Drama on 3

Series of drama performances, ranging from experimental works to the Classics

Radio 3,100 episodes

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Beethoven Can Hear You
By Timothy X Atack. Original, immersive audio drama, starring Peter Capaldi as Beethoven.
20 Sep 2020,89 mins
Henry IV, Part 1
A nation stands divided in Shakespeare's play. Starring Iain Glen and Toby Jones.
26 Apr 2020,119 mins
Othello
Khalid Abdalla and Matthew Needham star in Shakespeare's tragedy.
19 Apr 2020,124 mins
Only Mountains
Maxine Peake's powerful drama about a young woman fighting on the frontline in Syria.
08 Mar 2020,89 mins
The Likes of Us
Gloria settled in London in the 1950s. A moving portrayal of a family and a neighbourhood.
16 Feb 2020,89 mins
Magnitsky the Musical
The incredible story of an American capitalist, a Russian tax adviser and a crazy heist.
12 Jan 2020,94 mins,
Dance Til You Bleed: The World According to Hans Christian Andersen (Omnibus)
Toby Jones stars as Hans Christian Andersen in five interlinked fairy tale adaptations
01 Dec 2019,74 mins
The Masque of Anarchy
A commemoration of the Peterloo Massacre in August 1819.
14 Jul 2019,59 mins
The Invisible
Linda Marshall Griffiths's original drama speculates on what the future might look like.
23 Jun 2019,89 mins
Coriolanus
Shakespeare's penetrating portrayal of political turmoil in a society at war with itself.
05 May 2019,149 mins
Orlando
A bold and inventive re-imagining of the Virginia Woolf classic.
24 Feb 2019,89 mins
Arden of Faversham
True crime in Tudor England as Alice and her lover Mosby plot to murder her husband Arden.
20 Jan 2019,104 mins
The Cherry Orchard
A Chekhov classic in a new version with music. It's 1903 and revolution is in the air.
18 Nov 2018,89 mins
The Moors of England
London, 1600. Fortunatus, a black Muslim refugee, takes drastic action to change history.
04 Nov 2018,89 mins
The Shadow of a Doubt
Phoebe Fox stars in a world premiere of a newly discovered play by Edith Wharton from 1901
28 Oct 2018,89 mins
Measure for Measure
Paul Higgins and Nicola Ferguson star in Shakespeare's last and perhaps strangest comedy.
29 Apr 2018,124 mins
The Merchant of Venice
Andrew Scott stars in Shakespeare's play of debt, greed and prejudice, transposed to 2008.
22 Apr 2018,119 mins
The Last of the Volsungs
Blood, revenge and the inevitability of fate in this dramatisation of an Icelandic saga.
18 Feb 2018,89 mins
The Effect
Award-winning chemical romance by Lucy Prebble set during a clinical trial.
28 Jan 2018,109 mins
Tis Pity She's a Whore
Compassionate and disturbing, John Ford's great story of doomed love.
07 Jan 2018,107 mins
Victim
The story of ‘Victim’, the first British film to seriously address homosexuality.
09 Jul 2017,89 mins
Richard II
When Shakespeare's Richard II banishes Bolingbroke he brings about his own downfall.
16 Apr 2017,134 mins
Jenny Lomas
David Eldridge's conspiracy thriller examining the corrosive nature of paranoia.
12 Feb 2017,74 mins
Manfred
Manfred, haunted by a dark crime, invokes spirits in search of solace but finds no peace.
08 Jan 2017,89 mins
Mary Rose
JM Barrie's haunting play about a sinister Scottish island and a girl who never grows up.
23 Oct 2016,90 mins
King Lear
When better than now to make a drama about 'the division of the kingdom'?
08 May 2016,150 mins
The Winter's Tale
Eve Best and Danny Sapani star in Shakespeare's late play The Winter's Tale.
01 May 2016,150 mins
Modern Morality Tales
Rebecca Front plays Eve in five stories about modern attitudes towards morality.
21 Feb 2016,80 mins
El Cid
A version of Le Cid, seeing the 11th-century Spanish hero before his rise to fame.
17 Jan 2016,90 mins
Macbeth
A new production of Shakespeare's dark tragedy about ambition for power.
17 May 2015,120 mins