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Drama on 3 Episodes

  1. Bix: Singing the Blues

    Drama fictionalising the only time Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong played together.

  2. The Outsider, by Albert Camus

    John Retallack's dramatisation of Albert Camus's classic existentialist novel L'etranger.

  3. Sunday at Sant' Agata

    Ronald Frame's imagined account of a summer's day at Verdi's country retreat.

  4. You Never Can Tell

    Martin Jarvis directs George Bernard Shaw's breezy seaside comedy.

  5. The Father

    August Strindberg's shocking play from 1890 about an imploding marriage, in a new version.

  6. Votes for Women

    Elizabeth Robins's 1907 suffragette play, starring Zoe Tapper and Samuel West.

  7. Britten 100: Imo and Ben

    Drama telling how Imogen Holst worked with Benjamin Britten on the score for Gloriana.

  8. Babbage

    David Pownall's drama about Charles Babbage, frustrated inventor of the computer.

  9. Elgar's Rondo

    By David Pownall. The reaction to his Second Symphony heightened Elgar's doubts and fears.

  10. One Winter's Afternoon

    Guy Meredith's drama about the great operatic rivalry between Verdi and Wagner.

  12. Shakespeare's Richard III

    Douglas Henshall stars as Shakespeare's villain. With original music by David Pickvance.

  13. Lungs

    Duncan Macmillan's innovative play finds a couple agonising over whether to have a baby.

  14. Baroque Spring: Moliere's The Misanthrope

    Live from Powis Castle, Moli猫re's classic French comedy adapted by poet Roger McGough.

  15. King David

    By Katie Hims. Things are going well for Dave, but he takes everything for granted.

  16. The Strangers' Will

    A supernatural thriller set in an eerie hotel in the Lake District.

  17. Mrs Updike

    A play about the relationship between American writer John Updike and his mother.

  18. Tosca's Kiss

    By Craig Warner. A play inspired by Puccini's oper Tosca.

  19. Britten 100: Billy Budd - These Buttons We Wear

    The story of Billy Budd and the mutinous author who wrote this controversial novella.

  20. The Physicists

    By Friedrich Durrenmatt. Classic European 1960s farce about three deluded scientists.

  21. Copenhagen

    Michael Frayn's play about the stormy 1941 meeting between physicists Bohr and Heisenberg.

  22. A New Cycle of Mystery Plays

    Five New Testament stories set in present-day pre-Christmas London.

  23. Austerlitz

    Adaptation of WG Sebald's novel about remembering the Holocaust.

  24. Napoleon Rising

    A never-performed Anthony Burgess drama charting Napoleon Bonaparte's meteoric rise.

  25. Lover's Rock

    Rex Obano's play about black politics and a new brand of reggae in 1980s London.

  26. The Torchbearers

    Live drama from Free Thinking 2012, capturing our relationship with the Olympic flame.

  27. Midnight Cry of the Deathbird

    By Amanda Dalton. Drama inspired by the classic silent horror film Nosferatu.

  28. Collaborators, by John Hodge

    Drama depicting the relationship between Mikhail Bulgakov and Josef Stalin.

  29. Mary Stuart

    Classic drama about the tense relationship between Elizabeth 1 and Mary, Queen of Scots.

  30. Tamburlaine

    Christopher Marlowe's 16th century play about the growth to power of a Scythian shepherd.

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