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Drama of the Week

Drama of the Week

BBC Radio 4 2 Episodes Jul 24, 2026

Every Friday we bring you a new drama from BBC Radio 4 or Radio 3. Exercise your imagination with some of the best writers and actors on radio. Storytelling at its very best.

Episodes

They Shoot Horses Don’t They?
They Shoot Horses Don’t They? Jul 24, 2026 3403 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 c

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