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
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
Home Front
10 July 1915 - Ralph Winwood
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
Home Front
9 October 1915 - Lilian Frost
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
Home Front
27 October 1915 - Alec Poole
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
Home Front
3 September 1914 - Marieke Dupont
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
The Film Programme
Aaron Sorkin on Steve Jobs, How to make a movie on a smart phone
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
The Film Programme
Paddington 2; The Florida Project
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
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
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
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
Drama on 4
Tetherdown
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
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Because...
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
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
Drama on 4
Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices
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
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The Big Broadcast
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
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The Kingsnorth Six
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
Drama on 4
Amelia Bullmore - The Bat Man
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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Andy Merriman - A Monstrous Vitality
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
As the number of victims mounts, Shardlake and Barak are constantly wrong-footed. Is there an informant? Stars Justin Salinger. Show more