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  1. Wired Love

    Wired Love, published in 1879, is a story of long-distance love over the telegraph wire.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  2. October: Ten Days That Shook the World

    An epic masterpiece filmed to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

    BBC Four

  3. Conflict of Doves by David Buck

    Athlete Jesse Owens’ dominance at 1936’s Berlin Olympics unsettled Hitler.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  4. Jean Binnie - Boudicca's Victory

    A theatre company puts on a brutal version of Queen Boudicca's war against the Roman.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  5. Jean Binnie - Dr Barry

    How 'Dr Barry' made waves rising through the British Army in the 19th century.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  6. Castle of the Hawk

    Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the Habsburg dynasty.

    BBC Radio 4

  7. Isabel Colegate - The Shooting Party (Omnibus)

    1913: A Country House party and English society under the microscope. With Olivia Colman.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  8. The Plague

    Plague decimates the crowded city of Seville in the late 16th century.

    BBC Four

  9. Willoughby's Phoney War

    1938: Britain's on the brink of war, but men like are desperate for action.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  10. Mary Baker - The American Dentist

    When Dr Thomas W Evans moves to France, the course of history changes.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  11. The Flu That Killed 50 Million

    Christopher Eccleston narrates a docudrama about the 1918 flu pandemic.

    BBC Two

  12. Rhyfelgan

    Caneuon Cymraeg o'r Rhyfel Mawr, ynghyd â monologau o waith Aled Jones Williams.

    BBC Radio Cymru

  13. Sir Walter Raleigh - A Devon Man

    Historical docudrama on the life of Sir Walter Raleigh.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  14. Roots

    A historical portrait of American slavery, recounting the journey of one family.

    BBC Four

  15. Stephen Sharkey - All of You on the Good Earth

    Space enthusiast Neil B O’Brien monitors Apollo 8, as it prepares to orbit the Moon.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  16. Dramas

    Immersive storytelling from the BBC World Service. The home of original drama

    BBC World Service

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  17. Good News Stories by Katie Hims (Omnibus)

    Five contemporary dramas inspired by stories from the old and new testaments.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  18. Jerome Vincent - Teddy and Toad

    The story of how President Roosevelt got The Wind in the Willows published in America.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  19. Tales From A Long Room by Peter Tinniswood

    Dramatisation of Peter Tinniswood's cricket-inspired Tales from a Long Room.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  20. Jonathan Cash - The First Domino

    Jonathan Cash's play was inspired by his survival of the 1999 Admiral Duncan pub bombing.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  21. You Will Be Safe Here (Omnibus)

    Written by Damian Barr. 100 years of South Africa's dark past and present.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  22. Peter Wolf - Red Star Belgrade

    Bill Nighy plays Vratar - a Yugoslav goalkeeper in the Second World War.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  23. Moon

    Apollo 11's five-day journey to the moon. A verbatim drama using original NASA transcripts

    BBC Radio 4

  24. Renaissance Man: The Last Judgement of Giorgio Vasari

    Tom Conti stars as Medici court artist Giorgio Vasari in a story of pride, love and legacy

    BBC Radio 4

  25. Moon (Omnibus)

    Apollo 11's five-day journey to the moon. A verbatim drama using original Nasa transcripts

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  26. Ulverton

    Two dramas bookend a multi-voice reading of Adam Thorpe's fictional historical novel.

    BBC Radio 4

  27. Betsy and Napoleon

    The story of the relationship between Napoleon and Betsy Balcombe

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  28. Betsy and Napoleon (Omnibus)

    1815: Betsy Balcombe was 13 when Napoleon came to live in her garden on St Helena.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. Romesh Gunesekera - Reef

    Romesh Gunesekera's first novel about a young chef employed by a marine scientist.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  30. Gwyn Thomas - All Things Betray Thee

    When a harpist arrives in the iron town of Moonlea, he finds unrest.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  31. Laurence Housman - Happy and Glorious

    1839: It's time for a young Queen Victoria to consider marriage – but who will she choose?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Seventh Seal

    A knight returning from the crusades makes the acquaintance of Death himself.

    BBC Four

  33. The Confession by Jessie Burton (Omnibus)

    The new novel by Jessie Burton, bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  34. The Age of Shadows

    In Japanese-occupied 1920s Seoul, the police try to infiltrate the Korean resistance.

    BBC Four

  35. Pippa Gladhill - Maudie

    Elizabeth Bell reads a short story about the memories of a Victorian ship's figurehead.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  36. Silence

    Two Jesuit priests travel to 17th-century Japan to look for their missing mentor.

    BBC Two

  37. Isaac Newton: Nemesis

    By David Ashton. A counterfeiting gang steal Isaac Newton's supply of silver.

    BBC Radio 4

  38. Mair

    Drama Nadolig gan Manon Steffan Ros.

    BBC Radio Cymru

  39. Exile (Omnibus)

    One family's journey into the unknown aboard the Mayflower. Marking the 400th anniversary.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  40. The Windermere Children

    The moving story of how the friendships forged at Windermere became a lifeline.

    BBC Two

  41. It’s True, It’s True, It's True: Artemisia on Trial

    Acclaimed play about Artemisia Gentileschi and the 1612 rape trial that gripped Rome.

    BBC Four

  42. Betrayal - The Trial of William Davidson

    A play by Tanika Gupta based on the Cato Street conspiracy of 1820 and the ensuing trial.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  43. Len Deighton - XPD

    Did Churchill meet Hitler in 1940? 40 years later, British 'SIS' is tasked to find out....

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  44. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

    An author (Lily James) makes some life-changing friends at a farmer's literary society.

    BBC Two

  45. Chappaquiddick

    Presidential hopeful Edward Kennedy chooses to leave the scene of a fatal car accident.

    BBC Two

  46. Poldark: The Miller's Dance by Winston Graham

    Richard Goulding reads the ninth book in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series.

    BBC Radio 4

  47. The Order of the Day by Eric Vuillard

    Éric Vuillard's novel is a chilling account of the Nazis' build-up to war in the 1930s.

    BBC Radio 4

  48. Eleanor Rising

    Dramatic account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Based on fact, legend - and rumour.

    BBC Radio 4

  49. Balloon

    A family attempts to escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.

    BBC Four

  50. Na Tuinichean Mi-thoilichte

    Two freshly arrived Scottish settlers in 1780s Nova Scotia are in for a big surprise.

    BBC ALBA

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