Drama on 4 Episodes Episode guide
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Amah in the Bathtub
Wives in 1960s colonial Singapore are partying, unaware of disturbing domestic problems.
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Arlo
By John Retallack. The love between a couple must be re-negotiated when a child arrives.
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Lavinia Greenlaw - The Icelandic Journals
William Morris's trip to Iceland and the clash of friendship and love that lay behind it.
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Sarah Wooley - Moving Music
Artistic tensions surface as composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich share a day job.
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Tom Wainwright - The Wainwrights
Farmer Barry discovers that he is the star of a long-running radio drama serial.
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Queens of the Coal Age
By Maxine Peake. Four miners' wives occupy a coal mine to save 31 pits from closure.
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The Man in the Lift
A man is contracted to repair the lift in a tower block. Why does no one believe him?
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Democracy for Beginners
By Paul Dornan. Hannah needs a job. Her dad's up for town mayor. Can she run against him?
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Stephen Wyatt - The Organist's Daughter
Only an arranged marriage will allow the great composer and organist Buxtehude to retire.
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Nikolai Leskov - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Leskov's searing classic Russian tale of passion and murder is an emotional rollercoaster.
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Imaginary Boys
By Paul Magrs. A fantastical tale of teenage love and close encounters.
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Nothing Happened
By Nick Hoare. Tom and Alice agree that their affair can never happen.
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Man in the Moon
Linda Marshall Griffiths's love story, told in five encounters over 16 years.
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Jeff Young - The Exuberant
Jack is on the hunt for a space rock, as is his nemesis Aurora. Who will find it first?
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The Magnificent Andrea
Nigel Planer's comedy about two very different men mourning the woman they both loved.
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Drone Pilots
Night shift operators fly a drone over Waziristan from a trailer in the American desert.
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Carnival
Secrets and lies unravel in Rachel De-lahay's drama about the need to conform.
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Caroline Quentin - My Brilliant Divorce
When her husband leaves, Angela learns the ups and downs of being a middle-aged singleton.
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The Watcher on the Wall
Belfast poet Louis MacNeice's transatlantic love affair and the poetry it inspired.
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Bad Elvis
Katie Hims's specially-written drama for deaf actor David Bower.
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His Father's Wife
By Mike Harris. Dark brooding tale of love and filial hate set in 19th-century Scotland.
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Encounter
Christopher Green encounters fashion, loss and legacy through nudity and a bit of singing.
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Mark Burgess - Joan and the Baron
An odd friendship forms when Philippe de Rothschild asks Joan Littlewood to his chateau.
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SuperYou
Satirical reflection on the perils of manipulating our identities in the online world.
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Sarah Woods - Watch Me
When Anja meets Rhys she is reluctant to fall in love, but her brain has other ideas.
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Paul Jenkins - Red Star Newport
A bankrupt football club is helped when their manager embraces socialist principles.
