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Categories: Drama: Classic & Period

  1. After Moscow by Arnold Yarrow

    1917. The old lives of Chekhov's ‘Three Sisters’ has vanished. What now?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  2. The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

    A cheeky alias throws the plans of two young lovers into doubt.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  3. Bright Day by JB Priestley

    JB Priestley vividly evokes the town and country of his youth before the First World War.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  4. Cloud Howe

    The second part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Scots Quair trilogy.

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  5. Grey Granite

    The third part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic Scots Quair trilogy.

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  6. Miss Austen

    Will Cassandra send her sister Jane's legacy up in flames?

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  7. Sense and Sensibility

    Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are thrown into sudden hardship on the death of their father.

    BBC Two England

  8. Dope Girls

    Soho, 1918 - London's decadent clubland comes alive.

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  9. Towards Zero

    Murder strikes at a coastal estate, where a volatile mix of guests have gathered.

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  10. The Lifted Veil by George Eliot

    Latimer can see into the future. But can he benefit from his clairvoyant powers?

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  11. Il Conde by Joseph Conrad

    An elderly gent is repulsed by a horrific encounter in Naples.

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  12. Maurice by E. M. Forster

    EM Forster's groundbreaking novel - completed in 1914, but not published until 1971.

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  13. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (Omnibus)

    The story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan.

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  14. Sense and Sensibility (1971)

    Jane Austen's classic tale of two sisters with very different approaches to love.

    BBC Two

  15. Spartacus

    76 BC. Born into slavery, a gladiator leads a slave revolt against the Roman Empire.

    BBC Two

  16. My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin

    At the turn of the century a young Australian is determined to make her way in the world.

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  17. Spotlight

    Take a deep dive into long-form drama from Radio 4.

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  18. Spotlight

    Take a deep dive into long-form drama from Radio 4.

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  19. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (Omnibus)

    A spinster lands a job which turns out to be a real education.

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  20. Robin Hood

    A dying knight’s request takes crusader Robin Longstride from France to Nottingham.

    BBC One

  21. The Spire by William Golding

    In Golding's novel, one man's obsession endangers an entire community in Medieval England.

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  22. Hardy's Women (Omnibus)

    Omnibus editions of Thomas Hardy novels through the eyes of his female protagonists

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  23. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

    The classic 1986 novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day.

    BBC Radio 4

  24. Crooked Cross by Sally Carson

    Sally Carson's rediscovered 1934 novel about the rise of Hitler.

    BBC Radio 4

  25. Joby by Stan Barstow

    On the eve of the Second World War, an 11 year old boy faces some harsh realities.

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  26. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

    The Phantom lurks in the Paris Opera House, obsessed with a young singer, Christine

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  27. Goodbye, Mr Chips by James Hilton

    The gentle old schoolmaster has a thousand memories of sixty years at his beloved school

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  28. Mrs Robinson by Helen Cross

    At the height of a TB epidemic, Mrs Robinson meets dissolute poet Branwell Brontë.

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  29. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (Omnibus)

    An obsessed Phantom lurks in the labyrinth of the Paris Opera House.

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    Rosalie

    France,1870. Rosalie, a bearded lady, marries and decides to reveal her true self.

    BBC Four

  31. Jane Austen Stories

    Listen to Jane Austen’s classic tales, narrated by Julie Andrews.

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  32. Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

    The lives and dreams of a Welsh seaside village called Llareggub. Stars Richard Burton.

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  33. Isabella and The Pot of Basil by John Keats

    Isabella loves Lorenzo, but her brothers want him dead. With Miriam Margolyes.

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  34. The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola

    A poor outsider enters the burgeoning world of the Parisienne retail industry.

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  35. The Snowstorm by Alexander Pushkin

    Winter 1811. Napoleon's army threatens a couple's plan to marry.

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  36. Lady Susan by Jane Austen (Omnibus)

    The unscrupulous Lady Susan Vernon is determined to scheme her way through high society.

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  37. Papa Panov's Special Day

    Everybody loves the kind shoemaker, Papa Panov. But will he be alone this Christmas?

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  38. Christmas at Dingley Dell by Charles Dickens

    1827. Mr Pickwick sets out to spend Christmas at Dingley Dell.

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  39. Charles Dickens Ghost Stories

    A selection of the great author’s most chilling short works, read by Sir David Suchet.

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  40. Outrageous

    Drama inspired by the Mitford sisters, who made headlines around the world in the 1930s.

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  41. Ben-Hur

    Condemned to slavery, a prince returns to confront the Romans.

    BBC Two

  42. Dickensian

    Drama set within the fictional realms of Charles Dickens's critically acclaimed novels.

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  43. Persuasion

    Jane Austen's story of missed opportunities and second chances. Read by Jasmine Hyde.

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  44. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth

    Ireland. Old Thady has served under four disastrous generations of Rackrents.

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  45. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (Omnibus)

    Ireland. Old Thady has served under four disastrous generations of Rackrents.

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  46. Lord of the Flies

    Stranded on an island, a gang of schoolboys create their own community.

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  47. The Other Bennet Sister

    A reimagining of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, told throught the lens of Mary Bennet.

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  48. Emily

    A partly fictional biopic of writer Emily Brontë, author of Wuthering Heights.

    BBC Two

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    The Taste of Things

    Romance set in 1889 France about the bond between a gourmet chef and his cook of 20 years.

    BBC Four

  50. Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol

    An insight into the mind of a man sliding into madness. Read by Kenneth Williams.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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