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Home Front: Who Signed Up For WW1 And Why?
Radio 4
Professor Maggie Andrews, consultant historian on Radio 4’s epic drama series Home Front talks about the series and theme of recruitment in WW1
Saturday Drama: Under Milk Wood in Surround Sound
Rupert Brun
Head of Technology, BBC Radio
Find out how to listen to Under Milk Wood in surround sound
Afternoon Drama: Beyond Contempt
Peter Jukes
Author
Author Peter Jukes on the challenges of condensing 80 days of testimony into a 45 minute Afternoon Drama
A Hospital Odyssey
Gwyneth Lewis
Poet, Author, Writer
Gwyneth Lewis was the first Poet Laureate of Wales. She wrote her original poem A Hospital Odyssey drawing on very personal experience after her husband was diagnosed with cancer. For the Radio 4 Blog she writes about those experiences that inspired the work.
Dangerous Visions - The Illustrated Man
Radio 4
Radio 4’s latest Dangerous Visions season returns with Iain Glen as the Illustrated Man in a dramatisation of Ray Bradbury's iconic short story collection. Adapted by Brian Sibley.
Deadheading by Val McDermid
Val McDermid
Crime writer Val McDermid turns her hand to radio drama in Deadheading. a comic thriller set amongst the plots and sheds of a Lancashire allotment.
Frank Zappa and Me
Pauline Butcher
Author
In 1967 Pauline Butcher, then a 21-year-old secretary, was sent to a London hotel on a typing assignment. The client turned out to be avant-garde American musician Frank Zappa.
Adapting The Exorcist - Robert Forrest
Robert Forrest
dramatist author playwright
Playwritght and award-winning dramatist Robert Forrest on adapting The Exorcist for Radio 4.
Anna’s War: telling the truth in the face of grave danger
Elena Kudimova
Elena Kudimova, sister of the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya writes about the 15 Minute Drama series inspired by her tireless pursuit of the truth.
The Exorcist
Radio 4
Radio 4 will be broadcasting a brand new version of the cult classic The Exorcist later this month.
