Drama of the Week

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

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.
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.