Drama of the Week
Episodes
Life Lines - Series 9
08 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Carrie is a call handler for the ambulance service. Every day she makes split-second decisions as she deals with a succession of emergencies; from a y...
Now That Summer's Coming by Deirdre Anna Rose Kelly
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An original short story specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to mark Bealtaine, the Gaelic festival heralding the beginning of summer traditionally h...
King's Pawn: Smells of Bale
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Comedy drama series created by Alan Harris and Katherine Chandler. Meet the King clan: Laura and her grandchildren Sonny and Little Laura. They run Ca...
A Tale of Ossian: Dot and Cal
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Atmospheric drama by Robert Forrest.It’s a snowy evening on the outskirts of Glasgow when Dot and Cal take shelter in a disused factory. Warming the...
The Scrooge Identity
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hamburg, 1992. A pipe-bomb goes off in a department store at one in the morning, and a ransom note arrives shortly after, demanding a million marks an...
Faith, Hope and Glory
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Set in 2016, Joy, a 70-year-old grandmother, is plunged into crisis when the state declares it has no record of her existence. As the Hostile Environm...
Secrets and Lies: Candour
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When a system falters, who finds the courage to speak the truth?Maya, a young first-time mother, Jo, an overwhelmed trainee GP on rotation, and Kate, ...
Secrets and Lies: Road to Suez
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The true story of how in 1956 Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, lied to Parliament and took Britain to war under false pretences, told through the eyes of...
Secrets and Lies: Like A Brother
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Paul lives a quiet, tightly controlled life, dividing his time between the gym and his local pub. A former boxer, he keeps his distance from the world...
The Dentist - Episode 1
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Darkly comic crime thriller by D.C. Jackson.Kerry’s living a life of quiet desperation. Her identical twin appears to be affluent and successful. Wh...
Downstream
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Warburton's comedy drama returns. It takes us to the Fens and the Platters' boatyard nestled on the river.The Platter community is an eccentric o...
Good People
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Four young idealists - Sonia, Kieran, Indigo and Ayad - fall under the spell of charismatic thinker Faith Abbott at university and channel her ideas i...
This Thing of Darkness: Series 4
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
by Frances Poet with monologues by Eileen Horne.Part One – AdmissionDr Alex Bridges is an expert forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist, assessin...
A Whole Giant's Daughter Quest Thing
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Alexander Vlahos.Culhwch can love only the giant's daughter Olwen. To win her hand he must first complete a list of 39 impossible tasks. Arthu...
Took Nothing Left Nothing
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Sam takes his ex-stepdaughter Flo on a treasure hunt in the woods, he hopes to rebuild their lost bond. But the discovery of a bizarre series of ...
Sense and Sensibility
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marianne and Elinor Dashwood are left near penniless after the death of their father. When they move to Devonshire, a new world of romantic possibilit...
Pride and Prejudice
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Radio 4 celebrates 250 years of Jane Austen with fresh, funny, and female-focused adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Expect...
Trust - Series 6
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Hall's comedy drama about a Salford secondary school starring Julie Hesmondhalgh.Yvette is convinced that, wherever possible, kids should sta...
Made in Taiwan
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A bright but hopelessly out-of-his-depth Brit arrives in Beijing for a dream job and stumbles straight into a chaotic mix of surveillance, blackmail a...
Secrets and Lies: Scammer
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Satinder Kaur Chohan's moving drama 'Scammer' about the ruthless world of scam call centres is part of BBC Radio 4 drama collection, Secrets and Lies....
The Wind in the Willows: A Weasel’s Tale
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new re-imagining of The Wind in the Willows told from the margins. Set in a timeless, Kenneth Grahame-inspired England, the drama looks up from weas...
Murder on the Mars
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mars, 2048. The first settlers, a mix of international workers and the super-rich. And the first unexplained death.When a body turns up in the corrido...
Episode 6 - Peking Noir
10 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Presented by Paul French Drama written by Sarah WooleyWhatever anyone declared categorically about Shura Giraldi, someone else insisted on the exact o...
Episode 5 - Peking Noir
10 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Presented by Paul French Drama written by Sarah WooleyWhatever anyone declared categorically about Shura Giraldi, someone else insisted on the exact o...
Episode 4 - Peking Noir
10 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Presented by Paul French Drama written by Sarah WooleyWhatever anyone declared categorically about Shura Giraldi, someone else insisted on the exact o...
Episode 3 - Peking Noir
10 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Presented by Paul French Drama written by Sarah WooleyWhatever anyone declared categorically about Shura Giraldi, someone else insisted on the exact o...
Episode 2 - Peking Noir
10 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Presented by Paul French Drama written by Sarah WooleyWhatever anyone declared categorically about Shura Giraldi, someone else insisted on the exact o...
Episode 1 - Peking Noir
10 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Presented by Paul French Drama written by Sarah WooleyWhatever anyone declared categorically about Shura Giraldi, someone else insisted on the exact o...