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Saturday Drama Episodes

  1. The Red Shoes

    Karen's heart is set on some magic red shoes that she cannot resist, whatever the cost.

  2. A Christmas Carol

    Charles Dickens's classic story, adapted for actors, singers and orchestra by Neil Brand.

  4. The Boy from Aleppo Who Painted the War

    The Syrian conflict seen through the eyes of a teenage boy with Asperger's.

  5. Lanark

    Adaptation of Alasdair Gray's cult novel, telling the stories of Duncan Thaw and Lanark.

  6. Under Milk Wood

    Richard Burton, Matthew Rhys, Ruth Jones star in Dylan Thomas's classic 'play for voices'.

  7. Jonathan Myerson - Reykjavik

    Rollercoaster drama about the surprise Reagan-Gorbachev summit in 1986.

  8. Alan Bennett - Denmark Hill

    Idiosyncratic take on Hamlet seen largely through the eyes of a 15-year old-girl.

  9. Murder Under Trust: The Massacre at Glencoe

    Adrian Bean's play dramatises events leading up to the infamous Highland massacre in 1692.

  10. Peter Brough - His Master's Voice

    Rob Brydon is Peter Brough the ventriloquist, in the true story behind Educating Archie.

  11. Red Velvet

    By Lolita Chakrabarti. Award-winning drama starring Adrian Lester as actor Ira Aldridge.

  12. Nick Stafford - The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Wilde's courtroom battle with the Marquess of Queensbury.

  13. If Only

    David Edgar's tongue-in-cheek drama about the rise, and possible fall, of the Coalition.

  14. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

    Martin Jarvis directs his fourth Ian Fleming for Radio 4. Toby Stephens returns as 007.

  16. Paul Sellar - The Moonflask

    A group of jobseekers pool their skills to steal a Ming vase and return it to its owner.

  17. Four Quartets

    Jeremy Irons reads TS Eliot's four linked meditations.

  18. Woman in Mind

    By Alan Ayckbourn. After a blow to the head, Susan encounters an perfect, fantasy family.

  19. Secrets of the Small Hours

    A married couple confront each other after the husband attempted to have his wife murdered

  20. Winter Exercise

    David Aaronovitch presents a docudrama examining a secret government Cold War exercise.

  21. Carine Adler - Angel Maker

    Lili arrives in London penniless, set on a permanent arrangement with her rich boyfriend.

  22. Solomon and Marion

    By Lara Foot. South African story of an unlikely friendship.

  23. Christopher Lee - Air-Force One

    What really happened after JFK's murder, in the hospital and on the presidential jet?

  24. Mike Bartlett - The Right Honourable

    The youngest MP in the House of Commons is drawn into a web of political intrigue.

  25. Lucy Gannon - Topaz

    An unfortunate 19th-century poet walks from Dundee to Balmoral to seek Queen Victoria.

  26. Goodbye

    An extraordinary story of friendship and farewells from Morwenna Banks.

  27. Christopher Reason - The Confessions of Caminada

    Drama based on a case from the memoirs a real-life detective in 19th-century Manchester.

  28. Calum's Road

    Drama based on the true story of one Raasay man's road-building feat. Ian McDiarmid stars.

  29. Rumours

    By Colin Shindler. Private Eye, the Profumo Affair and the end of a British Government.

  30. Somerset Maugham - For Services Rendered

    A progressive English family try to live their lives under the shadow of World War One.

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