Producer and writer John Yorke unpacks the themes and impact behind the books, plays and stories that are being dramatised in Radio 4's weekend afternoon dramas. John Yorke looks at Death at La ...

John Yorke takes a look at The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark. Published in 1963, two years after the success of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, it’s set in the summer of 1945. A group of ...

EastEnders executive producer Kathleen Hutchison is to leave the soap after just four months at the helm, the BBC has announced. Hutchison's departure is part of a new plan devised by John Yorke ...