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Drama (formerly Afternoon Theatre, Afternoon Drama, Afternoon Play) [1] [2] is a BBC Radio 4 radio drama, broadcast every weekday at 2.15pm. Generally each play is 45 minutes in duration and approximately 190 new plays are broadcast each year. More or less three-quarters are self-contained dramas. The remainder are short series of 2 to 6 episodes.
This is a list of current and former programmes broadcast on BBC Radio 4.. When it came into existence – on 30 September 1967 – Radio 4 inherited a great many continuing programme series which had been initiated prior to that date by its predecessor, the BBC Home Service (1939–1967), and in some cases even by stations which had preceded the Home Service.
Trueman and Riley is a British radio drama series written by Brian B. Thompson and produced by Toby Swift.It stars Robert Daws and Duncan Preston as a pair of ill-matched, middle-aged, marginalised Leeds detectives who are consigned to work on cases deemed too trivial for their more high-powered colleagues.
McLevy is a British radio crime drama series, written by David Ashton, about the 19th century Edinburgh police detective James McLevy.Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as part of its Afternoon Drama slot, the drama stars Brian Cox and Siobhan Redmond, with Michael Perceval-Maxwell and David Ashton.
BBC Radio 4 is the second-most-popular British domestic radio station by total hours, [8] after Radio 2.It recorded its highest audience, of 11 million listeners, in May 2011, [9] and was "UK Radio Station of the Year" at the 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2023 Radio Academy Awards.
The Afternoon Play is a British television anthology series, which consists of standalone contemporary dramas first shown during the daytime on BBC One. The first episode, entitled "Turkish Delight", aired on 27 January 2003. Since, a total of twenty-five episodes have been broadcast across five series. [1]
Macfarlane directed the first up to the eleventh radio series of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. [citation needed]In the theatre, Macfarlane has directed Wit by Margaret Edson, Folie à Trois by Sarah Wooley and The Past is not a Place by Beatrice Colin for the Stellar Quines Theatre Company; The Birds by Aristophanes and After the Rain by Sergi Belbel at the Gate Theatre; The House of ...
BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play: April 2, 2007 – April 6, 2007: Captain Starlight's Apprentice [2] Jess: Lu Kemp: BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama: June 22, 2010: Two Pipe Problem 2010: Right Old Charlie [3] Karen: Marilyn Imrie: BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play: June 23, 2010: Two Pipe Problem 2010: The Memory Man Forgets [4] Karen / Shelley: Marilyn ...