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Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House
Ibsen's play transposed to India, 1879: Can Niru save her huband's reputation?
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Call the Midwife
A heartwarming tale of life in London's impoverished East End of the 50s, 60s and 70s.
BBC One
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Great Expectations (2011)
Orphan Pip becomes a gentleman when his life is transformed by a mystery benefactor.
BBC One
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Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens's classic story, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett's tale of love, tyranny and rebellion dramatised by Helen Edmundson
BBC Radio 4
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A House to Let
Marcia Warren stars in a tale of a woman who notes signs of life in a derelict house
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Mrs Dalloway
A woman struggles to come to terms with the feelings that a platonic friend has for her.
BBC Two
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The Magnificent Ambersons
The story of the rise and fall of a great American family, directed by Orson Welles.
BBC Two
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Small Island
Award-winning story of Jamaicans in postwar London with Naomie Harris and Ruth Wilson.
BBC One
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Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Dickens's classic tale about the turbulent childhood of orphan Pip. Starring Maggie Steed
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Mayor Of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Helen Edmundson's dramatisation of Thomas Hardy's classic
BBC Radio 4
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Sense and Sensibility (2008)
Adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel about the Dashwood family
BBC One
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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Dramatisation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic comic novel. Stars Emma Fielding.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Oliver Twist
Timothy Spall and Tom Hardy star in Charles Dickens's tale of a young orphan boy.
BBC One
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Breaking the Code
Factual drama about Alan Turing, the mathematical genius who cracked the Enigma code.
BBC Four
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Middlemarch
George Eliot’s epic story of rural life, social change and the complexities of marriage.
BBC Two
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Wuthering Heights
Dramatisation of Emily Bronte's haunting classic about doomed love and violent obsession.
BBC Two
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Hamlet at Elsinore
1964 production of Shakespeare's famous play. Filmed in Elsinore, Denmark.
BBC One
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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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The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
Read by Kenny Blyth. Produced by Ciaran Bermingham.
BBC Sounds
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Persuasion
Jane Austen's story of missed opportunities and second chances. Read by Jasmine Hyde.
BBC Sounds
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll’s curiouser and curiouser tale of a girl discovering a strange new world.
BBC Sounds
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Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Mrs Gaskell’s much-loved portrait of life in a small town and its female inhabitants.
BBC Sounds
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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton’s novella about a young man attempting to escape a loveless marriage.
BBC Sounds
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Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift’s satire following Lemuel Gulliver’s strange travels through odd lands.
BBC Sounds
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The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
E Nesbit’s heart-warming story of three siblings hoping to be reunited with their father.
BBC Sounds
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The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
John Buchan’s thrilling tale of derring-do, secrets and spies set in the shadows of war.
BBC Sounds
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Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame’s jolly riverside romp with the eccentric Mr. Toad and his animal chums.
BBC Sounds
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The great American novel of the Jazz Age, read by Kyle Soller
BBC Sounds