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Drama of the Week

Every Friday we bring you a new drama from BBC Radio 4 or Radio 3. Exercise your imagination with some of the best writers and actors on radio. Storytelling at its very best.

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44:39

Samhain

Drama of the Week ·

2025/10/31

By Ben Lewis.Soulful drama infused with storytelling and song, inspired by the myths and rituals surrounding the Pagan festival of Samhain.Claire and her husband David are staying in a isolated old house on the remote Scottish island of Jura.It’s the end of October. Of all the nights of the year, this is the one when the veil between this world and the next is said to be at its thinnest. Claire’s past is about to reach out into her present...Cast in Order of Appearance :Chloe Pirrie Emun

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14:26

Harry Swithenback’s Private Visit

Drama of the Week ·

2025/10/24

The award-winning Scottish writer Alan Warner’s new and specially commissioned story sees an antiques expert off the telly – Harry Swithenback – arrive in at this unnamed harbour town for what he hopes is a few days of rest and relaxation, however, the townspeople have other ideas. Stuart McQuarrie reads.Alan Warner, who as was born in Oban on the west coast of Scotland in 1964, is the author of several novels including: Morvern Callar (1995), which won the Somerset Maugham Prize and was adapted for

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44:11

Talking to Chickens

Drama of the Week ·

2025/10/17

Darkly comic, heart-warming drama by award-winning writer, Christine Entwisle.Toots is an octogenarian living unhappily in a care home. She wants more outdoor days, she wants her allotment back and she wants to see her chickens.A doctor is sent to assess Toots. But she's menopausal and struggling with a variety of unhelpful symptoms. And when the doctor forces open Toots’ window to relieve a hot flush and then forgets to shut it, Toots makes a break for it.Cast:Toots… Susan JamesonThe Doctor… Rosie

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44:58

The Lovers

Drama of the Week ·

2025/10/10

By Andy Grace Edwards. Poignant drama about love, art and the healing power of a walk.

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44:34

Astronomers

Drama of the Week ·

2025/10/03

Drama by Faebian Averies, winner of The Imison Award 2022, starring Gabrielle Creevy (The Guest, In My Skin)Olive is a space-obsessed care home survivor and prison lifer. Emily is the toughest woman in the jail. Together they break out and go on the run – they're not friends but they do need each other. Olive wants to go to Anglesey to the centenary celebrations of her hero, the Welsh aerospace engineer Tecwyn Roberts; Emily has her own reasons for wanting a last chance at freedom. Will they make it

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44:28

Life Lines - Series 8

Drama of the Week ·

2025/09/26

The award winning drama set in an Ambulance Control Room.Carrie is a call handler for the ambulance service. Every day she makes split-second decisions as she deals with a succession of emergencies; from a young woman who has been sexually assaulted to a vicious attack on an ambulance crew. Carrie is gifted with the knack of calmly helping people through their most vulnerable moments. Each episode is a collage of heart-stopping stories, where Carrie’s indiscriminate acts of kindness can mean the

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44:32

High Cockalorum

Drama of the Week ·

2025/09/19

Celebrating Bradford City of Culture and as part of BBC Contains Strong Language Festival, Bradford based writer Jeremy Dyson's original comedy drama set in West Yorkshire in 1978 is inspired by a true story.High Cockalorum tells of a touching, funny and unlikely encounter between a Hollywood superstar and a humble lad from Leeds thrown together by circumstance.A meditation on fame, success and what ultimately matters.MARTY / JAMES MASON.....Mark GatissHARVEY/ LIBRARIAN / DJ..... Reece

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44:59

Life and Time: The Officers

Drama of the Week ·

2025/09/12

The first series of Life and Time was awarded Bronze at his year's ARIAS and now the second series returns. This time writer, James Fritz focuses on the Prison Officers.Prison Officer, Michael Rose featured briefly in the first series and he's back. Michael is good at his job. It's rewarding but the pressure is growing. A wave of experienced officers are leaving and not being replaced. Then one day Rihanna joins. A young newbie and Michael needs to show her the ropes but Michael is becoming

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57:36

Origin

Drama of the Week ·

2025/09/05

The evolution of Charles Darwin's world-changing study, On the Origin of Species. Darwin enlists the help of his children in experiments that clarify his own thinking on animal collaboration, variation and natural selection. A new drama by Sarah Woods, recorded on location in Darwin's former home, Down House, Kent, by kind permission of English Heritage.Darwin....Robert GlenisterEmma.....Clare CorbettEtty.....Madeleine GreyParslow/Hooker.....Clive HaywardLenny.....Bertie CresswellHorace.....Wilbur

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27:58

Mothercover Episode 1: Camera Obscura

Drama of the Week ·

2025/08/29

Gwen is recruited to spy on another mum in her local baby group. But how long can she keep up the act?An Aberystwyth-set thriller, by BAFTA Cymru nominee Fflur Dafydd, with original music by Mercury Prize nominees Gwenno and Rhys Edwards.CASTGwen .... Alexandra RoachLiz .... Remy BeasleyOwen .... Sacha DhawanGeraint .... Matthew GravelleYoga Teacher .... Lisa ZahraGroup Leader .... Nadia Wyn AbouayenMums .... Aoife Moss and Bethan McleanIoan .... Liam DonnellyTheo .... Cai RobertsOriginal Music,

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44:33

Curry Canyon

Drama of the Week ·

2025/08/22

In the heart of Glasgow’s “Curry Canyon” during the 2009 recession, aspiring journalist Halima returns home to help at her family’s struggling tandoori restaurant, just as a campaign erupts to crown chicken tikka masala a Scottish national treasure.While her dad sees opportunity in the publicity, Halima’s exposé on the roots of the dish sparks unintended consequences that could upend everything. A warm-hearted drama exploring family, food, and the price of telling your truth.This drama is fictional,

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57:45

Hersey's Hiroshima

Drama of the Week ·

2025/08/15

John Hersey's ground-breaking account of the bombing of Hiroshima that brought the world face to face with the human reality of nuclear war. Told through the voices of six survivors, this powerful and unflinching retelling includes detailed accounts of the injury, loss, courage and consequence of that morning in August 1945.Written after two weeks spent interviewing citizens in the devastated city, the article was originally published in The New Yorker in 1946 under tight secrecy, due to U.S

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44:30

Faith, Hope and Glory Series 7 - Hope and Jean

Drama of the Week ·

2025/08/08

As Hope faces an unexpected medical scare, she sets her heart on reconnecting with her long-lost daughter — but secrets from the past threaten to derail her plans. Meanwhile, Jean embarks on her own emotional quest to confront her birth mother. Old wounds resurface, loyalties are tested, and a quiet family life begins to crack open in unexpected ways.Hope . . . . . Danielle VitalisFaith . . . . . Shiloh Coke Jean . . . . . Cecilia Appiah Elizabeth . . . . . Tessa Peake-Jones Doctor . . . . . Jason

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44:58

Unicorn

Drama of the Week ·

2025/07/25

Comedy drama by Alan Harris.When Tyree's dad falls ill, he goes back to the valleys and tries to save the printing business. But Ty is dyslexic and there's no money in the town. Things go from bad to worse until a strange man walks into the printers with a wedding invitation.CASTTyree - Darren EvansBeatrice - Laila AljShawna - Caitlin GriffithsObi - John RowleyProduction Coordinator: Eleri McAuliffeSound Design: Nigel LewisProducer: John NortonA BBC Audio Wales Production

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14:20

Summer by Edith Wharton

Drama of the Week ·

2025/07/04

Reader: Lydia WilsonWriter: Edith Wharton was famous for her novels including The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence, for which she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1921. Abridger: Julian Wilkinson Producer: Justine Willett

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14:29

The Kiss

Drama of the Week ·

2025/06/27

Catrin is living the dream. A stolen weekend in Paris with her younger lover. So why is she struggling to enjoy herself? An original short story by Francesca Rhydderch, read by Carys Eleri.Production Co-Ordinator.....Eleri Sydney McAuliffeSound Design.....Nigel LewisProducer......Ryan HooperA BBC Audio Wales production

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44:35

Fran and Joe: Summer Fate

Drama of the Week ·

2025/06/20

Following on from World Book Date, Katie Redford picks up the story of Fran and Joe, two teachers who shared a kiss the night before the Nativity play in the first Fran and Joe Afternoon Drama, Christmas Wings. There is unfinished business between the two of them and the end of the Summer term is fast approaching but what will happen next. It's the Summer Fete and Fran and Joe are on the ice lolly stall, apt as there is a distinct chill in the air between the two.Fran ..... Fiona ButtonJoe ....

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Knock Knock by Kirsty Logan

Drama of the Week ·

2025/06/13

In Kirsty Logan’s new short work for Father's Day, Wilbur prepares to meet his dad for the very first time. But can he find the strength to face his fears?Read by Jessica HardwickProducer Ellie MarshKirsty Logan is an award winning novelist and short story writer. Her latest book, No & Other Love Stories, is a collection of dark love stories.A BBC Audio Scotland Production for BBC Radio 4.

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44:40

Shed

Drama of the Week ·

2025/06/06

Amber claims she needs a place to store her bikes and she and her dad, Jim, are long overdue a bonding experience.What better way to finally get to know him than to spend a few weekends together in her garden building a shed from scratch, the old-fashioned way? It doesn't matter that they've barely spoken in 34 years. As long as they follow the instructions, what could possibly go wrong? But as the generation gap becomes a seismic shift, Amber and Jim's bonding experience soon descends into a

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14:36

Shakedowns in Hyperspace

Drama of the Week ·

2025/05/30

The first in a darkly comic new series about women and space, from the award-winning author Naomi Wood, written for BBC Radio 4,From disassociating astronauts to zero-gravity threesomes, explorations of nothingness to space lust and Pokemon hunts, this brilliantly original series with a feminist twist is a savagely funny take on the near future of women and space.Today: It's 2034 , and on a mission to mine valuable minerals, one astronaut's struggle with reality puts her team at risk...Find all 5

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