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  1. Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

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

    BBC Radio 4

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

    Omnibus edition of the classic Victorian thriller by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  3. Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time

    Michael Butt's dramatisation of Marcel Proust's classic series of novels

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  4. Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native

    Hardy's tale of the hopes and disappointments of the folk of Egdon Heath.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  5. Phoebe Junior by Margaret Oliphant

    Saga of English provincial life in the country town of Carlingford. With Elizabeth Spriggs

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  6. The Great Train Robbery

    Two films telling the story behind the most infamous heist in British history.

    BBC One

  7. The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon

    Don Warrington reads Sam Selvon's 1950's classic of immigrant life in London.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  8. James Joyce's Ulysses

    Dramatisation of the great modernist novel. Specially re-edited for Radio 4 Extra.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  9. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

    Dante's extraordinary poem tells of his journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.

    BBC Radio 4

  10. Sarah Dunant - Sacred Hearts Omnibus

    Dramatisation of the novel by Sarah Dunant, set in a convent in Renaissance Italy

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  11. Little Dorrit Omnibus

    Adaptation of Dickens' story of love, honour, debt and hope in 1820s London.

    BBC One

  12. Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook

    Groundbreaking novel about motherhood, breakdown, marriage and communism.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  13. Jamaica Inn

    Period drama adapted from Daphne du Maurier's gothic novel.

    BBC One

  14. Four Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald

    A series of short stories by the author of The Great Gatsby

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  15. Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls

    Ed Hime adapts Ernest Hemingway's novel, set during the Spanish Civil War.

    BBC Radio 4

  16. Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

    Terry Jones introduces ten delicious Renaissance tales with Colin McFarlane.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  17. Mapp and Lucia

    1930s comedy drama based on EF Benson's novels.

    BBC One

  18. Lucinda Brayford by Martin Boyd

    A beautiful and wealthy Australian girl who marries into the English aristocracy.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  19. Vesna Goldsworthy - Gorsky

    A story about beauty, money and books. Read by Philip Arditti.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  20. Cyrano de Bergerac

    Glyn Maxwell's adaptation of the classic novel by Edmond Rostand.

    BBC Radio 4

  21. MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (Omnibus)

    Epic drama set in the aftermath of the 1857 Indian mutiny. Stars Vineeta Rishi.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  22. The Outcast

    Post-war coming-of-age drama based on the novel by Sadie Jones.

    BBC One

  23. Herman Melville - Moby Dick

    Classic seafaring tale of Captain Ahab's obsessive chase for a great white whale

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  24. Virginia Woolf - Night and Day

    Edwardian novel examining love marriage, happiness and success. With Kristin Scott Thomas.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  25. Toni Morrison - Beloved

    Adjoa Andoh narrates Toni Morrison's novel set in the era of American slavery

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  26. The True Story of Martin Guerre

    The infamous 16th-century case of a man who was tried for posing as an imposter.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  27. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

    Rachel Joyce dramatises Charlotte Bronte's tale of injustice, romance, passion and danger.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  28. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Omnibus)

    Amanda Hale stars in an adaptation of the classic Bronte novel

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. F Scott Fitzgerald - The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

    F Scott Fitzgerald's novella set in Montana where a family secret is starting to slip out

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  30. Thomas Hardy Short Stories - More Tales of Village Life

    Thomas Hardy's inimitable Wessex characters recount tales of Longpuddle life

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  31. Graham Swift - Mothering Sunday: Omnibus

    Eileen Atkins reads the tale of a maid who embarks on a secret affair with a wealthy lover

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  32. The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth

    Stephen Rea and Anna Healy star in the classic Anglo-Irish drama about class pretensions

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  33. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

    An unmarried governess is sent by her agency to the wrong booking. Stars Maureen Lipman.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  34. Love, Nina

    Drama set in 1982. Nina moves to north London from Leicester to care for two young boys.

    BBC One

  35. AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet

    John Harvey's 30-part dramatisation of AS Byatt's novels about the Potter family

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  36. Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

    George Bernard Shaw's classic tale of privilege and a battle of wills

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  37. AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (Omnibus)

    Omnibus edition of a dramatisation of AS Byatt's novels about the Potter family

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  38. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

    John Moffatt reads the classic tale of a butler's devoted service at a stately home

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  39. Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky

    Patrick Hamilton's tale of working-class emotions set between the wars in London

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  40. Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

    The haunting story of a terrible family secret begins in the 1930s

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  41. The Secret Agent

    London, 1886: A spy drags his family into a terror plot in this Joseph Conrad thriller

    BBC One

  42. Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene (Omnibus)

    Comic take on a classic novel, with Bernard Cribbins

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  43. Crown House

    Family saga set in the early part of the 20th century

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  44. New Grub Street

    Christopher Douglas adapts George Gissing's 1891 novel.

    BBC Radio 4

  45. Jezebel by Irene Nemirovsky

    Drama set in 1900s France adapted from Irene Nemirovsky's novella about Gladys Eysenach.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  46. Close to the Enemy

    It is the end of WWII and Captain Callum Ferguson is assigned one final task for the Army.

    BBC Two

  47. My Mother and Other Strangers

    Drama series following the aftermath of a US military base being set up in a rural parish.

    BBC One

  48. Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen

    Sylvestra Le Touzel reads Karen Blixen's classic story.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  49. Disneyfied

    Phill Jupitus on the effect Disney had turning classic children's stories into films

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  50. Jane Austen - Persuasion: Omnibus

    Jane Austen's tale about the changing fortunes of the Elliot family

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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