Wesker's play is broadcast this evening online and will probably be available for the next 7 days. See the Library Think Radio 3 Group for more information.

Drama on 3. On: BBC Radio Three. Date: Sunday 1st June 2008 (starting this evening). Time: 20:00 to 22:00 (2 hours long).

Shylock, by Arnold Wesker.

A new perspective on an age-old story by one of the foremost playwrights of his generation. Shylock's close friend Antonio needs a loan, but 16th century Venetian law discriminates against Jews. For Shylock's own protection, Antonio persuades him to agree a bond. They laugh as Shylock invents the absurd forfeit of a pound of flesh - but their mockery of the law may easily turn to tragedy. Produced and directed by David Hitchinson.

Starring: Henry Goodman, Ronald Pickup, Juliet Stevenson, Noma Dumezweni, Toby Stephens, Sheila Steafel.

Drama on 3 is available online up to 7 days after broadcast. BBC Radio Three. Sunday 15th June 2008. 20:00 to 21:40 (1 hour and 40 minutes long). Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe.

The classic play written in 1604 about a man who defies the authority of God by selling his soul to the Devil in return for 24 years of knowledge and power on Earth. Featuring performances by Paterson Joseph, Ray Fearon, Toby Jones, Janet McTeer, Tanya Moodie and Julian Bleach.

Faustus ...... Paterson Joseph
Mephistopheles ...... Ray Fearon
Wagner ...... Toby Jones
Evil Angel ...... Janet McTeer
Good Angel/Duchess ...... Tanya Moodie
Lucifer ...... Julian Bleach
Old Man ...... David Bradley
Robin ...... Nicholas Burns
Rafe ...... Iain Robertson
Valdes/Pope ...... David Bamber
Cornelius ...... Paul Bazely
Emperor ...... Anton Lesser
Scholar/Horse-Courser ...... John Lloyd Fillingham
Scholar/Knight ...... Don Gilet
Scholar/Duke ...... Derek Riddell

Original music composed by Olly Fox.

Drama on 3. On: BBC Radio Three. Date: Sunday 22nd June 2008 (starting this evening). Time: 20:00 to 21:40 (1 hour and 40 minutes long). Bazajet, by Jean Racine. In far-off Byzantium, in a harem deep within the Sultan's palace, Bazajet is told by the Emperor's wife that he must marry her or die. However, matters are complicated by the fact that he is already engaged to Atalide. Translated by Alan Hollinghurst.

Acomat ...... Michael Pennington
Osmin ...... Jonathan Christie
Roxane ...... Victoria Hamilton
Atalide ...... Claire Price
Zaire ...... Sophie Scott
Bajazet ...... Bertie Carvel
Zatime ...... Valerie Sarruf

Translated by Alan Hollinghurst.
Directed by Jane Morgan.

Message edited by its author, Jun 22, 2008, 3:45am.

Drama on 3. On: BBC Radio Three. Date: Sunday 29th June 2008 (starting this evening). Time: 20:00 to 22:10 (2 hours and 10 minutes long). The Wild Duck. By Henrik Ibsen and translated by Inga-Stina Ewbank and Peter Hall. One of Ibsen's most powerful dramas, the play explores the tragic impact on the lives of a young girl and her family when an old friend insists on family secrets being told.

Starring: Paterson Joseph, Michael Maloney, Katie Griffiths, Alexandra Mathie, Russell Dixon, Gordon Langford Rowe.

Hialmar ...... Paterson Joseph
Gregers ...... Michael Maloney
Hedvig ...... Katie Griffiths
Mrs Sorby ...... Alexandra Mathie
Mr Werle ...... Russell Dixon
Old Ekdal ...... Gordon Langford-Rowe
Gina ...... Siobhan Finneran
Relling ...... Glenn Cunningham
Jenson ...... Malcolm Raeburn

Drama on 3. On: BBC Radio Three. Date: Sunday 13th July 2008 (starting this evening). Time: 20:00 to 21:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long). Blood Wedding: By Federico Garcia Lorca. An evocative meditation on fate, war, tradition, passion and repression, inspired by the true story of a fatal feud between two families in the Almeria province, high in the mountains of rural Spain. A version by Ted Hughes.

Director: Pauline Harris
Starring: Barbara Flynn, Carl Prekopp, Sarah Smart, William Ash, Andrea Riseborough, David Fleeshman.

Are these broadcasts available via web-stream on the internet?

-- Gerry

Yes, see the Radio 3 LibraryThing Group for details.

Today:

Drama on 3. On: BBC Radio Three. Date: Sunday 27th July 2008 (starting this evening). Time: 21:00 to 22:15 (1 hour and 15 minutes long). Two Men from Delft, by Stephen Wakelam. In 1675, at the time of the death of his close friend Johannes Vermeer, Antony Van Leeuwenhoek made an astonishing discovery. He was the first person to identity bacteria. Directed and produced by Jeremy Mortimer. Starring: Stephen Tompkinson, Alex Jennings, Emma Noakes, Alex Tregear.

This evening:

Drama on 3 On: BBC Radio Three. Date: Sunday 31st August 2008. Time: 21:45 to 23:15 (1 hour and 30 minutes long). Your Only Man, by Annie Caulfield. Brian O'Nolan was an Irish writer, columnist and civil servant who wrote novels such as The Third Policeman under the pen name of Flann O'Brien and popular satirical newspaper columns as Myles na gCopaleen, while at the same time working as a civil servant in Dublin under his real name. This play imagines what might have happened had the three of them got together on the day when O'Nolan was asked to leave his civil service post.

Director: Marilyn Imrie
Starring: Ardal O'Hanlon, Dermot Crowley, Dara O'Briain, Pauline McLynn, Lloyd Hutchinson.

A new season of DDrama on 3 begins this evening:

Drama on 3. On: BBC Radio Three. Date: Sunday 21st September 2008 (starting this evening). Time: 20:00 to 21:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long). A Disappearing Number. Adapted for radio by Simon McBurney and Ben Power. Based on the stage play by the theatre company Complicite. An award-winning production exploring our relentless compulsion to understand, and which is a provocative meditation on the beauty of mathematics and the nature of creativity. It was inspired by the story of the collaboration between two of the 20th century's most notable pure mathematicians, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a poor Brahmin from South India, and Cambridge professor G H Hardy. Performed by David Annen, Firdous Bamji, Paul Bhattacharjee, Divya Kasturi, Chetna Pandya, Saskia Reeves and Shane Shambhu.

Starring: Mick Barnfather, Tamzin Griffin, Tim McMullan, Clive Mendus.

Drama on 3. On: BBC Radio Three. Date: Sunday 28th September 2008 (starting this evening). Time: 20:00 to 21:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long). Season of Migration to the North. Philip Palmer's dramatisation for Radio 3 of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's sensual and shocking thriller, often described as the most important Arab novel of the 20th century.

Drama on 3. On: BBC Radio Three. Date: Sunday 12th October 2008 (starting this evening). Time: 20:00 to 22:15 (2 hours and 15 minutes long). The Duchess of Malfi, By John Webster. The Duchess of Malfi is one of the great Jacobean plays, and this new production focuses on the personal tragedies of a powerful family rent by lust and betrayal. When the widowed Duchess marries her steward Antonio, the choice challenges the accepted social order and established lines of power. It also brings her into direct conflict with her powerful brothers, the Duke Ferdinand and the scheming Cardinal, and tragedy ensues. The dark tale is enhanced by dark music, written especially for the play. With Sophie Okonedo in the title role, Rory Kinnear (Antonio), Jonathan Slinger (Ferdinand), Bertie Carvel (Bosola), Oliver Senton (Cardinal), Oliver Le Sueur (Delio), Becky Hindley (Cariola), Rachel Davidge (Julia), Michael Griffiths (Doctor), Paul Panting (Pescara), Nicholas Gadd (Roderigo/Executioner), Francis Middleditch (Grisolan/Servant). Music by Arthur Ka Wai Jenkins. Adapted for radio and directed by Roy McMillan.

Drama on 3. On: BBC Radio Three. Date: Sunday 19th October 2008 (starting this evening). Time: 20:45 to 22:15 (1 hour and 30 minutes long). Black Watch, by Gregory Burke. A radio version of the National Theatre of Scotland's award-winning theatre production. Black Watch is based on interviews conducted by Burke with former soldiers who served in the second war in Iraq. Hurtling from a pool room in Fife to an armoured wagon in Iraq, the action is viewed through the eyes of those on the ground and reveals what it means to be part of this venerable Scottish regiment and the war on terror. This play contains very strong language. Featuring Ali Craig, Emun Elliott and Paul Rattray.

This play took the Edinburgh Festival by storm. See:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2006/aug...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/jun...

As part of the celebrations of the 90th anniversary of WWI armistice, R3 is dramatising All Quiet on the Western Front.

Broadcast: 09 Nov 2008 20:00 BBC Radio 3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fd2tv

Written by Erich Maria Remarque and dramatised by Dave Sheasby.

Considered one of the greatest war novels of all time, it is the haunting, comic, lyrical and desperate story of a group of young German soldiers enduring and coming to terms with the realities of the First World War.

Paul Baumer ...... Robert Lonsdale
Kropp ...... Simon Trinder
Muller ...... Gunnar Cauthary
Leer ...... Llyod Thomas
Tjaden ...... Joseph Arkley
Katczinsky ...... Stephen Critchlow
Cook ...... Malcolm Tierney
Westhaus ...... Stuart McLoughlin
Captain Bertinck ...... Dan Starkey
Kemmerich ...... Luke Walker
Himmelstoss ...... Tim Treloar
Detering ...... Nick Sayce
Mother ...... Janice Acquah
French girl ...... Donnla Hughes
Erna ...... Jill Cardo
Mrs Kemmerich ...... Carolyn Pickles
Orderly ...... Inam Mirza
Mittlestaedt ...... Paul Rider
Major ...... Chris Pavlo
Nurse ...... Manjeet Mann

Directed by David Hunter.

Drama on 3. On: BBC Radio Three. Date: Sunday 16th November 2008 (starting this evening). Time: 20:00 to 21:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long).

Tamburlaine - Shadow of God, by John Fletcher.

As war swirls around them, three of the most important figures in the history of the Middle and Near East are brought together in fierce debate: how can a successful society be built, and what does it need to do to endure? Other parts played by Chris Pavlo, Gunnar Cauthery and Robert Lonsdale.

Director: Marc Beeby
Starring: John Rowe, Jeffery Kissoon, Conleth Hill, Jonathan Taffler, Inam Mirza, Stephen Critchlow, Dan Starkey, Donnla Hughes.

Tambulaine – Shadow Of God by John Fletcher is an epic adventure that tackles three very different philosophies on how a successful society should be built. The play draws together three important figures in the history of the Middle and Near East – Tamburlaine (Jeffrey Kissoon), conqueror of the world, and two of his contemporaries, Ibn Khaldun (John Rowe), the world's first sociologist, and Hafez (Conleth Hill), the great Sufi mystic and poet.

Drama on 3. On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 23rd November 2008 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 21:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

The Pattern of Painful Adventures, by Stephen Wakelam.

A new play in which Antony Sher portrays William Shakespeare. Business is going well, but the playwright urgently needs a collaborator for his latest work. His daughter is getting married, while his brother has a sick child and is in need of a job. It is 1607 and Shakespeare's life is at a turning point. Produced and directed by Jeremy Mortimer.

Starring: Antony Sher, Will Keen, Stephen Critchlow, Chris Pavlo, Helen Longworth, John Rowe, Robert Lonsdale, Joseph Kloska

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 30th November 2008 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 21:40 (1 hour and 40 minutes long)

Shakespeare's Pericles.

A romantic adventure full of tyrants, incest, murder, knights, teenagers, pirates, brothels, sublime poetry, young love, a great hero and the goddess Diana. A multicultural cast, world music and the poet Benjamin Zephaniah give this timeless tale a contemporary twist.

Director: Gaynor Macfarlane
Starring: Tom Mannion, Benjamin Zephaniah, Raad Rawi, Helen Longworth, Sean Scanlan, Dermot Crowley, Paul Dinnen, Lorcan Cranitch, Katherine Igoe, Adjoa Andoh, Peter Gevisser, Siân Phillips, Ayesha Antoine, Nick Sayce, Ifan Meredith, Delroy Brown

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 14th December 2008 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:15 to 21:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)

Samson Agonistes, by John Milton and adapted for radio and directed by John Tydeman. A new production of Milton's dramatic poem, originally published in 1671, as part of Radio 3's celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the poet's birth. Written in the form of a Greek tragedy, with the chorus commenting on the action, the play follows the biblical story of the blind Samson wreaking his revenge on the Philistines who have imprisoned him. Directed by John Tydeman.

Starring: Iain Glen, David de Keyser, Samantha Bond, Philip Madoc, Matthew Morgan, Michael Maloney.

Samson ...... Iain Glen
Manoa ...... David de Keyser
Dalila ...... Samantha Bond
Harapha ...... Philip Madoc
Public Officer ...... Matthew Morgan
Messenger ...... Michael Maloney
Chorus 1 ...... Tim Bentinck
Chorus 2 ...... Simon Treves
Chorus 3 ...... Sean Barrett

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 21st December 2008 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 22:00 (2 hours long)

The Cherry Orchard.

Written by Anton Chekhov and translated by Sasha Dugdale. A new production of Chekhov's timeless study of a Russian aristocratic family forced to sell their house and beloved cherry orchard during the great social transitions of the 19th century. Music composed and performed by Olga Thomas-Bosovskaya.

Director: Peter Kavanagh
Starring: Sarah Miles, Nicholas le Prevost, Anne-Marie Duff, Susannah Fielding, Gunnar Cauthery, Roger Hammond

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 28th December 2008 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 21:20 (1 hour and 20 minutes long)

Beyond Words, by Maurice Maeterlinck and adapted by Katie Hims.

Dr Patrick McGuinness introduces three short plays by a key figure in late 19th-century symbolist theatre. The Intruder: A family keep vigil together when one of their number is ill, but only the blind grandfather seems to see what is really happening. The Seven Princesses: The king and queen of an unnamed land wait on the terrace of a castle high above the sea for the return of their grandson. Interior: Two men, sent ahead to warn a family that their daughter has drowned, are stopped in their tracks by the sight of her household at peace through a window.

Directors: Jessica Dromgoole, Marc Beeby
Starring: John Rowe, Liz Watts, Paul Rider, Trystan Gravelle, Sheila Reid, Manjeet Mann

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 11th January 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 21:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

Home, by David Storey.

First staged in 1970, the play was a major critical success. A poignant, often darkly funny play which looks at the lives of five people. But who are they and where are they? Adapted for radio and directed by Martin Jenkins.

Starring: Michael Maloney, Adrian Scarborough, Julia McKenzie, Lindsey Coulson, Harry Myers

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 1st February 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 21:50 (1 hour and 50 minutes long)

Rattigan: The Deep Blue Sea.

A new adaptation of Terence Rattigan's celebrated play. It is post-war Britain around 1950 and Hester Collyer has left her husband, an eminent judge, to be with an ex-RAF pilot with no prospects. The passion she feels for this younger man is not returned by him, and the play opens as Hester, in a state of despair, has attempted suicide.

Director: David Timson
Starring: Auriol Smith, Joseph Kloska, Joannah Tinsey, Carolyn Pickles, Hugh Ross, Anton Lesser

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 29th March 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 22:15 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)

Gogol: The Government Inspector, By Nikolai Gogol.

Translated by Alistair Beaton. A landmark 19th-century satire on corruption and sleaze in which a penniless clerk is mistaken for a government official by a corrupt town council. With Toby Jones, Paul Ritter, Jeremy Swift, Frances Barber, Russell Tovey, Daisy Haggard, Sean Foley, Mark Heap, Paul Rider, Caroline Guthrie, Janice Acquah, Jonathan Tafler, Benjamin Askew, Matt Addis, Stephen Hogan, Stephen Critchlow, Malcolm Tierney and Lizzie Watts.

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 12th April 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 22:00 (2 hours long)

A Small Family Business.

Martin Jarvis directs a starry cast in Alan Ayckbourn's award-winning play from 1987, viewed by many as a protest against the policies of the Thatcher governmnent. When Jake McCraken takes over his family's furniture business, he intends that it be an honest endeavour. However, his relatives' various dishonest actions soon come to light and threaten the company's future. With Alfred Molina, Adam Godley, Rosalind Ayres, Joanne Whalley, Kenneth Danziger, Roy Dotrice, Millicent Martin, Jill Gascoine, Julian Sands, Darren Richardson, Moira Quirk, Fuschia Sumner and Matthew Wolf. Consultant: Alan Ayckbourn.

Director: Martin Jarvis.

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 19th April 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:00 to 20:15 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)

Henry VIII.

A rare chance to hear William Shakespeare and John Fletcher's history play depicting the life of Henry VIII, broadcast to mark the 500th anniversary in 2009 of the king's accession to the throne. It tells the story of the king's struggle to have his marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled and the fall of the all-powerful Cardinal Wolsey. With Matthew Marsh, Yolanda Vazquez, Patrick Malahide, Joseph Mydell, Adam Godley, Stuart McQuarrie, Ann Beach, Donnla Hughes, Paul Rider, Chris Pavlo, Stephen Critchlow, Gunnar Cauthery, Jonathan Tafler, Dan Starkey and Sonny Crowe. Other parts played by Jill Cardo, Robert Lonsdale, Manjeet Mann, Inam Mirza, Malcolm Tierney. Pipe and tabor played by Bill Tuck. Adapted for radio and directed by Jeremy Mortimer.

Sunday 10th May 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 22:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

A Midsummer Night's Dream, By William Shakespeare.

A rare chance to hear Shakespeare's play and Mendelssohn's complete incidental music for it in its intended context, specially recorded in the Tudor setting of the Middle Temple Hall in London. Tim Carroll introduces his production in conversation with Louise Fryer. With Martin Turner, Melanie Jessop, Alex Hassell, Daniel Rigby, Catherine Bailey, James Garnon, John Paul Connolly, Elena Pavli, Ladies' Choir of the Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Charles Hazlewood.

Director: Tim Carroll

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 7th June 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 21:40 (1 hour and 40 minutes long)

Hyde Park-On-Hudson.

A play by Richard Nelson, blending history and conjecture. No reigning British monarch had ever been to the United States before George VI's visit in 1939, just on the cusp of a new world war. History was in the making when the King and Queen arrived at President Roosevelt's upstate New York home, with a promise of politics, a picnic and hot dogs. But the private life of the President provided a whole new dimension to an epochal moment, at least in the memory of his lover. With Barbara Jefford, Emma Fielding, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nancy Crane, Julia Swift, Sylvia Syms, John Chancer, Corin Redgrave, Kika Markham and Jamie Newall.

Director: Ned Chaillet

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 14th June 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 21:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

The Gambler, written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and adapted by Glyn Maxwell: A comic drama based on Dostoevsky's experiences as a young man, is a portrayal of the power of love and money. Glyn Maxwell's new version takes us deep into the mind of Alexei Ivanovich, a young tutor, just as he realises he's falling in love with the strikingly beautiful but unobtainable Polina. With Sam Crane, Nicholas Le Prevost, Patricia Routledge, Siobhan Hewlett, David Westhead, Robert Portal and Charlotte Randall. Directed by Guy Retallack.

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 5th July 2009 (starting tomorrow evening)
Time: 20:00 to 21:45 (1 hour and 45 minutes long)

Tartuffe.

A Liverpool Playhouse production of Roger McGough's version of Moliere's comedy. The wealthy merchant Orgon has taken in an apparently indigent religious man, Tartuffe. He is a beacon of piety and soon has his feet firmly under the table. But all is not as it seems and as Orgon becomes more enraptured with his new companion the whole city is chattering. Is he a friend, a fraud, a miracle or a hypocrite? With John Ramm, Joseph Alessi, Simon Coates, Rebecca Lacey, Eithne Brown, Annabelle Dowler, Emily Pithon, Robert Hastie, Kevin Harvey, Alan Stocks and Roger McGough. Directed by Gemma Bodinetz.

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 12th July 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 22:00 (2 hours long)

An adaptation by Michael Symmons of Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Idylls of the King, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith and broadcast to mark the bicentenary of the poet's birth. In this extraordinary epic poem, Tennyson transforms Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, infusing the legend of King Arthur with a passionate intensity. Told here in five acts, the central arc of the narrative encompasses Arthur's arrival, his relationship with Lancelot and Guinevere, the Holy Grail, the last tournament and his death. With Tim Pigott-Smith (narrator/Tennyson), John Keeble (Arthur), Simon Harrison (Lancelot) and Kathryn Hunt (Guinevere). Music by Paul Carghill.

Director: Susan Roberts

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 13th September 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 22:00 (2 hours long)

Edward The Second, By Christopher Marlowe.

A notorious portrait of a weak king in thrall to his passions, who pays the ultimate price for choosing his heart over his political responsibilities. With Toby Jones, Patrick Kennedy, Paul Hilton, Anastasia Hille, Nigel Hastings, David Hargreaves, Benjamin Askew, Stephen Hogan, Ryan Watson, Paul Rider, Malcolm Tierney, Philip Fox and Lizzy Watts.

Director: Jessica Dromgoole

DRAMA: Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 20th September 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 21:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

Slaughterhouse 5, By Kurt Vonnegut.

Dave Sheasby's adaptation of arguably one of the greatest anti-war novels of all time. The story centres on Billy Pilgrim, who hops back and forth in time, reliving various moments in his real and fantasy lives, as a prisoner of war, optometrist and time traveller. With John Guerassio, Andrew Scott, Nathan Osgood, Joanne McQuinn, Annabelle Dowler, Sarah Goldberg, Madeleine Potter, Simon Lee Philips, Liza Ross, Kerry Shale, Stephen Hogan, Peter Marinker, Michael Mears, Philip Fox, Gunnar Cauthery, Orlando James and Michael Shelford. Music by 65 Days of Static.

Director: David Hunter

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 27th September 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 21:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

The Twyborn Affair, By Patrick White.

The first-ever adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner's Patrick White's provocative and mysterious novel about sexual identity. With Julian Rhind-Tutt, Penny Downie, Hattie Morahan, Philip Quast, Leigh Funnelle, John Rowe, David Henry, Manon Edwards, Piers Wehner, Emerald O'Hanrahan and Joseph Cohen-Cole. Dramatised by DJ Britton.

Director: Alison Hindell

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 11th October 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 21:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

The Researches of Herodotus.

Celebrated writer Tom Holland's new adaptation of his own translation of Herodotus' Histories - one of the most important books in literature and history writing. It is an extraordinary account by an Ancient Greek of how his country and people came into being through their encounters with other people. With Anton Lesser as Herodotus, plus a supporting cast including Richard Bremmer, Stephen Noonan, Owen Teale, Adam Levy and Pippa Heywood.

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 18th October 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 23:00 (3 hours long)

The Threepenny Opera.

A production from BBC Radio Drama and the BBC Philharmonic of Brecht and Weill's famous 1928 play with music. With Joseph Millson, Elen Rhys, Ruth Alexander-Rubin, Zubin Varla, Rosalie Craig, Ute Gfrerer, Conrad Nelson, Kevin Harvey, Sean Oliver, Declan Wilson, Peter Edbrook, Graeme Hawley, HK Gruber, Olwen May and the voices of the Manchester Chamber Choir. Music by the BBC Philharmonic/HK Gruber. A BBC Radio Drama North and BBC Philharmonic co-production.

Director: Nadia Molinari

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 1st November 2009 (starting tomorrow evening)
Time: 20:00 to 21:50 (1 hour and 50 minutes long)

The Lady from the Sea: A new version of Ibsen's late drama, adapted for radio by Frank McGuinness. Before her marriage to Dr Wangel, Ellida, his second wife, had promised herself to a sailor who then disappeared. Years later, Ellida's family life is strained. Her relations with her step-daughters is poor; she has no child of her own. She seems unhappy with her life. Then the sailor reappears to make his claim on her promise. Faced with the decision of what to do, she persuades her husband that she must have the chance to make her choice. With Lia Williams, Hugh Bonneville, Katherine Parkinson, Ellie Kendrick, Tim McMullan, Sam Crane, Geoffrey Whitehead and Christopher Obi. Directed by Hannah Eidinow.

Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 22nd November 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:30 to 23:45 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

Don Quixote, By Thomas D'urfey.

Don Taylor's radio adaptation of a play based on Cervantes's classic picaresque novel, commissioned to mark the 300th anniversary of Henry Purcell's death in 1995. The play, with music by Purcell, Eccles and others, was first performed in 1694. Paul Scofield (Don Quixote), Roy Hudd (Sancho Panza), Roger Allam (Thomas Betterton), Douglas Hodge (Henry Purcell), Bill Wallis (Thomas Durfey), Emma Kirkby, soprano (Milkmaid), Evelyn Tubb, soprano (Marcella), David Thomas, bass (Cardenio), Doug Wootton, baritone (Gines), Peter Woodward (Ambrosio), Peter Czajkowski (Carrasco), Sam Dastor (Duke), Michael Tudor Barnes (The Host), Kristin Milward (The Hostess). Other parts played by Derek Waring, Ian Masters and Jilly Bond, with Lucy Skeaping (soprano), the Consort of Musicke, the City Waites and the Purcell Simfony. Additional music by Blaise Compton. Musical director: Anthony Rooley.

Director: Don Taylor

DRAMA: Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio Three
Date: Sunday 29th November 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 22:00 (2 hours long)

The Changeling, By Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.

A new radio production of the Jacobean classic of murder, lust, madness and mayhem, set in Alicante, Spain, in the 1920s. Beatrice-Joanna is due to marry Alonzo e Piracquo, until she falls in love with Alsemero, and seeks the help of her father's man, De Flores. With Anna Madeley, Zubin Varla, Nicky Henson, Alex Hassell, Alex Blake, Simon Muller, Nigel Hastings, Liz Richardson, Catherine Bailey, Philip Fox, Stephen Hogan, Piers Wehner, Joseph Cohen-Cole and Rhys Jennings. Directed and adapted for radio by Jeremy Mortimer.