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Drama on 3

Curated by Mark Ravenhill

Episode 2: The Octoroon

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for years

Set on a Louisiana plantation in the 1850s, Dion Boucicault's classic melodrama exploring Abolition and the role of theatre in politics. Show more

Contributors

Mrs Peyton:
Barbara Barnes
Sunnyside:
Geoffrey Burton
Jacob M'Closky:
Steven Hartley
Salem Scudder:
Toby Jones
Wahnotee:
Earl Kim
Dora Sunnyside:
Claire Lams
George Peyton:
Trevor White
Composer:
Colin Sell

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Drama on 3

Babbage

Duration: 2 hours

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

David Pownall's drama about the life of Charles Babbage, regarded as one of the great scientific brains of the 19th century, who first conceived the computer but died a failure. Show more

Contributors

Charles Babbage:
Sam Kelly
Ada Lovelace:
Monica Dolan
Lord Lovelace:
Michael Maloney
Wellington and Lord Aberdeen:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Lady Byron:
Frances Jeater
Italian Organ Grinder:
Andrew Branch
Composer:
Max Pownall

Drama on 3

Britten 100: Imo and Ben

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for years

By Mark Ravenhill. Drama telling how Imogen Holst worked with Benjamin Britten on the score for the opera Gloriana. With Paul Ready as Britten and Amanda Root as Imogen Holst. Show more

Contributors

Benjamin Britten:
Paul Ready
Imogen Holst:
Amanda Root
Lord Harewood:
Charles Edwards
Musician:
Emma Tring

Drama on 3

The Outsider, by Albert Camus

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

John Retallack's dramatisation of Albert Camus's existentialist novel L'etranger. Meursault is a young man living in Algiers, who narrates his own story with striking neutrality. Show more

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Head Hunters

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

By Michael Eaton. Drama focusing on Alfred Haddon, one of the first anthropologists, who in 1917 signed up as a YMCA volunteer on the Western Front. With Michael Maloney. Show more

Contributors

Alfred Cort Haddon:
Michael Maloney
James George Frazer:
Sean Murray
Charles Myers:
David Seddon
Kathleen Haddon:
Carys Eleri
Lily Fraser:
Priyanga Burford

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Drama on 3

Lorca's Rural Trilogy

Episode 1: The House of Bernarda Alba

Duration: 1 hour, 25 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

By Federico Garcia Lorca. Tragic drama about the familial passions and tensions that arise after a tyrannical matriarch imposes a long period of mourning on her daughters. Show more

Drama on 3

Rotterdam

Duration: 1 hour, 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

In Jon Brittain's Olivier-winning comedy about gender, sexuality and transitioning, Alice is about to email her parents when her girlfriend drops a bombshell. Show more

Contributors

Fiona/Adrian:
Felix Moore
Director:
David Hunter

Genres

Drama on 3

Rhinoceros in Love

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

By Liao Yimei. A dark romance about a rhinoceros keeper, Malu, who falls in love with his beautiful neighbour, Mingming. With Jason Wong and Vera Chok. Show more

Contributors

Writer:
Liao Yimei
Minming:
Vera Chok
Toothbrush:
Jonathan Forbes
Daxian:
Paul Heath
Love Professor/TV Host:
Monty d'Inverno
Director:
Emma Harding

Drama on 3

Juno and the Paycock

Duration: 2 hours

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Alfred Hitchcock so loved Sean O'Casey's Abbey theatre play he adapted and filmed it. A Dublin tenement family nearing destitution get wind of an inheritance. Show more

Contributors

Juno Boyle:
Sorcha Cusack
Captain Boyle:
Stanley Townsend
Joxer Daly:
John Kavanagh
Mary Boyle:
Beth Cooke
Johnny Boyle:
Rory Fleck Byrne
Charles Bentham:
Ruairi Conaghan
Maisie Maidgan:
Michele Moran
Mrs Tancred:
Marcella Riordan
'Needle' Nugent:
Stephen Hogan
Furniture Man:
David Cann
Neighbour:
Craige Els

Drama on 3

Dream of White Horses

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

By Linda Marshall Griffiths. Two friends release a film onto the internet exposing a military operation they believe is murder, with terrible consequences for both of them. Show more

Drama on 3

Macedonia

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

By David Rudkin. Michael Pennington stars as the Greek poet and playwright Euripides who, in exile in Macedonia, begins to hear strange voices from a mountainside. Show more

Contributors

Oreivassa:
Mia Soteriou
Mefistes:
Sam Crane
Composer:
Mia Soteriou

Genres

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

Duration: 2 hours, 56 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Eugene O'Neill's drama focusing on one devastating day in the lives of the Tyrone family. Each member is so absorbed in their own despair that they struggle to confront the truth. Show more

Contributors

James Tyrone:
Robert Glenister
Mary Tyrone:
Anastasia Hille
Jamie Tyrone:
Rupert Evans
Edmund Tyrone:
Gwilym Lee
Cathleen:
Bronagh Waugh
Adaptor:
John Peacock

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Drama on 3

A Clockwork Orange

Duration: 1 hour, 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

A new version of Anthony Burgess's dystopian classic, with music, recorded live in Hull. Part of 'Contains Strong Language', a season of poetry and performance from the city. Show more

Contributors

Dim/Warder/Comedian:
Edward Leigh
Alexander/Governor:
Ian Bartholomew
Deltoid/Minister:
Sevan Stephan
Wife/Branom:
Sue Jenkins
Chaplain/Joe:
Jonathan Keeble
Brodsky/Billyboy:
Paul Barnhill
Pete/Rick:
Wesley Charles
Georgie/Jojohn:
Robbie Fallon
Marty/Nurse:
Ibinabo Jack
Conductor:
Gergely Madaras
Producer:
Gary Brown
Director:
Gary Brown
Executive Producer:
Susan Roberts

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