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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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44:45

Severn

Drama of the Week ·

2024/08/02

Edward is a lave net fisherman who spends his days wading and sifting in the tricky tidal waters of the River Severn. When something unexpected turns up in his net, an old mystery rushes back into his life like a spring tide. Starring Jason Hughes and Remy Beasley.Writer - Keri CollinsCASTEdward - Jason HughesEllie - Remy BeasleyLizzie - Katharine RogersBoatyard Jack - Joe SimsJohn - Christian PattersonMaria - Lucy RiversMick - Stuart McLoughlinHolly - Amelie AnthonyProduction Coordinator - Eleri

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57:51

Breaking the Rules: Cry If You Want To

Drama of the Week ·

2024/07/26

by E.V Crowe.Single parent Ana is pretty sure she isn't being paid fairly at work.She's tried her boss; she's tried HR - to no avail. So now she needs to find out how much her colleague Dave earns in order to make her case. So one night, she turns up at his flat to ask him...Crackling two-hander from award-winning writer E.V Crowe that asks: how far would you go to get what's fair?Ana....Ellie Kendrick Dave....Sam SwannProduction co-ordinator....Gaelan Davis-Connolly Sound by Ali Craig, Keith

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58:17

Breaking the Rules: This Week is Family Week

Drama of the Week ·

2024/07/19

Xinjiang Province, China. Uyghur student, Nur, is able to 'pass' as Han Chinese, and exploits this as much as possible in a society where Uyghur people live under constant surveillance.Nur and her mother, Meryem, want to avoid being sent to one of the re-education prison camps, where it is thought a million people - mostly Uyghur - have been detained without trial. But then they are assigned a live-in Chinese 'relative' by the authorities - Auntie Wang Shu - who comes to stay in their apartment as

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43:43

Almonds and Raisins: Episode 1

Drama of the Week ·

2024/07/19

Based on the novel by Maisie Mosco Dramatized by Adam UsdenEpisode 1An epic Jewish family saga, beginning in Manchester in 1905. The Sandberg family have escaped persecution from their homeland in Russia. They arrive as refugees in Strangeways, Manchester, where they must start a new life. Avraham, a cobbler from Dvinsk tries to find work in the many Jewish garment factories housed in the cramped terraces. His wife Sarah tries to settle the kids but has her heart set on her own home.Sarah .....

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57:01

A Vindication of Frankenstein's Monster

Drama of the Week ·

2024/07/12

Episode 1 of 3Starting with Mary Wollstonecraft’s ground-breaking feminist text, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and moving into a radical re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), through to the contemporary world of Artificial Intelligence, Linda Marshall Griffiths' drama asks what would happen if a woman created a woman?In the first episode of this three part drama Lizzie walks through Mary Wollstonecraft’s world at the end of the 18th Century and she has questions. Tracing

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44:10

Waking Beauty

Drama of the Week ·

2024/07/05

Alfred Bradley Award Winner Alex Clarke's moving original drama.Seventeen-year-old Vanilla’s fall from a tree becomes a wake-up call for those close to her. Displaced and disconnected, the Byrne family learn how to reconnect with each other – even though one of them is asleep.ORLA ..... Sade MaloneMARY ..... Michelle Fairley SIOBHAN ..... Lucy Gaskell GEMMA ..... Sacha Parkinson FATHER ROBIN .... .Joseph AlessiDirected by Nadia MolinariAudio Drama North Production

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14:31

Robert Burns: His Psychotherapy and Cure by Sara...

Drama of the Week ·

2024/06/28

A therapist finds herself in conversation with Robert Burns.

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57:42

Orwell vs. Kafka: The Man Who Disappeared - Episode 1

Drama of the Week ·

2024/06/21

Franz Kafka’s dark comic fantasy about an innocent’s misadventures in early 20th century America.After a mysterious family scandal, the young immigrant Karl Rossman is expelled from his Bohemian home and dispatched to America by his parents. Adrift in this strange new world, Karl is soon swept up in an America that is by turns a land of endless promise and monstrous brutality.The Man Who Disappeared (also known as Amerika) was Franz Kafka’s first attempt at a novel but remained unfinished at the

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44:30

Franz and Felice

Drama of the Week ·

2024/06/14

By Ed HarrisAn intimate and mischievously punk telling of Franz Kafka’s most significant romantic relationship. Franz and Felice follows the twists and turns of the writer’s relationship with Felice Bauer, how events in their relationship burst violently into Kafka’s stories and imagination, and how his stories responded. And how everything, real and invented, played out in the shadow of his father, the dark presence always ready to enter from the room next door.Narrator . . . . . Anton LesserFranz

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45:06

A Tale of Ossian

Drama of the Week ·

2024/06/07

Atmospheric drama by Robert Forrest.An old man turns up in hospital with his head full of stories and his pockets full of leaves. No-one knows who he is. But when he finally begins to talk, the woman who sits across from him finds herself pulled into his world and captivated by his stories.Cast in Order of Appearance:Isobel … Wendy Seager Ossian … Finlay Welsh Helen … Anne Louise Ross Dermot … Scott Miller Fingal … Finn Den HertogSound Design and original music by Niall Young Directed by Kirsty

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28:03

The Specialist Episode 1

Drama of the Week ·

2024/05/31

Dark Medical Thriller by Matthew Broughton, creator of Tracks and Broken Colours.With original music by Sion Orgon and Rhodri Davies.CASTAnna Diaz- Saran MorganGed Diaz - Sion Daniel YoungRuth - Michelle BonnardMr Devonshire - Pal AronMr Dartington - Ifan Huw DafyddRaymond - Ioan HefinOriginal music by Sion Orgon and Rhodri DaviesProduction Coordinator Eleri McAuliffeSound Design by Catherine RobinsonDirected by John NortonA BBC Audio Wales production for Radio 4

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44:25

The Invitation

Drama of the Week ·

2024/05/24

Comedy drama by Katherine Chandler, starring Siwan Morris and Kimberley Nixon.When her eight-year-old daughter is the only one in the class who doesn't get a party invitation, Lizzie challenges the birthday girl's mum, Jo. As their two world views collide, all hell breaks loose. What are the rules here?CASTJo - Siwan MorrisLizzie - Kimberley NixonHuw - Tomos EamesRitchie Tyne- Nathan SussexMrs Wilson - Zoe DaviesMargaret - Hannah McPakeThe Postman - Anthony CorriaMicha - Joséphine López-NortonEllie

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87:20

Calmer

Drama of the Week ·

2024/05/12

A new drama about motherhood and chaos, from Olivier-Award-winning writer Lolita Chakrabarti, starring Meera Syal.Three generations of ultra-successful women in one family:Maya, a self-help guru with an avid following, has an American TV deal in the offing.Nina, her daughter, a psychiatrist, is expanding her thriving practice. Amber, Nina's daughter, has an offer from Cambridge.But a fault line will soon tear everything apart.Deeply visceral, often sharply funny, Calmer explores mental health and

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44:23

Beltane

Drama of the Week ·

2024/05/03

By Ben Lewis. Soulful and witty drama about love, nature and the love of nature.

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120:42

Cymbeline

Drama of the Week ·

2024/04/28

Shakespeare's exhilarating late play of lovers under strain and leaders under pressure. Staged in an alternative present-day Britain.An ineffectual ruler governs a divided, insular Britain, alienated from the rest of Europe. That ruler, Cymbeline (Michael Maloney), refuses to pay the taxes demanded by a foreign power, clinging to mythical notions of sovereignty. "Britain's a world by itself and we will nothing pay for wearing our own noses." But Cymbeline's judgement is clouded by grief, having lost

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44:01

Bat Girls

Drama of the Week ·

2024/04/19

by Kamal Kaan and Mary CooperEpisode 1 - Naila's StoryNaila is a bright teenager in Bradford. Her parents want her to go to university to study medicine, and they don't want any distractions. But Naila loves cricket, and gets involved in the nascent school female cricket team. Three of the girls become firm friends and call themselves 'Bat Girls'. The team shows real promise and starts to do very well. But will this get in the way of Naila's parents' ambitions for

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44:34

Master Mason

Drama of the Week ·

2024/04/12

The master mason is dead; long live the master mason. Lizzy Mansfield's comedy takes us back to the golden age of cathedral building and the moment humble stonemason Bill Mason gets the call. When the Bishop asks, you don't say no. But is he the one really calling the shots?Bill ..... Edward HoggPenelope ..... Laura Elphinstone Eliza ..... Kathryn Drysdale Bishop ..... Michael Bertenshaw Messenger ...... Aaron Gelkoff Tom Farmer ..... John LightbodySound Designer ... Peter Ringrose Production

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44:36

The Mini-Break

Drama of the Week ·

2024/03/22

Esme’s meeting her boyfriend’s parents for the first time. But when she discovers a dark family secret, making a good impression becomes the least of her worries… Chloë Myerson’s modern-day folk-horror story about family and fate, inspired by the writing of Hans Christian Andersen.CASTEsme ..... Máiréad Tyers Danny ..... Josh Bryant-Jones Susanna ..... Jane Slavin Tim ..... Nicholas Woodeson The Storyteller .... David Menkin Agneta ..... Kitty O’SullivanWritten by Chloë Myerson Directed by Anne

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57:39

This Is For Everyone

Drama of the Week ·

2024/03/15

Entertaining drama from award-winning writer Matthew Broughton exploring probably the biggest turning point in recent history: the creation of the World Wide Web, and its impact on one family in the decades that follow.In August 1991, the first website goes live. At exactly the same time, a baby is born...Julie....Claudie BlakleyVic....Dana Haqjoo Young Lucy...Astrid le Fleming Lucy....Katie Redford Young Ben....Bertie Creswell Ben....Luke Nunn Narrator....Peter Marinker With the voices of Josh

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44:48

Land of my Father

Drama of the Week ·

2024/03/08

It’s 1984. In a mining village in the Welsh Valleys, Alys is doing her O-Levels, falling in love, and just being a teenager.Then, the Miners’ Strike starts. And everything changes.Forty years later, reeling from her marriage break up, Alys takes her son on a day out in the Valleys: to the zip wire above the site of Tower Colliery. Soon, she finds herself revisiting the year that altered her family’s lives irrevocably.Siân Owen’s drama is about the children of the Miners’ Strike - and its legacy.By

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