Drama of the Week

A new two-part adaptation by Ian Billings, celebrating the 300th anniversary of Jonathan Swift’s satire.

Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon with a sensible English mind and an ambition for greatness, is shipwrecked and wakes on a strange shore, pinned to the ground by a crowd of people no bigger than his hand. In Lilliput he is a marvel and a potential weapon, taken up by a court that treats its own quarrels with enormous seriousness. But his travels are only beginning, and the further he goes, the harder it becomes to see home in quite the same way.

Published in 1726, Swift's book has spent three centuries being read both as a children's adventure and as one of the sharpest satires on human vanity in English.

Swift was writing about the politicians and courtiers of Georgian England. Three hundred years later, the joke still lands.

Lemuel Gulliver.....Graham Dickson General Clefen-Marsi/ King of Brobdingnag.....David Holt King of Lilliput/ Jester.....Jack Nuttall Glumdalclitch.....Lucie Shorthouse Limtoc/ Queen of Brobdingnag.....Joanna Neary Flimnap/ Farmer.....Sunil Patel Queen of Lilliput/ Mother.....Debbie Korley King's Father/ Yokel.....Ian Billings

Written by Jonathan Swift Adapted by Ian Billings Directed by Lorna Newman Sound design by Sharon Hughes Production Coordinator: Sara Benaim Studio Production Coordinator: Jonathan Powell Technical Producers: Andy Garratt, Neva Missirian and Kira Golightly

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4.

Following an Arctic storm, the crew of the research vessel Coralith Epsilon find themselves stranded in thick pack ice. Cut off from the outside world and running low on supplies, hope arrives in the form of a mysterious Morse code message.

But the ship that comes to the rescue is not what they expected. Trapped together in a frozen limbo, two crews separated by a century must survive starvation, the elements, and paranoia to get home.

A chilling five-part supernatural thriller that blends claustrophobic survivalism, cosmic sci-fi and environmental geopolitics, set in one of the most hostile places on Earth - the Arctic tundra. Written by the writers of the award-winning drama podcast 'Up In Smoke', Cambria Bailey-Jones and Guy Larsen.

MARIA.....Raffey Cassidy TIMOTHY.....Sacha Dhawan FRED.....Tanya Moodie LAURA.....Tiffany Smith

Writers: Cambria Bailey-Jones and Guy Larsen Director: Nadia Molinari Sound Designer and Technical Producer: Sharon Hughes Technical Producer: Sam Dickinson Production Co-ordinator : Pippa Day Series Script Editor: Lorna Newman Casting Manager: Alex Curran

Series Scientific Consultant: Prof. James Lea from the University of Liverpool Weather Consultant: Andy Cutcher Arctic Historian Consultant: Peter Martin Army Consultant: Alec Heron Ship Navigation Consultants: Martha Armitage & James Butters

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4.

By Jan Carson.

In 1930, Agatha Christie was commissioned to write a new mystery story. However, this story was to contain clues to a real-life treasure-hunt to take place on the Isle of Man. The story would then be serialised in a newspaper to encourage tourists to visit and find the hidden treasure.

This drama imagines what could have taken place during her visit to the island.

Starring Jeany Spark as Agatha Christie.

Author Jan Carson is a writer based in Belfast. She has published three novels, three short story collections and two micro-fiction collections. Her novel ‘The Fire Starters’ won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland 2019 and her subsequent novel ‘The Raptures’ was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Novel of the Year and Kerry Group Novel of the Year in 2022. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was the Seamus Heaney Centre Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast 2025. Her latest novel ‘Few and Far Between’ was published in 2026.

Cast: Agatha Christie ... Jeany Spark Arthur Binns Crookall ... David Holt Alice Crookall ... Jane Slavin Photographer ... Tom Kiteley Colonel Westerly ... Jon Glover

All other parts were played by the company.

Production Co-ordinators: Sylvie Conway and Caoilfhinn McFadden. Sound Design: Keith Graham

Written by Jan Carson Directed by Michael Shannon

A BBC Audio Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4.

Set inside Britain's housing crisis, six stand-alone but interconnected dramas follow ambition, resilience and the search for belonging.

After mum Suze and teenage daughter Livvy’s home is repossessed, their relationship is tested by secrets, schoolyard gossip and the strings attached to a 'mates' rates' accommodation offer.

New drama by Chrissy Jamieson Jones as part of A Place Called Home, a series of standalone but interlinked dramas taking inspiration from the housing crisis.

Suze ..... Katherine Kelly Livvy ..... Matilda Freeman Simon ..... Matthew McNulty Chantelle ..... Chloe Lea Geoff ..... Ian Puleston-Davies

Writer .... Chrissy Jamieson Jones Producer/Director ..... Pippa Day Production co-ordinator ..... Ben Hollands Technical Producers ..... Sharon Hughes, Kelly Young, Amy Brennan and Elijah Waddington

A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Radio 4