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Saturday Drama Episodes

  1. Simon Passmore - Going to Ground

    Fearing a German invasion, tensions run high for a resistance unit in Kent.

  2. Simon Bovey - Mountain of Light

    The world's largest diamond is at the Great Exhibition. John Rayverne is out to steal it.

  3. Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry, part 2

    Testimony of soldiers and a former member of the Official IRA.

  4. JB Priestley - An Inspector Calls

    An affluent family's celebration is disrupted by a police inspector's visit over a suicide

  5. The Mouse That Roared

    By Leonard Wibberley. The tiny country of Grand Fenwick is forced to declare war on the US

  6. The Jubilee Singers

    By Adrian Mitchell. The story of the Jubilee Singers' tour of Europe in the 19th century.

  7. An English Tragedy

    By Ronald Harwood. The true story of Second World War traitor John Amery.

  8. The Indian in the Cupboard

    By Lynne Reid Banks. 11-year-old Omri's plastic Native American Indian figure comes alive.

  9. Boz Temple-Morris - Scream

    Crime caper based on the extraordinary story behind the theft of Edvard Munch's painting.

  11. AL Kennedy - Confessions of a Medium

    In 1870s London, Mr Parker is looking for more meaning to life, and then meets a medium.

  12. Vincent Price and the Horror of the English Blood Beast

    By Matthew Broughton. Behind the scenes of the making of classic film Witchfinder General.

  13. Othello

    Northern Broadsides theatre company's version of Shakespeare's tragedy of love turned sour

  14. Craig Murray - Murder in Samarkand

    Britain's new young Ambassador to Uzbekistan is shocked over government torture tactics.

  15. Slaughterhouse 5

    Dramatisation of the celebrated anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut.

  16. Raven Black

    Atmospheric adaptation of Ann Cleeves acclaimed crime novel, set in Shetland at midwinter.

  17. Dover and the Sleeping Beauty

    By Paul Mendelson. Inspector Dover investigates when a girl in a coma is finally murdered.

  18. Noel Coward - Private Lives

    Divorced couple Amanda and Elyot meet again on their second honeymoons with new spouses.

  19. Educating Rita

    By Willy Russell. The relationship between a feisty working-class OU student and her tutor

  20. L Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    Linda Marshall Griifiths' dramatisation of L Frank Baum's iconic tale.

  21. Amelia Bullmore - The Middle

    A close family is brought to its knees by one momentary indiscretion.

  22. Michael Dobbs - A Family Affair

    Michael Dobbs' play follows Margaret Thatcher's last traumatic days in power.

  23. The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial

    By Peter Goodchild. In 1925, one of the most unusual trials in US legal history took place

  24. 1989: The Shape of the Table

    By David Edgar. Crowds gather in the streets of a fictional eastern European country.

  25. Robert L Pike - Bullitt

    Lieutenant Clancy only has hours to find the killer of a vital witness.

  26. Erich Kaestner - Emil and the Detectives

    Country boy Emil enlists the aid of Berlin street children to help him catch a thief.

  27. William Nicholson - Shadowlands

    The moving true story of the 1950s relationship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.

  28. Annie Caulfield - The Von Trapps And Me

    The famous story of the Von Trapps told from another perspective.

  29. Choice of Straws

    By ER Braithwaite. Jack faces up to life after the fatal stabbing of his twin brother Dave

  30. The Conflict is Over

    Dramatisation by Michael Eaton of the events that led to the 1993 Downing St Declaration.

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