Saturday Drama Episodes Episode guide
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The Red Shoes
Karen's heart is set on some magic red shoes that she cannot resist, whatever the cost.
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens's classic story, adapted for actors, singers and orchestra by Neil Brand.
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The Boy from Aleppo Who Painted the War
The Syrian conflict seen through the eyes of a teenage boy with Asperger's.
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Lanark
Adaptation of Alasdair Gray's cult novel, telling the stories of Duncan Thaw and Lanark.
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Under Milk Wood
Richard Burton, Matthew Rhys, Ruth Jones star in Dylan Thomas's classic 'play for voices'.
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Jonathan Myerson - Reykjavik
Rollercoaster drama about the surprise Reagan-Gorbachev summit in 1986.
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Alan Bennett - Denmark Hill
Idiosyncratic take on Hamlet seen largely through the eyes of a 15-year old-girl.
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Murder Under Trust: The Massacre at Glencoe
Adrian Bean's play dramatises events leading up to the infamous Highland massacre in 1692.
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Peter Brough - His Master's Voice
Rob Brydon is Peter Brough the ventriloquist, in the true story behind Educating Archie.
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Red Velvet
By Lolita Chakrabarti. Award-winning drama starring Adrian Lester as actor Ira Aldridge.
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Nick Stafford - The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's courtroom battle with the Marquess of Queensbury.
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If Only
David Edgar's tongue-in-cheek drama about the rise, and possible fall, of the Coalition.
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Martin Jarvis directs his fourth Ian Fleming for Radio 4. Toby Stephens returns as 007.
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Paul Sellar - The Moonflask
A group of jobseekers pool their skills to steal a Ming vase and return it to its owner.
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Four Quartets
Jeremy Irons reads TS Eliot's four linked meditations.
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Woman in Mind
By Alan Ayckbourn. After a blow to the head, Susan encounters an perfect, fantasy family.
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Secrets of the Small Hours
A married couple confront each other after the husband attempted to have his wife murdered
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Winter Exercise
David Aaronovitch presents a docudrama examining a secret government Cold War exercise.
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Carine Adler - Angel Maker
Lili arrives in London penniless, set on a permanent arrangement with her rich boyfriend.
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Solomon and Marion
By Lara Foot. South African story of an unlikely friendship.
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Christopher Lee - Air-Force One
What really happened after JFK's murder, in the hospital and on the presidential jet?
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Mike Bartlett - The Right Honourable
The youngest MP in the House of Commons is drawn into a web of political intrigue.
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Lucy Gannon - Topaz
An unfortunate 19th-century poet walks from Dundee to Balmoral to seek Queen Victoria.
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Goodbye
An extraordinary story of friendship and farewells from Morwenna Banks.
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Christopher Reason - The Confessions of Caminada
Drama based on a case from the memoirs a real-life detective in 19th-century Manchester.
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Calum's Road
Drama based on the true story of one Raasay man's road-building feat. Ian McDiarmid stars.
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Rumours
By Colin Shindler. Private Eye, the Profumo Affair and the end of a British Government.
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Somerset Maugham - For Services Rendered
A progressive English family try to live their lives under the shadow of World War One.