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Drama on 3 Episodes

  1. Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill

    Eugene O'Neill's drama about one devastating day in the lives of the Tyrone family.

  2. My Own Life

    Joss Ackland and Ken Stott read the final works of Oliver Sacks and David Hume.

  3. Iphigenia in Crimea

    Tony Harrison's most recent play imagines Crimean War soldiers staging Euripides's play.

  4. Richard II

    When Shakespeare's Richard II banishes Bolingbroke he brings about his own downfall.

  5. Pericles

    Shakespeare's rarely produced Pericles, in a disturbing new version starring Willard White

  6. A Streetcar Named Desire

    Tennessee Williams's seminal drama, starring Anne-Marie Duff as Blanche.

  7. The American Grandmother

    Drama about a woman returning to her estranged family after many years away.

  8. Oedipus the King

    Christopher Eccleston as Oedipus in Anthony Burgess's adaptation of this great tragedy.

  9. Jenny Lomas

    David Eldridge's conspiracy thriller examining the corrosive nature of paranoia.

  10. The Government Inspector

    Gogol's satire on corruption and sleaze, starring Lenny Henry and Roger Allam.

  11. Andromache

    By Jean Racine. With Tanya Moodie as Andromache and Joel MacCormack as Orestes.

  12. Rosmersholm

    Ibsen's play about a man rejecting society's conservative values. Will his peers let him?

  13. Manfred

    Manfred, haunted by a dark crime, invokes spirits in search of solace but finds no peace.

  14. The Home and the World

    Tanika Gupta's updating of Rabindranath Tagore's classic novel, giving it a modern context

  15. The Tidebreak

    Three lyrical, linked tales set on the sea defences of Morecambe Bay.

  16. Autumn Journal

    Colin Morgan reads Louis MacNeice's poetic testament of living through the late 1930s.

  17. The Birthday Party

    Harold Pinter's iconic comedy of menace, The Birthday Party, starring Toby Jones.

  18. The Stroma Sessions

    Found footage drama charting the time a group of musicians spent on an abandoned island.

  19. Mary Rose

    JM Barrie's haunting play about a sinister Scottish island and a girl who never grows up.

  20. The Visa Affair

    In 1965, Joe Orton has a Kafkaesque encounter at the American Embassy.

  21. Radio Beckett

    Matthew Sweet with a sequence of radio plays by Samuel Beckett, with Ian McKellen.

  22. The Present Experiment

    Robin Brooks's comedy celebrating the birth of the Third Programme.

  23. The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler

    The fragmented life of the surrealist, poet, songwriter and eccentric, Ivor Cutler.

  24. Remorse, or, The Sorrows of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    By Robin Brooks. Drama about Coleridge's ill-fated friendship with Wordsworth.

  25. The Wolf in the Water

    Drama exploring what happened to Jessica, Shylock's daughter in The Merchant of Venice.

  26. Sonnets in the City

    Five short dramas in response to a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets.

  27. King Lear

    When better than now to make a drama about 'the division of the kingdom'?

  28. The Winter's Tale

    Eve Best and Danny Sapani star in Shakespeare's late play The Winter's Tale.

  29. A Play for the Heart: The Death of Shakespeare

    Robert Lindsay and Oliver Chris star in a dramatic re-imagining of Shakespeare's last day.

  30. Song of Myself

    Reading of Whitman's poem Song of Myself, with excerpts from Orson Welles's 1953 version.

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