Dramatist Dominic Power and novelist Sarah Hall's tense supernatural thriller set against the stark backdrop of the Cumbrian landscape. Show more
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Baroque Spring: Moliere's The Misanthrope
1 hour, 30 minutes
For Radio 3's Baroque Spring, a live drama adapted by Roger McGough from Moliere's classic play. A mockery of manners and morals set amid 17th century French aristocracy. Show more
Set on a Louisiana plantation in the 1850s, Dion Boucicault's classic melodrama exploring Abolition and the role of theatre in politics. Show more
1 hour, 30 minutes
Bertolt Brecht meets the gangster movie in an early play in which two men join in a deadly struggle for survival, amid Brecht's uniquely tough and poetic portrayal of Chicago, 1912. Show more
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
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Britten 100: Imo and Ben
1 hour, 30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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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
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The Outsider, by Albert Camus
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
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
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
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Free Thinking Festival: Suffrage Dramas
1 hour, 30 minutes
A cast of actors local to Gateshead perform extracts from some of the little-known plays by over 400 female playwrights who were helping in the campaign for votes for women. Show more
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The Wild Duck
1 hour, 59 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
David Threlfall, Samuel West and James Fox star in Ibsen's tragi-comic masterpiece. A family creates an imaginary forest in their loft room for a wounded wild duck. Show more
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Lady Windermere's Fan
1 hour, 44 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Martin Jarvis directs this sparkling production. Mira Sorvino and Susannah Fielding head a stellar cast. What is the secret shared by mysterious Mrs Erlynne and Arthur Windermere? Show more
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Rotterdam
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
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
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Juno and the Paycock
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
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Dream of White Horses
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
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Macedonia
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
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Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
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
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Joe Orton Double-Bill: The Erpingham Camp and The Ruffian on the Stair
2 hours
Featuring Orton's The Erpingham Camp and The Ruffian On the Stair, plus an interview with Kenneth Cranham, in a special evening recorded live at the BBC's Radio Theatre. Show more
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A Clockwork Orange
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