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  1. Shakespeare - Twelfth Night

    The Bard's comedy of mistaken identity, cruel practical jokes and lovelorn suitors.

    BBC Radio 7

  2. Far from the Madding Crowd

    A beautiful, headstrong young heiress has a profound effect on the three men in her life.

    BBC Four

  3. The Voysey Inheritance by Harley Granville-Barker

    Edward discovers the family business he is inheriting has been defrauding its clients.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  4. Mark Twain - The Million Pound Bank Note

    Can a man given a £1m banknote survive a month without spending a single penny of it?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  5. David Copperfield

    Young David's happy childhood is blighted when his widowed mother remarries.

    BBC Two

  6. Dean Spanley

    A son attempts to find common ground with his distant father through spiritualism.

    BBC Two

  7. War and Peace

    Two Russian families face conflict as the nation prepares for Napoleon's invasion.

    BBC Two

  8. Jane Eyre

    A governess falls in love with her employer, unaware of his terrible secret.

    BBC Two

  9. Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

    Period drama about fashion designer Coco Chanel's affair with composer Igor Stavinsky.

    BBC Two

  10. Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House

    Ibsen's play transposed to India, 1879: Can Niru save her huband's reputation?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  11. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Glittering Eye

    Celebrating Coleridge's captivating poem.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  12. Albert Nobbs

    Industrious but introverted Albert (Glenn Close) hides a secret from the world.

    BBC Two

  13. Radio Drama at Ninety: Julius Caesar

    Members of Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Donmar group re-enact the first ever radio drama.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  14. Mansfield Park

    Period drama based on the Jane Austen novel and starring Frances O'Connor.

    BBC Two

  15. Wuthering Heights

    Adaptation of Emily Bronte's story of the tragic love affair. Starring Laurence Olivier.

    BBC Two

  16. GB Shaw - Androcles and the Lion

    Recorded in 1967, the Irish writer's interpretation of one of Aesop's Fables.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  17. The Tempest

    Prospera is banished from Milan by her brother and finds herself stranded on an island.

    BBC Two

  18. Molly Keane - Good Behaviour

    1920s tale of an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family. Revenge is sweeter for taking its time.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  19. Stanley Houghton - Hindle Wakes

    Lancashire, 1912. Can Fanny Hawthorn defy her parents' wishes for her future?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  20. 102 Boulevard Haussmann

    Marcel Proust hires a string quartet and befriends the war-wounded viola player.

    BBC Two

  21. The Duchess of Malfi: BBC Arts at the Globe

    From London's Globe, a production of John Webster's revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi.

    BBC Four

  22. War Horse

    The beloved horse of a farmer's son is sold to the army on the dawn of the First World War

    BBC Radio 2

  23. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

    Sea captain Marlow is ordered to sail up the Congo.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  24. Gwyneth Hughes - Victory

    Drama about the love triangle of Horatio Nelson, William Hamilton and Emma, Lady Hamilton

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  25. Shakespeare - Henry at Agincourt

    A sequence from Shakespeare's Henry V, broadcast on the eve of St George's Day 1956.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  26. Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse (Omnibus)

    Despite the weather forecast, young James is determined to reach the lighthouse off Skye.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  27. Kate Chopin - The Awakening (Omnibus)

    Adaptation of the novel that shocked America in 1899.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  28. Dylan Thomas: The Outing

    Actor Matthew Rhys reads Dylan Thomas's story of a trip to the seaside.

    BBC Radio Wales

  29. Dostoyevsky - The Friend of the Family

    Russia, 1859: Chaos in the Manor of Stephanchikovo when an ex-sergeant assumes a new role.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  30. Franz Kafka - The Trial

    Joseph K is an unexceptional man. Then one day he is arrested, but what is his crime?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  31. The White Countess

    A countess (Natasha Richardson) saves a blind ex-diplomat (Ralph Fiennes) from an attack.

    BBC Two

  32. Juliette Binoche: Antigone at the Barbican

    Sophocles's tale of family loyalty, courage and tragedy, filmed at the Barbican in London.

    BBC Four

  33. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim (Omnibus)

    An advert in The Times lures four women from rainy London to the Italian Riviera.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  34. Cyrano de Bergerac (Omnibus)

    Glyn Maxwell's adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  35. Shirley Gee - Moonshine

    London, 1937: Harriet must battle Ada, the new nanny, for the love of her young daughter.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  36. Lady Chatterley's Lover

    A beautiful young aristocrat embarks on a forbidden affair with a servant.

    BBC One

  37. George Bernard Shaw - Press Cuttings

    Written in 1909, Shaw pokes fun at the suffragettes' votes for women campaign.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  38. Alexandre Dumas - The Lady of the Camellias Omnibus

    Armand is too late to see the love of his life Marguerite before she dies.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  39. Utopia by Thomas More

    Explorer Raphael Hythloday tells Thomas More about a mystical island.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  40. John Galsworthy - The Forsytes: Omnibus

    An epic story of sex, money and power in an upper class family across 50 years.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  41. John Galsworthy - The Forsytes Continues: Omnibus

    A newly married Fleur embraces the social whirl of 1920s London. Starring Jessica Raine.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  42.

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Classic Shakespeare play adapted for television by Russell T Davies.

    BBC One

  43. The Seagull by Anton Chekhov

    1896 on a Russian country estate. Stars Diana Quick and Helena Bonham Carter.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  44. Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen (Omnibus)

    A few years after the French Revolution, maid Babette cooks her employers a special meal

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  45. King Lear

    A portrait of a man unravelling - pitted against his daughters, nature and the universe.

    BBC Four

  46. Shakespeare: Lord of Misrule

    Jerry Brotton looks back at the power of Shakespearian mischief.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  47. The Lady Vanishes

    A beautiful young socialite faces danger while trying to solve a disappearance.

    BBC One

  48. The Happy Lands

    The journey of a mining community as they are pushed inevitably towards a labour conflict.

    BBC Two Scotland

  49. The Whale

    Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex.

    BBC One

  50.

    Under Milk Wood

    A production of Dylan Thomas's famous play enacted by a community of Welsh performers.

    BBC One Wales

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