Drama of the Week

• Trust - Series 6

  Jonathan Hall's comedy drama about a Salford secondary school starring Julie Hesmondhalgh.Yvette is convinced that, wherever possible, kids should stay in school. But transfer pupil Logan is testing those limits. Exclusion is not an easy decision, and Logan's keyboard-warrior father complicates the process. As tensions rise, a late-night confrontation uncovers a pivotal truth.YVETTE.....Julie Hesmondhalgh CAROL / QUEENIE.....Susan Twist TIM.....Ashley Margolis SIR KEN.....Jonathan Keeble LOGAN.....Ellis Hollins MR SHAW.....William AshWriter - Jonathan Hall Director - Pippa Day Technical Producer - Sharon Hughes Additional Technical Production - Kelly Young Production Co-ordinator - Victoria MoseleyA BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4

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• Made in Taiwan

  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 StaffordGabby ….. Saffron CoomberLily Wu ….. Crystal YuCharles Tucker ….. Clive HaywardDan ….. Windson LiongBradley Wagner ….. Joseph BalderramaAn Qi ….. Amber LinWritten by Jim Poyser Jim has written extensively for Radio 4 including the comedy series Stockport So Good They Named it Once, The Architects, Everyone Quite Likes Justin, 1834, 1835, The Cavity Within. He has written the plays The Joey, Too Up Too Down, Chopin in Manchester, The Downing Street Doppelganger, My Computer Told Me To Do It. He also adapted Vanity Fair and The Day of the Locust. He is also a well-known TV producer whose credits include Cold Feet, Brassic, Death in Paradise and Shameless.Produced and Directed by Tracey NealeTechnical Team, Keith Graham and Andy GarrattProduction Co-Ordinator, Jonathan PowellCasting Manager, Alex Curran

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• Secrets and Lies: Scammer

  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 ANJU.....Payal Mistry VASHU.....Gurjeet Singh PAPPU.....Esh AlladiAdditional voices by members of the cast, Ben Hollands and Shemiza Rashid.Written by Satinder Kaur Chohan Directed by Nadia Molinari Technical Production and Sound Design by Sharon Hughes Production Co-ordinator Ben Hollands Casting Manger Alex Curran Additional Technical Production by Kelly Young, Elijah WaddingtonA BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4

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• The Wind in the Willows: A Weasel’s Tale

  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 Kit . . . . . Claire Morgan Portly . . . . . Harriet Carmichael Radar . . . . . Kathryn Drysdale Magpie, Chief, Ratty, Badger, Toad . . . . . Ed Gaughan Ma-Weasel . . . . . Jasmine Hyde Mole . . . . . Django Bevan Otter . . . . . Clive HaywardWritten by Tom Morton-SmithProduction co-ordinator: Luke MacGregor Casting Manager: Alex Curran Technical producers: Keith Graham, Sam Dickinson Sound designer: Sharon Hughes Director: Sasha YevtushenkoA BBC Studios production

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• Murder on Mars

  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 FoleyCAST RITA SIDDIQUI ..... NISHA NAYAR JAZ HICKSON ..... LUKE NEWBERRY KAYA ..... SASHA MCABE DAN ..... JOANA BORJA POWELL ..... JASON BARNETT DR LI ..... CRYSTAL YU WARD ..... STEFFAN RHODRI NILS ..... DAVID MENKIN MAX ..... SIDHANT ANANDSound: Sharon Hughes, Keith Graham and Neva Missirian Production Co-ordinator: Luke MacGregor Director: Anne Isger Casting Manager: Alex CurranA BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4

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