matthew Solon. Entrepreneur Jake and technical whizz Subash decide to go into business together with a vision for an internet business which they believe will change the world.
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Afternoon Play - How to Remember the Dead
How to Remember the Dead, by Jemma Kennedy. When an old Polish man drops dead in the street, John's life is thrown out of kilter.
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Afternoon Play - Hudson and Pepperdine Save the Planet
Comedy about climate change and how to combat it. The government set up a working party from within the broadcasting industries to brainstorm solutions to the climate change crisis.
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Afternoon Play - Humanly Possible
Sarah Daniels's play follows two babies, their parents and staff through one day in a neonatal intensive care unit.
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Afternoon Play - I Am I Said
By Paul Mendelson. Following a minor stroke, renowned education troubleshooter and proud Scot Sandy Morrison is left speaking with an English accent.
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Afternoon Play - I Before Bee
By Chris Wilson. Teenager Michael Croxley's stammer has contributed to his fear of public speaking. To his horror, he finds that he's competing in the national school spelling bee.
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Afternoon Play - I Believe I Have Genius
I Believe I Have Genius: Judith Adams's play is based on the writings of Charlotte Bronte describing her experiences when she travelled to Brussels to study at a girls' school.
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Afternoon Play - I Love Stephen Fry
By Jon Canter. In her dreams bored housewife Jackie fantasises about Stephen Fry. He's everything her husband is not: eloquent, learned and gay. Should she tell him she loves him?
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Afternoon Play - I Wish to Apologise for My Part in the Apocalypse
Duncan Macmillan's romantic comedy about the end of the world, a woman who falls in love with the moon, and her husband who falls back in love with her.
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Afternoon Play - Icarus Falling
By Jonathan Davidson. Artist Peter Lord, living and working in Cornwall, seeks to expand his horizons. To the astonishment of everyone, he takes up gliding.
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Afternoon Play - ID
Dark thriller by Tajinder Singh Hayer about Asian identity in modern Britain. An Asian man walks into a Manchester police station and says he thinks he is about to murder someone.
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Afternoon Play - Imagining Them
Three New Yorkers imagine people whom they would have liked to know better. Written and performed by Wendy Spero, Meg Wolitzer and David Cale.
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Afternoon Play - In a Bamboo Grove
In a Bamboo Grove: Judith Adams's dramatisation of the famous short story by Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa. There are three very different accounts of a violent death.
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Afternoon Play - In a Land Far Away
By Andy Macdonald. A British soldier in Afghanistan struggles to show his emotions when a friend is killed on patrol and to communicate with his young son back home in Scotland.
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Afternoon Play - In Afghanistan - Poppy Seeds
by Rachel McGill. An aid worker in Afghanistan decides that the fight to contain the opium trade is not working and that a fresh approach is needed.
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Afternoon Play - In Form
Two-part series of drama-documentaries taking musical form as their starting point
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Afternoon Play - In Mates
Comedy by Sue Teddern. Housewife Michelle sends audio tapes to her new pen pal Randall, who is on Death Row.
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Afternoon Play - In Search of Oldton
In Search of Oldton: Tim Wright's search for a town that disappeared off the map and a life that never made it into the digital age. With David Ryall, Jonathan Cullen.
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Afternoon Play - Incident at Boulonvilliers
By Dave Sheasby. Three WWII veterans return to Normandy on a coach trip and are forced to confront a difficult incident back in 1944 and also their own 'heroism'.
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Afternoon Play - Incredibly Guilty: A Comic Moral Fable
Stephen Mangan stars as Ed a man who believes he's accidentally killed a National Treasure. Secrets abound and reputations are at stake in Marcy Kahan's comedy.
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Afternoon Play - Investigating Mr Thomas
Rob Gittins's play draws on archive material. When Time magazine printed a warts-and-all article about Dylan Thomas in 1953, the poet sued them for libel.
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Afternoon Play - Is He Still Breathing?
Is He Still Breathing? Drama-documentary by Howard Belgard, co-written with Nick Drake, exploring the world of the ambulance call centre.
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Afternoon Play - It's Better With Animals
By Mike Walker. An elderly proprietor of a fur shop in New York narrates three touching, funny and magical tales of animals, furs, and their impact on three different women.
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Afternoon Play - Ivan and the Dogs
By Hattie Naylor. The extraordinary true story of a boy who walked out of his Moscow home at the age of four and spent two years living on the city streets with a pack of wild dogs.
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Afternoon Play - Jack's Love
Jack's Love, by Michael Hastings. Duncan views his teenage son Jack as a good-for-nothing. Jack has spent time in a youth detention centre, but is Duncan himself without blame?
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Afternoon Play - Jane and Tom: The Real Pride and Prejudice
Jane and Tom: The Real Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth Lewis's dramatisation, based on letters from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, tells of the author's love for Tom Lefroy.
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Afternoon Play - Jim and Tonic
Dan Jamieson's magical modern version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice about a trainee gin distiller and his unrequited love.
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Afternoon Play - Jimmy Murphy Makes Amends
Jimmy Murphy Makes Amends: Black comedy by Andrew Doyle about friendship and the fear of God. Desperate to save himself, Jimmy sets out to make amends for all his wrongdoings.
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Afternoon Play - Jimmy's Letters
Jimmy's Letters: Andrew Sherlock's play is based on the true story of his parents' courtship, charted through Audrey's reminiscences and Jimmy's letters from his army days in Korea.
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Afternoon Play - Joseph and Joseph
By Oliver Emanuel. Identity theft is something that happens to others, but the person who stole Joseph's life seems to be having much more fun with it than he is.
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Afternoon Play - Juba FM
Juba FM: John Tuckey's fictionalised dramatisation of events during the months leading up to the signing of the peace treaty in Southern Sudan in 2005.
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Afternoon Play - Jump
Jump: Alexis Zegerman's drama is inspired by Event Horizon, Antony Gormley's current exhibition at the Hayward Gallery.
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Afternoon Play - Kaffir Lilies
By Sue Eckstein. When the dashing young Charles Middleton arrives in Nigeria in 1929, he strikes up an immediate friendship with Louisa, a married woman.
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Afternoon Play - Keep Your Pantheon
David Mamet's comedy of ancient Roman manners. An impoverished actor-manager and his troupe struggle to survive.
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Afternoon Play - Kepler's Mum's a Witch
Kepler's Mum's a Witch, by Stephen Sharkey. 17th-century German astronomer Johannes Kepler is appalled when his loud and annoying mother is accused of witchcraft.
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Afternoon Play - Ladies' Day
By Amanda Whittington. To celebrate her early retirement, Pearl takes her two best friends from work for a day at the races. The outing becomes a rollercoaster ride of emotions.
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Afternoon Play - Lamia
Adaptation of Keats' sensual narrative poem about the ill-starred love affair of the serpent Lamia and the innocent mortal Lycius. Narrated by Paterson Joseph; music by John Harle.
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Afternoon Play - Landscape
Two plays by Harold Pinter. 1: Landscape. A man and a woman sit deep in recollection. 2: The Examination. A man about to be questioned summons up every mental resource.
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Afternoon Play - Last Days of Grace
By Nick Warburton. Easter 1908 sees snow on the ground as WG Grace contemplates another day in his long career. Arriving at the Oval, the ageing icon trudges out into the cold.
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Afternoon Play - Last Family Standing
By Paul Watson. Charles, Marjorie and their grown-up children struggle to survive after the end of the Second World War. The consequences are recalled by surviving member Dorothy.
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Afternoon Play - Laura
Laura: Edwardian country house comedy, dramatised by Sue Eckstein from a short story by Saki. Laura falls ill while staying with her friend Amanda and her boring husband Egbert.
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Afternoon Play - Lawn Wars
Alice is a single middle-aged woman devastated after the loss of her mother. To fulfil a promise she made to herself on mother's deathbed, Alice takes on a gardener.
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Afternoon Play - Left at Marrakech
By Richard Stevens. In 1943, a B-17 takes off from Florida on its way to active service in England. But each leg of the journey is beset with increasing difficulty and danger.
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Afternoon Play - Left in Trust
By Sarah Daniels. When a young woman decides to write a play about the founder of the National Trust, it leads her to discover secrets about her own family.
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Afternoon Play - Legacy
By Cath Staincliffe. Probate detectives Rachel and Dan race to find the rightful heirs to an unclaimed estate and get a slice of the fortune.
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Afternoon Play - Legsy Gets a Break
By Phil Gladwin. Seventeen-year-old Legsy, recently out of the care system, is on a quest to find the brother he was separated from as a child.
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Afternoon Play - Lemon Meringue Pie
By Rachel Trezise. Katie Davies is 16 and in love, or possibly lust. Her mother would have a fit if she found out the identity of her suitor, but she has a secret all of her own.
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Afternoon Play - Lennon: A Week in the Life
By Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. When just 40 people turn up to John Lennon's memorial service in Liverpool, his old friend and promoter Sam Leach is forced to act.
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Afternoon Play - Leona Cash
By Mark Griffiths. Leona Cash is a 25-year-old music journalist cum investigator, who enters the underworld of classical music when she discovers the dead body of a teenage cellist.
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Afternoon Play - Lessons for the Loveless
By Richard Cameron. Four disaffected teenagers and their drama teacher aim to mount a play around the Seven Ages of Man. But time is not on their side.
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Afternoon Play - Life: An Audio Tour
Life: An Audio Tour. Comedy drama by Jules Horne. Jenny is trying to win Joe back after her disastrous affair. Her strategy is to offer him an audio tour of a small Scottish town.
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Afternoon Play - Life Complicated - Status Pending
By Marcy Kahan. Unable to get jobs, five recent graduates each invent their own imaginative and challenging three-week project.
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Afternoon Play - Life of Penguins
By Katie Hims. Merle is a penguin keeper at London Zoo. When her sister Beth fails to make a date, she realises that she has been abducted by aliens - not for the first time.
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Afternoon Play - Life Savings
By Sarah Wooley. Wealthy businessman Des Dixon rethinks his legacy when he suffers a heart attack and loses much of his fortune as his Bank of Scotland shares plummet.
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Afternoon Play - Lifecoach
By Nick Walker. Life coach Derby Anderson gets the job of a lifetime, with the secretary-general of the United Nations. But is she up to it?
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Afternoon Play - Lifeline
By PG Morgan. Three people fly to Bangkok on an all-expenses paid trip to test a new asthma treatment. But when the injections begin, everything starts to unravel.
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Afternoon Play - Like Listening to Springsteen
Like Listening to Springsteen, by Harriet O'Carroll. When Caro's waters broke, she little expected it to mean a lifetime caring for a brain-damaged child.
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Afternoon Play - Listen to the Words
By Ed Hime. Tim, who has a problem with empathy, books the media room of the secure unit where he is being held and creates a broadcast for his college radio station.
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Afternoon Play - Listen Up
By Ellen Dryden. Thomas has composed his first work for the amateur choir he founded. The performance is imminent. But Thomas's unpredictable behaviour is upsetting the choir.
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Afternoon Play - Listening to the Generals
By Adam Ganz. How German Jews were tasked with secretly recording and transcribing the conversations between German generals held in a London mansion during the Second World War.
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Afternoon Play - Listening to Time
By Judith Somerville. Hans and Anna meet by chance on the remote Aran Islands, the extraordinary beauty of which leads to them developing an unexpected and intense bond.
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Afternoon Play - Look Sharp
By Cath Staincliffe. A genealogist finds herself in danger when she uncovers a shocking family history.
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Afternoon Play - Looking for Angels: Quintessence
Looking for Angels: Quintessence. By Rachel Joyce. A year after the death of her boyfriend, Faith decides to drive down to their favourite place in Devon to scatter his ashes.
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Afternoon Play - Looking for Dad
By Michael Butt. Charlie's attempts at reconciliation with his estranged father are threatened by his wife's hostility to a man whom she has only ever met once.
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Afternoon Play - Lost in Plain Sight
Lost in Plain Sight: Dark comedy by Donna Franceschild. A teenager struggling to stay sane turns a corner when emails promising to change his life get mysteriously personal.
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Afternoon Play - Love Contract
Dark comedy by Mike Bartlett. Emma battles to hang on to her dignity in a series of increasingly bizarre interviews with her manager.
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Afternoon Play - Love in A Glass Jar
Comedy by Nancy Harris. Eve and Patrick begin chatting on a dating website and agree to meet face-to-face in a hotel room to carry out an unofficial sperm donation.
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Afternoon Play - Love-Shaped Thing
By Rebecca Papworth. When artist Guy escapes London to return to his home town of Halifax, he falls for 16-year-old Shona. Can she escape through his colourful canvasses?
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Afternoon Play - Loveboat
By Anjum Malik. Kiran and sister Shimla set out for a cruise on the Thames, but the trip is far from plain sailing when they discover the cruise is run by an introductions company.
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Afternoon Play - Love's Executioner
By Rachel Joyce, adapted from the case notes of Dr Irvin Yalom. Thelma is 70 years old and in love with a man 24 years her junior. Can psychotherapy cure her magnificent obsession?
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Afternoon Play - Maidens' Trip
David Ashton adapts Emma Smith's fictionalised 1948 memoir about the adventures of three young women doing their bit for the war effort.
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Afternoon Play - Maine Road
By Sarah McDonald Hughes. As the last game at Manchester City's Maine Road stadium approaches, a family in mourning for a grandmother face their own struggle to survive.
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Afternoon Play - Man of Steel
Man of Steel: Frances Byrnes's drama, set in Sheffield in 1982, is based on her own experience and that of her father and his friends as their lives are wrecked by redundancy.
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Afternoon Play - Mandrake
Irene threatens her neighbour when he suggests cutting down an adjoining tree. Ruth, a social worker, is drawn into her magical tale.
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Afternoon Play - Marmalade for Comrade Philby
Black comedy by Christopher William Hill. Mediocre novelist Patrick Bradyn discovers that his French translator has re-worked his latest spy novel as autobiography.
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Afternoon Play - Mayflies
By Mike Maddox. A retired astronomer receives news of a message from a distant world, the very sign of life he spent his career searching for. Is it safe to reply?
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Afternoon Play - McLevy - Series 5
Series of stories about David Ashton's Victorian detective based on real-life Edinburgh policeman Inspector James McLevy
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Afternoon Play - McLevy - Series 6
Series of stories about David Ashton's Victorian detective, based on real-life Edinburgh policeman Inspector James McLevy
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Afternoon Play - Me and Joe
Me and Joe, by David Spicer. Matt has a decision to make. Should he abandon full-time fatherhood, attempt to relive the faded glories of his past and try again for pop stardom?
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Afternoon Play - Me and my Man
Me and My Man: Comedy by Bettina Gracias. Odd couple Lal and Paul run a dry-cleaning shop. The path to true love is littered with obstacles including age difference and culture.
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Afternoon Play - Memorials to the Missing
Stephen Wyatt's play follows moves during World War I to establish an Imperial War Graves Commission to record the graves of those killed in action.
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Afternoon Play - Men of Hope
Paul Watson's drama explores sensitive male issues, difficult lives and sexual relationships as a group of men in a pub watch England's footballers fail at the 2010 World Cup.
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Afternoon Play - Mercy
WWI drama by Frances Byrnes. In 1916, two former PoWs being nursed back to health in a Swiss ski resort struggle to recover from their damaging experiences.
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Afternoon Play - Meryl the Mounted
Black comedy by Colin Hough. Meryl is a mounted police constable with an unhealthy love for her horse. When her sergeant is murdered, she and her stable boy Aiden investigate.
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Afternoon Play - Messages to a Submariner
Messages to a Submariner, by Nick Walker. Two submariners are desperate to return home. Jerry wants to see his baby being born and Brian is hoping his marriage can survive.
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Afternoon Play - Mike and Muriel Are Getting Married
Mike and Muriel Are Getting Married, by Nicholas Meiklejohn. Andy and Rebecca decide that their respective best mates are not suited. The problem is that they are getting married.
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Afternoon Play - Mind Out
Mind Out, by Jonathan Myerson. A whole family are undergoing self-help cognitive therapy without admitting it to each other. But will the therapist inside their head take over?
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Afternoon Play - Miracle Worker
Drama by Katharine Way. 17 year old spiritual healer Hannah, driven by her vulnerable mother and guided by the memory of her dead sister, suffers a crisis of confidence.
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Afternoon Play - Miss Balcombe's Orchard
Drama-documentary by Jonathan Davidson. Miss Balcombe's getting on but is determined to keep her apple trees. Her workers don't much care but there's a trespasser among her russets.
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Afternoon Play - Miss St Andrews
By Mike Bartlett. Old grudges resurface as Miss St Andrews 1961 meets her old rival for the university Charities Queen title nearly 50 years later.
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Afternoon Play - Moeran's Last Symphony
Portrait of E.J. Moeran unsung genius of English composition, whose beautiful elegiac music was composed at great cost to his physical and emotional health.
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Afternoon Play - Mole
Richard Monks' comic tale of an amateur gardener who becomes dangerously obsessed with hunting down the mole that has dared to desecrate his pristine lawn.
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Afternoon Play - Monkeyface
By Linda Marshall Griffiths. Eight-year-old Siddy and his big sister Frannie search for their father. All they have is a newspaper cutting and a memory of a trip to Scarborough.
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Afternoon Play - Monkeyface
By Linda Marshall Griffiths. Eight-year-old Siddy and his big sister Frannie search for their father. All they have is a newspaper cutting and a memory of a trip to Scarborough.
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Afternoon Play - Monsieur Monde Vanishes
Ronald Frame's dramatisation of Georges Simenon's 1945 novel about a respectable Parisian who suddenly leaves his wife and business for a raffish new life on the Cote d'Azur.
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Afternoon Play - Mother Spy
Drama documentary by John Fletcher telling the story of Janet Chisholm, a British Embassy wife and mother in Moscow and one of the most unlikely spies in the history of espionage.
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Afternoon Play - Mothercloud
Mothercloud, by Martin Jonols. When his partner leaves him, Daniel turns to beer, Nietzsche and coaching the school football team. Then Tanya teaches him to drive.
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Afternoon Play - Mr Anwar's Farewell to Stornoway
By Iain Finlay MacLeod. As a jacket is conjured from a bolt of cloth, two men learn more about each other in a handful of days than in decades of neighbourly contact.
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Afternoon Play - Mr Larkin's Awkward Day
By Chris Harrald. One morning in September 1957, Philip Larkin receives a very official looking letter which sends him into a spin.
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Afternoon Play - Mr Luby's Fear of Heaven
By John Mortimer. Jeremy Irons stars as Lewis Luby, the mild-mannered Englishman who falls off an Italian balcony and wakes up to find himself under God's watchful eye.
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Afternoon Play - Mrs Mabb
Mrs Mabb: Susanna Clarke's story, dramatised by Judith Adams. Handsome Captain Fox has been spirited away by the amazing Mrs Mabb, and audacious heroine Venetia wants him back.
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Afternoon Play - Murder by the Book
Murder by the Book, by Stephen Sheridan. When a corpse is found in the Crime Section of Langston Library, two elderly librarians decide to emulate Miss Marple and solve the mystery.
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Afternoon Play - Murder in the Afternoon: Mixed Messages
A compromising message left on the wrong answerphone stirs up ghosts from the past, with tragic, and deadly, results.
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Afternoon Play - Murder in the Afternoon: The Fall and Rise of Danny Clark
By Andrew Chappell. After his dad dies doing a job for a gangland boss, young Danny vows never to get involved in crime.
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Afternoon Play - My Blue Wedding
My Blue Wedding: Written and directed by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Graham Slater thinks he may be having a nervous breakdown, possibly due to an imaginary friend.
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Afternoon Play - My Brother's Keeper
Nichola McAuliffe's play is based on the true story of the relationship between journalist Don Mackay and a condemned man on Rawalpindi's death row.
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Afternoon Play - My Difficult Second Album
My Difficult Second Album, by Stephen Keyworth. Tom has constructed the perfect soundtrack to his life. But when his perfect relationship falls through, the music has to change.
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Afternoon Play - My Haunted Expression
Sue's plans to break free of their tough housing estate are scuppered by husband Finn going to the aid of a special needs neighbour. A quirky 21st century urban love story.
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Afternoon Play - My Lovely Man
Comedy by Paul Watson, set in 1958. Jemima Courtney's parents advise her in her bid to secure a match with Claude, son of the ageing Viscount Tudely.
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Afternoon Play - My Name is Iqbal Masih
By Bettina Gracias. The moving true story of Iqbal Masih, a young Pakistani boy who was forced into bonded labour in a carpet factory at the age of four.
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Afternoon Play - My Own Private Gondolier
By Bethan Roberts. Tension flares when art collector Peggy Guggenheim and her daughter, Pegeen, spend the summer together in Venice.
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Afternoon Play - My Romantic History
Poignant and witty drama by DC Jackson about love and memory. With Sandy Grierson, Cora Bissett, Gabriel Quigley, Jordan Young. Directed by Kirsty Williams.
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Afternoon Play - My Year Off
In 1995 at the age of 42, the then chief editor of Faber and Faber, Robert McCrum, suffered a stroke. This is a bold and intimate account of what happened next.
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Afternoon Play - Needle
Needle, by Christina Balit. Creating the Bayeux Tapestry for their Norman conquerors is a bitter task for the women of Canterbury.
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Afternoon Play - Next of Kin
Next of Kin, by Pearse Elliot. Kitty and Danny are grieving after the death of their beloved husband and father when news comes that there is another party contesting the will.
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Afternoon Play - No Going Back
By Ron Hutchinson. An Australian visiting Ireland for the first time since childhood finds himself in the midst of a fifty-year-old murder in which his family appear to be involved.
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Afternoon Play - No Place Like Home
By Robert Rigby and Nick Russell-Pavier. Householder Jonathan confronts a burglar with his legally-owned shotgun.
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Afternoon Play - No Trampy Immigrants
By Eoin McNamee. A riot takes place in Belfast at the height of marching season. But not the type of riot you might expect.
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Afternoon Play - No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
A series of plays adapted from Alexander McCall Smith's popular novels about African detective Precious Ramotswe
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Afternoon Play - No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
A series of plays adapted from Alexander McCall Smith's popular novels about African detective Precious Ramotswe
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Afternoon Play - No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
A series of plays adapted from Alexander McCall Smith's popular novels about African detective Precious Ramotswe
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Afternoon Play - Normal and Nat
By Debbie Oates. Nat's life spirals out of control after she describes hearing voices in her head, until a sympathetic teacher helps to unlock the musical way in which Nat thinks.
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Afternoon Play - Norman Birkett and the Case of the Coleford Poisoner
By Caroline and David Stafford. A true story of murder, mayhem and political intrigue from the casebook of Norman Birkett, the most celebrated advocate of the inter-war years.
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Afternoon Play - Not Bobby
By Nick Warburton. Frank brings a pet rabbit home. Mum gives Bobby's hutch pride of place in the sitting room. But who finished that last clue in yesterday's crossword? Not mum.
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Afternoon Play - Notes to Self
A drama about Alzheimer's disease based on real experiences and interwoven with recordings of music sessions carried out in care homes and day centres. Written by Deborah Wain.
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Afternoon Play - Nothing Happened
Nothing Happened: Romantic comedy by Shelley Silas and Luke Sorba about a friendship that never goes any further.
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Afternoon Play - NQ48
Comedy by Peter Vickers about one man's quest to get out of bed. Joe is a loser from a family of losers who considers it a good day if he is up by noon.
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Afternoon Play - Nuclear Reactions
By Adam Ganz. At the end of WWII, Germany's most talented nuclear physicists were brought to England for the British to find out exactly what they knew about the atomic bomb.
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Afternoon Play - Nyama
David Pownall's cautionary tale about a money-crazed entrepreneur who transports a pickled whale from the Cape of Good Hope round Southern Africa and makes a fortune.
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Afternoon Play - O Margate
Poingant comedy by Annie Caulfield. Aisha is an Algerian artist, taking refuge from death threats in Margate, a town struggling to reinvent itself as the new St Ives.
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Afternoon Play - Odd
Odd: By Robert Shearman. Overnight, every word in the English language seems to have changed its meaning. For Michael, his secretary is the only person left who understands him.
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Afternoon Play - Offshore
Offshore: Taut thriller by Simon Passmore. Chris and Sam are looking forward to their cross-channel boat trip. But their idyllic weekend turns into a nightmare.
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Afternoon Play - Old School Ties
By Sue Eckstein. Stand-up comedian Kit Nichols sets out to find the truth about an old school friend's unexpected death and discovers more than he bargained for.
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Afternoon Play - On Ego
By Mick Gordon and Paul Broks. Alex is convinced that people are just a bundle of neurons. When his wife falls ill he faces up to basic questions about what it means to be a person.
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Afternoon Play - On the Field
By Annie Caulfield. Craig has joined the army to get away from football, but somehow the game has followed him to Basra. Has he got what it takes to be a hero?
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Afternoon Play - On the Field - Endgame
A sequel to the comic drama On the Field about British troops in Iraq, by Annie Caulfield. Life on the army base in Basra is closing down - they would all rather be in Afghanistan.
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Afternoon Play - On The Field: On Leave
On The Field: On Leave. Annie Caulfield's comedy drama returns. Mahmoud the barber has swapped Basra for Istanbul where his old friend Sergeant Billy has become Military Attache.
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Afternoon Play - Once a Friend
By Stephen Phelps. John and Leo, inseparable in childhood, meet for the first time in 30 years. Will Leo's need to rake over the past prevent them from rekindling their friendship?
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Afternoon Play - One Foot in the Cuckoo's Nest
One Foot in the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ian Macpherson and Magi Gibson. The comfortable lives of two correspondents of the Irish Mail are shattered by the arrival of a new editor.
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Afternoon Play - One in A Million
Crime thriller by Peter Kesterton. A maths lecturer is arrested for attempted assault, and uses his statistical knowledge to argue that the case against him is weaker than it looks.
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Afternoon Play - Operation Charlie
Comedy by Rhys Lloyd, inspired by a real KGB plot to disrupt the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969. A professor is contacted by a mysterious stranger.
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Afternoon Play - Out of Season
Out of Season, by Anne-Marie O'Connor. Four Blackpool residents seek refuge from the cold in an empty promenade cafe. Their thoughts reveal what brought them to the town.
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Afternoon Play - Owls
Atmospheric drama by Paul Evans. An old man and his sister are found dead in an isolated moorland house, both of them bound by a shared wish that becomes a fatal curse.
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Afternoon Play - Peter Lorre vs Peter Lorre
In 1963, Hollywood star Peter Lorre was caught in a bizarre legal battle. Drawing on the court transcripts, Michael Butt's play tells the story of Lorre's fight to protect his name.
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Afternoon Play - Philip and Sydney
By Alan Pollock. In 1937 Philip Larkin's father took him on holiday to Germany. Philip never spoke of the trip. Alan Pollock's drama imagines what might have happened there.
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Afternoon Play - Phumzile
By Matthew Hurt. A British man meets and tries to help an HIV positive woman that he meets on holiday in South Africa. But is she telling the truth about her illness?
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Afternoon Play - Pilgrim
Series of four modern-day fantasy adventures by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
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Afternoon Play - Pilgrim, series 2
Series of four modern-day fantasy adventures by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
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Afternoon Play - Pinkerton
By Ronald Frame. In the new immigrant community of 1840s America, Scotsman Allan Pinkerton turns detective when an influx of counterfeit dollars threaten the local economy.
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Afternoon Play - Pips
Pips, by Stevie Davies. In a dentist's waiting room, one patient is nervous and another preoccupied with her own fertility. The receptionist waits for a life-changing phone call.
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Afternoon Play - Places Where They Sing
By Ellen Dryden. Thomas has composed his first work for the amateur choir he founded. The performance is imminent. But Thomas' unpredictable behaviour is upsetting the choir.
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Afternoon Play - Poetry for Beginners
Comedy drama by Kathryn Simmonds. During a residential writing course, poetry gives rise to lustful urges, ruthless artistic ambition and simmering rivalries.
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Afternoon Play - Postcards From a Cataclysm
Nine short plays about global annihilation. As an asteroid hurtles towards earth, the planet's population prepares for the end of the world.
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Afternoon Play - Power Play 1
Margaret Heffernan's drama charts the collapse of US company Enron. It is spring 2000 and new recruit Vanessa joins the aggressive traders of Enron's Western Power desk.
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Afternoon Play - Power Play 2 - Wilful Blindness
Margaret Heffernan's drama charts the collapse of US company Enron. It is now summer 2006 and Kenneth Lay, the former chairman of Enron, awaits sentencing at his home in Colorado.
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Afternoon Play - Prayer Mask
Adventure based on the writings of 19th-century explorer Richard Burton. Burton sets out from Alexandria on an expedition to Mecca, disguised as an Afghani pilgrim.
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Afternoon Play - Prenup
Playwright Peter Jukes' drama looks at the impact on a divorcing couple of recent changes to British prenuptial law. With the change, will he or she come off better?
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Afternoon Play - Prospero, Ariel, Reith and Gill
Comedy by Gary Brown about the artist Eric Gill's clash with the BBC over his famous sculpture of Prospero and Ariel.
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Afternoon Play - Puddle
Romantic comedy by Peter Souter. Sam is desperate to win back his girlfriend, who is in New York. But when he gets to America, he finds himself in jail.
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Afternoon Play - Puzzle Women
Puzzle Women: By Gill Adams. A young woman tracks down the former Stasi man who spied on her and had her father imprisoned.
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Afternoon Play - Pythonesque
By Roy Smiles. The story of Graham Chapman's history with the Monty Python team, from the early years on The Frost Report to The Life of Brian.
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Afternoon Play - Qualms
By Jonathan Myerson. When teenager Alex is diagnosed with a terminal condition, his local Primary Care Trust refuse to finance the operation which might extend his life.
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Afternoon Play - Quartet
Moving comedy by Donna Franceschild. With his life empty, save for dreams of former glory as a jazz musician, music teacher Robbie accidentally gains a jazz quartet.
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Afternoon Play - Quirks
Black comedy by Simon Brett about a couple living - or perhaps imprisoned - in a luxurious villa on the Costa del Sol.
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Afternoon Play - Radio
By Al Smith. While his quixotic father chases the American dream, Charles dreams only of leaving the planet and launching off into space. With Tom Ferguson.
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Afternoon Play - Raft to Bondi
Bittersweet comedy by Ian Kershaw. It's July 4th 1990 and everyone is glued to England v West Germany in the World Cup semi finals, except for 15-year-old Jim.
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Afternoon Play - Rapture
Rapture: Fiona Shaw reads from Carol Ann Duffy's T S Eliot Prize-winning collection of love poems, adapted for radio by Duffy herself and set to a musical background.
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Afternoon Play - Red Elvis
Red Elvis: The story of Elvis Presley's involvement in the Cold War. With Gerry Northam, Kevin Paul, John Moraitis, Paul Sapin.
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Afternoon Play - Red Enters the Eye
When young volunteer Julie sets off for Nigeria, her project is to teach sewing skills to women in a refuge in Jos; but what if they don't like her? Written by Jane Rogers.
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Afternoon Play - Red in Tooth and Claw
Red in Tooth and Claw, by Simon Bovey. A dead sheep on a farm may be an everyday occurrence, but when young Dan finds the body he sets out on a road that leads to family tragedy.
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Afternoon Play - Rep
By Jonathan Holloway. Actor George Friendly has just started work in one of Britain's last surviving seaside repertory theatres and he thinks he knows how the summer is going to go.
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Afternoon Play - Rescue Me
By Tanika Gupta. London lawyer Rukshana travels to Dhaka to visit her sick mother. When she disappears, her friend Arif sets out to find her and bring her back.
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Afternoon Play - Reunion
Reunion, by Chris Thorpe. A man visits a massage parlour for the first time. He chooses a location well away from his own area, where the chances of his being recognised are slight.
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Afternoon Play - Right Place, Wrong Time
By Don Webb. When a series of violent crimes are committed across the north, the photo-fit of the suspect is the spitting image of Alan, a salesman who spends a lot of time away.
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Afternoon Play - Road Trip
Comedy by Aisha Khan. Nasser takes his daughter Hana and her children on a surprise holiday. Could this be the trip that saves a marriage and reunites a family?
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Afternoon Play - Rosie's Beauty
By Annamaria Murphy. Rosie runs a beauty parlour in her village. Most of her clients come to talk and Rosie is invited to share some of the community's dark secrets.
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Afternoon Play - Ruminations upon Mortality
By Nigel Baldwin. When a Bishop's private life hits the tabloids, his psychiatrist knows that the blame lies with his vengeful daughter. But who is she taking vengeance on?
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Afternoon Play - Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle
Rumpole is seduced into defending an attractive woman violinist accused of murder. Starring Timothy West and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Afternoon Play - Rumpole and the Family Pride
Rumpole mixes with a branch of Yorkshire aristocracy remotely connected to Hilda, when he represents a lord in the coroner's court. With Timothy West and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Afternoon Play - Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
Two-part adaptation of the novel by John Mortimer. The young and hungry Horace Rumpole defends a man accused of murdering two WWII heroes
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Afternoon Play - Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
A two-part case for John Mortimer's barrister involving a man arrested on suspicion of terrorism. With Timothy West, Prunella Scales, Christopher Benjamin and Lily Bevan
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Afternoon Play - Rumpole and the Right to Privacy
By John Mortimer. Rumpole leaves the Old Bailey to defend a local newspaper editor who is accused of breaching a businessman's right to privacy.
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Afternoon Play - Rumpole and the Teenage Werewolf
By John Mortimer. Rumpole leaves London to defend a case in the Home Counties, where he meets up with Ben, a teenager accused of sending emails deemed to be sexually harassing.
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Afternoon Play - Sand
By Tilly Black. As tensions mount after President Nasser's nationalisation of the Suez Canal in 1956, a ten-year-old's holiday diary tells a poignant human story.
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Afternoon Play - Sargasso
By Simon Bovey. Elver season on the River Severn - a time of mystery and danger. The wrong time and place for a young man to be searching for his place in the world.
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Afternoon Play - Say What You Want to Hear - The Endgame
By Tim Wright. Dotcom entrepreneurs Erik and Mike pursue love, fortune, football and film stars across Europe.
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Afternoon Play - Say What You Want to Hear - The Startup
By Tim Wright. Dotcom entrepreneurs Erik and Mike set up 'Say What You Want to Hear', a website for people to voice their secret thoughts.
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Afternoon Play - Scorched
Nicola Jones' thriller follows a man trying to discover what happened to his teenage sister after she disappeared thirty years ago. Is his father telling the whole truth?
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Afternoon Play - Scummow - Things Washed Up by the Sea
Comedy by Annamaria Murphy. When a delirious Irishman arrives in a Cornish harbour, baker Mary Kneebone takes him in, and soon the sick and gullible are queuing at her door.
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Afternoon Play - SE8
Gun crime drama by Janice Okoh. A mother tries to get justice when her teenage daughter is murdered in a south London nightclub.
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Afternoon Play - Second Chances
Series of plays about adoption, part of the BBC Family Wanted Campaign
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Afternoon Play - Selfless
By Anita Sullivan. Drew is brought into A&E by a car-driver who saw him come off his motorbike. He is concussed but that's not all. Andrew has forgotten who he is.
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Afternoon Play - Septimus Greabe
By Mike Harris. In the early 19th century, the Society for the Suppression of Vice, inspired by William Wilberforce, would stop at nothing in their efforts to stamp out sin.
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Afternoon Play - Setting a Glass
By Nick Warburton. A man is called to the bedside of his mother who is fading away. For some reason he can't settle and sit with her. Why?
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Afternoon Play - Severed Threads
John Dryden's three-part thriller recorded in India, the US and the UK.
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Afternoon Play - Sex after Death
Sex after Death, by Mark Lawson. Pippa wants a baby. But when her husband proves unable to help, she determines to access the sperm of a deceased former boyfriend.
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Afternoon Play - Sex for Volunteers
Romantic comedy by Laura Marney and David Ramos Fernandes. When Suzy's husband takes a job abroad, her sister encourages her to join a team of first-aiders.
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Afternoon Play - Shakespeare a la Carte
Actors masquerading as waiters in a pizza restaurant take over a live Shakespeare performance when they hear that the real actors from the RSC have been delayed in traffic.
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Afternoon Play - Shakespeare's Vortigern and Rowena
Comedy by Melissa Murray. In 1796, at Drury Lane theatre, Richard Sheridan puts on a guaranteed hit: a production of a 'lost' Shakespeare play. What could possibly go wrong?
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Afternoon Play - Shredder
By Juliet Ace. Bella wants to go to her grave confident that her children will never know what a wicked woman she once was. But not even a shredder can wholly destroy the past.
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Afternoon Play - Silent Nights
By David Nobbs, creator of Reginald Perrin. Gordon's hatred of noise is threatening his marriage, and his attempts to foist silence on the world succeed only in making things worse.
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Afternoon Play - Silver Street: It's Coming Home
Silver Street: It's Coming Home, by Sonali Bhattacharyya. When Mushtaq Jilani buys the local football club for a pound, the grocery king takes a bold step into an unfamiliar world.
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Afternoon Play - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
A new translation of the famous poem by Simon Armitage, narrated by Ian McKellen.
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Afternoon Play - Six Impossible Things
By Glen Neath. Can a man really rob a bank and kill two people whilst in a hypnotic trance? Based on a true story.
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Afternoon Play - Sky High
Crocodiles, hippos and canoeing are just some of the dangers that the ladies must face as they trace a safari guide.
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Afternoon Play - Slightly Larger than West Virginia
Slightly Larger than West Virginia, by Hugh Costello. Redeployed in Ireland, former CIA high flyer Sam Taft has had to alter his view of the world, and he is starting to like it.
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Afternoon Play - Smoke and Daggers
Political thriller by Hugh Costello. Marrying into Dublin's political elite does wonders for Joe Finnerty's fortunes, until the unexplained death of his ex-partner comes to light.
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Afternoon Play - Smoke and Mirrors
Paul B Davies's black comedy is based on real events. Adolf Hitler's favourite conjuror is touring America during the 1950s when he is confronted by his Nazi past.
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Afternoon Play - Snow in July
Snow in July, by Alice Nutter. Maurice and Eileen are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary when Maurice falls ill. Wanting to know more, Eileen heads for the local library.
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Afternoon Play - So You Want to Disappear
By Mark Wheatley. Fraser once tracked clients who jumped bail. Then he added a little twist to the business by helping people disappear instead, which is why Kathryn calls him.
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Afternoon Play - Solace
By Andrea Earl. Maggie Fortune is a respectable, middle-class mother and grandmother with a dependency on prescribed tranquilisers that is taking over her life.
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Afternoon Play - Solo behind the Iron Curtain
Tracy Spottiswoode's thriller is based on real events in 1968. Robert Vaughn is making a movie in Prague when Russian tanks roll into Czechoslovakia.
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Afternoon Play - Some Secluded Glade
Psychological thriller by Hugh Costello. Following a fall and severe concussion, Tom Beaumont's grasp on reality begins to weaken, with terrifying results for his family.
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Afternoon Play - Sons
By Nell Leyshon. Two mothers, teacher Elizabeth and stay-at-home mum Jane, react very differently when their sons fall in love with one another.
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Afternoon Play - Soul Motel
Soul Motel, by Peter Jukes. After breaking up from his girlfriend, Luke explores his options in a new social networking website. His quest for love leads to unexpected revelations.
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Afternoon Play - Sparkle
Sparkle: Comedy by Colin Hough. Fiftysomething TV presenter Evelyn Sparkle is afraid of being upstaged by glamorous co-presenter Tina Shine. Then a suave Frenchman enters her life.
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Afternoon Play - Stannie and Jim
By Simon Littlefield. Trieste, 1914: a comic reimagining of James Joyce's relationship with his brother Stanislaus as they fight, write and prepare for war.
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Afternoon Play - Stardust: A Love Story
Stardust: A Love Story. Narrative drama about particle physics by Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis, observing a day in the life of a young woman who lives in a flat in Cardiff.
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Afternoon Play - Staring into the Fridge
By Annie McCartney. Kitchen comedy staring James Nesbitt as a talking fridge who encourages a put-upon woman to take control of her destiny.
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Afternoon Play - Steinbeck in Avalon
Dramatised by Ray Brown from the writings of John Steinbeck. In 1959, the great novelist went to live in Somerset for a while to write a modern treatment of the Arthurian legend.
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Afternoon Play - Stopgap
By Julie Mayhew. Emma is happy hiding behind her postcards until new temp Maxine arrives at the office and disturbs her peace.
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Afternoon Play - Stream, River, Sea
Romantic comedy by Peter Souter about sudden death and the effect it has on two dysfunctional adults and a highly precocious 13-year-old girl.
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Afternoon Play - Success Story
By Brett Goldstein. When Ray's low-budget film is picked up by a major studio his dreams of Hollywood start to become a reality. But then he finds the past coming back to bite him.
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Afternoon Play - Suing Mr Spargo
By Christopher William Hill. When a student gets abysmal A-level results, her parents attempt to sue her school. But who is really to blame?
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Afternoon Play - Sunbathing in the Rain
Gwyneth Lewis's adaptation of her book, a down-to-earth, courageous and entertaining chronicle of her own experience of a severe episode of depression.
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Afternoon Play - Sunday
Dramatisation by Ronald Frame of Georges Simenon's novel about a chef who decides to kill his wife.
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Afternoon Play - Swimming Around Ireland
By Martin Meenan. A physiotherapist comes up with an unusual plan to motivate her patient, taking them on a unique journey of imagination, discovery and hope.
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Afternoon Play - Swings and Roundabouts
By Dana Fainaru and James O'Neill. Comedy drama about first-time parenthood. Abi has been taken hostage - by her baby. But her husband seems not to have noticed.
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Afternoon Play - Take-Away
Series of comedy dramas depicting the history of a fast food shop in Leeds
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Afternoon Play - Take One Night
By Rachel Joyce. On the eve of their son's 10th birthday, Alan and Alice start work assembling his present. The only instruction they can find simply says, 'Take one night'.
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Afternoon Play - Taken
By Suzanne Heathcote. The disappearance of a little girl in Simon's town brings home the fact that, since his divorce, his own daughter has no idea who he is.
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Afternoon Play - Tall Stories
Samina's life is thrown into chaos when both her parents become ill. As she struggles to care for them she uncovers lost family stories that connect her to her roots.
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Afternoon Play - Tarzan of the Antirrhinums
Tarzan of the Antirrhinums: Comedy by Lavinia Murray. Tarzan emerges from the bushes and announces that he will save Marx's failing garden centre from financial ruin.
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Afternoon Play - Telling the Bees
By Rebecca Trick-Walker. After the death of her husband, May struggles to come to terms with her grief. Solace is at hand, but from an unexpected quarter.
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Afternoon Play - Terremoto
By Catrin Clarke. Daniel is running in the Chilean desert, while Ayelen is driving across it. And when an earthquake hits, they become reluctant travelling companions.
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Afternoon Play - Tetherdown
Fast-paced drama by Scott Cherry and Gregory Evans which casts a 21st-century eye over the 1896 'Muswell Hill Murder', a crime that captured the appalled attention of the world.
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Afternoon Play - The Alibi
Vanessa Rosenthal's dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's short story. Charles Fenton feels trapped in his routine life. Perhaps a little murder could help him to escape?
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Afternoon Play - The Andy Warhol Syndrome
The Andy Warhol Syndrome, by Jenny Eclair and Julie Balloo. Carol's dreams come true when she finds fame in a reality TV show. But how much will her celebrity status cost her?
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Afternoon Play - The Antisocial Behaviour of Horace Rumpole
Another adventure for John Mortimer's wily defender of our civil liberties
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Afternoon Play - The Aquatic Ape
By Joy Wilkinson. Pippa and Barney's second honeymoon has only made them realise how much they can't stand each other. They are both entertaining murderous ideas.
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Afternoon Play - The Architects
Howard is coming to the end of an unremarkable career. Then he meets Pat, who has decided that things have to change. By Chris Dunkley.
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Afternoon Play - The Art of Balance
Modern fable by Rachel Joyce. Two women, a young man and a tightrope in the middle of an empty field. The art of balance and transforming powers lie between them.
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Afternoon Play - The Babington Plot
Documentary-style drama by Michael Butt that tells the story of the plot to assassinate Elizabeth I and put Mary, Queen of Scots on the throne.
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Afternoon Play - The Ballad of Pickard Boots
A heady love story by the Annamaria Murphy. Jamaican street musician Pickard Boots is given shelter by Molly Pinks. He is wanted for murder. She is wanted by nobody.
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Afternoon Play - The Barber and the Ark
By Marcia Layne. Issachar has been given an ultimatum by his wife: either the dreadlocks go or she does. But the barber has a dream that might change Issachar's life.
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Afternoon Play - The Better Half
Samuel West, Lisa Dillon and Federay Holmes star in Noel Coward's surprisingly modern comedy of marital disharmony. A wife's selflessness may conceal a hidden agenda.
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Afternoon Play - The Birdwoman of Bognor
The Birdwoman of Bognor: Sarah Daniels' play is set on the afternoon of the annual Birdman of Bognor competition held on the pier. Three people are watching or participating.
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Afternoon Play - The Blue Room
The Blue Room: Georges Simenon's classic crime story, dramatised by Ronald Frame. A couple's adulterous meetings in a hotel room lead to a double murder in rural France.
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Afternoon Play - The Borrowers
Two-part adaptation of Mary Norton's children's classic about the tiny Clock family that live under the floorboards of a large house
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Afternoon Play - The Boy Fathers
The Boy Fathers, by Peter Hunter and David Johnson, developed with the Teenage Parents Project. Lying in a hospital bed, Richie composes rap lyrics, a soundtrack to his life.
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Afternoon Play - The Ca'd'oro Cafe
Dark and moving comedy about love, money and desperation by Donna Franceschild. With Elspeth Brodie, Robin Laing, John Kazek. Directed by Kirsty Williams.
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Afternoon Play - The Chosen One
By Edson Burton. A conservative black family are shocked to discover that younger sibling Aaron has joined a Muslim prayer group.
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Afternoon Play - The City Speaks
Dramas based on Peter Ackroyd's short story in which the Virgin Mary makes an appearance in the City of London
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Afternoon Play - The Climb
The Climb: Lance Woodman's drama-documentary follows two competitive cyclists as they face the biggest challenge of their sport, the hill climb.
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Afternoon Play - The Climb
A feel good drama about three men who venture on a climb of their lives. One has Down's syndrome, one is blind and one is 3'6", but undeterred they set off to scale Blackpool Tower.
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Afternoon Play - The Comedian
Paddy Plunkett thinks he is Dublin's finest comedian, if only his 10-year-old son would agree. In a story of childhood, a family learn to cope when their world turns upside down.
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Afternoon Play - The Confessions
Contemporary thriller by Charlotte Grieg about an art scam. When Luke 'acquires' a valuable sketch he comes up with a plan to make a killing.
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Afternoon Play - The Conservation
The Conversation: Dramatic reconstruction of a conversation between Trevor Friedman and Roman Halter, whose fathers were Jewish slave labourers in Poland and then Germany.
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Afternoon Play - The Conspiracy of the Illuminati
By Nigel Baldwin. A historical mystery set in Arras in the lead up to the French Revolution, exploring the influence of the Bavarian Order of the Illuminati.
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Afternoon Play - The Cracks
By Rob Evans. Two worlds collide in a dark and lyrical drama set in the heart of Soho's gay scene.
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Afternoon Play - The Darkness of Wallis Simpson
By Rose Tremain. Imagining the last days of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, the woman for whom King Edward VIII gave up the throne of England in 1936.
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Afternoon Play - The Day the Planes Came
Romantic comedy by Caroline and David Stafford, set in the sleepy town of Gander in Newfoundland, where several American flights were diverted in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
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Afternoon Play - The Day They Wouldn't Take it Any More
Sue Rodwell's play is based on real events. A peace celebration organised by Luton's Mayor Henry Impey in 1919 turns into a riot as former soldiers demand recognition.
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Afternoon Play - The Death of Magnus Sweet
The Death of Magnus Sweet, by Alastair Jessiman. At a remote Scottish public school in the late 1960s, two boys invent a fictitious fellow classmate.
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Afternoon Play - The Decoy
Thriller by Matthew Broughton. Daniel is plucked from the factory floor and groomed by the state as a body-double.
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Afternoon Play - The Diabolical Gourmet
Alex Shearer's historical drama tells the true story of Pere Gourier and his string of perfectly legal murders in the finest restaurants of 1790s Paris.
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Afternoon Play - The Disappearance
Compelling psychological thriller with fraudulent identity at its heart. Alice moves into a converted Victorian house. Both she and her landlord are not who they say they are.
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Afternoon Play - The Discourse of Two Once Young Women
The Discourse of Two Once Young Women: By Jane Beeson. Three old friends from schooldays during the war plan to meet up. Why are the two women so nervous?
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Afternoon Play - The Ditch
By Paul Evans. A sound recordist is enticed by the disturbing aural landscape of Slaughton Ditch, with terrifying and fatal consequences.
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Afternoon Play - The Domino Man of Lancashire
The Domino Man of Lancashire: Nick Leather's witty look at loneliness, romance and record-breaking features a man, a woman and thousands of dominoes.
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Afternoon Play - The Doppler Effect
The Doppler Effect, by Sheila Goff. Six characters, each having their own concerns as Christmas approaches, are linked by their reactions to an unexpected urban incident.
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Afternoon Play - The End of the Alphabet
An adaptation of C S Richardson's award-winning novel about the bitter-sweet final journey made by Ambrose and Zipper, a married couple who mean everything to each other.
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Afternoon Play - The End of the World
By Danny Brocklehurst. In 1983, 17-year-old Simon, living in the shadow of Sellafield, falls in love with a beautiful anti-nuclear activist and sees his chance to make a difference.
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Afternoon Play - The Enormous Radio
By Julia Copus, adapted from the short story by John Cheever. When a bored and lonely New York housewife gets a new radio, she starts to hear more than she expected.
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Afternoon Play - The Fall
The Fall, by Clare Duffy. When 21-year-old Angela falls pregnant, she decides to track down her mother who abandoned her when she was 12.
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Afternoon Play - The Female Husband
The Female Husband: Sheila Hamilton's dramatisation of the true story of Mary Hamilton, who in 1746 was tried and punished by flogging for marrying as a man. With Sandi Toksvig.
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Afternoon Play - The Forester's Daughter
Dramatisation of a short story by Claire Keegan. When Martha accepts Victor's proposal, she finds herself bored and lonely on his farm. But she has a secret.
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Afternoon Play - The Forgetting Curve
By Hugh Costello. After giving testimony to acquit a vicious murderer, he little expects that the fallout from the trial will threaten his marriage, and even his life.
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Afternoon Play - The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Series of four new tales of mystery and murder by Bert Coules, inspired by the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Afternoon Play - The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Marlbourne Point Mystery
Two-part mystery by Bert Coules, inspired by the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A disused lighthouse on a remote stretch of the Kent coast is the scene of a bizarre double death
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Afternoon Play - The Gallery
Comedy by Alan Plater. The opening night of a Newcastle art gallery dissolves into chaos when a greyhound runs amok.
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Afternoon Play - The Gertie
The Gertie, by Shane Connaughton. When octogenarian Billy Ball wins a cabin cruiser, he decides to take his wife Kathleen home to Dublin. This could be the voyage of their lives.
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Afternoon Play - The Girl Who Touched the Stars
By Mahesh Dattani. Bhavna's childhood dream of becoming an astronaut has come true. But her childhood is about to come back and haunt her in the most unexpected way.
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Afternoon Play - The Granny Killers
Black comedy by David Hodgson. Twins Chris and Liddy want to kill their granny, but granny has other plans - she wants to kill her new husband on their wedding night.
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Afternoon Play - The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble
Modern Economics explained through boom, bust and the prism of a mythical goat exchange in Somaliland. Starring Hugh Quarshie and Stephanie Flanders and adapted by Julian Gough.
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Afternoon Play - The Great Swim
In the 'Roaring Twenties' many still doubted that a woman could swim the English Channel. Gavin Mortimer's drama tells the story of the remarkable attempt made by Gertrude Ederle.
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Afternoon Play - The Greater Good
True and tragic WWI love story by Justin Hopper. When German chemist Fritz Haber turns to developing poison gas for the military, his wife tries to stop him.
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Afternoon Play - The Gunshot Wedding
By Katie Hims. Leila Jones's mother has fallen for a line-dancing cowboy, except that he is really a telephone engineer. Then she finds a gun in her brother's bedroom.
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Afternoon Play - The Hands of Cheryl Boyd
By Maurice Leitch. A young woman in a wheelchair falls foul of the law, but unbeknown to her an overzealous pastor lays plans for her salvation.
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Afternoon Play - The Highest Tide
Jim Lynch's coming-of-age adventure story set on the Pacific Coast. Miles, 13, escapes the fallout from his parents' impending divorce by taking his kayak out on the mudflats.
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Afternoon Play - The Iceman Goeth
Drama documentary by Steve Jacobi about actor Ian Holm and his involvement in Howard Davies' 1976 production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh.
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Afternoon Play - The Incomparable Witness
Nichola McAuliffe's drama about Bernard Spilsbury, the father of modern forensics. The story focuses on the case that made his name, the infamous trial of Doctor Crippen in 1910.
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Afternoon Play - The Incomplete Works of Dave McCabe
Romantic comedy, with music, by Nick Underwood. Singer-songwriter Dave is given the opportunity to meet his muse and woo her with a song, but he cannot get past the opening lines.
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Afternoon Play - The Influence
By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. The village of Kelstone is like any other village, but H5N1 has mutated in to a human viral strain and is being passed on rapidly.
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Afternoon Play - The Insecurity Guard
Black comedy by Cynthia Hamilton. Architect Jessie Bruce develops an unusual eating disorder in the face of personal and professional crisis.
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Afternoon Play - The Invention of Dr Cake
Adapted from Andrew Motion's novel by Jonathan Holloway. Essex in the 1840s: Dr Tabor goes to visit Dr Cake to talk about ways of alleviating consumption and diseases of poverty.
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Afternoon Play - The Island With No Name
By Alison Joseph. Hebridean island life isn't for everyone, yet when Kathleen decides to sell her family's croft and head to Glasgow, her friends are appalled.
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Afternoon Play - The Jonestown Letters
The true story of one family caught up in the tragedy of the Jonestown mass suicide in Guyana in 1978, told through their own extraordinary letters.
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Afternoon Play - The Journey
By Richard Monks. A chance sighting on a news report leads to an extraordinary reunion between two siblings and the father they cremated four years previously.
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Afternoon Play - The Judgement Test
By Michael Butt. A journalist asks Constable John Woolf, an officer in the armed units of the police, some difficult questions about his job. He gets some very unexpected answers.
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Afternoon Play - The Kerlogue
The Kerlogue: By Dermot Bolger. Ireland's neutrality during WW2 comes under question when the crew of a small cargo ship decide to rescue 168 German sailors in peril on the sea.
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Afternoon Play - The Killing of the TSR2
By Robin Brooks. The true story of the TSR2, the British-built world-beating fighter jet that never was, scrapped overnight by the Labour government in 1965.
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Afternoon Play - The King of Pripyat
The King of Pripyat, by Peter Cann and Steve Johnstone. A nuclear physicist from Sellafield is on an exchange trip to Chernobyl and makes a trip to the evacuated city of Pripyat.
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Afternoon Play - The King of Sootland
By Richard Hurford. In the early days of Queen Victoria's reign, a boy and the young Victoria go on an adventure through the chimneys of Buckingham Palace.
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Afternoon Play - The Last Smoker
Adaptation of a short story by Yasutaka Tsutsui. Cantankerous Japanese novelist Haruki, the world's last smoker, is pursued by do-gooders.
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Afternoon Play - The Last Tsar
By Ian Curteis. Why did King George V refuse to give sanctuary to his beloved cousin, Tsar Nicholas of Russia, after he was forced to abdicate following the Russian Revolution?
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Afternoon Play - The Last Tudor
Devised by Jolyon Jenkins and Abigail Youngman. A reality show contestant makes a bid to overthrow the royal family.
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Afternoon Play - The Last Witch Trial
By Melissa Murray. In 1944, exhausted by the war, many people are turning to spiritualism for comfort. But the authorites are worried that mediums may give away military secrets.
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Afternoon Play - The Laughter of Stafford Girls' High
The Laughter of Stafford Girls' High: Carol Ann Duffy's erotic poem tells a story of love and an attack of hysterical laughter which brings a girls' public school to its knees.
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Afternoon Play - The Lemon Squeezer
Comedy by Triona Adams. A young woman faces up to the realities of life when she swaps London life for an enclosed convent.
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Afternoon Play - The Letter
A letter turns up fifty years after it was first posted, and the revelations it contains threaten to shake the bedrock of a marriage.
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Afternoon Play - The Line
By Kris Kenway. Taline is a young Turkish student fleeing an assassination attempt and seeking asylum in the UK. But first she has to get through her screening interview with Carl.
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Afternoon Play - The Lonely
Paul Gallico's romantic novella set during the Second World War. A US airforce lieutenant suffering from battle fatigue and a young English WAAF officer become lovers.
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Afternoon Play - The Longest Journey
A man picks up a female hitch-hiker. They are both concealing a secret. A murder has been committed, but who is the victim and who is the murderer?
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Afternoon Play - The Loop
By Nick Perry. When a young boy toys with his dad's mobile phone, middle-aged Englishman Nick Perry finds himself speaking to a young stranger called Jim in New York - in 1959.
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Afternoon Play - The Lost Boys of Africa
The Lost Boys of Africa: The interwoven stories of Californian builder Billy Scherer and Kenyan street kid Lulu, whose worlds come together through a charity project in Nairobi.
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Afternoon Play - The Lottery Ticket
Black comedy by Donna Franceschild. An asylum seeker and a migrant worker find a stray lottery ticket and think it may be the answer to all their problems.
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Afternoon Play - The Magician's Daughter
Comedy drama by Adam Beeson, set in 19th-century Europe. A celebrated magician is shot on stage, but passes on the secrets of his act to his daughter.
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Afternoon Play - The Making of Ivan the Terrible
Black comedy by Hattie Naylor, based on events in 1944 as film director Sergei Eisenstein suffers a heart attack after winning the Stalin Prize.
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Afternoon Play - The Making of the English Landscape
The Making of the English Landscape: Jonathan Davidson's play, inspired by the book by WG Hoskins, imagines the feelings of the land through centuries of being exploited.
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Afternoon Play - The Man inside the Suitcase
By Judy Upton. Helen and Naomi attend auctions of unclaimed airport luggage, contents unseen, in the hope of finding valuables that they can sell on the internet.
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Afternoon Play - The Man Who Built Tunnels
The Man Who Built Tunnels: Natalia Power's haunting tale of unrequited love in which the 79-year-old Duke of Portland receives a visitation from a once famous opera singer.
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Afternoon Play - The Man Who Jumped From Space
By Andy Walker. The true life story of the highest altitude parachute jump, made by Captain Joe Kittinger in 1960.
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Afternoon Play - The Master and Mrs Tucker
The Master and Mrs Tucker, by Roy Apps, based on the story of the friendship between Noel Coward and Edith Nesbit. With Guy Henry, Ann Bell, Rosemary Leach, Niall Buggy.
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Afternoon Play - The McKinnon Extradition
John Fletcher's play tells the story of British citizen Gary McKinnon, who recently lost his appeal against extradition to the US on suspicion of hacking into government computers.
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Afternoon Play - The Milk Race
Comedy by Mark Tuohy. Two west London milkmen race each other to Bognor Pier in their milk floats to decide which of them wins exclusive rights to their local round.
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Afternoon Play - The Minute When Your Life Stops
The Minute When Your Life Stops, by Jude Hughes. A woman and her three teenage children attempt to find a new normality after her husband takes his own life.
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Afternoon Play - The Moment You Feel It
By Ed Harris. Alf's memories come in flashes and great blank holes, along with a running commentary from the voices of his past. A tender, sad comedy about losing your past.
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Afternoon Play - The Mouse House
By Adrian Penketh. Wannabe cultural terrorist Mike is determined to make a splash; make a statement; make more of his life. But has he got what it takes to pull it off?
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Afternoon Play - The Nearside
The Nearside, by Jeff Young. On an apparently normal day in Tenby, the domestic and the universal collide when a small part of the planet is temporary changed by cosmic events.
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Afternoon Play - The Need for Nonsense
By Julia Blackburn. The friendship between the writer and illustrator Edward Lear and his Greek manservant Giorgio, who inspired him to address the painful truths in his life.
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Afternoon Play - The NHS at 60: Stuffing Their Mouths with Gold
Jerome Vincent's play Stuffing Their Mouths with Gold marks the 60th anniversary of the NHS. Can Aneurin Bevan win the doctors and dissenters around as he sets up the NHS?
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Afternoon Play - The Night Horse
By Catrin Clarke, set on the outskirts of Cardiff. Tensions grow as a mother and daughter wait for a soldier to come back from Afghanistan.
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Afternoon Play - The Night Manager
By Dermot Bolger. When a particular guest checks into Finbar's Hotel on the last night of Johnny Farrell's management, his past life comes back to confront him.
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Afternoon Play - The Night They Tried to Kidnap the Prime Minister
Martin Jameson's fictionalised account of the incident in 1964 when a group of students attempted to kidnap the then-Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in Scotland.
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Afternoon Play - The Nine Days Queen
By Amanda Whittington. Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen of England in 1553 at the age of 16, but nine days later she was locked in the Tower and, within a year, she was dead.
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Afternoon Play - The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Dramatisation of The Miracle at Speedy Motors, by Alexander McCall Smith. Precious Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, is preoccupied.
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Afternoon Play - The Orchestra
Improvised play about an orchestra. How will conductor David Adams regain his self-belief after a crisis of confidence leaves him feeling unable to return to the podium?
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Afternoon Play - The Other Simenon: Striptease
The Other Simenon: Striptease. A dramatisation by Ronald Frame of Georges Simenon's novel "Striptease", set in a night club in Cannes in 1958.
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Afternoon Play - The Patience of Mr Job
By Justin Butcher. The Job story with a new twist. A dark comedy set in Africa about globalisation and climate change.
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Afternoon Play - The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Guy Fawkes
Comedy trio The Penny Dreadfuls take a new look at a familiar story with a comic, stirring and sometimes graphic exploration of the build-up to and aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot.
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Afternoon Play - The People's Princess
By Shelagh Stephenson. Facing financial ruin, George, Prince of Wales was obliged to marry his first cousin Princess Caroline of Brunswick.
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Afternoon Play - The Places In Between
In January 2002, Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan just after the fall of the Taliban. This dramatisation tells the story of this epic journey.
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Afternoon Play - The Playwright and the Grammarian
A playwright and a retired civil servant confront one another over a Radio 4 microphone and go on to transform eachother's lives. Comedy by Marcy Kahan.
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Afternoon Play - The Presence
Welsh poet Dannie Abse's account of the first year after the death of his wife of 50 years in a car crash. Dramatised by Tina Pepler.
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Afternoon Play - The Price of a Fish Supper
By Catherine Czerkawska. Rab has been hard hit by the decline of the Scottish fishing industry and the loss of his brother at sea.
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Afternoon Play - The Pursuit
By Matt Hartley. When a road accident ends in tragedy, the police officer involved sets out to discover who was to blame. But is he prepared to accept the findings?
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Afternoon Play - The Railway Siding
By Jonathan Holloway. When struggling architect Jack is forced to take the overnight train from Haverfordwest to Paddington, he meets a garrulous guard and a familiar young woman.
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Afternoon Play - The Rain Maker
Sinister and supernatural tale by Matthew Broughton. When a father takes his son on a trip to a cabin in the woods, he has no idea what terrible horror is to come.
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Afternoon Play - The Recordist
Dark comedy by Sean Grundy. When surveillance expert Stuart discovers his wife is having an affair he realises it could make an engaging teaching aid.
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Afternoon Play - The Reluctant Millionaire
When a couple who are facing bankruptcy find a winning lottery ticket, they face an agonising but unavoidable choice.
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Afternoon Play - The Right Ingredients
By Pat Davis. When her world falls to pieces, Lisa resorts to using other people's shopping lists as a means of structuring her life.
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Afternoon Play - The Road Wife
By Eoin McNamee. A truck driver in Ireland gives a lift to a female Asian hitchhiker but gets more than he bargained for when his truck is stopped by immigration officers.
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Afternoon Play - The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican
The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican: Robin Glendinning's drama explores the remarkable post-war friendship that developed between a Nazi war criminal and a Vatican priest.
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Afternoon Play - The Second Best Bed
Comic monologue by Christopher Green. A feisty woman has taken to her bed in the spare room and vows that she is not getting up - ever.
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Afternoon Play - The Second Mr Bailey
By Andrew Doyle. John is a young gay man in Edinburgh in 1967. When he takes up lodgings with Mrs Bailey, he realises what life could be like as a straight man.
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Afternoon Play - The Secret Place
By Clare Bayley. Andy and Safi are getting married, but this is no normal wedding. There won't even be a wedding night because Andy is serving a life sentence for murder.
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Afternoon Play - The Sensitive
The Sensitive: Alastair Jessiman's second play about a psychic who uses his gifts to help police investigations. Thomas Soutar discovers some unsettling connections.
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Afternoon Play - The Sensitive - A Nobody
Alastair Jessiman's Glasgow psychic detective returns for a new case. Thomas suffers a crisis of confidence when he is asked to investigate a potential serial killer.
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Afternoon Play - The Sensitive - A Possession
Alastair Jessiman's third play about a psychic who helps the police. Thomas Soutar helps Strathclyde Police to investigate a young music student who has been missing for a year.
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Afternoon Play - The Shell House
The Shell House: Ronald Frame's play tells the story of an unusual romance between a spinster scientist and an exiled Czech architect, who designs an extraordinary building for her.
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Afternoon Play - The Singer
Urban love story by Lizzie Nunnery, with original songs. Frustrated musician Martin is infatuated by the sound of Kirsten singing from the flat downstairs.
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Afternoon Play - The Singing Butler
The Singing Butler: Alexis Zegerman and Ron Butlin's dramatisation of the story behind Jack Vettriano's famous image of a man and a woman dancing on a windswept beach.
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Afternoon Play - The Six Loves of Billy Binns
By Richard Lumsden. Tom Courtenay stars as a 110-year-old who wants to remember what love feels like one last time before he dies. His past loves are ready to remind him.
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Afternoon Play - The State of the Art
By Iain M Banks. A spaceship from The Culture, a utopian society, visits planet Earth in 1977 to survey it and makes contact in order to try and save the planet from itself.
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Afternoon Play - The Strange Desire of Ms Small
The Strange Desire of Ms Small, by Debbie Jones. Lois has all but forgotten the flamboyant mischief of her past until she meets Elsie, a disillusioned clerk 40 years her junior.
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Afternoon Play - The Summer Walking
Contemporary drama by Iain Finlay MacLeod, set in the far north of Scotland. Catriona is pregnant to a man who is always in trouble, so the burden of making ends meet falls to her.
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Afternoon Play - The Switch
By Ali Smith, told in a sequence of songs. The story of George, a young electrician from the north of England who moves with his French wife to Scotland in the 1960s.
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Afternoon Play - The Tank Man
The Tank Man: Julia Stoneham's play about Ken Small, who became dedicated to the creation of a permanent memorial to the victims of one of the worst fiascos in the Second World War.
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Afternoon Play - The Target Audience
By Igor Simonov. The three young women hosting a popular Russian TV show have some tough questions for oil billionaire Yuri Tseitlin, but he has much bigger problems off screen.
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Afternoon Play - The Ted Hughes Letters
The Ted Hughes Letters: Novelist Jane Feaver introduces a selection of previously unheard letters from the late Poet Laureate. Read by Richard Armitage.
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Afternoon Play - The Tent
Comedy by Tom Green. Gavin and Fay bravely attempt to plan their long-overdue wedding. It could be in a castle or it could be the zoo, but it definitely won't be the church.
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Afternoon Play - The Thali Revolution
By Bettina Gracias. A young woman in 1970s India finds independence as she protests against Indira Gandhi's regime by banging her cooking tins at night.
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Afternoon Play - The Three Knots
By Linda Cracknell, set in 19th-century Scotland. Two men stranded on a mountain on a stormy December night meet a mysterious old woman who believes she can control the elements.
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Afternoon Play - The Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer
By Iain Heggie. Glasgow, 1780. Lawyer Enoch Dalmellington detests the corruption of Glasgow's merchant princes, but can't resist being bought off by them.
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Afternoon Play - The Tony Kay Scandal
By Michael McLean. The true story of the case of footballer Tony Kay, who, in 1965, was convicted of match fixing, sent to prison and banned for life by the FA.
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Afternoon Play - The Tower
By Richard Monks. Mashama is on the run from his home; Eva believes she can't return to hers. Music brings them together at a motorway service station, but the law isn't far behind.
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Afternoon Play - The Trenches Trip
On a school trip to Flanders a group of teachers and sixth-formers walk through the WWI trenches, where unexpected conflicts arise.
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Afternoon Play - The Twenty Mile Hall of Fame
Comedy by Richard Cameron, set in the ex-mining community of Doncaster. Three men in search of a purpose decide to open a mobile Hall of Fame for local stars and heroes.
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Afternoon Play - The Tyger Hunt
Lavinia Murray's play imagines a surreal day in the life of the young William Blake. With a runaway tiger on the loose, William is out with his sketch pad.
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Afternoon Play - The Ugly American
The Ugly American: Written and performed by Mike Daisey, an American student who is desperate to absorb the British theatrical tradition but instead falls into shady fringe theatre.
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Afternoon Play - The Umbrella
The Umbrella, by Lavinia Greenlaw. Will and Iris are a busy couple, married for ten years and still in love. Or so they think, until the Perfect Stranger comes into their lives.
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Afternoon Play - The Understanding
By PG Morgan. A young woman is urgently admitted to hospital and prepared to deliver her baby by Caesarian section. What happens next tests the judgement of everyone in the room.
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Afternoon Play - The Veldt
The Veldt: Adapted from the stage play by Mike Walker, based on Ray Bradbury's classic story. A playroom with special powers draws two children into secret deadly adventures.
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Afternoon Play - The Walrus and the Terrier
The Walrus and the Terrier: When journalist James Cameron visited Nobel Prize winner Albert Schweitzer in Gabon in 1953, he was shocked by what he found.
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Afternoon Play - The Weighing Room
By Justin Hopper. Jockey Noel wants to get his career back on track after a spell on the sidelines. What does it take to survive in the demanding world of National Hunt racing?
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Afternoon Play - The Withered Arm
The Withered Arm: Thomas Hardy's classic short story, dramatised by Louise Doughty, tells the highly charged tale of two women in the grip of passions beyond their control.
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Afternoon Play - The Woman from the North
By Bernard MacLaverty. Cassie has never sat an exam before but now finds herself facing a life-changing assessment and the prospect of residential care.
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Afternoon Play - The Word Man
The Word Man: Chris Harrald's witty and erudite comic romance about Henry Fowler, the creator of the Concise Oxford Dictionary and Fowler's Modern English Usage.
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Afternoon Play - The Wrong Hero?
By Mark Burgess. In 1943 a commercial airliner carrying film star Leslie Howard was shot down with the death of all on board. Was he the intended target?
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Afternoon Play - The Wrong Hero?
Mark Burgess's drama re-imagines the circumstances surrounding the death of film star Leslie Howard, whose plane was shot down by German fighters in 1943.
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Afternoon Play - Things to Do before You Die
Things to Do before You Die: By Tom Dalton Bidwell. David is critically ill in hospital. Given the chance to have his dying wish granted, he asks for what most normal boys want.
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Afternoon Play - This Cold August Light
By Jerome Vincent. The year 1816 saw some extraordinary weather. The climatic conditions and amazing sunsets had a profound effect on artists and writers, including Edgar Allan Poe.
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Afternoon Play - This is My Mark
Comedy by Jeff Young. Celebrity archaeologist Billy Eden is convinced that a magnificent painting is waiting to be discovered in a cave beneath the Welsh hills.
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Afternoon Play - This Repulsive Woman
This Repulsive Woman by Christopher Reason. A woman tried and convicted of an offence under the Protection of Children Act 1978 is interviewed by a probation officer.
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Afternoon Play - Those Hard to Reach Places
Comedy by Daniel Thurman. Rita is anything but your average domestic cleaner, as an unfortunate former mayor is about to discover.
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Afternoon Play - Three in a Bed
By Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek. Tom and Sarah Hadley appear to have it all. But when Gemma becomes involved, she finds herself caught in a web of jealousy and lies.
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Afternoon Play - Three Large Beers
Three Large Beers, by David Nobbs. Three men are curious to discover why they all separately visit the same Indian takeaway on the third Thursday of every month.
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Afternoon Play - Thrift
By Rebecca Trick-Walker. Gwen sits on a cliff-top in Pembrokeshire, trying to paint a flower. Instead, she finds herself thinking about her 40-year marriage and its recent end.
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Afternoon Play - Tiaan
By Rupi Dharmi and Annalisa Hounsome. Two sisters are travelling across the globe to be reunited with their mother in rural India for the festival of Tiaan.
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Afternoon Play - Till Jihad do us Part
By Shai Hussain. Comedy about Meena, a modern muslim woman in search of a husband. When she meets the charming Sarwar, it seems her search is over. But is he hiding something?
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Afternoon Play - Time Breathes
Insomnia can affect anyone. Gemma is in love with a man who never calls her, teenager Kris is losing touch with his mates. Their story is inter-cut with advice from a sleep expert.
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Afternoon Play - Tiny
Quirky comedy by Ben Lewis. A teenager becomes an internet star because of his nightly good news webcasts.
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Afternoon Play - Tiny Chaos
Tiny Chaos, by Lizzie Nunnery. Alison's neighbour's daughter has helped her mother care for her for years, but now her mother has gone. It is time to take action.
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Afternoon Play - To Be a Pilgrim
To Be a Pilgrim, by Rachel Joyce. Maureen believes Harold hasn't got up out of the chair since he retired six months ago. But one day he opens a letter and everything changes.
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Afternoon Play - To Serve them All my Days
Shaun McKenna's dramatisation of RF Delderfield's classic novel of life between the wars
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Afternoon Play - Tony's Little Sister and the Paradox of Monasticism
David and Caroline Stafford's play tells the story of St Anthony - hermit, ascetic and founder of Christian monasticism - from the point of view of his angry little sister Dious.
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Afternoon Play - Too Up Too Down
Too Up Too Down: Comedy by Jim Poyser. Jacky is a palaeontologist, so why did he become an estate agent? He was also crazy about Ursula, so how did he end up marrying her sister?
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Afternoon Play - Torch No. 1
By David Pownall. Monologue exploring the mind and motives of the young Czech student, Jan Palach, who set fire to himself in the centre of Prague 40 years ago.
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Afternoon Play - Tortoise
Tortoise: Comedy by Jack Rosenthal. Roy's pet tortoise Merlin is ailing, as is his marriage. As Merlin slowly regains the will to live, he realises that he needs to do the same.
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Afternoon Play - Troll
Comic fairytale by Ed Harris. In the midst of a family crisis, Olivia discovers a troll under her mother's kitchen sink. A troll to whom, as a child, she made a promise.
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Afternoon Play - Two Brown Eyes
Two Brown Eyes, by Angela Turvey. In 1884, the young Frederick Delius arrived in Florida from his home in Bradford. During his stay, he allegedly fell in love with a black woman.
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Afternoon Play - Two Pipe Problem 2010
Drama by Michael Chaplin featuring William and Sandy, residents of The Old Beeches retirement home for elderly thespians and former co-stars of a 1960s TV series
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Afternoon Play - Two-Pipe Problems
Plays by Michael Chaplin, set in The Old Beeches, a retirement home for elderly thespians. Inmates William and Sandy still nurse a certain affectionate animosity towards one another
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Afternoon Play - Two Pipe Problems
Drama by Michael Chaplin featuring William and Sandy, residents of The Old Beeches retirement home for elderly thespians and former co-stars of a 1960s TV series
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Afternoon Play - Unauthorised History: The Killing
Michael Butt's innovative drama delves into the mysterious events surrounding the killing of the playwright Christopher Marlowe.
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Afternoon Play - Unexpected Vonnegut: Who Am I This Time?
Unexpected Vonnegut: Who Am I This Time? Adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's short story about a shy office worker who lives his life through the characters he plays as an amateur actor.
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Afternoon Play - Unglued
By Nicholas Meiklejohn. Jonathan and Laura are celebrating their 30th anniversary with family and friends, but shock them when they announce they are getting divorced.
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Afternoon Play - University of Lies
By Peter Kesterton. University student Emma meets barman and former soldier Andy. When he suggests things are not as they seem, Emma is frightened but intrigued.
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Afternoon Play - Unpredicted
Unpredicted, by Annie McCartney. A Stormont Assembly candidate is rattled when his family begin receiving anonymous messages, accusing him of hypocrisy on the issue of abortion.
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Afternoon Play - Unseen Austen
By Judith French. Impertinent young Lydia Bennet discovers that it is her sister Elizabeth who is the heroine of Pride and Prejudice and that her own love life is all offstage.
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Afternoon Play - Ursula and Boy
By Abigail Docherty. Inspired by the true story of Ursula Kemp whose eight-year-old son testified against her for witchcraft in 1582.
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Afternoon Play - Velvet Love
A tacky Scottish nightclub is about to close. Charlie the cloakroom attendant has known many customers over the years, and on this last night he has to face his past.
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Afternoon Play - Venus to Go
By Fiona Mackie. When cutbacks happen in Portsmouth's corset industry and redundancies loom, three machinists choose to face the future in very different ways.
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Afternoon Play - Violence and the Big Male Voice
Violence and the Big Male Voice: Alick Rowe's dramatisation of Gwyn Thomas' comic tale of passion, ballroom dancing and male voice choirs, set in South Wales in the 1930s.
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Afternoon Play - Visitors
A hauntingly beautiful last play from one of Radio Drama's great dramatists, Peter Tinniswood, Visitors is an elegaic drama on the shortness of life and the frailty of love.
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Afternoon Play - Waiting for Di
By Colin Bytheway. On the eve of Princess Diana's funeral, two unlikely strangers find themselves thrown together as they mourn the loss of someone they never knew.
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Afternoon Play - Walking on Sunshine
Why do you rarely see a black face in the country - apart from the sheep? Heartwarming comedy by Leah Chillery about a black male walking group.
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Afternoon Play - War Bride
By Nell Leyshon. The Second World War is over and Eleanor and Clarence are on a ship to Canada. Eleanor discovers her childhood sweetheart Frank is also on board.
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Afternoon Play - Waves Breaking on a Shore, part 1
Period drama by Michael Eaton and Neil Brand, set in London in 1902. Music hall performers Manny Cohen and Danny Cohan take a chance in film, learning the business the hard way.
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Afternoon Play - Waves Breaking on a Shore, part 2
By Michael Eaton and Neil Brand. After leaving behind the music halls for the new world of film, Cohen and Cohan are faced with an unexpected reality as racial tensions run high.
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Afternoon Play - We Happened to be Passing
Comedy of manners and international relations by David Nobbs. Sal and Tony's promises of hospitality come home to roost.
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Afternoon Play - Wednesdays With Strangers
Comedy by Nick Leather. A migrant worker spends his one day off each week attempting to get to know the people of Britain.
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Afternoon Play - Welcome to the Wasteland
By DJ Britton. As chief executive of her local council, and in the face of the credit crunch, Robyn fights to stop recycling being wiped from her ambitious environmental plans.
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Afternoon Play - Well, That's One Way of Looking at It
Well, That's One Way of Looking at It: Brenda Gilhooly's comedy in which a wife, a husband and his mistress show how differently three people can interpret the same situation.
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Afternoon Play - What Did I Say?
By Mark Lawson. When Max Coleman is suspended from work for an allegedly offensive remark, he just can't figure out what on earth he might have said.
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Afternoon Play - What Do You Know?
By Mark Lawson. When Natasha Lonsdale, loving mother and respected businesswoman goes missing, neither her husband, her family or even her lover have any idea why.
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Afternoon Play - What is Missing from Your Life - The Men
Two years ago, Stephanie Dale asked the women of Birmingham to answer the question, 'What is missing from your life?' Now she asks the men.
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Afternoon Play - What Might Have Been
By Joseph O'Connor. Inspired by the story of Joseph and Bridget Moore, real-life Irish immigrants, as they struggle to cope in a New York tenement on the Lower East Side in 1869.
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Afternoon Play - What the Bishops Knew
Hugh Costello's play explores how, for several decades, abuse by Catholic priests was allegedly covered up in an attempt to protect the Church's reputation in Ireland.
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Afternoon Play - What the Nun Discovered
By Harriet O'Carroll. Sr MaryJo returns home to Ireland after 25 years as a missionary, to a disillusioned public and a Church which has lost much of its moral authority.
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Afternoon Play - What We Did on our Holidays
By Neil Rhodes. An attempt to make the annual holiday a more spontaneous affair takes Ed and his family to unexpected places.
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Afternoon Play - When Greed Becomes Fear
When Greed Becomes Fear: DJ Britton's study of what life might be like for a lonely chief executive of a major international bank is inspired by the current financial climate.
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Afternoon Play - When Greed Becomes Fear: Safe As Houses
By DJ Britton. When Joe loses his sales job for a property building company he becomes desperate. The managing director of the same company is trying to make his own escape.
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Afternoon Play - When to Run
When to Run: Sophie Woolley adapts her stage show for radio, a bizarre story of three women who run, a dog-walker in search of romance and a man who looks a bit like Tony Soprano.
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Afternoon Play - Where Three Roads Meet
Salley Vickers' dramatisation of her own novel. A strange, unworldly figure appears in Sigmund Freud's Hampstead study to present the truth behind the Oedipus myth.
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Afternoon Play - Whispering
Psychological thriller about adultery and murder by Campbell Armstrong. Ted and Lucy are in love. Ted's sick wife is contemptuous of him, but how could he leave her? Then she dies.
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Afternoon Play - Whitechapel Dreams
By Bernard Kops. Leo is about to reluctantly retire as a librarian at Whitechapel Library when he encounters Aleya, a Muslim girl seeking refuge after an argument with her father.
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Afternoon Play - Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life
By Shelagh Delaney. Rose lives alone on a smallholding. When Poppy, her embittered ex-sister-in-law visits for the weekend, the peace is shattered.
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Afternoon Play - Wind, Sand and Stars
Rod Wooden's dramatisation of the book by Antoine de Exupery. An autobiographical account of de Exupery's plane crash in the Libyan desert in 1936.
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Afternoon Play - Windscale
Play by Paul Dodgson, based on Britain's worst nuclear accident in October 1957, researched from government documents and from interviews with surviving staff from the plant
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Afternoon Play - Winter Storm
By Bernard MacLaverty. Poet Andrew steps from his office and is engulfed by a blizzard. Lost and disorientated, he muses upon the events which have led to him being stranded there.
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Afternoon Play - Witness: Five Plays from the Gospel of Luke
Plays by Nick Warburton imagining the story of Jesus through the eyes of those who witnessed it
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Afternoon Play - Wodehouse in Hollywood
Comedy by Tony Staveacre that intersperses PG Wodehouse's own writing with fictional scenes telling the story of the novelist's frustrating experiences in Hollywood.
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Afternoon Play - Women of an Uncertain Age
By Rony Robinson and Sally Goldsmith. A funny touching play about the menopause.
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Afternoon Play - Worktown
Michael Symonds Roberts's play is inspired by Humphrey Spender's photographs of Bolton in the 1930s. Poetry, dialogue, monologue and song create a vivid picture of life at the time.
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Afternoon Play - Ying Tong: A Walk with the Goons
Roy Smiles's play about Spike Milligan's last days with the Goons and his complex relationship with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.
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Afternoon Play - Zauberjackl
Zauberjackl: By Charlie Boucher. Lukas and Emil are surviving on their wits, but when they become involved with a gang that is terrorising Salzburg their lives are put in danger.
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Afternoon Play - Zero Degrees of Separation
Three community writing groups from the Isle of Mull, Northern Ireland and London perform their own short plays.
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