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1. Gulliver's Travels

   30 oktober 2026 · 58 min

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   A new two-part adaptation by Ian Billings, celebrating the 300th anniversary of Jonathan Swift’s satire. Lees meer

   Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon with a sensible English mind and an ambition for greatness, is shipwrecked and wakes on a strange shore, pinned to the ground by a crowd of people no bigger than his hand. In Lilliput he is a marvel and a potential weapon, taken up by a court that treats its own quarrels with enormous seriousness. But his travels are only beginning, and the further he goes, the harder it becomes to see home in quite the same way.

   Published in 1726, Swift's book has spent three centuries being read both as a children's adventure and as one of the sharpest satires on human vanity in English.

   Swift was writing about the politicians and courtiers of Georgian England. Three hundred years later, the joke still lands.

   Lemuel Gulliver.....Graham Dickson
   General Clefen-Marsi/ King of Brobdingnag.....David Holt
   King of Lilliput/ Jester.....Jack Nuttall
   Glumdalclitch.....Lucie Shorthouse
   Limtoc/ Queen of Brobdingnag.....Joanna Neary
   Flimnap/ Farmer.....Sunil Patel
   Queen of Lilliput/ Mother.....Debbie Korley
   King's Father/ Yokel.....Ian Billings

   Written by Jonathan Swift
   Adapted by Ian Billings
   Directed by Lorna Newman
   Sound design by Sharon Hughes
   Production Coordinator: Sara Benaim
   Studio Production Coordinator: Jonathan Powell
   Technical Producers: Andy Garratt, Neva Missirian and Kira Golightly

   A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4.

2. Out Of Time: Episode 1 Pan-pan

   23 oktober 2026 · 28 min

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   Following an Arctic storm, the crew of the research vessel Coralith Epsilon find themselves stranded in thick pack ice. Cut off from the outside world and running low on supplies, hope arrives in the form of a mysterious Morse code message. Lees meer

   But the ship that comes to the rescue is not what they expected. Trapped together in a frozen limbo, two crews separated by a century must survive starvation, the elements, and paranoia to get home.

   A chilling five-part supernatural thriller that blends claustrophobic survivalism, cosmic sci-fi and environmental geopolitics, set in one of the most hostile places on Earth - the Arctic tundra. Written by the writers of the award-winning drama podcast 'Up In Smoke', Cambria Bailey-Jones and Guy Larsen.

   MARIA.....Raffey Cassidy
   TIMOTHY.....Sacha Dhawan
   FRED.....Tanya Moodie
   LAURA.....Tiffany Smith

   Writers: Cambria Bailey-Jones and Guy Larsen
   Director: Nadia Molinari
   Sound Designer and Technical Producer: Sharon Hughes
   Technical Producer: Sam Dickinson
   Production Co-ordinator : Pippa Day
   Series Script Editor: Lorna Newman
   Casting Manager: Alex Curran

   Series Scientific Consultant: Prof. James Lea from the University of Liverpool
   Weather Consultant: Andy Cutcher
   Arctic Historian Consultant: Peter Martin
   Army Consultant: Alec Heron
   Ship Navigation Consultants: Martha Armitage & James Butters

   A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4.