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Drama on 4

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

Radio 4,420 episodes

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Assisted
Tamsin Greig plays an AI assistant in this 21st-century love triangle.
04 Jul 2024,44 mins
Casting Shadows
A light-hearted drama-documentary about the astonishing Brighton and Hove Film Pioneers.
27 Jun 2024,44 mins
Franz Kafka - The Man Who Disappeared
Episode 1
Kafka’s dark comedy about an innocent’s misadventures in early 20th century America.
16 Jun 2024,57 mins
Franz Kafka - The Man Who Disappeared
Episode 2
Kafka’s dark comedy about an innocent’s misadventures in early 20th-century America.
23 Jun 2024,57 mins
Middle Men
Comedy drama about three decidedly middling referees vying for promotion.
20 Jun 2024,44 mins
The Most Important Conversations Happen in Bed
Two extraordinary women fall in love across 50 years of evolving LGBTQ+ rights in Britain.
13 Jun 2024,44 mins
Franz and Felice
Drama following the twists and turns of Franz Kafka's relationship with Felice Bauer.
11 Jun 2024,44 mins
Franz Kafka - The Trial
Josef K is arrested. But what was his crime?
09 Jun 2024,57 mins
A Tale of Ossian
Atmospheric drama about an old man with a head full of stories.
04 Jun 2024,44 mins
The Raiders
Part 1
A lost classic of Scottish literature full of kidnap, romance and breathless adventure.
26 May 2024,57 mins
The Raiders
Part 2
A lost classic of Scottish literature full of kidnap, romance and breathless adventure.
02 Jun 2024,57 mins
Nearly Light
What happens when teenagers stop going to school, living life online from their bedrooms?
30 May 2024,44 mins
Flixborough 74
By Helen Cross. Real-life stories and drama marking 50 years since the Nypro disaster.
28 May 2024,44 mins
The Invitation
Comedy drama by Katherine Chandler. Starring Siwan Morris and Kimberley Nixon.
21 May 2024,44 mins
The Missed Lives of Max and Judy (2/2)
A mind-bending, time-warping, romcom starring Alison Steadman.
09 May 2024,44 mins
The Missed Lives of Max and Judy (1/2)
A mind-bending, time-warping romcom starring Alison Steadman.
08 May 2024,44 mins
Bat Girls
Episode 1: Naila's Story
First episode of three linked dramas about young, female South Asian cricketers
17 Apr 2024,44 mins
Bat Girls
Episode 2: Karishma's Story
Episode 2 of three linked dramas about young female South Asian cricketers from Bradford.
24 Apr 2024,44 mins
Bat Girls
Episode 3: Roshina's Story
Final episode of three linked dramas about young female, South Asian Cricketers
01 May 2024,44 mins
In Good Faith
A dispute over ending life-support for a brain-stem dead child is set to destroy a family.
25 Apr 2024,44 mins
Master Mason
Comedy. Stonemason Bill Mason is the new master mason. Or is he? By Lizzy Mansfield.
09 Apr 2024,44 mins
William's Castle
A letter hidden in 1897 by an orphaned Sunderland choirboy is discovered a century later.
01 Apr 2024,44 mins
Emergency Alert: Ballistic Missile Inbound
A village in the Midlands finds itself the target of an unspecified attack from the air.
20 Mar 2024,44 mins
The Mini-Break
Esme’s meeting-the-parents on a mini-break from hell, in this modern day folk-horror.
19 Mar 2024,44 mins
Family Business
Alecky Blythe’s drama created from interviews recorded at John Lewis stores over 10 years.
16 Mar 2024,57 mins
Mouth
Winner of the bi-annual Alfred Bradley Bursary by new writer Chrissy Jamieson Jones.
13 Mar 2024,44 mins
Hello, I Appear to Have Killed My Husband
By Eugene O’Hare. Powerful psychological drama starring Michelle Fairley.
12 Mar 2024,44 mins
Dragons of the Pool
Drama inspired by the true story of Chinese seamen, forcibly repatriated from Liverpool.
07 Mar 2024,44 mins
Beside Myself
Helena Bonham Carter and Bill Nighy star in Moya O'Shea's drama about Daphne du Maurier.
06 Mar 2024,44 mins
Land of My Father
Siân Owen's drama about the Miners' Strike, to coincide with the 40th anniversary.
05 Mar 2024,44 mins