Drama (BBC Radio 4)

For the similarly named BBC One series, see The Afternoon Play.

Drama (formerly Afternoon Theatre, Afternoon Drama, Afternoon Play)[1][2] is a BBC Radio 4 radio drama, broadcast every weekday at 2.15pm. Generally each play is 45 minutes in duration and approximately 190 new plays are broadcast each year. More or less three-quarters are self-contained dramas. The remainder are short series of 2 to 6 episodes. As well as original drama series, the Afternoon Play has included a number of adaptations of popular works such as The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.[3]

  1. ^ "A name change for dramas on Radio 4". BBC Radio 4 blog. 31 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Lost radio plays". Radio Plays & Radio Drama. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  3. ^ Image Dissectors (2009). "The State of the Afternoon Play". ImageDissectors.com. Retrieved 9 February 2010.