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Drama on 4

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

Radio 4,420 episodes

Episodes

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Downstream
Nick Warburton's new drama takes us to Platters' boatyard and the river that runs by it.
16 May 2023,44 mins
Leaving (Part 2)
A darkly funny family drama about love, loss and legacy.
10 May 2023,44 mins
Leaving (Part 1)
A darkly funny family drama about love, loss and legacy.
09 May 2023,44 mins
A Forbidden Song
A story of forbidden love and forbidden music, with songs for the Ukrainian bandura.
04 May 2023,44 mins
Twelfth Night (Part 2)
Shakespeare's wonderful comedy of mistaken identities and unrequited love.
23 Apr 2023,57 mins
Twelfth Night (Part 1)
Shakespeare's wonderful comedy of mistaken identities and unrequited love.
22 Apr 2023,57 mins
We Should Definitely Have More Dancing
A woman with a fist in her head.
18 Apr 2023,44 mins
The Lion
News of an escaped lion turns the lives of the residents of an Estonian town upside down.
11 Apr 2023,44 mins
Word Scrubs
Siblings Mitch and Meg disagree over their great-great aunt's literary legacy.
06 Apr 2023,44 mins
Plane Speaking
An aircraft's black box flight recorder investigates the cause of an airplane crash.
01 Apr 2023,57 mins
The Voice in My Ear
Charlotte Riley stars in a real-time drama about a romantic weekend away thrown off course
28 Mar 2023,44 mins
Wild Woman of the North
A family tries to get back to a simpler way of life.
27 Mar 2023,44 mins
7 Ghosts
A modern ghost story about historic injustice, love and how to haunt a house.
20 Mar 2023,44 mins
Tinsel Girl and the Problem Parent
Comedy drama about wheelchair user Maz, starring and inspired by Cherylee Houston.
14 Mar 2023,1 min
Hindsight
Powerful drama about memory, trauma and the possibility of recovery.
13 Mar 2023,44 mins
Bess Loves Porgy (Part 2)
A musical love story for today inspired by Edwin DuBose Heyward's iconic Porgy.
12 Mar 2023,57 mins
Bess Loves Porgy (Part 1)
A musical love story for today, inspired by Edwin DuBose Heyward's iconic Porgy.
11 Mar 2023,57 mins
Maydays. Part 3: Human Dust
David Edgar’s powerful drama exploring idealism and revolutionary politics concludes.
01 Mar 2023,44 mins
Maydays. Part 2: Kronstadt
David Edgar’s powerful drama exploring idealism and revolutionary politics.
28 Feb 2023,44 mins
Maydays. Part 1: New Jerusalem
David Edgar’s powerful drama exploring idealism and revolutionary politics.
27 Feb 2023,44 mins
Voices from the End of the World
Lucy Catherine's drama-documentary about travelling to the Arctic on a barquentine ship.
25 Feb 2023,60 mins
The Bronze Horseman
Alexander Pushkin's poem The Bronze Horseman dramatised by Michael Symmons Roberts.
19 Feb 2023,57 mins
Happy Birthday Mr President
The drama behind one of the most famous birthday parties in history.
14 Feb 2023,44 mins
Danger 2023 by Michael Symmons Roberts
VIP visitors get trapped in total darkness in an underground data bank.
11 Feb 2023,57 mins
50 Berkeley Square
London’s most haunted house prepares to give up its secrets.
08 Feb 2023,44 mins
The Chatterleys (Part 2)
DH Lawrence's classic retold in 21st-century Redcar.
05 Feb 2023,57 mins
The Chatterleys (Part 1)
DH Lawrence's classic retold in 21st century Redcar.
29 Jan 2023,57 mins
Back Home
Noreen returns to Zambia after 20 years in the UK to face the family she left behind.
24 Jan 2023,44 mins
Eat and Run
In Paolo Chianta's comedy, a family become unlikely criminals as serial 'dine and dashers'
18 Jan 2023,44 mins
Border Call
It's 2027. The secretary of state for Northern Ireland faces calls for a border poll.
10 Jan 2023,44 mins