Modern British Radio Plays
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Enjoy the edgy and modern DELETE, written by super talented Nina Millns, police drama OMEGA by the fantastic Elizabeth Parikh. Don’t miss The Springheel Saga and Red Moon, award winning alternative history series from Robert Valentine.
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1101 Wellington Way. New audio drama from Vivian Lermond. A nosey neighbour and a watermain burst brings an unpleasant revelation for the new tenant at…
A unique and life changing friendship between 13 year old John and a young girl.
A Gentleman of My Own Making is based on the true story of Michael Dillon, born Laura Dillon, who gave herself over to the first…
Roger Benezoscee is like the worst boss you’ve ever had times ten. What could possibly force this obnoxious, egotistical old megalomaniac to change his ways?…
Battle Cries. Audio Drama inspired by the Arab Spring of 2011. Jane Downs has written from a woman’s perspective on the Arab Spring, referencing the…
The winning script of our Young Writer’s Competition, The Chicken Salad of a Troubled Mind is set in the deep and murky subconscious of a…
In the serene garden of a Devonshire cottage, next door neighbours Kenneth and Barbara while away their twilight years amid cups of tea, bonfires and…
Sue is dating. Mostly men with beards. Sue is Tanya’s parole officer. Tanya needs to stay clean. Tanya needs to serve her community sentence by…
Sue is dating. Mostly men with beards. Sue is Tanya’s parole officer. Tanya needs to stay clean. Tanya needs to serve her community sentence by…
Dream Me a Winter was written for the Old Vic 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala 2006
A radio play based on travels abroad relayed by e-mails between the ingenuous first-time traveller and her disillusioned home-bound sister. Culminating in their role-reversal, and…
An ageing, glamorous film star falls in love with a younger man. Now, past her cast-by- date, she agrees to play Lear as a woman…
Set in late-Victorian England, this drama explores the tragic effects of Victorian attitudes to homosexuality, and how it affected politicians and artists. These including Oscar…
Young widow Amy is moving forward with her life. She has arranged to meet up with Joe, an old ‘friend’ in the hope of reigniting…
Christmas Audio Drama. It’s Christmas Eve, and Ellen has finished all the family Christmas preparations. So why is she on the roof? written and performed…
Two students, Arnold Nugent Strode Strode-Jackson and Philip John Noel-Baker, became lifelong friends when they were unexpectedly chosen to represent Britain at the 1912 Stockholm…
It’s 1965 and a pregnant Karen and her two children are moving to a new estate. It looks like the future – but what does…
Kindred is a two part audio play written by award winning playwright Jaki McCarrick. A very loose interpretation of Euripides’ Electra, set on the Irish…
A very loose interpretation of Euripides’ Electra, set on the Irish border
A suspect is questioned by a secret service agent using sophisticated polygraph equipment with surprising results. Satire.
Omega is an exciting and fast paced police drama based in Northern England, written by ex-police officer Elizabeth Parikh. Newly qualified Police Officer PC Gifty…
Newly qualified Police Officer PC Gifty Zahra has at last fulfilled a lifelong ambition to join the force, now finds herself mixed up in corruption.
Newly qualified Police Officer PC Gifty Zahra has at last fulfilled a lifelong ambition to join the force, now finds herself mixed up in corruption.
Newly qualified Police Officer PC Gifty Zahra has at last fulfilled a lifelong ambition to join the force, now finds herself mixed up in corruption.
Peace and War explores the extraordinary life of Evelyn, who at the start of WW1 went to France to nurse injured soldiers at the Front.…
The intense and shocking life of perhaps Spain’s greatest modern poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, assassinated by General Franco’s facist regime. With music from world renowned…
Redder than Roses is an intense intimate drama based on the lives of Mary Queen of Scots and the French poet Chastelard. No British monarch…
An original audio play (with songs), featuring Jilly Breeze and Dawn Stanley, with cameos from BBC Radio presenters, that deals with the illness M.E. Written…
Barbara is determined to celebrate her anniversary in style, and no-one will be allowed to spoil it. A stunning monologue written and performed by Fiz…
The Ballad of C3.3. Oscar Wilde was incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years’ hard labour.…
Three audio dramas that are in turns funny, dark and gently satirical. Includes The Packsaddle Librarian, set in depression-era America, The Interrogator, a psychological battle…
The quiet of a lonely coastal home is broken by the doorbell, the peace shattered by the past.
Ever since he was young, Larry has tried to avoid confrontation. Recently widowed, he tries to be a good father to his son Toby. When…
In Act One of Wild Elusive Butterfly, cargo vessel Turmoil prepares to set sail for the Southern Ocean. Shipowner Daisy Ballantyne and cargo owner Tom…
Tom finds life after death on a South Sea Island, and Jill confronts the unexpected consequences of childbirth
John and Peter surprise the Furies with an invitation and shocking suggestion