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  1. EM Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread Omnibus

    EM Forster's first novel, published in 1905

    BBC Radio 7

  2. Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson

    Classic tale of an otter's eventful life in the Devon countryside

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  3. The Diary of Samuel Pepys

    BBC Radio 7

  4. EM Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread

    English prejudices clash with Italian passions in EM Forster's first novel.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  5. EM Forster - A Passage to India

    EM Forster's classic novel of racial and religious divisions, friendship and love

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  6. Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White

    Dramatisation of the Wilkie Collins classic, first published in 1859.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  7. Maigret

    Bruno Cremer plays the gruff sleuth in a 1990s and 2000s French-language adaptation.

    BBC Four

  8. The Railway Children

    Joanna Tope reads from E Nesbit's classic 1906 children's novel

    BBC Radio 4

  9. Richard Adams - Watership Down

    Neville Teller adapts the classic tale of rabbits seeking a safe haven

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  10. Crowdie and Cream

    Three-part drama based on Finlay J MacDonald's account of life in 1930s Scottish Hebrides.

    BBC Four

  11. 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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  12. Paradise Lost

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

    BBC Radio 3

  13. George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss

    George Eliot's 19th-century classic, starring Michael Fitzgerald and Terry Molloy

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  14. Oliver Twist

    Six-part reading of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist. Read by David Warner

    BBC Radio 2

  15. The Yellowplush Papers

    Series of five comic tales by William Makepeace Thackeray, adapted by Stephen Wyatt

    BBC Radio 4

  16. Wives and Daughters

    Adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel following the loves and losses of a young woman

    BBC Four

  17. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke

    Arthur C Clarke's sci-fi masterpiece dramatised in two parts.

    BBC Radio 4

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  18. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Lewis Carroll dramatisation with Sarah Jane Holm and Roy Hudd

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  19. Lost and Found

    Series of three short stories by major writers which have only recently come to light

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  20. The Wind in the Willows

    Alan Bennett reads Kenneth Grahame's classic tale

    BBC Radio 7

  21. North and South

    Adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel set across the social divide in the Victorian age

    BBC Four

  22. The Carlingford Chronicles - Miss Marjoribanks

    Margaret Oliphant dramatisation with Elizabeth Spriggs

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  23. Flashman at the Charge

    George MacDonald Fraser's dramatisation of his own novel

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  24. Sir Walter Scott - Rob Roy

    Dramatisation of Sir Walter Scott's novel. With Liam Brennan.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  25. Maugham's Eye View

    Dramatisation of short stories by the great English writer Somerset Maugham

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  26. Charlotte Bronte - The Professor

    Dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte's novel about a professor at an all-girl's school

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  27. Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

    Adjoa Andoh reads Jean Rhys's prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  28. Charlotte Bronte - The Professor (Omnibus)

    Dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte's novel about a professor at an all-girl's school

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. Silas Marner

    Dramatisation of the novel by George Eliot, with Michael Williams

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  30. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

    Dramatisation of Daniel Defoe's castaway classic stars Roy Marsden

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  31. DH Lawrence - Sons and Lovers

    The classic story of a Nottinghamshire mining family. Stars Benedict Sandiford

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  32. Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses

    Christopher Hampton's dramatisation of the epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  33. Emma

    All-star adaptation of Jane Austen's comic novel about the privileged Emma Woodhouse.

    BBC One

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  34. John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge

    Toulouse Lautrec's characters come to life

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  35. Charles Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cities

    Classic novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris during the French Revolution

    BBC Radio 7

  36. Fair Stood The Wind For France by HE Bates

    Dramatisation of HE Bates's classic tale of danger, suspense and romance in WWII France

    BBC Radio 4

  37. Wodehouse Playhouse

    Comic drama series introduced by and based on the short stories of PG Wodehouse

    BBC Four

  38. L Frank Baum - The Wizard of Oz

    L Frank Baum's classic stars Barbara Barnes and Maureen Lipman

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  39. Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern American Literature

    Mark Lawson tells the story of the rise of American writing in the 20th century

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  40. Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows

    Dramatised and narrated by Alan Bennett. With Richard Briers and Derek Waring

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  41. E Nesbit - The Railway Children

    E Nesbit's classic novel about the adventures of a family forced to move from London.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  42. FH Burnett - The Secret Garden

    Frances Hodgson Burnett's adventure with Fraser Kerr and Beryl Reid

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  43. Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

    Classic tale about the turbulent childhood of orphan Pip. Starring Maggie Steed

    BBC Radio 7

  44. Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

    Eccentric explorer Gum collects fossils - and three orphans whose names begin with 'P'

    BBC Radio 7

  45. A Passionate Woman

    Period drama. A housewife's life is turned upside down by a handsome Polish man.

    BBC One

  46. Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking

    The escapades of Sweden's strongest little girl. Read by Sandi Toksvig

    BBC Radio 7

  47. Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie

    Adaptation by Nick Darke of Laurie Lee's evergreen autobiography

    BBC Radio 4

  48. Peter Pan by JM Barrie

    Dramatisation of the classic children's story with Toyah Willcox as Peter Pan.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  49. Money

    An adaptation of Martin Amis's blackly comedic novel starring Nick Frost as John Self.

    BBC Two

  50. Sir Peter Shaffer - Amadeus

    F Murray Abraham reads the play about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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