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15 Minute Drama

Patricia Highsmith - Carol

Episode 4

Duration: 15 minutes

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

USA, late 1940s. Carol and Therese are now lovers but their pasts are catching up with them. Stars Miranda Richardson. Show more

15 Minute Drama

Patricia Highsmith - Carol

Episode 3

Duration: 15 minutes

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

New York, 1948. Carol and Therese set out on a car trip to discover 1940s America - and each other. Stars Miranda Richardson. Show more

Classic Serial

Eric Ambler - The Mask of Dimitrios

Episode 1: The Origins of an Obsession

Duration: 58 minutes

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

4 Extra Debut. Charles Latimer's obsession with master criminal Dimitrios leads him to pre-war Europe's dark underworld. Show more

Contributors

Latimer:
Jamie Glover
Dimitrios:
Tim McInnerny
Mr Peters:
Desmond Barrit
Marukakis:
Richard Attlee
Mme Chavez:
Rachel Atkins
Irana Preveza:
Rachel Atkins
Greek Official:
John Evitts
Dhris Mohammed:
Gary Carr
Mortuary Attendant:
Ilker Kaleli
Director:
David Blount

Classic Serial

Eric Ambler - The Mask of Dimitrios

Episode 2: The House of the Eight Angels

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Crime writer Latimer's obsession with killer Dimitrios takes him to Geneva where his life is under threat. Stars Tim McInnerny. Show more

Contributors

Latimer:
Jamie Glover
Dimitrios:
Tim McInnerny
Mr Peters:
Desmond Barrit
Marukakis:
Richard Attlee
Mme Chavez:
Rachel Atkins
Irana Preveza:
Rachel Atkins
Greek Official:
John Evitts
Dhris Mohammed:
Gary Carr
Mortuary Attendant:
Ilker Kaleli
Director:
David Blount

15 Minute Drama

A Little Twist of Dahl

Episode 5: The Neck

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Rich, modern sculpture collector, Sir Basil Turton discovers his adulterous wife is trapped in a Henry Moore. Stars Chris Emmett. From March 2016. Show more

Contributors

Storyteller:
Charles Dance
Lionel Sturridge:
Jamie Glover
Sir Basil Turton:
Chris Emmett
Lady Turton:
Katie Scarfe
Major Haddock:
Mark Heap
Director:
David Blount
Producer:
David Blount

Genres

Drama on 4

Mark Burgess - Joan and the Baron

Duration: 45 minutes

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

4 Extra debut. An odd friendship forms when a French bon viveur invites an English left-wing theatre director to stay. Starring Eleanor Bron. Show more

Contributors

Joan Littlewood:
Eleanor Bron
Baron Philippe de Rothschild:
Michael Jayston
RADA Principal:
Jonathan Tafler
Director:
David Blount

Genres

Afternoon Reading

Alexandros Papadiamandis - The Boundless Garden

Episode 3: Shipwrecks' Wreckage

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Mark Williams reads from an anthology of Greek short stories. Three sailors are shipwrecked and their cargo of cheeses lost. But perhaps the sea can return their goods. Show more

A Shepherd in London

Episode 2: Looking for Angels

Duration: 15 minutes

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

By Sarah Salway. It's 1927, and George has brought his sheep from Aberdeenshire to keep the grass short on Clapham Common. He's invited to visit sick children at an open air school. Show more

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Duration: 15 minutes

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

The Rev Thomas Horne tells how a burglary is foiled by the cunning and bravery of a dwarf employed in a Victorian waxwork show. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

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

The Reverend Thomas Horne tells how the notorious Cumberland Crusher meets his match in a Victorian boxing booth at Newcastle Races. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

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

The Reverend Thomas Horne tells the tale of actor Hervey Hoyne and the terrible events surrounding a fire in the mumming booth at Rotherham Statutes Fair. Show more

Byng Ballads: The Story of Douglas Byng

Episode 1: A Naughty Victorian Lady

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Byng reminisces about his early childhood as the son of a Nottingham bank manager and his first job as a theatrical costume designer in Soho. Show more

Byng Ballads: The Story of Douglas Byng

Episode 2: The Cabaret Boys

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Byng tells of his first professional engagement as a member of a concert party in Hastings, and remembers working at London's Gaiety Theatre during the First World War. Show more

Byng Ballads: The Story of Douglas Byng

Episode 3: I Had My Bit of Cake

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Byng explains how he began playing risque female characters and became the darling of 'the smart set' at London's Cafe de Paris. Show more

Book of the Week

Sandra Hempel - The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed

Episode 1

Duration: 15 minutes

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

4 Extra Debut. Criminal poisoning in the 19th century was remarkably easy. After an entire family was killed by arsenic, the race was on for a test to catch the culprits. Show more

Book of the Week

Sandra Hempel - The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed

Episode 2

Duration: 15 minutes

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

A real-life murder mystery from 1833 reveals the fear surrounding arsenic poisoning in Victorian Britain, and the hunt for a test to prove it. Show more