Drama of the Week

James Fritz's award-winning drama about the UK prison system returns with two contrasting stories of release, told from the perspective of prisoners and staff alike.
In this first episode, a prisoner (who listeners met in Series 1) leaves with his paperwork signed and a discharge grant in his pocket, convinced his prayers have been answered. What he doesn't know is that a single clerical error, buried for years in a box of court paperwork, means he should never have been let out at all. As an overstretched prison scrambles to find him, the press whips up a manhunt and ministers demand a name, one question echoes from the courtroom to Whitehall: how could something like this happen?
Written by James Fritz
Lee ..... Carl Prekopp
Yas ..... Yasmin Mwanza
Clare ..... Maddy Lenny
Jenny ..... Emma Handy
Carly ..... Laura Dos Santos
Rihanna ..... Rebekah Murrell
Prison Director ..... Ben Crowe
The Box Officer ..... Harry Myers
Toby/Reverend ..... Joe Jameson
Minister ..... Ian Dunnett Jnr
Production Team:
Producer and Director, Tracey Neale
Sound Design, Keith Graham, Sam Dickinson and Andrew Garrett
Production Co-Ordinator, Ben Hollands
A BBC Studios production.
James Fritz has won the Imison and Tinniswood Awards, Best Single and Best Series at the Audio Drama Awards, and Gold and Bronze at the ARIAs. For his theatre work he has won the Critics' Circle Award and the Bruntwood Prize, and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. He is under commission to the RSC, on attachment to the National Theatre, and is currently writing a TV drama and adapting his play The Flea into a feature film.

James Fritz's award-winning drama about the UK prison system returns with two contrasting stories of release, told from the perspective of prisoners and staff alike.
In this first episode, a prisoner (who listeners met in Series 1) leaves with his paperwork signed and a discharge grant in his pocket, convinced his prayers have been answered. What he doesn't know is that a single clerical error, buried for years in a box of court paperwork, means he should never have been let out at all. As an overstretched prison scrambles to find him, the press whips up a manhunt and ministers demand a name, one question echoes from the courtroom to Whitehall: how could something like this happen?
Written by James Fritz
Lee ..... Carl Prekopp
Yas ..... Yasmin Mwanza
Clare ..... Maddy Lenny
Jenny ..... Emma Handy
Carly ..... Laura Dos Santos
Rihanna ..... Rebekah Murrell
Prison Director ..... Ben Crowe
The Box Officer ..... Harry Myers
Toby/Reverend ..... Joe Jameson
Minister ..... Ian Dunnett Jnr
Producer and Director, Tracey Neale
Sound Design, Keith Graham, Sam Dickinson and Andrew Garrett
Production Co-Ordinator, Ben Hollands
A BBC Studios production.
James Fritz has won the Imison and Tinniswood Awards, Best Single and Best Series at the Audio Drama Awards, and Gold and Bronze at the ARIAs. For his theatre work he has won the Critics' Circle Award and the Bruntwood Prize, and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. He is under commission to the RSC, on attachment to the National Theatre, and is currently writing a TV drama and adapting his play The Flea into a feature film.

Returning to Swansea after the blitz, Dylan Thomas is overwhelmed by memories of his childhood and adolescence.
From summers at Fern Hill, to failed camping trips on the beach; from plagiarised poetry to drunken first love, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is a story of what it is to grow up.
Comic, nostalgic, with a host of vivid characters, Dylan Thomas’s masterpiece is adapted by Joe Dunthorne (Submarine, Children of Radium) and stars Gerran Howell (The Pitt) as Dylan Thomas.
Based on the short stories by Dylan Thomas
Adapted by Joe Dunthorne
Dylan Thomas… Gerran Howell
Aunt Annie/Gwyneth/ Mrs Evans/ Mother… Carys Eleri
Uncle Jim/ Mr Thomas/ Mr Matthews/ Mr O’Brien… Ben Addis
Mrs Williams/ Mrs Thomas/ Mrs Franklin/ Female Stranger… Melanie Walters
Dan Evans… Iwan Davies
Lou/Jean/Nancy… Mia Khan
Brazell/ Gwilym/ Older Sidney… Jacob Ifan
George Hooping/ Barman… Gwïon Morris Jones
Skully/ Chauffeur/ Male Stranger… Shaheen Jafargholi
Young Dylan… Leon Raphael Mullins
Young Sidney…. Toby Founds
Production Co-Ordinator… Eleri McAuliffe
Sound Design by Rhys Morris
Produced and directed by Fay Lomas, BBC Audio Drama Wales

When Mo, a Sudanese delivery rider working in Cardiff enters a house to drop off two pizzas, he finds a dead body. Convinced that if he alerts the authorities he will either be suspected of murder or arrested for working illegally and deported, Mo flees the crime scene. When the murder is reported as a suicide, Mo can't stop thinking about the dead woman. He knows what he saw.
Series creators Eno Mfon and Darragh Mortell
Episode 1 by Eno Mfon
CAST
Mo - Mohamed Elsandel
Elli - Maeve Courtier-Lilley
Omar - Ali Goolyad
Mama - Alaa Taha
Amna - Fatima Seedahmed
The Priest - Geraint Morgan
Alexa - Laura dos Santos
Woman - Lisa Greenwood
Football commentator - Ben Crowe
Original Music by Tom Tripp
Oud Music by Nabra.
Sound: Catherine Robinson and Rhys Morris
Production Coordinators: Maggie Olgiati and Eleri McAuliffe
Script consultant: Majid Hassan
Director: John Norton
A BBC Audio Drama Wales Production

A West-Country bromance starring Tobie Donovan and Olsen Elezi.
Jordan, a Wilshire lad, and Artan, an Albanian guy, bond over cars and music. Soon they’re best friends. Brothers even.
But when Jordan’s looking for a job and Artan offers to help out, they both find themselves drawn into something so much bigger than they ever realised.
Story by Florence Espeut-Nickless and Tadgh Espeut-Nickless
Written by Florence Espeut-Nickless
Artan ..… Olsen Elezi
Jordan ..… Tobie Donovan
Vinnie ..… Nikolaos Brahimllari
Alfie ..… Ed Kear
Jade ..… Becky Brunning
Jasper ..… Joseph Tweedale
Directed and produced by Jenny Davies
Sound design by Catherine Robinson
Production co-ordinator, Lindsay Rees
Executive producer, Fay Lomas
With thanks to Tom Bevan
A BBC Audio Drama Wales Production