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Categories: Drama: Classic & Period

  1. Everlasting Moments

    An abused Swedish housewife's amateur photography helps her cope and see the world anew.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  2. War Horse

    The beloved horse of a farmer's son is sold to the army on the dawn of the First World War

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 2

  3. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

    Sea captain Marlow is ordered to sail up the Congo.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  4. Gwyneth Hughes - Victory

    Drama about the love triangle of Horatio Nelson, William Hamilton and Emma, Lady Hamilton

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  5. Shakespeare - Henry at Agincourt

    A sequence from Shakespeare's Henry V, broadcast on the eve of St George's Day 1956.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  6. Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse (Omnibus)

    Despite the weather forecast, young James is determined to reach the lighthouse off Skye.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  7. Kate Chopin - The Awakening (Omnibus)

    Adaptation of the novel that shocked America in 1899.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  8. Dylan Thomas: The Outing

    Actor Matthew Rhys reads Dylan Thomas's story of a trip to the seaside.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio Wales

  9. Dostoyevsky - The Friend of the Family

    Russia, 1859: Chaos in the Manor of Stephanchikovo when an ex-sergeant assumes a new role.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  10. Franz Kafka - The Trial

    Joseph K is an unexceptional man. Then one day he is arrested, but what is his crime?

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  11. The White Countess

    A countess (Natasha Richardson) saves a blind ex-diplomat (Ralph Fiennes) from an attack.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  12. Juliette Binoche: Antigone at the Barbican

    Sophocles's tale of family loyalty, courage and tragedy, filmed at the Barbican in London.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  13. Cyrano de Bergerac (Omnibus)

    Glyn Maxwell's adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  14. Finishing School

    Teenage Virginia is so unhappy at her finishing school that she even contemplates suicide.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  15. Shirley Gee - Moonshine

    London, 1937: Harriet must battle Ada, the new nanny, for the love of her young daughter.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  16. Lady Chatterley's Lover

    A beautiful young aristocrat embarks on a forbidden affair with a servant.

    蜜芽传媒 One

  17. George Bernard Shaw - Press Cuttings

    Written in 1909, Shaw pokes fun at the suffragettes' votes for women campaign.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  18. Dion Boucicault - London Assurance

    4 Extra Debut. 1840: Sir Harcourt Courtly is aiming to capture young Grace Harkaway.

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  19. The Dresser

    Stage hand Norman struggles to support the tyrannical head of a theatre company.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  20. Alexandre Dumas - The Lady of the Camellias Omnibus

    Armand is too late to see the love of his life Marguerite before she dies.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  21. Utopia by Thomas More

    Explorer Raphael Hythloday tells Thomas More about a mystical island.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  22. John Galsworthy - The Forsytes: Omnibus

    An epic story of sex, money and power in an upper class family across 50 years.

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  23. John Galsworthy - The Forsytes Continues: Omnibus

    A newly married Fleur embraces the social whirl of 1920s London. Starring Jessica Raine.

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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Classic Shakespeare play adapted for television by Russell T Davies.

    蜜芽传媒 One

  25. Anton Chekhov - The Seagull

    1896: Life for people on the Sorin's country estate in Russia.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  26. John Galsworthy - The Forsytes Returns Omnibus

    Soames fears history will repeat itself as Fleur rushes headlong towards Jon.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  27. Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen (Omnibus)

    A few years after the French Revolution, maid Babette cooks her employers a special meal

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  28. King Lear

    A portrait of a man unravelling - pitted against his daughters, nature and the universe.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  29. The Lady Vanishes

    A beautiful young socialite faces danger while trying to solve a disappearance.

    蜜芽传媒 One

  30. The Happy Lands

    The journey of a mining community as they are pushed inevitably towards a labour conflict.

    蜜芽传媒 Two Scotland

  31. The Whale

    Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex.

    蜜芽传媒 One

  32. Under Milk Wood

    A production of Dylan Thomas's famous play enacted by a community of Welsh performers.

    蜜芽传媒 One Wales

  33. An Inspector Calls

    A mysterious inspector interrupts a wealthy family's party with shocking news.

    蜜芽传媒 One

  34. Alice Through the Looking Glass

    Dramatisation of Lewis Carroll鈥檚 classic tale, in which Alice enters a surreal world.

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  35. Cider with Rosie

    Adaptation of Laurie Lee's memoir of growing up in the Slad Valley during and after WWI.

    蜜芽传媒 One

  36. Twelfth Night

    Shakespeare鈥檚 classic comedy of gender confusion, filmed in Castle Howard in Yorkshire.

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  37. Alice in Wonderland

    Adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel. Directed by Jonathan Miller.

    蜜芽传媒 One

  38. Tower of London: The Innocent

    Fourteen years since the civil war鈥檚 bloodshed, many are plotting to seize the crown.

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  39. Under Mik Wood

    An adaptation of Dylan Thomas's famous 'play for voices' reimagined for television.

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  40. Cider With Rosie

    A play based on Laurie Lee's book, recalling his childhood in an English village.

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  41. The Gathering Storm

    A look at Winston Churchill's life and struggles in the years leading up to World War II.

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  42. To Walk Invisible

    The story of the Bronte sisters, who overcame a life of hardship to become great writers.

    蜜芽传媒 One

  43. EastEnders: CivvyStreet

    In Christmas 1942, Ethel and Lou live through the war in Albert Square.

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  44. Louisa May Alcott - Little Women (Omnibus)

    Classic family drama novel set in 19th-century New England. Stars Natasha J Barnes

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  45. The Playboy of the Western World

    Pegeen is set to wed a timorous Irish farmer, until a real adventurer walks into her life.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  46. The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Miserables (Omnibus)

    David Bellos explores why Les Miserables is 鈥淔rance鈥檚 greatest gift鈥�.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  47. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

    Rachel Joyce adapts Anne Bronte's debut novel about self-discovery and the search for love

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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  48. Mansfield Park

    A quiet rebellion amid wealth and whispers. A Jane Austen classic.

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  49. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (Omnibus)

    Can life as a governess ever bring happiness and contentment?

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  50. Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (Omnibus)

    Hattie Morahan reads a tale of a marriage that reflects turbulent times in the 1790s

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

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