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Saturday Drama Episodes

  1. Jake Liebowitz: A Life in Film

    Charting the auteur film director's long career following his mysterious disappearance.

  2. Mark Lawson - Suspicion for 10 Voices

    Composer Will Byrd is charged with coding papist messages in the music of the Chapel Royal

  3. Fay Weldon - The Weather Girl

    A psychologist sent to assess a female prisoner is plunged into a disturbing amoral world.

  4. The Letter of Last Resort

    David Greig's darkly comic play satirising the British position on nuclear deterrents.

  5. Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince

    Niccolo Machiavelli is in the dock to appeal against the treatment of his book The Prince.

  6. The Last Tycoon

    1930s Hollywood studio head Munroe Stahr is at the top of his game, until love strikes.

  7. Love, etc

    Julian Barnes's absorbing tale of betrayal and revenge wrapped within humour and despair.

  8. Frances Iles - Before the Fact

    Lina agrees to marry a charming stranger, but is he all that he seems?

  9. Great Escape: The Justice

    Stephen Tompkinson stars in the story of the post-war manhunt to avenge the Great Escape.

  10. Noel Coward - Present Laughter

    Noel Coward's play follows a few days in the life of self-obsessed actor Garry Essendine.

  11. Jack Shaefer - Shane

    Homesteader Marian is caught between her dependable husband, and a mysterious stranger.

  12. Hombre

    Elmore Leonard's classic western about John Russell, a white man raised by Indians.

  13. Hedda Gabler

    Ibsen's classic drama of passion and desperation. Starring Sheridan Smith.

  14. The Iraq Dossier

    The inside story of the controversial document that persuaded MPs to back the 2003 war.

  15. The Wind in the Willows

    Kenneth Grahame's classic story with script for actors and score for 麻豆社SO by Neil Brand.

  16. Mark Davies Markham - The Liberty of Norton Folgate

    Inspired by, and starring members of, Madness - a tale of London's melting pot of cultures

  17. Don Webb - Boots on the Ground

    Danny Marks volunteers for speed reaction tests. A friend on the same course goes missing.

  18. Headlong

    A struggle to lay hands on a long-lost materspiece. Adapted from Michael Frayn's novel.

  19. Michael Frayn - Skios

    Identity swap and absurdity on a sunlit Greek island. But where is the real Dr Wilfred?

  20. White Snow

    Faced with an upstart stepdaughter, the queen is forced into decisive and deadly action.

  21. Red Shoes

    Karen's heart is set on a pair of red shoes whose magic compels her to dance to her death.

  22. Lewis Carroll - Alice through the Looking Glass

    Alice's fantastical story collides with Radio 4, as she crashes a giant game of chess.

  23. Carlo Collodi - Pinocchio

    Geppetto's wooden puppet miraculously comes to life.

  24. A Slow Air

    By David Harrower. Siblings Morna and Athol have not spoken for 14 years. Why not?

  26. The Gothic Imagination: Bloody Poetry

    Howard Brenton's play about the inception of Mary Shelley's gothic myth of Frankenstein.

  27. Marks & Gran - Love Me Do

    by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. A love story set during the Cuban missile crisis.

  28. The Air Gap

    Factually-based drama about Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of supplying WikiLeaks.

  29. Close the Coalhouse Door

    Alan Plater's 1960s political docudrama charting the miners' struggles for justice.

  30. Blasphemy and the Governor of Punjab

    Gripping account of the murder of Pakistani politician and businessman Salmaan Taseer.

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