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...

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

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...

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...

Homer’s The Iliad is an epic poem set during the Trojan War, focusing on a few pivotal weeks in the tenth and final year of the conflict. Centered on the rage of the Greek hero Achilles, the story unfolds after he withdraws from battle in a dispute with King Agamemnon, setting in motion a chain of tragedy, honor, and fate. As the Trojans, led by the noble Hector, gain ground, the Greeks suffer heavy losses. Achilles’ closest companion, Patroclus, enters the fray in his place and is killed ...