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My Dear Bessie

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey tell a Second World War love story in letters between Chris Barker, a solider in Libya, and Bessie Moore, a Morse code interpreter in London. Show more

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Julian Simpson - Kokomo

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Can Alice Price find out who is holding the world's online information hostage before it is too late. With Nicola Walker, Hermione Norris, Louise Brealey. From June 2013. Show more

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Daguero:
Rufus Wright
Pantalone:
Tim McInnerny
Harlequin:
Louise Brealey
Columbina:
Hermione Norris
Alice Price:
Nicola Walker
Producer:
Karen Rose

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Pixie Juice

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Comic play by award-winning writer Ed Harris about sight, insight and magic, starring Indira Varma as a tattooist who finds herself in a fairytale - with real fairies. Show more

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

A terrifying new disease is discovered in the tropical rainforest of Zaire. Can the outbreak be stopped before it reaches the country's capital Kinshasa? Dramatised by Mike Walker. Show more

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Narrator:
Peter Piot
Peter Piot:
Ben Crowe
Sister Veronika:
Tracy Wiles
Dr Muamba:
Jude Owusu
Director:
Dirk Maggs
Producer:
David Morley

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Drama on 4

RK Narayan - A Tiger for Malgudi

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Now a monk's companion, an aging tiger looks back on his life and the human absurdities of 1970s India. Stars Paul Bazely. Show more

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Zookeeper:
Paul Bazely
Captain:
Paul Bazely
Teacher:
Meneka Das
Raja, the Tiger:
Raad Rawi
The Master:
Nadim Sawalha
Director:
Lu Kemp

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Drama on 4

Beyond Endurance

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Dominic West stars as Ernest Shackleton in Meredith Hooper's play, charting the explorer's 1914 expedition across the Antarctic and told in the words of the team themselves. Show more

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Sir Ernest Shackleton:
Dominic West
Thomas Orde-Lees:
Jamie Glover
Frank Hurley:
Gabriel Andrews
Alexander Macklin:
Mark Edel-Hunt
Frank Wild:
David Hounslow
Reginald James:
Neet Mohan
Harry McNish:
Sam Dale

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Drama on 4

Sally Griffiths - Clean Slate

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

4 Extra Debut. A freak accident means Ellen has no recollection of who she used to be. Her husband sets out to show her. Stars Amelia Bullmore, Jamie Glover, Di Botcher. Show more

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Drama on 4

The Healing of Sergei Rachmaninov

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Biographical drama by Martyn Wade, telling the remarkable story behind the composition of Sergei Rachmaninov's celebrated Second Piano Concerto. Show more

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Drama on 4

Playing Dead

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

When her father's remains are found in a mass grave in Iraq, Mancunian Roza Riley returns to the war-torn country she fled as a child. Written by Vivienne Harvey. Show more

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Caterpillars

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

4 Extra Debut. Disinherited by her stepmother, Amber Buchanan decides to enter the family trade, crime. Stars Clair Knight and Laurie Brown. Show more

Drama on 4

Take Me To...

Episode 3: Take Me to the Necropolis

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for 2 months

By Oliver Emanuel. Darkly comic journey through Glasgow's infamous Necropolis. Alice and Sasha are celebrating their graduation when Alice takes Sasha on a trip to a graveyard. Show more

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A Sudden Surge

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

By Jack Dickson. A belligerent bus driver discovers the unexpected benefits of a sudden surge of hormones as he begins to 'feel', for the first time in his unreconstructed life. Show more

Drama on 4

The Ferryman's Apprentice

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

A darkly comic drama about who you might meet on the journey to hell. Charon is the Ferryman on the River Acheron. His son, Thomas, is determined to pursue a different career. Show more

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Drama on 4

True West

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Sam Shepard's fiery examination of the relationship and rivalry between two brothers - screenwriter Austin and older, estranged brother Lee. Starring Philip and Robert Glenister. Show more

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