Drama on 4 Episodes Episode guide
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Humanly Possible
Sarah Daniels's play follows two babies through a day in a neonatal intensive care unit.
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A Bridge to the Stars
Henning Mankell's tale of an imaginative boy growing up in an icy northern Swedish town.
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The Orchestra
Improvised play based on real life interviews about the working life of an orchestra.
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The Target Audience
By Igor Simonov. A Russian oil billionaire gets grilled on TV.
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Circus Train
Margarita Sharapova's tale of travelling across Russia as a circus performer.
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Gift
A father and son are dealt a serious blow in Philip Palmer's drama about medical ethics.
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SE8
By Janice Okoh. A teenager is shot in a nightclub and no-one will talk to the police.
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Alex Shearer - The Diabolical Gourmet
Can executioner Ameline outwit France's gourmet murderer in 1790s Paris?
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Ed Harris - Troll
Olivia finds a troll under her mother's kitchen sink. A troll to whom she made a promise.
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The Reluctant Millionaire
While facing bankruptcy, hairdresser Annie Marriott finds a winning lottery ticket.
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A Chaos of Wealth and Want
By Penny Gold. In 1850s London Henry Mayhew befriends a homeless young man.
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Gerontius
Stephen Wyatt's play explores why Cardinal Newman and another priest were buried together.
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Betsy Coleman
By Katie Hims. Betsy goes on a surprise journey through her tragic past.
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Mr Anwar's Farewell to Stornoway
Contemporary drama of exile and belonging by Iain Finlay MacLeod.
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Badfellas
Comedy drama by Andy Lynch. Two wheeler-dealer brothers get into trouble in Las Vegas.
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Boom Boom
By Emily Steel. A car crash. A middle-aged woman falls for a teen. What's the connection?
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The Art of Balance
Modern fable by Rachel Joyce, featuring two women and a tightrope in an empty field.
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Black and White Riot
By Edson Burton, set in the 1980 St Paul's Riots in Bristol.
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Bell in the Ball
A blinded man tries to come to terms with his disability by joining a blind cricket team.
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I Am I Said
By Paul Mendelson. After a stroke a proud Scotsman starts speaking with an English accent.
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Shelagh Delaney - Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life
Rose's rural peace is shattered when her former sister-in-law pays a visit.
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Adam Ganz - Nuclear Reactions
After the Second World War, Germany's top nuclear physicists were brought to England.
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Philip and Sydney
By Alan Pollock. Philip Larkin and his father holiday in Germany in 1937.
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High Hopes
By Rob Kinsman. As a child, Charlie was kidnapped. He's been a disappointment ever since.
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Gary Brown - Prospero, Ariel, Reith and Gill
Comedy by Gary Brown about artist Eric Gill's clash with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ over his famous sculpture
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The Last Witch Trial
By Melissa Murray. A love story woven around real, unusual, events that took place in 1944
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Six Impossible Things
By Glen Neath. Police suspect that a violent robber is a victim of mind control.
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Norman Birkett and the Case of the Coleford Poisoner
By Caroline and David Stafford. Birkett defends a woman accused of murdering her husband.
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Waves Breaking on a Shore, part 2
By Michael Eaton and Neil Brand. Cohen and Cohan are faced with an unexpected reality.