Come Closer Now

Katie Hims’ love letter to radio drama to celebrate 100 years of the medium.

• 74 mins

Inspired by Hamlet: Hamlet Noir

Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy takes on a thrilling Scandi-Noir twist.

• 119 mins

Inspired by Hamlet: Hamlette

A radical re-imagining of Shakespeare. Harriet considers how to avenge her sister's rape.

• 89 mins

The Spanish Tragedy

Bold new audio drama of Thomas Kyd's bloody Elizabethan revenge play for Radio 3.

• 94 mins

Bacon in Moscow

Francis Bacon’s ground-breaking 1988 exhibition in the USSR. With Timothy Spall

• 89 mins

Under Milk Wood

A Play for Radio by Dylan Thomas. The 1954 BBC broadcast starring Richard Burton.

• 95 mins

Under Milk Woods

For the 70th anniversary of Under Milk Wood, five short drama portraits of Wales in 2024.

• 89 mins

Dog in the Manger

Lope de Vega's Spanish Golden Age comedy, starring Olivia Poulet and Joe Thomas.

• 89 mins

Henry V

Hal has to prove he has what it takes to be King as he lays claim to the throne of France.

• 119 mins

Cymbeline

Lovers are tested in a Britain alienated from the rest of Europe, ruled by a weak leader.

• 119 mins

Calmer

A gripping drama about motherhood and chaos by Lolita Chakrabarti, starring Meera Syal.

• 89 mins

Jubilee!

Jubilee! 1871, USA. A choir of ex-slaves save a university & bring spirituals to the world

• 89 mins

Love and Information

The first audio production of Caryl Churchill's thrilling kaleidoscope of human behaviour.

• 79 mins

From Morning to Midnight

Georg Kaiser’s banned 1912 expressionist drama in a new modern translation and adaptation.

• 59 mins

Ivanov

Rory Kinnear stars as Nicholas Ivanov in a new version of Chekhov's stage classic.

• 89 mins

Star

Drama about Judy Garland, Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin and the making of A Star Is Born.

• 89 mins

War with the Newts

By Ed Harris adapted from Karel Čapek’s 1936 novel. With Doña Croll and Laura Elphinstone.

• 99 mins

Gershwin & Miss Swift

The extraordinary true story of composer Kay Swift and her affair with George Gershwin.

• 119 mins

Guys and Dolls at Christmas

Two seasonal tales from Guys and Dolls writer Damon Runyon, performed by Jamie Parker.

• 89 mins

The Dead

Epiphanies at a Twelfth Night party in Dublin. By James Joyce. Read by Jonathan Forbes.

• 89 mins

Gatsby in Harlem (Part 1)

F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, reimagined by Roy Williams and starring Ncuti Gatwa

• 79 mins

Gatsby in Harlem (Part 2)

F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby reimagined by Roy Williams and starring Ncuti Gatwa.

• 89 mins

Saint Joan of the Anthropocene

Linda Marshall Griffiths' contemporary re-imagining of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan.

• 94 mins

Messiaen and the Birds

Poet Michael Symmons Roberts explores composer Olivier Messiaen's obsession with birdsong.

• 74 mins

Hamlet

A restored production of Shakespeare's play with Ronald Pickup, first broadcast in 1971.

• 179 mins

The Defectors

Drama-documentary inspired by the defection of North Korea's Deputy Ambassador to the UK.

• 89 mins