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  1. Falco

    Anton Lesser stars as Roman detective, Falco. Written by Lindsey Davis.

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  2. The Tudors

    Historical drama series

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  3. Caesar!

    Series of plays about the rulers of Rome

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  4. Paupers and Pig Killers

    The diary of Reverend William Holland about West Country life in the early 19th century

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  5. The Little World of Don Camillo

    Drama about the rivalry between a communist mayor and a priest in a postwar Italian town

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  6. Dickens Confidential

    Before writing his novels, Charles Dickens worked as editor on a newspaper...

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  7. The Cazalets - Omnibus

    Elizabeth Jane Howard's saga follows three generations of the Cazalet family over 10 years

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  8. Plantagenet

    Series of plays by Mike Walker about the early years of the Plantagenet dynasty

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  9. The Stuarts

    Mike Walker's epic chronicle of Britain's most mutable dynasty

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  10. I Was There Too

    Fresh 'witness' insights into history.

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  11. Home Front

    Drama serial charting life on the home front during the First World War.

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  12. The Village

    The story of 20th Century England is played out through a family in a Derbyshire village.

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  13. Tommies

    Drama series following the lives of those on and behind the battlefront of World War I.

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  14. Armada: 12 Days to Save England

    Dan Snow tells the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588.

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  15. Hetty Feather

    Hetty Feather and her little brother live at the Foundling Hospital in 1800s London.

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  16. Poldark

    Brooding drama set in 18th century Cornwall. Adapted from Winston Graham's novels

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  17. Steve Chambers - Victoria Station

    Series set in a bustling Midlands railway station in the Victorian era

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  18. Never Again - A lament for the Titanic

    A specially commissioned drama based on the classic radio drama series.

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  19. Secret Army

    Drama about a covert group helping allied airmen shot down in 1940s occupied Europe.

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  20. The Last of the Mohicans

    Dramatised from the James Fennimore Cooper novel set in 18th century upstate New York.

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  21. Colditz

    Drama about allied prisoners of war imprisoned at the escape-proof Colditz Castle.

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  22. Shakespeare On Tour

    Raising the curtain on performances of The Bard鈥檚 plays countrywide.

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  23. I, Claudius

    Historical drama series examining the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius

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  24. Wilkie Collins - No Name

    The battles of two sisters in 19th-century Victorian England.

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  25. Andrew Rissik - Troy

    Trilogy of plays by Andrew Rissik telling the story of the Trojan War

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  26. Diary of a Nobody

    Adaptation of George and Weedon Grossmith's novel about 'little man' Charles Pooter

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  27. Luther

    Historical docudrama series about the life of the revolutionary 16th-century German monk.

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  28. The Passion

    Dramatic re-telling of the story of Jesus's final days on Earth.

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  29. Casualty 1907

    Drama series based on the lives of hospital doctors, nurses and patients in 1907.

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  30. Michelle Magorian - Goodnight Mister Tom

    Michelle Magorian's wartime tale of a young evacuee sent to stay with an old man

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  31. Walter Lord - A Night to Remember

    Walter Lord's retelling of the fatal voyage of the Titanic, read by Martin Jarvis

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  32. This Sceptred Isle

    Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain, from the Roman invasion to the Boer War

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  33. The Poisoner

    Drama based on the true story of the Black Widow poisoner in 1940s France.

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  34. The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley

    Five cousins and their friends stay at a house with a lawn leading to the Cornish cliffs

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  35. The Christopher Marlowe Mysteries

    Elizabethan playwright Kit Marlowe investigates a mystery in his own unique way

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  36. Alexander

    The story of Alexander the Great, with a distinguished cast list

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  37. Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum

    Dramatisation of the famous novel charting the strange story of Oskar Matzerath

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  38. Birdsong

    Adapted from the novel by Sebastian Faulks, set before and during the First World War

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  39. J Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans

    The novel by James Fenimore Cooper, written in 1826 and set in the Seven Years' War

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  40. The Man Born to Be King

    Drama based on the life of Jesus

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  41. Band of Brothers

    Wartime drama series about America's elite paratroop regiment

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  42. Ben Hur

    Dramatisation of Lew Wallace's epic novel. Starring Jamie Glover

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  43. Paradise Lost

    Anton Lesser reads from the unabridged version of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost

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  44. Kings

    Tales from the reign of biblical King David

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  45. The World According To Robert Burns

    Our national poet

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  46. John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman

    John Hurt is The Narrator in John Fowles' tale of forbidden passions in Victorian Dorset

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  47. Singled Out

    Virginia Nicholson's true story of the women left without husbands after the Great War

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  48. Casualty 1909

    Drama series based on the lives of hospital doctors, nurses and patients in 1909.

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  49. This Sceptred Isle: The 20th Century

    Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain in the last century

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  50. This Sceptred Isle: Dynasties

    Christopher Lee's vivid account of the impact of Britain's most powerful families

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