15 Best BBC Drama Podcasts
BBC Drama Podcasts
Here are 15 Best BBC Drama Podcasts worth listening to in 2025. Subscribe in one place on FeedSpot Reader.
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Every Friday we bring you a new drama from BBC Radio 4 or Radio 3. Exercise your imagination with some of the best writers and actors on radio. Storytelling at its very best.
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.2/5Facebook 1.2MTwitter 512.1KInstagram 180.3K Avg Length 42 min Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com . We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us
2. BBC Learning English Drama
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Dramas for English language learners from BBC World Service. Improve your English with retellings of stories classic and new. Each episode is between 6 and 10 minutes long.
Producer/Network BBC Learning English
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.4/5Facebook 9MTwitter 561.5KInstagram 456.1K Avg Length 6 min Get Email Contact
3. Limelight
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The Limelight podcast - for fiction and drama serials you won't want to miss from Radio 4.
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 1.2MTwitter 512.1K Avg Length 27 min Get Email Contact
4. Ecstasy: The Battle Of Rave
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When Ecstasy and Acid House first swept Britain, a group of lives would be changed forever. One Story. Half real life. Half drama. Welcome to Ecstasy: The Battle Of Rave.
Host Chris Warburton
Producer/Network BBC Radio 5 Live
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 465.3KTwitter 656.1KInstagram 100.8K Avg Length 22 min Get Email Contact
5. The Archers Omnibus
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The week's events in Ambridge
Host Charles Collingwood
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
Apple Rating 4.5/5Twitter 60.2K Avg Length 73 min Get Email Contact
6. The Jonathan Creek Podcast
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A retrospective podcast looking back at twenty years of the popular BBC murder-mystery drama.
Hosts Gerry, Lain
Producer/Network Heard Yet Media
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 398Twitter 222 Avg Length 62 min Get Email Contact
7. The Archers
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An intense and gripping week of events unfolds in Ambridge. Listen to all the drama here. Essential drama from the heart of the country from the world's longest running soap opera.
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.4/5Facebook 93.1KTwitter 60.2K Avg Length 14 min Get Email Contact
8. Opening Lines
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Producer and writer John Yorke has worked in television and radio for 30 years, and he shares his experience with Radio 4 listeners as he unpacks the themes and impact behind the books, plays and stories that are being dramatised in Radio 4's weekend afternoon dramas.MORE Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
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Apple Rating 4/5Facebook 1.2MTwitter 512.1KInstagram 180.3K Avg Length 15 min Get Email Contact
9. No Place But the Water
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Linda Marshall Griffiths' drama series is set in a flooded future world. When there is no place but the water, where do you go?
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
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Apple Rating 4.8/5 Avg Length 14 min Get Email Contact
10. The Untold
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A series documenting the untold dramas of 21st-century Britain.
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Facebook 1.2MTwitter 512.1KInstagram 180.3K Avg Length 28 min Get Email Contact
11. The Dark Is Rising
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A young boy's time-travelling fight against ancient evil. When the Dark comes rising, who will hold it back? This dramatisation of Susan Cooper's cult novel is a magical journey into the supernatural.MORE Hosts Simon McBurney, Robert Macfarlane
Producer/Network BBC World Service
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Facebook 9MTwitter 561.5KInstagram 456.1K Avg Length 17 min Get Email Contact
12. The Battersea Poltergeist
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A paranormal cold case, re-investigated through a thrilling blend of drama and documentary. The true story of one of Britain's strangest hauntings, with Dafne Keen and Toby Jones. Presented by Danny Robins.MORE Host Danny Robins
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Facebook 756Twitter 787Instagram 159 Avg Length 28 min Get Email Contact
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