Drama: - All Programmes
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Private Angelo by Eric Linklater
Eric Linklater's witty and compassionate satire on the folly of war. Read by Carl Prekopp.
BBC Radio 4
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Princess Caraboo by Roger Stennett
A gorgeous princess turns up in a country village and charms the locals - but who is she?
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Spire by William Golding
In Golding's novel, one man's obsession endangers an entire community in Medieval England.
BBC Radio 4
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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
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Voices from Vindolanda by Catherine Czerkawska
Series about everyday life in a Roman fort on the Northern frontier in AD 110.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Crooked Cross by Sally Carson
Sally Carson's rediscovered 1934 novel about the rise of Hitler.
BBC Radio 4
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The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Roth's 2004 novel following his own family's fortunes in an alternative-historical America
BBC Radio 4
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Helm by Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall's novel about nature, people and the sliver of time we have left.
BBC Radio 4
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North Woods by Daniel Mason
The story of a single New England house over the course of several centuries.
BBC Radio 4
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The Monk
A 16th century monk succumbs to earthly pleasures - and pays a heavy price.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Virginia and Katherine by Alison MacLeod
A story about the friendship and rivalry between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield.
BBC Radio 4
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A Long Winter by Colm Tóibín
An unforgettable story about loss and new love from bestselling author Colm Tóibín.
BBC Radio 4
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Oppenheimer
J Robert Oppenheimer's race to develop the atomic bomb for the US before the Nazis.
BBC Two
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Lawrence of Arabia
Idealistic, misfit British officer TE Lawrence leads a legendary desert campaign.
BBC Two
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James by Percival Everett
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from one of the US's greatest contemporary writers.
BBC Radio 4
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Salt by Catrin Kean
A love story based on the lives of the author's great-grandparents, who married in 1878.
BBC Radio 4
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Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
1745: An Englishman finds himself fighting on the wrong side of the Jacobite Rebellion.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Prisoner by Sally Carson
The sequel to Sally Carson's rediscovered masterpiece Crooked Cross.
BBC Radio 4
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Mission Control: Hannibal One by Len Deighton
A Roman commander faces an exceptional foe...
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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A Thousand Ships by Mark Haddon
Helen of Troy remembers life trapped inside her beauty....
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Little Ottleys
Ada Leverson's witty portrait of love and jealousy set in high society Edwardian London.
BBC Radio 4 Extra