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  1. Joseph Roth - Rebellion

    In Berlin after World War I, anti-hero Andreas Pum attempts to woo the widow Blumich.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  2. A Royal Affair

    Alicia Vikander plays a young queen who begins an affair that starts a revolution.

    BBC Two

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    Tessa Hadley - Deeds Not Words

    Spurred on by the Suffragettes, a tale of radicalism, lust and teenage fervour.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  4. Hamlet

    Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, learns of his father's murder by his uncle and plots revenge.

    BBC Four

  5. Legacy

    Cold War drama. A trainee spy is asked to 'turn' a Russian diplomat he knew at university.

    BBC Two

  6. Topaz

    Comic drama starring Brian Cox as poet William Topaz McGonagall, written by Lucy Gannon.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  7. Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas

    Wronged by a corrupt baron, a horse trader (Mads Mikkelsen) begins a revolt.

    BBC Two

  8. The Big Picnic

    Theatre drama recounting the experiences of young Glaswegian men in the First World War.

    BBC Two Scotland

  9. Voices from World War One

    Mark Stephen narrates a dramatized history of WWI drawn from diaries and memoirs.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  10. Castles in the Sky

    Drama chronicling the invention of radar, which proved pivotal in the Battle of Britain.

    BBC Two

  11. The German Doctor

    In Patagonia, Nazi war criminal Joseph Mengele befriends the family of a 12-year-old girl.

    BBC Two

  12. The Silver Darlings

    The wife of a fisherman who is press-ganged into the Navy must bring up their son alone.

    BBC Two

  13. The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald (Omnibus)

    Winter 1913 finds Frank Reid, owner of a Moscow printing company, abandoned.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  14. Wellington: The Iron Duke Unmasked

    A personal portrait of the victor of Waterloo, drawing on his own vast correspondence.

    BBC Two

  15. The Scandalous Lady W

    The amazing true story of Lady Worsley, whose elopement sparked a great scandal.

    BBC Two

  16. The Go-Between

    An adaptation of LP Hartley's novel about lost innocence at the turn of the 20th century.

    BBC One

  17. Curtmantle

    Can Henry II rule his kingdom wisely and keep faith with his friends like Thomas Becket?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  18. Greater Love (Omnibus)

    The impact of the Plague of 1665-66 on the Derbyshire village of Eyam.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  19. The Other Paris by Luc Sante (Omnibus)

    Luc Sante's journey through the Paris of yesteryear. Read by Simon Russell Beale.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  20. Seamus Heaney's Aeneid VI: Omnibus

    Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the spirit of his father. Read by Ian McKellen.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  21. Quicksand: Omnibus

    Henning Mankell copes with illness by recalling his childhood and an early secret.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  22. Tony Bagley - The Machine

    A man invents a machine to record the voice, but fears he'll be accused of stealing souls.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  23. Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story (Omnibus)

    One of the biggest mysteries of the art world is explored in Bernadette Murphy's book.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  24. Pepys: After the Fire - Omnibus

    As the Great Fire of London in 1666 smoulders, Samuel Pepys remembers the homeless.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  25. Writing the Century: Land's End to John O'Groats (Omnibus)

    George Allen's 1904 diary of his record-attempting walk.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  26. Roderick Graham - Melford's Axe

    The usual hangman refuses to execute Charles I, but his chosen replacement faces torment.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  27. The Other Boleyn Girl

    The story of Mary Boleyn, who was Henry VIII’s mistress before he married her sister.

    BBC

  28. David Gooderson - Death of a Village

    The underlying causes of a Devon fishing village being washed into the sea by a storm.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. JR Planche - The Garrick Fever

    Excited locals expect great actor David Garrick as Hamlet, but a drunk scruff appears.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  30. Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad: Omnibus

    The tale of two Georgia plantation slaves bidding for freedom, read by Clarke Peters

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  31. 1066: A Year to Conquer England

    Drama-documentary exploring the betrayals between the Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans.

    BBC Two

  32. The Last Kingdom

    Historical drama. A Saxon boy is taken by invading Danes. A quest for his homeland begins.

    BBC Two

  33. The Evacuees

    Maureen Lipman plays the mother of two Jewish boys evacuated to Blackpool in World War II.

    BBC

  34. Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision

    Historical drama set in the fictional village of Schabbach in Rhineland-Palatinate.

    BBC Two

  35. The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

    Sarah Perry's novel, set at the end of the 19th century and inspired by true events.

    BBC Radio 4

  36. The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui

    A play about the rise to underworld eminence of the notorious Chicago gangster Arturo Ui.

    BBC

  37. Versailles

    Sumptuous period drama depicting the decadent and turbulent early reign of the Sun King.

    BBC Two

  38. Sgeulachd - Cùil Lodair le Fionnlagh Macleòid

    Sgeulachd ghoirid le Fionnlagh Macleòid mu Bhlàr Chùil Lodair.

    BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

  39. Tumanbay

    Epic saga by John Dryden and Mike Walker, inspired by the Mamluk slave dynasty of Egypt.

    BBC Radio 4

  40. Craig Warner - A Sense of Things Moving Forward

    Can Grand Admiral Colon’s discoveries in the New World satisfy Queen Isabella of Spain?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  41. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford (Omnibus)

    The adventures of a newcomer to 18th-century New York when it was still a fledgling town

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  42. Against the Law

    When Peter Wildeblood fell in love with Edward McNally in 1952, homosexuality was a crime.

    BBC Two

  43. Svetlana Alexievich - The Unwomanly Face of War: Omnibus

    Svetlana Alexievich's extraordinary oral history of Russian women's experiences in WWII.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  44. Anthony Doerr - Afterworld Omnibus

    A woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her lost childhood friends.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  45. Helen Dunmore - The Siege

    The story of one family caught up in the struggle to survive the Siege of Leningrad.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  46. Alphonse Daudet - The Girl from Arles

    Country boy Frederi is besotted with a girl from Arles, but could love lead to disaster?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  47. John Reed - Ten Days That Shook the World

    John Reed's classic eye-witness account of the Russian Revolution in October 1917.

    BBC Radio 4

  48. Gunpowder

    Fast-paced thriller telling the story of the Gunpowder Plot.

    BBC One

  49. John Reed - Ten Days That Shook the World (Omnibus)

    John Reed's classic eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution in October 1917

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  50. Peter Wolf - Black Queen to King's Castle

    The ghost of Anne Boleyn tells the story of the events that led to her execution.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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