Drama on 4 Episodes Episode guide
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Chris Harrald - Mr Larkin's Awkward Day
One morning in September 1957, Philip Larkin receives a very official looking letter.
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Dear Writer
By Jane Rogers. A charming play about a writer suffering from writer's block.
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Fifteen Ways to Leave Your Lover
Comedy by Carolyn Scott-Jeffs about a couple who can neither live together nor apart.
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Hudson and Pepperdine Save the Planet
Comedy about climate change and how to combat it.
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Grace
Grace, a champion of atheism, is faced with the decision of son Tom to become a priest.
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Judith Adams - I Believe I Have Genius
What happened when Charlotte Bronte headed to Brussels to study at a girls' school.
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Baguettes and Barms
Comedy by Christine Marshall. Volunteer worker Anne is organising a party for her husband.
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Tiny Chaos
By Lizzie Nunnery. Alison was born with hugely limited movement and responses.
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Good Evening
How Oxbridge men Bennett, Cook, Miller and Moore changed the face of British comedy.
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Tarzan of the Antirrhinums
Comedy by Lavinia Murray. Tarzan attempts to save a garden centre from financial ruin.
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Hard Frosts in Florence
By David Pownall, specially written for Paul Scofield. Michelangelo returns to Florence.
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Daybreak
By Tom Ray. A week after his wife leaves him, a man discovers an extraordinary secret.
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The Walrus and the Terrier
By Christopher Ralling. James Cameron visited Albert Schweitzer in Gabon in 1953.
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Out of Season
By Anne-Marie O'Connor. Four Blackpool residents seek refuge in an empty promenade cafe.
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Peter Souter - Goldfish Girl
After ten years, Joe clearly remembers everything about Ally, but she recalls nothing.
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Unpredicted
By Annie McCartney. An Ulster politician's family begin receiving anonymous messages.
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Cavalry
By Dan Rebellato. Four men are preparing for battle, but which one?
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The Death of Magnus Sweet
By Alastair Jessiman. Two Scottish public school boys invent a fictitious fellow classmate
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The Fall
By Clare Duffy. When Angela gets pregnant, she tries to trace her mother who abandoned her
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Lost in Plain Sight
By Donna Franceschild. Emails promising to change a teenager's life get strangely personal
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Fair Play
Tove Jansson's series of vignettes depicting the love between two older women.
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Mrs Mabb
Venetia must win back the charismatic Captain Fox from the amazing Mrs Mabb.
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Things to Do before You Die
By Tom Dalton Bidwell. 15-year-old David is given the chance to have a dying wish granted.
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Bearing the Cross
Ken Blakeson's story of three soldiers who fought in the Battle of Rorke's Drift.
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Investigating Mr Thomas
By Rob Gittins. Dylan Thomas sued Time magazine over an article about him in 1953.
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Needle
By Christina Balit. Women of Canterbury create the Bayeux Tapestry for the Normans.