The Specialist Episode 1
Drama of the Week
by BBC Radio 4
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
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The Invitation
Drama of the Week
by BBC Radio 4
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
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Calmer
Drama of the Week
by BBC Radio 4
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
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Beltane
Drama of the Week
by BBC Radio 4
1M ago
By Ben Lewis. Soulful and witty drama about love, nature and the love of nature ..read more
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Cymbeline
Drama of the Week
by BBC Radio 4
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
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Bat Girls
Drama of the Week
by BBC Radio 4
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
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Master Mason
Drama of the Week
by BBC Radio 4
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
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The Mini-Break
Drama of the Week
by BBC Radio 4
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
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This Is For Everyone
Drama of the Week
by BBC Radio 4
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
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Land of my Father
Drama of the Week
by BBC Radio 4
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
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