Drama: - All Programmes
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Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu
Classic supernatural tale by Sheridan Le Fanu
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector
Farcical tale by Gogol, adapted by Rene Basilico
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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I, Claudius
Serialisation of Robert Graves' story of the Roman emperor, read by Sir Derek Jacobi
BBC Radio 2
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Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess Durbeyfield struggles to overcome the pitfalls of rural poverty and ignorance.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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EM Forster - A Room with a View
EM Forster's novel about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian-era England.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
Last of Hardy's novels, featuring a young working-class man who dreams of being a scholar.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Cervantes' classic novel, adapted by John Arden with Bob Grant and Bernard Cribbins
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
Adaptation of the classic novel by Gaston Leroux
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Edith Wharton - The Reef
Daring novel, published in 1912, following the complicated love lives of four Americans.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas
George Cole and Teresa Gallagher star in a dramatisation of Sheridan le Fanu's novel.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Thomas Hardy - The Mayor Of Casterbridge
Helen Edmundson's dramatisation of Thomas Hardy's classic
BBC Radio 4
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George Eliot - Adam Bede
Dramatisation of the classic novel set in a Midlands village
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes
A love triangle between a young woman and her two suitors from very different backgrounds
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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DH Lawrence - Women in Love
DH Lawrence's story of two gentlemen with two very different responses to love.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
Flora Poste embarks on a career as a parasite and moves in with the Starkadders of Howling
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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George Orwell - Animal Farm
Bill Nighy reads George Orwell's famous cautionary fable
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Charlotte Bronte - Villette
Charlotte Brontë's novel about Lucy Snowe, who travels to Villette to take a teaching post
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Nicholas Nickleby Omnibus
Charles Dicken's classic tale of the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Christopher Marlowe Mysteries
Elizabethan playwright Kit Marlowe investigates a mystery in his own unique way
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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RL Stevenson - The Master of Ballantrae
Robert Louis Stevenson's buccaneering tale of family division in Jacobite times
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders
Hardy's tale of thwarted love and ambition, set amongst the woodsmen of Little Hintock
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte's classic love story, with Sophie Thompson and Ciaran Hinds
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Inimitable Jeeves
More escapades from PG Wodehouse's most famous creations, Jeeves and Wooster
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Omnibus)
John Hurt narrates Flaubert's infamous novel
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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RL Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Tim Pigott-Smith reads Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic tale of the monstrous Mr Hyde
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Anna Chancellor stars in George Eliot's classic 1876 novel dramatised by Robert Forrest.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Honoré de Balzac - The Black Sheep
Balzac's tale of family rivalry and fortunes lost and won, set in 19th-century France
BBC Radio 4
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Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (Omnibus)
Elizabeth Gaskell's novel depicts life in the lower classes of Manchester in the 1830s.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Tobias Smollet's uproarious satire of 18th century life, dramatised by Yvonne Antrobus
BBC Radio 4
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Four-part drama series based on the novel by Thomas Hardy, written by David Nicholls
BBC One
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Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
Dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's tale of faith, love and war, starring Ben Miles
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Henry James - Portrait of a Lady
Miriam Margolyes reads Henry James' classic novel
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
Classic family drama novel set in 19th-century New England
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives
Louisa May Alcott's classic sequel to Little Women. Stars Buffy Davis and Jemma Redgrave.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
Dramatisation of the classic novel by Victor Hugo, featuring Joss Ackland
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (Omnibus)
Dramatisation of the classic novel by Victor Hugo, featuring Joss Ackland
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan's parable about a pilgrim who tries to reach the Celestial City.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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