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Every Friday we bring you a new drama from BBC Radio 4 or Radio 3. Exercise your imagination with some of the best writers and actors on radio. Storytelling at its very best.

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A Whole Giant's Daughter Quest Thing

2026/01/23

Read by Alexander Vlahos. Culhwch can love only the giant's daughter Olwen. To win her hand he must first complete a list of 39 impossible tasks. Arthur's champions take up the challenge, but time slips steadily away from them in Jo Lloyd's poignant contemporary take on the oldest Arthurian romance. Production Co-ordinator: Eleri McAuliffe Sound: Rhys Morris Producer: John Norton A BBC Audio Wales Production

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SolKMM 2025/11/01

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

While there are too few of these, the actors are solid and the stories and production are compelling. For sure a good quick listen that which is easy ...

★☆☆☆☆

Mac an tSionnaigh 2025/12/26

Sick and Tired of Jane Austen

Radio 4 drama has deteriorated over the years. I remember the greats like No 10 and On Mardle Fen or Bad Faith and the wonderful A Pattern in Shrouds....

★★★★★

KungFuFreelancer 2024/08/15

Excited for every new episode

The only predictor is it's going to be great! Best stories, great acting, excellent sound!

★★★★★

minigoofy2011 2021/12/25

Superb !

The tragic story of the Penlee lifeboat was told with profound dignity and compassion towards the victims of this tragic incident . The memories of th...

★☆☆☆☆

Janith 2023/04/08

Plane Speaking

What’s with all the “Goddamns”? What’s the point of sprinkling them in nearly every conversation? Whether or not you find them offensive, they certain...

★☆☆☆☆

SBrentnall 2022/07/31

BBC podcasts no longer play

I used to love listening to BBC dramas, but none of them will play anymore here in the US. I don’t understand why they’re showing in the library if we...

★★★★★

Ukmichael 2021/03/03

Murmuration

Superb Storyline After a hectic few minutes as the introduction to the story unfolds you soon become entwined as the story unfolds Excellent acting an...

★★★☆☆

les251 2020/04/13

Great programmes poor supply of multipart series

This was one of my favourite podcasts but overtime the inconsistency or complete lack of providing subsequent episodes of multipart series is off putt...

★☆☆☆☆

Mizerbrit 2020/10/09

Politically correct sh_te

It’s rare there is an episode that doesn’t have sodomites, lesbians, racism, climate change or so called “refugees”. Used to be great with stories tha...

★★☆☆☆

Marcdedawods 2020/09/15

Podcasts keep disappearing.

I've tried to sync my iPhone with my MacBook to get my saved episodes. For a couple of days I was happy I got my favorite episodes back. All 148 of th...

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