Drama of the Week
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Every Friday we bring you a new drama from BBC Radio 4 or Radio 3. Exercise your imagination with some of the best writers and actors on radio. Storytelling at its very best.
Drama of the Week
1d ago
Dark Medical Thriller by Matthew Broughton, creator of Tracks and Broken Colours.
With original music by Sion Orgon and Rhodri Davies.
CAST
Anna Diaz- Saran Morgan
Ged Diaz - Sion Daniel Young
Ruth - Michelle Bonnard
Mr Devonshire - Pal Aron
Mr Dartington - Ifan Huw Dafydd
Raymond - Ioan Hefin
Original music by Sion Orgon and Rhodri Davies
Production Coordinator Eleri McAuliffe
Sound Design by Catherine Robinson
Directed by John Norton
A BBC Audio Wales production for Radio 4 ..read more
Drama of the Week
1w ago
Comedy drama by Katherine Chandler, starring Siwan Morris and Kimberley Nixon.
When her eight-year-old daughter is the only one in the class who doesn't get a party invitation, Lizzie challenges the birthday girl's mum, Jo. As their two world views collide, all hell breaks loose. What are the rules here?
CAST
Jo - Siwan Morris
Lizzie - Kimberley Nixon
Huw - Tomos Eames
Ritchie Tyne- Nathan Sussex
Mrs Wilson - Zoe Davies
Margaret - Hannah McPake
The Postman - Anthony Corria
Micha - Joséphine López-Norton
Ellie - Raphaëlle López-Norton
Production Coordinator: Eleri McAuliffe
Sound Design: Cather ..read more
Drama of the Week
3w ago
A new drama about motherhood and chaos, from Olivier-Award-winning writer Lolita Chakrabarti, starring Meera Syal.
Three generations of ultra-successful women in one family:
Maya, a self-help guru with an avid following, has an American TV deal in the offing. Nina, her daughter, a psychiatrist, is expanding her thriving practice. Amber, Nina's daughter, has an offer from Cambridge.
But a fault line will soon tear everything apart.
Deeply visceral, often sharply funny, Calmer explores mental health and the intense love and competition in mother-daughter relationships.
By Lolita Chakrabarti
Maya ..read more
Drama of the Week
1M ago
By Ben Lewis. Soulful and witty drama about love, nature and the love of nature ..read more
Drama of the Week
1M ago
Shakespeare's exhilarating late play of lovers under strain and leaders under pressure. Staged in an alternative present-day Britain.
An ineffectual ruler governs a divided, insular Britain, alienated from the rest of Europe. That ruler, Cymbeline (Michael Maloney), refuses to pay the taxes demanded by a foreign power, clinging to mythical notions of sovereignty. "Britain's a world by itself and we will nothing pay for wearing our own noses." But Cymbeline's judgement is clouded by grief, having lost his two older children as babies. When his daughter Imogen (Lydia Wilson) rebels and marries b ..read more
Drama of the Week
1M ago
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
Drama of the Week
1M ago
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
Drama of the Week
2M ago
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
Drama of the Week
2M ago
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
Drama of the Week
3M ago
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