David Threlfall stars as Father Paolo Baldi in two full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations.On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective.Hercule Poirot and his good friend Captain Hastings are enjoying a well-deserved break on the Cornish...

A BBC Radio 4 dramatic adaptation of Keats' sensual narrative poem ‘Lamia’, about the ill-starred love affair of the serpent Lamia, and the innocent mortal Lycius.Featuring original music...

Gerda Stevenson's dramatization of the 1932 novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, set in north-east Scotland before and during the First World War. Episode 1: Chris Guthrie is torn between her love of...

It was the corgis’ fault. When they strayed through the grounds of Buckingham Palace, the Queen discovered the City of Westminster travelling library.The Queen has never had much time for...

'Nothing to Be Afraid of' may be the title of this collection of stories, but nearly all the stories do have something rather frightening in them. At least, they are frightening for the...

The best bits of Series 1 and 2 of 'Harry Enfield and Chums', starring Harry Enfield ably assisted by those bloody good blokes, Paul Whitehouse and Kathy Burke.All the old favourites are here:...

Four episodes of the ever-popular BBC Radio 4 panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons, which showcases Kenneth Williams, one of the series' key players. Kenneth Williams is one of Just a Minute's...

Motherless Olivia and Nellie go to live with their elderly Great-Aunt Minty, who knows little about children, but a lot about her overgrown garden. Then one day, Olivia finds an old teacup in a...

The story in which Conan Doyle first unleashed the most famous partnership in the history of criminal detection. An unmarked corpse, a wedding ring and a mysterious message scrawled in blood are...

An anthology of 39 British and American poets, from Shakespeare and Dunne to Whitman and Yeats.

The American Senator By Anthony Trollope. Dramatised by Martyn Wade. Part Two Lord Rufford has kissed Arabella twice but she realises that much more needs to be done to win him and his estate. It...

Norman Brook was Cabinet Under Secretary during the Second World War and took personal, handwritten notes of the exchanges between Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his ministers.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novel of everyday provincial life in the 1820s, ‘Wives and Daughters’, first broadcast in the ‘Woman’s Hour Drama’...

'Chain Reaction' is the entertaining BBC Radio 4 tag talk show where this week's guest is next week's interviewer. Famous names from the world of showbusiness choose who they would like to chat...