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24-Mar-2025
Drama on 3 - Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke's poetic masterpiece with original music by Erland Cooper.
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10-Mar-2025
Drama on 3 - The Defectors
Drama-documentary inspired by the defection of North Korea's Deputy Ambassador to the UK.
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03-Mar-2025
Drama on 3 - Hamlet
A restored production of Shakespeare's play with Ronald Pickup, first broadcast in 1971.
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24-Feb-2025
Drama on 3 - Messiaen and the Birds
Poet Michael Symmons Roberts explores composer Olivier Messiaen's obsession with birdsong.
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10-Feb-2025
Drama on 3 - Saint Joan of the Anthropocene
Linda Marshall Griffiths' contemporary re-imagining of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan.
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20-Jan-2025
Drama on 3 - Gatsby in Harlem (Part 2)
F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby reimagined by Roy Williams and starring Ncuti Gatwa.
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13-Jan-2025
Drama on 3 - Gatsby in Harlem (Part 1)
F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, reimagined by Roy Williams and starring Ncuti Gatwa
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06-Jan-2025
Drama on 3 - The Dead
Epiphanies at a Twelfth Night party in Dublin. By James Joyce. Read by Jonathan Forbes.
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24-Dec-2024
Drama on 3 - Guys and Dolls at Christmas
Two seasonal tales from Guys and Dolls writer Damon Runyon, performed by Jamie Parker.
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23-Dec-2024
Drama on 3 - Gershwin & Miss Swift
The extraordinary true story of composer Kay Swift and her affair with George Gershwin.
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09-Dec-2024
Drama on 3 - War with the Newts
By Ed Harris adapted from Karel Čapek’s 1936 novel. With Doña Croll and Laura Elphinstone.
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18-Nov-2024
Drama on 3 - Different Truths
Two satirical and macabre short plays by Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
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04-Nov-2024
Drama on 3 - Star
Drama about Judy Garland, Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin and the making of A Star Is Born.
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30-Sep-2024
Drama on 3 - Ivanov
Rory Kinnear stars as Nicholas Ivanov in a new version of Chekhov's stage classic.
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23-Sep-2024
Drama on 3 - From Morning to Midnight
Georg Kaiser’s banned 1912 expressionist drama in a new modern translation and adaptation.
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15-Jul-2024
Drama on 3 - Love and Information
The first audio production of Caryl Churchill's thrilling kaleidoscope of human behaviour.
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24-Jun-2024
Drama on 3 - Kenny Morgan
Kenny Morgan by Mike Poulton, inspired by Terence Rattigan’s play The Deep Blue Sea.
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17-Jun-2024
Drama on 3 - Jubilee!
Jubilee! 1871, USA. A choir of ex-slaves save a university & bring spirituals to the world
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27-May-2024
Drama on 3 - Antigone by Jean Anouilh
Sean Bean stars in Jean Anouilh's 1944 masterpiece, Bean's first audio drama in 25 years.
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13-May-2024
Drama on 3 - Calmer
A gripping drama about motherhood and chaos by Lolita Chakrabarti, starring Meera Syal.
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06-May-2024
Drama on 3 - The Tragedy of Macbeth
First broadcast in 1971, the first stereo production of Macbeth, starring Joss Ackland.
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29-Apr-2024
Drama on 3 - Cymbeline
Lovers are tested in a Britain alienated from the rest of Europe, ruled by a weak leader.
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22-Apr-2024
Drama on 3 - Henry V
Hal has to prove he has what it takes to be King as he lays claim to the throne of France
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01-Apr-2024
Drama on 3 - When We Dead Awaken
Ibsen's final, beautiful, visionary play about art and ambition. With Ian McDiarmid.
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18-Mar-2024
Drama on 3 - Inspired by Hamlet: The Al-Hamlet Summit
Powerful reimagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet, set in a modern Arab state.
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04-Mar-2024
Drama on 3 - Dog in the Manger
Lope de Vega's Spanish Golden Age comedy, starring Olivia Poulet and Joe Thomas.
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19-Feb-2024
Drama on 3 - Oleanna
First radio production of David Mamet's incendiary drama.
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05-Feb-2024
Drama on 3 - The Farewell Glacier
A poetic journey through time and the Arctic, looking at climate change.
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29-Jan-2024
Drama on 3 - Under Milk Woods
For the 70th anniversary of Under Milk Wood, five short drama portraits of Wales in 2024.
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08-Jan-2024
Drama on 3 - Bacon in Moscow
Francis Bacon’s ground-breaking 1988 exhibition in the USSR. With Timothy Spall
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11-Dec-2023
Drama on 3 - All I Was When I Wasn't Anyone
A new play by Owen Sheers about the poet Fernando Pessoa. Recorded on location in Porto.
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13-Nov-2023
Drama on 3 - The Spanish Tragedy
Bold new audio drama of Thomas Kyd's bloody Elizabethan revenge play for Radio 3.
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06-Nov-2023
Drama on 3 - Inspired by Hamlet: Hamlette
A radical re-imagining of Shakespeare. Harriet considers how to avenge her sister's rape.
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30-Oct-2023
Drama on 3 - Inspired by Hamlet: Hamlet Noir
Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy takes on a thrilling Scandi-Noir twist.
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25-Sep-2023
Drama on 3 - Come Closer Now
Katie Hims’s love letter to radio drama as the form celebrates its centenary.
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10-Jul-2023
Drama on 3 - Emperor and Galilean. Part 2: Emperor Julian
Ibsen's epic play about Roman Emperor Julian's failed attempt to abolish Christianity.
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03-Jul-2023
Drama on 3 - Emperor and Galilean. Part 1: Young Julian
Ibsen's epic play about Roman Emperor Julian's failed attempt to abolish Christianity.
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14-Jun-2023
Drama on 3 - One Summer in Luka
The first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prompts powerful memories for Nikki.
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29-May-2023
Drama on 3 - Black Water
Two sets of teenagers, a swim, a midsummer night's loving and the fallout 20 years on.
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22-May-2023
Drama on 3 - The Women of Troy
A contemporary version of Euripides's anti-war tragedy by Linda Marshall Griffiths.
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15-May-2023
Drama on 3 - Ian McEwan with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
An evening of readings and music with acclaimed novelist Ian McEwan.
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08-May-2023
Drama on 3 - She Stoops to Conquer
A very (very) free adaptation of Oliver Goldsmith's comedy of class and clever women.
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24-Apr-2023
Drama on 3 - Henry IV, Part 2
England faces an uncertain future. With Toby Jones and James Purefoy.
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10-Apr-2023
Drama on 3 - Bess Loves Porgy
A musical love story for today, inspired by Edwin DuBose Heyward's iconic novella Porgy.
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03-Apr-2023
Drama on 3 - Kafka's Dick
Alan Bennett's comedy about one of the most miserable writers of the 20th century
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20-Mar-2023
Drama on 3 - The Dance of Death
Conor McPherson’s darkly comic version of Strindberg’s classic about a toxic marriage.
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20-Feb-2023
Drama on 3 - The Seagull
Chekhov's celebrated stage play grapples with art and love. A new version with music.
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06-Feb-2023
Drama on 3 - The Get
By Josh Azouz, a new play with Paul Chahidi and Michael Gould.
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30-Jan-2023
Drama on 3 - Songs in Times of Distress
Haunting choral music from the Theresienstadt ghetto
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23-Jan-2023
Drama on 3 - The Hound of the Baskervilles
A starry cast including Mark Gatiss, Sanjeev Bhaskar and the BBC SO on the detective trail
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09-Jan-2023
Drama on 3 - HashtagPublicEnemy
A new play by Steve Waters based on Ibsen’s Enemy of the People, with Joseph Millson
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02-Jan-2023
Drama on 3 - The Journey of the Magi
A Nativity story re-imagined in words and music based on an original poem by WR Rodgers.
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26-Dec-2022
Drama on 3 - Benny & Hitch
The extraordinary and explosive relationship between Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock
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12-Dec-2022
Drama on 3 - Venice Preserved
A political thriller about power, revolution, sex, and betrayal.
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28-Nov-2022
Drama on 3 - The Age of Anxiety
WH Auden’s extraordinary verse epic for four voices is dramatised by Robin Brooks.
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07-Nov-2022
Drama on 3 - Churchill versus Reith
Two titans of the 20th century slug it out over the future of broadcasting.
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31-Oct-2022
Drama on 3 - Beowulf Remixed
A radiophonic adaptation of Beowulf, using different BBC versions broadcast over the years
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24-Oct-2022
Drama on 3 - Ariel and Winter Trees
A vibrant journey through Sylvia Plath's last collections of poetry. With Siân Phillips.
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19-Oct-2022
Drama on 3 - People Everywhere Will Sing
The story of Ralph Vaughan Williams's radical contribution to the Queen's coronation.
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03-Oct-2022
Drama on 3 - Sizwe Banzi is Dead
Drama on BBC Radio 3, co-devised by South Africa's legendary playwright, Athol Fugard.
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26-Sep-2022
Drama on 3 - The Pride of Parnell Street
Sebastian Barry's acclaimed stage play from 2007 is a moving account of a Dublin marriage.
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11-Jul-2022
Drama on 3 - He Do The Waste Land in Different Voices - the Centenary of TS Eliot's poem
A performance of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land to mark the poem’s centenary.
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27-Jun-2022
Drama on 3 - Camille
Charithra Chandran stars in a bold, new adaptation of Pam Gems’ powerful stage play.
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20-Jun-2022
Drama on 3 - Maupassant’s Confessions of a Hedonist
A phantasmagorical journey through the most personal short stories of Guy de Maupassant.
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13-Jun-2022
Drama on 3 - Zadie Smith with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
The multi-award-winning author reads from her own writings intermixed with music to match.
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23-May-2022
Drama on 3 - The Hummingbird
A new adaptation of Sandro Veronesi's bestselling novel, The Hummingbird, for BBC Radio 3.
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02-May-2022
Drama on 3 - The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff
Folk band The Young'uns production of the life of Johnny Longstaff, recorded in Stockton.
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25-Apr-2022
Drama on 3 - Make Death Love Me: Antony and Cleopatra Re-Imagined
Shakespeare's classic as a dysfunctional love story of a black empress and a white general
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28-Mar-2022
Drama on 3 - Hall of Mirrors
Musical drama about economist John Maynard Keynes and the 20th century's great crises.
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21-Mar-2022
Drama on 3 - Middlemarch Monologues
Vivid reimagining of characters from George Eliot’s classic novel as 21st century voices.
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14-Mar-2022
Drama on 3 - Strings
Linda Marshall Griffiths's thrilling drama set on a space craft navigating cosmic strings.
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24-Jan-2022
Drama on 3 - Wunderkind
The Mozarts, Leopold and Wolfgang, get into a spot of bother with a cardinal on the make.
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17-Jan-2022
Drama on 3 - The Miser
For Molière’s 400th anniversary, Toby Jones stars in Barunka O’Shaughnessy’s new version.
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10-Jan-2022
Drama on 3 - To Preserve the Health of Man
David Suchet plays composer William Byrd in five imagined moments. By DJ Britton
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13-Dec-2021
Drama on 3 - Don Juan
The amazing adventures of young Don Juan: comedy, tragedy and sexual intrigue.
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08-Nov-2021
Drama on 3 - The Tempest
New, environmentally inflected production of The Tempest to coincide with COP26 in Glasgow
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25-Oct-2021
Drama on 3 - The Saga of Burnt Njal
Iceland’s most famous family saga about a bloody revenge feud.
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11-Oct-2021
Drama on 3 - City College
Controversy explodes when a lecturer questions fundamental truths about black history.
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27-Sep-2021
Drama on 3 - This Little Relic
Karla Marie Sweet's new drama with songs for BBC CSL Festival at Coventry City of Culture.
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20-Sep-2021
Drama on 3 - Doctor Faustus
Marlowe's tragedy of a man who gains control over nature but loses control of himself.
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12-Jul-2021
Drama on 3 - The Duchess of Malfi
A bold new production of Webster's 17th-century masterpiece for BBC Radio 3.
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28-Jun-2021
Drama on 3 - The Rival
Jude Cook re-imagines the love quadrangle behind Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
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14-Jun-2021
Drama on 3 - Inheritors
Susan Glaspell's play about freedom of speech and the right to protest in 1920s America.
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07-Jun-2021
Drama on 3 - Terminal 3
Acclaimed Swedish playwright Lars Norén's stage play set in a hospital waiting room.
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24-May-2021
Drama on 3 - Welcome to Iran
By Nadia Fall. Lockdown Theatre presents the Theatre Royal Stratford East production.
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17-May-2021
Drama on 3 - Angela
Mark Ravenhill’s new play about his mother, her love of culture and dementia.
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10-May-2021
Drama on 3 - Folk
Folk by Nell Leyshon. Inspired by Cecil Sharp's song-collecting in Somerset in 1903
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19-Apr-2021
Drama on 3 - Killer
A bold reimagining of an absurdist classic as a thriller about liberal democracy in crisis
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05-Apr-2021
Drama on 3 - The Fishermen
A powerful allegory of brotherhood, vengeance and fate.
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29-Mar-2021
Drama on 3 - Constellations and Elegy
Nick Payne's celebrated stage plays explore science, time and love.
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22-Mar-2021
Drama on 3 - The Meaning of Zong
As part of BBC Lights Up, Olivier Award winner Giles Terera stars in his own debut play.
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15-Mar-2021
Drama on 3 - Mabinogi - Part 3
Third part of the fantasy adventure, based on Welsh mythology. By Lucy Catherine.
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08-Mar-2021
Drama on 3 - Mabinogi - Part 2
Fantasy adventure based on the iconic work of medieval Welsh mythology.
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22-Feb-2021
Drama on 3 - French like Faiza
Love, faith and values clash in a woman’s search for identity in cross-cultural London.
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08-Feb-2021
Drama on 3 - (After) Fear
Recorded at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a psychological thriller by Oliver Emanuel.
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01-Feb-2021
Drama on 3 - The Brummie Iliad
Roderick Smith re-telling of The Trojan War, inspired by his Birmingham roots.
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11-Jan-2021
Drama on 3 - Peking Noir
True crime docudrama about the secrets of a Russian refugee who ran the Peking underworld.
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28-Dec-2020
Drama on 3 - Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein
The tumultuous story of Rodgers before Hammerstein, starring Jamie Parker.
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14-Dec-2020
Drama on 3 - The Sorrows of Young Werther
Joel MacCormack and Daisy Edgar-Jones star in Goethe's story of a passionate young artist.
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07-Dec-2020
Drama on 3 - Thousand Cranes
By Yasunari Kawabata. Death, desire and envy convene around a traditional tea ceremony.
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23-Nov-2020
Drama on 3 - Life is a Radio in the Dark
Toby Jones stars in Will Eno's play about the effect of sound upon memory.
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02-Nov-2020
Drama on 3 - Love Is Not New in This Country
Intrepid actors stage a production of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost in Kabul in 2005.
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05-Oct-2020
Drama on 3 - The Son
Florian Zeller’s powerful drama about parenthood and the impact of mental illness.
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28-Sep-2020
Drama on 3 - Christabel
Poet Kate Clanchy's contemporary re-working of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Christabel
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21-Sep-2020
Drama on 3 - Beethoven Can Hear You
By Timothy X Atack. Original, immersive audio drama, starring Peter Capaldi as Beethoven.
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06-Jul-2020
Drama on 3 - Unraveling
Liam Neeson plays a concert pianist whose dementia falls away when he performs Ravel
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22-Jun-2020
Drama on 3 - I Am the Wind
Lee Ingleby and Shaun Dooley star in the stage play by celebrated dramatist Jon Fosse.
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15-Jun-2020
Drama on 3 - Lockdown Theatre Festival: Love, Love, Love
By Mike Bartlett. The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre production, recorded under lockdown.
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14-Jun-2020
Drama on 3 - Lockdown Theatre Festival: Rockets and Blue Lights
By Winsome Pinnock. The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production recorded in lockdown
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08-Jun-2020
Drama on 3 - Adventures with the Painted People
Compelling new drama about love and culture, set on the River Tay, 2000 years ago.
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01-Jun-2020
Drama on 3 - Lungs
Duncan Macmillan's innovative play finds a couple agonising over whether to have a baby.
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25-May-2020
Drama on 3 - Copenhagen
Michael Frayn's play about the stormy 1941 meeting between physicists Bohr and Heisenberg.
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11-May-2020
Drama on 3 - Unicorns, Almost
A play by Owen Sheers about Second World War poet Keith Douglas.
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04-May-2020
Drama on 3 - In the Native State, by Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard's original 1991 radio drama, starring Felicity Kendal and Peggy Ashcroft.
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27-Apr-2020
Drama on 3 - Henry IV, Part 1
A nation stands divided in Shakespeare's play. Starring Iain Glen and Toby Jones.
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20-Apr-2020
Drama on 3 - Othello
Khalid Abdalla and Matthew Needham star in Shakespeare's tragedy.
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13-Apr-2020
Drama on 3 - Elizabeth and Essex
Simon Russell Beale stars in Elizabeth and Essex, with the music of Korngold played live.
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23-Mar-2020
Drama on 3 - Schreber
World premiere of Anthony Burgess's Schreber starring Christopher Eccleston.
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09-Mar-2020
Drama on 3 - Only Mountains
Maxine Peake's powerful drama about a young woman fighting on the frontline in Syria.
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17-Feb-2020
Drama on 3 - The Likes of Us
Gloria settled in London in the 1950s. A moving portrayal of a family and a neighbourhood.
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10-Feb-2020
Drama on 3 - Lady Windermere's Fan
Martin Jarvis directs Wilde's thrilling drama. Mira Sorvino leads an outstanding cast.
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03-Feb-2020
Drama on 3 - The Escape Artist (2/2)
Ross Sutherland traces the extraordinary life of Arthur Cravan, father of modern art.
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27-Jan-2020
Drama on 3 - The Escape Artist (1/2)
Ross Sutherland traces the extraordinary life of Arthur Cravan, father of modern art.
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13-Jan-2020
Drama on 3 - Magnitsky the Musical
The incredible story of an American capitalist, a Russian tax adviser and a crazy heist.
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06-Jan-2020
Drama on 3 - The Wild Duck
David Threlfall, Samuel West and James Fox star in Ibsen's tragi-comic masterpiece.
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23-Dec-2019
Drama on 3 - Winter Solstice
Caustic and timely German play. A disturbing stranger interrupts a family Christmas.
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02-Dec-2019
Drama on 3 - Dance Til You Bleed: The World According to Hans Christian Andersen
Toby Jones stars as Hans Christian Andersen in five interlinked fairy tale adaptations
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25-Nov-2019
Drama on 3 - The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
A scandalous, engrossing tale of sexual politics and family strife in modern-day Nigeria.
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11-Nov-2019
Drama on 3 - Radio 3 at HighTide
By Tallulah Brown and Vinay Patel. Two companion plays performed live at HighTide Festival
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28-Oct-2019
Drama on 3 - Summerhall 2019 (3/3)
Three plays recorded live at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019.
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21-Oct-2019
Drama on 3 - Summerhall 2019 (2/3)
Three short dramas recorded at Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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14-Oct-2019
Drama on 3 - Summerhall 2019 (1/3)
Radio 3’s showcase of exciting new audio recorded live at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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07-Oct-2019
Drama on 3 - The Mother
The Mother by Bertolt Brecht with original score by Hanns Eisler.
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23-Sep-2019
Drama on 3 - Carifesta 2019
Three new dramas from Trinidad and Tobago about life in the Caribbean
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15-Jul-2019
Drama on 3 - The Masque of Anarchy
A commemoration of the Peterloo Massacre in August 1819.
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24-Jun-2019
Drama on 3 - The Invisible
Linda Marshall Griffiths' original drama speculates on what the future might look like.
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17-Jun-2019
Drama on 3 - The Phlebotomist
Drama on 3: The Phlebotomist
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03-Jun-2019
Drama on 3 - The School For Scandal
Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis direct Sheridan’s amazingly up-to-date comedy.
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06-May-2019
Drama on 3 - Coriolanus
Shakespeare's penetrating portrayal of political turmoil in a society at war with itself.
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29-Apr-2019
Drama on 3 - The Two Noble Kinsmen
Commonly considered Shakespeare's last play about love, betrayal and disguise.
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22-Apr-2019
Drama on 3 - The Two Gentlemen of Verona
One of Shakespeare's earliest plays about love, betrayal and disguise.
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25-Mar-2019
Drama on 3 - Mabinogi
A new fantasy adventure, based on the iconic work of medieval Welsh mythology.
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18-Mar-2019
Drama on 3 - Leave Taking
Bush Theatre's revival of beautifully observed play about the immigration experience.
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11-Mar-2019
Drama on 3 - Lorenzaccio
Bold new version of a classic French drama about politics, liberty and corruption.
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05-Mar-2019
Drama on 3 - Love Thy Synth
A woman’s identity is threatened by the podcasts she makes with her synth doppelganger
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25-Feb-2019
Drama on 3 - Orlando
A bold and inventive re-imagining of the Virginia Woolf classic.
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21-Jan-2019
Drama on 3 - Arden of Faversham
True crime in Tudor England as Alice and her lover Mosby plot to murder her husband Arden
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14-Jan-2019
Drama on 3 - Ropewalk House
By Anita Sullivan. A daring site-specific theatre piece set in a derelict rope factory.
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24-Dec-2018
Drama on 3 - Sea Longing
Drama exploring the mythic world of selkie and seal stories. Stars Stephan Dillane.
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26-Nov-2018
Drama on 3 - The Unfortunates
Martin Freeman stars in a dramatisation of BS Johnson's 1960s 'novel in a box'.
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19-Nov-2018
Drama on 3 - The Cherry Orchard
Chekhov's classic play in a new version with music. It's 1903 and revolution is in the air
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05-Nov-2018
Drama on 3 - The Moors of England
London, 1600. Fortunatus, a black Muslim refugee, takes drastic action to change history.
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29-Oct-2018
Drama on 3 - The Shadow of a Doubt
Phoebe Fox stars in a world premiere of a newly discovered play by Edith Wharton from 1901
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15-Oct-2018
Drama on 3 - Three Letters
Drama from Edinburgh's Summerhall . Three Letters - written and performed by Nell Leyshon
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15-Oct-2018
Drama on 3 - Death of a Matriach
Part of Radio 3’s showcase of new audio plays at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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15-Oct-2018
Drama on 3 - 1963
Writer Peter Flannery looks back at the pivotal year of his childhood: 1963.
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08-Oct-2018
Drama on 3 - I Told You I Was Ill
Three new plays and poetry. A tribute to Spike Milligan starring Jessica Hynes.
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24-Sep-2018
Drama on 3 - An Evening With Angela Carter
New productions of two of Angela Carter's iconic radio plays from the 1970s.
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17-Sep-2018
Drama on 3 - The Reality Tunnel
A comedy about the philosophy of sound. Do we all hear things the same way?
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17-Sep-2018
Drama on 3 - The Blackwood
Drama from Edinburgh's Summerhall: The Blackwood by Jacob Polley with music by John Alder
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17-Sep-2018
Drama on 3 - Of a Lifetime
Two young women travel round Europe, when a painful past tests their friendship.
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15-Jul-2018
Drama on 3 - The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams's breakthrough play about a family in crisis in 1930s St. Louis.
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15-Jul-2018
Drama on 3 - Rotterdam
Jon Brittain's Olivier-winning comedy about gender, sexuality and transitioning.
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15-Jul-2018
Drama on 3 - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy centring on the adventures of four young lovers.
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30-Apr-2018
Drama on 3 - Measure for Measure
Paul Higgins and Nicola Ferguson star in Shakespeare's last and perhaps strangest comedy.
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23-Apr-2018
Drama on 3 - The Merchant of Venice
Andrew Scott stars in Shakespeare's play of debt, greed and prejudice, transposed to 2008.
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12-Mar-2018
Drama on 3 - Free Thinking Festival: Suffrage Dramas
The little-known plays written by activists to help in the campaign for votes for women.
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05-Mar-2018
Drama on 3 - Byzantium
Byzantium by Robin Brooks. Poison, rebellion, torture, eunuch armies, and black magic.
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19-Feb-2018
Drama on 3 - The Last of the Volsungs
Blood, revenge and the inevitability of Fate in this dramatisation of an Icelandic saga.
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12-Feb-2018
Drama on 3 - The Name
Jon Fosse's Ibsen Prize-winning stage play is the story of a young woman's return home.
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29-Jan-2018
Drama on 3 - The Effect
Award-winning chemical romance by Lucy Prebble set during a clinical trial.
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23-Jan-2018
Drama on 3 - Transformations
Love, passion and change. Five stories dramatised from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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23-Jan-2018
Drama on 3 - Tis Pity She's a Whore
Compassionate and disturbing, John Ford's great story of doomed love.
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11-Dec-2017
Drama on 3 - Ninety Minutes with Stanislavski
Cressida has 90 minutes before her next run-through of The Seagull. She needs help.
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05-Dec-2017
Drama on 3 - The Devil's Passion
David Suchet stars as Satan, in Justin Butcher's wicked hell's-eye view of the Passion.
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13-Nov-2017
Drama on 3 - Fear and Loathing in Russia Today
A showcase of contemporary Russian writing in three short plays.
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06-Nov-2017
Drama on 3 - Fathers and Sons by Brian Friel
Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres direct a dynamic dramatisation of Turgenev's novel.
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30-Oct-2017
Drama on 3 - The Dark Tower
A new production of Louis MacNeice's play 'The Dark Tower' with music by Benjamin Britten.
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23-Oct-2017
Drama on 3 - All of the Violence in the World
Three wars. Three causes. Three teenagers with nothing to lose but their lives.
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02-Oct-2017
Drama on 3 - A Clockwork Orange
New version of Anthony Burgess's dystopian classic, with music, recorded live in Hull.
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25-Sep-2017
Drama on 3 - The Father
Kenneth Cranham's portrayal of a man suffering from dementia in a darkly funny drama.
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18-Sep-2017
Drama on 3 - The Mother
Gina McKee stars in Florian Zeller's award-winning companion piece to The Father.
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10-Jul-2017
Drama on 3 - Victim
Play about the making of Victim, the first British film to address homosexuality seriously
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03-Jul-2017
Drama on 3 - Joe Orton Double-Bill: The Erpingham Camp and The Ruffian on the Stair
A double-bill of Joe Orton plays to mark the 50th anniversary of his death.
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26-Jun-2017
Drama on 3 - Long Day's Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill's drama about one day devastating day in the lives of the Tyrone family.
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17-Jun-2017
Drama on 3 - A Traveller's Guide to Paterson
Michael Symmons Roberts presents a drama-documentary exploring Paterson, New Jersey.
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05-Jun-2017
Drama on 3 - My Own Life
Joss Ackland and Ken Stott read the final works of Oliver Sacks and David Hume.
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01-May-2017
Drama on 3 - Macbeth
A new production of Shakespeare's dark tragedy about ambition for power.
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24-Apr-2017
Drama on 3 - Iphigenia in Crimea
For Tony Harrison's 80th birthday, the premiere of his new verse drama, after Euripides.
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17-Apr-2017
Drama on 3 - Richard II
By Shakespeare. When Richard II banishes Bolingbroke he brings about his own downfall.
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10-Apr-2017
Drama on 3 - Hide the Moon
David Calder and Sian Phillips star in Martyn Wade's play about Richard Strauss.
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03-Apr-2017
Drama on 3 - Pericles
Shakespeare's rarely produced Pericles, in a disturbing new version starring Willard White
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27-Mar-2017
Drama on 3 - A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams's seminal drama, starring Anne-Marie Duff as Blanche.
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06-Mar-2017
Drama on 3 - The American Grandmother
Drama about a woman returning to her estranged family after many years away.
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27-Feb-2017
Drama on 3 - Oedipus the King
Christopher Eccleston as Oedipus in Anthony Burgess's adaptation of this great tragedy.
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20-Feb-2017
Drama on 3 - The Process
A new adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic The Trial. What has Joseph Kay been accused of?
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13-Feb-2017
Drama on 3 - Jenny Lomas
David Eldridge's conspiracy thriller examining the corrosive nature of paranoia.
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06-Feb-2017
Drama on 3 - The Government Inspector
Gogol's satire on corruption and sleaze, starring Lenny Henry and Roger Allam.
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23-Jan-2017
Drama on 3 - Andromache
By Jean Racine. With Tanya Moodie as Andromache and Joel MacCormack as Orestes.
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16-Jan-2017
Drama on 3 - Rosmersholm
Ibsen's play about a man rejecting society's conservative values. Will his peers let him?.
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09-Jan-2017
Drama on 3 - Manfred
Manfred, haunted by a dark crime, invokes spirits in search of solace but finds no peace.
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02-Jan-2017
Drama on 3 - Breaking Free: A Patriot for Me
An adaptation of John Osborne's landmark play, which was originally banned in 1965.
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28-Dec-2016
Drama on 3 - As You Like It
Shakespeare's pastoral comedy of love, lust, cross-dressing and mistaken identity.
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19-Dec-2016
Drama on 3 - The Home and the World
Tanika Gupta's updating of Rabindranath Tagore's classic novel, giving it a modern context
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12-Dec-2016
Drama on 3 - The Tidebreak
By David Constantine. Three lyrical, linked tales set on the sea defences of Morecambe Bay
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05-Dec-2016
Drama on 3 - Autumn Journal
Colin Morgan reads Louis MacNeice's poetic testament about living through the late 1930s.
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21-Nov-2016
Drama on 3 - The Birthday Party
Toby Jones stars in Harold Pinter's celebrated comedy of menace The Birthday Party.
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31-Oct-2016
Drama on 3 - The Stroma Sessions
Found footage drama charting the time a group of musicians spent on an abandoned island.
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24-Oct-2016
Drama on 3 - Mary Rose
JM Barrie's haunting play about a sinister Scottish island and a girl who never grows up.
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17-Oct-2016
Drama on 3 - Vampyre Man
Joseph O'Connor's drama about Bram Stoker and Henry Irving, the inspiration for Dracula.
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10-Oct-2016
Drama on 3 - The Visa Affair
Drama based on Joe Orton's interrogation at the American embassy in London in 1965.
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03-Oct-2016
Drama on 3 - Radio Beckett
Matthew Sweet presents a sequence of radio plays by Samuel Beckett. With Ian McKellen.
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30-Sep-2016
Drama on 3 - Sound Frontiers: The Present Experiment
Robin Brooks's fantastical comedy celebrating 70 years of the Third Programme.
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26-Sep-2016
Drama on 3 - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic drama of vanity and evil The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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12-Sep-2016
Drama on 3 - Macedonia
Michael Pennington stars as Euripides in exile, determined to write a play for the King.
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05-Sep-2016
Drama on 3 - The Physicists
By Friedrich Durrenmatt. Classic European 1960s farce about three deluded scientists.
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29-Aug-2016
Drama on 3 - Henry VIII
William Shakespeare and John Fletcher's history play depicting the life of Henry VIII.
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22-Aug-2016
Drama on 3 - The Piano Lesson
August Wilson's play about a brother and sister and a piano carved with African faces.
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15-Aug-2016
Drama on 3 - Things Might Change or Cease
Linda Marshall Griffiths's drama about estranged sisters on a journey to find their father
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08-Aug-2016
Drama on 3 - Henceforward
Martin Jarvis directs Alan Ayckbourn's dark comedy set in the near future.
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25-Jul-2016
Drama on 3 - Tartuffe
A Liverpool Playhouse production of Roger McGough's version of Moliere's comedy.
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18-Jul-2016
Drama on 3 - The Deep Blue Sea
It is post-war Britain around 1950 and Hester Collyer has left her husband.
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04-Jul-2016
Drama on 3 - The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler
Drama about the fragmented life of surrealist, poet, songwriter and eccentric Ivor Cutler.
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27-Jun-2016
Drama on 3 - Life in the Tomb
World War One seen through the eyes of a Greek soldier fighting in the Macedonian trenches
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20-Jun-2016
Drama on 3 - Electra
Frank McGuinness's adaptation of the Greek tragedy by Sophocles. With Kristin Scott Thomas
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13-Jun-2016
Drama on 3 - Remorse, or, The Sorrows of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
By Robin Brooks. Drama about Coleridge's ill-fated friendship with Wordsworth.
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06-Jun-2016
Drama on 3 - Bix: Singing the Blues
Drama fictionalising the only time Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong played together.
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30-May-2016
Drama on 3 - Time and the Conways
By JB Priestley. WWI has ended and the Conway family envisage a prosperous future.
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23-May-2016
Drama on 3 - The Wolf in the Water
Drama exploring what happened to Jessica, Shylock's daughter in The Merchant of Venice.
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16-May-2016
Drama on 3 - Sonnets in the City
Five short dramas in response to a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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09-May-2016
Drama on 3 - King Lear
A new production of Shakespeare's great tragedy King Lear, starring Ian McDiarmid.
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02-May-2016
Drama on 3 - The Winter's Tale
Eve Best and Danny Sapani star in Shakespeare's late play The Winter's Tale.
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25-Apr-2016
Drama on 3 - A Play for the Heart: The Death of Shakespeare
Robert Lindsay stars in a new play re-imagining Shakespeare's last day. With Oliver Chris.
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18-Apr-2016
Drama on 3 - Song of Myself
Reading of Whitman's poem Song of Myself, with excerpts from Orson Welles's 1953 version.
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11-Apr-2016
Drama on 3 - Everyday Time Machines
Al Smith's play dealing with the scientific, physical and emotional consequences of time.
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04-Apr-2016
Drama on 3 - Dream of White Horses
Two friends release a film onto the internet exposing a military operation.
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28-Mar-2016
Drama on 3 - The News from Home
Nick Dear's play The News from Home, for the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin
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21-Mar-2016
Drama on 3 - The Skriker
By Caryl Churchill. A drama about love, loss and revenge, starring Maxine Peake.
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14-Mar-2016
Drama on 3 - Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov's Russian classic. Three sisters long to go to Moscow, but can that ever be?
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07-Mar-2016
Drama on 3 - The Master and Margarita
Award-winning production of Mikhail Bulgakov's cult classic. Adapted by Lucy Catherine.
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29-Feb-2016
Drama on 3 - The Father
By Florian Zeller. A darkly funny portrait of an 80-year-old man with dementia.
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22-Feb-2016
Drama on 3 - Modern Morality Tales
Rebecca Front plays Eve in five stories about modern attitudes towards morality.
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16-Feb-2016
Drama on 3 - Uncle Vanya
A new production of Chekhov's play with Neil Dudgeon, Anton Lesser and Lyndsey Marshal.
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08-Feb-2016
Drama on 3 - As Innocent As You Can Get
Freddie Fox and Paapa Essiedu star in Rex Obano's play about guilt and innocence.
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01-Feb-2016
Drama on 3 - A Raisin in the Sun
Drama about dreams and conflicts within three generations of an African-American family.
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25-Jan-2016
Drama on 3 - August 1914
Dramatisation of Solzhenitsyn's novel about the Russian army's defeat by Germany in 1914.
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18-Jan-2016
Drama on 3 - El Cid
A deadly duel changes the life and fortunes of romantically-inclined courtier Rodrigo.
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11-Jan-2016
Drama on 3 - Artist Descending a Staircase
Tom Stoppard's comic tragedy about the meaning and purpose of life and art.
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04-Jan-2016
Drama on 3 - Death and the King's Horseman
Wole Soyinka's dramatic portrayal of colonial Nigeria in the 1940s.
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28-Dec-2015
Drama on 3 - Votes for Women
Elizabeth Robins's 1907 suffragette play, starring Zoe Tapper and Samuel West.
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21-Dec-2015
Drama on 3 - Brand
Henrik Ibsen's play about a religious zealot who refuses all compromise.
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14-Dec-2015
Drama on 3 - Northern Lights: Nordic Voices
A celebration of contemporary Nordic writing in three new short plays.
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07-Dec-2015
Drama on 3 - Northern Lights: Finlandia
Drama blending the psyche of Jean Sibelius, his music and the Finnish national epic.
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09-Nov-2015
Drama on 3 - Old Times
By Harold Pinter. In a remote farmhouse, Deeley and Kate await a mysterious visitor.
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26-Oct-2015
Drama on 3 - The Witness
A long-buried secret shatters a young Rwandan-born woman's feelings for her adopted father
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19-Oct-2015
Drama on 3 - A View from the Bridge
Martin Jarvis directs Miller's 1955 drama, with a US cast led by Alfred Molina.
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12-Oct-2015
Drama on 3 - Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker star in Arthur Miller's 1949 play about the American dream.
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05-Oct-2015
Drama on 3 - Roots
Drama about a young woman finding her voice at a time of unprecedented social change.
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28-Sep-2015
Drama on 3 - Chicken Soup with Barley
Arnold Wesker's landmark play portraying the age-old battle between realism and idealism.
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21-Sep-2015
Drama on 3 - Being Human (The Debate at Valladolid)
New plays by Mike Walker and Andrew Whaley exploring themes of human rights and identity.
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14-Sep-2015
Drama on 3 - Baby Farming
Tanika Gupta's drama about surrogacy in India.
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20-Jul-2015
Drama on 3 - The Provok'd Wife
An outspoken 18th-century comedy of sex, marriage, debauchery and revenge.
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13-Jul-2015
Drama on 3 - King Charles III
Mike Bartlett's play imagining a future in which Prince Charles has become king.
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06-Jul-2015
Drama on 3 - Scribblers
By Steve Waters. A play about Henry Fielding and Robert Walpole. With David Troughton.
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29-Jun-2015
Drama on 3 - Bretton Woods
By Steve Waters. Dramatisation of a meeting where bankers met to save the world economy.
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22-Jun-2015
Drama on 3 - The Father
August Strindberg's shocking play from 1890 about an imploding marriage, in a new version.
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15-Jun-2015
Drama on 3 - Napoleon Rising
A never-performed Anthony Burgess drama charting Napoleon Bonaparte's meteoric rise.
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