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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
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Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns
Arnold Bennett's tale of love, tyranny and rebellion dramatised by Helen Edmundson
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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
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Mrs Dalloway
A woman struggles to come to terms with the feelings that a platonic friend has for her.
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Peter Pan by JM Barrie
Dramatisation of the classic children's story with Toyah Willcox as Peter Pan.
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The Magnificent Ambersons
The story of the rise and fall of a great American family, directed by Orson Welles.
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Hamlet
The Royal Shakespeare Company's modern-dress production of Shakespeare's great play.
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Small Island
Award-winning story of Jamaicans in postwar London with Naomie Harris and Ruth Wilson.
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Dramatisation of Daniel Defoe's castaway classic stars Roy Marsden
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Anthony Trollope - Orley Farm
A tenant is determined to prove that the estate is in the wrong hands.
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Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Dickens's classic tale about the turbulent childhood of orphan Pip. Starring Maggie Steed
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Little Dorrit
Adaptation of Dickens' story of love, honour, debt and hope in 1820s London.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Acclaimed adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic tale of love, seduction and betrayal.
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Thomas Hardy - The Mayor Of Casterbridge
Helen Edmundson's dramatisation of Thomas Hardy's classic
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The Tomb by HP Lovecraft
The obsessive Jervas Dudley reveals how he came to be incarcerated in an asylum.
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Sense and Sensibility
Adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel about the Dashwood family
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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Dramatisation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic comic novel. Stars Emma Fielding.
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Oliver Twist
Timothy Spall and Tom Hardy star in Charles Dickens's tale of a young orphan boy.
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Henry James - Portrait of a Lady
Miriam Margolyes reads Henry James' classic novel
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Henry V
Shakespearean drama about the king's invasion of France and the Battle of Agincourt.
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Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy's last major work, in which a man fights to overturn a woman's sentence
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Middlemarch
George Eliot’s epic story of rural life, social change and the complexities of marriage.
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Lady Chatterley
Adaptation of DH Lawrence's classic novel starring Sean Bean and Joely Richardson.
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Campion
Peter Davison stars as the gentleman sleuth, as seen in Margery Allingham's novels.
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The Singing Detective
A pulp thriller writer relives his stories through his imagination and hallucinations.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
A man tries to atone for his past, in the Thomas Hardy classic, adapted by Dennis Potter.
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Shoulder to Shoulder
Six pivotal stories in the history of the women's suffrage movement.
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Elizabeth R
Glenda Jackson stars as Queen Elizabeth I in this dramatisation of her reign.
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Alice in Wonderland
Adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel. Directed by Jonathan Miller.
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The Wars of the Roses
Peter Hall's landmark 1960s RSC productions of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III.
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Hamlet at Elsinore
1964 production of Shakespeare's famous play. Filmed in Elsinore, Denmark.
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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
This Christmas, listen to Sherlock Holmes Short Stories, narrated by Hugh Bonneville.
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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
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The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
Read by Michael Bertenshaw. Produced by Martha Littlehailes.
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The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Jack London’s tale of one dog's unbreakable spirit and survival in the Alaskan Klondike.
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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Henry James’ chilling novella about a governess and two children on a haunted estate.
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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.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
The landmark allegory about hypocrisy and corruption of power.
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