Someone is hacking into private conversations and Master Henry could end up in jail. Drama A to Z
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- 15 Minute Drama
Classic and contemporary original drama and book dramatisations
- Afternoon Drama
Radio dramas which delight and surprise
- Afternoon Reading
Short stories or abridged books, often from new writers
- Alan Garner - Elidor
Unexpected adventure awaits Roland, Helen, David and Nicholas Watson in a derelict church.
- Barbara Pym - Jane and Prudence
Omnibus. Barbara Pym's delightful comedy of rural relationships stars Emma Fielding
- Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective
Baroness Orczy's sleuth takes on another case while sitting at his table in a tea shop
- Ben Moor - Undone
Writer-performer Ben Moor's comic sci-fi about the bizarre parallel city of Undone
- Benjamin Zephaniah - Listen to Your Parents
Benjamin Zephaniah's drama portrays domestic violence through the eyes of a boy.
- Book of the Week
Serialised book readings, featuring works from various genres
- Brave New Worlds
A selection of science fiction stories by famous authors
- Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Dickens' classic tale about the turbulent childhood of orphan Pip. Starring Maggie Steed
- Come Away, Come Away!
Three writers contribute new stories inspired by chapter titles from Peter Pan
- Dangerous Visions
A season of dramas that explore contemporary takes on future dystopias
- Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
Dramatisation of Daniel Defoe's castaway classic stars Roy Marsden
- DH Lawrence - Daughters of the Vicar
Impoverished sisters struggle to choose lives governed either by emotion or intellect.
- DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer
Detective Inspector Cromwell and Mother Helen try to solve the murder mystery
- Don Taylor - The Jacobean Box
A Shakespearean academic learns a large item awaits collection at a remote station.
- Drama on 3
Series of drama performances, ranging from experiment works to the Classics
- Elspeth Davie - A Collection of Bones
Series of five unsettling tales from Scottish writer Elspeth Davie
- Fay Weldon Stories
Short stories written by the English author Fay Weldon
- Fear on Four
Series of horror and suspense tales, hosted by the Man in Black
- George Eliot - Middlemarch
George Eliot's classic novel, dramatised by Judith Adams
- George Eliot - Middlemarch Omnibus
George Eliot's classic novel, dramatised by Judith Adams
- George Gissing - New Grub Street
Tale of a group of Victorian writers' struggles with integrity and poverty
- Henry Williamson - Tarka the Otter
Classic tale of an otter's eventful life in the Devon countryside
- HP Lovecraft - The Tomb
Jervas Dudley reveals how he came to be incarcerated in an asylum. Read by Ryan McCluskey.
- Ian Rankin - The Serpent's Back
In Edinburgh, the resourceful if low-born Mr Cullender goes in search of a double murderer
- Ian Rankin - The Third Gentleman
The Edinburgh sleuth is forced to investigate a series of ritualistic wine-cellar murders.
- Ian Rankin: Rebus
Adaptations of Rankin's novels and short stories about his famous Edinburgh detective
- Inspector Morse
Crime series featuring Colin Dexter's famous detective
- Irène Némirovsky - The Dogs and the Wolves
Ada grows up in the poor Jewish pogroms of Ukraine, where fate, finance and love collide.
- Jack London - The Call of the Wild
A pet dog becomes the exceptional leader of a pack of wolves in the Yukon
- James Follett - The Destruction Factor
Sci-fi adventure drama about a new plant species created in a laboratory
- Jenny Stephens - Project Archangel
Jenny Stephens' sequel to Project Raphael starring Dan Hagley
- John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham's classic science-fiction tale
- Julia Blackburn - The Need for Nonsense
The sad, contradictory tale of Edward Lear, famed Victorian artist and scribe.
- Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives
Louisa May Alcott's classic sequel to Little Women
- Love Stories
Stories from bestselling romantic novelists
- Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders
Comedy drama series set in a Cambridge college
- Mary Norton - The Borrowers
Adaptation of the children's classic following the adventures of the tiny Clock family
- Michelle Magorian - Back Home
Wartime evacuee Rusty returns to Britain, and meets a mother she doesn't recognise
- Midsummer Tales
Short stories exploring the magical light and white nights of far northern summers
- MR James: Ghost Stories
Ghostly tales from the pen of Victorian writer MR James
- Nevil Shute - On the Beach
Post-apocalyptic end-of-the-world novel by British-Australian author Nevil Shute
- Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case
Peter Coke stars as the debonair sleuth
- Peter Ackroyd - The Mystery of Charles Dickens
Simon Callow recounts the writer's life and brings his colourful characters to life.
- Philip K Dick - Of Withered Apples
As a beautiful woman picks its last apple, a dying ancient tree is determined to survive.
- Plantagenet
Series of plays by Mike Walker about the early years of the Plantagenet dynasty
- Poirot - Three Act Tragedy
Classic detective story by Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian sleuth Poirot
- R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator
Adaptations of the cases of R Austin Freeman's famed detective, made for Radio 4 Extra
- Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind
Strange people are found on a remote Scottish island. With Peter Cushing and Vincent Price
- Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla
Living in a castle in Austria, lonely Laura is captivated by a beautiful visitor.
- Stephen King - Blaze
William Hope reads Stephen King's 'lost' thriller
- Terry Pratchett - Small Gods
Dramatisation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Clive Merrison stars in adaptations of the classic tales written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Little World of Don Camillo
Drama about the rivalry between a communist mayor and a priest in a postwar Italian town
- The Sarah Jane Adventures
Drama starring one of Doctor Who's most famous companions, journalist Sarah Jane Smith
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice
A young magician is left alone in his master's workshop. Updated version of Goethe's tale.
- Why, Robot?
Series of stories inspired by Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics
- William Boyd - Brazzaville Beach
Fiona Shaw reads from the award-winning novel
- William Golding - Lord of the Flies
William Golding's classic story about a group of boys plane-wrecked on a deserted island
- Wimsey - The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Adapted from the novel by Dorothy L Sayers, with her famous sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey
