Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Psychological drama. A biographer, hearing the previously untold dark and disturbing life story of a dying novelist, is compelled to finally face the trauma of her own past. Show more
Front Row
Star Wars, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Edith Piaf celebrated
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Star Wars director JJ Abrams on The Force Awakens, Christopher Hampton discusses his new stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and the enduring appeal of Edith Piaf. Show more
Front Row
Gina McKee and Christopher Hampton, Rokia Traore, The body in ancient Egypt
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Arts news, interviews and reviews, including Gina McKee and Christopher Hampton on The Mother, Malian singer Rokia Traore and the day-to-day routines of ancient Egyptians. Show more
Front Row
Christopher Hampton, Maggie's Plan, Arnolfini, Queens of Syria
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Arts news, interviews and reviews. Christopher Hampton on translating The Truth, Maggie's Plan reviewed, Bristol's Arnolfini centre, and the play Queens of Syria. Show more
Front Row
Fay Weldon; Raw review; Duchamp's Fountain; Simon Callow and Christopher Hampton
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Death of a She Devil is Fay Weldon's new novel, Bryony Hanson reviews the film Raw, Richard Cork on Duchamp's Fountain, Simon Callow and Christopher Hampton on The Philantropist. Show more
Two 18th-century French aristocrats play a cruel game of seduction and manipulation, only to find that their cruel machinations will eventually destroy them too.
A host of leading theatrical greats, including Peter Brook, Vanessa Redgrave and John Hurt, pay tribute to the outstanding British actor Paul Scofield. Show more
Adaptation of Malcolm Bradbury's satirical novel of 1970's greybrick campus life stars a moustachioed Antony Sher as Howard Kirk, Marxist sociologist, womaniser and bully. Show more
Adaptation of Malcolm Bradbury's satirical novel of 1970s greybrick campus life. Starring a moustachioed Antony Sher as Howard Kirk - Marxist sociologist, womaniser and bully. Show more
Drama in which the comfortable life of a British journalist in pre-war Vietnam is threatened by the increasing violence, and the arrival of a young American aid worker.
Desert Island Discs
Christopher Hampton
40 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Sue Lawley's castaway is playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton. Show more
Free Thinking
Anne Enright, The Economics of Psychological Therapy, Christopher Hampton
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Anne Enright, Ireland's first laureate for fiction, discusses her new novel The Green Road with Anne McElvoy. Plus Christopher Hampton on translating the plays of Florian Zeller. Show more
Free Thinking
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Ruth Scurr on John Aubrey, Beowulf
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Ruth Scurr discusses John Aubrey, and Anne McElvoy talks to Christopher Hampton and Adjoa Andoh about Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Plus Star Wars and a TV version of Beowulf. Show more