A brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Raymond Chandler mystery featuring private eye, Philip Marlowe. Marlowe is now married, living in the resort town of Poodle Springs. Once again, he sets himself up as an investigator and soon finds himself in the middle of blackmail and murder.

Tom Baker stars as the Fourth Doctor in the fifth of five thrilling brand new adventures, with Susan Jameson as Mrs Wibbsey, Richard Franklin as Mike Yates, and David Troughton as the Visitor. It has been three months since the Hexford catastrophe, and Mike Yates is trying to show strength of leadership to the villagers. But with morale low and sup...

As part of the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series: 'Turf Wars', in this short 3rd play of 4, 'How's Your Mother?' by Simon Brett, Michael Maloney stars as mysterious villager Humphrey Partridge. In a gossipy village Humphrey is reckoned to be anti-social, indeed stand-offish. But he always has an excuse - namely that he has to look after his ailing el...

First episode to kick-off the BBC Radio 4 comedy-drama series, 'Turf Wars' by Nick Warburton, originally broadcast on the 9 March 2011. This delicious comedy, 'Losing the Plot', stars James Fleet as Edward, a bashful man who, passing a local allotment, speaks to an attractive female allotee (Joanna Monro). He decides there and then that he must app...

Four comic dramas about boundaries that are both territorial and personal, as heard on BBC Radio 4 Territory is the theme that unites these four humorous plays - whether that means fighting over an allotment plot, dealing with the sudden partition of a country, guarding the privacy of a garden or battling with the council over school catchment area...

Episode 2 of 4 of the BBC Radio 4 comedy-drama series 'Turf Wars', Nigel Planner stars in 'An Incident at the Border', Kieran Lynn's comedy about boundaries that are both territorial and personal. Directed by Peter Kavanagh and originally broadcast 16 October 2011. Arthur (Joe Kloska) and Olivia (Leah Brotherhead), take in the sun in their local pa...

Ronnie Corbett stars as granddad Sandy Hopper in Series 2 of the sitcom that reunites him with the writers of his hit comedy 'Sorry' - Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. In this second series, Sandy is still growing old happily along with his dog Henry. His grown-up children want him to move out of the family home so they can get their hands on their...

Ronnie Corbett stars as granddad Sandy Hopper in Series 2 of the sitcom that reunites him with the writers of his hit comedy 'Sorry' - Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. In the first episode, 'Catchment if you Can', Sandy's quiet life is shattered when his daughter and son-in-law make use of his address

Ronnie Corbett stars as granddad Sandy Hopper in Series 2 of the sitcom that reunites him with the writers of his hit comedy 'Sorry' - Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. In the second episode, 'Knock Down Ginger', Sandy goofs when lodger Dolores feels guilty over the rent and decides to be a housekeeper in Edinburgh.

Ronnie Corbett plays granddad Sandy Hopper in this sitcom which reunites him with the writers of his hit comedy 'Sorry' - Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. In this third episode, 'Temptation', generous Sandy sponsors his son-in-law in a charity marathon, but discovers he's splashed out too much.

Ronnie Corbett plays granddad Sandy Hopper in this sitcom which reunites him with the writers of his hit comedy 'Sorry' - Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. In the fourth episode, 'The Never Ending Story', Dolores seems to be seeing a married man, but Sandy's grandfatherly duties come before his fatherly ones.

Ronnie Corbett plays granddad Sandy Hopper in this sitcom which reunites him with the writers of his hit comedy 'Sorry' - Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. In the fifth episode, 'Tangled Web', whenever people tell porkies, they seem to come to Sandy for help. But deceiving needs practice...

Ronnie Corbett plays granddad Sandy Hopper in this sitcom which reunites him with the writers of his hit comedy 'Sorry' - Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. In the sixth episode, 'It was a Dark and Stormy Night', Dolores rashly plunges into an oral history project and reveals the yawning chasms dividing the Hoppers.

Born and bred in Dundee, Servant sees himself as a people's champion. His extraordinary self-belief stems largely from his dominant position in Dundee's notorious Cheeseburger Wars of the early 1980s - a period of riotous appreciation for the traditional American snack that caused madness on the streets and lined Servant's pockets. He continued his...

An absurd black comedy thriller, set in Baghdad. The first of three Arabian Afternoons - contemporary plays inspired by tales from The Arabian Nights. Junior diplomat Bob Goldacre is in trouble: the American businessman he was looking after has vanished from a Baghdad street. As the suspects pile up, Goldacre is going to have his work cut out if he...

It's a big day for Sally, and she's been planning it for weeks. But when her mystery man finally arrives, she's left hopelessly unprepared. Intimate drama by award-winning playwright Nick Payne. Starring Olivia Colman, Ralph Ineson, Nishi Malde, Nishi Malde, Jane Whittenshaw, and Simon Bubb. Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.

Northern Ireland was a very dark place in the 1980s. A hunger strike was looming, street violence and tit for tat murders were an everyday occurrence, but in a small corner of West Belfast something extraordinary was happening. In a factory in Dunmurry a unique new sports car was being built, a DMC 12, a style icon for the late 20th century. For 2...

It's difficult being young and in love when your Dad is a high ranking official in Ceausescu's communist machine, your mother weeps all the time and your brother is trying to kill you. This wild and sideways look at life behind the Iron Curtain during Ceausescu's regime is a first play by a young Hungarian writer living in Romania and was shortlist...

John Gordon Sinclair stars as Scotland's most celebrated doctor in six BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations. When Dr Cameron gets called in to see a patient, he doesn't expect it to be his new partner Dr Finlay. But the new doctor is full of surprises: caring, stubborn, idealistic and clever, Finlay might have been welcomed to the practice with a bla...

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Virgil's sweeping epic, starring Ralph Fiennes as Aeneas and Derek Jacobi as the Narrator. One of the classics of all time, The Aeneid was Virgil's last and greatest work. In it, he recounts in vivid imagery the legendary origin of the Roman Empire. The story begins after the Greeks have destroyed the city of Troy. Th...

One of the most popular sitcoms of the 60s, All Gas and Gaiters successfully brought its good-natured satire of ecclesiastical life to radio in 1970. So here again, once more up to their clerical collars in confusion, are the unforgettable quartet who share the cloisters of St Ogg's Cathedral: the Rev. Mervyn Noote, the Bishop, the Dean and the Arc...