By Charlotte Bogard Macleod. Dotty Rogers has a lot of trouble with reality. Saturday Drama Episode guide
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The Purple Land
Andrew Davies' rip-roaring treatment of WH Hudson's South American classic.
First broadcast: 16 Jul 2011
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The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Revolution
Comic play about the French Revolution starring Richard E Grant and The Penny Dreadfuls.
First broadcast: 09 Jul 2011
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White Nights
A stranger's murder sparks trouble for a small Shetland village. Soon everyone's a suspect
First broadcast: 02 Jul 2011
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Cause Celebre
The Old Vic Theatre's recent production of Terence Rattigan's gripping courtroom drama.
First broadcast: 25 Jun 2011
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In Praise of Love
A successful novelist knows his wife's secret, but she doesn't know that he knows.
First broadcast: 18 Jun 2011
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The Browning Version
A starry celebration of Terence Rattigan's centenary. Martin Jarvis directs.
First broadcast: 11 Jun 2011
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Little Platoons
By Steve Waters. A witty satire about Free Schools. With Claire Price and Richard Henders.
First broadcast: 04 Jun 2011
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The Bottle Factory Outing
Beryl Bainbridge's story, set in 1970, dramatised for radio by Jane Rogers.
First broadcast: 28 May 2011
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Sunk
The ironic story behind the most expensive Nazi propaganda film ever made: Titanic.
First broadcast: 28 May 2011
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Deep Down and Dirty Rock 'n' Roll
By Mark Davies Markham. Suggs and Burn Gorman star as musicians in mid-life meltdown.
First broadcast: 14 May 2011
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A Change in the Willows
Toad, Badger, Mole and Ratty embark on an all new adventure along the riverbank.
First broadcast: 07 May 2011
One Chord Wonders
Series of plays by Frank Cottrell Boyce looking at the punk generation three decades on
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Leverage
Simon Passmore's fast-paced psychological thriller. Starring Claire Foy.
First broadcast: 26 Mar 2011
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Landfall
Five misfits travel to a mysterious planet. A Science Fiction adventure by Mike Walker.
First broadcast: 19 Mar 2011
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The Gun
CS Forester's gripping guerrilla warfare story set in Napoleonic Spain.
First broadcast: 12 Mar 2011
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Vanunu: A Time To Be Heard
New drama set in 2004, on the release of Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu.
First broadcast: 05 Mar 2011
Classic Chandler
Toby Stephens plays Philip Marlowe in a landmark Radio 4 series of Raymond Chandler novels
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My Dear Children of the Whole World
It's 1942 and Pope Pius XII is urged to speak out against Nazi atrocities.
First broadcast: 29 Jan 2011
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Payback
Jonathan Myerson's play explores pressures on US diplomacy in the 1973 Middle East War.
First broadcast: 22 Jan 2011
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Master Harold and the Boys
A new production of Athol Fugard's award-winning masterpiece, recorded in South Africa.
First broadcast: 15 Jan 2011
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To Catch a Thief
An adaptation of David Dodge's 1952 novel, later made into a classic film by Hitchcock.
First broadcast: 08 Jan 2011
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Shirley Valentine
Meera Syal is Shirley Valentine - a middle-aged housewife who reveals her hidden thoughts.
First broadcast: 18 Dec 2010
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The Gambler
A new version of Dostoevsky's 'The Gambler' written by Poet Glyn Maxwell.
First broadcast: 04 Dec 2010
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The Caretaker
A tramp rescued from a fight is offered a job as caretaker, in Harold Pinter's play.
First broadcast: 27 Nov 2010
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A Month in the Country
Shell-shocked WW1 survivor Tom Birkin finds welcome recovery in a remote Yorkshire village
First broadcast: 20 Nov 2010
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And Then There Were None
Ten guests are invited to an island. By the end of the first night, one of them is dead.
First broadcast: 13 Nov 2010
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Five Days in May
Play about the tense negotiation following the 2010 General Election.
First broadcast: 06 Nov 2010
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Tim Krabbe - The Vanishing
Years after his girlfriend vanished at a petrol station, Rex tries to learn what happened.
First broadcast: 30 Oct 2010
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The Kane Conspiracy
Drama about the dirty tricks campaign against Citizen Kane and its creator Orson Welles.
First broadcast: 02 Oct 2010
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The White Man's Burden
Adaptation of Paul Theroux's stage play about Rudyard Kipling's time in America.
First broadcast: 18 Sep 2010
