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  1. Casualty 1909

    Drama series based on the lives of hospital doctors, nurses and patients in 1909.

    BBC One

  2. This Sceptred Isle: The 20th Century

    Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain in the last century

    BBC Radio 7

  3. This Sceptred Isle: Dynasties

    Christopher Lee's vivid account of the impact of Britain's most powerful families

    BBC Radio 7

  4. Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

    Dramatisation of the LM Montgomery novel about an impetuous red-headed girl.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  5. Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers

    Alexandre Dumas' classic tale of swashbuckling and political intrigue.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  6. Dunkirk

    Drama following events at Dunkirk in May and June 1940

    BBC Two

  7. The Deserted Child

    Exploring the Queen's family beliefs. With Wendy Hiller

    BBC Radio 7

  8. Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

    The life and exploits of 18th-century Irish adventurer Redmond Barry

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  9. Isabel Colegate - The Shooting Party

    Autumn, 1913: Isabel Colegate's novel dramatised by DJ Britton. With Olivia Colman.

    BBC Radio 4

  10. Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo

    Alexandre Dumas' tale of the man, unjustly imprisoned, who escapes to exact his revenge

    BBC Radio 7

  11. Hellhound on His Trail

    A new account of the murder of Martin Luther King and the hunt for his killer

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  12. Helen Dunmore - The Betrayal

    Sara Kestelman reads Helen Dunmore's novel of Cold War Leningrad

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  13. Young Victoria by Juliet Ace

    Based on letters and diaries, a portrait of the extraordinary Queen's life

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  14. To Serve Them All My Days by RF Delderfield

    Adaptation of RF Delderfield's classic drama set between the two world wars

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  15. The Other Side of the Hill

    Peter Luke's plays about the 1808-1813 peninsular campaign of the Duke of Wellington.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  16. John Boyne - The House of Special Purpose

    John Boyne's haunting novel set in the heart of the Russian empire

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  17. Cymry ar Brawf

    Drama ddogfen gyda Betsan Powys. Historical drama documentary with Betsan Powys.

    BBC Radio Cymru

  18. Possession - Omnibus

    Three-part adaptation of AS Byatt's bestselling 1990 literary novel

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  19. Birdsong

    Epic love story set against the First World War, based on Sebastian Faulks' novel.

    BBC One

  20. RL Stevenson - Kidnapped

    Robert Louis Stevenson's historical Scottish adventure, starring David Rintoul

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  21. Sirens of Fleet Street

    The stories of pioneer women in the journalism and reporting industry

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  22. Reeds in the Wind - Omnibus

    Grazia Deledda's story of love, poverty, honour and retribution set in 1900's Sardinia

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  23. Vivat Rex

    Richard Burton narrates the playwrights' chronicle of the English Crown.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  24. Robert Graves - I, Claudius

    The Roman Imperial dynasty's scandalous history, starring Derek Jacobi.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  25. Andrew Miller - Pure

    Adaptation of Andrew Miller's novel set in pre-revolutionary France

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  26. I Refuse

    Stories marking the centenary of the birth of American civil rights heroine Rosa Parks

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  27. Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg

    Dramatisation based on the diaries of artist Dame Laura Knight

    BBC Radio 4

  28. Home Front - Omnibus

    Epic drama series charting the lives of a group of characters on the home front during WWI

    BBC Radio 4

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  29. Our Zoo

    Drama series based on the true story of the founding of Chester Zoo in the 1930s.

    BBC One

  30. 1864

    Drama series about the Second Schleswig War.

    BBC Four

  31. Gunpowder Women

    Five plays about the women connected with the Gunpowder Plot of 1605

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  32. The Passing Bells

    World War I drama. At the outbreak of war, two teenage boys defy their parents to sign up.

    BBC One

  33. Arthur

    Collection of six plays telling the story of Arthur, leader of Camelot.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  34. 9/11: The Twin Towers

    A drama-documentary which presents a minute-by-minute sequence of events during 9/11.

    BBC One

  35. This Orient Isle

    Derek Jacobi reads a captivating account of Britain's first contact with the Muslim world.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  36. Love Letters from the Front

    Drama series telling the story of a WWI soldier and his sweetheart thorough love letters.

    BBC Radio Ulster

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  37. The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (Omnibus)

    A nurse arrives in Ireland too watch over a girl apparently surviving without food

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  38. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (Omnibus)

    The tumultous period in US history as seen through teenage Cavalry recruits in the 1850s

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  39. Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped

    David Tennant introduces Robert Louis Stevenson's gripping tale of adventure set in 1751.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  40. Historyonics

    Nick Knowles takes a look at the truth behind some famous legends.

    BBC One

  41. Victoria and Albert

    Dramatisation of the lives and relationship between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

    BBC One

  42. Cambridge Spies

    Drama tracing the tale of Britain's most infamous double agents.

    BBC Two

  43. The Edwardians

    Drama series examining the turning points in the careers of nine Edwardian subjects.

    BBC

  44. Rhodes

    Part biographical drama charting the life of Cecil Rhodes.

    BBC One

  45. Sunday Night Theatre

    A long-running series of plays.

    BBC

  46. Daniel Deronda

    Andrew Davies dramatisation of George Eliot novel.

    BBC One

  47. The White Queen

    Drama set during the War of the Roses, one of the bloodiest wars in English history.

    BBC One

  48. Our World War

    Tense combat drama series revealing experiences of British soldiers in World War One.

    BBC Three

  49. Banished

    Banished is set in the reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788.

    BBC Two

  50. The Hanging Gale

    A family's struggle to save their land during the trials of the 1846 Irish Famine.

    BBC

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