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Categories: Drama: Classic & Period

  1. The Shakespeare Sessions

    Your one-stop shop for all things Shakespeare.

    BBC Radio 3

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  2. Henry James: The Wings of the Dove (Omnibus)

    Dramatisation of the Henry James classic novel. Omnibus edition.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  3. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

    Rachel Joyce's adapts Emily Bronte's haunting novel.

    BBC Radio 4

  4. Bernard Pomerance - The Elephant Man

    A disfigured man is rescued from a Victorian freak show, but what is 'normality'?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  5. Wuthering Heights

    Two-part dramatisation of the classic Emily Bronte novel.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  6. King Lear

    Lear divides his kingdom with tragic consequences. Chaos descends on family and state.

    BBC Two

  7. Daphne Du Maurier

    Tales from the award-winning novelist Dame Daphne du Maurier - Lady Browning.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  8. Florence Foster Jenkins

    Drama about a socialite who pursued a career in opera despite being unable to sing.

    BBC Four

  9. The King's Speech

    The true story of a king who tried to overcome his stutter so he could address the nation.

    BBC One

  10. Gerry Huxham - Russian Roulette

    Dramatised events surrounding the inspiration for Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Gambler’.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  11. Storytelling

    Marjolein Robertson tells the traditional trowie story The Hillswick Wedding.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  12. Virginia Woolf - Lappin and Lapinova

    Why do newlyweds Rosalind and Ernest share a private world inhabited by rabbits?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  13. Patrick Carroll - Evaristo's Epitaph

    The words on a Cornish tombstone reveal a story of friendship across the lines of slavery.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  14. Anton Chekhov

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    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  15. EM Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread (Omnibus)

    Dramatisation of EM Forster's classic novel. Omnibus edition

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  16. Kate Chopin - The Awakening (Omnibus)

    Adaptation of the novel that shocked America in 1899.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  17. A Christmas Carol

    Simon Callow's acclaimed one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic novel.

    BBC Four

  18. Les Miserables

    An epic adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic story of love, injustice and redemption.

    BBC One

  19. The Long Song

    The trials, tribulations and survival of plantation slave July and her mistress Caroline.

    BBC One

  20. The Ash Tree

    A 17th-century squire is haunted by a curse his great uncle brought upon the household.

    BBC Four

  21. Lost Hearts

    An orphan finds himself haunted by the ghosts of two children.

    BBC Four

  22. The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

    Lampedusa's epic tale of the decline and fall of a family of Sicilian aristocrats.

    BBC Radio 4

  23. The Railway Children

    Three children move from a comfortable townhouse to a small Yorkshire cottage.

    BBC One

  24. Classic Stories

    A collection of timeless fiction from the literary greats.

    BBC Sounds

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  25. W Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge

    A story by W Somerset Maugham, dramatised by Ronald Frame.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  26. EM Forster - A Passage to India (Omnibus)

    Tanika Gupta's imaginative and bold adaptation of EM Forster's masterful novel.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  27. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic American novel from 1850. Dramatised by Greg Snow.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  28. Architectural Marriages

    Jonathan Glancey's tale of high Victorian drama.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. A United Kingdom

    The future king of Bechuanaland marries a white woman from London, causing an outcry.

    BBC Two

  30. Lucy Catherine - A to Z

    The story of the first A-Z of London. Stars Catherine McCormack and Phyllida Law.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  31. Stephen Wakelam - Answered Prayers

    An ex-soldier helps a priest trying to set up a small community.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  32. William Trevor - The Story of Lucy Gault

    A chain of events is ignited in William Trevor's haunting masterpiece.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  33. Gentleman Jack

    Anne Lister determines to restore the fortunes of Shibden Hall and find herself a wife.

    BBC One

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  34. Ivan Turgenev - On the Eve

    Who will Elena fall in love with? Ivan Turgenev's romantic novella.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  35. Alison Joseph - The Ideal Heroine

    A play about love and art and the telling of stories.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  36. Sarah Waters Introduces - The Yellow Wallpaper

    A woman lies alone with only a strange obsession for company. With Charlotte Emmerson.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  37. Edna O'Brien - The Country Girls Trilogy

    Edna O'Brien's trilogy of novels about two girls growing up in 1950s rural Ireland.

    BBC Radio 4

  38. Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time

    Ten-part dramatisation of the classic Proust novel.

    BBC Radio 4

  39. Viceroy's House

    Lord Mountbatten arrives in India to take the post of the last viceroy.

    BBC Two

  40. Sunset Song

    A young woman's coming-of-age journey beset by the struggle between tradition and change.

    BBC Scotland

  41. Their Finest

    A novice screenwriter tries to make a film to lift the nation's spirits during the Blitz.

    BBC Two

  42. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

    Read by Sean Baker. Produced by Anne Bunting.

    BBC Sounds

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  43. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

    Read by Sam Dale. Produced by Julian Wilkinson

    BBC Sounds

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  44. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

    Read by Shaun Mason. Produced by Martha Littlehailes

    BBC Sounds

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  45. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

    Read by Clare Corbett. Produced by Justine Willett

    BBC Sounds

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  46. The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

    Read by Kenny Blyth. Produced by Ciaran Bermingham.

    BBC Sounds

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  47. Silas Marner by George Eliot

    Read by Sean Baker. Produced by Martha Littlehailes.

    BBC Sounds

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  48. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Read by Katherine Press. Produced by Anne Bunting.

    BBC Sounds

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  49. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

    Read by Kenny Blyth. Produced by Ciaran Bermingham.

    BBC Sounds

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  50. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells

    Read by Michael Bertenshaw. Produced by Martha Littlehailes.

    BBC Sounds

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