A bright but hopelessly out-of-his-depth Brit arrives in Beijing for a dream job and stumbles straight into a chaotic mix of surveillance, blackmail and very bad decisions. Packed off to Taiwan to keep him out of trouble, he must muddle through shady allies, confused loyalties and rising global tension, all while trying to pretend he knows what he is doing.

George Tucker ….. Sam Stafford

Gabby ….. Saffron Coomber

Lily Wu ….. Crystal Yu

Charles Tucker ….. Clive Hayward

Dan ….. Windson Liong

Bradley Wagner ….. Joseph Balderrama

An Qi ….. Amber Lin

Written by Jim Poyser

Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale

Technical Team, Keith Graham and Andy Garratt

Production Co-Ordinator, Jonathan Powell

Casting Manager, Alex Curran

Satinder Kaur Chohan's moving drama 'Scammer' about the ruthless world of scam call centres is part of BBC Radio 4 drama collection, Secrets and Lies.

Moving between a bustling scam call centre in Delhi, India and a house under the Heathrow flight path in British Asian suburbia, Scammer centres on the relationship between two women: Anju, an Indian scam call centre worker and Deesho, a lonely Indian elderly woman, unknowingly suffering the early stages of dementia. When Deesho mistakes Anju for her granddaughter Navi, an unexpected connection begins to form between them. But as pressure mounts on Anju to make more money, she is forced to make a difficult decision.

Scammer explores a surprising intergenerational connection in a disconnected modern world, in which secrets and lies are currency in deceitful global transactions.

DEESHO.....Shelley King

Additional voices by members of the cast, Ben Hollands and Shemiza Rashid.

Written by Satinder Kaur Chohan

A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4

A new re-imagining of The Wind in the Willows told from the margins. Set in a timeless, Kenneth Grahame-inspired England, the drama looks up from weasel-height at class, home and who gets to belong when the Wild Wood is being carved up by developers. Narrated by Penelope Wilton, it blends the familiar riverbank world with the pressures of eviction, empty grand houses and power concentrated in a few determined hands.

Kit, a young weasel, is watching her family slide into precarity as the scrubland around their burrow is sold off and the criminal Chief Weasel tightens his grip. With her best friends - Portly the otter and Radar the bat - Kit’s world collides with Mole, Ratty, Badger and other classic characters, while a grand house standing empty becomes a magnet for grievance and opportunity. What follows is a fight not for glory but for a place to live: shifting alliances, contested territory and small acts of care that build a community where suspicion says it cannot exist. A story about who gets to stay, what makes a home, and how belonging is made on the riverbank.

Dramatist Tom Morton-Smith is a playwright and screenwriter best known for the RSC’s Oppenheimer and the multi-award-winning stage adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro.

Cast:

Narrator . . . . . Penelope Wilton

Written by Tom Morton-Smith

Production co-ordinator: Luke MacGregor

A BBC Studios production

Mars, 2048. The first settlers, a mix of international workers and the super-rich. And the first unexplained death.

When a body turns up in the corridor between a scrappy warehouse and a half-built luxury hotel, no-nonsense Harbourmaster Rita Siddiqui finds herself in charge. With Earth temporarily out of contact and no official law enforcement on Mars, she ropes in Vice Captain Jaz Hickson, a wide-eyed young pilot who’s only just landed.

But murder's not their only problem. Atmospheric tests have triggered a dangerous storm. Paranoia grows as the power fails. Lights, gravity, oxygen: everything is at risk.

Rita and Jaz must navigate a growing list of suspects, a dwindling supply of patience, and a killer who’s not finished yet.

Because even 140 million miles from Earth, people still have secrets. And someone’s willing to kill to keep them.

Written by Tim Foley

CAST

Sound: Sharon Hughes, Keith Graham and Neva Missirian

A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4

Written by Hannah Khalil

In 2040, a Middle Eastern nation is struggling to survive rising temperatures and rolling power cuts. Architect Noura Halim has devoted her life to designing a new kind of city, one that could protect people from the worsening climate and keep her country alive. But as construction begins, the project drains the nation’s fragile resources, workers are pushed to breaking point, and her teenage daughter Amal begins to question everything her mother believes in.

As tensions rise at home and across the country, Noura must confront the cost of her own ambition and the possibility that her dream of salvation could destroy the very place she’s trying to save.

Tipping Point was developed through OKRE Experimental Stories supported by Wellcome in consultation with Dr Robert Hughes of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Dr Candice Howarth of the London School of Economics.

Cast:

Noura . . . . . Nadia Albina

Production co-ordinators: Sara Benaim and Emma Donald

Ronny Moffat aka The Dagenham Porkchop, a once superstar wrestler is living on crumbs, working the holiday camp circuit. When his past body-slams back into his life, Ronny has to wrestle with more than just a 20 stone athlete in a leotard.

CAST

Ronny 'The Dagenham Porkchop' Moffat - Robert Glenister

Terry 'The Pharaoh' - Ron Cook

Virginia 'Vampire' Dawson - Lisa Palfrey

Lorraine - Holli Dempsey

Ray 'Elvis' Evans - Dean Rehman

Tom - Dean Coulson

Dickie Davies, Kent Walton, The Holidaymaker - Dick Bradnum

Production Coordinator: Lindsay Rees

Sound Design: Nigel Lewis

Producer: John Norton

A BBC Audio Wales Production

By Ben Lewis.

Soulful drama infused with storytelling and song, inspired by the myths and rituals surrounding the Pagan festival of Samhain.

Claire and her husband David are staying in a isolated old house on the remote Scottish island of Jura.

Cast in Order of Appearance :

Chloe Pirrie

Music performed by Anna Massie

Production Co-ordinator: Rosalind Gibson

Directed by Kirsty Williams

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

Celebrating Bradford City of Culture and as part of BBC Contains Strong Language Festival, Bradford based writer Jeremy Dyson's original comedy drama set in West Yorkshire in 1978 is inspired by a true story.

High Cockalorum tells of a touching, funny and unlikely encounter between a Hollywood superstar and a humble lad from Leeds thrown together by circumstance.

A meditation on fame, success and what ultimately matters.

MARTY / JAMES MASON.....Mark Gatiss

Writer - Jeremy Dyson

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4

The first series of Life and Time was awarded Bronze at his year's ARIAS and now the second series returns. This time writer, James Fritz focuses on the Prison Officers.

Prison Officer, Michael Rose featured briefly in the first series and he's back. Michael is good at his job. It's rewarding but the pressure is growing. A wave of experienced officers are leaving and not being replaced. Then one day Rihanna joins. A young newbie and Michael needs to show her the ropes but Michael is becoming disillusioned and alarmed about the prison crisis - death by a thousand cuts. Rihanna, her new boots too shiny and the prison keys heavy on her belt, hasn't a clue about what lies ahead and that life on the inside is just as tough for the officers as it is for the prisoners.

Michael ..... Robert Glenister

Directed by Tracey Neale

Writer: James Fritz