Drama on 3 Episodes Episode guide
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Shakespeare's Richard III
Douglas Henshall stars as Shakespeare's villain. With original music by David Pickvance.
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Lungs
Duncan Macmillan's innovative play finds a couple agonising over whether to have a baby.
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Baroque Spring: Moliere's The Misanthrope
Live from Powis Castle, Moli猫re's classic French comedy adapted by poet Roger McGough.
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King David
By Katie Hims. Things are going well for Dave, but he takes everything for granted.
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The Strangers' Will
A supernatural thriller set in an eerie hotel in the Lake District.
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Mrs Updike
A play about the relationship between American writer John Updike and his mother.
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Tosca's Kiss
By Craig Warner. A play inspired by Puccini's oper Tosca.
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Britten 100: Billy Budd - These Buttons We Wear
The story of Billy Budd and the mutinous author who wrote this controversial novella.
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The Physicists
By Friedrich Durrenmatt. Classic European 1960s farce about three deluded scientists.
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Copenhagen
Michael Frayn's play about the stormy 1941 meeting between physicists Bohr and Heisenberg.
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A New Cycle of Mystery Plays
Five New Testament stories set in present-day pre-Christmas London.
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Austerlitz
Adaptation of WG Sebald's novel about remembering the Holocaust.
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Napoleon Rising
A never-performed Anthony Burgess drama charting Napoleon Bonaparte's meteoric rise.
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Lover's Rock
Rex Obano's play about black politics and a new brand of reggae in 1980s London.
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The Torchbearers
Live drama from Free Thinking 2012, capturing our relationship with the Olympic flame.
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Midnight Cry of the Deathbird
By Amanda Dalton. Drama inspired by the classic silent horror film Nosferatu.
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Collaborators, by John Hodge
Drama depicting the relationship between Mikhail Bulgakov and Josef Stalin.
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Mary Stuart
Classic drama about the tense relationship between Elizabeth 1 and Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Tamburlaine
Christopher Marlowe's 16th century play about the growth to power of a Scythian shepherd.
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The Product
By Mike Walker. In the jungle in Vietnam, two men relive the 1960 presidential election.
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Marathon Tales
A drama interweaving stories about marathons and runners over the years.
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The Go-Between
LP Hartley's classic novel where a young boy ferries love letters for a woman he worships.
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Singles and Doublets
Comedy about a real tennis match between the Earl of Oxford and Philip Sidney.
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Courtly Love
A portrait of two powerful Renaissance women in northern Italy.
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Henceforward
Martin Jarvis directs Alan Ayckbourn's dark comedy set in the near future.
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Tennyson and Edison
David Pownall's play about a deal between Thomas Edison and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Chicken Soup with Barley
Arnold Wesker's landmark play portraying the age-old battle between realism and idealism.
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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's tragic love story, with Trystan Gravelle and Vanessa Kirby as the lovers.
