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Categories: Drama: Classic & Period

  1. Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

    Bitter miser Ebenezer Scrooge is taken on a ghostly journey of self-redemption.

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  2. Hans Christian Andersen - The Snow Queen

    The classic, wintry fairy tale starring Diana Rigg, Bill Patterson and Dirk Bogarde.

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  3. The Turn of the Screw

    A governess becomes fearful that something evil is stalking the children under her care.

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  4. Cranford: Under the Bonnet

    Simon Woods goes behind the scenes to explore the success of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford.

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    Hamlet

    The Royal Shakespeare Company's modern-dress production of Shakespeare's great play.

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    Macbeth

    Orson Welles stars in and directs a controversial version of Shakespeare's play.

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  7. Little Women

    Film based on the Louisa May Alcott story about 1860s America. With Winona Ryder.

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  8. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

    In 18th-century France, a perfumier goes on a ruthless quest for the ultimate scent.

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  9. Water

    A girl is sent to live in a house of widows on the banks of the River Ganges.

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  10. David Pownall - Dreams and Censorship

    Shakespeare fears revolution over James I's translated Bible, with the Dream of St John.

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  11. CS Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

    Four young Blitz evacuees from London stumble upon a mystical land of perpetual winter.

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  12. Nicholas McInerny - Scrooge Blues

    One year after the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge - what of his business?

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  13. Toast

    Adaptation of chef Nigel Slater's autobiography, chronicling his bittersweet childhood.

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  14. CS Lewis - The Silver Chair

    Arriving in the enchanted land of Narnia, Eustace and Jill must find a missing Prince.

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  15. Shakespeare - Twelfth Night

    The Bard's comedy of mistaken identity, cruel practical jokes and lovelorn suitors.

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  16. A Bronx Tale

    A father feels powerless when his son becomes increasingly corrupted by a local gangster.

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  17. Glorious 39

    With Britain on the brink of war, a woman suspects she has stumbled upon a plot.

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  18. The Draughtsman's Contract

    An English noblewoman employs an arrogant artist to produce twelve pictures of her estate.

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  19. Far from the Madding Crowd

    A beautiful, headstrong young heiress has a profound effect on the three men in her life.

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  20. The Duchess

    The tumultuous life story of the 18th-century Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley).

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  21. Harley Granville-Barker - The Voysey Inheritance

    Edward discovers the family business he is inheriting has been defrauding its clients.

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  22. Mark Twain - The Million Pound Bank Note

    Can a man given a 拢1m banknote survive a month without spending a single penny of it?

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  23. The Young Victoria

    After a controlled childhood, Victoria (Emily Blunt) faces a fight to become queen.

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  24. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    Classic tale about a young man whose life is dogged by the machinations of his evil uncle.

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  25. David Copperfield

    Young David's happy childhood is blighted when his widowed mother remarries.

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  26. Dean Spanley

    A son attempts to find common ground with his distant father through spiritualism.

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  27. Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard

    A family faces the 1860s demise of Sicilian aristocracy. Adaptation stars Stanley Townsend

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  28. David Pownall - Kitty Wilkinson

    One woman combats squalor and institutional indifference in 19th-century Liverpool.

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  29. War and Peace

    Two Russian families face conflict as the nation prepares for Napoleon's invasion.

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  30. Bonifacio as t-samhradh/Bonifacio in Summertime

    Will Molly's mother, Queen Heloise, be tricked into marrying the evil scoundrel Bonifacio?

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  31. The Best of Men

    Entertaining drama about the birth of the Paralympics in 1948.

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  32. Jane Eyre

    A governess falls in love with her employer, unaware of his terrible secret.

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  33. Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

    Period drama about fashion designer Coco Chanel's affair with composer Igor Stavinsky.

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    Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House

    Ibsen's play transposed to India, 1879: Can Niru save her huband's reputation?

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  35. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Glittering Eye

    Celebrating Coleridge's captivating poem.

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  36. Albert Nobbs

    Industrious but introverted Albert (Glenn Close) hides a secret from the world.

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  37. Radio Drama at Ninety: Julius Caesar

    Members of Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Donmar group re-enact the first ever radio drama.

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  38. Wodehouse in Exile

    The story of how quintessential English author PG Wodehouse was exiled from his country.

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  39. Mansfield Park

    Period drama based on the Jane Austen novel and starring Frances O'Connor.

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  40. Ian Rankin's Cully - The Third Gentleman

    Cully, the 1790s Edinburgh sleuth investigates a set of ritualistic wine-cellar murders.

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  41. Wuthering Heights

    Adaptation of Emily Bronte's story of the tragic love affair. Starring Laurence Olivier.

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  42. Great Expectations (2012 film)

    Pip tries everything to win the heart of the rich, cold-blooded Estella.

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  43. GB Shaw - Androcles and the Lion

    Recorded in 1967, the Irish writer's interpretation of one of Aesop's Fables.

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  44. The Tempest

    Prospera is banished from Milan by her brother and finds herself stranded on an island.

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  45. Renoir

    Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir is revitalised by an inspirational young muse.

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  46. Molly Keane - Good Behaviour

    1920s tale of an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family. Revenge is sweeter for taking its time.

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  47. What Would Elizabeth Bennet Do?

    A 21st-century update of Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Can James win his girlfriend back?

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  48. Stanley Houghton - Hindle Wakes

    Lancashire, 1912. Can Fanny Hawthorn defy her parents' wishes for her future?

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  49. 102 Boulevard Haussmann

    Marcel Proust hires a string quartet and befriends the war-wounded viola player.

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  50. The Duchess of Malfi: 蜜芽传媒 Arts at the Globe

    From London's Globe, a production of John Webster's revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi.

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