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Drama on 4

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

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A Close Approximation of You
Psychological thriller about love and the mirror-verse by Oliver Emanuel.
06 Aug 2022,57 mins
Mansfield Park
Part 1
Jane Austen's most overlooked novel about a displaced child with an unshakable conscience.
10 Jul 2022,57 mins
Mansfield Park
Part 2
Jane Austen's most overlooked novel about a displaced child with an unshakable conscience.
17 Jul 2022,57 mins
Stealing Shelley’s Heart
Mary Shelley waits for news of her poet husband, last seen sailing his ship into a storm.
07 Jul 2022,44 mins
Severus
Paterson Joseph stars as Septimius Severus who ruled the Roman Empire from Britain.
04 Jul 2022,44 mins
End of Transmission
By award-winning playwright Anita Sullivan. Who gave Jude HIV? Only the virus knows.
02 Jul 2022,57 mins
Bad Ark
Comedy drama. Four random people on a superyacht try to survive the apocalypse. It's bad.
30 Jun 2022,44 mins
The Making of a Monster
A teenager at a critical turning point - drama by Welsh Children's Laureate, Connor Allen
23 Jun 2022,44 mins
Life Rights by Nicholas Meiklejohn
An eventful reunion between two estranged friends now in their 40s
16 Jun 2022,44 mins
Barbeque 67: The Original Summer of Love
Migrant workers, Jimi Hendrix and the true story of the start of the Summer of Love.
30 May 2022,44 mins
Jason's Mates
A sharply observed and audio rich satire on modern politics.
23 May 2022,44 mins
Red Lines
Inside story of how David Cameron and Barack Obama failed to bring Putin to heel in Syria.
18 May 2022,45 mins
Pride and Protest
New drama from award winning playwright Kaite O’ Reilly.
07 May 2022,57 mins
Belgrano. Part 2
Drama about the sensational trial of civil servant Clive Ponting.
03 May 2022,44 mins
Belgrano. Part 1
What drove civil servant Clive Ponting to leak papers about the sinking of the Belgrano?
02 May 2022,44 mins
Pretty Vacant
A housing charity is offered a free hi-spec apartment block. It seems too good to be true.
25 Apr 2022,44 mins
The Le Fanu Ballads
Neil Brand's mix of Irish balladry and classic Le Fanu stories of supernatural justice.
17 Apr 2022,57 mins
Smoking Guns
How the man who proved climate change is manmade was attacked by the fossil fuel industry.
11 Apr 2022,44 mins
The Shell Seven
The Shell Seven wanted to put their case before a jury. True story by Margaret Heffernan.
05 Apr 2022,44 mins
The Painted Hall
Hugh Bonneville and Jane Asher star in a drama about the masterpiece in Greenwich.
04 Apr 2022,44 mins
Waterloo Station
Award-winning drama by Katie Hims.
29 Mar 2022,44 mins
Contender
Hannah Tointon and Elliot Cowan star as an ambitious swimmer and her unsettling coach.
28 Mar 2022,44 mins
Between Two Places
In a time not too far from now a woman looks for love, identity, and the right to be.
26 Mar 2022,57 mins
The Road and the Miles to Dundee by Val McDermid
Fresh from a bad break-up, famous writer Stella meets new writer Jen....
25 Mar 2022,28 mins
Song of the Reed
Song of the Reed: Whirlpool
Sophie Okonedo and Mark Rylance star in a seasonal drama set on a Norfolk nature reserve.
22 Sep 2021,44 mins
Song of the Reed
Eel
Sophie Okonedo and Mark Rylance return in seasonal drama set on a Norfolk nature reserve.
21 Dec 2021,44 mins
Song of the Reed
Bittern
Conclusion of remarkable drama following the life of a nature reserve over one year.
21 Mar 2022,44 mins
The War After The War
Drama starring Sir David Jason and Natalie Davies. Directed by Johnny Vegas.
12 Mar 2022,57 mins
Talking About a Revolution
When Maya unearths new information about her aunt’s death, she has to find out the truth.
07 Mar 2022,44 mins
White Debt (Part 2)
Thomas Harding explores the Demerara rebellion and the legacy of Britain's role in slavery
06 Mar 2022,57 mins