Selection of BBC World Service Programmes

01:00 - 05:20

BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.

  1. BBC Radio 4
  2. Programmes
  3. Afternoon Play
  4. Episodes
  5. Available now on BBC iPlayer

Afternoon Play episodes available now on BBC iPlayer

(5 programmes)

  1. Zero Degrees of Separation

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    Available since yesterday with 7 days left.

    Three community writing groups perform their own short plays.

  2. Number 10 A Failed State

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    Available since Friday with 4 days left.

    4/5. The PM becomes embroiled in a housing issue involving a Somalian single mother.

  3. Headliner

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    Available since Thursday with 3 days left.

    By Neil Brand. An up-and-coming stand-up comedienne is befriended by a US comedy legend.

  4. A Dangerous Thing

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    Available since Wednesday with 2 days left.

    By John Sessions. The friendship of the 18th-century satirists Pope and Swift is tested.

  5. Right Place, Wrong Time

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    Available since last Tuesday with 13 hours left.

    The photo-fit of a crime suspect is the spitting image of Alan, a travelling salesman.

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