Drama on 3 Episodes Episode guide
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Courtly Love
A portrait of two powerful Renaissance women in northern Italy.
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Henceforward
Martin Jarvis directs Alan Ayckbourn's dark comedy set in the near future.
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Tennyson and Edison
David Pownall's play about a deal between Thomas Edison and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Chicken Soup with Barley
Arnold Wesker's landmark play portraying the age-old battle between realism and idealism.
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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's tragic love story, with Trystan Gravelle and Vanessa Kirby as the lovers.
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Vaclav Havel - Largo Desolato
Can the dissident Leopold Nettles survive the attentions of the state? With Richard Briers
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Chowringhee
Mani Shankar Mukerji's gentle comedy set in a grand Calcutta hotel in the late 1950s.
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Sunset
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Andrei Demidov must make an impossible decision.
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A Man's World
Drama following four violent male offenders on a six-month rehabilitation course.
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My Generation
A family saga set in Leeds covering four decades of the protest movement.
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Sea Change
By John Fletcher. The dark story behind the creation of the coalition government of 1940.
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Things Might Change or Cease
Linda Marshall Griffiths's drama about estranged sisters on a journey to find their father
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The Lost Salford Sioux
Anjum Malik's 19th-century mystery set in modern Salford.
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The Recruiting Officer
Farquhar's 1709 Restoration comedy, where wives are recruited while soldiers are wooed.
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Skyvers
By Barry Reckord. The last days of school for a group of boys at a sink 60s comprehensive.
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The Plough and the Stars
Sean O'Casey's classic play set in the midst of the Easter Rising of 1916.
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The Piano Lesson
August Wilson's play about a brother and sister and a piano carved with African faces.
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Cock
By Mike Bartlett. The Royal Court Theatre production, starring Ben Whishaw.
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Mincemeat
Adrian Jackson and Farhana Sheikh's wartime tale of deception and hidden identity.
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The Strange Case of the Man in the Velvet Jacket
Robert Forrest's play based on Robert Louis Stevenson's early life in Edinburgh.
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Mogadishu
Vivienne Franzmann's play exploring race, abuse and power in a London secondary school.
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Brand
Henrik Ibsen's play about a religious zealot who refuses all compromise.
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Saint Joan, by George Bernard Shaw
An adaptation of Shaw's play dramatising the life and trials of Joan of Arc.
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The Comic Illusion
Ranjit Bolt's version of Corneille's classic French comedy.
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Glass Chair Chair Glass
A comedy about what might have happened if Tommy Cooper had met Eugene Ionesco.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy centring on the adventures of four young lovers.
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My Heart's a Suitcase
Play about two young women on holiday in Brighton confronting the truth about their lives.
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Widowers' Houses
Martin Jarvis directs Ian McKellen in George Bernard Shaw's play about slum landlords.
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Money
Samuel West directs Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 19th century satirical comedy Money.
