A cool bag containing a baby is left outside a cafe in London in the hope that the owner will provide it with a loving home. But the cafe stays closed and the unfortunate babe remains undiscovered...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's notorious portrait of a weak king in thrall to his passions, who pays the ultimate price for choosing his heart over his political...

Richard Burton narrates this epic, 26-part chronicle of the English succession from Edward II to Elizabeth I, first broadcast on BBC Radio to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee and rebroadcast...

Episode 24 of the epic, 26-part chronicle of the English succession from Edward II to Elizabeth I, narrated by Richard Burton. Perkin Warbeck is betrayed in Scotland and his wife Katherine sits in...

Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and his son Hal in the powerful production which also stars Timothy West and Prunella Scales. BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it...

A BBC Radio 3 play by Gary Mitchell about music, friendship and politics. ‘Echoes of War’ moves between present day Belfast and the last 20 years, and explores the loose ends left by the 1998...

A sparkling BBC Radio 4 adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s comic play, starring Alan Bennett, Brenda Blethyn, Gwen Taylor, Alun Armstrong, Michael Jayston and Nicola Pagett.Three eminently...

Alfred Lord Tennyson spent half a century mourning his college pal Arthur Hallam, and laboured for decades on an epic poetic tribute to him. So, in a dash of wry comedy, when inventor and...

BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and...

Episode 15 of the epic, 26-part chronicle of the English succession from Edward II to Elizabeth I, narrated by Richard Burton, with Paul Scofield as the Chorus. King Henry woos a French Princess,...

BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and...

Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s BBC Radio 3 full-cast drama starring Annette Crosbie and David Bradley about a love affair between two former foster siblings. Originally broadcast in the ‘Drama on 3’...

Episode 22 of the epic, 26-part chronicle of the English succession from Edward II to Elizabeth I, narrated by Richard Burton. Richard Crookback hacks his way to the throne and James Tyrrel...

California 1936. Florence Owens Thompson and her family have joined the thousands of migrant workers flocking across America in search of work. Homeless, desperately hungry and faced with the...

Samuel West stars as Richard II, with Joss Ackland as John of Gaunt in a gripping production of Shakespeare's lyrically tragic history.BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to...