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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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14:41

Statue

Drama of the Week ·

2024/09/13

A new short story by Emma Smith-Barton, read by Mia Khan.Just after giving birth, Sadia turns into a statue. At least, that’s how she feels. One moment she’s reaching out to pull the curtains shut, and the next she’s frozen to the spot. All she can do is look out of the window – and try to understand what’s happening to her.Emma Smith-Barton’s short stories have appeared in Mslexia and the Bristol Short Story Prize anthology. Her first novel, The Million Pieces of Neena Gill, was shortlisted for the

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13:55

The Stranger

Drama of the Week ·

2024/09/06

Daisy Johnson is a multi-award-winning short story writer whose debut novel Everything Under was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.In The Stranger she weaves a gentle romantic story beginning with an unusual flatshare to save money, then twists it into a suspenseful thriller all in the space of 14 minutes - read by Saffron Coomber.Saffron Coomber has recently starred in Sir Lenny Henry's Windrush drama Three Little Birds, was in Small Axe by Steve McQueen, and made her West End debut as

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45:02

Tether

Drama of the Week ·

2024/08/30

It’s 2010. Becky's a marathon runner, who's blind. She's after a new guide. Mark's a former 'Olympic Hopeful'. He's after a fresh chance at a medal.Together, they start training for the Paralympics…Tether, by Evening Standard Award-winner Isley Lynn, travels the miles and years of their partnership. It stars Mared Jarman and Tommy Sim’aan.Becky – Mared JarmanMark – Tommy Sim’aanNews Reporters – Cellan WynGemma and News Reporter – Anna SpearpointAccess Consultant – Margo CargillProduction Coordinator

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44:23

Life Lines - Series 7

Drama of the Week ·

2024/08/16

by Al SmithCARRIE ..... Sarah RidgewayWILL ..... Rick Warden IAN ..... Michael Jibson DIVYA /CSC CO-ORDINATOR ...... Vineeta Rishi DONALD .... Neil McCaul ELEANOR/PARAMEDIC ..... Emma Handy NIKKI/OPERATOR ...... Gabrielle Scawthorn CALLUM/GARY ...... David Angland BETH ...... Cecilia Appiah SCHOOL GIRL/ NAOMI .... Shreya Lallu ANDY ...... Nuhazet Diaz CanoProduction Co-ordinator ...... Maggie Olgiati Technical Producers ...... Peter Ringrose & Alison Craig Director ...... Sally AvensThe award

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28:52

11 Minutes Dead

Drama of the Week ·

2024/08/09

Paranormal thriller about Near Death Experience.After losing consciousness in a surfing accident, Beth is faced with a horrifying vision of the future. When she awakes, she discovers not only that she has returned with mysterious new abilities but that something sinister has followed her back from the other side.Written by Lucy CatherineBeth . . . . . Scarlett BrookesRoz . . . . . Claire Lams Jenny . . . . . Maureen Beattie Pete . . . . . Narinder Samra Jem . . . . . Paul Ready David . . . . . Tony

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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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