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Afternoon Drama

Afternoon Drama Episode guide

  1. The Barber of Shavingham

    A joyous a capella musical comedy about a matador who inherits a barber shop in Norfolk.

    First broadcast: 24 Dec 2012

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  2. The Long Count

    A journalist joins a group who believe the Mayan prophecy that the world will end today.

    First broadcast: 21 Dec 2012

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  3. Strummer and Me

    A drama that imagines the events of two of Joe Strummer's 'missing days' in Paris in 1982.

    First broadcast: 20 Dec 2012

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  4. My Boy

    A lonely young woman and an isolated teenager share the secret of her miracle baby.

    First broadcast: 19 Dec 2012

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  5. Rumpole

    Two more cases for John Mortimer's wily criminal barrister. Adapted by Richard Stoneman

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  6. The Loving Ballad of Captain Bateman

    A modern love story, reaching from Afghanistan to Northumberland, based on an old ballad.

    First broadcast: 13 Dec 2012

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  7. Bearing Witness

    Philip Palmer's drama explores the complexities of the International Criminal Tribunals.

    First broadcast: 12 Dec 2012

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  8. A Bottle on the Shore

    By John Taylor. A bottle found on a Sheppey beach contains a heart-stopping message.

    First broadcast: 11 Dec 2012

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  9. The Stevie G Method

    By Gary Ogin. Actors often take odd jobs to survive. But can Stevie tackle psychotherapy?

    First broadcast: 06 Dec 2012

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  10. A Disappearing Town

    By Hugh Hughes. A fantastical tale from a childhood that's long since vanished.

    First broadcast: 05 Dec 2012

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  11. Ubykh

    By Simon Scardifield. Only one person in the world speaks Ubykh, and he's very, very old.

    First broadcast: 04 Dec 2012

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  12. Two Minutes Hate

    Implicated in murder but released from prison, Jennifer has a new identity. Will it last?

    First broadcast: 29 Nov 2012

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  13. The Healing of Sergei Rachmaninov

    Martyn Wade tells the story behind the composition of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto.

    First broadcast: 28 Nov 2012

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  14. Beryl: A Love Story on Two Wheels

    Maxine Peake's first drama about cycling champion Beryl Burton, featuring Charlie Burton.

    First broadcast: 27 Nov 2012

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  15. McLevy - Series 9

    Series of stories about David Ashton's detective, set in Victorian Edinburgh

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  16. The Mysterious Case of Maria

    Romantic comedy noir from a team of five young writers.

    First broadcast: 22 Nov 2012

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  17. Sunk

    A young man is determined, with the help of John Virgo, to turn his life around.

    First broadcast: 19 Nov 2012

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  18. Mad Girl

    By Phil Gladwin. The voices in 15-year-old Rose's head come to a noisy climax one weekend.

    First broadcast: 13 Nov 2012

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  19. Two Pipe Problems

    Comedy drama by Michael Chaplin, with mystery-solving retired thespians William and Sandy

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  20. Warrior Class

    A young assemblyman is poised to become 'the Republican Obama' but his past haunts him.

    First broadcast: 06 Nov 2012

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  21. The Other Simenon

    Series of Georges Simenon novels dramatised by Ronald Frame

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  22. The Trenches Trip

    By Jonathan Smith. Unexpected conflicts emerge on a school trip to the WWI trenches.

    First broadcast: 31 Oct 2012

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  23. Notes to Future Self

    As 13-year-old Sophie faces her own mortality, she has some advice for her future self.

    First broadcast: 30 Oct 2012

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  24. Gwynfor v Margaret

    By Rob Gittins. The true story of Gwynfor Evans, the man who took on Margaret Thatcher.

    First broadcast: 29 Oct 2012

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  25. The Man Who Jumped from Space

    By Andy Walker. True life story of Captain Joe Kittinger's high-altitude parachute jumps.

    First broadcast: 26 Oct 2012

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  26. What Love Sounds Like

    By Peter Souter. A blind man meets a deaf woman with life-changing consequences.

    First broadcast: 24 Oct 2012

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  27. Forever Mankind

    A twist on history as astronauts retrieve the bodies of the first men on the moon.

    First broadcast: 23 Oct 2012

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  28. Best Queue

    Absurdist drama by Sean Grundy about a family stuck in a queue that never ends.

    First broadcast: 22 Oct 2012

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  29. Special Measures

    By Christopher Reason. A primary school head teacher is suspicious of an Ofsted inspection

    First broadcast: 17 Oct 2012

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  30. Rock and Doris and Elizabeth

    Tracy-Ann Oberman's new play about Hollywood, starring Frances Barber and Jonathan Hyde.

    First broadcast: 16 Oct 2012

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