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Drama on 3 Episodes

  1. Everyday Time Machines

    Al Smith's play dealing with the scientific, physical and emotional consequences of time.

  2. Time and the Conways

    By JB Priestley. WWI has ended and the Conway family envisage a prosperous future.

  3. August 1914

    Dramatisation of Solzhenitsyn's novel about the Russian army's defeat by Germany in 1914.

  4. Document of Identity

    Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka's drama highlighting the plight of political asylum seekers.

  5. Death and the King's Horseman

    Wole Soyinka's dramatic portrayal of colonial Nigeria in the 1940s.

  6. Life in the Tomb

    World War One seen through the eyes of a Greek soldier fighting in the Macedonian trenches

  7. A Soldier and a Maker

    Iain Burnside's play on the tragic life of World War I poet and songwriter Ivor Gurney.

  8. Bretton Woods

    By Steve Waters. Dramatisation of a meeting where bankers met to save the world economy.

  9. Uncle Vanya

    A new production of Chekhov's play with Neil Dudgeon, Anton Lesser and Lyndsey Marshal.

  10. Antony and Cleopatra

    Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston star in Shakespeare's tragedy of love and power.

  11. Baby Farming

    Tanika Gupta's drama about surrogacy in India.

  12. The Boy at the Back

    Drama by Juan Mayorga in which a teenager's literary voyeurism spirals out of control.

  13. Roots

    Drama about a young woman finding her voice at a time of unprecedented social change.

  14. Is Your Love Better than Life?

    Could an Archbishop become an enemy of the state? An original drama by Frances Byrnes.

  15. Head Hunters

    By Michael Eaton. Michael Maloney plays Alfred Haddon, the first field anthropologist.

  16. The Witness

    A long-buried secret shatters a young Rwandan-born woman's feelings for her adopted father

  18. Old Times

    By Harold Pinter. In a remote farmhouse, Deeley and Kate await a mysterious visitor.

  19. Ghosts

    Ibsen's classic adapted and directed by Richard Eyre for the Almeida Theatre and Radio 3.

  20. In the Depths of Dead Love

    Howard Barker's dark comedy, with Richard E Grant playing a banished poet in ancient China

  21. Bix: Singing the Blues

    Drama fictionalising the only time Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong played together.

  22. The Outsider, by Albert Camus

    John Retallack's dramatisation of Albert Camus's classic existentialist novel L'etranger.

  23. Sunday at Sant' Agata

    Ronald Frame's imagined account of a summer's day at Verdi's country retreat.

  24. You Never Can Tell

    Martin Jarvis directs George Bernard Shaw's breezy seaside comedy.

  25. The Father

    August Strindberg's shocking play from 1890 about an imploding marriage, in a new version.

  26. Votes for Women

    Elizabeth Robins's 1907 suffragette play, starring Zoe Tapper and Samuel West.

  27. Britten 100: Imo and Ben

    Drama telling how Imogen Holst worked with Benjamin Britten on the score for Gloriana.

  28. Babbage

    David Pownall's drama about Charles Babbage, frustrated inventor of the computer.

  29. Elgar's Rondo

    By David Pownall. The reaction to his Second Symphony heightened Elgar's doubts and fears.

  30. One Winter's Afternoon

    Guy Meredith's drama about the great operatic rivalry between Verdi and Wagner.

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