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ON NOW : Westminster Hour
19/05/2013

Westminster Hour Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators.

Saturday Drama

Saturday Drama Episode guide

  1. On the Ceiling

    By Nigel Planer. Two fresco plasterers in the Sistine Chapel wait for Michelangelo.

    First broadcast: 07 Feb 2009

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  2. Master Class

    Joseph Stalin invites Prokofiev and Shostakovich to the Kremlin for a music lesson.

    First broadcast: 31 Jan 2009

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  3. Quartermaine's Terms

    Comedy by Simon Gray, set in a school for teaching English to foreigners in the 1960s.

    First broadcast: 24 Jan 2009

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  4. Piper Alpha

    Chronicling the events of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, which killed 167 men in 1988.

    First broadcast: 17 Jan 2009

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  5. Walter Now

    By David Cook. Ian McKellen stars as Walter, a man with learning difficulties.

    First broadcast: 10 Jan 2009

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  6. Theremin

    Musical instrument inventor Leon Theremin leads a double life as a Soviet spy.

    First broadcast: 03 Jan 2009

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  7. Tom and Viv

    Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the best-known play of the late playwright Michael Hastings.

    First broadcast: 27 Dec 2008

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  8. Mrs Klein

    The troubled relationship between child analyst Melanie Klein and her own children.

    First broadcast: 20 Dec 2008

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  9. Blithe Spirit

    At a seance at his house, a writer receives a ghostly visitation from his dead first wife.

    First broadcast: 13 Dec 2008

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  10. Giving Up the Ghost

    By Lynne Truss. A firefighter struggles to come to terms with the death of his friend.

    First broadcast: 06 Dec 2008

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  11. Boscobel

    Historical thriller that follows the future Charles II after his father's execution.

    First broadcast: 29 Nov 2008

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  12. Murder Every Monday

    Clifford Flush and the Asterisk Club establish themselves as 'homicide consultants'.

    First broadcast: 22 Nov 2008

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  13. Cry Hungary

    By Paul Viragh. In 1956, Peter, a student in Budapest, falls in love with Eva.

    First broadcast: 15 Nov 2008

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  14. Von Ribbentrop's Watch

    Cash-strapped Gerald inherits a valuable watch, but it sparks an ethical conflict.

    First broadcast: 08 Nov 2008

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  15. The Late Mr Shakespeare

    A former boy actor reminisces in old age about the time he spent acting with Shakespeare.

    First broadcast: 01 Nov 2008

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  16. Adulteries of a Provincial Wife

    Who was the inspiration for Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary?

    First broadcast: 25 Oct 2008

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  17. The Haverstock Hill Murder

    A mother commissions Victorian lady detective Dorcas Dene to save her son from the gallows

    First broadcast: 18 Oct 2008

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  18. Conclave

    Opposing factions within the Vatican meet to elect the successor to Pope John Paul I.

    First broadcast: 11 Oct 2008

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  19. The Last Confession

    Roger Crane's conspiracy thriller set at the time of the death of Pope John Paul I.

    First broadcast: 04 Oct 2008

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  20. Bora Bora

    By Lynne Truss. A painting holiday organised by an art historian is rudely disturbed.

    First broadcast: 20 Sep 2008

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  21. Just Between Ourselves

    Alan Ayckbourn's celebrated 1977 bittersweet comedy about love, marriages and mothers.

    First broadcast: 13 Sep 2008

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  22. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

    Mike Walker's adaptation of Solzhenitsyn's portrayal of life in Stalin's prison camps.

    First broadcast: 06 Sep 2008

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  23. Agatha Christie's Endless Night

    Joy Wilkinson's adaptation of Agatha Christie's psychological thriller.

    First broadcast: 30 Aug 2008

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  24. Little Nell

    Simon Gray's play is inspired by Claire Tomalin's book The Invisible Woman.

    First broadcast: 23 Aug 2008

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  25. The Balloonists

    Craig Stephens's boisterous comedy about infamous Victorian balloonist Henry Coxwell.

    First broadcast: 16 Aug 2008

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  26. Dover and the Unkindest Cut of All

    Comedy thriller by Joyce Porter, set in the 70s, featuring Scotland Yard's laziest sleuth.

    First broadcast: 09 Aug 2008

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  27. These Are the Times

    Trevor Griffiths's dramatisation of Thomas Paine's life

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  28. The Test

    Psychological thriller by Peter Whalley. John Newland has been living a lie for 20 years.

    First broadcast: 19 Jul 2008

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  29. A Night with Johnny Stompanato

    Jonathan Holloway's drama is based on the story of the death of Lana Turner's boyfriend.

    First broadcast: 12 Jul 2008

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  30. Rebus: Black and Blue

    Scottish detective Rebus investigates the death of a North Sea oil worker

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