Twelfth Night is a riotous comedy of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity. Duke Orsino is in love with the noblewoman Olivia. She, however, has fallen for his servant Cesario, who...

Rich and handsome, the hope of ambitious mothers and despair of his sisters, the Marquis of Alverstoke sees no reason to put himself out for anyone. But when a distant connection applies to him...

Stephen Fry hosts this programme on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4.The uses and misuses of quotations are revealed, and there is also a frank confession from a...

Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4.'The Trial of Qwerty' The 'Qwerty' keyboard faces charges of conspiracy...

Dell O'Ryan was brought up to always do the right thing. So when his no-good cousin landed the beautiful wedding photographer Regina in a whole heap of trouble, Dell stepped in to save the day....

Introducing William Brown—an eleven-year-old with a talent for trailing chaos and disaster in his wake. But he’s not deliberately bad—he’s just William!

Disc One: ‘William...

Alice wants her own art gallery. But at the moment she’s running her nightmare boss Angelica’s, which is full of gold-sprayed wheelchairs, hairy pebbles and heads made of frozen wee. Her love...

A thirty-five strong cast including Leo McKern as Kutuzov, Simon Russell Beale as Pierre Bezuhov, Emily Mortimer as Natasha Rostov and Gerard Murphy as Andrei Bolkonsky, brings all the passion and...

It’s late 1935 and Sue Carver is living happily with her parents in Rotherhithe, working in the office of wealthy local car dealer Fred Hunt. Pretty and vivacious, Sue has many admirers,...

When Bill Bannister meets Dr Sally Smith, love blossoms immediately. Unfortunately there is just the small problem of Lottie Higginbotham, former actress, serial bride and human fireball, with...

Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife...

It is February, 1806. The frigate carrying Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho drops anchor off the shores of southern Africa. It is only four months since the resounding victory over the combined...

Robert Lindsay stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic novel by Charles Dickens.From the echo of the first line ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’...

Shakespeare's thought-provoking tale of a merchant in debt to a heartless Jewish moneylender who demands his pound of flesh is movingly retold by award-winning author Leon Garfield. Read by Simon...

By Alison Miller. Jan has returned home to Orkney after decades in Glasgow. Surprised by loneliness, she seeks diversion in a blind date. Read by Tracy Wiles.