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Drama on 3 Episodes

  1. Samson Agonistes

    A production of Milton's dramatic poem, for Radio 3's Milton 400th anniversary celebration

  2. Great Escape

    Zimbabwean playwright Andrew Whaley's satire set in Zimbabwe during the slum clearances.

  3. Pericles

    An adventure full of tyrants, incest, murder, knights, a great hero and the goddess Diana.

  4. The Pattern of Painful Adventures

    Antony Sher plays William Shakespeare in a play about the Bard's life.

  5. Tamburlaine: Shadow of God

    A warlord, an historian and a poet: a dramatic clash between three key historical figures.

  6. All Quiet on the Western Front

    The story of a group of young German soldiers enduring the realities of World War I.

  7. Free Thinking - Drama on 3

    A new play about abortion by award-winning TV dramatist Tony Marchant.

  8. Caligari

    A play centring on the story of the sinister mesmerist Dr Caligari and his slave Cesare.

  9. Black Watch

    By Gregory Burke. Based on interviews by Burke with former soldiers who served in Iraq.

  10. The Duchess of Malfi

    By John Webster. A new production of one of the great Jacobean plays.

  11. Tulips in Winter

    Michelene Wandor's play explores the life of the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza.

  12. Season of Migration to the North

    A dramatisation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's sensual and shocking thriller.

  13. A Disappearing Number

    A play about our compulsion to understand, exploring mathematics and creativity.

  14. Blue Wonder

    A young secretary unwittingly becomes romantically involved with an East German spy.

  15. Your Only Man

    A play imagining what might have happened if the author Brian O'Nolan's two alter egos met

  16. Two Men from Delft

    In 1675, Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, a friend of Vermeer, made an astonishing discovery.

  17. Piper Alpha

    A play chronicling the events of the 1988 Piper Alpha oil rig disaster.

  18. The Wild Duck

    One of Henrik Ibsen's most powerful dramas, exploring the tragic impact of family secrets.

  19. Bazajet

  20. True West

    Screenwriter Austin's work on a film script is disrupted by the arrival of his brother Lee

  21. Shylock

    Shylock's friend Antonio needs a loan and they agree to a forfeit of a pound of flesh.

  22. The Vertical Hour

    Nadia has settled opinions and relationships - until she meets her boyfriend's father.

  23. The Leopard

    Don Fabrizio contemplates his obsolescence amid the social changes of the Risorgimento.

  24. Othello

    A production from London's Donmar Warehouse, with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role.

  25. Professor Bernhardi

    Professor Bernhardi, by Arthur Schnitzler. Set in Vienna in 1900.

  26. Yesterday an Incident Occurred

    After an unprovoked attack in a shopping centre, no one comes forward as a witness.

  27. The Country Wife

    A man spreads the false rumour that he is impotent to gain access to other men's wives.

  28. Rudolpho's Zest

    When Rudolpho reveals that he can't age beyond mid-life he finds his powers no longer work

  29. Swan Song

    Paul Scofield stars in Anton Chekhov's play about an elderly actor confronting his ghosts.

  30. A Long Way from Home

    A play about the singer Marvin Gaye's final years, spent in Begium.

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