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Episodes from Drama on 3 broadcast in 2009

December
  1. Your Only Man
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    A play imagining what might have happened if the author Brian O'Nolan's two alter egos met
  2. A Whistle in the Dark
    Powerful classic play set in the early 1960s, centring on the reunion of an Irish family.
  3. The Contingency Plan
    Drama set in the near future as the government deals with a real global warming crisis.
  4. The Hairy Ape
    Eugene O'Neill's classic American expressionist drama starring Dominic West as Yank.
November
  1. The Changeling
    Murder, lust, madness and mayhem in a Jacobean classic set in 1920s Spain.
  2. Don Quixote, by Thomas D'Urfey
    Don Taylor's adaptation of a stage version of Cervantes's classic picaresque novel. (R)
  3. In the Absence of Geoff
    Adam Godley stars in a wry contemporary comedy by award-winning writer Charlotte Jones. (R)
  4. The Promise
    Aleksei Arbuzov's classic Soviet play set during the siege of Leningrad.
  5. The Lady from the Sea
    Lia Williams stars in a new version of Ibsen's late sensuous drama.
October
  1. Beware the Kids
    A new drama which tackles the themes of family and responsibility.
  2. The Threepenny Opera
    Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill's famous 1928 play with music.
  3. The Researches of Herodotus
    Tom Holland's new adaptation of his own translation of Herodotus' Histories.
  4. Becket or The Honour of God
    Toby Stephens stars in one of the classic French plays of the 20th century.
September
  1. The Twyborn Affair
    An adaptation of Patrick White's provocative and mysterious novel about sexual identity.
  2. Slaughterhouse 5
    Billy Pilgrim is 'unstuck in time' in Kurt Vonnegut's iconic non-linear anti-war story.
  3. Edward the Second
    Toby Jones stars in Christopher Marlowe's portrait of the irresponsible king.
  4. The Adding Machine
    An Expressionist work from 1923 by American playwright Elmer Rice.
August
  1. The Time Machine
    Philip Osment's dramatisation of HG Wells's classic story about time travel. (R)
  2. Crossing the Bar
    A selection of Alfred Lord Tennyson's sea-narratives. (R)
  3. The Hybernaculum
    A play depicting a summer's day at the house of 18th-century naturalist Rev Gilbert White.
  4. Donation
    A play about the implications of organ donation, and what survives of us. (R)
July
  1. The Idylls of the King
    An adaptation of Tennyson's The Idylls of the King narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith.
  2. Tartuffe
    A Liverpool Playhouse production of Roger McGough's version of Moliere's comedy.
June
  1. Fall
    An adaptation of the Traverse Theatre's production of Zinnie Harris' play.
  2. Darger and the Detective
    A play drawing on the writings of reclusive artist Henry Darger, imagining his inner life.
  3. The Gambler
    Glyn Maxwell's adaptation of Dostoevsky's drama about his experiences as a young man.
  4. Hyde Park-on-Hudson
    A play by Richard Nelson, focusing on George VI's visit to the United States in 1939.
May
  1. Scandinavian Dreams
    As revolution raged France, feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft travelled to Scandinavia. (R)
  2. Hum
    A contemporary drama about the insidious presence of noise in our lives.
  3. Mendelssohn Weekend - A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A chance to hear Shakespeare's play and Mendelssohn's complete incidental music for it.
  4. My Brother God and the Ban Yan Tree
    An ordinary young Indian boy is chosen to become a religious figurehead. But can he cope?
April
  1. Babel's Tower, by Mike Walker
    Imagining the interrogation of Jewish-Russian writer Isaac Babel upon his 1939 arrest. (R)
  2. Henry VIII
    The murky world of Tudor politics, religion and sex revealed in Shakespeare's play.
  3. A Small Family Business
    Alan Ayckbourn's award-winning 1987 play about a family's descent into corruption.
  4. The Trial and Death of Socrates
    A play about the mystery surrounding Socrates's trial and subsequent execution. (R)
March
  1. The Government Inspector
    Gogol's satire on corruption and sleaze, starring Toby Jones and Paul Ritter.
  2. Alone Together
    A portrait of the lives of poet RS Thomas and his wife artist Elsi Eldridge.
  3. Synge: 100 Years On
    Two productions by Irish playwright JM Synge: The Tinker's Wedding and Riders to the Sea.
  4. Bring Me the Head of Philip K Dick
    Gregory Whitehead's fantasy about the android head of science-fiction writer Philip K Dick
February
  1. The Time Machine
    Philip Osment's dramatisation of HG Wells's classic story about time travel.
  2. Harold Pinter Double Bill
    A tribute to Harold Pinter, with his 1993 play Moonlight and his 2005 radio piece Voices.
  3. The Steps, by Mike Bartlett
    Geraldine McEwan stars in Mike Bartlett's haunting new play.
  4. The Deep Blue Sea
    It is post-war Britain around 1950 and Hester Collyer has left her husband.
January
  1. Pornography
    A challenging play responding to the 7/7 London bombings.
  2. Echoes of War
    A play exploring the loose ends left by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
  3. Home, by David Storey
    A poignant, often darkly funny play which looks at the lives of five people. (R)
  4. In the Absence of Geoff
    Adam Godley stars in a wry contemporary comedy by award-winning writer Charlotte Jones.

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