Exploring the historic city of Derry Londonderry, poet and author Nick Laird meets Frank Cottrell-Boyce and asks how art has healed decades of sectarian violence. Show more
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A celebration of the life and work of Julia Donaldson and the remarkable cast of characters that have sprung from her imagination. Show more
Open Book
Children's Literature
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
News and features from the world of books, presented by Mariella Frostrup. Including a new edition of the Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Show more
Front Row
Marc Chagall, Laura Marling, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Colm Tóibín
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
The art of Marc Chagall at Tate Liverpool, singer-songwriter Laura Marling, writer Frank Cottrell Boyce on his new show for Derry-Londonderry, and Colm Tóibín's Cultural Exchange. Show more
John Humphrys asks Shaun Keaveny, Mark Watson, Bunny Campione and Frank Cottrell Boyce questions on Led Zeppelin, the Canterbury Tales, Stewart Granger and Oliver Postgate. Show more
17th-century Italy: composer Alessandro Stradella’s real life is one of scandal, chaos and close calls. Stars Trystan Gravelle. Show more
Through the Wardrobe
Episode 3: The Rosy Rural Ruby
15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
By Frank Cottrell Boyce. A certain Oxford academic is transported to a world at once strange, but somehow familiar. Read by David Troughton. Show more
Between the Ears
Between Ballard's Ears
29 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Between the Ears goes between JG Ballard's ears with two new binaural adaptations of his short fiction, Track 12 and Venus Smiles, musically mutating art, microsonics and murder. Show more
The One Show
Our Queen Remembered: 10/09/2022
58 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HD
Alex Jones and Gethin Jones shares viewers’ memories and stories and are joined by Angela Rippon and children's author and co-writer of the Paddington Bear Jubilee sketch, Frank Cottrell-Boyce.
The story of 10-year-old Dylan and his family's struggle to keep their small petrol station in the small Welsh village of Manod afloat. Drama starring Trevor Eve and Eve Myles. Show more
A celebration of the life and work of Julia Donaldson and the remarkable cast of characters that have sprung from her imagination. Show more
Drama celebrating the volatile relationship between poets Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth, played out against the background of the French Revolution. Show more
An extended version of Danny Boyle's interview with Mark Kermode, featuring additional contributions from those who have worked with the Oscar winning director. Show more
Drama. A group of Auschwitz prisoners demand to know the nature of a God who can allow so much suffering, and attempt to settle their dispute by putting God on trial. Show more
Fantasy adventure starring James Nesbitt and Daisy Donovan. A large bag of cash lands miraculously at a young boy's feet, the day before the UK switches to the euro. Show more
Sci-fi drama. The human race wakes up to face the most surprising invasion yet, and the Doctor discovers that the final days of humanity have arrived. Show more
Desert Island Discs
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Frank Cottrell Boyce. Show more
A survivor of the Burma railway during World War II discovers that the Japanese officer responsible for torturing him is still alive.
Comedy drama. Given ground in Liverpool allotments, troubled refugees meet with mixed reactions from the existing plot holders. With Benedict Wong and Omid Djalili. Show more