Dawn French in her critically acclaimed one-woman show, filmed during its final West End run. It takes the audience on a journey through various delights and riches. Show more
2010 Glyndebourne production of Benjamin Britten's all-male opera Billy Budd, set on a British man-o-war ship, with a libretto co-written by EM Forster. Show more
Front Row
Ruth Rendell, 2 Guns, Michael Grandage, working Britain docs
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Crime writer Ruth Rendell interviewed, 2 Guns reviewed, Michael Grandage's choice for the Cultural Exchange, and the verdict on two TV documentaries about working Britain. Show more
In Paris in 1916, writer Marcel Proust becomes fascinated by a string quartet's viola player, who is a wounded serviceman home from the front. Show more
Maurice Allington, landlord of the Green Man, celebrates his fifty-third birthday and meets the ghost of Dr Thomas Underhill.
Ahead of his own father's funeral, Maurice attempts to exhume Underhill, who is not finished with him yet.
Underhill agrees to a second meeting, at which Maurice presumes the evil doctor will reveal his full powers.