Drama on 3 Episodes Episode guide
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Time and the Conways
By JB Priestley. WWI has ended and the Conway family envisage a prosperous future.
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August 1914
Dramatisation of Solzhenitsyn's novel about the Russian army's defeat by Germany in 1914.
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Document of Identity
Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka's drama highlighting the plight of political asylum seekers.
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Death and the King's Horseman
Wole Soyinka's dramatic portrayal of colonial Nigeria in the 1940s.
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Life in the Tomb
World War One seen through the eyes of a Greek soldier fighting in the Macedonian trenches
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A Soldier and a Maker
Iain Burnside's play on the tragic life of World War I poet and songwriter Ivor Gurney.
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Bretton Woods
By Steve Waters. Dramatisation of a meeting where bankers met to save the world economy.
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Uncle Vanya
A new production of Chekhov's play with Neil Dudgeon, Anton Lesser and Lyndsey Marshal.
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Antony and Cleopatra
Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston star in Shakespeare's tragedy of love and power.
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Baby Farming
Tanika Gupta's drama about surrogacy in India.
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The Boy at the Back
Drama by Juan Mayorga in which a teenager's literary voyeurism spirals out of control.
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Roots
Drama about a young woman finding her voice at a time of unprecedented social change.
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Is Your Love Better than Life?
Could an Archbishop become an enemy of the state? An original drama by Frances Byrnes.
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Head Hunters
By Michael Eaton. Michael Maloney plays Alfred Haddon, the first field anthropologist.
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The Witness
A long-buried secret shatters a young Rwandan-born woman's feelings for her adopted father
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Old Times
By Harold Pinter. In a remote farmhouse, Deeley and Kate await a mysterious visitor.
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Ghosts
Ibsen's classic adapted and directed by Richard Eyre for the Almeida Theatre and Radio 3.
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In the Depths of Dead Love
Howard Barker's dark comedy, with Richard E Grant playing a banished poet in ancient China
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Bix: Singing the Blues
Drama fictionalising the only time Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong played together.
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The Outsider, by Albert Camus
John Retallack's dramatisation of Albert Camus's classic existentialist novel L'etranger.
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Sunday at Sant' Agata
Ronald Frame's imagined account of a summer's day at Verdi's country retreat.
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You Never Can Tell
Martin Jarvis directs George Bernard Shaw's breezy seaside comedy.
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The Father
August Strindberg's shocking play from 1890 about an imploding marriage, in a new version.
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Votes for Women
Elizabeth Robins's 1907 suffragette play, starring Zoe Tapper and Samuel West.
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Britten 100: Imo and Ben
Drama telling how Imogen Holst worked with Benjamin Britten on the score for Gloriana.
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Babbage
David Pownall's drama about Charles Babbage, frustrated inventor of the computer.
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Elgar's Rondo
By David Pownall. The reaction to his Second Symphony heightened Elgar's doubts and fears.
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One Winter's Afternoon
Guy Meredith's drama about the great operatic rivalry between Verdi and Wagner.
