Drama on 3 Episodes Available now
Hamlet
A restored production of Shakespeare's play with Ronald Pickup, first broadcast in 1971.
Messiaen and the Birds
Poet Michael Symmons Roberts explores composer Olivier Messiaen's obsession with birdsong.
Saint Joan of the Anthropocene
Linda Marshall Griffiths' contemporary re-imagining of George Bernard Shaw鈥檚 Saint Joan.
The Dead
Epiphanies at a Twelfth Night party in Dublin. By James Joyce. Read by Jonathan Forbes.
Guys and Dolls at Christmas
Two seasonal tales from Guys and Dolls writer Damon Runyon, performed by Jamie Parker.
Gershwin & Miss Swift
The extraordinary true story of composer Kay Swift and her affair with George Gershwin.
War with the Newts
By Ed Harris adapted from Karel 膶apek鈥檚 1936 novel. With Do帽a Croll and Laura Elphinstone.
Star
Drama about Judy Garland, Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin and the making of A Star Is Born.
Ivanov
Rory Kinnear stars as Nicholas Ivanov in a new version of Chekhov's stage classic.
From Morning to Midnight
Georg Kaiser鈥檚 banned 1912 expressionist drama in a new modern translation and adaptation.
