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26-Jun-2019
Saturday Drama - Robin Glendinning - The Windsor Jewels
Who has stolen Wallis Simpson's jewels? Black comedy with Christine Kavanagh.
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31-Mar-2019
Saturday Drama - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Martin Jarvis directs his fourth Ian Fleming for Radio 4. Toby Stephens returns as 007.
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16-Mar-2019
Saturday Drama - The Boy from Aleppo Who Painted the War
The Syrian conflict seen through the eyes of a teenage boy with Asperger's.
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05-Nov-2018
Saturday Drama - Christopher Lee - Air-Force One
What really happened after JFK's murder, in the hospital and on the presidential jet?
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20-Aug-2018
Saturday Drama - Paul Sellar - The Moonflask
A group of jobseekers pool their skills to steal a Ming vase and return it to its owner.
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15-Jul-2018
Saturday Drama - Carine Adler - Angel Maker
Lili arrives in London penniless, set on a permanent arrangement with her rich boyfriend.
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15-Jul-2018
Saturday Drama - Mike Bartlett - The Right Honourable
The youngest MP in the House of Commons is drawn into a web of political intrigue.
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15-Jul-2018
Saturday Drama - Christopher Reason - The Confessions of Caminada
Drama based on a case from the memoirs a real-life detective in 19th-century Manchester.
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08-May-2018
Saturday Drama - Patrick Barlow - Joan of Arc, and How She Became a Saint
Can a young country girl lead an army?
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07-May-2018
Saturday Drama - Spellbound
Is the new head of a mental hospital an imposter?
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30-Apr-2018
Saturday Drama - Mike Walker - Sunk
The ironic story behind the most expensive Nazi propaganda film ever made - Titanic.
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29-Apr-2018
Saturday Drama - Robert M Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
A motorcycle journey, a meditation on values, and a man coming to terms with his past.
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23-Apr-2018
Saturday Drama - Lucy Gannon - Topaz
An unfortunate 19th-century poet walks from Dundee to Balmoral to seek Queen Victoria.
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19-Mar-2018
Saturday Drama - Frances Iles - Before the Fact
Lina agrees to marry a charming stranger, but is he all that he seems?
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23-Jan-2018
Saturday Drama - The Red Shoes
Karen's heart is set on some magic red shoes that she cannot resist, whatever the cost.
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23-Jan-2018
Saturday Drama - Great Escape: The Justice
Stephen Tompkinson stars in the story of the post-war manhunt to avenge the Great Escape.
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17-Dec-2017
Saturday Drama - Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli is in the dock to appeal against the treatment of his book The Prince.
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11-Dec-2017
Saturday Drama - Simon Passmore - Going to Ground
Fearing a German invasion, tensions run high for a resistance unit in Kent.
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05-Dec-2017
Saturday Drama - Simon Bovey - Mountain of Light
The world's largest diamond is at the Great Exhibition. John Rayverne is out to steal it.
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13-Nov-2017
Saturday Drama - Mark Davies Markham - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Inspired by, and starring members of, Madness - a tale of London's melting pot of cultures
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22-Oct-2017
Saturday Drama - Noel Coward - Present Laughter
Noel Coward's play follows a few days in the life of self-obsessed actor Garry Essendine.
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15-Oct-2017
Saturday Drama - Michael Frayn - Skios
Identity swap and absurdity on a sunlit Greek island. But where is the real Dr Wilfred?
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09-Oct-2017
Saturday Drama - AL Kennedy - Confessions of a Medium
In 1870s London, Mr Parker is looking for more meaning to life, and then meets a medium.
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01-Oct-2017
Saturday Drama - Marks & Gran - Love Me Do
In the countdown to the Cuban Missile Crisis, two Americans in London are thrown together.
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30-Sep-2017
Saturday Drama - Don Webb - Boots on the Ground
Danny Marks volunteers for speed reaction tests. A friend on the same course goes missing.
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25-Sep-2017
Saturday Drama - John Godber - September in the Rain
A couple's relationship through a lifetime of holidays in Blackpool.
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11-Sep-2017
Saturday Drama - Charlotte Williams - Well, He Would, Wouldn't He?
Mandy Rice-Davies looks back to being caught up in the sensational trial of Stephen Ward.
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20-Aug-2017
Saturday Drama - Willy Russell - Shirley Valentine
When a middle-aged Liverpool housewife gets to travel, her world begins to change.
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23-Jul-2017
Saturday Drama - Peter Nichols - Passion Play
James and Eleanor are happily married, or so they think, until Kate voices her feelings.
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27-Apr-2017
Saturday Drama - Frances Byrnes - Belle Amie
4 Extra Debut. Has age tamed ruthless 19th-century charmer Georges Duroy?
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23-Apr-2017
Saturday Drama - Betrayal
Harold Pinter's acclaimed drama about a love affair and the intricate nature of deceit.
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21-Apr-2017
Saturday Drama - Mark Lawson - Suspicion for 10 Voices
Composer Will Byrd is charged with coding papist messages in the music of the Chapel Royal
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03-Apr-2017
Saturday Drama - Jack Shaefer - Shane
Homesteader Marian is caught between her dependable husband, and a mysterious stranger.
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27-Mar-2017
Saturday Drama - Hattie Naylor - The Forgotten
Hattie Naylor's dark retelling of the story of The Sleeping Beauty.
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19-Mar-2017
Saturday Drama - The Last Tycoon
1930s Hollywood studio head Munroe Stahr is at the top of his game, until love strikes.
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20-Feb-2017
Saturday Drama - JM Barrie - The Admirable Crichton
Adaptation of JM Barrie's satire about the fortunes of Crichton, the perfect butler.
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12-Feb-2017
Saturday Drama - Harley Granville Barker - The Voysey Inheritance
Edward discovers the family business he is inheriting has been defrauding its clients.
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30-Jan-2017
Saturday Drama - Menna Gallie - Strike for a Kingdom
As its residents struggle to survive, the Welsh village of Cilhendre is rocked by murder.
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16-Jan-2017
Saturday Drama - Stephen Wakelam - Adulteries of a Provincial Wife
Who was the inspiration for Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary?
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02-Jan-2017
Saturday Drama - Carlo Collodi - Pinocchio
Geppetto's wooden puppet miraculously comes to life.
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28-Dec-2016
Saturday Drama - David Spicer - Kind Hearts and Coronets: Like Father, Like Daughter
Unity is pursuing a title along with seven Gascoyne family members.
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18-Dec-2016
Saturday Drama - From Russia with Love
The Russians want Bond dead. Will his romance with a beautiful spy cloud Bond's judgement?
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05-Dec-2016
Saturday Drama - Robert L Pike - Bullitt
Lieutenant Clancy only has hours to find the killer of a vital witness.
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28-Nov-2016
Saturday Drama - David Edgar - Something Wrong about the Mouth
A man commissions a picture of an imagined event.
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21-Nov-2016
Saturday Drama - Wilkie Collins - The Haunted Hotel
Murder mystery by Wilkie Collins, set in London and Venice.
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14-Nov-2016
Saturday Drama - Adam Thorpe - Devastated Areas
Adam Thorpe's play explores civilian grief during and after the Great War of 1914-1918.
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19-Sep-2016
Saturday Drama - Fay Weldon - The Weather Girl
A psychologist sent to assess a female prisoner is plunged into a disturbing amoral world.
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04-Sep-2016
Saturday Drama - Pepys: Fire of London
The Great Fire of London, as witnessed by the diarist, Samuel Pepys, 350 years ago.
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08-Aug-2016
Saturday Drama - Melissa Murray - Theremin
After bugging the US Embassy, inventor Leon Theremin must avoid both the CIA and the KGB.
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18-Jul-2016
Saturday Drama - Lambeth Palace
A tale of politics and manoeuvring in selecting a fictional Archbishop of Canterbury.
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29-May-2016
Saturday Drama - Lewis Carroll - Alice through the Looking Glass
Alice's fantastical story collides with Radio 4, as she crashes a giant game of chess.
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09-May-2016
Saturday Drama - Annie Caulfield - The Von Trapps And Me
The famous story of the Von Trapps told from another perspective.
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23-Apr-2016
Saturday Drama - Lynne Truss - Giving Up the Ghost
Dreaming of a dead colleague, firefighter Scott must confront his biggest fear.
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10-Apr-2016
Saturday Drama - Reykjavik
Jonathan Myerson's rollercoaster drama about the surprise Reagan-Gorbachev summit in 1986.
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03-Apr-2016
Saturday Drama - Denmark Hill
A black comedy by Alan Bennett via Shakespeare: a father dies and his son seeks justice.
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02-Apr-2016
Saturday Drama - Blasphemy and the Governor of Punjab
Gripping account of the murder of Pakistani politician and businessman Salmaan Taseer.
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27-Mar-2016
Saturday Drama - Marks & Gran - Von Ribbentrop's Watch
A Jewish merchant discovers that a family heirloom has a sinister Nazi provenance.
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20-Mar-2016
Saturday Drama - Murder Under Trust: The Massacre at Glencoe
Adrian Bean's play dramatises events leading up to the infamous Highland massacre in 1692.
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07-Mar-2016
Saturday Drama - Zoe Fairbairns - The Belgian Nurse
The story behind the best-selling novel and film: The Nun's Story.
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06-Mar-2016
Saturday Drama - His Master's Voice
Rob Brydon is Peter Brough the ventriloquist, in the true story behind Educating Archie.
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16-Feb-2016
Saturday Drama - Victory
Gwyneth Hughes tells the story of Admiral Lord Nelson, Sir William Hamilton and Emma.
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18-Jan-2016
Saturday Drama - Simon Bovey - Mountain of Light
The world's largest diamond is at the Great Exhibition. John Rayverne is out to steal it.
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04-Jan-2016
Saturday Drama - Ian Buchan - A Change in the Willows
Toad, Badger, Mole and Ratty embark on an all new adventure along the riverbank.
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14-Dec-2015
Saturday Drama - David Dodge - To Catch a Thief
An ex-jewel thief in France battles to prove his innocence.
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23-Nov-2015
Saturday Drama - Michael Dobbs - A Family Affair
Michael Dobbs' play follows Margaret Thatcher's last traumatic days in power.
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08-Nov-2015
Saturday Drama - Lanark
Adaptation of Alasdair Gray's cult novel, telling the stories of Duncan Thaw and Lanark.
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19-Oct-2015
Saturday Drama - Hattie Naylor - J'Accuse
Inspired by an article written by Emile Zola about the Dreyfus Affair.
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12-Oct-2015
Saturday Drama - The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde
By Nick Stafford. Oscar Wilde's courtroom battle with the Marquess of Queensbury.
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05-Oct-2015
Saturday Drama - The Caretaker
An old tramp is saved from a fight and brought home by a man living in his brother's house
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22-Sep-2015
Saturday Drama - Backtrack
A volunteer at a homeless shelter becomes intrigued by one of its residents.
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14-Sep-2015
Saturday Drama - Trevor Hoyle - Haunted Hospital
A ghost story set in a hospital in Rochdale featuring two parallel storylines.
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06-Sep-2015
Saturday Drama - Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None
Ten guests travel to an island. Each is an unconvicted murderer. None will leave alive.
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09-Aug-2015
Saturday Drama - Red Velvet
By Lolita Chakrabarti. Award-winning drama starring Adrian Lester as actor Ira Aldridge.
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02-Aug-2015
Saturday Drama - For Services Rendered
Written in 1932, Somerset Maugham's state-of-the-nation drama about an English family.
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28-Jul-2015
Saturday Drama - John Fletcher - The Shocking Tale of Margaret Seddon
John Fletcher's Edwardian murder story is based on real events.
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28-Jul-2015
Saturday Drama - The Great Chocolate Murders
Spurned spinster Christiana plots to regain her married lover in 19th-century Brighton.
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