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unusual facts about Afternoon Play



Nick Warburton

His radio plays, On Mardle Fen are one of the few recurring series on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play strand.


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Alfred Broughton

On 8 June 2009 an afternoon play called 'How Are You Feeling, Alf?' about Broughton and the 1979 no confidence vote was aired on BBC Radio 4.

Bernard Spilsbury

On 12 June 2008' BBC Radio 4's afternoon play, The Incomparable Witness by Nichola McAuliffe, was a drama about "Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the father of modern forensics".

Caradog Prichard

Following the success of his English translation, Philip Mitchell was commissioned by the BBC to adapt the book for broadcast in English as a radio play and this was transmitted as 'One Moonlit Night' in Radio 4's 'Afternoon Play' series on 28 March 1996.

The Afternoon Play

The Afternoon Play is a series of individual plays which sometimes appear on BBC One during weekday afternoons.