Comedy drama series created by Alan Harris and Katherine Chandler. Meet the King clan: Laura and her grandchildren Sonny and Little Laura. They run Cardiff's oldest pawnbrokers. Now gramps is gone and Laura might retire. So who'll take over the shop?

EPSIODE 1 - SMELLS OF BALE by Alan Harris

CAST

Laura - Lisa Palfrey

Jim - Julian Lewis Jones

Little Laura - Lauren Morais

Sonny - Curtis Kemlo

Malik - Kyle Lima

Bryony - Nia Gandhi

Emily - Mabli Gwynne

Harvey - Harvey Marshall

The Punter - Sam Swann

Production Coordinators: Eleri McAuliffe and Lindsay Rees

Sound Design: Catherine Robinson

Producer: John Norton

A BBC Audio Wales Production

Atmospheric drama by Robert Forrest.

It’s a snowy evening on the outskirts of Glasgow when Dot and Cal take shelter in a disused factory. Warming themselves next to a makeshift fire, an intriguing man walks through the door….He’s an old man captivated by stories whose mysterious presence brings out stories in those he sits with.

Cast:

Cal … Simon Donaldson

Studio recording: Gav Murchie

Sound Design by Niall Young

Hamburg, 1992. A pipe-bomb goes off in a department store at one in the morning, and a ransom note arrives shortly after, demanding a million marks and signed "Uncle Scrooge". The police are baffled. The press are delighted. And a nation starts rooting for the wrong side.

A cat-and-mouse thriller based on an extraordinary true story, about a lone eccentric who seems to be running his criminal campaign straight from the pages of a Donald Duck comic book, and the police team who realise the only way to catch him is to make him feel understood.

Warm, witty and surprisingly tender, it might just be unlike any true-crime story you've heard before. Based on real events with imagined scenes.

Narrator . . . . . Clare Corbett

Writer: Simon Scardifield

Sound design: Sharon Hughes

Set in 2016, Joy, a 70-year-old grandmother, is plunged into crisis when the state declares it has no record of her existence. As the Hostile Environment tightens its grip, her daughter Glory seeks help from Serena Hope, a lawyer whose return reopens old tensions. At the same time, Joy’s half sister Jean uncovers buried evidence that could decide Joy’s fate.

Faith, Hope and Glory is an ambitious Radio 4 drama series telling intimate domestic stories that together illuminate the emergence of modern Britain. The story began in 1946, when Hope and Jim’s baby was entrusted to Eunice, later known as Faith, to take home to Antigua, but never made that journey and was taken in by Gloria and Clement. Named Joy, the child becomes the emotional centre of the series, her life unfolding across decades as personal lives intersect with social change.

Joy . . . . . Doreene Blackstock

Writer: Carol Russell

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4.

When a system falters, who finds the courage to speak the truth?

Maya, a young first-time mother, Jo, an overwhelmed trainee GP on rotation, and Kate, a fiercely principled hospital chaplain find their lives unexpectedly intertwined following a birth that doesn't go to plan.

Part of the Secrets and Lies season, Al Smith's drama pulls back the curtain on a labour ward under intense pressure, exploring what happens when real lives fall between the cracks of an overstretched healthcare system. It explores responsibility, courage, silence and the fragile trust that holds patients and professionals together.

KATE......Christine Bottomley

Written by Al Smith

A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4.

The true story of how in 1956 Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, lied to Parliament and took Britain to war under false pretences, told through the eyes of a young civil servant, Donald Logan.

Within days of his appointment as assistant to the Foreign Secretary, Logan is sent on a secret mission to Paris and soon finds himself at the centre of a major tripartite conspiracy. Together with representatives of France and Israel, a plan is hatched to attack Egypt following their nationalising of the Suez canal.

Thirty years later as Government documents are to be declassified Logan must decide whether to tell his side of the story.

Donald Logan ..... Jamie Parker

Writer ..... Richard Monks

A BBC Studios Audio Production

Paul lives a quiet, tightly controlled life, dividing his time between the gym and his local pub. A former boxer, he keeps his distance from the world. Then he meets Duncan. Charismatic, reckless and impossible to ignore, Duncan draws Paul into an unlikely friendship that begins to change everything.

As their bond deepens, Paul finds himself pulled towards excitement, risk and a sense of belonging he thought he’d lost. But beneath the humour and warmth of their connection lies a growing unease, as trust is tested and lines begin to blur. Told through shifting perspectives, Like A Brother is a tense psychological crime drama about friendship, loyalty and the danger of letting the wrong person too close.

Paul ..... Felix Scott

Directed by Tracey Neale

Writer:

Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale

A BBC Studios Production

Read by Alexander Vlahos.

Culhwch can love only the giant's daughter Olwen. To win her hand he must first complete a list of 39 impossible tasks. Arthur's champions take up the challenge, but time slips steadily away from them in Jo Lloyd's poignant contemporary take on the oldest Arthurian romance.

Production Co-ordinator: Eleri McAuliffe

Sound: Rhys Morris

Producer: John Norton

A BBC Audio Wales Production

Drama by Faebian Averies, winner of The Imison Award 2022, starring Gabrielle Creevy (The Guest, In My Skin)

Olive is a space-obsessed care home survivor and prison lifer. Emily is the toughest woman in the jail. Together they break out and go on the run – they're not friends but they do need each other. Olive wants to go to Anglesey to the centenary celebrations of her hero, the Welsh aerospace engineer Tecwyn Roberts; Emily has her own reasons for wanting a last chance at freedom. Will they make it as far as Anglesey before the law catches up with them?

Our first broadcast coincides with the centenary of Tecwyn Roberts' birth.

CAST

Olive - Gabrielle Creevy

Emily - Brid Brennan

Beryl - Faebian Averies

Paul - Keiron Self

Simon - Dean Rehman

Pat - Lauren Morais

Tia - Sasha McCabe

Karl - Gwydion Rhys

Tom - Django Bevan

Production Coordinator: Eleri McAuliffe

Sound Design: Catherine Robinson

Producer: John Norton

A BBC Audio Wales Production

As Hope faces an unexpected medical scare, she sets her heart on reconnecting with her long-lost daughter — but secrets from the past threaten to derail her plans. Meanwhile, Jean embarks on her own emotional quest to confront her birth mother. Old wounds resurface, loyalties are tested, and a quiet family life begins to crack open in unexpected ways.

Hope . . . . . Danielle Vitalis

Writer: Carol Russell