Main content

Tagged with: Drama

Posts (137)

  1. Home Front: Who Signed Up For WW1 And Why?

    Radio 4

    Professor Maggie Andrews, consultant historian on Radio 4’s epic drama series Home Front talks about the series and theme of recruitment in WW1

    Read more

  2. Saturday Drama: Under Milk Wood in Surround Sound

    Rupert Brun

    Head of Technology, BBC Radio

    Find out how to listen to Under Milk Wood in surround sound

    Read more

  3. Afternoon Drama: Beyond Contempt

    Peter Jukes

    Author

    Author Peter Jukes on the challenges of condensing 80 days of testimony into a 45 minute Afternoon Drama

    Read more

  4. A Hospital Odyssey

    Gwyneth Lewis

    Poet, Author, Writer

    Gwyneth Lewis was the first Poet Laureate of Wales. She wrote her original poem A Hospital Odyssey drawing on very personal experience after her husband was diagnosed with cancer. For the Radio 4 Blog she writes about those experiences that inspired the work.  

    Read more

  5. Dangerous Visions - The Illustrated Man

    Radio 4

    Radio 4’s latest Dangerous Visions season returns with Iain Glen as the Illustrated Man in a dramatisation of Ray Bradbury's iconic short story collection. Adapted by Brian Sibley.

    Read more

  6. Deadheading by Val McDermid

    Val McDermid

    Crime writer Val McDermid turns her hand to radio drama in Deadheading. a comic thriller set amongst the plots and sheds of a Lancashire allotment. 

    Read more

  7. Frank Zappa and Me

    Pauline Butcher

    Author

    In 1967 Pauline Butcher, then a 21-year-old secretary, was sent to a London hotel on a typing assignment. The client turned out to be avant-garde American musician Frank Zappa.

    Read more

  8. Adapting The Exorcist - Robert Forrest

    Robert Forrest

    dramatist author playwright

    Playwritght and award-winning dramatist Robert Forrest on adapting The Exorcist for Radio 4.

    Read more

  9. Anna’s War: telling the truth in the face of grave danger

    Elena Kudimova

    Elena Kudimova, sister of the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya writes about the 15 Minute Drama series inspired by her tireless pursuit of the truth.

    Read more

  10. The Exorcist

    Radio 4

    Radio 4 will be broadcasting a brand new version of the cult classic The Exorcist later this month. 

    Read more