Hospital drama. Arthur struggles to adjust to the pressures of leading a team. Adele is keen to prove that she has ambition, but not everyone believes she has what it takes. Show more
Jimmi meets a young Buddhist monk collecting money on the street and quickly realises that all is not what it seems. Sid psyches himself up for a live podcast. Show more
Drama
Theatre on 4: Occupational Hazards
1 hour, 30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Hampstead Theatre's true story of Rory Stewart's role as provincial governor in Iraq, performed in front of a live audience. Show more
Gordon lost control of the mob that is now freeing prisoners. Can the prison gates be unlocked? Stars Ron Cook and Bryan Dick. Show more
Drama
Freezing to Death (and How to Avoid It)
44 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
Drama by Abigail Youngman based on the true story of probably the worst (and coldest) wedding night ever. Starring Mandeep Dhillon and Karl Theobald. Show more
Poetry Please
George Mackay Brown
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Roger McGough presents a programme dedicated to the Orkney poet and prose writer George Mackay Brown, who died in 1996. Show more
Poetry Please
05/05/2013
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Roger McGough with poetry requests read by John Mackay. Poems praising the heavenly and the everyday, with work by RS Thomas, Paula Meehan, George Barker and Leontia Flynn. Show more
Poetry Please
19/05/2013
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
A typically untypical range of poems, read by Kerry Elkins and John Mackay. Surreal poems by Stevie Smith and Alastair Reid sit effortlessly beside heartfelt tales of loss. Show more
Poetry Please
Story Poems 1
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Roger McGough introduces story poems, including work by Roy Fisher, Emily Dickinson and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Readers: John Mackay, Niamh Cusack, Anton Lesser and Kenneth Cranham. Show more
Poetry Please
Story Poems 2
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Roger McGough introduces some story poems, including work by Wilfred Owen, Stevie Smith and Rudyard Kipling. Read by John Mackay, Niamh Cusack, Anton Lesser and Kenneth Cranham. Show more
Poetry Please
A Burns Supper
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Roger McGough celebrates the poet Robert Burns by hosting a Poetry Please Burns Supper, with readings by John MacKay. Show more
Poetry Please
Dusk 'til Dawn
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' requests for poems to take us through the night, from dusk 'til dawn. Show more
The Stuarts
It Came In with a Lass
1 hour, 30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
By Mike Walker. Queen Mary arrives in Scotland enshrouded in mist and must quickly distinguish friends from enemies, as they try to understand and control her. With Brian Cox. Show more
Drama series. Kate faces down danger in her search for a case file her mother had prepared against Ganimana years before. Show more
1 hour, 45 minutes
First Minister Alex Salmond and Better Together leader Alistair Darling go head-to-head in an independence referendum debate. Presented by Bernard Ponsonby and John MacKay. Show more
Screen adaptations of Shakespeare plays. In his quest for the crown, Richard plans the murder of his brother George. Show more
Friday Drama
The Broken Word
43 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Adam Fould adapts his poem about a white family caught up in the Mau Mau time in 1950s Kenya. Tom comes home for his last holiday before university and acquires a taste for blood. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Five dramas exploring ancient ideas about malaria, and scientific attempts to defeat the deadly disease. Stars Siobhan Redmond. Show more
A countess and quinine in another drama exploring ancient ideas about malaria, and scientific attempts to defeat the deadly disease. Stars Siobhan Redmond. Show more
Bad air, bad water and sad lives in another dramas exploring ancient ideas about malaria. Narrated by Siobhan Redmond, with Russell Boulter. Show more