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A Prayer for Owen Meany
Five part adaptation of the John Irving novel, dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths
A Tokyo Murder
Murder mystery by John Dryden and Miriam Smith
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Two bird watchers see something rare outside and are joined by a visitor, by Paul Farley.
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John Peacock's adaptation of Richard Hull's novel, written in the 1930s.
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A poet and a painter are caught up in the struggle to reform treatment of the mentally ill
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A woman planning her wedding faces many choices, and her friends want to make them for her
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By Dennis Kelly. Kate is enjoying herself for the first time.
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Jonathan Hall's period ghost story mixing fact and fiction is set during World War II.
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Jerusalem, 1945. Evicted from her flat, Else the poet has a number of strange encounters.
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By Dawn King. A teacher is detained for 28 days, after which he tries to rebuild his life.
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In a remote Scottish community, a London boy meets a feisty young girl. By Simon Farquhar.
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By Nicholas McInerny. Jennifer discovers a great deal about her deceased distant relative.
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Dramatisation of the experiences a displaced 15-year-old Afghan boy who arrives in London.
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By Lynne Truss. The staff at a call centre experience something totally unexpected.
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Romantic comedy about a man who receives 43 replies to a lonely hearts ad he didn't place.
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Helene Hanff's tale of the friendship between an American writer and an English gentleman.
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By Graham White. Mark realises that he has made a potentially embarrassing mistake.
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Henning Mankell's tale of an imaginative boy growing up in an icy northern Swedish town.
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By Penny Gold. In 1850s London Henry Mayhew befriends a homeless young man.
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By Jenny Howarth. Jane Austen's sister narrates the shocking story of her aunt's arrest.
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A hard look at some of the men and women who launched, then sank, a thousand hedge funds.
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Annie Caulfield's play is based on a memoir by Bruce Chatwin, caught up in a revolution.
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By John Sessions. The friendship of the 18th-century satirists Pope and Swift is tested.
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By Stephen Wakelam. EM Forster grapples with a mysterious death and his own sexuality.
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Gillian Clarke's play is a poetic celebration of rural summertime.
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By Robin Mukherjee. A woman visits her elderly parents in Spain.
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Dark comedy by Mike Stott. DS Dave Davis investigates a drunken football fan's murder.
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A story about making money in industrial quantities.
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Alex Jennings stars as George VI, who must conquer his stammer to broadcast to the nation.
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By Adrian Penketh. Paul Tate is unwittingly cast as the symbol of Londoners' defiance.
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Conor volunteers to test a new medical sonic scanner which records sounds inside the body.
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By Sarah Wooley.1961. A French holiday turns into a nightmare for playwright John Osborne.
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Special adaptation of the Marx Brothers' award-winning musical, written by Dick Vosburgh.
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Christopher Lee's play, set in the aftermath of the 1979 assassination of Lord Mountbatten
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Clara and Tobi flee their native Germany for a better life in Ireland.
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Comedy by Andrew Lynch. Two bungling plasterers steal The Queen's wedding certificate.
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By David Pownall. An exasperated Prince of Wales seeks to be king.
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By Adam Beeson. A man appeals to Heaven to allow him to be born again with 'experience'.
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By Janice Okoh. A chance meeting in a job centre offers Alison some easy money.
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AE Housman's famous poem, exploring the fleetingness of love and decay of youth.
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By Katie Hims. Deaf Joe turns detective after a fire.
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By R K Narayan, dramatised by Ronald Frame. An ageing tiger looks back on his life.
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By Michael Chaplin. Two inmates in a retirement home tackle a mystery.
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By Robin Brooks. A feminist film-maker is making a documentary about writer MR James.
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Ewa Banaszkiewicz's fresh perspective on the lives of Polish people living in England.
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Hugh Costello's play is based on the story of Abel Ryder, an Oxfordshire shopkeeper.
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By Mark Shand. Abigail contemplates her life as she falls off the top of her tower block.
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A man claims to know the identity of Shakespeare's Dark Lady.
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Former City lawyer Alice is running out of time to stop her life going downhill.
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Tim Dee's adaptation of Kressmann Taylor's novel, published in 1938.
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Michael Morpurgo's imaginative and humorous retelling of some of the best-known stories.
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By Tina Pepler. A young woman returns to Istanbul 10 years after a major earthquake.
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By Charlotte Greig. Young journalist Gemma is sent to interview a former restaurateur.
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By Ian Kershaw. Alan and Jean Warburton are on vacation, but this is no ordinary holiday.
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Michael Butt's play about the imaginary journeys of Albert Speer during his time in prison
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By James Graham. The personal grief that haunted Albert Einstein in his final years.
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By Colin Shindler. Former pro footballer Len is unimpressed with his modern counterpart.
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Elizabeth Lewis's comic parable about the pitfalls of romantic fantasy.
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Topical thriller by Colin MacDonald about piracy off the Somali coast.
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Colin Hough's comedy about love, sex, parenthood and dressing up as Sonny and Cher.
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By Lesley Bruce. Bren and Hilly are lifelong friends, but nostalgia is not that simple.
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By Frances Byrnes. In May 1940, the young dancer Margot Fonteyn is trapped in Holland.
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How Humphry Davy came close to discovering the anaesthetic powers of nitrous oxide.
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And the Rain My Drink, by Han Suyin.
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By Jod Mitchell. A couple on a Himalayan mountain trek realise they are being stalked.
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Comedy by Ian Potter. A trip to the shops to buy coffee turns into an odyssey.
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A clash over the teaching of creationism at an academy school causes embarrassment.
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By Ed Harris. Robert returns from holiday in pain from an illness with a very unusual cure
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By Jim Eldridge. Jill plans to scatter her husband's ashes on the ice of Antarctica.
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By Dan Allum. Ambition and culture clash in the Traveller community.
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Comedy thriller by Louise Wallinger about a woman stuck in her flat after an accident.
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By Frances Byrnes. On a woman's 39th birthday, she recalls an earlier, more eventful one.
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By Nick Warburton. Poet David witnesses the dark underbelly of an East European city.
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By Lucy Caldwell. Student couple Kai-Liang and Chang Li join the Tiananmen Square protest.
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Comedy by DJ Britton. An inefficient airport ground services team are taken on an away day
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By Leah Chillery. Tanya travels to Jamaica to find the father she was told abandoned her.
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Comedy drama by Andy Lynch. Two wheeler-dealer brothers get into trouble in Las Vegas.
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Comedy by Christine Marshall. Volunteer worker Anne is organising a party for her husband.
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By Mark Shand. Eva's mother has gone missing.
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Comedy musical by Rob Castell and Tom Sadler with Sarah Tipple.
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By Frank Rickarby. A naturist campaigns to win the right to bathe naked on Brighton beach.
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Amanda Whittington's drama-documentary about adoption.
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Ken Blakeson's story of three soldiers who fought in the Battle of Rorke's Drift.
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By Xiaolu Guo. Zhang Yan has left her village and is determined to make it in Beijing.
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By Kris Kenway. A day in the life of the enigmatic city where east meets west.
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A contemporary thriller exploring a lesser known side of domestic violence.
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Comedy drama by Lloyd Peters about blind cricket.
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By Dominique Moloney. Two brothers breaking and entering face an awkward dilemma.
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Sam tries to clear her best friend after she's convicted of killing her baby.
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By Katie Hims. Betsy goes on a surprise journey through her tragic past.
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Comedy by Tracy-Ann Oberman about the ongoing feud between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
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By Marcy Kahan. Dog walker Caleb's life is about to change.
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Two lonely people, one night school and a lot of lying. Romantic comedy by Gill Adams.
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By Edson Burton, set in the 1980 St Paul's Riots in Bristol.
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By Damian Barr and Laura Lockington. Dan and Lucy get stuck in an elevator.
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By Ann Marie Di Mambro. The world of two designers and entrepreneurs goes into freefall.
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Two research scientists find themselves in competition for a new goverment advisory role.
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By Helen Cross. The true story of Lawrence Cross, the evacuee who never went home.
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A psychological thriller about love and identity by Ben Lewis.
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By Gillian Plowman. A recently widowed woman begins to write to an African child.
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By Tessa Hadley. The daughter of a late novelist meets a university researcher.
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By Emily Steel. A car crash. A middle aged woman falls for a teen. What's the connection?
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By John Peacock, based on a true story about a soldier killed in Aden in 1965.
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By Joan Bakewell. The chair of a book prize committee strives to maintain her high ideals.
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By Peter Spafford. A boy's life is changed by the arrival of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show
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By Daniel Jamieson. Three lost people find unexpected meaning for their lives in Bath.
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By Rex Obano. Matthew Okapara returns to his native Nigeria in search of his son.
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By Fin Kennedy. Illusionist Caesar Price has reproduced most of the miracles of Jesus.
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By Martin Jameson. Psychiatrist Liz is called to a secret facility to interview a patient.
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Psychological thriller by Kellie Smith about a man's craving for control in his marriage.
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By Nell Dunn, based on real-life experiences of cancer patients and those close to them.
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By Sophie Woolley. A wealthy, newly-pregnant ex-banker encounters a green activist.
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Lyrical drama by Jean Binta Breeze set on the Caribbean island of Maracou.
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By Catherine Shepherd. Eve has come to India following the recent death of her parents.
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By Shane Connaughton. A farming community in Northern Ireland struggle to find love.
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By Dan Rebellato. Four men are preparing for battle, but which one?
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A woman takes refuge in an attic as she is almost caught having an affair.
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Comedy thriller by Vicky Meer. A London drug dealer is relocated under a protection scheme
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By Vicky Meer. DI Baldico once again needs Mo to be a witness in a high-profile trial.
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By Peter Ackroyd. A literary historian discovers much about himself during his research.
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Johnny Vegas interprets Les Dawson in a fictional pastiche, co-starring Nicholas Parsons.
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Viola, a 14-year-old girl, has responsibilities beyond her age.
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The story of 7 days in a refuge for runaways.
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From the cell where she stays at Her Majesty's pleasure, Chloe shares her story.
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By Juliet Ace. Can life carry on as normal with a son away at war? Jack thinks it can.
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On Christmas Eve in a Ukrainian village, a witch and a devil try to steal the moon.
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By Michael Butt. A psychologist investigates a young girl's claims to second sight.
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Penny Leicester's dramatisation of Churchill's cabinet meetings between 1951 and 1955.
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Eleanor Bron & Cherie Lunghi star as members of an Italian deli-owning family in Brighton.
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Comedy by Ali Taylor lifting the lid on the ethics of publishing war-torn misery memoirs.
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Margarita Sharapova's tale of travelling across Russia as a circus performer.
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By Dana Fainaru. Mel's idyllic life is turned upside-down when she suddenly stops sleeping
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Based on the true story of the disappearance of Alan Maclean off Somalia in September 1999
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Close Your Eyes, Raise Your Arms. By Ewa Banasckiewicz.
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By David Hodgson. Greg's peace of mind is destroyed when his house is broken into.
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Comedy by Tony Bagley, set in 1959 at the Common Cold Unit.
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Edson Burton's smouldering thriller, set in inner-city Bristol.
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Shelagh Delaney's play is set on a smallholding during the Foot and Mouth epidemic of 2001
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Documentary drama by John Taylor investigating the complex anatomy of a crime and trial.
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A couple decide to have a child birthed by a surrogate and reared in a cryogenic chamber.
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By Rani Moorthy. Four cooks share their secrets.
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By Louise Wallinger. Sarah must give up her favourite pastime of collecting voices on tape
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Nicola Wilson's play explores the aftermath of an affair.
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Longus's classic Greek tale of two naive young lovers beset by pirates.
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By DJ Britton. Surgeon Dan Walsh learns that he has inherited macular degeneration.
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The story of a relationship which began by correspondence, based on unpublished letters.
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Dave the Dead Lefty: By Mervyn Stutter. A 1970s theatre group are reunited at a funeral.
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By Tom Ray. A week after his wife leaves him, a man discovers an extraordinary secret.
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By Jane Rogers. Why has ten-year-old Polly's favourite author stopped writing?
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The final broadcast of a pirate radio operator with outspoken views.
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Strange events unfold for two holidaying couples. Are ghosts real? By Martin Jameson.
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The tale of a love affair between a London woman and a French Algerian man.
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Matthew Solon's story of lost love and broken promises.
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Submarines, debt and deception in Fiona Mackie's play starring David Calder.
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By David Ian Neville. A couple struggle to save their business and their relationship.
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Dark comedy by Doug Lucie.
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A librarian communicates with her grieving mother through the Dewey cataloguing system.
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By Linda Wilkinson, based on the story of a real-life transvestite double act.
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Semi-autobiographical drama by Laura McDaid about a partner's assisted suicide.
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By Chrissie Gittins. On New Year's Eve 1854, 21 leading scientists enjoy a celebration.
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Drama by Louise Ramsden about learning to live - and love - with bipolar disorder.
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By Ben Crompton. Liam and Mickey's dog-walking scheme looks set to fail.
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By Christopher Douglas. Story of the controversy surrounding cricketer Basil D'Oliveira.
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By John Godber and Jane Thornton. Magda's brother from Poland is coming to stay.
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Comedy by Paul Cotter. A former RAF pilot makes a trip to Germany to deliver an apology.
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By Mike Walker. Richard Parker's aunt has died, but nothing is as it should be.
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Olly Smith stars in his own play about his quest to reclaim an ancient ancestor's title.
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Comedy by Ian McMillan. What if Grimsby had been the cradle of pop music in the 1960s?
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By Robin Glendinning. The daughter of the leader of Germany's communists flees Berlin.
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Nicola Baldwin's play is set in London in 1605.
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Liam, an 8ft 6ins recluse, lives with his mother, who is too fat to leave the house.
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Ali Taylor's comic fable about oddness and friendship.
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Gary Bleasdale's play about the life of motion picture pioneer William Friese-Greene.
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Romantic comedy by Robin Baker.
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By Simon Farquhar. The 1960s are ending and Jackie is desperate to get to Swinging London.
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By Ryan Craig. Two British soldiers embark on a perilous quest to retrieve a love letter.
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Clare steals the handbag of a glamorous executive, then sets about stealing her dream life
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Ahmed Masoud's journey into and out of Gaza in summer 2009, written with Justin Butcher.
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By Margaret Heffernan. Four American businesswomen share their stories over an evening.
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By Christopher Reason. A suspended social worker is drawn back into a controversial case.
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By Kavyasiddhi. Dodging impending fatherhood, a man escapes to a beach.
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By Michael Stewart. A head sends all his bad pupils on a field trip during inspection week
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A couple unite when a compromising picture of their daughter appears on the internet.
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Tove Jansson's series of vignettes depicting the love between two older women.
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By Elizabeth Lewis. Charlie's family decamp to Italy, leaving him with his father-in-law.
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By Louis Nowra. A boy and his young mother take to the road across Australia.
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Fear and Loathing in Crouch End: Comedy drama by Malcolm Burgess.
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By Rachel Joyce. Fern is collecting feathers because they can make wishes come true.
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By Deborah Wain. Pregnant 15-year-old foster child Ellie looks for love in the wrong place
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Comedy by Carolyn Scott-Jeffs about a couple who can neither live together nor apart.
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Black comedy by Michael Butt. Max is set to inherit a small fortune when he turns 25.
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Holed up in Harlech Castle, Owain Glyndwr determines to fight Henry IV to the end.
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By Tena Ã…Â tiviÄÂić. Six people wait in a weather-stricken airport.
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Comedy drama by Paul Mendelson. A struggling writer tries to sell his dog-eared screenplay
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First Bite of the Air, by Stephanie Dale. Drama-documentary about a colliery in Coventry.
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Psychological drama by Trevor Preston. Thomas' dreams are like thriller plots.
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By Tom Green. Steve discovers his estranged son has been killed serving in Afghanistan.
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By Mike Walker and John Dryden. A former FSB agent thinks someone is trying to kill him.
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Comedy by Katie Hims. Jess takes a day trip to kiss her dead first love, Danny, goodbye.
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By John Dryden and Mike Walker. An assassin is sent to assassinate a hedge fund manager.
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By Mike Walker and John Dryden. A city worker is caught up in in an unfolding catastrophe
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By Nick Warburton. Why will a man not help a young woman find her lost child?
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Comedy by Lloyd Peters. Can actor Chris Batty win the love of his girlfriend's parents?
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By Ian McMillan. Unemployed Frank creates a doppelganger to help him fiddle the dole.
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By John B Keane. Jim Conlon attempts to cure his hypochondriac mother.
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By Nick Warburton. A girl on a late train journey meets a man with a strange tale to tell.
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By Robert Thorogood. Paul is rich and in love. So why does he lock himself in the library?
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By Stephen Phelps. Prof Matthew Coleman has a sideline in linguistic forensics.
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By Janice Okoh. A junior lawyer in a London firm uncovers a major fraud.
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Natalia Power's account of the life of former Poet Laureate John Masefield.
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By Joe Orton. A black comedy that helped end official censorship of the British theatre.
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By Matthew Coombes. Gandhi and Chaplin meet in London's East End in 1931.
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By Raymond Briggs. The story of Jim Bloggs, a toilet attendant who dreams of a better life
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Stephen Wyatt's play explores why Cardinal Newman and another priest were buried together.
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Getting the Joke: Neil Brand's play is based on seaside postcard artist Donald McGill.
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By Sarah Woods. Climate change specialists imagine the future at four degrees warmer.
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By Sarah Woods. An average family are tasked with eliminating their carbon footprint.
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A father and son are dealt a serious blow in Philip Palmer's drama about medical ethics.
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By Carine Adler. A mother and her daughters gather at home after the death of the father.
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By Lucy Caldwell. A family tries to come to terms with the loss of a daughter and sister.
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Hattie Naylor's reworking of the ballet, a story of thwarted love.
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By Ray Connolly. A priest and a nun who fall in love and leave their orders to marry.
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Sarah Daniels's story of the relationship between a teacher and an imprisoned child abuser
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With debts rising, Colin and Marion set out to milk the system for all it's worth.
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Paul B Davies's play is based on the story of how Elizabeth I mounted a reckless adventure
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Frances Byrnes' story of a young working-class girl and the woman who transforms her.
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By Peter Souter. Joe remembers everything about Ally, but she remembers nothing about him.
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Stephen Keyworth's story of the friendship between Marie Stopes and explorer Captain Scott
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Roy Smiles' celebration of the Beyond the Fringe team.
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Grace, a champion of atheism, is faced with the decision of son Tom to become a priest.
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Kate returns to South Africa to meet Gracey, the woman she betrayed twenty-five years ago.
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By Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Graham Slater has 200 billion pounds to get rid of.
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By Deborah Davis. Dina and Jake rush their baby daughter to hospital.
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By Courttia Newland. Anissa Marie struggles to claim her ancestral power to heal.
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By David Pownall, specially written for Paul Scofield. Michelangelo returns to Florence.
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By Simon Vinnicombe. Struggling both at school and at home, Bradley decides to get away.
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Lee Pressman's play is based on the true story of Harpo Marx's 1933 tour of Russia.
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Bernard Kops' moving story about death, love and friendship in London's East End.
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A dark psychological thriller by Sally Griffiths in which the past refuses to stay buried.
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By Neil Brand. An up-and-coming stand-up comedienne is befriended by a US comedy legend.
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By Peter Kesterton. Nigel meets Kat, who spins coins to decide what to do with her life.
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An actress sets up a matchmaking agency for lonely Welsh farmers.
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Will self-exploration and soul searching help two friends ring changes in their lives?
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Alan Stafford's reconstruction of the 1689 premiere of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
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By Rob Kinsman. As a child, Charlie was kidnapped. He's been a disappointment ever since.
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Farce by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding, set in and around Bev's hairdressing salon.
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Joyce Bryant's satire on tertiary education, set in a far from elite university.
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David Poll is earmarked for disciplinary measures leading to possible dismissal.
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Lecturer David Poll is tasked with finding industry partners to work with the department.
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A quirky and darkly comic drama by Jeff Young about life in Highgate, north London.
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By Christopher William Hill. A reclusive Englishwoman in New York hides a complicated past
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Colin Thomas's drama documentary is set in the Ukrainian steel town of Hughesovka.
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By Simon Bovey. 2019; the bee is extinct. Can new technology provide the answer?
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Comedy by Alan Stafford, exploring the bizarre world of musical humorist Gerard Hoffnung.
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By Anita Sullivan. Jeff's mundane life changes when he is struck by a bolt from the blue.
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By Francis Turnly. A family downsize to a small farm and suffer a campaign of intimidation
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Locked out of her apartment, Poppy is invited by Arthur to explore Hong Kong by night.
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By Matthew Wilkie. George is desperate for his team to win the pub quiz.
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By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. A former gambler wants a quiet life, but his son has other ideas
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By James Graham, set in 1979 as the Callaghan government faces a vote of no confidence.
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Political comedy by John Fletcher, set in 1937. Neville Chamberlain employs a spin doctor.
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By Gary Ogin. Donald needs to be shown how to be less boring. But is this a good idea?
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Drama based on the controversy that surrounded PG Wodehouse's wartime radio broadcasts.
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PG Wodehouse is questioned by MI5 about his controversial wartime broadcasts.
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By Matthew Solon. An entrepreneur and a technical whizz go into business together.
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By Matthew Solon. An entrepreneur and a technical whizz go into business together.
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How to Remember the Dead, by Jemma Kennedy.
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Comedy about climate change and how to combat it.
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Sarah Daniels's play follows two babies through a day in a neonatal intensive care unit.
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By Paul Mendelson. After a stroke a proud Scotsman starts speaking with an English accent.
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A comic and heart-warming play about teenager Michael's fear of spelling bees.
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Judith Adams's play is based on the writings and letters of the young Charlotte Bronte.
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By Jon Canter. Jackie, a bored housewife, is in love with Stephen Fry.
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Duncan Macmillan's romantic comedy about the end of the world.
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By Jonathan Davidson. An artist seeks to expand his horizons and takes up gliding.
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Dark thriller by Tajinder Singh Hayer about Asian identity in modern Britain.
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Three New Yorkers imagine people whom they would have liked to know better.
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Judith Adams's dramatisation of a short story by Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
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By Andy Macdonald. A British soldier in Afghanistan struggles to show his emotions.
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An aid worker in Afghanistan takes a fresh approach to dealing with the opium trade.
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Comedy by Sue Teddern. A housewife sends audio tapes to her new pen pal on Death Row.
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Tim Wright's search for a town that disappeared off the map.
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By Dave Sheasby. Three WWII veterans return to Normandy on a coach trip.
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Stephen Mangan stars in Marcy Kahan's comedy about the killing of a National Treasure.
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By Rob Gittins. Dylan Thomas sued Time magazine over an article about him in 1953.
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Drama-documentary by Howard Belgard exploring the world of the ambulance call centre.
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By Mike Walker. An elderly proprietor of a New York fur shop narrates three magical tales.
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By Hattie Naylor. The true story of a boy adopted by a pack of wild dogs in Moscow.
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By Michael Hastings. Duncan views his teenage son Jack as a loser, but who is to blame?
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Elizabeth Lewis's play is based on letters sent by Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra.
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Dan Jamieson's magical modern version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
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Black comedy by Andrew Doyle. A man sets out to make amends for all his wrongdoings.
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Andrew Sherlock's play is based on the true story of his parents' courtship.
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By Oliver Emanuel. Identity theft should be something that happens to others.
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John Tuckey's dramatisation of the events leading up to the Sudan peace treaty in 2005.
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Alexis Zegerman's drama is inspired by Antony Gormley's exhibition at the Hayward Gallery.
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By Sue Eckstein. Arriving in Nigeria in 1929, Charles strikes up an friendship with Louisa
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David Mamet's comedy of ancient Roman manners, featuring an impoverished theatrical troupe
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By Stephen Sharkey. German astronomer Johannes Kepler's mother is accused of witchcraft.
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By Amanda Whittington. To celebrate her retirement, Pearl takes two friends to the races.
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Adaptation of Keats' sensual narrative poem. Narrated by Paterson Joseph.
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Two short plays by Harold Pinter.
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By Nick Warburton. WG Grace contemplates another day in his long cricketing career.
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A family struggle to survive 'at any cost' after the end of the Second World War.
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Edwardian country house comedy, dramatised by Sue Eckstein from a short story by Saki.
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Story about a woman who takes on a gardener after the death of her mother.
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By Richard Stevens. A Transatlantic wartime flight is beset with increasing dangers.
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A young woman researching a play discovers secrets about her family.
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By Cath Staincliffe. Two probate detectives seek the rightful heirs to an unclaimed estate
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By Phil Gladwin. Legsy tries to find the brother he was separated from as a child.
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By Rachel Trezise. Katie is 16 and in love. Her mother would have a fit if she found out.
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By Dick Clement and Ian la Frenais, adapted by Lizzie Nunnery.
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By Mark Griffiths. Leona discovers the dead body of a cellist.
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Four teenagers and their drama teacher attempt to mount an improvised play.
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By Marcy Kahan. Unable to get jobs, five recent graduates invent their own projects.
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By Katie Hims. Merle's sister Beth has been abducted by aliens - not for the first time.
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A wealthy businessman rethinks his legacy, disinheriting his two grown-up children.
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Comedy drama by Jules Horne. Jenny is trying to win Joe back after her disastrous affair.
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By Nick Walker. Life coach Derby Anderson gets the job of a lifetime. But is she up to it?
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By PG Morgan. Three people fly to Bangkok to test a new asthma treatment.
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By Harriet O'Carroll. Caro faces a lifetime caring for a brain-damaged child.
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By Ed Hime. Tim, who has an empathy problem, tells his story for his college radio station
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True story of radio enthusiasts who intercept messages from early Russian space missions.
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How Jews were tasked with recording the conversations of Second World War German generals.
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By Judith Somerville. Hans and Anna meet by chance on the remote Aran Islands.
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By Cath Staincliffe. A genealogist is in danger when she learns a shocking family history.
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By Rachel Joyce. Faith decides to drive down to Devon to scatter her boyfriend's ashes.
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By Michael Butt. A man's attempts at reconciliation with his father are threatened.
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By Donna Franceschild. Emails promising to change a teenager's life get strangely personal
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By Mike Bartlett. A woman fights to keep her dignity in a series of bizarre interviews.
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Comedy by Nancy Harris. Eve and Patrick meet to carry out an unofficial sperm donation.
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By Rebecca Papworth. Artist Guy returns to Halifax and falls for 16-year-old Shona.
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By Rachel Joyce. Thelma is 70 years old and in love with a man 24 years her junior.
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By Anjum Malik. Kiran and younger sister Shimla set out for a cruise on the Thames.
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Lively WWII drama. The adventures of three young women doing their bit for the war effort.
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By Sarah McDonald Hughes. A family in mourning face a struggle to survive.
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Frances Byrnes's drama, set in Sheffield in 1982, is based on her father's redundancy.
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Social worker Ruth is drawn into Irene's magical tale centred around a disputed tree.
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By Christopher William Hill. A novelist's latest spy novel is reworked by its translator.
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By Mike Maddox. A retired astronomer receives news of a message from a distant world.
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By David Spicer. Should Matt attempt to relive the faded glories of his past?
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Comedy by Bettina Gracias. Lal and Paul's path to true love is littered with obstacles.
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Stephen Wyatt's play follows moves during WW1 to set up an Imperial War Graves Commission.
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By Paul Watson. As England's footballers fail drinkers in a pub expose their complex lives
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Two PoWs in a Swiss resort struggle to recover from their experiences.
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By Colin Hough. Mounted police constable Meryl investigates when her sergeant is murdered.
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By Nick Walker. Deep beneath the ocean, two submariners are desperate to return home.
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By Nicholas Meiklejohn. Andy and Rebecca decide that their best friends are not suited.
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By Jonathan Myerson. A whole family are undergoing self-help cognitive therapy.
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By Katharine Way. A 17 year old spiritual healer suffers a crisis of confidence.
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Drama-documentary by Jonathan Davidson set and recorded in an apple orchard.
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Old grudges resurface as Miss St Andrews 1961 meets her old rival 50 years on.
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The last dramatic weeks in the life of E.J. Moeran, unsung genius of English composition.
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An amateur gardener becomes obsessed with hunting down a mole.
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By Linda Marshall Griffiths. Siddy, eight, and his big sister search for their father.
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By Linda Marshall Griffiths. 8-year-old Siddy and his big sister search for their father.
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A respectable Parisian leaves his wife and business for a new life on the Cote d'Azur.
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Drama documentary by John Fletcher telling the story of unlikely spy Janet Chisholm.
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By Martin Jonols. When Daniel's partner leaves him, Tanya teaches him to drive.
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Contemporary drama of exile and belonging by Iain Finlay MacLeod.
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Chris Harrald's play takes a comic look at a chaotic day in the life of Philip Larkin.
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By John Mortimer. Jeremy Irons stars as Lewis Luby.
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Susanna Clarke's short story, dramatised by Judith Adams.
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Murder by the Book, by Stephen Sheridan. Two elderly librarians try to emulate Miss Marple
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A compromising message left on the wrong answerphone stirs up ghosts from the past.
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After his dad dies from a job for a gangland boss, Danny vows not to get involved in crime
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Graham Slater thinks he may be having a nervous breakdown, due to an imaginary friend.
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Based on the true story of the relationship between a journalist and a condemned man.
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My Difficult Second Album, by Stephen Keyworth. Tom's perfect relationship has collapsed.
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A contemporary tale of grief, love and impulsive kindness on a tough council estate.
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Comedy by Paul Watson about the world of the 'blue blood' debutantes, set in 1958.
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By Bettina Gracias. The story of a young Pakistani boy who was forced into bonded labour.
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Tension flares between art collector Peggy Guggenheim and her daughter one Venetian summer
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Poignant and witty drama by DC Jackson about love and memory.
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A searingly honest account of Robert McCrum's stroke at the age of 42.
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By Christina Balit. Women of Canterbury create the Bayeux Tapestry for the Normans.
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By Pearse Elliot. A bereaved family makes a shocking discovery.
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By Ron Hutchinson. An Australian visiting Ireland is caught up in a fifty-year-old murder.
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By Robert Rigby and Nick Russell-Pavier. A householder confronts a burglar.
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By Eoin McNamee. A riot takes place in Belfast at the height of marching season.
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By Debbie Oates. Nat's life spirals out of control after she hears voices in her head.
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By Caroline and David Stafford. Birkett defends a woman accused of murdering her husband.
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By Nick Warburton. Frank brings a rabbit home, who gets pride of place in the sitting room
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Deborah Wain's drama about Alzheimer's disease and music.
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Nothing Happened: Romantic comedy by Shelley Silas and Luke Sorba.
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Comedy by Peter Vickers about one man's quest to get out of bed.
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By Adam Ganz. At the end of WWII, Germany's nuclear physicists were brought to England.
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By David Pownall. An entrepreneur transports a pickled whale around Southern Africa.
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By Annie Caulfield. Aisha an Algerian artist, takes refuge from death threats in Margate.
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By Robert Shearman. Every word in the English language seems to have changed its meaning.
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Taut thriller by Simon Passmore. Chris and Sam's idyllic weekend turns into a nightmare.
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By Sue Eckstein. A comedian sets out to find the truth about an old school friend's death.
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When his wife falls ill, Alex faces questions about what it means to be a person.
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By Annie Caulfield. Despite joining the army, Craig still can't get away from football.
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By Annie Caulfield. A sequel to the comic drama On the Field about British troops in Iraq.
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Annie Caulfield's comedy drama returns as the squaddies take leave in Istanbul.
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By Stephen Phelps. Can John and Leo rekindle their friendship after 30 years?
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By Ian Macpherson and Magi Gibson. The comfortable lives of two reporters are shattered.
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By Peter Kesterton. A maths lecturer is arrested for attempted assault on a young woman.
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A professor of international studies is contacted by a mysterious stranger.
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By Anne-Marie O'Connor. Four Blackpool residents seek refuge in an empty promenade cafe.
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A fictional story based on an island legend about a wish sworn on a barn owl feather.
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Michael Butt's play explores a strange legal case involving movie star Peter Lorre.
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By Alan Pollock. Philip Larkin and his father holiday in Germany in 1937.
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By Matthew Hurt. A British man meets and tries to help an HIV positive South African woman
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By Ronald Frame. In 1840s America, Scotsman Allan Pinkerton turns detective.
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Gentle melancholic comedy by Stevie Davies, set in a dentist's waiting room.
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By Ellen Dryden. Thomas has composed his first work for the amateur choir he founded.
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Comedy drama by Kathryn Simmonds. Poetry engenders lust, rivalry and ruthless ambition.
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Nine short plays about global annihilation. Available as a download.
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By Margaret Heffernan. Vanessa joins the aggressive traders of Enron's Western Power desk.
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By Margaret Heffernan. As Ken Lay awaits sentencing, a new gardener arrives at his home.
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Burton sets out from Alexandria in disguise to undertake the pilgrimage to Mecca.
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Peter Jukes looks at how changes to British prenuptial law may affect a divorcing couple.
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Comedy by Gary Brown about artist Eric Gill's clash with the BBC over his famous sculpture
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Romantic comedy by Peter Souter. Sam's efforts to win his girlfriend back land him in jail
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By Gill Adams. A young woman tracks down the former Stasi man who spied on her.
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By Roy Smiles. The story of Graham Chapman's history with the Monty Python team.
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By Jonathan Myerson. A teenager diagnosed with a terminal condition is denied treatment.
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With his life empty, music teacher Robbie accidentally gains a jazz quartet.
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Comedy by Simon Brett about a couple living - or perhaps imprisoned - on the Costa del Sol
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By Al Smith. While his quixotic father chases the American dream, Charles dreams.
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Everyone is glued to England v West Germany in the World Cup semi finals, except for Jim.
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Fiona Shaw reads from Carol Ann Duffy's T S Eliot Prize-winning collection of love poems.
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The story of Elvis Presley's involvement in the Cold War.
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Volunteer Julie sets off for Nigeria to teach sewing skills to women in a refuge in Jos.
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By Simon Bovey. When young Dan finds the body of a dead sheep he sets out on a tragic path
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By Jonathan Holloway. George Friendly starts work in one of the last seaside rep theatres.
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By Tanika Gupta. Arif sets out on a journey to his childhood home in Bangladesh.
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By Chris Thorpe. A man visits a massage parlour for the first time.
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The photo-fit of a crime suspect is the spitting image of Alan, a travelling salesman.
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Comedy by Aisha Khan. A dysfunctional family set out on a road trip.
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A woman running a village beauty parlour becomes privy to the community's secrets.
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By Nigel Baldwin. A prominent Bishop's private life hits the tabloids.
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Rumpole is seduced into defending an attractive young woman violinist accused of murder.
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By John Mortimer. Rumpole mixes with the Yorkshire aristocracy when he represents a lord.
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By John Mortimer. Rumpole defends a local newspaper editor.
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By John Mortimer. Rumpole leaves London to defend a case in the Home Counties.
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By Tilly Black. A ten-year-old's holiday diary tells a poignant human story.
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By Simon Bovey. Elver season on the River Severn - a time of mystery and danger.
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By Tim Wright. Continuing to follow the fortunes of dotcom entrepreneurs Erik and Mike.
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By Tim Wright. Erik and Mike set up a website for people to voice their secret thoughts.
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By Nicola Jones. Mike returns home 30 years after his teenage sister's disappearance.
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By Annamaria Murphy. Cornish baker Mary Kneebone takes in a a delirious Irishman.
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By Janice Okoh. A teenager is shot in a nightclub and no-one will talk to the police.
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A biker suffers amnesia after a road accident. But who is the stranger who rescues him?
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Mike Harris' story about 19th century Society for the Suppression of Vice.
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A man arriving at the bedside of his unwell, elderly mother can't sit with her. Why?
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By Mark Lawson. Pippa wants a baby from the sperm of a deceased former boyfriend.
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Romantic comedy by Laura Marney and David Ramos Fernandes.
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Actors masquerading as waiters in a pizza restaurant take over a Shakespeare performance.
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By Melissa Murray. In 1796, Drury Lane theatre stages a 'lost' Shakespeare play.
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By Juliet Ace. Not even a shredder can wholly destroy Bella's past.
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By David Nobbs. Gordon's hatred of noise is threatening his marriage.
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By Sonali Bhattacharyya. Grocery king Mushtaq buys the local football club for a pound.
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A new translation of the Arthurian poem, narrated by Ian McKellen.
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By Glen Neath. Police suspect that a violent robber is a victim of mind control.
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The clock is ticking away in this tense tale of subterfuge by Guy Meredith.
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By Hugh Costello. Redeployed in Ireland, a former CIA agent has had to alter his views.
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By Hugh Costello. Joe Finnerty's place among Dublin's political elite is threatened.
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Paul B Davies's black comedy is based on fact. A magician is confronted by his Nazi past.
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By Alice Nutter. When Maurice falls ill, Eileen wants to know more and visits the library.
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By Mark Wheatley. Fraser helps people disappear, which is why Kathryn gives him a call.
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By Andrea Earl. Maggie is a grandmother with a dependency on prescribed tranquilisers.
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Robert Vaughn is making a movie in Prague when Russian tanks roll into Czechoslovakia.
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Psychological thriller by Hugh Costello.
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By Nell Leyshon. Two mothers react very differently when their sons fall in love.
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By Peter Jukes. After parting from his girlfriend, Luke explores a new networking website.
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Comedy by Colin Hough. Evelyn Sparkle is afraid of losing both her job and her husband.
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By Simon Littlefield. Fictional exploration of James Joyce's relationship with his brother
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By Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis, observing a day in the life of a young Cardiff woman.
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By Annie McCartney. Kitchen comedy staring James Nesbitt as a talking fridge.
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Dramatised by Ray Brown from John Steinbeck's recollections of his sojourn in Somerset.
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By Julie Mayhew. While working as a temp, graduate Maxine creates some drama in the office
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Comedy by Peter Souter about sudden death and its effects on two dysfunctional adults.
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When Ray's film is picked up by a major studio, his dreams of Hollywood start to come true
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By Christopher William Hill. A student's parents attempt to sue her school.
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Gwyneth Lewis's chronicle of her own experience of depression.
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Dramatisation of Georges Simenon's novel about a chef who decides to kill his wife.
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By Martin Meenan. A physiotherapist comes up with an unusual plan to motivate her patient.
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By Dana Fainaru and James O'Neill. Comedy drama about first-time parenthood.
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By Rachel Joyce. Alan and Alice start work assembling their son's 10th birthday present.
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By Suzanne Heathcote. Since his divorce, Simon's daughter has no idea who he is.
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Samina's life is thrown into chaos when her elderly parents fall ill. With Nina Wadia.
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Comedy by Lavinia Murray. Tarzan attempts to save a garden centre from financial ruin.
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By Rebecca Trick-Walker. Widowed May is offered solace from an unexpected quarter.
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As Daniel runs and Ayelen drives across the Chilean desert, an earthquake strikes.
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Scott Cherry and Gregory Evans' play revisits a scandalous Victorian crime.
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Vanessa Rosenthal's dramatisation, based on Daphne du Maurier's short story.
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The Andy Warhol Syndrome. A satire on fame by Jenny Eclair and Julie Balloo.
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By Joy Wilkinson. Pippa and Barney's second honeymoon is not going well.
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By Chris Dunkley. Howard meets Pat, who has decided that things have to change.
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Modern fable by Rachel Joyce, featuring two women and a tightrope in an empty field.
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Documentary-style drama by Michael Butt about the plot to assassinate Elizabeth I.
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By Annamaria Murphy. Jamaican street musician Pickard is given shelter by Molly Pinks.
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By Marcia Layne. Issachar wants to cut off his dreadlocks but his barber has other ideas.
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Samuel West, Lisa Dillon and Federay Holmes in Noel Coward's unconventional marital comedy
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Sarah Daniels's play is set on the afternoon of the annual Birdman of Bognor competition.
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Georges Simenon's classic murder story, dramatised by Ronald Frame.
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By Peter Hunter and David Johnson. In hospital, Richie is desperate see his child's birth.
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Dark and moving comedy about love, money and desperation by Donna Franceschild.
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The youngest son of a conservative black family joins a Muslim prayer group.
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Lance Woodman's drama-documentary follows two competitive cyclists facing the hill climb.
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A feel good drama about three men who venture on a climb of their lives.
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Paddy thinks he is Dublin's finest comedian, if only his 10-year-old son would agree.
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Thriller by Charlotte Greig. Luke can't pull off his scam without Catrin's help.
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Dramatic reconstruction of a meeting of the sons of two former Jewish slave labourers.
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Historical mystery by Nigel Baldwin, proposing occult origins for the French Revolution.
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By Rob Evans. Two worlds collide in a dark drama set in the heart of Soho's gay scene.
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Imagining the last days of Wallis Simpson, for whom King Edward VIII gave up the throne.
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Romantic comedy by Caroline and David Stafford, set in the the immediate aftermath of 9/11
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By Sue Rodwell, based on real events. A peace celebration in Luton in 1919 becomes a riot.
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By Alastair Jessiman. Two Scottish public school boys invent a fictitious fellow classmate
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Thriller by Matthew Broughton. Daniel is groomed by the state as a body-double.
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By Alex Shearer. Can executioner Ameline outwit France's gourmet murderer?
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Psychological thriller by Peter Whalley.
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By Jane Beeson. Three old friends from schooldays during the war plan to meet up.
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By Paul Evans. A sound recordist is enticed by the disturbing landscape of Slaughton Ditch
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Nick Leather's witty look at loneliness, romance and record-breaking.
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By Sheila Goff. Six characters are linked by their reactions to an unexpected incident.
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Juliet Stevenson and David Haig star in a poignant and delightful alphabetical romance.
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Cold War-era coming of age play by Danny Brocklehurst, set in the shadow of Sellafield.
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By Julia Copus, adapted from John Cheever's short story. A bored housewife has a new radio
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By Clare Duffy. When Angela gets pregnant, she tries to trace her mother who abandoned her
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Sheila Hamilton's dramatisation of the 1746 trial of Mary Hamilton, who married as a man.
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When Martha accepts Victor's proposal, she quickly becomes bored. But she has a secret.
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By Hugh Costello. The fallout from a murder trial threatens a marriage.
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Comedy drama by Alan Plater set in a Tyneside art gallery.
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By Shane Connaughton. When octogenarian Billy wins a cabin cruiser he has a great idea.
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By Mahesh Dattani. Bhavna's childhood dream of becoming an astronaut has come true.
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Black comedy by David Hodgson. Chris and Liddy plan to kill their money-crazed granny.
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A comic story of modern economics and goats by Julian Gough and starring Hugh Quarshie.
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By Gavin Mortimer. The story of a 1920s woman's remarkable attempt to swim the Channel.
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True story set in WWI Germnay, by Justin Hopper.
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By Katie Hims. Leila's mother has fallen for a cowboy who is really a telephone engineer.
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By Maurice Leitch. An overzealous pastor lays plans for a young woman's salvation.
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Jim Lynch's coming-of-age adventure story set on the Pacific Coast.
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Drama documentary by Steve Jacobi about actor Ian Holm and the play The Iceman Cometh.
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Nichola McAuliffe's drama about Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the father of modern forensics.
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By Nick Underwood. Singer-songwriter Dave tries to woo his muse with a song.
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The village of Kelstone has been hit by H5N1, which has mutated in to a human viral strain
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Architect Jessie Bruce develops an unusual eating disorder in the face of crisis.
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Dr Tabor goes to visit Dr Cake to talk about ways of alleviating diseases of poverty.
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By Alison Joseph. Kathleen sells her family's Hebridean croft and moves to Glasgow.
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The true story of one family caught up in the tragedy of the 1978 Jonestown mass suicide.
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Two siblings are reunited with the father they cremated four years earlier.
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By Michael Butt. A probing journalist talks to an officer in the armed units of the police
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The crew of a small Irish cargo ship decide to rescue 168 German sailors during WW2.
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By Robin Brooks. The true story of the British-built fighter jet that never was.
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A nuclear physicist from Sellafield is on an exchange trip to Chernobyl.
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By Richard Hurford. A boy and the young Queen Victoria go on an adventure.
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Julia Dover's adaptation of a short story by Yasutaka Tsutsui, set in modern-day Japan.
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By Ian Curteis. Why did George V refuse to give sanctuary to his cousin, Tsar Nicholas?
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A reality show contestant makes a bid to overthrow the royal family.
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By Melissa Murray. A love story woven around real, unusual, events that took place in 1944
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Carol Ann Duffy's amazing and erotic poem tells a story of love and hysterical laughter.
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A young woman faces up to the realities of life when she swaps London life for a convent.
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A letter turns up 50 years after it was posted and threatens to upset a marriage.
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By Kris Kenway. All that lies between Taline and a new life is immigration official Carl.
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Dramatisation of Paul Gallico's romantic novella set during the Second World War.
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A man picks up a female hitch-hiker. They are both concealing a secret.
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A writer finds himself speaking on a mobile phone to a stranger in 1959 New York.
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Lemn Sissay narrates this true story about hope, determination and the power of music.
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An asylum seeker and a migrant worker find a stray lottery ticket.
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Comedy drama by Adam Beeson, set in 19th-century Europe.
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Black comedy focusing on events in 1944 involving film director Sergei Eisenstein.
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Jonathan Davidson's play imagines how the land feels through centuries of exploitation.
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By Judy Upton. Helen and Naomi attend auctions of unclaimed airport luggage to sell online
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By Natalia Power. The Duke of Portland receives a visitation from a former opera singer.
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The true life story of the highest altitude parachute jump.
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The Master and Mrs Tucker: By Roy Apps, based on Noel Coward and Edith Nesbit.
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John Fletcher's play tells the story of a British citizen fighting extradition to the US.
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Comedy by Mark Tuohy. Two London milkmen race each other to Bognor Pier in their floats.
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By Jude Hughes. A woman and her 3 children try to come to terms with her husband's suicide
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By Ed Harris. Alf's memories come in flashes and great blank holes.
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By Adrian Penketh. Wannabe cultural terrorist Mike is determined to make a splash.
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By Jeff Young. On an apparently normal day in Tenby, the domestic and the universal meet.
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The friendship between the writer and illustrator Edward Lear and his Greek manservant.
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By Jerome Vincent. Can Bevan win the doctors and dissenters around as he sets up the NHS?
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By Catrin Clarke. A mother and daughter wait for a soldier to come back from Afghanistan.
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By Dermot Bolger. A hotel manager confronts his past when a special guest checks in.
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Martin Jameson's fictionalised account of the 1964 kidnap attempt on Sir Alec Douglas-Home
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By Amanda Whittington. The story of the trial of Lady Jane Grey.
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Precious Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, is preoccupied.
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Improvised play based on real life interviews about the working life of an orchestra.
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A dramatisation of Georges Simenon's novel "Striptease", set in a night club in Cannes.
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Dark comedy by Justin Butcher about globalisation and climate change.
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Comedy trio The Penny Dreadfuls tell the story of the Gunpowder Plot.
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Facing financial ruin, George, Prince of Wales was obliged to marry his cousin Caroline.
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Dramatisation of Rory Stewart's epic walk across Afghanistan in 2002.
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A playwright and a retired civil servant confront one another over a Radio 4 microphone.
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Dramatisation of Welsh poet Dannie Abse's account of his life after the death of his wife.
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Rab has been hard hit by the decline of the Scottish fishing industry.
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A police officer involved in a road accident sets out to discover who was to blame.
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By Jonathan Holloway. An architect encounters a garrulous guard on the overnight train.
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Sinister and supernatural tale by Matthew Broughton.
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By Sean Grundy. An illicit affair proves both destructive and a useful teaching aid.
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While facing bankruptcy, hairdresser Annie Marriott finds a winning lottery ticket.
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By Pat Davis. Lisa resorts to using other people's shopping lists to structure her life.
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By Eoin McNamee. A truck driver in Ireland gives a lift to a female Asian hitchhiker.
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Robin Glendinning's drama explores a remarkable post-war friendship.
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Comic monologue by Christopher Green about a feisty woman who takes to her bed.
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Drama about a young gay man in Edinburgh in 1967.
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By Clare Bayley. Andy and Safi are getting married, but this is no normal wedding.
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Alastair Jessiman's second play about a psychic who uses his gifts to help the police.
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Alastair Jessiman's Glasgow psychic detective returns for a new and disturbing case.
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Alastair Jessiman's third play about a psychic who uses his gifts to help the police.
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Ronald Frame's story of an unusual romance between a scientist and a Czech architect.
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Martin is infatuated by the sound of Kirsten singing from the flat downstairs.
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Dramatisation of the story behind Jack Vettriano's famous painting.
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By Richard Lumsden. 110-year-old Billy wants to remember what love is like before he dies.
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Dramatisation of the science-fiction novel by Iain M Banks.
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The Strange Desire of Ms Small, by Debbie Jones.
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Contemporary drama by Iain Finlay MacLeod, set in the far north of Scotland.
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The story of George, a young electrician, told in a sequence of songs.
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Julia Stoneham's play tells the remarkable story of the creator of a WW2 memorial.
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By Igor Simonov. A Russian oil billionaire gets grilled on TV.
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Richard Armitage reads a selection of letters from the late Poet Laureate.
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Comedy by Tom Green. Gavin and Fay bravely attempt to plan their long-overdue wedding.
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In Bettina Gracias's inspiring story, local Indian women protest using their cooking tins.
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Drama about faith and the supernatural by Linda Cracknell, set in 19th-century Scotland.
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Lawyer Enoch Dalmellington detests the corruption of Glasgow's merchants in 1780.
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By Michael McLean. The story of 60s footballer Tony Kay, who was convicted of match fixing
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By Richard Monks. Mashama has run away from home; Eva believes she can't return to hers.
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Unexpected conflicts arise on a school trip to the Flanders trenches.
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Three men in search of a purpose decide to open a local Hall of Fame.
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Lavinia Murray's play imagines a surreal day in the life of the young William Blake.
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An American student in London falls into shady fringe theatre and a shadier love affair.
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By Lavinia Greenlaw. Happily married couple Will and Iris meet the Perfect Stranger.
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By PG Morgan. A young woman enters hospital urgently to have her baby by Caesarian section
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Adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic story about a playroom with special powers.
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By Christopher Ralling. James Cameron visited Albert Schweitzer in Gabon in 1953.
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By Justin Hopper. Noel is a jockey about to face the toughest decision of his career.
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Thomas Hardy's classic short story is a masterful drama of psychological suspense.
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By Bernard MacLaverty. Cassie faces the prospect of residential care. What must she do?
Afternoon Play
Chris Harrald's witty and erudite comic romance about lexicographer Henry Fowler.
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By Mark Burgess, based on the death of film star Leslie Howard in 1943.
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Mark Burgess's drama retells the story of the mysterious death of film star Leslie Howard.
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By Tom Dalton Bidwell. 15-year-old David is given the chance to have a dying wish granted.
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By Jerome Vincent. The year 1816 saw some extraordinary weather.
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By Jeff Young. A celebrity archaeologist searches for a painting buried in a Welsh cave.
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A probation officer is sent to assess a mother convicted of an appalling crime.
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Comedy by Daniel Thurman. Rita is anything but your average domestic cleaner.
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Gemma becomes involved with Tom and Sarah Hadley and is caught in a web of jealousy.
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Three Large Beers. By David Nobbs. Three men regularly visit the same Indian takeaway.
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By Rebecca Trick-Walker. Gwen ponders her 40-year marriage and its recent end.
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Two sisters travel to India to reunite with their mother for the festival of Tiaan.
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Comedy about Meena, a modern muslim woman in search of a husband.
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A play about how insomnia can affect anyone, inter-cut with advice from a sleep expert.
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Quirky comedy by Ben Lewis about a teenager becomes an internet phenomenon.
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By Lizzie Nunnery. Alison was born with hugely limited movement and responses.
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Drama by Rachel Joyce. A man receives a letter which changes everything.
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By David and Caroline Stafford. The story of St Anthony from his sister's point of view.
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Jim Poyser's comedy about life, love and five-a-side football.
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Exploring the mind of the young Czech student who set fire to himself in Prague in 1969.
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Comedy by Jack Rosenthal. Roy's pet tortoise Merlin is ailing, as is his marriage.
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In Ed Harris's comic fairytale, Olivia discovers a troll under her mother's kitchen sink.
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By Angela Turvey. Frederick Delius allegedly fell in love with a black woman in Florida.
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Michael Butt's play explores the mysterious events surrounding Christopher Marlowe's death
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Philip Goulding's adaptation of a short story by Kurt Vonnegut.
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Jonathan and Laura announce a shock divorce during anniversary celebrations.
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By Peter Kesterton. When Andy suggests things are not as they seem, Emma is intrigued.
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By Annie McCartney. An Ulster politician's family begin receiving anonymous messages.
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By Judith French. Lydia Bennet discovers the truth about her sister Elizabeth.
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Inspired by the true story of Ursula Kemp whose son testified against her for witchcraft.
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A cloakroom attendant in a nightclub has to face his past when the place closes down.
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By Fiona Mackie. Redundancies loom for three machinists in Portsmouth's corset industry.
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Violence and the Big Male Voice: Gwyn Thomas's comic tale of passion and ballroom dancing.
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Peter Tinniswoood's final (never-performed) play, written just before his death in 2003.
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By Colin Bytheway. Two unlikely strangers meet on the eve of Princess Diana's funeral.
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Heartwarming comedy by Leah Chillery about a black male walking group.
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By Nell Leyshon. Eleanor and Clarence are on a ship - and so is her childhood sweetheart.
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By Michael Eaton and Neil Brand. Two music hall performers take a chance in film.
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By Michael Eaton and Neil Brand. Cohen and Cohan are faced with an unexpected reality.
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Sal and Tony's international promises come home to roost.
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Comedy by Nick Leather. A migrant worker attempts to get to know the people of Britain.
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By DJ Britton. A local council chief battles to stop recycling plans being dropped.
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Brenda Gilhooly's comedy of self-deception involving a wife, a husband and his mistress.
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By Mark Lawson. Max Coleman is suspended from work for an allegedly offensive remark.
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When Natasha goes missing, her family realise they have no idea who she really is.
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Drama-documentary based on letters from Birmingham women.
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By Joseph O'Connor. An Irish immigrant couple struggle to cope in New York in 1869.
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Hugh Costello's play explores how abuse was allegedly covered up by the Catholic Church.
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By Harriet O'Carroll. Sr MaryJo returns to Ireland after years in Uganda as a missionary.
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To make the annual holiday more fun, Ed takes his family to some unexpected destinations.
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DJ Britton's study of the life of a lonely chief executive of a major international bank.
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By DJ Britton. When Joe loses his sales job, he finds himself desperate to save his home.
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Sophie Woolley brings a new version of her stage show to the radio.
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By Salley Vickers. A strange, unworldly figure appears in Sigmund Freud's Hampstead study.
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Psychological thriller about adultery and murder by Campbell Armstrong.
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Leo is about to retire as librarian when he encounters a young Muslim girl seeking refuge.
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Witty and poignant drama by Shelagh Delaney about parenting, rural life, and family ties.
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An autobiographical account of de Exupery's plane crash in the Libyan desert in 1936.
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By Bernard MacLaverty. Poet Andrew steps from his office and is engulfed by a blizzard.
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Comedy combining Wodehouse's writing with dramatised fictional scenes by Tony Staveacre.
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By Rony Robinson and Sally Goldsmith. A funny touching play about the menopause.
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Worktown: Michael Symonds Roberts's play is inspired by photographs of Bolton in the 1930s
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Roy Smiles's play about Spike Milligan's last days with the Goons.
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By Charlie Boucher. Two young men become involved with a gang in 17th-century Salzburg.
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Three community writing groups perform their own short plays.
Arabian Afternoons
Series of three plays set in Baghdad and inspired by tales from The Arabian Nights
Bad Faith
By Peter Jukes. Jake Thorne is a police chaplain who is battling with his own demons
Baldi (series 5)
Series of murder mysteries for the Franciscan priest and philosophy lecturer
Black Hearts in Battersea
Dramatisation by Lin Coghlan of Joan Aiken's classic children's adventure
Blame the Parents
Drama by Nicholas McInerny and Jonathan Myerson about teens caught up in a violent crime
Brief Lives - Series 1
Series of four plays set in a Manchester legal practice
Brief Lives - Series 2
Series of four plays set in a Manchester legal practice, by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly
Brief Lives - Series 3
Series of four plays set in a Manchester legal practice, by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Katie Hims's four-part dramatisation of Louis de Bernieres's best-selling novel
Devil in the Fog
Two-part dramatisation of Leon Garfield's thrilling 18th century mystery adventure
Dickens Confidential
Series of plays exploring how Charles Dickens would have brought the news to the masses
Dickens Confidential
Series of plays in which Charles Dickens is the head of a daily paper
Final Demands
Series by Frederic Raphael reuniting the characters from his novel The Glittering Prizes
Have your Cake
Series of plays about a cake-making club
Hitched
Two plays by Doug Lucie which satirise our obsession with weddings and happy-ever-afters
HMS Surprise
Dramatisation of Patrick O'Brian's novel, set in England, India and at sea
In Form
Two-part series of drama-documentaries taking musical form as their starting point
Looking for Angels
Series of dramas taking angels as a theme
McLevy - Series 5
Series of stories about David Ashton's detective set in Victorian Edinburgh
McLevy - Series 6
Series of stories about David Ashton's detective, set in Victorian Edinburgh
New Metamorphoses
Contemporary reworkings of tales by Ovid
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
A series of plays adapted from Alexander McCall Smith's popular novels
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
A series of plays adapted from Alexander McCall Smith's popular novels
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
A series of plays adapted from Alexander McCall Smith's popular novels
Number 10
Series of five plays depicting life inside Downing Street
Number 10
Series of five plays depicting life inside Downing Street
Number 10
Series of five plays depicting life inside Downing Street
Pilgrim
Series of four modern-day fantasy adventures by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Pilgrim, series 2
Series of four modern-day fantasy adventures by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
Two-part adaptation of the novel by John Mortimer
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
A case for John Mortimer's barrister involving a man arrested on suspicion of terrorism
Second Chances
Series of plays about adoption, part of the BBC Family Wanted Campaign
Severed Threads
John Dryden's three-part thriller recorded in India, the US and the UK.
Signs
Contemporary stories about the way technology determines our lives
Stone
Detective series created by Danny Brocklehurst
Take-Away
Series of comedy dramas depicting the history of a fast food shop in Leeds
The Antisocial Behaviour of Horace Rumpole
Another adventure for John Mortimer's wily defender of our civil liberties
The Borrowers
Adaptation of Mary Norton's children's classic
The City Speaks
Dramas based on Peter Ackroyd's story in which the Virgin Mary appears in London
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Tales of mystery and murder, inspired by the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Marlbourne Point Mystery
By Bert Coules. A disused lighthouse in Kent coast is the scene of a bizarre double death
To Serve them All my Days
Shaun McKenna's dramatisation of RF Delderfield's classic novel of life between the wars
Torchwood
Sci-fi dramas featuring Captain Jack and the Torchwood team
Two Pipe Problem 2010
By Michael Chaplin, featuring William and Sandy, residents of a thespians' retirement home
Two Pipe Problems
By Michael Chaplin, featuring William and Sandy, residents of a thespians' retirement home
Two-Pipe Problems
Plays by Michael Chaplin, set in The Old Beeches, a retirement home for elderly thespians
Windscale
Play by Paul Dodgson, based on Britain's worst nuclear accident in October 1957
Witness: Five Plays from the Gospel of Luke
Plays by Nick Warburton imagining the story of Jesus through eyewitness accounts