Saturday Play
The weekly play on Radio 4. Thrillers, mysteries, love stories and detective fiction, as well as an occasional special series
Saturday Play - 06/01/2007
The Tinner's Corpse: A Crowner John Mystery: Coroner Sir John de Wolfe, aided by his clerk, investigates mysterious murders amongst the tin-mining community in Devon in 1195.
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Saturday Play - 13/01/2007
Belgian Nurse. The story of a friendship that created one of the 20th century's best-selling novels and films - The Nun's Story.
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Saturday Play - 1968: 4.4.68
1968: 4.4.68. Jon Sen's play recalls the events of the last days of Martin Luther King's life before the civil rights leader was assassinated.
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Saturday Play - 1968: Let's Murder Vivaldi
New radio production of David Mercer's 1968 play. Monica and Gerald are not happy together. Nor are Ben and Julie. Gerald and Julie decide to try to resolve everything - somehow.
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Saturday Play - 1989: The Shape of the Table
By David Edgar. Charting the dramatic and dangerous transition of a fictional eastern European country from hard-line communism to the beginnings of western-style democracy.
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Saturday Play - A Family Affair
Michael Dobbs' play follows Margaret Thatcher's last traumatic days in power, seen from the perspective of her husband, Denis, and her family.
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Saturday Play - A Month in the Country
A WW1 survivor, Birkin, spends a month in the country uncovering a mediaeval mural. In J. L. Carr's tale he finds compassion and love; riches he thought the war had blown away.
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Saturday Play - A Night with Johnny Stompanato
Jonathan Holloway's hard-boiled Hollywood drama is based on the true story of the stabbing of actress Lana Turner's boyfriend Johnny Stampanato by her daughter Cheryl.
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Saturday Play - A Voyage round My Father
John Mortimer's funny and touching memoir of his early life and career. With Derek Jacobi, Joanna David, Dominic Rowan, Angus Imrie. Thea Sharrock directs.
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Saturday Play - Adulteries of a Provincial Wife
By Stephen Wakelam. Who was the inspiration for Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and how did his own life become embroiled in his writing?
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Saturday Play - Agatha Christie's Endless Night
Joy Wilkinson's adaptation of Agatha Christie's psychological thriller. Mike Rogers and Ellie Guteman build the house of their dreams, ignoring rumours of a curse.
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Saturday Play - All Quiet on the Western Front
Dramatisation of Erich Maria Remarque's story of a group of young German soldiers enduring and coming to terms with the realities of the First World War.
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Saturday Play - An English Tragedy
By Ronald Harwood. The true story of Second World War traitor John Amery, son of Churchill's secretary of state for India.
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Saturday Play - An Inspector Calls
By JB Priestley. Affluent Midlands industrialist Arthur Birling and his family are forced to face up to their role in the suicide of a young factory worker.
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Saturday Play - And Then There Were None
Dramatisation of Agatha Christie's classic story. Ten guests are invited to a desolate island. By the end of the first night, one of them is dead.
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Saturday Play - Arcadia
Arcadia: Tom Stoppard's acclaimed comedy about the lives and preoccupations of the inhabitants of Sidley Park, Derbyshire in the early 19th and late 20th centuries.
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Saturday Play - Avoid London...Area closed...Turn on Radio
Mike Walker's drama focuses on how a family coped with the terrible events of 7/7 and how they set about rebuilding their lives.
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Saturday Play - Backtrack
A play that begins in a temporary centre for the homeless, when a volunteer helper finds herself oddly interested in one of the down-and-outs.
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Saturday Play - Beast at Bay
Beast at Bay: Robin Glendinning's play tells the story of the publication of Boris Pasternak's classic 20th-century novel Dr Zhivago.
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Saturday Play - Beat the Dog in His Own Kennel
Fast-moving thriller by Gary Brown, set soon after the Second World War and based on real events as the Jewish underground plan to assassinate foreign secretary Ernest Bevin.
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Saturday Play - Betrayal - Plenty
David Hare's play contrasts the experiences of an Englishwoman helping the French Resistance during the Second World War with her life over the following twenty years.
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Saturday Play - Blinded by the Sun
Blinded by the Sun: A new radio version of Stephen Poliakoff's 1996 National Theatre play about a scientific fraud in an English university.
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Saturday Play - Blithe Spirit
Bert Coules's adaptation of the Noel Coward comedy. At a seance at his country house, writer Charles Condomine receives a ghostly visitation from his dead first wife.
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Saturday Play - Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry, part 2
Dramatic reconstruction of the hearings about the events of Sunday January 30, 1972, focusing on the testimony of soldiers and ends with a former member of the Official IRA.
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Saturday Play - Bora Bora
By Lynne Truss. When a biographer joins a painting holiday organised by art historian Alec, his arrival disturbs the calm. Alec must face a terrible truth about his life.
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Saturday Play - Boscobel
Historical thriller by Ian Curteis that charts the fortunes of the future Charles II in the immediate aftermath of his father's execution.
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Saturday Play - Breaking the Silence
Breaking the Silence: Stephen Poliakoff's modern classic is set in post-revolutionary Russia. A man is obsessed with finding a way of bringing sound to the movies.
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Saturday Play - Bullitt
Dramatisation of Robert L Pike's gritty detective story, set in New York's rough 52nd Precinct in 1963. Lieutenant Clancy is assigned to protect an important Mafia witness.
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Saturday Play - Called to Account
Called to Account: To mark Tony Blair's resignation, an adaptation of a play based on actual hearings held to see if there could be grounds to indict the PM over the Iraq invasion.
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Saturday Play - Choice of Straws
Dramatisation by Roy Williams of the novel by ER Braithwaite. 1960, London's East End; Jack faces up to life after the fatal stabbing of his twin brother Dave.
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Saturday Play - Cigarettes and Chocolate
Anthony Minghella's Giles Cooper Award-winning radio play, in which a woman's unexplained silence drives her friends to distraction.
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Saturday Play - Conclave
Gripping drama by Hugh Costello. After the short reign and mysterious death of Pope John Paul I, opposing factions within the Vatican come together to elect his successor.
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Saturday Play - Confessions of a Medium
Dark comedy by AL Kennedy, set in 1870s London. In search of a higher meaning to life, Mr Parker encounters Mr Thomson, a charming and mesmerising medium - and a complete fake.
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Saturday Play - Cry Hungary
By Paul Viragh. In 1956, Peter, a student in Budapest, falls in love with Eva. When he becomes involved in anti-government demonstrations, she finds her loyalties severely tested.
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Saturday Play - Death at the Desert Inn
Death at the Desert Inn, by Marcy Kahan. 300,000 dollars are left in a satchel in Noel Coward's Las Vegas suite. Coward sets off on his unexpected posthumous career as a detective.
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Saturday Play - Devastated Areas
Adam Thorpe's play explores civilian grief during and after the Great War of 1914-1918 in three interweaving stories.
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Saturday Play - Dover and the Claret Tappers
Dover and the Claret Tappers: Comedy thriller by Joyce Porter, dramatised by Paul Mendelson. When Inspector Dover is kidnapped, the mood at Scotland Yard is one of jubilation.
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Saturday Play - Dover and The Sleeping Beauty
Comedy thriller by Paul Mendelson, set in the 1960s. Inspector Dover investigates when a girl in an irreversible coma after being shot is murdered months later.
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Saturday Play - Dover and the Unkindest Cut of All
Comedy thriller by Joyce Porter, set in the 70s, dramatised by Paul Mendelson. Chief Inspector Dover's seaside break becomes a busman's holiday with the death of a local policeman.
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Saturday Play - Dover Beats the Band
Comedy thriller by Joyce Porter, dramatised by Paul Mendelson. Inspector Dover investigates the murder of a mild-mannered philatelist in a holiday camp.
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Saturday Play - Dr Freud Will See you Now Mr Hitler
By Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. At the age of six, Adolf Hitler suffered from nightmares. The doctor recommended a young child psychiatrist named Sigmund Freud. What if....
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Saturday Play - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
By Robert Louis Stevenson. When a London lawyer studies the last will of his old friend Dr Jekyll, his suspicions are aroused.
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Saturday Play - Dr Johnson's Dictionary of Crime: A for Assassin
Comic thriller by David Ashton. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell tackle the teeming London underworld of 1781.
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Saturday Play - Dr No
Hugh Whitemore's dramatisation of Ian Fleming's 1958 novel, to celebrate the author's centenary. Bond is sent to investigate a strange disappearance on the island of Jamaica.
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Saturday Play - Educating Rita
By Willy Russell. A comic, sparky and touching portrayal of the relationship between a working-class Open University student and her alcohol-fuelled tutor.
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Saturday Play - Emil and the Detectives
By Erich Kaestner. When country boy Emil Tischbein is robbed on the train to Berlin, he enlists the aid of hundreds of Berlin street boys to help him catch the thief.
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Saturday Play - Feluda: The Mystery of the Elephant God
Feluda: The Mystery of the Elephant God. Satyajit Ray's famous Bengali detective Feluda investigates the theft of a valuable statuette of Ganesh from a famous household.
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Saturday Play - Five Days in May
Play telling the story of the tense negotiation following the 2010 General Election, based on interviews with those at the meetings and political journalists.
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Saturday Play - Giving Up the Ghost
By Lynne Truss. In a house full of carbon monoxide, fireman Scott experiences the last terrible moments of his friend life, who died in similar circumstances eight months earlier.
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Saturday Play - Going to Ground
By Simon Passmore. Kent, 1940. A resistance unit mobilises when the church bells ring to warn of invasion. Tensions run high as the five men gather in their underground bunker.
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Saturday Play - Goldfinger
Dramatisation of Ian Fleming's classic novel. When James Bond begins his pursuit of an international criminal, he discovers that a daring heist is on the agenda - and mass murder.
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Saturday Play - Haunted Hospital
Haunted Hospital: A ghost story set in a hospital in Rochdale featuring two parallel storylines, one contemporary and the other set in the late 1800s.
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Saturday Play - Honour
Emotionally charged drama by Joanna Murray-Smith. With Diana Rigg, Martin Jarvis, Natascha McElhone and Georgina Rich. Directed by David Grindley.
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Saturday Play - Humble Boy
Humble Boy: Award-winning comic drama by Charlotte Jones, adapted for radio by Steven Canny. Cambridge astro-physicist Felix Humble has problems with his demanding mother.
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Saturday Play - If I Should Go Away
If I Should Go Away: Owen Sheers' play, adapted from the writings of fellow Welsh poet Alun Lewis, reveals how casualties of war are emotional as much as physical.
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Saturday Play - India and Pakistan '07: Feluda the Golden Fortress
India and Pakistan '07: Feluda the Golden Fortress. An adventure for Satyajit Ray's famous Bengali sleuth Feluda, specially recorded in Mumbai.
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Saturday Play - India and Pakistan '07: Husud
India and Pakistan '07: Husud. Samina Baig's tale of sibling rivalry, jealousy, forbidden passion and murder is set in an India waking up to massive change.
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Saturday Play - Insignificance
Insignificance: Terry Johnson's play is set in New York in 1953. A film star, a Nobel Prize winning scientist, a baseball player and an infamous senator meet in a hotel room.
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Saturday Play - J'Accuse
By Hattie Naylor. Dramatisation inspired by a newspaper article written by Emile Zola in response to the Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s.
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Saturday Play - Joan of Arc, and How She Became a Saint
Written and directed by Patrick Barlow. Comic interpretation of the story of Joan of Arc performed by comic troupe the National Theatre of Brent.
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Saturday Play - Journey into Space: Frozen in Time
Journey into Space: Frozen in Time. A tribute to Charles Chilton's iconic 1960s series Journey into Space. The crew of the spacecraft Ares awake from suspended animation in 2013.
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Saturday Play - Journey into Space - The Host
Adaptation of the 1950s sci-fi series created by Charles Chilton. After receiving a distress call, Jet Morgan and his crew must find a way to defeat the vastly superior Host.
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Saturday Play - Just Between Ourselves
Adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's celebrated 1977 stage play, a bittersweet comedy about love, marriages and mothers.
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Saturday Play - Killing the Butterfly
In Colin MacDonald's romantic thriller, two murder witnesses are put under police protection pending the High Court trial. But something goes badly wrong.
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Saturday Play - Lambeth Palace
Dark comedy by Christopher William Hill. How far will an ultra-Establishment conservative and a barely-believing liberal go to become the new Archbishop of Canterbury?
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Saturday Play - Last Night, Another Soldier
By Andy McNab. Eighteen-year-old Briggsy, three weeks into his first posting in Afghanistan, is forced to confront the realities of war when one of his company is killed in battle.
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Saturday Play - Little Nell
Simon Gray's play is inspired by Claire Tomalin's book The Invisible Woman, the story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens. Nelly told lies to protect the secret of the relationship.
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Saturday Play - Lockerbie on Trial
With the Lockerbie bombing once again in the news, another chance to hear Peter Goodchild's dramatised reconstruction of the extraordinary trial of 2000-2001.
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Saturday Play - Man of the Moment
Dark comedy by Alan Ayckbourn. A career criminal, who has written an autobiography and is now a TV celebrity, agrees to participate in a reality show at his Mediterranean villa.
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Saturday Play - Master Class
Comedy by David Pownall, set in Moscow in 1948. Stalin and his sidekick Zhdanov invite Prokofiev and Shostakovich to the Kremlin for a music lesson.
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Saturday Play - Master Harold and the Boys
This new production of Athol Fugard's award-winning masterpiece looks at the days of apartheid in 1950s South Africa through the eyes of two black waiters and a young white man.
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Saturday Play - Missing Dates
Missing Dates, by Simon Gray. Brothers Michael and Jason vie with each other for the attention of Anita, but what is it that she wants?
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Saturday Play - Mountain of Light
By Simon Bovey. London, 1851: the worlds's largest diamond is on show at the Great Exhibition. And John Rayverne must find a way to steal it to save the people he loves.
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Saturday Play - Mrs Klein
Nicholas Wright's dramatisation of the troubled relationship between the influential child analyst Melanie Klein and her own children.
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Saturday Play - Murder Every Monday
Mark Gatiss' adaptation of Pamela Branch's comedy. Clifford Flush and the Asterisk Club move to the country and establish themselves as 'homicide consultants'.
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Saturday Play - Murder in Samarkand
By David Hare, based on the memoir by Craig Murray. Craig is proud to be sent as Ambassador to Uzbekistan but events take a dangerous course, both professionally and personally.
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Saturday Play - On the Ceiling
By Nigel Planer. On the scaffolding tower of the Sistine Chapel, two fresco plasterers prepare the ceiling for their boss, Michelangelo, who has not bothered to turn up again.
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Saturday Play - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Mike Walker's adaptation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in Stalin's prison camps. With Neil Dudgeon, Philip Jackson, Paul Chan, Jonathan Tafler.
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Saturday Play - One Man on a Stage
One Man on a Stage: Comedy by Judith French, based on Jerome K Jerome's theatrical memoir On the Stage and Off. Before he wrote Three Men in a Boat, Jerome hoped to become an actor.
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Saturday Play - Othello
Northern Broadsides theatre company's version of Shakespeare's tragedy of love turned sour by unfounded jealousy.
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Saturday Play - Our Man in Jamaica
Our Man in Jamaica, by Marcy Kahan, set in Jamaica in 1962. Noel Coward's neighbour Ian Fleming is determined that Noel should resume his wartime activity as a spy.
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Saturday Play - Pass the Parcel
Pass the Parcel: Romantic drama by Melissa Murray. Two people who meet at a genealogy course discover that there is a curious link between their ancestors.
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Saturday Play - Passion Play
Passion Play: Peter Nichols's acclaimed study of adultery and betrayal. A happily married middle-aged man embarks upon an afair with a younger woman.
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Saturday Play - Payback
Jonathan Myerson's play traces the first ten days of the 1973 October War, when surprise conflict in the Middle East coincided at the White House with tensions over Watergate.
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Saturday Play - Phone
By Peter Jukes. Eliot is stuck in a rut. When his friend Roy, a local gangster, is taken ill, he hands Eliot his mobile phone, thrusting him into a dangerous and unexpected world.
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Saturday Play - Piper Alpha
By Stephen Phelps. Chronicling the events of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, which claimed the lives of 167 men in July 1988.
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Saturday Play - Playing With Trains
Adaptation of Stephen Poliakoff's drama, set in the late 1960s. It tells the story of the rise and fall of Bill Galpin, a maverick inventor who pools his fortune into backing risky inventions
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Saturday Play - Point of Departure
By Francis Turnly. Security fears surround the visit of controversial African leader Jonah Kotto to a peace summit in Belfast.
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Saturday Play - Private Lives
Comedy by Noel Coward. Divorced couple Amanda and Elyot meet again on their second honeymoons.
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Saturday Play - Quartermaine's Terms
Comedy by Simon Gray, set in a school for teaching English to foreigners in the 1960s. It deals with the concerns of seven teachers over several years.
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Saturday Play - Raven Black
Dramatisation of the crime novel by Anne Cleeves, set in Shetland during midwinter. Detective Jimmy Perez investigates when a teenage girl is found strangled.
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Saturday Play - Rebus: Black and Blue
Crime story by Ian Rankin, dramatised by Chris Dolan. Scottish detective Rebus investigates the death of a North Sea oil worker
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Saturday Play - Rebus: Strip Jack
Ian Rankin's crime thriller sees Inspector Rebus investigate the death of an MP's wife. Ron Donachie stars in this two-part dramatisation by Chris Dolan set in Edinburgh and the Highlands
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Saturday Play - Road to Durham
By Douglas Livingstone. Two 80-year-old former Bevin Boys, who have not seen each other for 63 years, go to the Durham Miners' Gala together and confront their memories of the past.
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Saturday Play - Sacred Statues
By William Trevor. Penniless sculptor Corry struggles to make ends meet for his pregnant wife Nuala and their children. Unbeknown to him, Nuala comes up with a shocking plan.
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Saturday Play - Saturday, Sunday and Monday
Saturday, Sunday and Monday: Eduardo de Filippo's comedy about an extended Neopolitan family who gather together every Sunday for Donna Rosa's legendary ragu.
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Saturday Play - Scam
Scam, by John Arden. Cressida Owlglass has just discovered IT. Beguiled by the novelty of cyber-magic, she finds herself facing a challenge when a dubious email lands in her inbox.
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Saturday Play - Scream
Crime caper by Boz Temple-Morris and Kris Hollington based on the bizarre story behind the theft of Munch's expressionist masterpiece and the police investigation that followed.
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Saturday Play - September Tide
Daphne du Maurier's bittersweet love story, adapted by Moya O'Shea. When Stella's daughter comes home to visit, she brings her new husband with her. A few surprises are in store.
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Saturday Play - Shadowlands
Adaptation of the play by William Nicholson. The moving true story of the 1950s relationship between Oxford don and author CS Lewis and divorced American writer Joy Gresham.
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Saturday Play - Shell Shocked
Shell Shocked: Gregory Burke's moving story of two brothers who are separated in the trenches of the First World War and whose lives take very different paths.
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Saturday Play - Shirley Valentine
Meera Syal is Shirley Valentine in Willy Russell's play. A middle-aged Liverpool housewife shares her innermost thoughts as her life is changed by an unexpected trip to Greece.
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Saturday Play - Slaughterhouse 5
Dramatisation by Dave Sheasby of Kurt Vonnegut's celebrated anti-war novel. Billy Pilgrim, who hops back and forth in time, relives various moments in his real and fantasy lives.
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Saturday Play - Slavery: The Making Of
A look at what happens when an illustrious group of actors and a radio producer grapple with the problem of how to re-enact stories about the slave trade.
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Saturday Play - Slow Boat to Leningrad
Black comedy by David Pownall. In August 1939, the British and French are out-manoeuvred by Stalin and Hitler when they unexpectedly agreed to sign a non-aggression pact.
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Saturday Play - Something Wrong about the Mouth
By David Edgar. Soho, 1958. A mysterious American wants to commission a portrait of a woman he can't produce, in a dress he can only describe.
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Saturday Play - Spellbound
Spellbound: Amanda Dalton's adaptation of Francis Beeding's murder mystery The House of Dr Edwardes, upon which Hitchcock's film Spellbound was based.
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Saturday Play - Spitfire!
Moving drama by Mike Walker about the most famous British fighter aircraft in history, with recollections from Battle of Britain veteran Geoffrey Wellum.
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Saturday Play - Statement of Regret
By Kwame Kwei-Armah. The Year of Obama should be a time for Kwaku's black policy think-tank to flourish, but his latest misjudged proposal is about to explode.
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Saturday Play - That Man Attlee
That Man Attlee, by Robin Glendinning. On the day of the 1945 General Election Labour are expecting to lose, but the results swing their way and the party scents power.
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Saturday Play - That Uncertain Feeling
Kingsley Amis's satire on life and culture in a Welsh seaside town in the 1950s presents a portrait of married life which is as sharp and funny today as when it was written.
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Saturday Play - The Accountant of Solyanka Square
By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. When Andrei is kidnapped by his estranged son Victor, he is forced to reveal how he made his millions.
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Saturday Play - The Admirable Crichton
Adaptation of JM Barrie's classic satire about the changing fortunes of Crichton, the perfect butler.
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Saturday Play - The Balloonists
Craig Stephens's boisterous comedy about infamous Victorian balloonist Henry Coxwell, who convinces beleaguered theatre impresario George Hansum to stage his most celebrated flight.
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Saturday Play - The Believers
Comedy drama by Frank Cottrell Boyce. Liverpool, 1963: the Merseybeat boom is about to take off, and with it The Believers, a Christian pop band determined to spread the Word.
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Saturday Play - The Birds
The Birds: Melissa Murray's dramatisation of Daphne Du Maurier's classic horror story. With Neil Dudgeon, Nicola Walker, Jade Williams, Gerard Horan.
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Saturday Play - The Bottle Factory Outing
Beryl Bainbridge's black comedy, set in 1970, following a group of women on their annual work trip. Dramatised by Jane Rogers.
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Saturday Play - The Caretaker
A tramp rescued from a fight is offered a job as caretaker. David Warner and Daniel Mays star in a play thought by many to be Harold Pinter's finest.
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Saturday Play - The Complete Ripley
Series of five plays based on the novels by Patricia Highsmith about the suave and amoral Tom Ripley
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Saturday Play - The Complete Smiley - A Murder of Quality
Dramatisation of the novel by John le Carré. When the wife of a public school master is found bludgeoned to death, George Smiley investigates.
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Saturday Play - The Complete Smiley - Call for the Dead
Dramatisation of John le Carré's first novel. George Smiley investigates when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide not long after being cleared of Communist sympathies.
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Saturday Play - The Conflict is Over
Dramatisation by Michael Eaton of the events that led to the signing of the Downing Street Declaration in December 1993 and the subsequent IRA ceasefire in August 1994.
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Saturday Play - The Dark Side
Comic adventure by David Chapel about an idealistic researcher
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Saturday Play - The Falklands Play
Ian Curteis's play, originally pulled by the BBC, telling the inside story of how the Thatcher government went to war to reclaim the Falklands.
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Saturday Play - The Gambler
A new version of Dostoevsky's 'The Gambler' written by Poet Glyn Maxwell. This comic drama is an enthralling portrayal of the power of love and money. With Patricia Routledge.
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Saturday Play - The Great Chocolate Murders
The Great Chocolate Murders, by John Fletcher. In 19th-century Brighton, everyone thinks that the lack of proper sewers has caused a cholera epidemic. They are wrong.
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Saturday Play - The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
In 1925, one of the most unusual trials in US legal history took place. Adapted from the original trial transcript by Peter Goodchild.
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Saturday Play - The Haverstock Hill Murder
By George R Sims. Victorian lady detective Dorcas Dene is commissioned by a desperate mother to save her son from the gallows after he is accused of the brutal murder of his wife.
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Saturday Play - The Iceman
Simon Bovey's play is set in London in 1860. When three girls are found murdered, DI Burdett's only clue is a trace of ice found in the victims' throats.
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Saturday Play - The Indian in the Cupboard
Lynne Reid Banks' story about 11-year-old Omri and the bathroom cabinet that brings a plastic Native American Indian figure to life.
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Saturday Play - The Jubilee Singers
By Adrian Mitchell. The story of the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Tennessee, who, in the years after the abolition of slavery in the US, brought their Sorrow Songs to Europe.
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Saturday Play - The Kane Conspiracy
Drama by Jonathan Holloway revealing the dirty tricks campaign that nearly destroyed Citizen Kane and its creator Orson Welles in the run-up to the Oscars ceremony in 1941.
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Saturday Play - The Killing of Dr Morgan
Andrew lives a comfy middle class life - then his wife's best friend is murdered and his world crumbles.
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Saturday Play - The Killing of Sister George
By Frank Marcus. The audience ratings for the popular daily serial Applehurst are on the slide. Will the leading character have to be sacrificed?
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Saturday Play - The Lady in the Van
A radio version of Alan Bennett's celebrated autobiographical stage play about a woman who takes refuge in his Camden garden for three months, and ends up staying fifteen years.
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Saturday Play - The Last Confession
Martin Jenkins' adaptation of Roger Crane's conspiracy thriller set the Vatican, uncovering the events surrounding the untimely death of Pope John Paul I.
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Saturday Play - The Late Mr Shakespeare
By Robert Nye, dramatised by Jonathan Broadbent. A former boy actor in Shakespeare's company reminisces in old age about his time spent with The Bard.
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Saturday Play - The Listening Room
The Listening Room: Psychological thriller by Steve Gough set in the year 2036, exploring truth, confidentiality and morality.
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Saturday Play - The Living and the Dead
The Living and the Dead: Dramatisation of the novel that inspired Hitchcock's Vertigo, by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Jacques Flavieres' assignment leads to fatal obsession.
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Saturday Play - The Middle
By Amelia Bullmore. A close family is brought to its knees by one momentary indiscretion. With Emma Cunniffe, Ben Miles, Anna Madeley, Eve Matheson.
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Saturday Play - The Moscow Prodigal
By Michael Butt. A taxi driver returns to Moscow to find that his best friend, who works for the Minister of the Interior, is involved in racist violence and police cover-ups.
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Saturday Play - The Mouse That Roared
Leonard Wibberley's famous Cold War satire in which the tiny European country of Grand Fenwick is forced to declare war on the United States.
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Saturday Play - The Pianist
From Wladyslaw Szpilman's novel, this duet for piano and voice charts a man's remarkable story of courage and survival in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
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Saturday Play - The Servant
The Servant: Ronald Frame's dramatisation of Robin Maugham's novella about a young lawyer who falls under the malign influence of his sinister manservant.
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Saturday Play - The Shocking Tale of Margaret Seddon
John Fletcher's Edwardian murder story is based on real events. Frederick and Margaret Seddon take wealthy Mrs Barrow into their Islington home as a lodger.
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Saturday Play - The Small Back Room
Richard Stevens' dramatisation of Nigel Balchin's tense Second World War thriller. Sammy Rice is called in to try and solve the mystery of a series of unexploded bombs.
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Saturday Play - The Song Thief
Romantic drama by Michael Chaplin. A young composer arrives in Northumberland, looking for an old man reputed to have written a hauntingly beautiful love song.
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Saturday Play - The Tennis Court
By Jonathan Smith, set in England and India during WWII. Sam Greenwood is posted to India with the 14th Army while his haemophiliac brother Arthur has to remain at home in Kent.
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Saturday Play - The Test
Taut psychological thriller by Peter Whalley. John Newland is terrified that his wife will at last discover the terrible and strange lie he has been living for 20 years.
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Saturday Play - The Vanishing
Tim Krabbe's cult novella dramatised by Oliver Emanuel. Rex's girlfriend disappears from a petrol station without a trace.
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Saturday Play - The Von Trapps and Me
Annie Caulfield's comedy tells the famous story of the Von Trapp family singers from the perspective of Princess Yvonne, the woman Captain Von Trapp jilted in order to marry Maria.
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Saturday Play - The Voyage of the Demeter
Robert Forrest's chilling tale of the supernatural, set on a schooner sailing from Bulgaria to England in 1867. Something nasty is lurking aboard.
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Saturday Play - The White Chameleon
Christopher Hampton narrates his witty and sad memory play about his family's life in Alexandria in the 1950s.
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Saturday Play - The White Man's Burden
Adaptation of Paul Theroux's stage play about the young Rudyard Kipling's humiliating final months as an American resident.
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Saturday Play - The Windsor Jewels
Robin Glendinning's black comedy tells the story of a real mystery involving the disappearance of the Duchess of Windsor's jewels while visiting Britain in 1946.
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Saturday Play - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Dramatisation by Linda Marshall of L Frank Baum's children's classic. When a tornado strikes her farmhouse in Kansas, young Dorothy is lifted to the magical world of Oz.
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Saturday Play - The Wooden Overcoat
Pamela Branch's comic murder mystery set in London in 1951, adapted by Mark Gatiss. Benji Cann has got away with murder, but then he turns up dead.
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Saturday Play - Theremin
Spy thriller by Melissa Murray, based on real events. Leon Theremin, inventor of the musical instrument that bears his name, leads a double life as a Soviet spy.
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Saturday Play - To Catch a Thief
Jean Buchanan's dramatisation of the 1952 novel by David Dodge, which was later made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.
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Saturday Play - Tom and Viv
Michael Hastings's study of the troubled marriage of TS Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood. The young poet meets the flamboyant but unstable daughter of a privileged family.
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Saturday Play - Translations
By Brian Friel. In 1833, two British army officers arrive in a Donegal village to draw up a new map of the area and replace the Irish place names with English equivalents.
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Saturday Play - Trumbo
Christopher Trumbo's drama about his father, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, and his ordeal at the hands of the House Un-American Activities Committee and its anti-communist witch-hunt.
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Saturday Play - Twice Brightly
Twice Brightly: Harry Secombe's son David dramatises his father's novel. Postwar Britain was a miserable place, especially for a young army comic in a Yorkshire Variety theatre.
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Saturday Play - Two Planks and a Passion
Two Planks and a Passion: Anthony Minghella's tender and comic account of a provincial Easter six hundred years ago. The citizens of York are preparing to perform the Mystery Cycle.
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Saturday Play - Underneath the Lintel
Underneath the Lintel: Greg Berger's quirky and touching one-man play. A lonely Dutch librarian tells the poignant story of his quest to justify his life. Richard Schiff stars.
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Saturday Play - Utz
By Bruce Chatwin. A British academic in 1960s Prague meets an eccentric porcelain collector who has spent years protecting a vast collection from both the Nazis and the communists.
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Saturday Play - Vincent Price and The Horror of The English Blood Beast
By Matthew Broughton. A light-hearted look behind the scenes of the making of classic British film Witchfinder General.
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Saturday Play - Von Ribbentrop's Watch
When cash-strapped Gerald inherits a valuable watch, it sparks an ethical conflict with his wife and brother. By Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran.
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Saturday Play - Walter Now
by David Cook. Pensioner Walter spent years in a psychiatric hospital and a hostel. Now he's been offered a house share. Will his housemates accept him? Sir Ian McKellen stars.
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Saturday Play - Wanted Someone Innocent
Gillian Brayton is offered a job by an old schoolfriend. The household is lively and bohemian, but why is she really there?
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Saturday Play - Writing on Wigan Pier
David Pownall's play explores George Orwell's time in Wigan during the early months of 1936.
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Saturday Play - Zubeda
Naylah Ahmed's play, set in rural India, is a parallel tale of two romances, one long-standing and unfulfilled and the other newly-formed and full of hope.
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