A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting …

John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of 30, dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed “impossible” by other mathematicians.
But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowing descent into insanity, resigning his …

Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacker lead an ordered, sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: He is a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Candido and America Rincon desperately cling to their vision …

Anton Lesser stars as a Berlin Detective who stumbles upon the 20th century’s most terrifying secret in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Robert Harris’s Bestselling Novel.
‘Riveting adaptation… the drama is compelling from its opening sequence’ — Peter Barnard, The Times
The year is 1964, and it’s a week before …

Join actors from television’s Star Trek as they recreate this classic radio thriller. The breathless pace and convincing details make it clear why the 1938 broadcast caused a nationwide panic. You may panic too…as horrifying life forms emerge from a strange object in a New Jersey farmer’s field. War of …

Roy and Frankie are matchstick men — con artists.
Partners in elegant crimes for years, they know each other like brothers and have perfected the rules of the game.
Roy is the careful one. Saves every penny. Takes his medication regularly. Without it, his obsessive-compulsive disorder kicks in and he is too …

Anna MacRae is only five years old when her mother dies in childbirth one day in 1940. She is left with twin baby sisters and a father fighting in Europe. They are taken in by the Dixons and moved to the countryside for the duration of the war. Anna is …

Dramatisation of Robert L Pike’s gritty detective story, set in New York’s rough 52nd Precinct in 1963.
Lieutenant Clancy, head throbbing from days without sleep, is assigned to protect important Mafia witness Johnny Rossi. But when he is found dead, Clancy has only a matter of hours to find the killer …

By Ronald Frame.
In the new immigrant community of 1840s America, Scotsman Allan Pinkerton turns detective when an influx of counterfeit dollars threatens the local economy.
Allan Pinkerton …… Forbes Masson
Joan Pinkerton …… Rachel Ogilvy
John Craig …… Sam Dale
Mrs O’Riordan/elderly Woman …… Marcella Riordan
Nathan Madison/ Croupier/Elderly Man …… Robert Jezek
Lisl …… Alison …

It is autumn 1941 and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. Over the coming weeks they must brave the stormy waters of the Atlantic in their mission to seek out and destroy British supply ships. But …