Drama on 4 Episodes Episode guide
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Leaving (Part 1)
A darkly funny family drama about love, loss and legacy.
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A Forbidden Song
A story of forbidden love and forbidden music, with songs for the Ukrainian bandura.
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Twelfth Night (Part 2)
Shakespeare's wonderful comedy of mistaken identities and unrequited love.
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Twelfth Night (Part 1)
Shakespeare's wonderful comedy of mistaken identities and unrequited love.
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We Should Definitely Have More Dancing
A woman with a fist in her head.
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The Lion
News of an escaped lion turns the lives of the residents of an Estonian town upside down.
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Word Scrubs
Siblings Mitch and Meg disagree over their great-great aunt's literary legacy.
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Plane Speaking
An aircraft's black box flight recorder investigates the cause of an airplane crash.
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The Voice in My Ear
Charlotte Riley stars in a real-time drama about a romantic weekend away thrown off course
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Wild Woman of the North
A family tries to get back to a simpler way of life.
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The Song of the Cossacks
The story of how Britain sent thousands of Cossacks to Stalin and certain death in 1945.
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7 Ghosts
A modern ghost story about historic injustice, love and how to haunt a house.
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Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Psychological thriller about a young man radicalised by religious fervour.
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Tinsel Girl and the Problem Parent
Comedy drama about wheelchair user Maz, starring and inspired by Cherylee Houston.
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Hindsight
Powerful drama about memory, trauma and the possibility of recovery.
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Bess Loves Porgy (Part 2)
A musical love story for today inspired by Edwin DuBose Heyward's iconic Porgy.
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Bess Loves Porgy (Part 1)
A musical love story for today, inspired by Edwin DuBose Heyward's iconic Porgy.
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Georges - Episode 2
Concluding part of Dumas' most personal novel.
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Maydays. Part 3: Human Dust
David Edgar’s powerful drama exploring idealism and revolutionary politics concludes.
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Maydays. Part 2: Kronstadt
David Edgar’s powerful drama exploring idealism and revolutionary politics.
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Maydays. Part 1: New Jerusalem
David Edgar’s powerful drama exploring idealism and revolutionary politics.
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Georges - Episode 1
A swashbuckling epic that tackles racism head on.
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Voices from the End of the World
Lucy Catherine's drama-documentary about travelling to the Arctic on a barquentine ship.
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The Bronze Horseman
Alexander Pushkin's poem The Bronze Horseman dramatised by Michael Symmons Roberts.
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Gaslight
New drama. A reimagining of the classic stage thriller, featuring music by Imelda May.
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The Golden Key
Chris Dolan’s play explores the early days of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Rule movement in Scotland.
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Happy Birthday Mr President
The drama behind one of the most famous birthday parties in history.
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Yentl the Yeshiva Boy
Isaac Bashevis Singer's famous short story
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Danger 2023
Danger 2023 by Michael Symmons Roberts, to mark the centenary of the first radio drama.
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50 Berkeley Square
London’s most haunted house prepares to give up its secrets.