Drama and Features

Shirley’s Party

For BBC Radio 4

For 50 odd years Shirley has had to keep things to herself. At her husband Roy’s insistence. Roy is a secretive man, and this has made Shirley’s life quite tricky. Now Roy is dying and he wants that kept secret too.

TX: Radio 4 – 15 November, 3pm

Faith Healer

For BBC Radio 4

Friel’s poetic masterpiece about loss, the artistic mind and the subjectivity of memory.

TX BBC Radio 4 Saturday 23rd August at 3pm

An Actor’s Life: Kenneth Cranham

The Essay – BBC Radio 3

Actor Kenneth Cranham expounds entertainingly on a life in acting in conversation with friend and colleague Neil Dudgeon.

TX Radio 3 – 2-6 June 9.45pm

When I Fall

BBC Radio 4

Falling is part of Aaron’s life. When he falls between the tube train and the platform he thinks his life is over, but it’s about to begin. Commuter Noah reaches down and pulls him into the carriage. Their eyes meet. This is their love story told through 7 (of many) in a lifetime of falls.

TX: Radio 4 – 17 July 2.15pm

Skip by Amelia Bullmore

Afternoon Drama – BBC Radio 4

A comedy about pausing or at least postponing the inevitable.

TX: 31 December 2024 @ 14:15

Chloe’s Ark by Leanne Allen

Afternoon Drama – BBC Radio 4

A romantic comedy about flooding, an Experimental Story developed with OKRE, and scientists Hannah Cloke and Jessica Lamond.  

TX: 20 November 2024 @ 14:15

Love and Information by Caryl Churchill

Drama on 3 – BBC Radio 3

The first audio production of Caryl Churchill’s insightful drama about human behaviour in the information age.

TX: 14 July 2024 @ 20:00

Bring What You Expect to Find

Between the Ears – BBC Radio 3

A lyrical crowd scan of Stonehenge sunrise gatherings, gauging the recent upswing in interest in our relationship with the sun and our deep history.  With contributions from druids, pagans, travellers, historians, an archeoastronomer and a museum curator.  

TX: 23 June 2024 @ 19:15