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Series 1: Origin

Origin: Episode Nine

Duration: 44 minutes

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

Available for years

Helen and Freddy head to China to find the secret of ‘life without end’. Final episode of the conspiracy thriller, starring Romola Garai. Written by Matthew Broughton. Show more

Drama on 3

The Outsider, by Albert Camus

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

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

John Retallack's dramatisation of Albert Camus's existentialist novel L'etranger. Meursault is a young man living in Algiers, who narrates his own story with striking neutrality. Show more

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Home Front

10 July 1915 - Ralph Winwood

Duration: 11 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for 8 months

Reverend Winwood finds ministering to a diverse flock of parishioners far easier than to his own household. Show more

Contributors

Ralph Winwood:
Nicholas Murchie
Howard Argent:
Toby Jones
Mervyn Harris:
Tom Whitelock
Maisie Plackett:
Cassie Layton
Dorothea Winwood:
Rachel Shelley
Norman Harris:
Sean Baker
Marieke Dupont:
Olivia Ross
Juliet Cavendish:
Lizzie Bourne

Home Front

9 October 1915 - Lilian Frost

Duration: 11 minutes

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

Available for 11 months

Lilian Frost sees Roland in a new light as they share a day of photographic discoveries. Show more

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Home Front

27 October 1915 - Alec Poole

Duration: 11 minutes

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

Available for 11 months

Shackleton's ship Endurance is crushed by pack ice in Antarctica, and on the other side of the world, Mathieu Dupont goes on an expedition of his own. Show more

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Home Front

3 September 1914 - Marieke Dupont

Duration: 11 minutes

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

Available for 3 months

A Belgian couple arrive at the vicarage claiming that Matthieu is their baby, but Marieke has more than an instinct that they are lying. Show more

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Marieke:
Olivia Ross
Madame Drouet:
Lorna Nickson-Brown
Monsieur Drouet:
Sean Baker

The Film Programme

Aaron Sorkin on Steve Jobs, How to make a movie on a smart phone

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV, including West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin on his biopic about Apple founder Steve Jobs. Francine Stock presents. Show more

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Presenter:
Francine Stock
Interviewed Guest:
Aaron Sorkin
Interviewed Guest:
Sean Baker
Interviewed Guest:
Saeed Farouky

The Film Programme

Paddington 2; The Florida Project

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Radio 4's weekly film programme. Paddington 2, The Florida Project, No Stone Unturned, and the smell of cinema. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Francine Stock
Interviewed Guest:
Alex Gibney
Interviewed Guest:
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Interviewed Guest:
Sean Baker

Duration: 44 minutes

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

Pilgrim unexpectedly meets some old friends when he takes his former friend Morgan Hambleton to a stone circle - and a strange and dangerous ceremony for the Queen of the Corn Show more

Duration: 44 minutes

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

Available for years

When Pilgrim visits the home where he placed Mr Delancey's daughter, India, he learns that she has been abducted. But could looking for her be walking into the King's trap? Show more

Home Front

23 April 1918 - Gabriel Graham

Duration: 11 minutes

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

Available for years

On this day in 1918, a general strike was held in Dublin in protest against plans for Irish conscription, and in Folkestone, Gabriel finds that nothing goes his way. Show more

Contributors

Gabriel Graham:
Michael Bertenshaw
Esme Macknade:
Katie Angelou
Terence Wentworth:
Jack Lowden
Juliet Cavendish:
Lizzie Bourne
Norman Harris:
Sean Baker
Howard Argent:
Gunnar Cauthery

Drama on 4

Tetherdown

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Fast-paced drama by Scott Cherry and Gregory Evans which casts a 21st-century eye over the 1896 'Muswell Hill Murder', a crime that captured the appalled attention of the world. Show more

Drama on 4

Because...

Duration: 45 minutes

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

The victim of an apparent hit-and-run is a journalist with a reputation for fearlessness. Trevor Preston's drama follows her struggle to recover her memory of what really happened. Show more

Drama on 4

Trevor Preston - Small Acts of Kindness

Duration: 45 minutes

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

4 Extra Debut. 50 years after he taught him, Charlie's former art teacher continues to shape his life, even in death. Stars Stephen Greif. Show more

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Drama on 4

Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices

Duration: 1 hour

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

4 Extra Debut. Young Annie Asra finds bureaucracy, camaraderie, eccentricity and love in the BBC of 1940. Starring Helen George and Toby Jones. Show more

Drama on 4

The Big Broadcast

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Neil Brand's fast-talking musical set in a 1932 Chicago radio studio stars Josie Lawrence and Nigel Harman as an acrimonious songwriting couple who need a new song to save the day. Show more

Contributors

Jean Forsythe:
Josie Lawrence
Grant Thornhill:
Nigel Harman
Arthur Clarke:
Sam Dale
Brannigan:
Sean Baker
Writer:
Neil Brand
Director:
David Hunter

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Drama on 4

The Kingsnorth Six

Duration: 45 minutes

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

By Julia Hollander. Factual drama about environmental activists who broke into Kingsnorth Power Station in a gruelling protest and were taken to court. Show more

Contributors

Prosecution Barrister:
Mark Carey
Defence Barrister:
Sean Baker
Director:
Fiona Kelcher
Producer:
Fiona Kelcher

Genres

Drama on 4

Amelia Bullmore - The Bat Man

Duration: 45 minutes

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

4 Extra Debut. Since his wife died, Christopher has lived quietly in Cornwall watching bats, but Colette disturbs his peace. Stars Bill Nighy. Show more

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Drama on 4

Andy Merriman - A Monstrous Vitality

Duration: 45 minutes

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

4 Extra Debut. Indomitable actress Margaret Rutherford falls in love with Malcolm Troup, a musician 30 years her junior. Stars June Whitfield. Show more

Shardlake

Revelation

Episode 6

Duration: 15 minutes

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

As the number of victims mounts, Shardlake and Barak are constantly wrong-footed. Is there an informant? Stars Justin Salinger. Show more