Drama on 4 Episodes Episode guide
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The Day They Wouldn't Take it Any More
By Sue Rodwell, based on real events. A peace celebration in Luton in 1919 becomes a riot.
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RK Narayan - A Tiger for Malgudi
An aging tiger looks back on his life and the human absurdities of 1970s India.
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Worktown
Worktown: Michael Symonds Roberts's play is inspired by photographs of Bolton in the 1930s
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Blue Sky Thinking
A psychological thriller about love and identity by Ben Lewis.
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Books
By Tessa Hadley. The daughter of a late novelist meets a university researcher.
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From Abstraction
By Stephen Phelps. Prof Matthew Coleman has a sideline in linguistic forensics.
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A Helping Hand
Dark comedy by Mike Stott. DS Dave Davis investigates a drunken football fan's murder.
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Lemon Meringue Pie
By Rachel Trezise. Katie is 16 and in love. Her mother would have a fit if she found out.
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Peter Lorre vs Peter Lorre
Michael Butt's play explores a strange legal case involving movie star Peter Lorre.
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From Abstraction
By Robert Thorogood. Paul is rich and in love. So why does he lock himself in the library?
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This Cold August Light
By Jerome Vincent. The year 1816 saw some extraordinary weather.
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Thrift
By Rebecca Trick-Walker. Gwen ponders her 40-year marriage and its recent end.
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Building Happiness
By Daniel Jamieson. Three lost people find unexpected meaning for their lives in Bath.
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Sex for Volunteers
Romantic comedy by Laura Marney and David Ramos Fernandes.
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Gold's Fool
Paul B Davies's play is based on the story of how Elizabeth I mounted a reckless adventure
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Alan and Jean's Incredible Journey by Ian Kershaw
A couple decide to spend their holiday in their bedroom.
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Whispering
Psychological thriller about adultery and murder by Campbell Armstrong.
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Steinbeck in Avalon
Dramatised by Ray Brown from John Steinbeck's recollections of his sojourn in Somerset.
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Mother Spy
Drama documentary by John Fletcher telling the story of unlikely spy Janet Chisholm.
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Love-Shaped Thing
By Rebecca Papworth. Artist Guy returns to Halifax and falls for 16-year-old Shona.
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Left at Marrakech
By Richard Stevens. A Transatlantic wartime flight is beset with increasing dangers.
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No Going Back
By Ron Hutchinson. An Australian visiting Ireland is caught up in a fifty-year-old murder.
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Sand
By Tilly Black. A ten-year-old's holiday diary tells a poignant human story.
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It's Better With Animals
By Mike Walker. An elderly proprietor of a New York fur shop narrates three magical tales.
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Goldengrove
Frances Byrnes' story of a young working-class girl and the woman who transforms her.
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The Secret Place
By Clare Bayley. Andy and Safi are getting married, but this is no normal wedding.
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Blaze
By Ann Marie Di Mambro. The world of two designers and entrepreneurs goes into freefall.
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When Greed Becomes Fear: Safe As Houses
By DJ Britton. When Joe loses his sales job, he finds himself desperate to save his home.
