Celebrating British & Irish Theatre

A mysterious inspector interrupts a wealthy family's party with shocking news.

A production of Dylan Thomas's famous play enacted by a community of Welsh performers.

Billie Whitelaw stars as a mouth suspended in space in Samuel Beckett's play.

Artist Selina Thompson recalls her journey by sea to retrace a route of the slave trade.

Performance artist Selina Thompson looks back on her award-winning dramatic monologue.

Peter Egan looks back on the 1984 adaptation of Shelagh Delaney's play A Taste of Honey.

1984 adaptation of Shelagh Delaney's classic play.

Shelagh Delaney, the author of A Taste of Honey, looks at Salford, where she grew up.

A cafe owner tries to prevent his son from getting involved in London's gun culture.

It's Stanley's birthday, but his party isn't quite what he expected. By Harold Pinter.

Lady Antonia Fraser looks back on the BBC's 1987 adaptation of The Birthday Party.

Drama about three couples who meet in three kitchens on three Christmas Eves.

Maureen Lipman looks back on the filming of Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular.

Bernard Levin interviews playwright and director Alan Ayckbourn.

Marlene gives a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.

John Osborne's play, set in 1950s Britain, about failing music hall performer Archie Rice.

Bernard Levin talks to John Osborne, best known for his 1956 play Look Back in Anger.

Robert Dawson Scott presents an in-depth look at the fortunes of the 7:84 Theatre Company.

Michael Frayn introduces a television adaptation of his highly successful play.

Two physicists behind the atomic bomb, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, meet in 1941.

Michael Frayn talks about writing novels, plays, philosophy, screenplays and verse.

Hard-hitting play that gives a frank account of a Scottish regiment serving in Iraq.

An examination of the work and the legend of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

Adrian Dunbar explores what made the man who wrote Waiting for Godot.