Drama of the Week

2026. A chance encounter on a London tube train reunites Leigh with Rick: the man she has never stopped wondering about. And he’s never stopped wondering about her either.
Over the course of the journey, Leigh and Rick unpack the decisions, and the three days in August, that led them here. Is now the time they choose each other?
In 1996, Rick meets Leigh outside a house party one hot August night. Leigh feels a spark with him – the boy always on the brink of laughter – but later that night, she connects with his best friend Charlie, and ends up going home with him instead. Soon after, Leigh is pregnant.
Leigh and Charlie build a life together. More children follow. Routine, responsibility, sleep-deprivation. Rick’s life, by contrast, seems carefree. And it’s not that Leigh regrets her life. And it’s not that she doesn’t love Charlie. But sometimes she can’t help but wonder what the story could have been, had she chosen Rick that night in 1996 instead.
We meet Leigh, Rick and Charlie across four Augusts, each 10 years apart. It never seems the right time for Rick and Leigh to choose each other. Until they meet in a tube carriage in 2026.
Original romantic drama by award-winning Katie Hims, starring Rebekah Station (Raised by Wolves, The Following Events Are Based On A Pack Of Lies), Samuel Anderson (Amandaland, The Walsh Sisters) and Sam Swann (One Day, Mr Selfridge).
CAST
Leigh ….. Rebekah Staton
Rick ….. Samuel Anderson
Charlie ….. Sam Swann
Cal ….. Mylo Khan
Production Co-ordinators .... Sara Benaim and Emma Donald
Sound Design by Sam Dickinson, Andy Garratt and Kira Golightly
Written by Katie Hims
Directed by Anne Isger
A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4.
Katie Hims is one of the country’s most celebrated radio dramatists. Notable plays and series include Shirley's Party, Lost Property, Black Eyed Girls, Home Front, 24, Kildare Road, Middlemarch, Behind the Scenes at the Museum and Transcription. Her most recent original play for radio, Waterloo Station, written for Ralph Ineson and Christine Bottomley, won the Writer’s Guild Best Audio Drama Award 2023. Behind the Scenes at the Museum won silver and Shirley's Party won bronze for Best Drama at the 2026 ARIAS.

By Ben Lewis.
Witty, warm and soulful drama infused with storytelling and song.
Part of the Yeartides series inspired by the myths and rituals surrounding Pagan Celtic festivals.
Claire and her husband David are visiting David’s family farm to celebrate his mum’s 75th birthday.
It’s harvest time. And the impact of seeds sown decades before is about to be felt.
Cast:
Claire … Neve McIntosh
David … Emun Elliot
Lynn … Georgie Glen
Andy … Jack Greenlees
Music performed by Anna Massie
Sound Design by Kris McConnachie
Production Co-ordinator: Rosalind Gibson
Studio Production: Keith Graham
Directed by Kirsty Williams
With thanks for farming consultation to Roger Howison and Willie Young.

Los Angeles, 1935. With nowhere to go and nothing to lose, Robert and Gloria enter a marathon dance on the Santa Monica pier, one of hundreds of couples competing to stay on their feet for weeks at a time for a prize of a thousand dollars. As the days blur into nights and the competition grows merciless, their unlikely bond deepens into something neither of them can name, and a reckoning neither can avoid.
George MacKay (1917, Rose of Nevada) stars as Robert alongside Leah Brotherhead (Hullraisers, RSC's Wolf Hall) as Gloria.
Horace McCoy's 1935 novel is one of the founding texts of American noir, previously adapted as Sydney Pollack's acclaimed 1969 film with Jane Fonda. This is its first ever audio adaptation, brought to radio by adaptor Kerry Shale.
Story of America is a major collection of dramatisations of milestone American titles marking 250 years since the Declaration of Independence and the foundation of the United States.
Robert . . . . . George MacKay
Gloria . . . . . Leah Brotherhead
Rocky . . . . . Kerry Shale
Mrs Layden . . . . . Laurel Lefkow
Pedro . . . . . Joseph Balderama
Rollo . . . . . Ben Crowe
Jim . . . . . David Menkin
Ruby . . . . . Laura Dos Santos
Adapted by Kerry Shale.
Production co-ordinators: Sara Benaim, Jonathan Powell
Technical producers: Keith Graham, Neva Missirian, Kira Golightly
Sound design: Sharon Hughes
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko
A BBC Studios production.

Anna Christie has spent fifteen years waiting for a father who never came. When she finally arrives on the New York waterfront to find him, she brings with her a past she has told nobody, and a fury at the world that has shaped her whole life. What she doesn't expect is the sea itself, and what it might do to her.
Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is one of the towering works of American theatre: a searingly honest portrait of people trying to outrun their histories, until a shipwrecked Irish stoker arrives out of the fog and gives Anna a reason to stop running.
Adapted for radio by Lucy Catherine.
Story of America is a major collection of dramatisations of milestone American titles marking 250 years since the Declaration of Independence and the foundation of the United States.
Anna . . . . . Julianna Jennings
Chris . . . . . David Threlfall
Mat . . . . . Ciarán Owens
Marthy . . . . . Heather Craney
Johnny . . . . . Parker Sawyers
Larry . . . . . Kenndrick Horton
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko
Technical producers: Keith Graham & Sam Dickinson
Editor: Peter Ringrose
Production co-ordinator: Ben Hollands
A BBC Studios production.

Anna Christie has spent fifteen years waiting for a father who never came. When she finally arrives on the New York waterfront to find him, she brings with her a past she has told nobody, and a fury at the world that has shaped her whole life. What she doesn't expect is the sea itself, and what it might do to her.
Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is one of the towering works of American theatre: a searingly honest portrait of people trying to outrun their histories, until a shipwrecked Irish stoker arrives out of the fog and gives Anna a reason to stop running.
Adapted for radio by Lucy Catherine.
Story of America is a major collection of dramatisations of milestone American titles marking 250 years since the Declaration of Independence and the foundation of the United States.
Anna . . . . . Julianna Jennings
Chris . . . . . David Threlfall
Mat . . . . . Ciarán Owens
Marthy . . . . . Heather Craney
Johnny . . . . . Parker Sawyers
Larry . . . . . Kenndrick Horton
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko
Technical producers: Keith Graham & Sam Dickinson
Editor: Peter Ringrose
Production co-ordinator: Ben Hollands
A BBC Studios production.