Drama

Val Gielgud epitomised theatricality and helped shape radio drama.

Listener Pat Taylor recalls Scotland's favourite weekly home-grown family saga.

Seán Street on how Orson Welles brought a dead man to British radio.

A massive radio sci-fi success, and how radio faced the evil threat of TV drama...

Through the seasons - a year in the life of the Archers

How Samuel Beckett revolutionised writing for radio with All That Fall.

Joe Orton's controversial and blackly comedic first play is rescued from the scrap pile.

Simon Jones, who played Arthur Dent recalls the hurried birth of the difficult 2nd series

Adrian Mole, Radio 4's surprise hit of 1982, was famously anti-Thatcher.

Actress Becky Simpson remembers her radio debut aged 11 as Spoonface Steinberg.