Playwriting
Opening Lines. The Cherry Orchard - Episode Two. Audio, 14 minutes
John Yorke takes a look at Anton Chekhov’s final and most radical play.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Opening Lines. The Cherry Orchard - Episode One. Audio, 15 minutes
John Yorke takes a look at Anton Chekhov’s final and most radical play.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted2 June
Drama on 4. An Inspector Calls on Moscow. Audio, 44 minutes
It’s 1945, and JB Priestley (Rory Kinnear) gets his new play staged in Soviet Russia.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Opening Lines. Spring Awakening - Episode 1. Audio, 15 minutes
John Yorke looks at Spring Awakening by German dramatist Frank Wedekind.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Opening Lines. Spring Awakening - Episode 2. Audio, 15 minutes
John Yorke looks at Spring Awakening by German dramatist Frank Wedekind.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Lives Less Ordinary. Black boy joy: defying stereotypes on the London stage. Audio, 40 minutes
Ryan Calais Cameron’s stories and characters shattered convention in UK theatre
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Alan Bennett 90 Years On. Video, 59 minutes
Alan Bennett offers some refreshingly frank thoughts about old age.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for 1 month
Profile. James Graham. Audio, 14 minutes
The prolific playwright who grew up near Nottinghamshire's former coalmines.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Great Lives. Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe. Audio, 28 minutes
Biographical show in which famous guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted12 June 2024
Profile. Alan Bleasdale. Audio, 16 minutes
The most iconic work of screenwriter, Alan Bleasdale, is being re-imagined for the stage.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
In the Studio. Mad Women: Portraying mental health in theatre. Audio, 27 minutes
Constanza Hola Chamy directs two casts for her play about female artists with bipolar
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted13 April 2024
Free Thinking. Edward Bond. Audio, 44 minutes
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the playwright Edward Bond (18 July 1934 – 3 March 2024)
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. James Graham, playwright. Audio, 51 minutes
James Graham, playwright, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Women of Substance, Andrea Dunbar. Audio, 14 minutes
At 18 Andrea Dunbar was the youngest playwright ever at the Royal Court Theatre, London.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Claudia Rankine, poet. Audio, 37 minutes
Claudia Rankine, poet, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
In the Studio. Sir Lenny Henry: August in England. Audio, 27 minutes
Sir Lenny's new one-man play gives an insight into lives impacted by the Windrush scandal
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Heinrich Heine: The First Modern European. Audio, 44 minutes
Michael Goldfarb tells the story of playwright, poet and essayist Heinrich Heine.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Opening Lines. Gaslight. Audio, 15 minutes
John Yorke takes a look at Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play Gaslight.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Profile. Hanif Kureishi. Audio, 15 minutes
The writer whose updates from his hospital bed are captivating the world.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Poetic Provocations, Sunflowers. Audio, 14 minutes
A very personal exploration of poetic starting points from writer Inua Ellams.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
