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Radio dramas which delight and surprise

logo for Afternoon Play - 02/02/2007
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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logo for Afternoon Play - 05/05/2005
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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logo for Afternoon Play - 05/07/2005
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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logo for Afternoon Play - 11/03/2005
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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logo for Afternoon Play - 12 Shares
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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logo for Afternoon Play - 15/03/2006
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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logo for Afternoon Play - 19/01/2007
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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logo for Afternoon Play - 29/03/2005
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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logo for Afternoon Play - 30/12/2005
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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logo for Afternoon Play - 31/12/2003
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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logo for Afternoon Play - 43 Letters
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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logo for Afternoon Play - 84 Charing Cross Road
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Bit of Explaining to Do
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Bridge to the Stars
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Chaos of Wealth and Want
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A City Full of Swindlers
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A City Killing
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Coup
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Dangerous Thing
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Dose of Fame
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Field of Hay
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Fire in the Sun
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Helping Hand
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Killing
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A King's Speech
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Man Cut in Slices
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Man in Pieces
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Nice Little Holiday
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Night in the Ukraine
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Pattern in Shrouds
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Place in the World
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Prayer for Owen Meany
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Question of Royalty
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Regent's Tale
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Second Life
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Short Ride to Dusseldorf
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Shropshire Lad
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Small Piece of Silence
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Tiger for Malgudi
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Tokyo Murder
Afternoon Play - A Tokyo Murder

Murder mystery by John Dryden and Miriam Smith

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logo for Afternoon Play - A Two Pipe Problem
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Warning to the Furious
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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logo for Afternoon Play - A Wedding in Krakow
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Abel's Law
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Abigail Adams
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Accolades
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Accomplices
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Address Unknown
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Aesop's Fables
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Aftershock
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Against the Grain
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Alan and Jean's Incredible Journey
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Albert Speer's Walk Around the World
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Albert's Boy
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Alf Said I Was Great
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Alice in Paris
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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logo for Afternoon Play - All At Sea
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Amy's Spaghetti
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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logo for Afternoon Play - An Interlude of Men
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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logo for Afternoon Play - An Unchoreographed World
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Anaesthesia
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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logo for Afternoon Play - And the Rain My Drink
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Annapurna
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Antimacassars and Ylang Ylang Conditioner
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Apes and Angels
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Arabian Afternoons
Afternoon Play - Arabian Afternoons

Series of three plays set in Baghdad and inspired by tales from The Arabian Nights

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logo for Afternoon Play - Aromatherapy
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Ashes to Antarctica
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Avenues of Eternal Peace
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Bad by Default
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Baguettes and Barms
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Baldi (series 5)
Afternoon Play - Baldi (series 5)

Series of murder mysteries for the Franciscan priest and philosophy lecturer

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logo for Afternoon Play - Bang Went the Sun
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Barbershopera!
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Be My Baby
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Bearing the Cross
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Beijing's Slowest Elevator
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Beirut Days
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Bell in the Ball
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Best Friends
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Bette and Joan and Baby Jane
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Black and White Riot
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Black Hearts in Battersea
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Blame the Parents
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Blinded by Science
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Blue Eyed Boy
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Boniface and Me
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Brief Lives - Series 1
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Bringing Eddie Home
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Brought to Book
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Buffalo Bill and Little Matty Dyer
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Burned to Nothing
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Can You Tell Me the Name of The Prime Minister?
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Can't Live Without You
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Afternoon Play - Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Katie Hims's four-part dramatisation of Louis de Bernieres's best-selling novel

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logo for Afternoon Play - Carbon Cleansing
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Carmella's Island
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Cats and Monkeys
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Cavalry
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Chameleon in Town
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Chatterton: The Allington Solution
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 Štivičić. 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 - Have your Cake

Series of plays about a cake-making club

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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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logo for Afternoon Play - In Search of Oldton
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Incredibly Guilty: A Comic Moral Fable
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Life: An Audio Tour
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

Series of dramas taking angels as a theme

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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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logo for Afternoon Play - My Brother's Keeper
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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logo for Afternoon Play - My Lovely Man
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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logo for Afternoon Play - My Romantic History
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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logo for Afternoon Play - New Metamorphoses
Afternoon Play - New Metamorphoses

Contemporary reworkings of tales by Ovid

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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 - Number 10

Series of five plays depicting life inside Downing Street

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Afternoon Play - Number 10

Series of five plays depicting life inside Downing Street

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Afternoon Play - Number 10

Series of five plays depicting life inside Downing Street

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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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logo for Afternoon Play - Poetry for Beginners
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Postcards From a Cataclysm
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Raft to Bondi
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Right Place, Wrong Time
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Rumpole and the Family Pride
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 - Signs

Contemporary stories about the way technology determines our lives

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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 - Stone

Detective series created by Danny Brocklehurst

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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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logo for Afternoon Play - Taken
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Tall Stories
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Tarzan of the Antirrhinums
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Telling the Bees
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Terremoto
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Tetherdown
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Alibi
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Andy Warhol Syndrome
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Antisocial Behaviour of Horace Rumpole
Afternoon Play - The Antisocial Behaviour of Horace Rumpole

Another adventure for John Mortimer's wily defender of our civil liberties

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logo for Afternoon Play - The Aquatic Ape
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Architects
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Art of Balance
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Babington Plot
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Ballad of Pickard Boots
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Barber and the Ark
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Better Half
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Birdwoman of Bognor
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Blue Room
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Borrowers
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Boy Fathers
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Ca'd'oro Cafe
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Chosen One
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The City Speaks
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Climb
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Comedian
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Confessions
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Conservation
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Conspiracy of the Illuminati
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Cracks
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Darkness of Wallis Simpson
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Day the Planes Came
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Day They Wouldn't Take it Any More
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Death of Magnus Sweet
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Decoy
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Diabolical Gourmet
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Disappearance
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Discourse of Two Once Young Women
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Ditch
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Domino Man of Lancashire
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Doppler Effect
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The End of the Alphabet
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The End of the World
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Enormous Radio
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Fall
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Female Husband
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Forester's Daughter
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Forgetting Curve
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Marlbourne Point Mystery
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Gallery
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Gertie
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Girl Who Touched the Stars
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Granny Killers
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Great Swim
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Greater Good
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Gunshot Wedding
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Hands of Cheryl Boyd
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Highest Tide
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Iceman Goeth
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Incomparable Witness
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Incomplete Works of Dave McCabe
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Influence
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Insecurity Guard
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Invention of Dr Cake
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Island With No Name
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Jonestown Letters
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Journey
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Judgement Test
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Kerlogue
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Killing of the TSR2
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The King of Pripyat
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The King of Sootland
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Last Smoker
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Last Tsar
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Last Tudor
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Last Witch Trial
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Laughter of Stafford Girls' High
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Lemon Squeezer
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Letter
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Line
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Lonely
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Longest Journey
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Loop
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Lost Boys of Africa
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Lottery Ticket
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Magician's Daughter
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Making of Ivan the Terrible
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Making of the English Landscape
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Man inside the Suitcase
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Man Who Built Tunnels
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Man Who Jumped From Space
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Master and Mrs Tucker
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The McKinnon Extradition
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Milk Race
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Minute When Your Life Stops
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Moment You Feel It
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Mouse House
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Need for Nonsense
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The NHS at 60: Stuffing Their Mouths with Gold
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Night Horse
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Night Manager
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Night They Tried to Kidnap the Prime Minister
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Nine Days Queen
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Orchestra
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Other Simenon: Striptease
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Patience of Mr Job
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Guy Fawkes
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The People's Princess
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Places In Between
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Playwright and the Grammarian
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Presence
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Price of a Fish Supper
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Pursuit
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Railway Siding
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Rain Maker
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Recordist
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Reluctant Millionaire
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Right Ingredients
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Road Wife
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Second Best Bed
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Second Mr Bailey
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Sensitive - A Nobody
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Shell House
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Singing Butler
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Six Loves of Billy Binns
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The State of the Art
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Strange Desire of Ms Small
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Summer Walking
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Switch
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Tank Man
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Target Audience
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Ted Hughes Letters
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Tent
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Thali Revolution
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Three Knots
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Tony Kay Scandal
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Tower
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Trenches Trip
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Twenty Mile Hall of Fame
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Tyger Hunt
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Ugly American
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Umbrella
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Understanding
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Veldt
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Walrus and the Terrier
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Weighing Room
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Withered Arm
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Woman from the North
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Word Man
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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logo for Afternoon Play - The Wrong Hero?
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Things to Do before You Die
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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logo for Afternoon Play - This Cold August Light
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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logo for Afternoon Play - This is My Mark
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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logo for Afternoon Play - This Repulsive Woman
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Those Hard to Reach Places
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Three in a Bed
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Till Jihad do us Part
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Time Breathes
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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logo for Afternoon Play - To Be a Pilgrim
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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logo for Afternoon Play - To Serve them All my Days
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Tony's Little Sister and the Paradox of Monasticism
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Too Up Too Down
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 - Torchwood

Sci-fi dramas featuring Captain Jack and the Torchwood team

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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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logo for Afternoon Play - Two Brown Eyes
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Two Pipe Problem 2010
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Unexpected Vonnegut: Who Am I This Time?
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Unseen Austen
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Violence and the Big Male Voice
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Waiting for Di
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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logo for Afternoon Play - We Happened to be Passing
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Welcome to the Wasteland
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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logo for Afternoon Play - What Did I Say?
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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logo for Afternoon Play - What is Missing from Your Life - The Men
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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logo for Afternoon Play - What Might Have Been
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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logo for Afternoon Play - What the Bishops Knew
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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logo for Afternoon Play - What the Nun Discovered
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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logo for Afternoon Play - What We Did on our Holidays
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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logo for Afternoon Play - When Greed Becomes Fear
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Where Three Roads Meet
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Whispering
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Whitechapel Dreams
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Wind, Sand and Stars
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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logo for Afternoon Play - Zero Degrees of Separation
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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