Our Roman Cousins

Saturday Night Theatre is a long-running radio drama strand on the BBC Home Service and its successor, BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, the strand showcased feature-length, middlebrow single plays on Saturday evenings for more than fifty years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original dramatisations. For most of its history, programmes ran for ninety minutes and were largely entertainment-centred, such as thrillers, comedies and mysteries.

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