A BBC Radio 4 drama looking at the impact on a divorcing couple of recent changes to British prenuptial law. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 21 January 2011. Two academics, British Paul (Sam Dale) and American Amy (Sally Orrock), have married in the US with a prenuptial agreement. They did so because Paul's previous marriage ended i...

Tom Baker stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of John le Carr‚'s powerful thriller. In the third year of perestroika, London publisher Barley Blair is sent a manuscript from Moscow. Exposing Russian nuclear threats as a sham, the information-if it's genuine-could shatter East-West relations. Jazz-loving, hard-drinking Blair is hardly...

A sparkling BBC Radio 4 production of Alan Ayckbourn's festive play, starring Frances Barber, Phil Daniels, Bill Nighy, Geoffrey Palmer and John Sessions Christmas is the season of good cheer and harmony among men, but things are not working out quite that way in the Bunker household. As a motley collection of friends and relatives fill the house...

The listener response to this play when it was first broadcast as part of the 'God's Country' series was overwhelming and it has gone on to become an audio bestseller. Performed by Becky Simpson, Spoonface is a young autistic Jewish girl who, learning that she is terminally ill, contemplates the meaning of life and death in a dramatic monologue int...

A frank and uncompromising BBC Radio 3 drama about a young woman in prison. Originally broadcast on 5 February 2011 as part of 'The Wire', a showcase for works that push the boundaries of drama and narrative. Tomorrow 23-year-old Ronia will have the most important conversation of her life - her parole hearing. Ronia has been serving an 'Imprisonmen...

John Moffatt and Rosemary Leach star in this BBC Radio 4 production of Noel Coward's patriotic play about the ups and downs of a working-class family between 1919 and 1939 'This Happy Breed' opens in 1919, when the Gibbons family have just moved to their smart new home in the suburbs of South London. Against a background of social change and nation...

Julia and David work together in the family archives. One day a mysterious envelope arrives for David, with letters from 43 women, all answering a lonely hearts advert he didn't place. Directed by Pauline Harris. Starring David Calder, Barbara Marten, Helen Flanagan, and Sacha Dhawan.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Jack Rosenthal's award-winning television play, starring Hugo Raine. At the tender age of thirteen Eliot Green is about to become a man - in the Jewish religion at least. In synagogue, in front of the whole congregation, he will read and sing in Hebrew from the Torah (the Hebrew scrolls) - this after a year...

Nicholas Le Prevost stars as the French detective in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation. In 'The Bar on the Seine' a condemned man tells Maigret about a riverside drinking hole where a murderer lurks undetected. Pursuing the clue, Maigret witnesses a death and discovers a much older crime...

After the short reign and mysterious death of Pope John Paul I, the election of a new Pope takes place in an atmosphere of high tension between opposing factions within the Vatican, including those who want to elect the first non-Italian Pope for over four hundred years. Starring David Calder, Alison Reid, Nicholas Le Prevost, Andrew Hilton, Nigel...

A new BBC Radio 4 comedy by Stephen Keyworth all about the pitfalls of starring in a major British soap, getting yourself into deep water and trying to find your way out again. With the interesting and unique twist of EastEnders' star Nitin Ganatra, starring as himself. 'The Continuity Man' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 9 Feb...

A BBC Radio 4 comedy musical drama, 'The Diva in Me', was specially written by multi award-winning playwright Charlotte Jones, for the actress and extraordinary mimic Phillippa Stanton. The music, woven into the narrative is an essential part of the story. Phillipa spends Saturday night eating toast and fantasizing about a boy-man from Southern El...

A full-cast dramatisation starring Nicholas Le Prevost as Inspector Maigret In 'Maigret: Inspector Cadaver', Maigret has to deal with an old enemy - an ex-police officer nicknamed 'Inspector Cadaver' - who seems to be doing everything in his power to obstruct him.

Adaptation of Keats' sensual narrative poem about the ill-starred love affair of the serpent Lamia and the innocent mortal Lycius. Starring Paterson Joseph, Charlotte Emmerson, Tom Ferguson, and Jonathan Keeble. With original music by John Harle. Sung by Sarah Leonard.

BBC Radio 4 science fiction adventure by Mike Walker, originally broadcast on 19 March 2011. When five lost souls, recruited by a company to travel to an abandoned planet, all they know is that they are there to retrieve the only known sample of an ore left over from an old mining operation. However, their task becomes considerably more complicat...

Nicholas Le Prevost stars as the French detective in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation. In 'Madame Maigret's Own Case', when Madame Maigret makes a friend outside her dentist's office, she stumbles upon the resolution of one of her husband's most stubborn investigations.

A full-cast dramatisation starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon Georges Simenon and his masterful inspector, Jules Maigret, look back together over one of their favourite cases in this full-cast dramatisation that has been specially adapted for radio from the original novel. In 'Maigret and Mo...

A full-cast dramatisation starring Nicholas Le Prevost as Inspector Maigret In 'Maigret and the Burglar's Wife', "Sad Freddie" is committing a burglary when he discovers the body of a dead woman, holding a telephone in her hand. Can Maigret believe the burglar's wife in the face of other evidence?

A full-cast dramatisation starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon Georges Simenon and his masterful inspector, Jules Maigret, look back together over one of their favourite cases in this full-cast dramatisation that has been specially adapted for radio from the original novel. In 'Maigret and th...

A full-cast dramatisation starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon Georges Simenon and his masterful inspector, Jules Maigret, look back together over one of their favourite cases in this full-cast dramatisation that has been specially adapted for radio from the original novel. In 'Maigret and th...

Four full-cast dramatisations starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon Maigret and the Minister/Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets/Maigret and Monsieur Charles/Maigret and the Madman of Bergerac Georges Simenon and his masterful inspector, Jules Maigret, look back together over four of their greates...