Becoming Meg Dashwood
Audible / from 6th October 2025
directed by Jo Tyabji, produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project for Audible

Executive produced by, and starring, Emma Thompson, Becoming Meg Dashwood picks up where Sense and Sensibility left off. A bold imagining of what it might have meant to rewrite the rule book in 19th century England. Becoming Meg Dashwood is a riotous, rebellious period drama.

Starring : Emma Thompson, Erin Doherty, Naomi Ackie, Liz Carr, Jessica Gunning, Paterson Joseph, Golda Rosheuvel, Greg Wise and Imelda Staunton …
More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writer Rebecca Humphries

A Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Rank
BBC Radio 4 / Spring 2027, 14:30
produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project for BBC Radio 4
A 19th century artist is commissioned to paint 10 patients at an asylum … why? Inspired by Gericault’s Portrait of the Insane … More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writer Dan Rebellato

The Secret Agent
BBC Radio 4 / 7th and 14th February 2027, 15:00
produced by Polly Thomas and Jenny Sealey — a Thomas Carter Project with Graeae for BBC Radio 4
Powerful story of 19th century terrorism, coercive control and a woman finally standing up to her husband … More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writer Joseph Conrad, dramatised by Nickola Werenowska

Red Wire Blue Wire
BBC Radio 4 / 16th January 2027, 14:30
produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project for BBC Radio 4
Rom com about two bomb disposal experts trapped in a relationship time loop … More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writer James Fritz

The Comet
BBC Radio 4 / 5th January 2027, 14:15
directed by Jade Lewis, produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project with Big Deal Films for BBC Radio 4
Powerful apocalyptic story about racial injustice in 1920s America by influential Black American writer … More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writer W. E. B. Du Bois, dramatised by Thomas Stogdon

Strudel with my Father at the Café Europa
BBC Radio 4 / 21st November 2026, 14:30
produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project for BBC Radio 4
A father and son returning together to Prague, the father’s hometown, on a journey of memory and rediscovery … More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writer Nick Drake

Sunbird
BBC Radio 4 / 8th August 2026, 21:45
produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project for BBC Radio 4
A middle aged woman returns to the site of a holiday island romance of years ago — then she falls in love with a younger man — will she stay or chose to go home alone? … More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writer Christopher William Hill

Full Moon on Progress Street, series 2
BBC Radio 3 / 23rd – 27th December 2026, 21:45
produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project for BBC Radio 3
Another deep dive into the lives, politics and artistry of iconic Black female musicians by poet and academic Dr Rommi Smith … More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writer Rommi Smith

You Me and the Wireless
BBC Radio 3 / January 2026, 21:45
produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project for BBC Radio 3
Legendary radio reviewer and broadcaster Gillian Reynolds looks back at her life and career in sound … More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writer Gillian Reynolds

Last of the Mohicans
BBC Radio 4 / 28th December 2025 + 4th January 2026, 15:00
produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project for BBC Radio 4
James Fenimore Cooper’s ground-breaking American novel opens BBC Radio 4’s season marking the 250th anniversary of American Independence … More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writer Shahid Iqbal Khan

Plum in Prison
BBC Radio 4 / 23rd December 2025, 14:15
produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project for BBC Radio 4
When author PG Wodehouse was interned by the Nazis, he outraged Britain by making a series of comedic radio broadcasts about being a prisoner of war. Can or should comedy play a role in times of political extremes and cruelty? … More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writer Dan Rebellato

Odds On
BBC Radio 4 / 11th December 2025, 14:15
directed by Jelena Budimir, produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project for BBC Radio 4
Dark three-hander comedy about how to talk about death. It’s Maddie’s funeral. She got hit by the 453, trying to cross Old Kent Road in a traffic cone, like Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story II — for a daft bet with her bezzies, Josie and George … More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writer Liv Fowler

He Gave Me a Takeaway
BBC Radio 4 / 22nd April 2025, 14:15
produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project for BBC Radio 4
Topical new drama about the future of young women who have survived grooming gangs … More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writer Sarah Daniels

Musicians on the Couch
BBC Radio 3 / 3rd – 7th February 2025, 22:45
produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project for BBC Radio 3
Five essays exploring musicians and mental health … More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writer Amanda Dalton

Read All About It
Spotify / now open.spotify.com
directed by Nickie MIles Wildin, produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project
New audio drama by new generation audio makers, inspired by Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. When a dead body is found floating in the swimming pool next to a Manchester library, who is the culprit?
Writers Elizabeth Logan, Nathan Lea and Oceana Cage

Our Mutual Friend
BBC Radio 4 / 3rd, 10th + 17th November 2024, 15:00
produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project for BBC Radio 4
Dickens’ final and greatest social novel in a dynamic new version … More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writer Dan Rebellato

Song from Far Away
BBC Radio 4 / 18th May 2024, 14:45
directed for audio by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project for BBC Radio 4
assistant producer Louis Blatherwick / production manager Darren Spruce / executive producer Eloise Whitmore / sound design Jon Nicholls
Starring Will Young, written by Simon Stephens and Mark Eitzel
More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Based on the original stage production directed by Kirk Jameson, from Thomas Hopkins, Guy Chapman and HOME … full stage credits >

Looking at Leeds
BBC Radio 3 / 11th – 15th December 2023, 22:45
produced by Polly Thomas — a Thomas Carter Project for BBC Radio 3
Five essays … More info at pollythomas.org.uk/radio/
Writers Malika Booker, Ian Duhig, Michelle Scally Clarke, Khadijah Ibrahiim
A co-commission between BBC Radio 3 and The Space with funding from Arts Council England