BBC Radio 4 Archives

To many fans, Christopher Eccleston will always be Doctor Who, and now he's about to star in another Science Fiction classic: a new BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Man Who Fell to Earth, adapted from the novel by Walter Tevis, who also wrote the original novels which became the Paul Newman movie The Hustler,[...]

Felicia Day's snarky fantasy comedy that makes fun of the Chosen One trope that also works as an allegory of a failed celebrity whose life was messed up by a narcissistic showbiz mother works because of its very funny and game cast (including Day herself in the lead) making its breathless script feel like the[...]

Mainstream studios just don't want anything considered too geeky, and this series is by and for an audience that has consumed copious amounts of Neil Gaiman (who narrates it), Douglas Adams, Buffy, Fantasy series, and Young Adult fiction. The dynamic of Third Eye that recalls BBC Radio 4 comedies is the show's ability to cast not[...]

Convenience Store Woman is a darkly funny BBC Radio 4 audio drama scripted by April De Angelis from the bestselling novel by Sayaka Murata.

On BBC Radio 4 on Sunday, Neil Gaiman spoke about the secret origin of Good Omens, the bestselling novel he co-wrote with the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett that has become a hit Amazon TV show starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen. "Good Omens" Image: Amazon Gaiman, like many British schoolboys, grew up reading the Just William[...]

One year later, the BBC just aired an adaptation of David Mamet's latest play, The Christopher Boy's Communion on BBC Radio 4 The play debuted in Los Angeles at the Odyssey Theatre a year ago, but was closed down with lockdown Now David Mamet has restaged the play for the radio, with the cast Rebecca[...]

To mark the fifth anniversary of David Bowie’s death, the BBC released Low, a fictionalized story of the making of his legendary 1977 album.

Hurrah and Huzzah! Gwendoline Christie in Neil Gaiman's "The Sleeper and the Spindle", BBC Radio 4 The Sleeper and the Spindle is a new tale drawing on traditional folk stories, interweaving Snow White and Sleeping Beauty in an enchanting drama that puts the women firmly centre stage. In her mountain kingdom, a soldier-Queen prepares for her wedding day[...]

Deacon is a new trilogy of stories on BBC Radio 4 featuring veteran actor Don Warrington as a mysterious drifter who shows up when least expected to save a lost soul Created and written by Edson Burton, a historian, poet, playwright, and performer, the series features an almost all-black cast and features myths and the[...]

There's a new and quite wonderful supernatural drama series on BBC Radio 4 The Deacon Trilogy features veteran actor Don Warrington as a mysterious drifter who shows up when least expected to save a lost soul Created and written by Edson Burton, a historian, poet, playwright, and performer, the series features an almost all-black cast and[...]

Luci Loves Desi: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom is a 5-part BBC Radio 4 series about the making of the classic sitcom I Love Lucy that dropped today In a surprising casting coup, Anne Heche plays Lucille Ball and Wilmer Valeramma plays Desi Arnaz Other cast members include Jared Harris,[...]

And, with the felling of an ancient yew tree, the roots and meaning of the old custom spring malevolently to life, as the Winter Queen is finally released from her prison, and bent on revenge. Told over the two days of the winter solstice – Pilgrim walks again between the worlds of magick and of men." Previous[...]

BBC Radio 4's new drama Game Over tells the story of a female game developer's attempts to get her new project produced despite some petty industry sexism The game dev, Chelsea, is pitching a new game to the sexist game auteur Harrison Reed about climate change eroding an Alaskan village Her game is called Glacier and is[...]