Drama on 3 Episodes Episode guide
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The Masque of Anarchy
A commemoration of the Peterloo Massacre in August 1819.
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The Invisible
Linda Marshall Griffiths's original drama speculates on what the future might look like.
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The Phlebotomist
Ella Road's debut stage play reimagined for radio from its Olivier-nominated London run.
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The School For Scandal
Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis direct Sheridan’s amazingly up-to-date comedy.
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Coriolanus
Shakespeare's penetrating portrayal of political turmoil in a society at war with itself.
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The Two Noble Kinsmen
Commonly considered Shakespeare's last play about love, betrayal and disguise.
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
One of Shakespeare's earliest plays – about love, betrayal and disguise.
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Mabinogi - Part 1
A new fantasy adventure, based on the iconic work of medieval Welsh mythology.
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Leave Taking
Bush Theatre's revival of a beautifully observed play about the immigration experience.
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Lorenzaccio
Bold new version of classic French drama about politics, liberty and corruption.
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Love Thy Synth
A woman’s identity is threatened by the podcasts she makes with her synth doppelganger
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Orlando
A bold and inventive re-imagining of the Virginia Woolf classic.
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Arden of Faversham
True crime in Tudor England as Alice and her lover Mosby plot to murder her husband Arden.
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Ropewalk House
By Anita Sullivan. A daring site-specific theatre piece set in a derelict rope factory.
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Sea Longing
Drama exploring the mythic world of selkie and seal stories. Stars Stephen Dillane.
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The Unfortunates
Martin Freeman stars in a dramatisation of BS Johnson's 1960s 'novel in a box'.
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The Cherry Orchard
A Chekhov classic in a new version with music. It's 1903 and revolution is in the air.
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The Moors of England
London, 1600. Fortunatus, a black Muslim refugee, takes drastic action to change history.
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The Shadow of a Doubt
Phoebe Fox stars in a world premiere of a newly discovered play by Edith Wharton from 1901
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Three Letters
Drama from Edinburgh's Summerhall. Three Letters - written and performed by Nell Leyshon.
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Death of a Matriach
Part of Radio 3’s showcase of new audio plays at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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1963
Writer Peter Flannery looks back at the pivotal year of his childhood: 1963.
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I Told You I Was Ill
Plays and poetry in a tribute to Spike Milligan. Starring Jessica Hynes.
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(After) Fear
Recorded at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a psychological thriller by Oliver Emanuel.
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An Evening with Angela Carter
New productions of two of Angela Carter's iconic radio plays from the 1970s.
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The Reality Tunnel
A comedy about the philosophy of sound. Do we all hear things the same way?
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The Blackwood
Poet Jacob Polley's drama tells the story of boyhood friends Wen and Jackself
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Of a Lifetime
Two young women travel round Europe, when a painful past tests their friendship.
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The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams's breakthrough play about a family in crisis in 1930s St Louis.