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Categories: Drama: Classic & Period

  1. The Last Post

    Drama series about a unit of Royal Military Police officers in British-controlled Aden.

    BBC One

  2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

    Sally Marmion's fifteen-part adaptation of Jane Eyre read by Anne-Marie Duff

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  3. Brideshead Revisited

    Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) recalls his involvement with the aristocratic Flyte family.

    BBC Four

  4. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

    60 year old Zorba teaches young writer Nikos how best to live life.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  5. Guy de Maupassant - The Two Friends

    Morissot and Sauvage go fishing in Paris like they used to before the Prussian invasion.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  6. Howards End

    Four-part adaptation of EM Forster's classic novel.

    BBC One

  7. Dawn Lowe-Watson - Locum

    A new locum's arrival sparks consequences for a doctor's family in the Lake District.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  8. PG Wodehouse - Ring for Jeeves

    Archie Scottney dramatisation of PG Wodehouse's comic novel.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  9. The Miniaturist

    Amsterdam, 1686. Nella Oortman marries a rich merchant, hoping for love and prosperity.

    BBC One

  10. Little Women

    Dramatisation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the lives of the four March sisters.

    BBC One

  11. Eric, Ernie and Me

    How Eddie Braben turned Morecambe and Wise into the nation's beloved entertainers.

    BBC Four

  12. Ballet Stories

    Fresh takes on the stories that inspired five famous ballets.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  13. Andy Rashleigh - Devonia

    A works outing aboard a paddle steamer reunites childhood sweethearts Harry and Mercy.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  14. A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark (Omnibus)

    Playful and autobiographical novel set in London's post-war publishing scene.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  15. Craig Stephens - The Balloonists

    Henry's risky balloon flight will make fine melodrama, but can it save George's theatre?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  16. George R Sims - The Haverstock Hill Murder

    A desperate mother commissions a Victorian lady detective to save her son.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  17. Jane Eyre

    Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles star in an adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel.

    BBC Two

  18. The Inn by Guy de Maupassant

    Haunting tale of a snowbound mountain guide in sole charge of a remote Alpine hotel.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  19. Peter Terson - Tales My Father Taught Me

    Before the First World War, Sir George Sitwell runs his estate and monitors his son.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  20. Carol McGuigan - The Painter and the Fishergirl

    Two worlds collide when an American artist arrives at a village on the English coast.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  21. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Omnibus)

    Two-part omnibus edition of the James Joyce classic read by Andrew Scott.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  22. The Raj Quartet

    Paul Scott's series of stories set in India.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  23. Brooklyn

    Drama set in the 1950s about an Irish immigrant who lands in Brooklyn and finds romance.

    BBC One

  24. Paradise Lost

    Michael Symmons Roberts' gripping adaptation of Milton's epic poem.

    BBC Radio 4

  25. Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy

    Comic tale about an 18th-century man who gets distracted from telling his life story.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  26. The Woman in White

    Two half-sisters and their drawing master get caught up in a deadly conspiracy.

    BBC One

  27. The Shakespeare Sessions

    Your one-stop shop for all things Shakespeare.

    BBC Radio 3

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  28. Henry James: The Wings of the Dove (Omnibus)

    Dramatisation of the Henry James classic novel. Omnibus edition.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

    Rachel Joyce's adapts Emily Bronte's haunting novel.

    BBC Radio 4

  30. Bernard Pomerance - The Elephant Man

    A disfigured man is rescued from a Victorian freak show, but what is 'normality'?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  31. Wuthering Heights

    Two-part dramatisation of the classic Emily Bronte novel.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  32. King Lear

    Lear divides his kingdom with tragic consequences. Chaos descends on family and state.

    BBC Two

  33. Daphne Du Maurier

    Tales from the award-winning novelist Dame Daphne du Maurier - Lady Browning.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Florence Foster Jenkins

    Drama about a socialite who pursued a career in opera despite being unable to sing.

    BBC Four

  35. The King's Speech

    The true story of a king who tried to overcome his stutter so he could address the nation.

    BBC One

  36. Gerry Huxham - Russian Roulette

    Dramatised events surrounding the inspiration for Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Gambler’.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  37. Storytelling

    Marjolein Robertson tells the traditional trowie story The Hillswick Wedding.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  38. Virginia Woolf - Lappin and Lapinova

    Why do newlyweds Rosalind and Ernest share a private world inhabited by rabbits?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  39. Patrick Carroll - Evaristo's Epitaph

    The words on a Cornish tombstone reveal a story of friendship across the lines of slavery.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  40. Anton Chekhov

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    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  41. EM Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread (Omnibus)

    Dramatisation of EM Forster's classic novel. Omnibus edition

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  42. Kate Chopin - The Awakening (Omnibus)

    Adaptation of the novel that shocked America in 1899.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  43. A Christmas Carol

    Simon Callow's acclaimed one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic novel.

    BBC Four

  44. Les Miserables

    An epic adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic story of love, injustice and redemption.

    BBC One

  45. The Long Song

    The trials, tribulations and survival of plantation slave July and her mistress Caroline.

    BBC One

  46. The Ash Tree

    A 17th-century squire is haunted by a curse his great uncle brought upon the household.

    BBC Four

  47. Lost Hearts

    An orphan finds himself haunted by the ghosts of two children.

    BBC Four

  48. The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

    Lampedusa's epic tale of the decline and fall of a family of Sicilian aristocrats.

    BBC Radio 4

  49. The Railway Children

    Three children move from a comfortable townhouse to a small Yorkshire cottage.

    BBC One

  50. Classic Stories

    A collection of timeless fiction from the literary greats.

    BBC Sounds

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