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Series of drama performances, ranging from experiment works to the Classics. Get in touch... [email protected] Call: 03700 100 300

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First Broadcast16 Sept 2007
Latest Broadcast23 Jan 2011
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A play about our compulsion to understand, exploring mathematics and creativity.

Sept 2008
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A play about the singer Marvin Gaye's final years, spent in Begium.

Mar 2008
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Alan Ayckbourn's award-winning 1987 play about a family's descent into corruption.

Apr 2009
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Powerful classic play set in the early 1960s, centring on the reunion of an Irish family.

Dec 2009
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By Haruki Murakami. Touching stories of people affected by the Kobe earthquake of 1995.

Sept 2007
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The story of a group of young German soldiers enduring the realities of World War I.

Nov 2008
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When Redmond is left by his wife and child, he resolves to get them back whatever the cost

Jan 2008
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Shakespeare's play tells of the lengths a woman will go to to win the man she loves.

Dec 2007
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A portrait of the lives of poet RS Thomas and his wife artist Elsi Eldridge.

Mar 2009
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Peter Hall's 1983 version of Peter Shaffer's award-winning play Amadeus.

Jan 2011
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A portrait of Arthur Ransome before he found fame, when he lived a dangerous double life.

Feb 2010
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A murdered man's sister-in-law seeks the truth about his murder.

Mar 2008
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By Oscar Wilde. Mrs Cheveley threatens to reveal Sir Robert Chiltern's secret past.

Feb 2010
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Dan Rebellato's new comedy about the complexity and absurdity of modern life.

May 2010
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Frances Barber and David Harewood star in Shakespeare's last great tragedy.

Jun 2010
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George Bernard Shaw's romantic comedy exploring the ideals and realities of war.

Mar 2010
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Imagining the interrogation of Jewish-Russian writer Isaac Babel upon his 1939 arrest.

Sept 2007
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When members of a wedding party are killed in Baghdad, three friends' lives are torn apart

Jan 2008
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Toby Stephens stars in one of the classic French plays of the 20th century.

Oct 2009
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Adrian Bean and David Hendy's drama about a grieving Edwardian scientist.

Jul 2010
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A new drama which tackles the themes of family and responsibility.

Oct 2009
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Three short symbolist plays by Maurice Maeterlinck, adapted by Katie Hims.

Dec 2008
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By Gregory Burke. Based on interviews by Burke with former soldiers who served in Iraq.

Oct 2008
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A meditation on fate, war, tradition, passion and repression, inspired by a true story.

Nov 2007
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A young secretary unwittingly becomes romantically involved with an East German spy.

Sept 2008
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Gregory Whitehead's fantasy about the android head of science-fiction writer Philip K Dick

Mar 2009
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A play centring on the story of the sinister mesmerist Dr Caligari and his slave Cesare.

Oct 2008
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An adaptation of the classic drama about a family fighting over a dying father's millions.

Mar 2008
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Carlo Gebler's play about relationship between the writers of The Tales Of Shakespeare.

Jan 2011
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A selection of Alfred Lord Tennyson's sea-narratives.

Aug 2009
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A poet-swordsman with a mis-shapen nose falls in love with the beautiful Roxane.

Mar 2008
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A play drawing on the writings of reclusive artist Henry Darger, imagining his inner life.

Jun 2009
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Classic 1604 play about a man who defies God by selling his soul to the Devil for power.

Sept 2007
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Don Taylor's adaptation of a stage version of Cervantes's classic picaresque novel.

Nov 2009
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A play about the implications of organ donation, and what survives of us.

Jan 2008
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A play exploring the loose ends left by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

Jan 2009
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Toby Jones stars in Christopher Marlowe's portrait of the irresponsible king.

Sept 2009
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An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's play, directed by Stephen Rea.

May 2010
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Brian Friel's classic play about a failed Irish faith healer returning to his native land.

Sept 2010
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An adaptation of the Traverse Theatre's production of Zinnie Harris' play.

Jun 2009
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With Samuel West and Toby Jones. Goethe's epic reflection on the predicament of humanity.

Sept 2010
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August Wilson's award-winning play exploring race relations in America.

Jan 2010
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A new play about abortion by award-winning TV dramatist Tony Marchant.

Nov 2008
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Adaptation of Marilynne Robinson's novel about a minister facing death.

Dec 2010
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James Baldwin's classic novel set in Paris in 1954 in its world premiere radio production.

Sept 2010
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A radio adaptation of a book by Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X and Microserfs.

Feb 2008
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All-star adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about Chicago real estate salesmen

Oct 2007
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Written by Debbie Tucker Green. Drama about a young woman who goes missing.

Mar 2010
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Douglas Hodge stars as composer William Baines, who died at 23, in his most prolific stage

Jun 2008
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Zimbabwean playwright Andrew Whaley's satire set in Zimbabwe during the slum clearances.

Dec 2008
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A tribute to Harold Pinter, with his 1993 play Moonlight and his 2005 radio piece Voices.

Feb 2009
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The murky world of Tudor politics, religion and sex revealed in Shakespeare's play.

Apr 2009
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A poignant, often darkly funny play which looks at the lives of five people.

Jan 2009
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A contemporary drama about the insidious presence of noise in our lives.

May 2009
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A play by Richard Nelson, focusing on George VI's visit to the United States in 1939.

Jun 2009
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Annie Caulfield's drama about the life of singer and political activist Paul Robeson.

Feb 2010
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Adam Godley stars in a wry contemporary comedy by award-winning writer Charlotte Jones.

Jan 2009
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Samuel Beckett's classic stage play, broadcast as a tribute to actor Corin Redgrave.

May 2010
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Madame de Lafayette's classic tale of intrigue and love dramatised by Jo Clifford.

Feb 2010
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Play in which essayist Michel de Montaigne is sent on a diplomatic mission around France.

Jan 2011
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A chance to hear Shakespeare's play and Mendelssohn's complete incidental music for it.

May 2009
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Drama inspired by Dorothea Lange's iconic photograph of Florence Owens Thompson.

Nov 2010
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Mrs Warren reveals to her horrified daughter the source of her income.

Nov 2007
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An ordinary young Indian boy is chosen to become a religious figurehead. But can he cope?

May 2009
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A new, darkly humorous drama focusing on a day in the life of a social worker.

Oct 2010
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A production from London's Donmar Warehouse, with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role.

May 2008
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An adventure full of tyrants, incest, murder, knights, a great hero and the goddess Diana.

Nov 2008
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A corporation finds a way of making interactive avatars of the dead. By Melissa Murray.

Dec 2010
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A play chronicling the events of the 1988 Piper Alpha oil rig disaster.

Jul 2008
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A challenging play responding to the 7/7 London bombings.

Jan 2009
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Professor Bernhardi, by Arthur Schnitzler. Set in Vienna in 1900.

Apr 2008
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When Rudolpho reveals that he can't age beyond mid-life he finds his powers no longer work

Apr 2008
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A production of Milton's dramatic poem, for Radio 3's Milton 400th anniversary celebration

Dec 2008
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Rebecca Lenkiewicz's drama about a love affair between two former foster siblings.

Jul 2010
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Young playwright Oladipo Agboluaje's new Peckham-set comedy noir play.

Oct 2010
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As revolution raged France, feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft travelled to Scandinavia.

Oct 2007
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A dramatisation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's sensual and shocking thriller.

Sept 2008
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A dramatisation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's sensual and shocking thriller.

Jan 2010
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In 1914 Charles Masterman used the literary and artistic elite to unite the nation.

Nov 2007
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Shylock's friend Antonio needs a loan and they agree to a forfeit of a pound of flesh.

Jun 2008
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Billy Pilgrim is 'unstuck in time' in Kurt Vonnegut's iconic non-linear anti-war story.

Sept 2009
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A drama documentary looking at the psychological consequences of war.

Dec 2007
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Paul Scofield stars in Anton Chekhov's play about an elderly actor confronting his ghosts.

Apr 2008
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Two productions by Irish playwright JM Synge: The Tinker's Wedding and Riders to the Sea.

Mar 2009
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A warlord, an historian and a poet: a dramatic clash between three key historical figures.

Nov 2008
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A Liverpool Playhouse production of Roger McGough's version of Moliere's comedy.

Jul 2009
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An Expressionist work from 1923 by American playwright Elmer Rice.

Mar 2008
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An adaptation by Sarah Hall and Dominic Power of Hall's third novel The Carhullan Army.

Apr 2010
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Murder, lust, madness and mayhem in a Jacobean classic set in 1920s Spain.

Nov 2009
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Anton Chekhov's tale of a Russian family forced to sell their house and cherry orchard.

Dec 2008
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Drama set in the near future as the government deals with a real global warming crisis.

Dec 2009
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A baby in a bag is left outside a cafe in the hope that the owner will give it a home.

Feb 2008
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A man spreads the false rumour that he is impotent to gain access to other men's wives.

Apr 2008
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It is post-war Britain around 1950 and Hester Collyer has left her husband.

Feb 2009
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Will civil servant Simon give the report the evidence seems to support?

Feb 2008
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By John Webster. A new production of one of the great Jacobean plays.

Oct 2008
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Glyn Maxwell's adaptation of Dostoevsky's drama about his experiences as a young man.

Jun 2009
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Gogol's satire on corruption and sleaze starring Toby Jones and Paul Ritter.

Mar 2009
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Robin Lustig introduces four plays tracing the history of war in Afghanistan.

Oct 2010
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Eugene O'Neill's classic American expressionist drama starring Dominic West as Yank.

Dec 2009
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Pinter himself takes on the role of Max in this modern classic.

Dec 2007
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A play depicting a summer's day at the house of 18th-century naturalist Rev Gilbert White.

Aug 2009
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An adaptation of Tennyson's The Idylls of the King narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith.

Jul 2009
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Lia Williams stars in a new version of Ibsen's late sensuous drama.

Nov 2009
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Lyrical drama exploring the heart of enslavement through the experiences of four women.

Oct 2007
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Don Fabrizio contemplates his obsolescence amid the social changes of the Risorgimento.

May 2008
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As Turkey enters the war in 1915, the American consul is playing a diplomatic poker game.

Aug 2010
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A rare chance to hear Beaumarchais' original play, on which Mozart's opera was based.

Dec 2010
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Antony Sher plays William Shakespeare in a play about the Bard's life.

Nov 2008
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Neil despairs of the behaviour he sees around him, and begins to take photos of incidents.

Jan 2008
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A visiting lecturer offers a group of miners a key to the art world through painting.

Dec 2007
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Aleksei Arbuzov's classic Soviet play set during the siege of Leningrad.

Nov 2009
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Tom Holland's new adaptation of his own translation of Herodotus' Histories.

Oct 2009
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1775 in the city of Bath, and three suitors fight for the hand of Miss Lydia Languish.

Dec 2007
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Adaptation of Stefan Zweig's novella about chess madness.

Dec 2010
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Siobhan Redmond and Paul Higgins star in a new production of Chekhov's classic drama.

Jan 2010
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Geraldine McEwan stars in Mike Bartlett's haunting new play.

Feb 2009
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Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill's famous 1928 play with music.

Oct 2009
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Philip Osment's dramatisation of HG Wells's classic story about time travel.

Feb 2009
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A play about the mystery surrounding Socrates's trial and subsequent execution.

Feb 2008
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An adaptation of Patrick White's provocative and mysterious novel about sexual identity.

Sept 2009
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Adaptation of BS Johnson's novel about a journalist's memories of his dear, dead friend.

Oct 2010
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Nadia has settled opinions and relationships - until she meets her boyfriend's father.

May 2008
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A new production of John Webster's classic play of murder and revenge, set in the 1950s.

Aug 2010
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One of Henrik Ibsen's most powerful dramas, exploring the tragic impact of family secrets.

Jun 2008
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Drama about author and intellectual Thomas Paine, who influenced the American Revolution.

Mar 2010
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Screenwriter Austin's work on a film script is disrupted by the arrival of his brother Lee

Jun 2008
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Michelene Wandor's play explores the life of the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza.

Oct 2008
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In 1675, Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, a friend of Vermeer, made an astonishing discovery.

Jul 2008
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Lorca's classic tale of a woman's desperate yearning for a child that leads to murder.

Sept 2010
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After an unprovoked attack in a shopping centre, no one comes forward as a witness.

Apr 2008
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A play imagining what might have happened if the author Brian O'Nolan's two alter egos met

Aug 2008
Free Thinking 2010
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Free Thinking 2010

A performance given in front of an audience Radio 3's 2010 Free Thinking festival of ideas

Nov 2010