Drama of the Week

Carrie is a call handler for the ambulance service. Every day she makes split-second decisions as she deals with a succession of emergencies; from a young man who has fallen whilst attempting to put up a flag, to a mother dealing with the death of her only son. Carrie is gifted with the knack of calmly helping people through their most vulnerable moments. Each episode is a collage of heart-stopping stories, where Carrie’s indiscriminate acts of kindness can mean the difference between life and death.
The programme contains scenes of a traumatic nature.
Carrie ….. Sarah Ridgeway
Will ….. Rick Warden
Ian ….. Michael Jibson
Nick ….. Archie Christoph-Allen
David/ Æssan ….. Keneth Collard
Peter ….. Sam Dale
Bella ….. Sadie Gray
Natalie ….. Anna Spearpoint
Lauren ….. Yasmin Mwanza
Gwen ….. Clare Corbett
Production Co-ordinator ….. Luke MacGregor
Technical Producers ….. Keith Graham, Sam Dickinson
Writer ….. Al Smith
Director ….. Sally Avens
A BBC Studios Production

An original short story specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to mark Bealtaine, the Gaelic festival heralding the beginning of summer traditionally held on the first day of May. Written and read by Deirdre Anna Rose Kelly.
The Author.
Deirdre Anna Rose Kelly is a writer from Donegal, who lives in Belfast. She is a member of the Duncairn Arts Centre's Creative Collective. She has read her work on stage and on BBC Radio Ulster.
Writer: Deirdre Anna Rose Kelly
Reader: Deirdre Anna Rose Kelly
Producer: Michael Shannon

A BBC Audio Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4.

Comedy drama series created by Alan Harris and Katherine Chandler. Meet the King clan: Laura and her grandchildren Sonny and Little Laura. They run Cardiff's oldest pawnbrokers. Now gramps is gone and Laura might retire. So who'll take over the shop?
EPSIODE 1 - SMELLS OF BALE by Alan Harris
CAST
Laura - Lisa Palfrey
Jim - Julian Lewis Jones
Little Laura - Lauren Morais
Sonny - Curtis Kemlo
Malik - Kyle Lima
Bryony - Nia Gandhi
Emily - Mabli Gwynne
Harvey - Harvey Marshall
The Punter - Sam Swann
Production Coordinators: Eleri McAuliffe and Lindsay Rees
Sound Design: Catherine Robinson
Producer: John Norton
A BBC Audio Wales Production

Atmospheric drama by Robert Forrest.
It’s a snowy evening on the outskirts of Glasgow when Dot and Cal take shelter in a disused factory. Warming themselves next to a makeshift fire, an intriguing man walks through the door….He’s an old man captivated by stories whose mysterious presence brings out stories in those he sits with.
Cast:
Cal … Simon Donaldson
Dot … Chloe-Ann Tylor
Ossian … Finlay Welsh
Studio recording: Gav Murchie
Production co-ordinators: Ellie Marsh and Minnie Harrop
Sound Design by Niall Young
Directed by Kirsty Williams

Hamburg, 1992. A pipe-bomb goes off in a department store at one in the morning, and a ransom note arrives shortly after, demanding a million marks and signed "Uncle Scrooge". The police are baffled. The press are delighted. And a nation starts rooting for the wrong side.
A cat-and-mouse thriller based on an extraordinary true story, about a lone eccentric who seems to be running his criminal campaign straight from the pages of a Donald Duck comic book, and the police team who realise the only way to catch him is to make him feel understood.
Warm, witty and surprisingly tender, it might just be unlike any true-crime story you've heard before. Based on real events with imagined scenes.
Narrator . . . . . Clare Corbett
Funke . . . . . Blake Harrison
Daleki . . . . . Ben Crowe
Brockmann . . . . . Amaka Okafor
Springborn . . . . . John Macmillan
Blashke . . . . . Sam Swann
Weber . . . . . Sam Dale
Writer: Simon Scardifield
Sound design: Sharon Hughes
Technical producers: Keith Graham & Jenni Burnett
Casting Manager: Alex Curran
Production co-ordinator: Luke MacGregor
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko