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Drama on 4

Graham Greene - A Burnt-Out Case

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: Sun 19^th Nov 2017, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 2^nd Feb 2021, 03:00 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

4 Extra Debut. A celebrated architect flees to the Congo only to discover you can never leave the past behind. Stars Ben Miles. Show more

Home Front - Omnibus

Episode 88: 13-17 November 1917 (Season 12 start)

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 17^th Nov 2017, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Thu 22^nd Feb 2018, 03:00 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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The first omnibus of Season 12, Giddy with Possibility, in Tynemouth, when the Finnish Parliament declared its independence from Russia. From November 2017. Show more

Contributors

Phyllis Marshall:: Christine Absalom
Edie Chadwick:: Kathryn Beaumont
Gladys Lynch:: Elaine Claxton
Dougie Baxter:: Kris Deedigan
Gussie Marshall:: Grace Doherty
Marion Wardle:: Laura Elphinstone
Lester Reed:: Trevor Fox
Sarah Illingworth:: Naomi Frederick
Iris Reed:: Charlie Hardwick
Cressida Marshall:: Isabella Inchbald
Beatrice Marshall:: Eviee Lavery
Kenny Stokoe:: Dean Logan
Dan:: Caolan McCarthy
Stanley Hobbs:: David Nellist
Johnnie Marshall:: Paul Ready
Matthew Ash:: David Reakes
Maud Drummond:: Vineeta Rishi
Adeline Lumley:: Helen Schlesinger
Ethel Manning:: Sophie Scott
Alan Lowther:: David Seddon
Duncan Chadwick:: Mark Stobbart
Waiter:: Barnaby Taylor
Joyce Lyle:: Tracy Whitwell
Fraser Chadwick:: Edmund Wiseman
Matilda James:: Hannah Wood
Writer:: Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Director:: Jessica Dromgoole

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Drama

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Home Front - Omnibus

Source: BBC Online

Home Front

15 November 1917 - Johnnie Marshall

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 11 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 15^th Nov 2017, 12:04 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Wed 15^th Nov 2017, 12:04 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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On this day in 1917, the Finnish parliament declared their independence from Russia, and in Tynemouth, Johnnie sees more to Aunt Phyllis than he had suspected. Show more

Contributors

Johnnie Marshall:: Paul Ready
Cressida Marshall:: Isabella Inchbald
Sarah Illingworth:: Naomi Frederick
Matthew Ash:: David Reakes
Phyllis Marshall:: Christine Absalom
Adeline Lumley:: Helen Schlesinger
Beatrice Marshall:: Eviee Lavery
Gussie Marshall:: Grace Doherty
Writer:: Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Director:: Jessica Dromgoole

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DramaHistorical

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Home Front

Source: BBC Online

Drama on 4

The Rules of Palship

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: Thu 16^th Nov 2017, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Fri 8^th Nov 2019, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM

The young Noel Coward demanded fierce loyalty from his friends. But did he live up to his own high standards? Writer Jonathan Tafler imagines a testing moment. Show more

Contributors

Noel Coward:: Joel MacCormack
Esme Wynne:: Isabella Inchbald
Graham Henshaw:: Tom Forrister
Fraser Stanhope:: Wilf Scolding
Barth:: Neil McCaul
Reverend Henshaw:: David Reakes
Mary Henshaw:: Ellie Darvill
Writer:: Jonathan Tafler
Director:: Peter Kavanagh

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Drama

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Drama on 4

Source: BBC Online

Riot Girls

The Robber Bride

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 18^th Feb 2018, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Sat 24^th Feb 2018, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

Margaret Atwood turns a tantalising fairy tale into a dark modern story, as three old university friends discover a secret they had hoped was buried forever resurfacing. Show more

Contributors

Zenia:: Tanya Moodie
Roz:: Teresa Gallagher
Tony:: Barbara Barnes
Charis:: Isabella Inchbald
West:: David Reakes
Billy:: Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
Uncle Vern:: Rupert Holliday-Evans
Author:: Margaret Atwood
Adaptor:: Sarah Wooley
Director:: Marion Nancarrow
Producer:: Marion Nancarrow

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Drama

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Riot Girls

Series

Riot Girls: The Robber Bride

Source: BBC Online

Tommies

11 November 1917

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: Sat 11^th Nov 2017, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Sat 13^th Oct 2018, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

From TE Lawrence and the Great Pyramid at Giza to the Third Battle of Gaza. The war in 1917 is redrawing the Middle East. Stars Indira Varma and Lee Ross. From November 2017. Show more

Contributors

Capt Mickey Bliss:: Lee Ross
Commentator:: Indira Varma
Zarbab Grewal:: Avin Shah
Pte Jack Bliss:: Antonio Aakeel
Celestine de Tullio:: Pippa Nixon
‘Nephthys’ Sha’arawi:: Lara Sawalha
Habib El-Mahdy:: Amir El-Masry
Huda Hosseini:: Nathalie Armin
Agatha Grey-Egerton:: Nathalie Armin
Insp Ibrahim Habachi:: Selva Rasalingam
Capt Lionel Larkin:: Clive Hayward
TE Lawrence:: David Reakes
Pilot:: Rupert Holliday Evans
Corporal:: Gary Duncan
Colonel:: Neil McCaul
Producer:: David Hunter
Producer:: Jonquil Panting
Producer:: Jonathan Ruffle
Director:: Jonquil Panting
Writer:: Jonathan Ruffle
Writer:: Avin Shah

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Drama

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Tommies

Source: BBC Online

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Tsar

Joseph Stalin: The Last Bolshevik

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 5^th Nov 2017, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Sat 11^th Nov 2017, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the Russian Tsars continues with the story of Joseph Stalin and the run-up to Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. Show more

Contributors

Stalin:: Brian McCardie
Nadya:: Abbie Andrews
Svetlana:: Rosie Boore
Zhukov:: Danny Sapani
Trotsky:: Samuel James
Ribbentrop:: Kenneth Collard
Molotov:: Philip Bretherton
Poskrebyshev:: Neil McCaul
Beria:: Charlie Clements
Khruschev:: David Reakes
Polina:: Isabella Inchbald
Fyodor:: Adam Fitzgerald
Director:: Sasha Yevtushenko
Writer:: Mike Walker

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Drama

Series

Tsar

Source: BBC Online

Drama

Mahler's Muse

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 5^th Dec 2017, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Wed 13^th Nov 2019, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 LW

When Mahler receives a letter - mistakenly addressed to him - it brings his marriage to Alma, his muse, to a crisis point. Written by John Banville. Show more

Contributors

Alma Mahler:: Olivia Williams
Gustav Mahler:: Rupert Graves
Walter Gropius:: David Reakes
Anna Moll:: Maggie Cronin
Gretel:: Sophie Harkness
Sigmund Freud:: Adrian Schiller
Doctor Blumenthal:: Patrick FitzSymons
Anna:: Clodagh Casey
Producer:: Gemma McMullan
Writer:: John Banville

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Drama

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Drama

Source: BBC Online

Drama on 4

The Twenty Year Stretch

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 20^th Jun 2017, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 20^th Jun 2017, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 LW

Witty and intense drama by Colin Bytheway combining a quirk of Dutch law with a searing examination of lost youth. Starring James D'Arcy, Tara Fitzgerald and Nicholas Farrell. Show more

Contributors

Erik De Jong:: James D'Arcy
Sophie Visser:: Tara Fitzgerald
Hector Van Doran:: Nicholas Farrell
Auctioneer:: David Reakes
Writer:: Colin Bytheway
Director:: Alison Crawford

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Drama

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Drama on 4

Source: BBC Online

Elsinore

Series 1

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 1^st Jan 2018, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Fri 4^th Oct 2019, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 LW

Sebastian Baczkiewicz conjures up a head in a box, judicial murder and political skulduggery in a thrilling prequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Set in an alternative 1930s Europe. Show more

Contributors

Claudius:: John Light
Hamlet:: John Heffernan
Dauphin:: Ed Gaughan
Captain True:: Chetna Pandya
Polonius:: Clive Hayward
Anders:: Neil McCaul
Olsson:: Rupert Holliday Evans
Yorick:: Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
Katya:: Isabella Inchbald
Beatrix:: Abbie Andrews
Archimedes:: David Reakes
Horatio:: Philip Bretherton
Laszlo:: Adam Fitzgerald
Director:: Marc Beeby
Director:: Sasha Yevtushenko
Writer:: Sebastian Baczkiewicz

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Drama

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Elsinore

Series

Elsinore: Series 1

Source: BBC Online

Elsinore

Series 1

Episode 4

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: Thu 4^th Jan 2018, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Fri 25^th Oct 2019, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Sebastian Baczkiewicz's series reaches its climax with a story that combines desperate love with crushing betrayal when Claudius discovers the truth behind events in Sweden. Show more

Contributors

Hamlet:: John Heffernan
Claudius:: John Light
Gertrude:: Lyndsey Marshal
Polonius:: Clive Hayward
Olsson:: Rupert Holliday Evans
Anders:: Neil McCaul
Beatrix:: Abbie Andrews
Schroeder:: Philip Bretherton
Helgeland:: Sudha Bhuchar
Prosecutor:: David Reakes
Defence:: Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
Director:: Marc Beeby
Director:: Sasha Yevtushenko
Writer:: Sebastian Baczkiewicz

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Drama

Brand

Elsinore

Series

Elsinore: Series 1

Source: BBC Online

Tsar

Nikolai II: Three Hundred Years

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 22^nd Oct 2017, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Sat 28^th Oct 2017, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

Three hundred years after the Romanovs claimed the Russian throne, their tercentenary was marked with public celebrations. Four years later, the last tsar abdicated. By Mike Walker. Show more

Contributors

Nikolai:: Raymond Coulthard
Alix:: Amanda Root
Witte:: Nicholas Woodeson
Nikolasha:: Brian Protheroe
Rasputin:: Rhodri Hugh Thomas
Fredericks:: Charlie Clements
Stolypin:: Philip Bretherton
Polina:: Katherine Weare
Bogrov:: Nathan Sussex
Gapon:: David Reakes
Director:: Alison Hindell
Writer:: Mike Walker

Genres

Drama

Series

Tsar

Source: BBC Online

Tommies

10 November 1917

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 10^th Nov 2017, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Sat 6^th Oct 2018, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

From TE Lawrence and the Great Pyramid at Giza, to the Third Battle of Gaza. The war in 1917 is redrawing the Middle East. Stars Indira Varma and Lee Ross. From November 2017. Show more

Contributors

Mickey Bliss:: Lee Ross
Commentator:: Indira Varma
Zarbab Grewal:: Avin Shah
Pte Jack Bliss:: Antonio Aakeel
Celestine de Tullio:: Pippa Nixon
Capt Christi Mansoor:: Narinder Samra
‘Nephthys’ Sha’arawi:: Lara Sawalha
Habib El-Mahdy:: Amir El-Masry
Huda Hosseini:: Nathalie Armin
Agatha Grey-Egerton:: Nathalie Armin
Insp Ibrahim Habachi:: Selva Rasalingam
Ozzy:: Adam Fitzgerald
TE Lawrence:: David Reakes
Arthur Neate:: Rupert Holliday Evans
Corporal:: Gary Duncan
Producer:: David Hunter
Producer:: Jonquil Panting
Producer:: Jonathan Ruffle
Director:: Jonquil Panting
Director:: David Hunter
Writer:: Jonathan Ruffle
Writer:: Avin Shah

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Drama

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Tommies

Source: BBC Online

Drama on 4

Redacted

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: Thu 10^th Aug 2017, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Thu 19^th Nov 2020, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Greta Scacchi and Nicholas Murchie star in a political thriller of secrets and lies. A civil servant dedicated to open government finds his wife's name on an incriminating document Show more