Louis has brought an end to the Affair of the Poisons and won the war against Holland. It seems that nothing will thwart his plans to expand his empire and assert his power over the whole of Europe. But his dreams come at a cost, the people have had enough of paying and trouble is brewing.

At Versailles too, Louis must face new challenges. Maintenon, his new mistress, leads him into an assertion of absolutism causing him considerable dissent in the Court. The King's tolerance for any kind of dissidence, be it from his people, Protestants or the Pope himself, slowly disappears; and yet a threat hangs over Louis: a mysterious prisoner whose face is hidden behind an iron mask.

Versailles, 1672-1678. The Franco-Dutch war wages on, Louis XIV confronts his bitter rival, Guillaume d'Orange. But danger threatens the kingdom, even so far as the court of Versailles into which a deadly poison seeps.

Louis has completed the first stage of his plan: to build the most beautiful palace in Europe far away from Paris, locking the nobility inside it and exercising absolute control. But the King has created a new and dangerous civilisation where courtiers are ready to do anything to get to the Sun. Behind a veneer of etiquette, they dream of ascending the social ladder to a world of wealth and power. Morality is waning, the poison spreads... Versailles is crumbling faster than it is being built.

Blinded by his affection for Madame de Montespan, Louis is deaf to the Church's injunctions. The greatest enemy standing before him is no longer the nobility, nor is it Guillaume d'Orange. The palace that he himself designed could become his worst enemy.

Wavering between mysticism and obscurity, diving into the dark side of power, will the king's downward spiral yet see his return to the light?

Following the death of his father, the King of Denmark, young prince Hamlet returns home to find his mother married to his uncle: the late king's brother, Claudius. When he is later visited by the ghost of his own dead father, Hamlet learns how he was actually murdered by his own brother, and vows to take revenge. However, Hamlet's contemplative nature works against him, breeding doubt and hesitation at every turn, until the only certainties he has left are madness, betrayal and murder. Alexander Vlahos stars in this three-hour production of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. This release also includes twenty-five minutes of roundtable interviews with the cast as they discuss the production Alexander Vlahos stars in this three-hour production of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. CAST: Alexander Vlahos (Hamlet), Miles Richardson (Claudius), Tracey Childs (Gertrude), Terry Molloy (Polonius), Daniel Brocklebank (Horatio), Deirdre Mullins (Ophelia), Samuel Barnett (Laertes), Jolyon Westhorpe (Rosencrantz), Geoffrey Breton (Guildenstern), Barnaby Edwards (The Ghost), Youssef Kerkour (Barnardo), Alex Jordan (Francisco) and James Joyce (Marcellus).

Inspired by Oscar Wilde's classic story of hedonism and corruption, The Confessions of Dorian Gray imagines a world where Dorian Gray was real, and his friendship with Oscar Wilde once spawned the notorious novel. Starring Alexander Vlahos as Dorian Gray, this fourth series of supernatural horror stories comprises eight original half-hour episodes.1. The Enigma of Dorian Gray (by Roy Gill). 2. Freya (by Sam Stone). 3. Human Remains (by James Goss). 4. His Dying Breath (by George Mann). 5. Banshee (by Xanna Eve Chown). 6. The Abysmal Sea (by David Llewellyn). 7. Inner Darkness(by Mark B. Oliver). 8. The Living Image (by Matt Fitton). NOTE: THE CONFESSIONS OF DORIAN GRAY CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL AND IS NOT SUITABLE FOR YOUNGER LISTENERS. Star Alexander Vlahos will be familiar to some from BBC1's Merlin, but more recently he has been acting on Broadway in Kenneth Branagh's acclaimed version of MacBeth. Dorian Gray was first brought to life in 1891's The Picture of Dorian Gray, an initial story retold in audio by Big Finish before they started a dedicated range.C AST: Alexander Vlahos (Dorian Gray), Ayesha Antoine (Flo), Yasmin Bannerman (Alyssa), David Benson(Naval Officer), Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (Billy Fielding), Ross Foley (Medic), Raj Ghatak (Dr. Madras), James Goss (Receptionist), Anthony Howell (Adam Notting), Jacqueline King (Mary O'Tubridy), Bruno Langley (Robert Mardling), Deirdre Mullins (Scarlet Moore), George Naylor (Newsreader), Aaron Neil (Askell Brimson), Katherine Pearce (Freyja), Tim Preston (Waiter), Sakuntala Ramanee (Ruth Miller), Laura Riseborough (Eva Granger), John Sessions (Verger), Connor Vickery (City Chap), Anthony Boyle, Clara Gibbs, Luke MacGregor, Seren Vickers, Betty Walsh (Hospital Patients).