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  1. Jane Austen: No Ice in Weymouth (Omnibus)

    Jane Austen's private and professional world as seen through her letters and novels.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  2. Elvis

    An epic, big-screen spectacle that explores the life and music of Elvis Presley.

    BBC One

  3. Snow on the Roses by Eric Ewens

    Born in 1768, novelist and playwright Maria Edgeworth devoted life to art and family.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  4. A Magician Amongst the Spirits by Bert Coules

    Harry Houdini's ascent to a world famous escapologist - and a corroding obsession...

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  5. The Woman Who Saw Atoms by Pippa Goldschmidt

    On the eve of the Anschluss, a Jewish scientist captures a proton in a photograph.

    BBC Radio 4

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  6. To Preserve the Health of Man by DJ Britton (Omnibus)

    David Suchet plays composer William Byrd in five imagined moments.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  7. Valentino by Bob Sinfield

    Story of the silent screen's greatest romantic hero. Stars Alan Cumming.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  8. Elizabeth R

    Glenda Jackson stars as Queen Elizabeth I in this dramatisation of her reign.

    BBC Two

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  9. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) in Conversation by Mike Walker

    Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, talks candidly about his life...

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  10. Death and the Magician by Raymund FitzSimons

    How will Harry Houdini's relentless investigation of psychic claims end?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  11. Classic Serial

    Adaptations of works which have achieved classic status

    BBC Radio 4

  12. Poldark

    1970s adaptation of Winston Graham's romantic novels, set in 18th-century Cornwall.

    BBC Four

  13. The Onedin Line

    Sseries charting the fortunes of a Liverpool shipping family headed by James Onedin.

    BBC One

  14. London Particulars

    Series about two Peelers, Pip and Tom, who solve crimes in Victorian London

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  15. Lark Rise to Candleford

    Adaptation of Flora Thompson's memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood

    BBC One

  16. The Carlingford Chronicles

    Margaret Oliphant dramatisation

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  17. Cranford

    Funny and touching drama about the lives of the people of Cranford.

    BBC One

  18. Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz

    Comic stories of London life

    BBC Radio 7

  19. Garrow's Law

    Legal drama inspired by the life of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow.

    BBC One

  20. Lyrical Ballads

    A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 collaboration

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  21. Ripper Street

    Six months after the Ripper's reign, Whitechapel police fight to bring law to the lawless.

    BBC Two

  22. Charles Dickens

    Radio adaptations of Dicken's classic English literature.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  23. Cadfael

    Adaptations of Ellis Peters' medieval murder mysteries starring Philip Madoc.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  24. WPC 56

    Drama following Gina Dawson, the first WPC to serve in her West Midlands hometown in 1956.

    BBC One

  25. A Place to Call Home

    Melodrama following a woman as she returns to 1950s Australia after twenty years abroad.

    BBC One

  26. Peaky Blinders

    An epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of 1920s Birmingham.

    BBC One

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  27. Jane Austen

    Adaptations of the classic tales by the great English author.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  28. The Doctor Blake Mysteries

    Crime drama. Australian Second World War veteran Doctor Lucien Blake solves crimes.

    BBC One

  29. Mystery Theater

    Hollywood greats star in classic dramas from the golden days of American radio

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  30. The Hollow Crown

    The hugely acclaimed 2012 adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays.

    BBC Two

  31. Oliver Twist

    Timothy Spall and Tom Hardy star in Charles Dickens's tale of a young orphan boy.

    BBC One

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  32. The District Nurse

    1930s period drama starring Nerys Hughes as District nurse, Megan Roberts.

    BBC One

  33. Upstairs Downstairs

    Period drama where residents' fates 'upstairs' and 'downstairs' are closely linked.

    BBC One

  34. Nanny

    Historical drama following a nanny in 1930s England.

    BBC One

  35. Wings

    Drama about the men of the Royal Flying Corps during World War I.

    BBC One

  36. Tenko

    Drama based on the experiences of a group of women who are taken as prisoners of war.

    BBC One

  37. The House of Eliott

    Costume drama set in a London fashion house in the 1920s.

    BBC One

  38. The Paradise

    An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s.

    BBC One

  39. 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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  40. Sherlock Holmes

    Dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous tales of the Baker Street detective.

    BBC

  41. Shakespeare On Tour

    Raising the curtain on performances of The Bard’s plays countrywide.

    BBC

  42. The Jazz Age

    A series of theatrical dramas, comedies and musicals, set during the 1920s.

    BBC

  43. Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection

    Leo Tolstoy's last major work, in which a man fights to overturn a woman's sentence

    BBC Radio 4

  44. Loving by Henry Green

    Henry Green's tale of life in an Irish country house during the Second World War.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  45. Shadowlands

    The story of CS Lewis' love affair with poet Joy Gresham, read by Ian Richardson

    BBC Radio 2

  46. Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby

    Charles Dicken's classic tale of the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  47. War and Peace

    Adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel of Napoleon's war against Russia

    BBC Radio 7

  48. Fanny Hill

    Andrew Davies's two-part adaptation of John Cleland's infamous, classic 18th-century novel

    BBC Four

  49. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    Adaptation of the RSC's acclaimed 1980s stage production of the epic Dickens tale.

    BBC Four

  50. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

    Edith Wharton's prize-winning novel, dramatised by Jane Rogers, set in 1870s New York

    BBC Radio 4

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