A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged by Andy Barratt of Daniel Defoe's less famous sequel to the classic adventure Robinson Crusoe. After returning to England from his island home, Robinson Crusoe sets sail once more in search of adventure. Starring Tim McInnerny as Robinson Crusoe, with Jonathan Tafler, Adrian Grove, Stephen Critchlow, David Timso...

The writer David Eldridge introduces his BBC Radio 3 full-cast drama, The Picture Man starring Martin Freeman, about a man who despairs of the behaviour he sees around him and decides to take action. Originally broadcast in the "Drama on 3" slot on 6 January 2008. Neil decides he has been pushed too far by the uncaring and often callous behaviour h...

Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury star in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. When young drama student Mary Drei...

Gary Brown's BBC Radio 4 full-cast comedy dramatisation about artist Eric Gill's clash with the BBC over his famous sculpture of Prospero and Ariel, starring Anton Lesser as Eric Gill and Tim McInnerny as Sir John Reith, the first Director General of the Corporation. Originally broadcast in the 'Afternoon Play' slot on Wednesday 9 June 2010. Inspir...

This full-cast dramatisation by Martin Jameson for BBC Radio 4 is a fictionalised account of the incident in 1964 when a group of students attempted to kidnap the then-Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in Scotland. Originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 15 July 2009, this dramatisation stars Tim McInnerny as Sir Alec, Chris Starkie as R...

Four classic episodes of the popular BBC TV series starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington. The episodes are A Tug of the Forelock, I Talk to the Trees, The Wind-Break War and Whose Fleas Are These?

Wine shop owner Gerald desperately needs money: his business is failing and the landlord has raised the cost of the lease. When he inherits a watch that used to belong to wartime Nazi Joachim Von Ribbentrop he believes that his financial troubles are over. But it sparks conflict with his wife and brother, who question the ethics of the potential sa...

Leslie Charteris' square-jawed, blue-eyed hero loved, fought and stole his way through Europe in the 1930s, endlessly pursuing blondes, baddies and boodle. Adored by women and feared by his foes, he was known as 'The Saint' after the calling card he left at the scenes of his crimes - a sketch of a stick figure with a halo.

The third exciting adventure in a brand new series of linked multi-voice adventures for the Doctor and friends, based on characters from the classic TV series.

Tom Baker reprises the role of the Fourth Doctor, with Susan Jameson as Mrs. Wibbsey and Richard Franklin as Mike Yates. Two things arrive on the same night in Central Park, New York, 1976. The first is a fireball from space, bringing with it a new identity for one Alice Trefusis. The second is the TARDIS, carrying the Doctor and his friends on the...

Constable Twitten takes over the narrative in this third series of Lynne Truss's seaside comedy about celebrity policeman Inspector Steine. Back from an attachment at Scotland Yard, Twitten finds Brunswick more depressed than ever about villainy in Brighton. To cheer him up, Twitten persuades Brunswick's favourite writer Harry Jupiter, crime report...

BBC Radio 2's action-packed deafening romp - with 40 minutes of previously unbroadcast peril. Sexton Blake! The name that spells hurtling adventure! The name that spells doom for villainy! In a series of thrilling adventures packed with incident and hilarity, Sexton Blake, (Simon Jones, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) and his plucky assistant...

The glorious return of Milton Jones in the series, where each episode, he bestrides the globe as an expert in his field, with no ability whatsoever. In this episode, he's a world-famous photographer who travels from the catwalks of Milan to the jungles of Bolivia to find the perfect picture for a calendar.The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill...

Ronald Pickup, Angela Pleasance and Maxine Audley star in this BBC Radio 4 1971 production of Shakespeare's famous tragedy of the Prince of Denmark. Written over four hundred years ago, Hamlet still remains one of the most powerful, influential and thrilling tragedies in the English language. The story of Prince Hamlet and his quest for vengeance...

When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast... the feast of the drowned. As the dead crew haunt loved ones all over Lond...

King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most performed and celebrated plays - presented here in accessible story fom by brother and sister team Charles and Mary Lamb. An ideal story for newcomers to Shakespeare, young people and as an additional study aid for students.King Lear is to abdicate, and wants to divide his kingdom between his three daughters....

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the strange legal case of film star Peter Lorre, written and produced by Michael Butt and starring Stephen Greif. Originally broadcast as the "Afternoon Play" on 10 May 2010. Towards the end of his unique career, movie star Peter Lorre found himself at the centre of an unusual legal case. Incorporating verba...

Radio 4 sitcom about four women friends, written by and starring Susie Donkin, Charlotte McDougall, Oriane Messina and Fay Rusling. Four women friends cope with life, work and men. Mel is hunting for a man - any man, and Lucy wants Kevin to help her get rid of a rat. Jo and Kevin are trying for a baby so she can be a really Yummy Mummy, and Alex is...

The courtship and wedding of Tony (Jack and Peggy Archer's son), and Pat Lewis, the girl from Wales with an independent streak.

When the sky rips open somewhere over Dover, two objects hurtle out of the Vortex and crash-land in the sea. One is the TARDIS, out of control and freefalling - but the other, a mysterious crystalline sphere, is far more sinister . The Doctor and Donna are rescued and taken to a secret command centre in the Dover cliffs. It's May 1940, and Vice-Adm...

Lord Peter Wimsey, man about town and amateur sleuth, and his man Bunter, are drawn into a series of intreguing incidents after being stranded in the remote village of Fenchurch St. Paul. What is the identity of the grotesquely disfigured corpse found in the church-yard? Who murdered him and why? Perhaps the Fenchurch bells hold their own answers t...