Drama on 4 Episodes Episode guide
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This Cold August Light
By Jerome Vincent. The year 1816 saw some extraordinary weather.
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Thrift
By Rebecca Trick-Walker. Gwen ponders her 40-year marriage and its recent end.
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Building Happiness
By Daniel Jamieson. Three lost people find unexpected meaning for their lives in Bath.
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Sex for Volunteers
Romantic comedy by Laura Marney and David Ramos Fernandes.
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Gold's Fool
Paul B Davies's play is based on the story of how Elizabeth I mounted a reckless adventure
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Alan and Jean's Incredible Journey by Ian Kershaw
A couple decide to spend their holiday in their bedroom.
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Whispering
Psychological thriller about adultery and murder by Campbell Armstrong.
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Steinbeck in Avalon
Dramatised by Ray Brown from John Steinbeck's recollections of his sojourn in Somerset.
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Mother Spy
Drama documentary by John Fletcher telling the story of unlikely spy Janet Chisholm.
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Love-Shaped Thing
By Rebecca Papworth. Artist Guy returns to Halifax and falls for 16-year-old Shona.
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Left at Marrakech
By Richard Stevens. A Transatlantic wartime flight is beset with increasing dangers.
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No Going Back
By Ron Hutchinson. An Australian visiting Ireland is caught up in a fifty-year-old murder.
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Sand
By Tilly Black. A ten-year-old's holiday diary tells a poignant human story.
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It's Better With Animals
By Mike Walker. An elderly proprietor of a New York fur shop narrates three magical tales.
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Goldengrove
Frances Byrnes' story of a young working-class girl and the woman who transforms her.
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The Secret Place
By Clare Bayley. Andy and Safi are getting married, but this is no normal wedding.
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Blaze
By Ann Marie Di Mambro. The world of two designers and entrepreneurs goes into freefall.
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When Greed Becomes Fear: Safe As Houses
By DJ Britton. When Joe loses his sales job, he finds himself desperate to save his home.
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Loveboat
By Anjum Malik. Kiran and younger sister Shimla set out for a cruise on the Thames.
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I Wish to Apologise for My Part in the Apocalypse
Duncan Macmillan's romantic comedy about the end of the world.
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The Enormous Radio
By Julia Copus, adapted from John Cheever's short story. A bored housewife has a new radio
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Funeral Games
By Joe Orton. A black comedy that helped end official censorship of the British theatre.
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Leona Cash
By Mark Griffiths. Leona discovers the dead body of a cellist.
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A Place in the World
Clara and Tobi flee their native Germany for a better life in Ireland.
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The NHS at 60: Stuffing Their Mouths with Gold
By Jerome Vincent. Can Bevan win the doctors and dissenters around as he sets up the NHS?
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I Love Stephen Fry
By Jon Canter. Jackie, a bored housewife, is in love with Stephen Fry.
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Nell Leyshon - War Bride
Eleanor and Clarence are on a ship - and so is her childhood sweetheart.
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Look Sharp
By Cath Staincliffe. A genealogist is in danger when she learns a shocking family history.
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Life of Penguins
By Katie Hims. Merle's sister Beth has been abducted by aliens - not for the first time.