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  1. Macbeth Part Two

    David Tennant makes his first ever venture into playing the tyrannical Scottish King.

  2. Macbeth Part One

    David Tennant makes his first ever venture into playing the tyrannical Scottish King.

  3. Celebrating Stoppard: Rock ‘n’ Roll

    Tom Stoppard's 2006 play about loyalty, compromise, love and music.

  4. Celebrating Stoppard: Albert's Bridge

    Tom Stoppard's prize-winning play about a philosophy graduate and a very large bridge.

  5. 400 Strangers

    When 400 asylum-seeking men are housed in two East Midlands hotels, a community fractures.

  6. The Bacchae

    Euripides’ Greek tragedy reimagined to explore the root causes of rebellion.

  7. Murder in the Cathedral

    Danny Sapani stars in TS Eliot's drama about the murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury.

  8. The New Real

    David Edgar’s sharp political drama explores the faultlines threatening modern democracy.

  9. Faith Healer

    Friel's poetic masterpiece about loss, the creative mind and the subjectivity of memory.

  10. King Lear: Part 2

    Richard Wilson takes on the mighty Shakespearean King who foolishly gives away his kingdom

  11. King Lear: Part 1

    Richard Wilson takes on the mighty Shakespearean King who foolishly gives away his kingdom

  12. Saint Joan of the Anthropocene

    Linda Marshall Griffiths' contemporary re-imagining of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan.

  13. Gatsby in Harlem (Part 2)

    F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby reimagined by Roy Williams and starring Ncuti Gatwa.

  14. Gatsby in Harlem (Part 1)

    F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, reimagined by Roy Williams and starring Ncuti Gatwa

  15. Ivanov

    Rory Kinnear stars as Nicholas Ivanov in a new version of Chekhov's stage classic.

  16. Antigone by Jean Anouilh

    Sean Bean stars in Jean Anouilh's 1944 masterpiece. Bean's first audio drama in 25 years.

  17. Oleanna

    First radio production of David Mamet's incendiary drama. With very strong language.

  18. Bacon in Moscow

    Francis Bacon’s ground-breaking 1988 exhibition in the USSR. With Timothy Spall

  19. Come Closer Now

    Katie Hims’ love letter to radio drama to celebrate 100 years of the medium.

  20. The Song of the Cossacks

    The story of how Britain sent thousands of Cossacks to Stalin and certain death in 1945.

  21. Death and the Penguin

    Mid-90s Ukraine and all that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin.

  22. Celebrating Stoppard: The Voyage of the St Louis

    Tom Stoppard's adaptation of the true story of 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Germany, 1939.

  23. Celebrating Stoppard: In the Native State

    Tom Stoppard's 1991 radio play, starring Felicity Kendal and Dame Peggy Ashcroft.

  25. Celebrating Stoppard: Darkside

    A play for radio by Sir Tom Stoppard incorporating The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd

  26. Celebrating Stoppard: The Dissolution of Dominic Boot

    Tom Stoppard's first play for BBC Radio. A man, a taxi and a mounting problem.