Drama: - All Programmes
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To Walk Invisible
The story of the Bronte sisters, who overcame a life of hardship to become great writers.
BBC One
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Louisa May Alcott - Little Women (Omnibus)
Classic family drama novel set in 19th-century New England. Stars Natasha J Barnes
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Playboy of the Western World
Pegeen is set to wed a timorous Irish farmer, until a real adventurer walks into her life.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Miserables (Omnibus)
David Bellos explores why Les Miserables is “France’s greatest gift”.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Rachel Joyce adapts Anne Bronte's debut novel about self-discovery and the search for love
BBC Radio 4
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Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (Omnibus)
Can life as a governess ever bring happiness and contentment?
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (Omnibus)
Hattie Morahan reads a tale of a marriage that reflects turbulent times in the 1790s
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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John Moore - A Portrait of Elmbury
An English market town face the challenges between two world wars.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (Omnibus)
Tale of a widow who with her son heads for Essex and news of a mythical creature.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Sophocles' Electra
A classic tale of power and revenge in the Greek tragedy by Sophocles.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Lewis Carroll - The Hunting of the Snark
A very strange assortment of characters begin a quest to find an elusive beast.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Odyssey Project: My Name Is Nobody (Omnibus)
Collections of new radio poems in response to Homer's The Odyssey.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Love at Arms: Edith Evans and Michael Redgrave
Surviving Shakespearean extract of a performance of Act 4 Scene 1 of As You Like It.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw's classic tale of the Cockney flower girl trained to pass as a duchess
BBC Radio 4
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Lost Stories (Omnibus)
Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald: Thank You For the Light, The Couple and Salute to Lucy
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Ballad and Folksong: Romeo and Juliet
A take on Shakespeare's tale featuring songs and music by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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JB Priestley - The Linden Tree
Britain, 1947: Professor Robert Linden’s refusal to retire sparks a family crisis.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Queen Lucia by EF Benson
The first book in the outrageously funny 'Mapp and Lucia' series.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Henry James - Daisy Miller
Desire and propriety clash in Henry James's classic novella, dramatised by Amanda Dalton.
BBC Radio 4
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Romantic drama adapted from the classic novel by Thomas Hardy, starring Carey Mulligan.
BBC Two
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Short Works: The World of Somerset Maugham
Collection of short stories from the literary giant
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Maxim Gorky - The Old Man
A successful builder's life is shattered by an old man from his past.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Last Post
Drama series about a unit of Royal Military Police officers in British-controlled Aden.
BBC One
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Sally Marmion's fifteen-part adaptation of Jane Eyre read by Anne-Marie Duff
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Brideshead Revisited
Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) recalls his involvement with the aristocratic Flyte family.
BBC Four
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Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
60 year old Zorba teaches young writer Nikos how best to live life.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Guy de Maupassant - The Two Friends
Morissot and Sauvage go fishing in Paris like they used to before the Prussian invasion.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Dawn Lowe-Watson - Locum
A new locum's arrival sparks consequences for a doctor's family in the Lake District.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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PG Wodehouse - Ring for Jeeves
Archie Scottney dramatisation of PG Wodehouse's comic novel.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Miniaturist
Amsterdam, 1686. Nella Oortman marries a rich merchant, hoping for love and prosperity.
BBC One
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Little Women
Dramatisation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the lives of the four March sisters.
BBC One
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Eric, Ernie and Me
How Eddie Braben turned Morecambe and Wise into the nation's beloved entertainers.
BBC Four
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Andy Rashleigh - Devonia
A works outing aboard a paddle steamer reunites childhood sweethearts Harry and Mercy.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark (Omnibus)
Playful and autobiographical novel set in London's post-war publishing scene.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Craig Stephens - The Balloonists
Henry's risky balloon flight will make fine melodrama, but can it save George's theatre?
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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George R Sims - The Haverstock Hill Murder
A desperate mother commissions a Victorian lady detective to save her son.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Jane Eyre
Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles star in an adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel.
BBC Two
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The Inn by Guy de Maupassant
Haunting tale of a snowbound mountain guide in sole charge of a remote Alpine hotel.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Peter Terson - Tales My Father Taught Me
Before the First World War, Sir George Sitwell runs his estate and monitors his son.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Carol McGuigan - The Painter and the Fishergirl
Two worlds collide when an American artist arrives at a village on the English coast.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Omnibus)
Two-part omnibus edition of the James Joyce classic read by Andrew Scott.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Brooklyn
Drama set in the 1950s about an Irish immigrant who lands in Brooklyn and finds romance.
BBC One
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Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy
Comic tale about an 18th-century man who gets distracted from telling his life story.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Woman in White
Two half-sisters and their drawing master get caught up in a deadly conspiracy.
BBC One