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Saturday Drama Episodes

  1. Phone

    By Peter Jukes. Eliot it thrust into danger when his gangster friend hands him a phone.

  2. Lockerbie on Trial

    Peter Goodchild's dramatised reconstruction of the Lockerbie bombing trial.

  3. Slow Boat to Leningrad

    David Pownall's account of Anglo-French attempts to negotiate with the USSR in 1939.

  4. Trumbo

    Drama about Dalton Trumbo's ordeal in the Hollywood communist witch-hunts.

  5. Last Night, Another Soldier

    By Andy McNab. An 18-year-old soldier has to confront the realities of war in Afghanistan.

  6. Statement of Regret

    By Kwame Kwei-Armah. Kwaku's latest misjudged policy proposal is about to explode.

  7. Utz

    By Bruce Chatwin. An academic in 1960s Prague meets an eccentric porcelain collector.

  8. Killing the Butterfly

    Two murder witnesses are put under police protection pending a High Court trial.

  9. Hattie Naylor - J'Accuse

    Inspired by an article written by Emile Zola about the Dreyfus Affair.

  10. Adam Thorpe - Devastated Areas

    Adam Thorpe's play explores civilian grief during and after the Great War of 1914-1918.

  11. The Complete Smiley - A Murder of Quality

    George Smiley investigates when a schoolmaster's wife is found bludgeoned to death.

  12. Point of Departure

    By Francis Turnly. Security fears surround an African leader's visit to a peace summit.

  13. Frank Marcus - The Killing of Sister George

    When actress June Buckeridge is axed from a soap, it affects more than just her career.

  14. Road to Durham

    By Douglas Livingstone. Two 80-year-old former Bevin Boys reunite for a miners' gala.

  15. Alan Ayckbourn - Man of the Moment

    A criminal turned TV celebrity agrees to participate in a reality show. Dark comedy.

  16. Lambeth Palace

    A tale of politics and manoeuvring in selecting a fictional Archbishop of Canterbury.

  17. The Lady in the Van

    Alan Bennett's relationship with an eccentric old vagrant who lived in in his front garden

  18. Patrick Barlow - Joan of Arc, and How She Became a Saint

    Can a young country girl lead an army?

  19. On the Ceiling

    By Nigel Planer. Two fresco plasterers in the Sistine Chapel wait for Michelangelo.

  20. Master Class

    Joseph Stalin invites Prokofiev and Shostakovich to the Kremlin for a music lesson.

  21. Quartermaine's Terms

    Comedy by Simon Gray, set in a school for teaching English to foreigners in the 1960s.

  22. Piper Alpha

    Chronicling the events of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, which killed 167 men in 1988.

  23. Melissa Murray - Theremin

    After bugging the US Embassy, inventor Leon Theremin must avoid both the CIA and the KGB.

  24. Michael Hastings - Tom and Viv

    The nightmare, turbulent marriage of TS Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood.

  25. Nicholas Wright - Mrs Klein

    Three women meet in the home of child psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, grieving for her son.

  26. Blithe Spirit

    At a seance at his house, a writer receives a ghostly visitation from his dead first wife.

  27. Lynne Truss - Giving Up the Ghost

    Dreaming of a dead colleague, firefighter Scott must confront his biggest fear.

  28. Boscobel

    Historical thriller that follows the future Charles II after his father's execution.

  29. Murder Every Monday

    Clifford Flush and the Asterisk Club establish themselves as 'homicide consultants'.

  30. Cry Hungary

    By Paul Viragh. In 1956, Peter, a student in Budapest, falls in love with Eva.

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