radio play Archives

Low: BBC Radio 4 Drama of David Bowie Making his Legendary Album

Low: BBC Radio 4 David Bowie Drama Traces Making of Legendary Album

The radio play – or audio podcast for you millennials – retells the story of Bowie making his legendary and influential 1977 album Low. David Bowie, BBC The play is a darkly comic snapshot of 1976 when David Bowie was reeling from cocaine and booze, unable to work on his new album due to paranoia, anxiety and[...]

Franklin: BBC Radio Play About the First Black Character in Peanuts

Peanuts Character Franklin Subject of New BBC Radio Play

BBC Radio 4 premiered Franklin, a dramatization of when Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz first introduced the Black character in 1968.

Mark Gatiss and Adrian Scarborough in "The Road" by Nigel Kneale, adapted by Toby Hadoke, BBC

The Road: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale's Legendary Lost TV Play Lives On

The Road is a "lost" 1963 BBC television play written by Nigel Kneale whose legacy and themes still resonate to this very day.