[British Radio] BBC Radio Drama: Saturday 25th February - 3rd March

Drama of the Week: A Book by Lester Tricklebank
Stephen Tompkinson stars as Lester in Richard Lumsden's verse drama of secrets and lies. Lester has never left home, maybe because he's got a secret that's too big to carry around the world, maybe because he loves Derbyshire too much. But now it's time to tell all so Lester decides to face up to the past and write a book. But where to start? :download:


Saturday 4th April

The Moonflask
Radio 4 14:30 A group of jobseekers pool their skills to steal a Ming Vase and return it to its rightful owner. But who is conning who? Starring Lee Ross. By Paul Sellar.

A Fine Balance Episode 2
Radio 4 21:00 A Fine Balance Episode 2
Dramatisation of Rohinton Mistry's acclaimed novel about India's underclass.
Uncle and nephew, Ishvar and Om have come to the city to escape the caste violence in their native village. They start working as tailors in the cramped flat of Dina, a middle-aged Parsi widow. Maneck, a reluctant student from the mountains, rents a room from Dina and the four strangers form an unlikely bond against a backdrop of India in crisis - during "the Emergency" of the mid-1970s, a period marked by huge political unrest and human rights violations.
A comedy, a tragedy, and a story of the triumph of the human spirit under inhuman conditions.
Music: Sacha Putnam
Sound Design: Steve Bond
Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and Kewel Karim from the novel by Rohinton Mistry
Producer: Nadir Khan
Director: John Dryden
A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4.


Sunday 5th April

A Fine Balance
Radio 4 15:00 Four strangers form an unlikely bond that takes them through one of India's most turbulent recent periods. A story of the triumph of the human spirit under inhuman conditions. 3/3

Fanny and Alexander
Radio 3 22:00 A radio version of the director's most autobiographical film which combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality. 2/2


Monday 6th April

Le Donne
Radio 4 10:45 Mon-Fri Set in contemporary Naples, Caterina is now head of the Riccardi clan. As dissent grows amongst the ranks, she tries to find her daughter Antonella. By Chris Fallon.

A Year at the Races
Radio 4 14:15 By Neil Brand. Nearing the end of his career Groucho Marx meets a young wisecracking fan, who’s determined to teach the old funny man some new comedy tricks. Starring Toby Jones

Good Omens
Radio 4 23:30 The demon Crowley is tasked with the delivery of a baby to St Beryl's hospital, initiating a chain of events that will lead to Armageddon. But things don't quite go to plan. Episode 1.


Tuesday 7th April

Do You Know Who Wrote This?
Radio 4 14:15 In Jonathan Myerson's new comedy, an outbreak of the Veracity Virus is spreading across the internet, revealing identities and stripping away fakes. But is it a good thing?

Good Omens
Radio 4 23:30 Realising they have been protecting and corrupting the wrong child, Aziraphale and Crowley set out to discover what happened to the real son of Satan. Episode 2.


Wednesday 8th April

Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones
Radio 4 11:30 Milton Jones will help anyone anywhere, whether they need it or not. So when a new rail line threatens a tiny dormouse, Milton decides it's time to put his foot down - carefully... 2/6

Beyond Endurance
Radio 4 14:15 Dominic West stars as Ernest Shackleton in Meredith Hooper's play, charting the explorer's 1914 expedition planning to cross Antarctica, told in the words of the team themselves.

Good Omens
Radio 4 23:30 Aziraphale consults Agnes's prophesies in the hunt for the antichrist, the Witchfinder Army send Newt to Tadfield, and the Horsepersons of the Apocalypse continue to be summoned. Episode 3.


Thursday 9th April

The Imperfect Education of Sabrina Sidney
Radio 4 14:15 Drama by Abigail Youngman based on the true story of a most peculiar educational experiment carried out by the philanthropist and intellectual Thomas Day upon two young girls.

Good Omens
Radio 4 23:30 Newt and Anathema try to decipher Agnes's cryptic riddles; Aziraphale and Crowley receive visits from the Angelic and Demonic authorities, and Adam begins to formulate some plans. Episode 4.


Friday 10th April

Mr Reasonable
Radio 4 14:15 John Reasonable is a freed black slave, a skilled silk weaver, engaged by Shakespeare to make costumes for the Rose Theatre but he also has a jealous apprentice. By Fred D'Aguiar.

Good Omens
Radio 4 23:30 The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse assemble and set off for Lower Tadfield, while Aziraphale finds himself inhabiting a most unexpected host body. Episode 5.

Drama of the Week: Beyond Endurance
Dominic West stars as Ernest Shackleton in Meredith Hooper's play, charting the explorer's 1914 expedition planning to cross Antarctica, told in the words of the team themselves. :download:


Saturday 11th April

Good Omens
Radio 4 14:30 As Aziraphale and Crowley, the Witchfinder Army, and the Horsepersons of the Apocalypse descend on Lower Tadfield, the fate of the Earth rests on the shoulders of Adam Young.

A Fine Balance Episode 3
Radio 4 21:00 A Fine Balance Episode 3
Dramatisation of Rohinton Mistry's acclaimed novel about India's underclass.
Uncle and nephew, Ishvar and Om have come to the city to escape the caste violence in their native village. They start working as tailors in the cramped flat of Dina, a middle-aged Parsi widow. Maneck, a reluctant student from the mountains, rents a room from Dina and the four strangers form an unlikely bond against a backdrop of India in crisis - during "the Emergency" of the mid-1970s, a period marked by huge political unrest and human rights violations.
A comedy, a tragedy, and a story of the triumph of the human spirit under inhuman conditions.
Music: Sacha Putnam
Sound Design: Steve Bond
Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and Kewel Karim from the novel by Rohinton Mistry
Producer: Nadir Khan
Director: John Dryden
A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4.


Sunday 12th April

The Left Hand of Darkness
Radio 4 15:00 In a snow-changed city in the middle of an Ice Age on an alien world, one young man prepares for the biggest mission of his life. Adapted by Judith Adams. 1/2

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Radio 3 22:00 Oscar Wilde's classic drama of vanity and evil in an exciting, luscious new production. Starring Jasper Britton, and Maggie Steed. Adapted and directed by Neil Bartlett.


Monday 13th April

Writing the Century - The Journal of a Joskin
Radio 4 10:45 Mon-Fri The series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and correspondence. Further journal material of Yorkshire farm labourer and writer Fred Kitchen adapted by Stephen Wakelam.

Clean Trade
Radio 4 14:15 In Winsome Pinnock's new drama set in an investment bank, a group of cleaners try their hand at trading - and start to make money.


Tuesday 14th April

The Last Breath
Radio 4 14:15 An artist plans to capture someone's last breath in a jar. But who is the donor? By Ben Fearnside and Anita Sullivan.


Wednesday 15th April

Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones
Radio 4 11:30 Milton Jones will help anyone anywhere, whether they need it or not. So when the local seafarers' pub starts serving only coffee, there's no denying it's rum. 3/6

Road to the Borders
Radio 4 14:15 The Reivers Festival, celebrating the exploits of lawless Scots raiders, is the setting for a love story.


Thursday 16th April

Have You Seen This Child?
Radio 4 14:15 As Pat catches up with an old friend in the park, it suddenly dawns on her that her four year old grandchild is no longer in the playground.


Friday 17th April

Mr Reasonable
Radio 4 14:15 The Carter's storage warehouse contains more than a century's worth of untold stories. Today a dodgy pair arrive looking for a long-lost Russian table. By Jonathan Holloway.

Drama of the Week: Writing the Century - The Journal of a Joskin
Ralph Ineson stars as Yorkshire farm labourer and aspiring writer Fred Kitchen, in Stephen Wakelam's adaptation of Fred's journals :download:

Saturday 18th April

The Raft of the Medusa
Radio 4 14:30 By Simon Armitage, inspired by Derek Jarman. With Catherine Cusack. Preceded by Jonathan Watts on Jarman and art and accompanied on BBC iPlayer by a new film by Richard Heslop.

The Left Hand of Darkness 1/2
Radio 4 21:00 The Left Hand of Darkness 1/2
Adapted by Judith Adams
Science fiction with incredible humanity from a brilliant feminist writer. This is the first dramatisation of Ursula Le Guin's 1969 novel which is as groundbreaking in its approach to gender as when it was first published over 45 years ago.
In a snow-changed city in the middle of an Ice Age on an alien world, one young man prepares for the biggest mission of his life. Alone and unarmed, Genly Ai has been sent from Earth to persuade the world of Gethen to join The Ekumen, a union of planets. But it's a task fraught with danger. Genly is shocking to the natives. This is a world in which humans are ambigendered - everyone can be a mother, and everyone can be a father.
First Minister Estraven is the only person who champions Genly's cause, but their relationship is deeply incomprehensible and troubling. Genly's life is at risk and he must decide who to trust.
Director: Allegra McIlroy.


Sunday 19th April

The Left Hand of Darkness
Radio 4 15:00 In the middle of an Ice Age on an alien world two friends flee for their lives across endless snow plains. Adapted by Judith Adams 2/2

Vampyre Man
Radio 3 22:00 Joseph O'Connor drama about the friendship between Bram Stoker and his muse, Henry Irving, the inspiration for Count Dracula. Darragh Kelly, Anton Lesser and Amanda Redman star.


Monday 20th April

The Blast of War
Radio 4 10:45 Mon-Fri A new drama serial by Michael Symmons Roberts. A British soldier in Afghanistan is sent on a time-travelling journey of atonement after a comrade is killed.

My Dear Bessie
Radio 4 14:15 Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey tell a Second World War love story in letters between Chris Barker, a solider in Libya, and Bessie Moore, a Morse code interpreter in London.


Tuesday 21st April

Euston to Whitechapel
Radio 4 14:15 London taxi driver Marshall and paramedic Corinne both make life and death journeys across London in this moving real-time drama. Starring Matthew Marsh and Julia Ford.


Wednesday 22nd April

Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones
Radio 4 11:30 Milton Jones will help anyone anywhere, whether they need it or not. So when a friend who runs a B&B is in trouble, it's time to dust off those nylon sheets and let the sparks fly. 4/6

Falling Faces
Radio 4 14:15 Since the death of his wife, Billy has lived on his own. But now it's time to stop grieving, and start living again. Starring Robert Pugh. By Meic Povey.


Thursday 23rd April

Moving Music
Radio 4 14:15 Artistic tensions surface as pioneers of minimalist music, Philip Glass and Steve Reich, share a day job - running a removal firm together in 1960s New York. By Sarah Wooley.


Friday 24th April

Mrs Robinson, I Presume
Radio 4 14:15 Tracy-Ann Oberman's new drama tells the story of the making of the film that changed Hollywood – The Graduate. Starring John Simm as director Mike Nichols.

The Air Gap
Radio 4 21:00 Factually-based drama by Steve Waters telling the story of Bradley Manning, the US Army soldier accused of triggering the world's biggest ever leak of classified information.

Diese Woche gibst wieder jede Menge schöne Sachen

Drama of the Week: My Dear Bessie
Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey tell a Second World War love story in letters between Chris Barker, a solider in Libya, and Bessie Moore, a Morse code interpreter in London. :download:


Saturday 25th April

Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Radio 4 14:30 A medium stages a kidnap to draw attention to her psychic powers. Thriller starring Caroline Strong and Robert Glenister.

The Left Hand of Darkness 2/2
Radio 4 21:00 The Left Hand of Darkness 2/2
Adapted by Judith Adams
In the middle of an Ice Age on an alien world two friends flee across endless snow plains on a journey that will take them to the edge of their physical and emotional endurance. The stakes are high - to save a world from war, and save their own lives.
This is the first radio dramatisation of Ursula Le Guin's novel which is as groundbreaking in its approach to gender as when it was first published over 45 years ago. Genly Ai has arrived from Earth onto the planet Gethen, a world in which humans are ambigendered - everyone can be a mother and everyone can be a father. In coming to terms with their otherness - and also their sameness - Genly must let go of everything he understood about his own identity.
Director: Allegra McIlroy.


Sunday 26th April

Decline and Fall
Radio 4 15:00 Jeremy Front dramatises Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic 1920's romp. A fast paced roller-coaster peopled by larger than life characters, a few grotesques and with a satirical bite. 1/2

Ghosts
Radio 3 22:00 Henrik Ibsen's provocative tale of family secrets, in a new version adapted and directed by Richard Eyre, and featuring the cast of his recent production for the Almeida Theatre.


Monday 27th April

The Enchanted April
Radio 4 10:45 Mon-Fri Vivienne Allen dramatises Elizabeth von Arnim's lovely tale of how an advertisement in The Times lures four women away from rainy London to a castle on the sunny Italian Riviera.

Tommies
Radio 4 14:15 Based on eye-witness accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago. With Lee Ross, Indira Varma and Adrian Scarborough. By Nick Warburton.

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea
Radio 4Extra 18:00 Ged tampers with long-held secrets to release a terrible shadow into the world. Wizards and dragons fantasy with James McArdle. 1/6


Tuesday 28th April

The Third Eye and the Private Eye
Radio 4 14:15 Based on real events, this is the story of one of literature's greatest and most long-lived hoaxes, featuring yetis, owls and talking cats. By David Lemon and Mark Eccleston.

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea
Radio 4Extra 18:00 Sent to Roke island's school for wizards, Ged's pride and recklessness prove fatal. Meanwhile Tenar struggles. With Aysha Kala. 2/6


Wednesday 29th April

Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones
Radio 4 11:30 Milton Jones is asked for help because there are ugly rumours about the local farm going too far with its GM crops. At least, that's what the vegetables are saying. 5/6

13A, 13B
Radio 4 14:15 Ruth Jones and Stephen Tompkinson star in Peter Souter's romcom set on a plane bound for Rome. Will love or a fear of flying win the day?

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea
Radio 4Extra 18:00 Ged has released a terrible shadow into the world. It hunts him wherever he goes, so he must make a choice. With James McArdle. 3/6


Thursday 30th April

Credit Card Baby
Radio 4 14:15 By Annie Caulfield. Helen Baxendale and Ciaran McMenamin star as a couple who found each other just a little late. They want a baby, but first they need an egg.

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea
Radio 4Extra 18:00 Within the Tombs of Atuan, Tenar encounters Ged, a wizard come to steal their greatest treasure. With James McArdle. 4/6


Friday 1st May

Mayday Mayday
Radio 4 14:15 A true, life-affirming story charting actor Tristan Sturrock's journey from paralysis to recovery. Retold for radio by the voices of all those who helped him to walk again.

Fight Club
Radio 4 21:00 Mild mannered product-recall-specialist by day, tortured insomniac by night, the visceral and unflinching story of one man’s descent into an underground world of violence.

Drama of the Week: The Enchanted April
Vivienne Allen dramatises Elizabeth von Arnim's lovely tale of how an advertisement in The Times lures four women away from rainy London to a castle on the sunny Italian Riviera. :download:


Saturday 2nd May

Happy Jack
Radio 4 14:30 Comedy in John Godber's modern stage classic. A new production with the original 1982 cast (John and Jane Godber), this is the touching story of Liz and Jack's life lived together.

Decline and Fall 1/2
Radio 4 21:00 Decline and Fall 1/2
A real gem in the canon of British comic fiction. Evelyn Waugh's fast paced roller-coaster, dramatised by Jeremy Front, is peopled by larger than life characters and a few grotesques. Paul Pennyfeather, a quiet, earnest, scholarly young student at Oxford knows nothing of 1920's high-life until one night he encounters The Bollinger Club ...
Produced by Marion Nancarrow and Directed by Tracey Neale
Set in the early jazz age, the tone of Decline and Fall is Wodehousian with added sex, drugs and alcohol. The central character is Paul Pennyfeather, played by Oxford graduate and young emerging comedian, Kieran Hodgson. Paul is an innocent but nevertheless the engine of the piece. The fuse is lit in Oxford after which the plot moves us quickly to London then out to a tenth rate school in rural Wales where we meet the Headmaster, Dr Fagan and two fellow teachers, Grimes and Prendergast played by comedy stars - Geoffrey Whitehead, John Sessions and James Fleet.
From here we are taken to a glass and steel fantasy of excessive modern architecture in the middle of the English countryside, the home of the beautiful Margot, stylish played by Emilia Fox, designed by the eccentric Otto, a cameo played with relish by Tom Hollander in Episode Two. Paul's travels then take him to hot, sweaty Marseille and into trouble which results in him ending up in a British prison. Paul's adventures end in a rather Alice in Wonderland fashion when he is given a new identity and returns to Oxford, exactly where he started, but with the addition of a beard.
Decline and Fall is dramatised by Jeremy Front. Jeremy won the Best Dramatisation in the 2014 Drama Audio Awards for Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour. His wonderfully comic touch has been evident in his most recent work for Radio 4 - Charles Paris and Incredible Women.


Sunday 3rd May

Decline and Fall
Radio 4 15:00 Jeremy Front dramatises Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic 1920's romp. A fast paced roller-coaster peopled by larger than life characters, a few grotesques and with a satirical bite. 2/2

The Lady from the Sea
Radio 3 22:00 This translation of Ibsen’s sensuous and erotic play The Lady from the Sea is adapted by Frank McGuinness and stars Lia Williams and Hugh Bonneville.


Monday 4th May

An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk
Radio 4 10:45 Mon-Fri Stories from a village in the Pak-Afghan mountains. Two families who arrived here many years ago to avoid the fighting now fear they must flee again.

Tommies
Radio 4 14:15 by Nick Warburton. Based on eye-witness accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago. With Indira Varma, Lee Ross and Adrian Scarborough.

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea
Radio 4Extra 18:00 Twenty years on, the magic had gone out of Earthsea. Ged, now Archmage, seeks the source of the darkness. With Shaun Dooley. 5/6


Tuesday 5th May

Higher
Radio 4 14:15 Return of the comedy series about the UK's worst university. Jim is sent to China to recruit new students. But the new interim Vice Chancellor seems to be setting him up to fail. 1/2

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea
Radio 4Extra 18:00 Earthsea is in danger. The springs of wizardry are drying up and Ged has embarked on a perilous journey. With Shaun Dooley. 6/6


Wednesday 6th May

Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones
Radio 4 11:30 Milton Jones is asked to help out with the local book festival because the townsfolk are too distracted by their smartphones to...... Sorry, what was I saying? Just got a text. 6/6

Higher
Radio 4 14:15 Jim has returned from China in triumph and is rewarded by being promoted to Makeshift Vice Chancellor. But a rather shady educational company is working with the board of governors and wants to do a deal with the university. 2/2


Thursday 7th May

Stone
Radio 4 14:15 Dirt by Martin Jameson. First drama of Stone series created by Danny Brocklehurst and starring Hugo Speer as DCI John Stone. 1/5


Friday 8th May

Shakespeare's Fire
Radio 4 14:15 Jane Horrocks and Jasper Britton star in a comedy about the fire that marked the end of Shakespeare’s career - poet Glyn Maxwell’s true story of royal favour and burnt trousers.

Drama of the Week: Stone Episode 1
Dirt by Martin Jameson. Stars Hugo Speer. First drama of Stone: a detective series created by Danny Brocklehurst. When a body is found in a flooded gravel pit DCI John Stone and his team embark upon an investigation that leads to the discovery of suspicious activity on a remote farm. But with his personal life in tatters and still reeling from the mishandled shooting of Callum Gartside, a gunman who had murdered his own family, Stone struggles to hold it all together. :download:

Saturday 9th May

Roddy Doyle's The Guts
Radio 4 14:30 Jimmy Rabbitte is now 47 and life is about to get tough. He is ill. A story about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life and maybe even living the dream.

Decline and Fall 2/2
Radio 4 21:00 Decline and Fall 2/2
Captain Grimes finding himself in 'the soup' again has disappeared and Margot has invited Paul to tutor her son Peter during the school holidays. There he meets the eccentric Otto.
Directed by Tracey Neale.


Sunday 10th May

The Castle
Radio 4 15:00 Franz Kafka's mind-warping novel. A stranger's summons to the mysterious Castle leads him into a bureaucratic wonderland of terror and insanity.

The Process
Radio 3 22:00 A new adaptation of Franz Kafka’s classic book The Trial - one man’s search for answers in an unnerving contemporary setting. Dramatised and updated by Mark Ravenhill as part of Radio 3's In the Shadow of Kafka season.


Monday 11th May

Lunch
Radio 4 10:45 Mon-Fri Stephen Mangan and Claire Skinner star in Marcy Kahan's award winning comedy. Old flatmates Bill and Bella meet once a month for lunch and talk about everything.

On the Rocks
Radio 4 11:30 1930s comedy set on the Isles of Scilly. G.P.O. man Frank Gunwallow returns to St. Martin's to see if all is still in order at the Post Office. By Christopher William Hill.

Tommies
Radio 4 14:15 Based on eye-witness accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago. With Indira Varma, Danny Rahim and Avin Shah. By Jonathan Ruffle.

The Essay: In the Shadow of Kafka
Radio 3 22:45 As part of Radio 3's In the Shadow of Kafka season, Margaret Atwood revisits an essay she wrote on Kafka when she was nineteen years old and discusses three trips she has made to Prague in her lifetime and the three different versions of him she found there. 1/5


Tuesday 12th May

Rock and Doris and Elizabeth
Radio 4 14:15 The week when the truth about Rock Hudson finally came out. Tracy-Ann Oberman's play about Hollywood inspired by real events, starring Jonathan Hyde, Frances Barber and Tracy-Ann herself.

The Essay: In the Shadow of Kafka
Radio 3 22:45 As part of Radio 3's In the Shadow of Kafka season, writer Hanif Kureishi looks at the body, appetite and the struggle for power in the work of Kafka, including his books Metamorphosis and In The Penal Colony. 2/5


Wednesday 13th May

Forever Mankind
Radio 4 14:15 Jonathan Mitchell and Judith Kampfner's alternative history. American astronauts go on a mission to retrieve the bodies of the first men on the moon but the plan goes awry.

The Essay: In the Shadow of Kafka
Radio 3 22:45 Karen Leeder explores Franz Kafka’s very modern use of messengers and messages - and how process is at the heart of his books, as part of BBC Radio 3’s In the Shadow of Kafka season. 3/5


Thursday 14th May

Stone
Radio 4 14:15 Blood Money by Richard Monks. The second drama in the crime series Stone created by Danny Brocklehurst and starring Hugo Speer as DCI John Stone. 2/5

The Essay: In the Shadow of Kafka
Radio 3 22:45 As part of Radio 3's In the Shadow of Kafka season, April de Angelis dissects the dark comedy of Franz Kafka's The Castle, arguing the case for Kafka as both humourist and feminist. 4/5


Friday 15th May

The Mysterious Case of Maria
Radio 4 14:15 When charismatic waitress Maria goes missing, Ellie begins an eccentric investigation. By Florence Vincent, Emer Kenny, Corey Montague-Sholay, Wemmy Ogunyankin and Sandra Townsend.

The Essay: In the Shadow of Kafka
Radio 3 22:45 Playwright Jeff Young considers the unusually powerful impact of Kafka’s language and the nature of translations, as part of Radio 3’s In the Shadow of Kafka season. 5/5

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea war übrigens ne Wiederholung, aber das tat der Qualität keinen Abbruch. Just my 2 Cents

Drama of the Week: Lunch
Dirt by Martin Jameson. Stars Hugo Speer. First drama of Stone: a detective series created by Danny Brocklehurst. When a body is found in a flooded gravel pit DCI John Stone and his team embark upon an investigation that leads to the discovery of suspicious activity on a remote farm. But with his personal life in tatters and still reeling from the mishandled shooting of Callum Gartside, a gunman who had murdered his own family, Stone struggles to hold it all together. :download:


Saturday 16th May

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Radio 4 14:30 Martin Jarvis directs R4's fourth Ian Fleming thriller. Toby Stephens as 007 sparkles as impersonator, skier, charmer, and pursuer of Ernst Blofeld. But is there tragedy ahead?

The Castle episode 1
Radio 4 21:00 The Castle episode 1
Episode 1 of 2
In Franz Kafka's mind-warping novel, set in a bureaucratic wonderland, the hapless land-surveyor known only as K answers a summons to work at the mysterious Castle, only to find himself drawn into a labyrinth of terror and absurdity.
With the Jackie Palmer Children's Choir
Dramatist: Ed Harris
Producer: John Taylor
A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4.


Sunday 17th May

The Castle
Radio 4 15:00 Franz Kafka's mind-warping novel. While K desperately seeks a meeting with the elusive Klamm, Frieda seems to be playing provocative games with them both. 2/2

Macbeth
Radio 3 22:00 'Your face, my thane, is as a book where men / May read strange matters...'
A new production of Shakespeare's thrilling tragedy starring Neil Dudgeon and Emma Fielding


Monday 18th May

A Small Town Murder
Radio 4 10:45 Mon-Fri Meera Syal stars as family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell. The body of Abi Hudson, daughter of 60's singer Connie Hudson, has been found floating in the local botanical gardens.

On the Rocks
Radio 4 11:30 1930s comedy set on the Isles of Scilly. Ben tries to prove to Morwenna-May that he's a man of action. 'Adventure' by Christopher William Hill. 2/4

Tommies
Radio 4 14:15 Based on eye-witness accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago. With Indira Varma, Pippa Nixon and Parth Thakerar. By Michael Chaplin.


Tuesday 19th May

The Odd Job
Radio 4 14:15 William Ash and Andrew Knott's dark comedy about an aspiring documentary maker who meets a retired couple and soon becomes entrenched in their increasingly perilous world.


Wednesday 20th May

Beryl: A Love Story on Two Wheels
Radio 4 14:15 Maxine Peake's first drama - the true love story of Beryl Burton, a working class mum who, with no financial backing or training, combined farm work with world champion cycling.


Thursday 21st May

Stone
Radio 4 14:15 A Cut Above by Marcia Layne. Third drama in crime series Stone created by Danny Brocklehurst starring Hugo Speer as DCI John Stone. 3/5


Friday 22nd May

Lizzy Barry's Lesson
Radio 4 14:15 Lizzy Barry may have been the most celebrated and best loved actress of the Restoration. The Earl of Rochester was her finest teacher.

Drama of the Week: Lizzy Barry's Lesson
Lizzy Barry was without doubt the most celebrated and best loved actress of the Restoration. But though Mrs Barry would disagree, it may have been her liaison with the infamous libertine The Earl of Rochester which provided the key to her extraordinary success. By Robin Glendinning. With Jane Slavin, Tim McInnerny and Lizzy McInnerny. :download:


Saturday 23rd May

Vincent in Brixton
Radio 4 14:30 A young Dutchman rents a room in the house of an English widow. Based on fact, Nicholas Wright's play charts the genesis of the artistic genius of Vincent van Gogh.

The Castle Episode 2
Radio 4 21:00 The Castle Episode 2
In Franz Kafka's mind-warping novel, set in a bureaucratic wonderland, while K continues to seek a meeting with the elusive official Klamm, his relationship with Frieda is under strain. He suspects her of maintaining a secret tryst with Klamm, and she of a dalliance with Barnabas' two sisters.
Dramatist: Ed Harris
Producer: John Taylor
A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4.


Sunday 24th May

Rasselas, Price of Abyssinia
Radio 4 15:00 Ashley Zhangazha, Jeff Rawle and Lucian Msamati star in a contemporary take on Samuel Johnson's classic tale of a prince in search of happiness. Adapted by Jonathan Holloway.

Lungs
Radio 3 22:00 Richard Wilson directs Duncan Macmillan's acclaimed stage play about a couple agonising over whether to have a baby. The Paines Plough and Sheffield Theatres co-production.


Monday 25th May

Amicable
Radio 4 10:45 Mon-Fri Can divorce really be amicable? Sally and Joe are about to find out. Starring Con O Neill and Christine Bottomley, written by Mark Davies Markham.

On the Rocks
Radio 4 11:30 1930s comedy set on the Isles of Scilly. Father Tregarthan despairs of his flock. 'Sermons' by Christopher William Hill. 3/4

Home Front Season 4
Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri New season of Radio 4’s epic drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. Ivy is shocked at how much and how quickly Folkestone has changed.

Tommies
Radio 4 14:15 Based on eye-witness accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago. With Lee Ross, Indira Varma, and Patrick Kennedy. By Michael Chaplin.


Tuesday 26th May

The Shadow of Dorian Gray
Radio 4 14:15 In the wake of the conviction of Oscar Wilde, London is in a moral panic. It's a dangerous time to be the man who inspired Wilde's scandalous novel 'Dorian Gray'. By Stephen Wyatt.


Wednesday 27th May

Sung
Radio 4 14:15 A bittersweet drama which reunites the writer and star of 'The Rise and Fall of Little Voice'.


Thursday 28th May

Stone
Radio 4 14:15 Progress by Alex Ganley. Fourth drama in the crime series Stone created by Danny Brocklehurst and starring Hugo Speer as DCI John Stone. 4/5


Friday 29th May

Time for One More Question
Radio 4 14:15 Love is put through the toughest Q and A in this comedy of festival manners written by Glyn Maxwell and recorded on location at Hay Festival.

Home Front Omnibus
Radio 4 21:00 Omnibus edition of the epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years ago this week. The Canadians have arrived in Folkestone, and so have the profiteers.

Drama of the Week: Sung
Sung by Jim Cartwright, starring Jane Horrocks. A bittersweet drama which reunites the writer and star of 'The Rise and Fall of Little Voice'. Lorna is an alcoholic who lives alone in a down at heel flat. Then a young door to door salesman peddling stretch settee covers knocks on her door and discovers that she has a glamorous past. Song & Lyrics by John O'Hara Producer/Director Gary Brown. :download:


Saturday 30th May

The Last Tycoon
Radio 4 14:30 The 1930s Studio Head Monroe Stahr is at the top of his game, but is fatefully unhinged by a love affair. Bill Bryden adapts F Scott Fitzgerald's haunting portrait of Hollywood.

From Fact to Fiction
Radio 4 19:00 From Fact to Fiction
The award-winning series in which writers create a fictional response to the week's news. In the first of a new series of dramas, Sarah McDonald Hughes takes a look at the government's proposed extension of the right-to-buy housing scheme.
Beth and Sam have just bought the house they previously rented from a housing association. They have big plans for the property, but is Dave the handyman up to the job?
A Roof Over Our Heads by Sarah McDonald Hughes
With sound FX and vocal percussion from Carl Orza aka UK Beatboxer Soundbytz
Directed by Charlotte Riches.

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Radio 4 21:00 Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
An intriguing, contemporary take on Samuel Johnson's classic tale of an African prince in search of happiness.
A star cast is led by Ashley Zhangazha as Rasselas, Jeff Rawle as Samuel Johnson and Lucian Msamati - the RSC's first black Iago - as the poet Imlac. Singer and actor Cynthia Erivo makes her BBC radio drama debut as Princess Nekayah.
Recorded on location at Dr Johnson's House, 17 Gough Square, in the City of London - the very place where over 260 years ago, Johnson compiled his famous dictionary and then in January 1759, wrote his instant bestseller 'Rasselas' in a week, to pay for his mother's funeral.
Acclaimed 18th century philosophy fuels a contemporary desert road trip in this inventive and playful adaptation by Jonathan Holloway. Period and modern collide in a satirical fantasy as Rasselas and his companions follow their quest for happiness and purpose to Cairo, where they encounter Arab Spring revolutionaries.
Jonathan Holloway's drama also incorporates a compelling glimpse of Johnson himself - the lonely, 50-year-old celebrity and writer, in debt, in poor health, and missing his young Jamaican manservant, Francis Barber, who had run away to sea. Born a slave, Barber was freed at Johnson's insistence and treated kindly by him.
Johnson had struggled through many years of poverty before moving to Gough Square and becoming a highly respected writer. 'Rasselas', his singular, progressive rumination on human happiness, is his only novel and his most popular work.
Sound design: David Chilton
Produced and directed by Amber Barnfather
A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4.


Sunday 31st May

Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset: The Way Things Are
Radio 4 15:00 Maggie Steed stars in the last of Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles, dramatised by Nick Warburton, where the village is divided over whether the vicar has stolen a cheque. 1/3

Head Hunters
Radio 3 22:00 In 1917 Alfred Haddon, one of the first anthropologists, signed up as a YMCA volunteer on the Western Front. With Michael Maloney. By Michael Eaton.


Monday 1st June

Chronicles of Ait: Magpie
Radio 4 10:45 Mon-Fri In this fourth series set in the village of Ait, Linus Scott's niece Lollo becomes convinced that reality is being influenced by forces which no-one has the power to stop.

On the Rocks
Radio 4 11:30 Comedy set on the Scilly Island of St. Martin's just before the Second World War. Ben still isn't getting anywhere with Morwenna-May. 4/4


Home Front Season 4
Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri Epic drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. It's Councillor Graham's birthday, and Juliet has a surprise for him.

The Loving Ballad of Captain Bateman
Radio 4 14:15 In Afghanistan a wounded British soldier puts Sofia in a dangerous dilemma. Writer Joseph Wilde and musician Tim van Eyken's play is a modern love story based on an old folk song.


Tuesday 2nd June

Have You Seen This Child?
Radio 4 14:15 As Pat catches up with an old friend in the park, it suddenly dawns on her that her four year old grandchild is no longer in the playground.


Wednesday 3rd June

The Manhattan Bee Testimonials
Radio 4 14:15 For decades there have been rumours of a man living somewhere on the island of Manhattan, who keeps 250,000 bees in his apartment. Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz.


Thursday 4th June

Stone
Radio 4 14:15 Broken by Vivienne Harvey. Final drama in the crime series Stone created by Danny Brocklehurst and starring Hugo Speer as DCI John Stone. 5/5


Friday 5th June

The Man Who Wore Sanitary Pads
Radio 4 14:15 In Tamil Nadu, Muruga risks his family and his community to invent a low-cost sanitary pad for his beloved wife, in Jon Sen's real-life, 'rags-to-pads' rom-com.

Home Front Omnibus
Radio 4 21:00 Omnibus edition of the epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years ago this week. Folkestone is making the most of the influx of Canadian troops.

The Manhattan Bee Testimonials
Radio 4 14:15 For decades there have been rumours of a man living somewhere on the island of Manhattan, who keeps 250,000 bees in his apartment. Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz.

Also wenn mein Nachbar soviele in der Bude hätte, würde ich ausflippen. Ich bin doch allergisch gegen Insektenstiche.

Drama of the Week: The Man Who Wore Sanitary Pads
Mr Muruga is a builder from Tamil Nadu who wants to send a rather curious love letter to his wife: a low cost sanitary pad. But when his desire to help his countrywomen turns to obsession, his community and even his family turn their backs on him. Can he achieve his taboo-breaking mission?
A compelling, real-life story of a great man, told with humour and admiration by Jon Sen :download:

Saturday 6th June

Woman in Mind
Radio 4 14:30 Alan Ayckbourn's darkly comic play about a woman's mental breakdown. After a blow to the head, Susan encounters an alternative, fantasy family. Starring Lesley Sharp and Ben Miles.

From Fact to Fiction 2/8
Radio 4 19:00 From Fact to Fiction 2/8
The FIFA Women's World Cup begins this weekend as Sepp Blatter resigns and accusations of corruption in the world governing body rumble on.
The England players and their coach are in Canada, psyching up for the opening festivities and the media circus: waving and smiling for the photo-shoot and fielding questions about the shortness of their shorts. How do they feel about being guinea-pigs for artificial playing surfaces and who should take over from Blatter?
But you can put up with anything for the sake of the beautiful game.
Helen Cross writes this lightly surreal comedy.
Director...Mary Ward-Lowery
'From Fact to Fiction' is a reactive drama, which makes a fictional response to events in the week's news.

Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset: The Way Things Are 1/4
Radio 4 21:00 Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset: The Way Things Are 1/4
by Anthony Trollope
dramatised by Nick Warburton
Part One: The Way Things Are
In the sleepy village of Silverbridge, Henry Grantly has fallen in love again and Mr Crawley is to find that a butcher with a vengeance is someone to be reckoned with.
Music composed by David Tobin, Jeff Meegan and Julian Gallant.
Produced & directed by Marion Nancarrow
This is the final book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles and many of the characters from both "The Small House at Allington" and "Framley Parsonage" return to finish his story of Barsetshire life set between 1855 and 1867. These 4 episodes focus in part on the story of the proud but impoverished vicar of Hogglestock, Josiah Crawley and the accusation that he has stolen and cashed a cheque. The whole of Barset has an opinion about Crawley's guilt or innocence, but no-one is more affected by it than Archdeacon Grantly's son, Henry, who has fallen in love with Crawley's daughter, Grace. Meanwhile, Johnny Eames has returned to try for the hand of Lily Dale, who is still devastated by the betrayal of her amoral fiance, Adolphus Crosbie. Happily, Mrs Baxter returns to tell the tale and give her inimitable opinion on events.
Maggie Steed stars as Mrs Baxter and is joined by Adam Kotz, Tim Pigott-Smith, Samuel Barnett and Scarlett Alice Johnson.
The Barchester Chronicles is Anthony Trollope's much-loved series of witty, gently satirical stories of provincial life set within the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and the surrounding county of Barsetshire. With a focus on the lives, loves and tribulations of the local clergy and rural gentry, the canvas is broad and colourful, with a wonderful set of iconic characters whose lives we become intimately involved in as they grow up, grow old and fall in or out of love and friendship across the years.

Sunday 7th June

Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset: Propose, Propose
Radio 4 15:00 Maggie Steed, Scarlett Alice Johnson and Samuel Barnett star in Anthony Trollope's Last Chronicle dramatised by Nick Warburton. Proposals abound in Barset, but with any success? 2/4

A Patriot for Me
Radio 3 22:00 50 years after the censor banned it, Philip Franks directs a radio adaptation of John Osborne's play. With Michael Pennington, Amanda Root, Richard Goulding and Peter Egan.


Monday 8th June

Highlites: Dye Another Day
Radio 4 10:45 Mon - Fri Comedy starring Lorraine Ashbourne and Rosie Cavaliero. Bev and Shirl, the world's worst hairdressers are faced with an enormous tax demand. By Phil Nodding and Steve Chambers.

Home Front Season 4
Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri Epic drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. Florrie still isn’t going out, but the Wilsons are learning to work around her. Starring Ami Metcalf.

doyouwishtocontinue
Radio 4 14:15 Original British Dramatists. Deliciously comical and moving drama by the winner of the 2014 BBC Writer's Prize, Christine Entwisle.


Tuesday 9th June

Speechless
Radio 4 14:15 Original British Dramatists. A comedy by writer Andrew Viner who won 5Live's Sports Shorts competition. A shy man gains astounding confidence but misuses his public speaking power.


Wednesday 10th June

The Sod
Radio 4 14:15 Original British Dramatists. Vashti MacLachlan's unsentimental love story about degenerative disease and a fridge load of vegetables inspired by her own experience.


Thursday 11th June

A Thing Inside a Thing Inside a Thing
Radio 4 14:15 Original British Dramatists. An elderly lady works inside a giant machine on the outskirts of the solar system. Written by Iain AJ Ross, a finalist in the BBC Writer's Prize.


Friday 12th June

Triple Word Score
Radio 4 14:15 Original British Dramatists. Scottish Ghanaian writer Ben Tagoe's first play for radio is a warm-hearted drama set in the high octane world of competitive Scrabble in Nigeria.

Home Front Omnibus
Radio 4 21:00 Omnibus edition of the epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years ago this week.

So, nachdem die BBC dann endlich ihre Seite aktualisiert hat, konnte ich den Inhalt und Downloadlink ergänzen.

Sorry, war am Wochenende nicht da, deshalb gibts erst jetzt den Newsletter für diese Woche.

Drama of the Week: Triple Word Score
Original British Dramatists. Scottish Ghanaian writer Ben Tagoe's first play for radio is a warm-hearted drama set in the high octane world of competitive Scrabble in Nigeria. :download:


Saturday 13th June

This Sporting Life
Radio 4 14:30 Beautiful, repressed northern drama, juxtaposing the trapped wants and needs of protagonist Arthur Machin with the stark aggression of the rugby pitch. Directed by Johnny Vegas.

From Fact to Fiction 3/8
Radio 4 19:00 From Fact to Fiction 3/8
A Day Off
From Fact to Fiction, Series 18 Episode 3 of 8
Listen in pop-out player
A dramatic response to a topical news story.

Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset: Propose, Propose 2/4
Radio 4 21:00 Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset: Propose, Propose 2/4
by Anthony Trollope
dramatised by Nick Warburton
Part 2: Propose Propose
Lily's past returns to haunt her, Grace has a difficult letter to write, Johnny makes a new friend and Mr Toogood begins to live up to his name.
Music composed by David Tobin, Jeff Meegan and Julian Gallant
Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow
This is the final book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles and many of the characters from both "The Small House at Allington" and "Framley Parsonage" return to finish his story of Barsetshire life set between 1855 and 1867. These 4 episodes focus in part on the story of the proud but impoverished vicar of Hogglestock, Josiah Crawley and the accusation that he has stolen and cashed a cheque. The whole of Barset has an opinion about Crawley's guilt or innocence, but no-one is more affected by it than Archdeacon Grantly's son, Henry, who has fallen in love with Crawley's daughter, Grace. Meanwhile, Johnny Eames has returned to try for the hand of Lily Dale, who is still devastated by the betrayal of her amoral fiance, Adolphus Crosbie. Happily, Mrs Baxter returns to tell the tale and give her inimitable opinion on events.
Maggie Steed plays Mrs Baxter and is joined by Adam Kotz, Tim Pigott-Smith, Samuel Barnett and Scarlett Alice Johnson.
The Barchester Chronicles is Anthony Trollope's much-loved series of witty, gently satirical stories of provincial life set within the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and the surrounding county of Barsetshire. With a focus on the lives, loves and tribulations of the local clergy and rural gentry, the canvas is broad and colourful, with a wonderful set of iconic characters whose lives we become intimately involved in as they grow up, grow old and fall in or out of love and friendship across the years.


Sunday 14th June

Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset: Dogged
Radio 4 15:00 Maggie Steed, Adam Kotz and Scarlet Alice Johnson star in Anthony Trollope's Last Chronicle of Barset dramatised by Nick Warburton A brickmaker has something to teach the vicar. 3/4

Napoleon Rising
Radio 3 22:00 Napoleon's meteoric rise in the early years of the French revolution, set against his tumultuous relationship with Josephine. Written by Anthony Burgess, adapted by Anjum Malik.


Monday 15th June

Cyrano de Bergerac
Radio 4 10:45 Mon - Fri Cyrano de Bergerac, Swordsman, Philosopher, Poet, has one huge problem that's as plain as the nose on his face. Poet Glyn Maxwell's adaptation stars Tom Burke.

Home Front Season 4
Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri Epic drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. The Graham household is in chaos and certainly not prepared for any visitors.

Foursome
Radio 4 14:15 Beginning with the end and moving backwards though time, Simon Crowther's funny and heart-warming drama is about two couple's friendship over four decades. Starring Eve Myles.


Tuesday 16th June

Aliyah
Radio 4 14:15 When her son becomes obsessed with Judaism and disappears, Rosa, along with her elderly father, is forced to make a journey to Jerusalem. An affecting drama about family and faith.


Wednesday 17th June

Waterloo: The Ball at Brussels
Radio 4 14:15 Brussels, June 1815. The Duchess of Richmond wants to host a ball. The Duke of Wellington, confident that time is on their side, concurs. He is wrong. Simon Paisley Day and Stephen Greif star.


Thursday 18th June

The Len Continuum
Radio 4 14:15 Acclaimed British filmmaker Peter Strickland’s first radio drama. Failing actor Len happens on a chance to prove himself. Surreal soundscapes and black humour starring Toby Jones.


Friday 19th June

Two Minutes Hate
Radio 4 14:15 Implicated in a child murder but released from prison, Jennifer now has a new identity. But at least one newspaper is determined to find out where she lives.

Home Front Omnibus
Radio 4 21:00 Omnibus edition of the epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years ago this week. The Graham household is in chaos and not expecting visitors.

Drama of the Week: Aliyah
When her son becomes obsessed with Judaism and disappears, Rosa, along with her elderly father, is forced to make a journey to Jerusalem. An affecting drama about family and faith.
:download:


Saturday 20th June

Born in the DDR
Radio 4 14:30 Mark Heap and Bryan Dick star in the madcap and improbable true story of how the Stasi licensed a Bruce Springsteen gig in East Berlin, and started something they couldn't stop.

From Fact to Fiction 4/8
Radio 4 19:00 From Fact to Fiction 4/8
Meera Syal's drama has been created in the week that new ground has been broken with a Judge in the Family Court taking the decision to lift reporting restrictions and allow his judgements to be released into the public domain. The lid has now been lifted and with this in mind Meera tells the story of a woman who is about to face a final custody hearing. How would you feel if you thought you might lose your child?
Produced and Directed By Tracey Neale.


Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicles of Barset: Dogged 3/4
Radio 4 21:00 Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicles of Barset: Dogged 3/4
by Anthony Trollope
dramatised by Nick Warburton
Part 3: Dogged
Johnny traverses Europe trying to save Mr Crawley, who has a revelation in the rain. Meanwhile, Archdeacon Grantly is having trouble with his temper.
Music composed by David Tobin, Jeff Meegan and Julian Gallant
Directed and Produced by Marion Nancarrow
This is the final book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles and many of the characters from both "The Small House at Allington" and "Framley Parsonage" return to finish his story of Barsetshire life set between 1855 and 1867. These 4 episodes focus in part on the story of the proud but impoverished vicar of Hogglestock, Josiah Crawley and the accusation that he has stolen and cashed a cheque. The whole of Barset has an opinion about Crawley's guilt or innocence, but no-one is more affected by it than Archdeacon Grantly's son, Henry, who has fallen in love with Crawley's daughter, Grace. Meanwhile, Johnny Eames has returned to try for the hand of Lily Dale, who is still devastated by the betrayal of her amoral fiance, Adolphus Crosbie. Happily, Mrs Baxter returns to tell the tale and give her inimitable opinion on events.
Maggie Steed plays Mrs Baxter and is joined by Adam Kotz, Tim Pigott-Smith, Samuel Barnett and Scarlett Alice Johnson.
The Barchester Chronicles is Anthony Trollope's much-loved series of witty, gently satirical stories of provincial life set within the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and the surrounding county of Barsetshire. With a focus on the lives, loves and tribulations of the local clergy and rural gentry, the canvas is broad and colourful, with a wonderful set of iconic characters whose lives we become intimately involved in as they grow up, grow old and fall in or out of love and friendship across the years.


Sunday 21st June

Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset: All the Work of His Life
Radio 4 15:00 Maggie Steed, Tim Pigott-Smith and Adam Kotz star in the final episode of Anthony Trollope's Last Chronicle of Barset dramatised by Nick Warburton. 4/4

The Father
Radio 3 22:00 August Strindberg's explosive play from 1890 about suspicion, adultery and the disintegration of a marriage, in a powerful new version by Laurie Slade.


Monday 22nd June

The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles
Radio 4 10:45 Mon - Fri Return of award winning drama series, an illuminating and quirky exploration of the challenges and aspirations of a young couple with learning disabilities. Inspired by true stories.

Home Front Season 4
Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri Epic drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. Howard makes an awkward discovery.

Hashtag Humfrey Coningsby
Radio 4 14:15 A Shropshire gent from the 1500s finds himself time-travelling to the Syrian border of Turkey in 2015 where he is in love and also involuntarily tweeting. By Jonathan Davidson.


Tuesday 23rd June

McLevy: The Blue Gown
Radio 4 14:15 New four-part series of Victorian detective mysteries starring Brian Cox. Written by David Ashton. Episode 1: The Blue Gown. McLevy investigates the death of a seamstress. 1/4


Wednesday 24th June

McLevy: Flesh and Blood
Radio 4 14:15 Victorian detective mystery starring Brian Cox and Siobhan Redmond. Written by David Ashton. Episode 2: Flesh And Blood. A student is accused of murder after a tavern brawl. 2/4


Thursday 25th June

McLevy: A Fine Description
Radio 4 14:15 Victorian detective series starring Brian Cox and Siobhan Redmond. Episode 3: A Fine Deception. A stage magician arrives in Edinburgh just before a jewel robbery. 3/4


Friday 26th June

McLevy: The Last Illusion
Radio 4 14:15 Victorian detective mystery starring Brian Cox and Siobhan Redmond. Episode 4: The Last Illusion. McLevy sets out to prove a celebrated stage magician is a jewel thief. 4/4

Home Front Omnibus
Radio 4 21:00 Omnibus edition of the epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years ago this week. A week rich in secrets and lies.

DL Link für Aliya nachgetragen.

Drama of the Week: Born in the DDR
Mark Heap and Bryan Dick star in the madcap and improbable true story of how the Stasi licensed a Bruce Springsteen gig in East Berlin, and started something they couldn't stop. :download:

Saturday 27th June

If I Should Go Away
Radio 4 14:30 Welsh Second World War poet Alun Lewis was born hundred years ago. Owen Sheers' play, adapted from Lewis's own work, reveals how casualties of war are emotional as much as physical.

From Fact to Fiction 5/8
Radio 4 19:00 From Fact to Fiction 5/8
From Fact to Fiction
The award-winning series in which writers create a fictional response to the week's news.
This week, Julia Pascal's drama is inspired by the Charleston Church Elder who compared the tragic shooting at his church to the devil trying to take charge.
Escaping from an argument at home, Loren seeks refuge in her church. Here she meets an enigmatic young man who has an interesting proposal for her.
Revelations by Julia Pascal
With additional choir members Ibianga Evans, Emma Belfield and Kathryn Woods.
Directed by Charlotte Riches

Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicles of Barset: All the Work of His Life 4/4
Radio 4 21:00 Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicles of Barset: All the Work of His Life 4/4
by Anthony Trollope
Dramatised by Nick Warburton
Part 4: All the Work of His Life
Johnny's travel abroad brings him an unexpected new friend and an answer to Mr Crawley's dilemma, but what repercussions will it have in Barsetshire?
Other parts played by members of the series cast
Music composed by David Tobin, Jeff Meegan and Julian Gallant.
Directed and Produced by Marion Nancarrow
This is the final book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles and many of the characters from both "The Small House at Allington" and "Framley Parsonage" return to finish his story of Barsetshire life set between 1855 and 1867. These 4 episodes focus in part on the story of the proud but impoverished vicar of Hogglestock, Josiah Crawley and the accusation that he has stolen and cashed a cheque. The whole of Barset has an opinion about Crawley's guilt or innocence, but no-one is more affected by it than Archdeacon Grantly's son, Henry, who has fallen in love with Crawley's daughter, Grace. Meanwhile, Johnny Eames has returned to try for the hand of Lily Dale, who is still devastated by the betrayal of her amoral fiance, Adolphus Crosbie. Happily, Mrs Baxter returns to tell the tale and give her inimitable opinion on events.
Maggie Steed plays Mrs Baxter and is joined by Adam Kotz, Tim Pigott-Smith, Samuel Barnett and Scarlett Alice Johnson.
The Barchester Chronicles is Anthony Trollope's much-loved series of witty, gently satirical stories of provincial life set within the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and the surrounding county of Barsetshire. With a focus on the lives, loves and tribulations of the local clergy and rural gentry, the canvas is broad and colourful, with a wonderful set of iconic characters whose lives we become intimately involved in as they grow up, grow old and fall in or out of love and friendship across the years.


Sunday 28th June

The Stuarts: William III and Mary II: To Have and To Hold
Radio 4 15:00 Mike Walker's epic chronicle considers the young William of Orange and his strategic marriage to James II's daughter, Mary Stuart. With Mark Edel-Hunt and Elaine Cassidy.

Bretton Woods
Radio 3 22:00 In July 1944, bankers from forty countries met to sort the global economy. With Simon Callow as John Maynard Keynes and Henry Goodman as Harry Dexter White. By Steve Waters.


Monday 29th June

Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City: Significant Others
Radio 4 10:45 Mon - Fri Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series continues with Lin Coghlan's dramatisation of Significant Others. San Francisco in the '80s. Mrs Madrigal and her children are back.

Home Front Season 4
Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri Epic drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. Kitty puts herself in danger for the man she loves.

Road to St Davids
Radio 4 14:15 The colourful celebrations of ancient myths at this year’s St. David’s Day festival are the setting for a touching story of two pilgrims seeking help from the city’s two saints.


Tuesday 30th June

A World Elsewhere
Radio 4 14:15 Like many Glasgow teenagers Rida argues with her mum and stresses about exams. But as a young Muslim the escape that she dreams of online contains danger she has yet to imagine.


Wednesday 1st July

The Silence at the Song's End
Radio 4 14:15 After the death of her son Nicholas Heiney, Libby Purves discovered in his room his poems and journals - his life in words. She set about transcribing them for radio.


Thursday 2nd July

Snake Oil
Radio 4 14:15 When Jim is faced with a life-threatening diagnosis he starts to investigate alternative cures and remedies to assist his recovery. But is Jim in danger of taking things too far?


Friday 3rd July

Rumpole and the Portia of our Chambers
Radio 4 14:15 The return of Benedict Cumberbatch in the first of a new series of four Rumpole stories. As we join him in Chambers, he is still clearly smitten by his pupil Phillida.

Home Front Omnibus
Radio 4 21:00 Omnibus edition of the epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years ago this week. Canadian Troops celebrated Dominion Day and a long awaited reunion is planned.

Drama of the Week: A World Elsewhere
Like many Glasgow teenagers Rida argues with her mum and stresses about exams. But as a young Muslim the escape that she dreams of online contains danger she has yet to imagine. :download:

Saturday 4th July

The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Radio 4 14:30 Based on music by Madness. With Suggs, Vincent Ebrahim and Pooja Ghai. By Mark Davies Markham.

From Fact to Fiction 6/8
Radio 4 19:00 From Fact to Fiction 6/8
Poet Glyn Maxwell responds to the Greek debt crisis. To complement Radio Four's News and Current Affairs output, our weekly series presents a dramatic response to a major story from the week's news. The form and content are entirely lead by the news topic - so drama comes in many guises, as well as poetry and prose.
Directed by Toby Swift
Produced by Emma Harding.

The Stuarts: William III and Mary II: To Have and To Hold
Radio 4 21:00 The Stuarts: William III and Mary II: To Have and To Hold
Mike Walker's epic chronicle considers the early years of William of Orange and his marriage to James II's daughter, Mary Stuart. By marrying his English cousin, Dutch William looks to cement an alliance between the two countries and halt Louis XIV's land-grabbing march across Europe. Neither partnership gets off to an auspicious start.
Harpsichord played by Peter Ringrose
Director - Gemma Jenkins.


Sunday 5th July

The Stuarts: Queen Ann: Myself Alone
Radio 4 15:00 Fenella Woolgar is Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, in Mike Walker's epic chronicle. If Anne is to command the loyalty of parliament she must abandon long-held allegiances.

Scribblers
Radio 3 22:00 Stage versus state as satirical dramatist Henry Fielding pits himself against First Minister Robert Walpole. With David Troughton, Carl Prekopp and Niamh Cusack. By Steve Waters.


Monday 6th July

Dead Clever
Radio 4 10:45 Mon - Fri Val McDermid's second comedy crime drama series. Alma Blair (Julie Hesmondhalgh) investigates who 'offed the Prof' at the University.

Home Front Season 4
Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri Epic drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. Victor prepares for a meeting he only ever dreamed about before.

Another Life
Radio 4 14:15 Two strangers bump into each other in the supermarket. It's a meeting that will mark both their lives in unexpected places and ways. With Stephen Tompkinson and Natasha Little.


Tuesday 7th July

Second Body
Radio 4 14:15 Tara Fitzgerald plays Anna, a painter caught in a world of lucid dreaming. BAFTA winning writer Trevor Preston's dark thriller journeys into the psyche of an artist on the edge.


Wednesday 8th July

Curious Under the Stars
Radio 4 14:15 First in a new series by Meic Povey. When Gareth and Diane's marriage falters, the couple uproot from London and buy a dilapidated pub in the idyllic Welsh village of Glan Don. 1/3


Thursday 9th July

The Dad who Fell to Earth
Radio 4 14:15 Comedy drama about a man who believes his recently deceased dad was secretly an alien. Starring Ronald Pickup. Written by Toby Hadoke.


Friday 10th July

Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation
Radio 4 14:15 Rumpole defends a tabloid editor accused of libeling a respected author. Rumpole’s refusal to settle out of court leads to the discovery of a plot. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

Home Front Omnibus
Radio 4 21:00 Omnibus edition of this week's episodes. Soldiers home on leave find home so different to the one they thought they were fighting for.

Schnell noch den Newsletter posten, bevor das erste Hörspiel startet.

Drama of the Week: The Stuarts: Queen Anne: Myself Alone
Fenella Woolgar is Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, in Mike Walker's epic chronicle. If Anne is to command the loyalty of parliament she must abandon long-held allegiances. :download:


Saturday 11th July

The Stuarts: Bonnie Prince Charlie: Who Dares To Be Free
Radio 4 14:30 Mike Walker's epic chronicle considers Charles Edward Stuart, latterly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, the great romantic figure of heroic failure. With Blake Ritson.

From Fact to Fiction 7/8
Radio 4 19:00 From Fact to Fiction 7/8
To complement Radio Four's News and Current Affairs output, our weekly series presents a dramatic response to a major story from the week's news. The form and content are entirely lead by the news topic - so drama can come in many guises, as well as poetry and prose.
Reflecting Budget Week, novelist Naomi Alderman takes us to an imagined land, full of pyramids, where The Ruler pays court to The Employer on the eve of the Citadel's new accounts. He's come to discuss 'The Minimum Grain'.
Reader Tracy-Ann Oberman
Producer Duncan Minshull.

The Stuarts: Queen Ann: Myself Alone
Radio 4 21:00 The Stuarts: Queen Ann: Myself Alone
Mike Walker's epic chronicle of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch. Everything changed when William of Orange at the head of the Dutch army landed in England and James II fled to France. England is now on the path towards constitutional monarchy and in this new climate, Queen Anne must abandon long-held and cherished allegiances if she is to command the loyalty of rebellious Whigs and Tories and rule with authority.
Director - Gemma Jenkins.


Sunday 12th July

The Stuarts: Charlotte Stuart: The Last Stuart
Radio 4 15:00 Is Charlotte Stuart, illegitimate daughter of Bonnie Prince Charlie as ruthlessly driven as her Stuart predecessors? Or is she the final tragic victim of the Stuart curse?

King Charles III
Radio 3 22:00 Tim Pigott-Smith stars in Mike Bartlett's Olivier Award-winning play. A radio version of Rupert Goold's production seen at the Almeida Theatre in the West End, and soon on Broadway.


Monday 13th July

Appiness
Radio 4 10:45 Mon - Fri Katy Wix, Karl Theobald, Colin Hoult, Harry Hadden-Paton and Clive Anderson head up this comedy about a dating app which lets you swipe from one partner to another - instantly.

Home Front Season 4
Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri Epic drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. A wartime celebrity makes an unexpected appearance in Folkestone.

The Flea
Radio 4 14:15 The Flea, starring Toby Jones as the insect and Conrad Nelson as the poet, based on the intoxicating poetry and turbulent life of the young John Donne, by Michael Symmons Roberts.


Tuesday 14th July

Tony and Rose
Radio 4 14:15 The touching story of a man coming to terms with the illness of his widowed mother Rose, who has dementia.


Wednesday 15th July

Curious Under the Stars
Radio 4 14:15 As Gareth and Diane attempt to launch a new menu at The Druid's Rest, something is lurking in the sea mist. By Annamaria Murphy. 2/3


Thursday 16th July

Heading to Paradise
Radio 4 14:15 The stories of some of the victims of Flight MH17, shot down over the Ukraine one year ago. Joe Caffrey, Philip Franks and Tracy Wiles star in David Morley's factual drama.


Friday 17th July

Rumpole and the Age of Miracles
Radio 4 14:15 Hilda’s distant relation Rev. Donkin looks set to be defrocked unless Rumpole can convince an ecclesiastical court that adultery did not take place. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch.


Home Front Omnibus
Radio 4 21:00 The last omnibus edition of this season set in Great War Britain a hundred years ago this week. A wartime celebrity makes an unexpected visit to Folkestone.

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Drama of the Week: Appiness
Katy Wix, Karl Theobald, Colin Hoult, Harry Hadden-Paton and Clive Anderson head up this comedy about a dating app which lets you swipe from one partner to another - instantly. :download:

Saturday 18th July

Air-Force One
Radio 4 14:30 Martin Jarvis directs an American star-cast in Christopher Lee's powerful drama. What really happened in the hospital and aboard the Presidential jet after JFK's assassination?

From Fact to Fiction 8/8
Radio 4 19:00 From Fact to Fiction 8/8
To complement Radio Four's News and Current Affairs output, our weekly series presents a dramatic response to a major story from the week's news. The form and content are entirely lead by the news topic - so drama can come in many guises, as well as poetry and prose. This week author Ryan Craig responds to a story in the week's news.

The Stuarts: Charlotte Stuart: The Last Stuart
Radio 4 21:00 The Stuarts: Charlotte Stuart: The Last Stuart
By Mike Walker
At the age of 31, Charlotte Stuart left behind three children and a protector to live with her estranged father Charles Edward Stuart, a hopeless alcoholic who had abused her mother, refused to acknowledge her and whom she had not seen since she was seven. What was it that Charlotte wanted that led her to sacrifice so much? Or had she fallen victim to the curse of the Stuarts, a curse that had plagued the dynasty since Mary Queen of Scots, and had now sought out its latest and final victim? With Kate O'Flynn, David Troughton and Tim McMullen.
Director - Sasha Yevtushenko.


Sunday 19th July

Tender is the Night: A Romance
Radio 4 15:00 Young film actress Rosemary Hoyt arrives in the Riviera circle of golden couple Dick and Nicole Diver. But she can understand little of the dark secrets that hold them together. 1/2

The Provok'd Wife
Radio 3 22:00 John Vanbrugh's Restoration Comedy is a joyous romp through the destruction of a marriage and the promise of true love. Julian Rhind-Tutt stars as confirmed bachelor Heartfree.


Monday 20th July

Rachel's Cousins
Radio 4 10:45 Mon - Fri Tamara Kennedy plays a Glasgow lawyer who arrives at a police station to represent three drunken women - and discovers they share the BRCA2 cancer gene. By Ann Marie Di Mambro.

The Gold Killing
Radio 4 14:15 Robert Glenister stars in the first half of Paul Sellar's thriller of greed, fear and fraud on Ghana's gold coast. When Joe Stein invests Russian money in a goldmine he sets off a series of murders. 1/2


Tuesday 21st July

The Gold Killing
Radio 4 14:15 Robert Glenister stars in the second half of Paul Sellar's thriller of greed, fear and fraud on Ghana's gold coast. When Joe Stein invests mafia money in a goldmine he sets off a series of murders. 2/2


Wednesday 22nd July

Curious Under the Stars
Radio 4 14:15 When a violent storm brings down the Great Oak of Glan Don, legend suggests the survival of the village is threatened. By Meic Povey. 3/3


Thursday 23rd July

Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear
Radio 4 14:15 Alistair McGowan's witty and poignant drama about composer Erik Satie and the three key relationships in his life. Starring Alistair McGowan, Nathaniel Parker and Imogen Stubbs.


Friday 24th July

Rumpole and the Tap End
Radio 4 14:15 Rumpole defends Tony Timson, a man charged with the attempted drowning of his wife while sharing a bath with her. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch. 4/4