**Winner of the Colin Dexter Award**

For Ellie, it was the best day of her life. The moment when the whole point of her existence had become clear and her heart was so full of love she thought it might burst. So why is she standing on a bridge in the middle of the night? What is she going to do and can the stranger who stops his car to speak to her, talk her out of it?

Note for listeners: please be aware that the theme of suicide is discussed in this play.

Set in a 15th-century Southwark brothel, this story follows Angelica and her band of women as they endure and conspire against the cruel and blackmailing house overseer, Leofrick Troutbeck, who holds a deadly secret. Seeking liberation, the women devise a plan under the guise of searching for King John’s lost treasure on All Hallows' Eve.

Alex is down from the Midlands to visit her student daughter in London. While she waits in the coffee shop at Marylebone Station, two women join her table. She soon becomes party to an eye-opening discussion about internet dating!

When Sam Talbot arrives at the Fifth Southern General Hospital in 1915, she is a naïve but committed young woman keen to 'do her bit’. Using poetry and anecdotes from real First World War hospitals, we tell the story of her experiences as she seeks to find her feet in a situation almost beyond her imagination.

All her life Annie has been stalked by murder. So much so, that she has made a successful academic career in its study. Tonight, however, she thinks that she may be on the threshold of her greatest achievement; the solving of a cold case live on The Curtis Vellon Murder Hour. But, as anyone who works in broadcasting will tell you...once the microphone is switched on, nothing is guaranteed.

During the Battle of Britain, fighter pilot Peter Blakey’s aircraft is shot down in flames. Badly burned, Blakey survives and is placed under the care of pioneering surgeon Archibald McIndoe. Hurricane Rash is the story of Blakey’s recovery and that of McIndoe’s other patients who would come to know themselves as the Guinea Pig Club.

**SHORTLISTED FOR BBC AUDIO DRAMA AWARDS 2025 - BEST PODCAST AUDIO DRAMA**

Speech therapist Isobel first met 'John' when he was about ten years old. He had been referred to her by his family doctor. Most of her patients came to her that way - children whose linguistic development was not progressing, to the point where firstly parents, then medical professionals, had decided to investigate further.

John was as run-of-the-mill a patient as she had ever come across. Or at least he was at first...

A tense supernatural spine chiller - In a Manner of Speaking addresses the disturbing question - are we ever free of the sins of our past?

Joining Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson for breakfast at 221B Baker Street would, one imagines, be rather a civilised affair. Consisting of eggs, bacon, toast with marmalade and, of course, tea. However, there’s a disruption to the morning’s routine. Scotland Yard arrive, not to seek the help and advice of the Consulting Detective, but to arrest him for murder, placing him precariously ‘In the Shadow of the Noose’.