by Kamal Kaan and Mary Cooper Episode 1 - Naila's Story Naila is a bright teenager in Bradford. Her parents want her to go to university to study medicine, and they don't want any distractions. But Naila loves cricket, and gets involved in the nascent school female cricket team. Three of the girls become firm friends and call themselves 'Bat Girls'. The team shows real promise and starts to do very well. But will this get in the way of Naila's parents' ambitions for her? NAILA..............................................Yazmin Kayani KARISHMA................................... Amy Leigh Hickm ..read more

The master mason is dead; long live the master mason. Lizzy Mansfield's comedy takes us back to the golden age of cathedral building and the moment humble stonemason Bill Mason gets the call. When the Bishop asks, you don't say no. But is he the one really calling the shots? Bill ..... Edward Hogg Penelope ..... Laura Elphinstone Eliza ..... Kathryn Drysdale Bishop ..... Michael Bertenshaw Messenger ...... Aaron Gelkoff Tom Farmer ..... John Lightbody Sound Designer ... Peter Ringrose Production Coordinator ..... Jenny Mendez Directed by Toby Swift A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Radio ..read more

Esme’s meeting her boyfriend’s parents for the first time. But when she discovers a dark family secret, making a good impression becomes the least of her worries… Chloë Myerson’s modern-day folk-horror story about family and fate, inspired by the writing of Hans Christian Andersen. CAST Esme ..... Máiréad Tyers Danny ..... Josh Bryant-Jones Susanna ..... Jane Slavin Tim ..... Nicholas Woodeson The Storyteller .... David Menkin Agneta ..... Kitty O’Sullivan Written by Chloë Myerson Directed by Anne Isger Sound by Ali Craig and Andy Garratt A BBC Audio Production ..read more

Entertaining drama from award-winning writer Matthew Broughton exploring probably the biggest turning point in recent history: the creation of the World Wide Web, and its impact on one family in the decades that follow. In August 1991, the first website goes live. At exactly the same time, a baby is born... Julie....Claudie Blakley Vic....Dana Haqjoo Young Lucy...Astrid le Fleming Lucy....Katie Redford Young Ben....Bertie Creswell Ben....Luke Nunn Narrator....Peter Marinker With the voices of Josh Bryant-Jones, Jessica Enemokwu, Laura Power, Maxim Reston. Technical producers...Keith Graham, An ..read more

It’s 1984. In a mining village in the Welsh Valleys, Alys is doing her O-Levels, falling in love, and just being a teenager. Then, the Miners’ Strike starts. And everything changes. Forty years later, reeling from her marriage break up, Alys takes her son on a day out in the Valleys: to the zip wire above the site of Tower Colliery. Soon, she finds herself revisiting the year that altered her family’s lives irrevocably. Siân Owen’s drama is about the children of the Miners’ Strike - and its legacy. By Siân Owen Young Alys... Caitlin Griffiths Older Alys... Mali Harries Cai.... Shaheen Jafargho ..read more

Written by Mike Walker, from an idea by Michael Crick. A tragicomic take on the months Tsar Peter the Great spent in London learning about ship-building and naval tactics, destroying the house and garden of diarist John Evelyn; roistering with the ambitious young actress Letitia Cross; and preparing himself for an onslaught upon Evelyn’s treasured holly hedge, Russia’s backward society and the peace of Northern Europe. Peter . . . . . Greg Kolpakchi Letitia . . . . . Siena Kelly John . . . . . Michael Bertenshaw Ben . . . . . John Lightbody Foreign Secretary . . . . . Josh Bryant-Jones Lucy ..read more

Andy de la Tour stars in a new drama by Ian Billings about the politically volatile period that saw the rise of the alternative comedy movement. Based on true events, the story follows the fate of fictionalised comedy duo, Erica and Ernie, an anarchic, free-form homage to Morecambe and Wise, who are about to make their performance debut. Comedy Club ….. Andy de la Tour Ernie ….. James McNicholas Erica ….. Emma Sidi Tommy ….. Don Gilet Ernie’s mum ….. Rhiannon Neads Ronnie Williams ….. Samuel James Chicken Shop Owner ….. Tyler Cameron Mr Melter ….. Zachary Lowe-McAlley Anthony ….. Josh Bryant-J ..read more

Psychodrama about the toxic legacy of climate change denial by Theo Toksvig-Stewart, starring Luke Treadaway, Olivia Williams and Rhashan Stone. America in the early 1990s is the setting for this drama inspired by real events, The subjectivity of memory is scrutinised in a story that imagines the hot-house environment of a PR company as it sought to shape the world’s response to climate change. Bob ….. Luke Treadaway Sal ….. Olivia Williams Ken ….. Rhashan Stone Casey ….. Kitty O’ Sullivan With Michael Bertenshaw, Rhiannon Neads and Josh Bryant-Jones Directed by Gemma Jenkins Rhashan Stone (Th ..read more

Robert Burns’s narrative poem mischievously reimagined by Gary McNair ..read more

1/2. Fate Takes A Hand. By David Ashton. Starring Brian Cox. San Francisco, 1849. At the height of the California Gold Rush, McLevy sets himself up as a private investigator hoping for a rich client. But his first case turns out to be less than lucrative – a poor black cook accused of murdering his wealthy white employer. MCLEVY ..... Brian Cox JEAN ..... Siobhán Redmond GEORGE TAYLOR ..... Bryan Dick ISAAC ..... Ben Onwukwe SARAH ..... Ayesha Antoine HENRIETTA ..... Nicole Ansari PIERCE ..... Sandy Grierson MALACHI FALLON ..... Forbes Masson SAM BARTON ..... Gerard McDermott Other parts playe ..read more