A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer’s epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by award-winning poet Simon Armitage and starring Tim McInnerny, Amanda Redman & Benedict Cumberbatch.‘My fame is written in the heavens, and my fate too...’ So speaks Odysseus as he starts to recount his struggles to sail home to Ithaca, in one of the greatest pieces of storytelling in Western literature.'The Odyssey' is his incredible traveller’s tale – and also the story of his faithful wi...

n a land where justice rides on horseback and the law is often bought or buried, Marshal Danny Derringer stands as a rare breed of lawman—sharp-eyed, fast-draw, and just stubborn enough to stand between order and chaos.When a gang of merciless outlaws led by the infamous Cade Banner begins carving a bloody trail through frontier towns, Derringer is called in to do what no one else can: stop them. But this isn't just another assignment—it's personal. Banner once rode beside Derringe...

n a land where justice rides on horseback and the law is often bought or buried, Marshal Danny Derringer stands as a rare breed of lawman—sharp-eyed, fast-draw, and just stubborn enough to stand between order and chaos.When a gang of merciless outlaws led by the infamous Cade Banner begins carving a bloody trail through frontier towns, Derringer is called in to do what no one else can: stop them. But this isn't just another assignment—it's personal. Banner once rode beside Derringe...

The full-cast BBC Radio adaptation of C. P. Snow's epic series about the English establishment across the twentieth century**'**A vivid portrait of British academic, political and public life' Guardian'A very considerable achievement... It brings into the novel themes and locales never seen before (except perhaps in Trollope)' Anthony BurgessIn 1920s Leicester, Lewis Eliot must escape the drudgery of a council clerk's office and his provinc...

Two full-cast adaptations from the iconic Australian feminist novelist, Miles FranklinThese stunning dramatisations recount the life of an impassioned, ambitious Australian heroine, frustrated by rural bush life at the turn of the last century.Born in 1879, writer Stella Miles Franklin grew up in poverty in the Australian outback, with limited education. She completed her first book at the age of just nineteen: the ironically titled My Brilliant Career

Frank Cottrell Boyce’s series of plays about the punk generation 30 years onWhat if punk heroes The Adverts had played a gig in Camberley in 1977, to an audience of 27 people? And what if, three decades later, someone tried to bring that audience back together for a reunion? That’s the premise of these five linked plays by award-winning screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce, telling the stories of some of those audience members as they look back on that life-changing n...

David Morrissey stars as Billy Rucker in these two gritty urban noir thrillersEx-copper turned private investigator Billy Rucker scours the seamy underbelly of London, hunting for runaways - and murderers. Tough, worldly-wise and street-savvy, he can go where the police can't: and once he's on the trail, he won't stop until he finds the truth...Shut Eye - When an airline pilot is found brutally murdered with a champagne bottle, his...

WHERE THE LIVING IS HARD AND THE KILLING IS EASY...It's in the lawless Indian Territory that Daniel Strange meets his demise. Riding his chestnut mare to Texas to buy himself some cattle, the best gunsmith in St. Joseph, Missouri, gets waylaid by a pack of murdering outlaws. His lifeless body is left dangling at the end of a rope -- robbing his family of a loving husband and father....DEATH CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWNNow, a mysterious gunslinger is on the vengeance tra...

Ein Dorf hat sich innerhalb einer Nacht auf einen einzigen Überlebenden dezimiert. Franky Forest erklärt den drei Polizisten Ray, Noah und Zack, dass mit einem Mal jede emotionale Grenze verschwunden war und nur noch ´Freiheit´ existierte. Die Polizisten erfahren es am eigenen Leib, als in der nächst gelegenen Großstadt dasselbe Phänomen auftritt und die Menschen damit beginnen, sich gegenseitig zu richten. Euphorie erfüllt knisternd die Luft... Der Wahnsinn, steckt in jedem von uns!