Drama on 3 Episodes Episode guide
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Serious Money
Caryl Churchill's dramatic satire of financial excess and corporate greed in 1980s London.
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Flare Path
Terence Rattigan's 1941 love-triangle drama between a pilot, his wife and a film star.
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Dreams and Censorship
David Pownall's play about Shakespeare's reaction to the King James Bible.
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New Mystery Plays
Old Testament stories revisited: Creation; The Flood; Exodus; Samson; David and Goliath.
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A Thousand Kisses
Frederic Raphael's new play exploring the life and work of Roman poet Catullus.
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Wuthering Heights
A new adaptation by Jonathan Holloway of Emily Bronte's great novel of violent obsession.
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The Secret Grief
David Eldridge's play in which a young man take up with a couple of mysterious strangers.
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The Chalk Garden
Drama set in a country house, when the arrival of a judge reveals shocking secrets.
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Spring Storm, by Tennessee Williams
Adaptation of Tennessee WIlliams's play, starring Liz White and Michael Malarkey.
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Helen
Don Taylor's translation of Euripides's tragicomedy. With Frances Barber.
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Woyzeck
Seminal 19th-century expressionist play based on a real life murder case.
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Danton's Death
Georg Buchner's radical retelling of the fall-out from the French Revolution.
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Massistonia
Colin Teevan's play based on his own trip to Macedonia to direct a theatre production.
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Dunsinane
David Greig's Macbeth sequel, about a man trying to restore peace in a war-torn country.
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Living with Princes
Play in which essayist Michel de Montaigne is sent on a diplomatic mission around France.
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Charles and Mary
Carlo Gebler's play about relationship between the writers of The Tales Of Shakespeare.
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Amadeus
Peter Hall's 1983 version of Peter Shaffer's award-winning play Amadeus.
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The Marriage of Figaro
A rare chance to hear Beaumarchais's original play, on which Mozart's opera was based.
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The Royal Game
Adaptation of Stefan Zweig's novella about chess madness.
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Gilead
Adaptation of Marilynne Robinson's novel about a minister facing death.
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Perpetual Light
A corporation finds a way of making interactive avatars of the dead. By Melissa Murray.
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Migrant Mother
Drama inspired by Dorothea Lange's iconic photograph of Florence Owens Thompson.
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Say Goodbye Twice
Young playwright Oladipo Agboluaje's new Peckham-set comedy noir play.
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Natural Born Caretakers
A new, darkly humorous drama focusing on a day in the life of a social worker.
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The Unfortunates, by BS Johnson
Adaptation of BS Johnson's novel about a journalist's memories of his dear, dead friend.
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The Great Game
Robin Lustig introduces four plays tracing the history of war in Afghanistan.
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19/09/2010
Faust is tempted into a contract with the Devil and his life is changed.
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Faith Healer
Brian Friel's classic play about a failed Irish faith healer returning to his native land.
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Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin's classic novel set in Paris in 1954 in its world premiere radio production.