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Richard Tyrone Jones's Big Heart

Episode 2: Of Coke Dealers and Cardioverters

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Poet Richard Tyrone Jones gets heart failure on his 30th birthday. With the help of his agent and his 'anti-girlfriend' he learns to live, love and overdo it at a nightclub. Show more

Contributors

Professor Hu:
Lobo Chan
German Nurse:
Olivia Winteringham
Nurse Farhan:
Nyasha Hatendi
Heart failure nurse:
Sarah Belcher
Cardiac nurse:
Nina Ludovica Smith
Producer:
Nick Walker

Genres

15 Minute Drama

30 Eggs

Episode 4

Duration: 15 minutes

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

A wrong turn takes Modeste and Innocent off the beaten track and into wild terrain of the Akagera National Park. Show more

Contributors

Father Boniface:
Nyasha Hatendi

Genres

Short Works

Series 1

Joseph

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Story by David Szalay. Two men take up their customary positions by the waterside. One depends on the other because he is new to the 'job' and must learn. Read by Nyasha Hatendi. Show more

Contributors

Genres

Blood and Oil

Episode 1

Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Drama. When four oil workers are kidnapped in Nigeria, the wife of one of the workers decides to travel against Foreign Office advice in a bid to bring him back to the UK. Show more

Blood and Oil

Episode 2

Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Drama. Claire's investigations into her husband's activities lead her to a bar frequented by her husband and his friends, which she learns is actually a brothel. Show more

Drama on 4

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Episode 1: Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Precious Ramotswe is about to get in over her head. She's got an important new client from the incomprehensible world of football, but she's without her loyal assistant Mma Makutsi. Show more

Contributors

Mma Ramotswe:
Claire Benedict
Mma Makutsi:
Nadine Marshall
Mr JLB Matekoni:
Ben Onwukwe
Mma Potokwani:
Janice Acquah
Mr Molofololo:
Mo Sesay
Phuti Raduphuti:
Nyasha Hatendi
Rops Thobega:
Emmanuel Ighodaro
Violet Sepotho:
Anna Bengo

Genres

Drama on 4

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Episode 1: A Late Van Just Glimpsed

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Preparations are underway for Mma Makutsi's wedding and Mma Ramotswe makes an unexpected ghostly sighting. Show more

Contributors

Mma Ramotswe:
Claire Benedict
Mma Makutsi:
Nadine Marshall
Mr JLB Matekoni:
Ben Onwukwe
Housekeeper:
Janice Acquah
Woman by Road:
Adjoa Andoh
Shoe Shop Assistant:
Adjoa Andoh

Genres

Drama on 4

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Episode 2: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding

Duration: 45 minutes

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

The ladies solve the case of the murdered cattle. Mma Makutsi is feeling anxious about her upcoming wedding to Phuti Radiphuti and an old friend comes to the rescue. Show more

Drama on 4

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Episode 2: The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

Duration: 45 minutes

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

A visiting detective helps the ladies uncover the truth at the Orphan Farm, and Mr JLB Matekoni seeks to clear Fanwell's name. Show more

Contributors

Mma Ramotswe:
Claire Benedict
Mma Makutsi:
Nadine Marshall
Mr JLB Matekoni:
Ben Onwukwe
Mma Potokwani:
Janice Acquah
Fanwell:
Beru Tessema
Clovis Andersen:
Sam Dale
Mr Ditso Ditso:
Obi Abili
Secretary:
Adjoa Andoh
Magistrate:
Jude Akuwudike

Genres

Drama on 3

Saint Joan, by George Bernard Shaw

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

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

Available for years

An adaptation of Shaw's play dramatising the life and trials of Joan of Arc, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. Show more

Contributors

Joan (The Maid):
Lyndsey Marshal
Robert de Baudricourt/The Chaplain:
Paul Ritter
The Archbishop of Rheims:
Anton Lesser
The Duke of Tremouille/Inquisitor:
Sean Baker
Charles, the Dauphin/Charles VII:
Blake Ritson
Bluebeard/Brother Martin Ladvenu:
Nyasha Hatendi
Captain La Hire/John d'Estivet:
Daniel Rabin
Count of Dunois/de Poulengey:
Trystan Gravelle
The Earl of Warwick:
Jonathan Coy
Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais:
Paul Hilton
Thomas de Courcelles:
Stuart McLoughlin
de Baudrincourt's Steward:
Brian Bowles
Dunois's Page:
Ryan Watson

Drama on 3

Serious Money

Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes

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

Caryl Churchill's dramatic satire of the financial excesses and corporate venality that followed the 1986 Big Bang. Adapted by Emma Harding. Show more

Contributors

Scilla Todd:
Hattie Morahan
Jake Todd:
Bertie Carvel
Zak Zackerman:
Tobias Menzies
Jacinta Condor:
Melanie Bond
Greville Todd:
Brian Bowles
Marylou Bainess:
Jane Whittenshaw
Ginmes/Frosby:
Daniel Rabin
TK/Nigel Ajibala:
Nyasha Hatendi
Musician:
Colin Sell
Director:
Emma Harding

Genres

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Series 1

Episode 2: Poison

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC HD

Drama. Mma Ramotswe gets caught between a dangerous case of ivory smuggling and a feuding family when she is asked to investigate the unusual behaviour of Rra Lisindi. Show more

Brian Gulliver's Travels

Series 1

Gelbetia

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Missing for six years, Brian has stories to tell, including a visit to a country run by doctors. Stars Neil Pearson. From February 2011. Show more

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Missing for six years, Brian has stories to tell. In Juradia every other person's a lawyer. With Neil Pearson. From February 2011. Show more

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Missing for six years, Brian has stories to tell. Jampoa where fame definitely equals fortune. With Neil Pearson. From 2011. Show more

15 Minute Drama

30 Eggs

Episode 1

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Weary of life in Rusumo, blind Modeste must convince his 7-year-old companion Innocent to accompany him to his home village at the far side of Rwanda. Show more

15 Minute Drama

30 Eggs

Episode 2

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Modeste and Innocent put their raw eggs to good use, but before long, they run into trouble. Show more

15 Minute Drama

30 Eggs

Episode 3

Duration: 15 minutes

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

In Kigali, Innocent is determined to get Modeste the medical attention he needs, but at what cost? Show more