We Should Definitely Have More Dancing by Clara Darcy and Ian Kershaw Clara Darcy is a healthy young actor. She’s also (almost) care-free, (kind of) happily single and joyously dancing through life. But, little does she know her world is about to be turned upside down thanks to the arrival of a tumour, like a big fist - slap-bang in the middle of her head. Set in a radio studio in Manchester, Clara tells her astonishing real-life story. A poignant, yet life-affirming postcard from the edge. Clara ..... Clara Darcy Mum ..... Suzanna Hamilton Laura ..... Shamia Chalabi Omar .....Esh Alladi Oncologist ..... Rupert Hill Kersh ..... Ian Kershaw Gary ..... Gary Brown Sue ..... Sue Stonestreet Production Co-ordinators - Vicky Moseley & Lorna Newman Studio Manager - Simon Highfield Sound Design - Sue Stonestreet Director/Producer - Gary Brown The stage version of this drama was presented at the famous and much missed Oldham Coliseum.

An English-language production of the Winner of the Best European Drama Award at the Audio Drama Awards 2022. The Lion tells a compelling and thought-provoking story about a community's response to an escaped lion in a city. A host of characters, including the town's Chief Constable and an Economist, are forced to face the unprecedented crisis. Their differing - often conflicted - responses speak to a nation coming to grips with a new dawn. This high-octane satire about the restoration of Estonian independence has resonance far beyond Estonia's national events of 1991, and speaks to collective responses to all manner of global and community crises. Chief Constable . . . . . Mark Benton Valter Saarniit . . . . . James Northcote Commissioner . . . . . Ewan Bailey Mayor . . . . . Georgie Glen Heinz . . . . . Samuel James Heli . . . . . Leah Marks Secretary . . . . . Kymberley Cochrane Makishev . . . . . Hasan Dixon Meelis . . . . . Connor Curren The drama is based on Martin Algus's short story The Lion. It was adapted for ERR, Estonian Public Radio, by Andres Noormets. Original sound design was by Külli Tüli. This English-language version was translated by Adam Cullen, edited by Peter Ringrose, and directed and produced for BBC Radio 4 by Andres Noormets and Sasha Yevtushenko.

By Robert Hudson Inventive drama which explores the circumstances that led to the crashes of two Boeing 737 Max airplanes in a five month period, and the subsequent worldwide grounding of the entire fleet of the aircraft. We are in Seattle in 2018, where a new passenger airplane is being assembled. It is a new 737 Max, Boeing's flagship aircraft designed to compete with its rival Airbus. The aircraft's components are eagerly anticipating their maiden flight when they hear that another new 737 Max has crashed shortly after take off in Indonesia. The plane's Black Box flight recorder suspects that there is more to the story than pilot error, and embarks on a self-appointed mission to investigate what could have caused the crash. Black Box . . . . . Fenella Woolgar Chip . . . . . Clare Foster Engine . . . . . Ed Gaughan AOA . . . . . Kymberley Cochrane Autopilot . . . . . Georgie Glen Wing . . . . . Ewan Bailey Firaz . . . . . Samuel James Ed . . . . . Gerard McDermott News Anchor . . . . . Leah Marks Sound design: Keith Graham and Peter Ringrose Production co-ordinator: Hannah O'Reilly Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

By Edson Burton. The enigmatic drifter is back to help a troubled soul. James Persad has lost his wife Mavis, and he too seems lost. Can Deacon help? New supernatural drama starring Don Warrington and Ram John Holder. CAST Deacon - Don Warrington James Persad - Ram John Holder Mavis - Sutara Gayle Michael - Lee Mengo Ryan - Tristan Slowley Youth - Hasan Dixon Sound Design - Nigel Lewis Producer - John Norton A BBC Audio Drama Wales Production

Powerful drama about memory, trauma and the possibility of recovery.

In 2025, Galapagos is an exciting new development in AI data manipulation. And Bryony is determined to use it to advance her career. But as soon as she presses the red button, she finds herself pulled along by forces she's not entirely in control of. Thriller about big tech, data manipulation and the undermining of democracy, by Simon Scardifield and Andrew Day. Bryony.....Hannah Daniel Sydney.....Ashleigh Haddad Gaynor.....Sara Gregory Omar.....Danny Ashok Titus.....John Pfumojena Boniface.....Kel Matsena Max.....Ewan Bailey Euan…..Jamie Redford Aneni….. Ntombizodwa Ndlovu Fake Greta.....Sunja Hyde Shapeshift Man…..Hasan Dixon Sam…..Claire Cage Production Co-ordinators.....Eleri McAuliffe and Lindsay Rees Sound Design.....Catherine Robinson and Nigel Lewis Directed by Philippa Swallow, John Norton and Emma Harding, BBC Audio Drama Wales

By Lucy Catherine In Autumn 2022, the writer Lucy Catherine travelled to the high arctic aboard a barquentine sailing ship with 29 other artists, searching for inspiration and healing in the polar twilight. In this drama-documentary, she tells the story of that personal voyage, combining it with a drama about two people travelling to the end of the world in search of a new beginning. Anna . . . . . Amanda Hale Lucas . . . . . Joel MacCormack Sound design . . . . . Peter Ringrose Director . . . . . Sasha Yevtushenko

Atmospheric drama from BBC Radio 4 with bonus scenes for BBC Sounds, featuring original music by Imelda May. Have you ever wondered where the term 'gaslighting' comes from? Find out in episode 1 of this dark reimagining of the classic 1938 stage thriller by Patrick Hamilton. To hear the series in full, just search for Gaslight in BBC Sounds. Jonathan Holloway's modern adaptation is set in the present, with a deliciously vintage feel. Jack Manningham has used his wife’s recently inherited money to buy a huge period property - a former bell foundry - which they will renovate. They occupy a small habitable part of the ground floor and basement. This previously neglected ramshackle building is lit by gas, as it was in Victorian times. In this first episode, Jack and Bella find a house that suits them and there's a lot riding on the screening of their latest film. Cast in order of appearance: Tippi Griffiths ..... Lacey Turner Jack Manningham ..... James Purefoy Bella Harding ..... Rebecca Night Ishani Rawe / Izzy ..... Macadie Amoroso DCI Nina Rawe ..... Cathy Tyson DI Reynolds / Michael McLennon / Chris De Jeanne ..... Richard Lintern Written by Jonathan Holloway, based on the original play by Patrick Hamilton Music: Imelda May with Tim Bran Produced by Sally Harrison with James Purefoy Directed by Johnny Vegas A Woolyback production in association with Darling Pictures, for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

The first specially written original radio drama for this then new medium, was written by playwright and poet Richard Hughes, under the title 'A Comedy of Danger'. In order to emphasise the sound-only format he set the play in a deep Welsh coal mine, where some posh English visitors get trapped in total darkness in a flooded gallery hoping for rescue . This was broadcast in early 1924. In February 1923, the BBC broadcast a scene from Julius Caesar . To mark the centenary of this first broadcast, poet Michael Symmons Roberts has taken elements from Hughes first full play and updated them - the shocking plunge into complete darkness without apparent hope of escape, forcing strangers together, the distant sounds of a rising threat from approaching water that gradually rises in the mine's chamber, and the first and last lines of the original which frame this new version. In Danger 2023, the lights go out on a party visiting a remote 'doomsday' bank deep under the desert containing a vast collection of historical and cultural data about our lives, from governments, universities and media companies across the world . Our digital world being 'archivable' in a physical location, what would be lost if it were destroyed. ? Is our culture, our essence, so digital now that it can be preserved and resurrected by people in the distant future ? The VIP visitors are a small delegation on a confidential visit to this vault to see how the codes, programmes, files and data of our cyber-age are preserved in controlled conditions in case of nuclear or ecological apocalypse. Trapped in complete darkness, with attempts to contact the outside world proving futile, there's a growing fear that these people will never get out. They are increasingly forced to confront their own deaths, to enter into what they fear will be their final conversations, their last words. The metaphorical power of a location like a doomsday data bank - as the world attempts to avert a climate catastrophe and the risk of nuclear conflict feels more urgent than it has for decades . Psychologically and dramatically, the mounting pressure and remote isolation of the party leads them to explore and evoke their response to fear, rising paranoia, different responses to mortality. Cast Shura - Phia Saban Thomas/rescuer - Tachia Newall Belle - Laurel Lefkow Milton - Adonis Anthony Directed by Susan Roberts A BBC North production

London’s most haunted house prepares to give up its secrets in Sami Ibrahim’s ghost story about sweet revenge. Inspired by the urban myths surrounding this notorious location, the story twists and turns, starting out in the realms of the supernatural before morphing into something entirely more intriguing. Martha ….. Gwyneth Keyworth Peter ….. John Heffernan Robert Warboys ….. Tom Kiteley James Mallord ….. Hughie O’Donnell Sarah ….. Chloë Sommer Uppingham ….. Roger Ringrose Directed by Gemma Jenkins Re-imagined by Sami, 50 Berkeley Square is based on his short drama of the same name which premiered at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2020.