Drama on 4 Episodes Episode guide
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Rani Moorthy - Curry Tales
Four cooks share their secrets for making curry.
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Abel's Law
Hugh Costello's play is based on the story of Abel Ryder, an Oxfordshire shopkeeper.
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05/05/2005
John Peacock's adaptation of Richard Hull's novel, written in the 1930s.
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Jump
Alexis Zegerman's drama is inspired by Antony Gormley's exhibition at the Hayward Gallery.
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30/12/2005
By Nicholas McInerny. Jennifer discovers a great deal about her deceased distant relative.
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A Man Cut in Slices
By Adrian Penketh. Paul Tate is unwittingly cast as the symbol of Londoners' defiance.
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Brought to Book
By Joan Bakewell. The chair of a book prize committee strives to maintain her high ideals.
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Smoke and Mirrors
Paul B Davies's black comedy is based on fact. A magician is confronted by his Nazi past.
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One Foot in the Cuckoo's Nest
By Ian Macpherson and Magi Gibson. The comfortable lives of two reporters are shattered.
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Looking for Dad
By Michael Butt. A man's attempts at reconciliation with his father are threatened.
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Clear Air Turbulence
By Dana Fainaru. Mel's idyllic life is turned upside-down when she suddenly stops sleeping
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How Not to Run a Foreign Policy
Political comedy by John Fletcher, set in 1937. Neville Chamberlain employs a spin doctor.
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Jane and Tom: The Real Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Lewis's play is based on letters sent by Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra.
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Jack's Love
By Michael Hastings. Duncan views his teenage son Jack as a loser, but who is to blame?
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Excluded
By Michael Stewart. A head sends all his bad pupils on a field trip during inspection week
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Keep Your Pantheon
David Mamet's comedy of ancient Roman manners, featuring an impoverished theatrical troupe
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The Laughter of Stafford Girls' High
Carol Ann Duffy's amazing and erotic poem tells a story of love and hysterical laughter.
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Red in Tooth and Claw
By Simon Bovey. When young Dan finds the body of a dead sheep he sets out on a tragic path
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The Veldt
Adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic story about a playroom with special powers.
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Well, That's One Way of Looking at It
Brenda Gilhooly's comedy of self-deception involving a wife, a husband and his mistress.
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In Afghanistan - Poppy Seeds
An aid worker in Afghanistan takes a fresh approach to dealing with the opium trade.
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The Singing Butler
Dramatisation of the story behind Jack Vettriano's famous painting.
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Henry's Girls
Alan Stafford's reconstruction of the 1689 premiere of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
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The Ugly American
An American student in London falls into shady fringe theatre and a shadier love affair.
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Dave the Dead Lefty
Dave the Dead Lefty: By Mervyn Stutter. A 1970s theatre group are reunited at a funeral.
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Violence and the Big Male Voice
Violence and the Big Male Voice: Gwyn Thomas's comic tale of passion and ballroom dancing.
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The Alibi
Vanessa Rosenthal's dramatisation, based on Daphne du Maurier's short story.
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Getting the Joke
Getting the Joke: Neil Brand's play is based on seaside postcard artist Donald McGill.
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The Master and Mrs Tucker
The Master and Mrs Tucker: By Roy Apps, based on Noel Coward and Edith Nesbit.
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Nothing Happened
Nothing Happened: Romantic comedy by Shelley Silas and Luke Sorba.