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Drama on 4

My Son the Doctor

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Based on the testimony of Fatima Khan, the real-life story of one mother's heroic journey to find and save her son, Dr Abbas Khan, from imprisonment in Damascus. Show more

Contributors

Fatima Khan:
Sudha Bhuchar
Abbas Khan:
Waleed Akhtar
Sara Khan:
Lara Sawalha
Afroze Khan:
Adam El Hagar
Shahnawaz Khan:
Amir El-Masry
FCO Official:
Badria Timimi

Genres

Drama on 4

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Episode 1: The Handsome Man's Deluxe Cafe

Duration: 45 minutes

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

New mother Mma Makutsi expands her business portfolio in an unexpected direction. Meanwhile, Mma Ramotswe meets a client with a problematic house guest. Show more

Contributors

Mma Ramotswe:
Claire Benedict
Mma Makutsi:
Nadine Marshall
Mma Potokwani/Mrs:
Janice Acquah
Mr JLB Matekoni:
Ben Onwukwe
Phuti Radiphuti:
Jude Akuwudike
Mr Sengupta:
Kulvinder Ghir
Miss Rose:
Sudha Bhuchar

Genres

Drama on 4

My Name Is...

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Sudha Bhuchar's play about a mixed-race family breakdown, inspired by 2006 reports that a young Scottish girl had been abducted by her father and taken to Pakistan. Show more

Contributors

Genres

Ganges

Episode 3: Waterland

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Exploring India's most sacred river. As the Ganges nears the sea, it divides into the many channels of the delta, home to the most densely packed human population on Earth. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Sudha Bhuchar
Producer:
Dan Rees
Producer:
Ian Gray

Series

Ganges

Great Lives

Sudha Bhuchar chooses the life of Zohra Sehgal

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Actress and playwright Sudha Bhuchar chooses one of Bollywood’s first great international stars, Zohra Sehgal. From 2016. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Parris
Interviewed Guest:
Sudha Bhuchar
Interviewed Guest:
Lalit Mohan Joshi

Test Case

Bournewood

Duration: 45 minutes

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

4 Extra Debut. Drama by Sasha Hails telling the true story of H, and his life at Bournewood Hospital. H did not object to his residential care. Or did he? Show more

Contributors

"Mrs E":
Adie Allen
Robert Robinson:
Peter Hamilton Dyer
Ailsa Flinders:
Sanchia McCormack
Dr Manjubhashini:
Sudha Bhuchar
Driver:
Philip Fox
Careworker:
Julie Teal
Careworker:
Kerry Gooderson
Colleague:
Sarah Ridgeway

Riot Girls

The Good Terrorist

Episode 1

Duration: 15 minutes

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

First ever dramatization of Doris Lessing's 1985 satire of incompetent revolutionaries in a London squat. Starring Olivia Vinall and Joe Armstrong, dramatised by Sarah Daniels. Show more

Riot Girls

The Good Terrorist

Episode 3

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Doris Lessing's 1985 satire about inept revolutionaries, dramatised by Sarah Daniels. Alice continues her mission to make the squat habitable. Olivia Vinall and Joe Armstrong star. Show more

Book of the Week

In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room

Episode 1

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Aarathi Prasad delves into the complex world of Indian medicine, starting with the seven official types. Show more

Book of the Week

In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room

Episode 2

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Writer Aarathi Prasad visits the hospital in the Dharavi slum where the shrine holds sway. Show more

Book of the Week

In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room

Episode 3

Duration: 15 minutes

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

In Hyderabad, writer Aarathi Prasad meets the family of Hakims (doctors) who reset bones. It all began with a rabbit, so the bonesetter's story goes. Show more

Book of the Week

In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room

Episode 4

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Writer Aarathi Prasad tracks down the fish doctors in Secunderabad, who claim to treat asthma by the most unlikely of methods. Show more

Book of the Week

In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room

Episode 5

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Writer Aarathi Prasad learns of the extraordinary success of Project Prakash, which has brought vision to thousands of blind Indian children. The reader is Sudha Bhuchar. Show more

Front Row

Orla Kiely, British Asian theatre, Belinda Bauer

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Designer Orla Kiely on her new exhibition, crime novelist Belinda Bauer discusses her new novel Snap, Sudha Bhuchar and Prav MJ consider British South Asian theatre. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Shahidha Bari
Interviewed Guest:
Orla Kiely
Interviewed Guest:
Belinda Bauer
Interviewed Guest:
Sudha Bhuchar
Interviewed Guest:
Prav MJ

Woman's Hour

Kirsty Wark on misogyny; Nazneen Rahman; Mindfulness

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Jane Garvey discusses whether misogyny is on the rise with Kirsty Wark and talks to game-changer Nazneen Rahman about her pioneering work in clinical genetics. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Kirsty Wark
Interviewed Guest:
Nazneen Rahman
Interviewed Guest:
Tracey Crouch
Interviewed Guest:
Lisa Stevenson
Interviewed Guest:
Rebecca Crane
Interviewed Guest:
Sudha Bhuchar
Producer:
Ruth Watts

Tommies

4 November 1915

Duration: 45 minutes

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

One real day at war, exactly 100 years ago. Signallers Ahmadullah and Zarbab have a perilous mission to deliver a wireless set to beleaguered British forces in Mesopotamia. Show more

Contributors

Ahmadullah:
Danny Rahim
Zarbab:
Avin Shah
Commentator:
Indira Varma
Pillow Wallah:
Mark Edel-Hunt
Officer:
David Acton
Doctor:
Neet Mohan
Producer:
David Hunter
Director:
David Hunter

Brand

Tommies

Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Kirsty Wark on misogyny; Mindfulness

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Kirsty Wark on misogyny, blurred lines and confused messages for teenage boys. Plus the politics of childcare, mindfulness, The Testament of Mary and recorder quartet I Flautisti. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Sudha Bhuchar
Interviewed Guest:
Naomi Eisenstadt
Interviewed Guest:
Samantha Callan
Interviewed Guest:
Kirsty Wark
Interviewed Guest:
Rebecca Rayner
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Culshaw
Interviewed Guest:
Polly Gibb
Interviewed Guest:
Deborah Warner
Interviewed Guest:
Tracey Crouch
Interviewed Guest:
Lisa Stephenson