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Drama on 3 Episodes

  1. The Art of Love

    In a dramatisation, Roman poet Ovid describes the themes in his poem 'Transformations'.

  2. Duino Elegies

    Rainer Maria Rilke's poetic masterpiece with original music by Erland Cooper.

  3. The Defectors

    Drama-documentary inspired by the defection of North Korea's Deputy Ambassador to the UK.

  4. Hamlet

    A restored production of Shakespeare's play with Ronald Pickup, first broadcast in 1971.

  5. Messiaen and the Birds

    Poet Michael Symmons Roberts explores composer Olivier Messiaen's obsession with birdsong.

  6. The Dead

    Epiphanies at a Twelfth Night party in Dublin. By James Joyce. Read by Jonathan Forbes.

  7. Guys and Dolls at Christmas

    Two seasonal tales from Guys and Dolls writer Damon Runyon, performed by Jamie Parker.

  8. Gershwin & Miss Swift

    The extraordinary true story of composer Kay Swift and her affair with George Gershwin.

  9. War with the Newts

    By Ed Harris adapted from Karel 膶apek鈥檚 1936 novel. With Do帽a Croll and Laura Elphinstone.

  10. Different Truths

    Two satirical and macabre short plays by Swiss playwright Friedrich D眉rrenmatt.

  11. Star

    Drama about Judy Garland, Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin and the making of A Star Is Born.

  12. From Morning to Midnight

    Georg Kaiser鈥檚 banned 1912 expressionist drama in a new modern translation and adaptation.

  13. Love and Information

    The first audio production of Caryl Churchill's thrilling kaleidoscope of human behaviour.

  14. Kenny Morgan

    Kenny Morgan by Mike Poulton, inspired by Terence Rattigan鈥檚 play The Deep Blue Sea.

  15. Jubilee!

    Jubilee! 1871, USA. A choir of ex-slaves save a university & bring spirituals to the world

  16. Calmer

    A gripping drama about motherhood and chaos by Lolita Chakrabarti, starring Meera Syal.

  17. The Tragedy of Macbeth

    First broadcast in 1971, the first stereo production of Macbeth, starring Joss Ackland.

  18. Cymbeline

    Lovers are tested in a Britain alienated from the rest of Europe, ruled by a weak leader.

  19. Henry V

    Hal has to prove he has what it takes to be King as he lays claim to the throne of France.

  20. When We Dead Awaken

    Ibsen's final, beautiful, visionary play about art and ambition. With Ian McDiarmid.

  21. Inspired by Hamlet: The Al-Hamlet Summit

    Powerful reimagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet, set in a modern Arab state.

  22. Dog in the Manger

    Lope de Vega's Spanish Golden Age comedy, starring Olivia Poulet and Joe Thomas.

  23. The Farewell Glacier

    A poetic journey through time and the Arctic, looking at climate change.

  24. Under Milk Woods

    For the 70th anniversary of Under Milk Wood, five short drama portraits of Wales in 2024.

  25. Bacon in Moscow

    Francis Bacon鈥檚 ground-breaking 1988 exhibition in the USSR. With Timothy Spall

  26. All I Was When I Wasn't Anyone

    A new play by Owen Sheers about the poet Fernando Pessoa. Recorded on location in Porto.

  27. The Spanish Tragedy

    Bold new audio drama of Thomas Kyd's bloody Elizabethan revenge play for Radio 3.

  28. Inspired by Hamlet: Hamlette

    A radical re-imagining of Shakespeare. Harriet considers how to avenge her sister's rape.

  29. Inspired by Hamlet: Hamlet Noir

    Shakespeare鈥檚 timeless tragedy takes on a thrilling Scandi-Noir twist.

  30. Emperor and Galilean. Part 2: Emperor Julian

    Ibsen's epic play about Roman Emperor Julian's failed attempt to abolish Christianity.

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