In Whit Week 1950, BBC Midlands Home Service broadcast five trial editions of a new radio drama ... rural drama. Felicity Finch, who plays Ruth Archer mines the BBC Oral History Collection to ...

The BBC is to scrap drama on Radio 3 after its boss said listeners want music above all else. The station has broadcast plays since its launch in 1967, but its sole remaining drama slot – at 8pm ...

Plans to cut audio drama from BBC Radio 3 have been labelled a “devastating loss for writers and actors alike”, with critics calling it the end of the “National Theatre of the airwaves”.