A special show on alternatives to prison for some female offenders. Presenter Jane Garvey. Saturday Drama Episode guide
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Suspicion for 10 Voices
Composer Will Byrd is charged with coding papist messages in the music of the Chapel Royal
First broadcast: 22 Jun 2013
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The Weather Girl
A psychologist sent to assess a female prisoner is plunged into a disturbing amoral world.
First broadcast: 08 Jun 2013
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The Letter of Last Resort
David Greig's darkly comic play satirising the British position on nuclear deterrents.
First broadcast: 01 Jun 2013
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The Prince
Damian Lewis stars as Niccolo Machiavelli - in the dock for his most provocative of books.
First broadcast: 25 May 2013
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The Last Tycoon
Bill Bryden adapts F Scott Fitzgerald's haunting portrait of 1930s Hollywood.
First broadcast: 18 May 2013
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Pepys: Fire of London
The Great Fire of London, as witnessed by the famous diarist Samuel Pepys in 1666.
First broadcast: 11 May 2013
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Love, etc
Julian Barnes' absorbing tale of betrayal and revenge wrapped within humour and despair.
First broadcast: 04 May 2013
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Before the Fact
By Ronald Frame. Lina begins to discover that new husband Johnnie is not all he seems.
First broadcast: 20 Apr 2013
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Great Escape: The Justice
Stephen Tompkinson stars in the story of the post-war manhunt to avenge the Great Escape.
First broadcast: 13 Apr 2013
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Present Laughter
Noel Coward's play follows a few days in the life of self-obsessed actor Garry Essendine.
First broadcast: 06 Apr 2013
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Shane
A mysterious horseman rides into the valley and into trouble. Adapted by Frances Byrnes.
First broadcast: 30 Mar 2013
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Hombre
Elmore Leonard's classic western about John Russell, a white man raised by Indians.
First broadcast: 23 Mar 2013
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Hedda Gabler
Ibsen's classic drama of passion and desperation. Starring Sheridan Smith.
First broadcast: 09 Mar 2013
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The Iraq Dossier
The inside story of the controversial document that persuaded MPs to back the 2003 war.
First broadcast: 02 Mar 2013
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Well, He Would, Wouldn't He?
By Charlotte Williams. Mandy Rice-Davies looks back on the Stephen Ward trial 50 years on.
First broadcast: 23 Feb 2013
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The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame's classic story with script for actors and score for BBCSO by Neil Brand.
First broadcast: 16 Feb 2013
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The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Mark Davies Markham's play is inspired by the Madness album of the same name. With Suggs.
First broadcast: 09 Feb 2013
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Boots on the Ground
Contemporary thriller by Don Webb about sinister goings-on at a military research centre.
First broadcast: 02 Feb 2013
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Headlong
A struggle to lay hands on a long-lost materspiece. Adapted from Michael Frayn's novel.
First broadcast: 19 Jan 2013
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Skios
Martin Jarvis directs this dramatisation of Michael Frayn's newest comic novel.
First broadcast: 12 Jan 2013
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White Snow
Faced with an upstart stepdaughter, the queen is forced into decisive and deadly action.
First broadcast: 05 Jan 2013
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Red Shoes
Karen's heart is set on a pair of red shoes whose magic compels her to dance to her death.
First broadcast: 29 Dec 2012
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Alice through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll's fantastical story collides with Radio 4 in Stephen Wyatt's dramatisation.
First broadcast: 22 Dec 2012
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Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi's classic tale of a wooden puppet, dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths.
First broadcast: 15 Dec 2012
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A Slow Air
By David Harrower. Siblings Morna and Athol have not spoken for 14 years. Why not?
First broadcast: 01 Dec 2012
The Martin Beck Series
Detective Martin Beck and his colleagues in the National Homicide Department in Stockholm
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The Gothic Imagination: Bloody Poetry
Howard Brenton's play about the inception of Mary Shelley's gothic myth of Frankenstein.
First broadcast: 20 Oct 2012
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Love Me Do
By Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. A love story set during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
First broadcast: 13 Oct 2012
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The Air Gap
By Steve Water. Fact-based drama about the soldier accused of supplying WikiLeaks.
First broadcast: 06 Oct 2012
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Close the Coalhouse Door
Alan Plater's 1960s political docudrama charting the miners' struggles for justice.
First broadcast: 29 Sep 2012
