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The Naval Treaty: Part Three
Holmes sets a dangerous plan into motion, which leads to a violent struggle.
29 May 2025,·32 mins
5. The War With Napoleon
The English Navy is preventing ships landing in to cut off supplies to Napoleon.
21 Aug 2020,·14 mins
5. Bloody Fool
Harry Lime is very much alive, but can Rollo track him down?
01 Jul 2016,·15 mins
Series 10
6. Friends
Final instalment for this series from the master storyteller.
06 May 2025,·28 mins
3. Gossip
The legendary broadcaster recalls his brother's attempt to play a corpse in a school play.
28 Sep 2005,·15 mins
Music and Silence (Omnibus)
Episode 1
A young English lutenist who looks like an angel arrives in Denmark to play for the King.
25 May 2025,·70 mins
Episode Ten
Declan and Brendan’s conflict comes to a head.
23 May 2025,·14 mins
Episode 5: Planting Fruit Trees
As the strike grinds to its conclusion, the women ready themselves for battles to come.
30 May 2025,·14 mins
5: Roll Over, Dead Old Me
The last in a brilliantly original and savagely funny new series about women and space.
10: The End of the Affair
A brilliant new literary whodunnit for Radio 4 from the acclaimed author William Boyd.
14 Mar 2025,·14 mins
Episode 9
The village is in uproar after Sarah Walker’s denials but the Christmas party must go on.
07 Dec 2023,·14 mins
Episode 10
Orsola’s shop in Venice is thriving but echoes of her sprawling past are ever present.
28 Feb 2025,·14 mins
Ghost Stories by HG Wells
The Stolen Body
When a researcher experiments with astral projection, an interested party intervenes.
30 Jun 2017,·15 mins
Chapter 47
Jane Austen’s universally acknowledged romance about Elizabeth Bennett’s search for love.
24 Aug 2019,·22 mins
Episode 5 - Achavanich
The journey along the Great North Road concludes with an archaeological discovery.
25 Apr 2025,·14 mins
Chapter Ten
John Buchan’s thrilling tale of derring-do, secrets and spies set in the shadows of war.
01 Nov 2019,·33 mins
A vivid and lively of the city in its 16th century heyday.
24 May 2025,·75 mins
Episode 5: The Springs
Robert Macfarlane explores an idea that changes the world – that a river is alive.
09 May 2025,·14 mins
Angel's Share
Sunita's plan hangs in the balance and all depends on Primakov - is he in a buying mood?
07 Feb 2025,·14 mins
A twist in the tale in this final instalment.
15 Dec 2021,·17 mins
10: 'Here I am.'
Art, ion and the chance of freedom, in an intoxicating debut set in 1920s Provence.
Episode Twelve: December
Dr Lucy Maddox shares practical advice from her experience as a clinical psychologist
07 Jun 2023,·14 mins
June Hayward watched Athena Liu die. But now she’s convinced Athena wants to meet her.
19 Jul 2023,·14 mins
Chapter 37
Charlotte Brontë’s intimate and disquieting coming of age classic about secrets and lies.
24 Aug 2019,·49 mins
Ep 10 - Shifting Landscapes
Kate's dreams are in jeopardy when Annabelle makes her agenda clear.
23 Jan 2023,·15 mins
Chapter 7
Arthur Conan Doyle's classic locked-room mystery following Holmes and Watson.
22 Aug 2019,·27 mins
Chapter Seven
Mrs Gaskell’s much-loved portrait of life in a small town and its female inhabitants.
01 Nov 2019,·25 mins
A twist in the tale at the end of this heartwarming whodunnit.
05 Sep 2022,·15 mins
Episode Five
By Alex Preston. Zeke must play a full part in the attempt to rescue the rebels.
31 Jan 2025,·14 mins
10: For there she was
The final part of Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel, set over one day in 1923.
04 Feb 2022,·14 mins
