Drama on 3: The Dance of Death

Sun, 7.30pm, Radio 3

From Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? to Abigail’s Party, theatre audiences can’t get enough of warring couples: here’s Conor McPherson’s adaptation of Strindberg’s 1900 toxic chamber piece, depicting marriage as “love and hate forged together in the foundry of hell”. Gemma Jenkins directs Robert Glenister and Hattie Morahan as dysfunctional leads Edgar and Alice. The seeds of Beckett and Pinter are right here. Ali Catterall