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  1. AA Milne's The House at Pooh Corner

    Alan Bennett reads the children's classic

    BBC Radio 7

  2. Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore

    Historical romance set in late 17th-century Devon. Stars Alison Pettit

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  3. Rumer Godden - Black Narcissus

    A group of nuns establish a remote mission in the Himalayas. Stars Emma Fielding

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  4. Emil and the Detectives

    A young boy enlists the services of Berlin street boys to help him catch a thief

    BBC Radio 7

  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot

    After years spent abroad, Prince Myshkin courageously returns to Russian society

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  6. Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Goes Abroad

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

    BBC Radio 7

  7. Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian

    Set in 18th century Scotland. An Edinburgh woman tries to save her accused sister's life

    BBC Radio 7

  8. Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game

    Dramatisation of Hermann Hesse's classic 1943 novel set in a futuristic, utopian society

    BBC Radio 4

  9. Edith Wharton - The Reef Omnibus

    Daring novel, published in 1912, following the complicated love lives of four Americans

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  10. The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm

    Dinsdale Landen reads Norman Hunter's classic children's story about an eccentric boffin

    BBC Radio 7

  11. Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth

    A pretty orphan is apprenticed to a dressmaker

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  12. The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald

    Penny Leicester's adaption of Penelope Fitzgerald's novel of an English family in Moscow.

    BBC Radio 4

  13. Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

    Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens star in Tolstoy's love story set in 19th-century Russia

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  14. Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    Victor Hugo's gothic classic stars David Bower

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  15. Peter Pan and Wendy

    Alan Bennett reads the tale of the little boy who would not grow up

    BBC Radio 7

  16. A House to Let

    Marcia Warren stars in a tale of a woman who notes signs of life in a derelict house

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  17. Jane Harris - Gillespie and I

    Victorian gothic mystery, set in Glasgow during the International Exhibition in 1888.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  18. Jeeves in Manhattan

    One-man performances by Martin Jarvis from the Cheltenham Literature Festival

    BBC Radio 4

  19. MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions

    Epic story of love and war in 19th-century India, starring Blake Ritson.

    BBC Radio 4

  20. Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov

    The unpredictable Fyodor Karamazov and his sons reunite to discuss Dmitry's inheritance

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  21. Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

    Arnold Bennett's tale of love, tyranny and rebellion dramatised by Helen Edmundson

    BBC Radio 4

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  22. Olivia Manning - Fortunes of War

    Young newlywed Harriet Pringle arrives in Bucharest in 1939

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  23. 32 Brinkburn Street

    Drama moving between the lives, loves and lies of two generations of the same family.

    BBC One

  24. EM Forster - Howard's End

    When Helen Schlegel stays at the Wilcox's family country home, her life is changed forever

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  25. Room at the Top

    Adaptation of John Braine's novel about a young man on the make in 1940s Yorkshire

    BBC Four

  26. Michelle Magorian - Back Home

    Wartime evacuee Rusty returns to Britain, and meets a mother she doesn't recognise

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  27. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

    In 1920s America, Nick Carraway moves in next door to the mysterious Gatsby.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  28. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

    Molly Gibson is the only daughter of a widowed doctor who must spend time away from him.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky

    Adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's classic trilogy of unrequited love, set in 1930s London.

    BBC Four

  30. Stella Gibbons - Westwood

    In 1943 London, Margaret Steggles falls under the spell of the wealthy Challis family.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  31. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (Omnibus)

    Helen Graham is the mysterious new tenant with a turbulent past. Omnibus edition.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  32. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

    Gentleman farmer Gilbert Markham becomes drawn to an enigmatic widow.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  33. Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities

    Dickens's classic story, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  34. The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    A two-part period drama adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens

    BBC Two

  35. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf's classic novel set on a single day in June

    BBC Radio 4

  36. Short Stories by Francis Wyndham

    Stories by short fiction writer Francis Wyndham, recalling England in the 1940s

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  37. John Wyndham - The Chrysalids

    John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic science fiction classic, dramatised by Jane Rogers

    BBC Radio 4

  38. Bright Young Things

    Short stories celebrating the riotous, witty, cocktail-swilling party people of the 1920s

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  39. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

    Heart-breaking modern myth of obsession, pride and the need for love. With Jamie Parker.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  40. Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd

    Thomas Hardy's novel, adapted by Graham White

    BBC Radio 4

  41. Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo

    Swashbuckling tale of revenge by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sebastian Baczkiewicz

    BBC Radio 4

  42. Stella Gibbons - Nightingale Wood

    Hearts beat and minds scheme. The dowdy Withers compete with the glittering Springs.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  43. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

    Muriel Spark's much-loved and sparkling classic about an Edinburgh school teacher

    BBC Radio 4

  44. Esther Waters

    By George Moore. Stirring tale of how a servant girl makes her way in Victorian England

    BBC Radio 4

  45. Machiavelli - The Prince

    The Florentine philosopher's tour-de-force, read by Peter Firth

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  46. Joseph Roth - The Radetzky March

    Joseph Roth's novel about the end of an empire, dramatised by Gregory Evans

    BBC Radio 4

  47. William Golding - Lord of the Flies

    William Golding's classic story about a group of boys plane-wrecked on a deserted island

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  48. George Gissing - New Grub Street

    Tale of a group of Victorian writers' struggles with integrity and poverty

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  49. Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

    Jane Austen's delightful comedy of manners, dramatised by Helen Edmundson

    BBC Radio 4

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  50. Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Omnibus)

    Omnibus edition of the classic Victorian thriller by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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