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Categories: Drama: Classic & Period

  1. Jules Verne

    Fantastical adventures by the 19th Century French novelist, Jules Verne.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  2. The White Crow

    Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev arrives in Paris to perform with the Kirov Ballet.

    BBC Two

  3. The Eve of St Agnes by John Keats

    Michael Maloney and Robert Glenister star in a gothic fantasy.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  4. Berlin by Heinrich Mann

    The rise and fall of poet Andrew Zumsee, out to make a name for himself in Berlin society.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  5. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

    A 13-year-old boy living in rural Malawi builds a windwill to save his family's farm.

    BBC Two

  6. The Pursuit of Love

    Longing for love and obsessed with sex, Linda is on the hunt for the perfect lover.

    BBC One

  7. Colette

    Colette writes her semi-autobiographical tales, which become a sensation.

    BBC Two

  8. The Disappearance of Pato

    Vigata, 1890 - a man vanishes after performing in the town's annual Easter play.

    BBC Four

  9. George Bernard Shaw - The Man of Destiny

    1796: a mysterious lady is drawn into a battle of wits with Napoleon

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  10. George Eliot

    Dramatisations of the novels of Mary Anne Evans, known by her pen name of George Eliot.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  11. England, Their England by AG Macdonell

    Injured in the Great War Donald Cameron writes a book on the curious habits of the English

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  12. Bullfight by Yasushi Inoue

    Inoue's 1949 novella. A newspaper editor in postwar Osaka agrees to sponsor a bullfight.

    BBC Radio 4

  13. Animal Farm by George Orwell

    The landmark allegory about hypocrisy and corruption of power.

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  14. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The great American novel of the Jazz Age and the elusive dream of Jay Gatsby.

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  15. The King Must Die

    A new dramatisation of Mary Renault's classic book, telling the story of Theseus.

    BBC Radio 4

  16. Pride and Prejudice

    The Bennet daughters react in very different ways to the arrival of their new neighbour.

    BBC Two

  17. The Great Gatsby (2000)

    Flamboyant millionaire Jay Gatsby pursues the love he lost while serving in World War I.

    BBC Two

  18. The Great Scott

    Walter Scott's novels are dramatised for radio

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  19. Animal Farm by George Orwell

    The landmark allegory about hypocrisy and corruption of power.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  20. Great Moments in Aviation

    Bound for England, a woman with dreams of becoming a pilot falls for a fellow passenger.

    BBC Four

  21. Paris Police

    French crime drama set during the period of the notorious Dreyfus affair.

    BBC Four

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  22. Ridley Road

    Drama about a young Jewish woman who goes undercover inside a fascist sect in the 1960s.

    BBC One

  23. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

    The great American novel of the Jazz Age. Read by Kyle Soller.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  24. Imperial Palace

    The 1930s goings on at London's luxury Imperial Palace hotel.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  25. The Pillow Book (Omnibus)

    Robert Forrest's popular thriller, set in 10th-century Japan. Omnibus editions.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  26. Suddenly Last Summer

    A wealthy matriarch seeks professional help for her niece after she witnesses a death.

    BBC Four

  27. A Warning to the Curious

    An archaeologist finds a long-lost crown believed to protect the country from invasion.

    BBC Two

  28. Little Novels by Wilkie Collins

    Ronald Pickup stars in five Victorian mysteries by Wilkie Collins

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

    A historian finds the clue to hidden treasure in an old stained-glass window.

    BBC Four

  30. A Very British Scandal

    The story behind the divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll in 1963.

    BBC One

  31. The Color Purple

    Celie fights to hold on to her self-esteem when she is forced into a brutal marriage.

    BBC One

  32. Stigma

    A family move to a remote country house and unwittingly unleash an ancient curse.

    BBC Four

  33. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

    Classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge, his ghostly visitations and festive redemption

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  34. The Ice House

    A man books into a countryside retreat, but does not find the solace he was looking for.

    BBC Four

  35. Around the World in 80 Days

    David Tennant stars in a new version of Jules Verne's classic adventure.

    BBC One

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  36. The Aftermath

    Two families forced to live together in postwar Germany face passion and betrayal.

    BBC Two

  37. In the Heart of the Sea

    A whaling ship's crew battle to stay alive after an encounter with a huge whale.

    BBC One

  38. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

    Sian Thomas reads Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel, set over one day in 1923.

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  39. Life After Life

    The story of Ursula Todd, who has an infinite number of chances to live her life.

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  40. The Librarian by Salley Vickers (Omnibus)

    Salley Vickers' lyrical tribute read by Barbara Flynn.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  41. Braveheart

    Mel Gibson's Oscar-winning epic about William Wallace's rebellion against Edward I.

    BBC One

  42. Much Ado About Nothing

    The RSC's production of one of Shakespeare's best-loved romantic comedies.

    BBC Four

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    Harriet O'Carroll - Minuet

    A young Jane Austen falls in love fuelling her desire to become a writer.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  44. The Imitation Game

    The story of Alan Turing, whose team of cryptographers cracked the German Enigma code.

    BBC One

  45. Macbeth

    David Tennant makes his first ever venture into playing the tyrannical Scottish King.

    BBC Radio 4

  46. Beau Geste

    PC Wren's classic Foreign Legion adventure about three brothers.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Emma

    Emma Woodhouse becomes an incorrigible matchmaker, oblivious to the consequences.

    BBC One

  48. Sunset Song

    The first part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Scots Quair trilogy.

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  49. KaDeWe - Our Time Is Now

    Drama series following four young friends as they seek self-fulfilment in the 1920s.

    BBC Four

  50. The English

    Two strangers are drawn together in a violent landscape built on dreams and blood.

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