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Saturday Drama Episodes

  1. South Downs

    By David Hare. A pin-sharp pupil is cut off from his fellow boys by his own intellect.

  2. A Special Kind of Dark

    Paul Rhys and David Schofield star in Adrian Penketh's psychological thriller.

  3. Betrayal

    Harold Pinter's acclaimed drama about a love affair and the intricate nature of deceit.

  4. The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Comic take on the classic Holmes mystery, performed in front of an audience in Bristol.

  5. Menna Gallie - Strike for a Kingdom

    As its residents struggle to survive, the Welsh village of Cilhendre is rocked by murder.

  6. Robert M Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    A motorcycle journey, a meditation on values, and a man coming to terms with his past.

  7. Talking It Over

    A tale of love's vicissitudes written by Julian Barnes and dramatised by Julia Stoneham.

  8. Hattie Naylor - The Forgotten

    Hattie Naylor's dark retelling of the story of The Sleeping Beauty.

  9. David Spicer - Kind Hearts and Coronets: Like Father, Like Daughter

    Unity is pursuing a title along with seven Gascoyne family members.

  10. Otherwise Engaged

    Simon Gray's best-loved comedy. A publisher tries to enjoy a Saturday listening to Wagner.

  11. An American Rose

    By Charlotte Jones. Chilling story of the tragic fate of Rosemary Kennedy, JFK's sister.

  12. Noughts and Crosses

    Malorie Blackman's cult novel of young love in a dystopian world dramatised by Janice Okoh

  14. Michael Morpurgo - Private Peaceful

    Brothers Tommo and Charlie's journey from a Devon childhood to the horrors of WWI.

  15. Stephen Wakelam - The Jinx Element

    An encounter with a journalist causes shockwaves in Edith Wharton's life.

  16. The Quest of Donal Q

    Billy Connolly and Brian Cox star as two brothers embarking on a desperate quest for love.

  17. Our Country's Good

    Timberlake Wertenbaker's play about the convicts and Marines sent to Australia in 1787.

  18. Penelope Fitzgerald - The Gate of Angels

    Penelope Fitzgerald's novel of love, religion and physics, dramatised by Yvonne Antrobus.

  19. Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

    In Alderley Edge, local legend tells of sleeping knights ready to awake to save the world.

  20. Bar Mitzvah Boy

    Is 13-year-old Eliot Green ready to become a man in the Jewish faith?

  21. Something Wicked This Way Comes

    1961 Illinois: Two young boys experience evil when a 'dark circus' comes to town.

  22. Washington, 9/11

    Drama about how the White House responded to the 9/11 attacks.

  23. John Godber - September in the Rain

    A couple's relationship through a lifetime of holidays in Blackpool.

  24. Winston Graham - Marnie

    Stunning blonde Marnie is not what she appears to be. She's about to be tested.

  25. Frances Byrnes - Belle Amie

    4 Extra Debut. Has age tamed ruthless 19th-century charmer Georges Duroy?

  26. Playing with Fire

    A chilling drama about the effects of policies from central Government at a local level.

  27. The Purple Land

    Andrew Davies' rip-roaring treatment of WH Hudson's South American classic.

  28. White Nights

    A stranger's murder sparks trouble for a small Shetland village. Soon everyone's a suspect

  29. Cause Celebre

    The Old Vic Theatre's recent production of Terence Rattigan's gripping courtroom drama.

  30. In Praise of Love

    A successful novelist knows his wife's secret, but she doesn't know that he knows.

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