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Categories: Drama: Classic & Period

  1. LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

    Dramatisation of the LM Montgomery novel about an impetuous red-headed girl

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  2. Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

    Classic tale about the turbulent childhood of orphan Pip. Starring Maggie Steed

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 7

  3. Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

    Eccentric explorer Gum collects fossils - and three orphans whose names begin with 'P'

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 7

  4. A Passionate Woman

    Period drama. A housewife's life is turned upside down by a handsome Polish man.

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  5. Nina Bawden's The Outside Child

    Coming-of-age story about Jane, who discovers that a secret is being kept from her

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 7

  6. Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking

    The escapades of Sweden's strongest little girl. Read by Sandi Toksvig

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 7

  7. Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie

    Adaptation by Nick Darke of Laurie Lee's evergreen autobiography

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  8. Peter Pan by JM Barrie

    Dramatisation of the classic children's story with Toyah Willcox as Peter Pan.

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  9. AA Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh

    Alan Bennett reads the children's classic

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  10. Money

    An adaptation of Martin Amis's blackly comedic novel starring Nick Frost as John Self.

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  11. Sir Peter Shaffer - Amadeus

    F Murray Abraham reads the play about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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  12. Rosemary Sutcliff - The Eagle of the Ninth

    Historical adventure following the exploits of young Roman officer Marcus Flavius Aquila

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  13. AA Milne's The House at Pooh Corner

    Alan Bennett reads the children's classic

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  14. Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore

    Historical romance set in late 17th-century Devon. Stars Alison Pettit

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  15. Rumer Godden - Black Narcissus

    A group of nuns establish a remote mission in the Himalayas. Stars Emma Fielding

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  16. Emil and the Detectives

    A young boy enlists the services of Berlin street boys to help him catch a thief

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  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot

    After years spent abroad, Prince Myshkin courageously returns to Russian society

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  18. Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Goes Abroad

    The escapades of Pippi Longstocking, Sweden's strongest little girl. Read by Sandi Toksvig

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  19. Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian

    Set in 18th century Scotland. An Edinburgh woman tries to save her accused sister's life

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  20. Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda

    Swashbuckling adventure set in fictional Ruritania in the 1890s. Starring Douglas Hodge

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  21. Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game

    Dramatisation of Hermann Hesse's classic 1943 novel set in a futuristic, utopian society

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  22. Edith Wharton - The Reef Omnibus

    Daring novel, published in 1912, following the complicated love lives of four Americans

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  23. E Nesbit - The Phoenix and the Carpet

    Children's 1901 fantasy novel read by Patricia Hodge

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  24. James Hilton - Lost Horizon

    After a plane crash, Hugh Conway claims to have stumbled upon the utopian Shangri-La

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  25. The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm

    Dinsdale Landen reads Norman Hunter's classic children's story about an eccentric boffin

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  26. Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth

    A pretty orphan is apprenticed to a dressmaker

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  27. Lady Chatterley's Lover

    DH Lawrence's tale of the steamy affair between an aristocrat's wife and a gamekeeper

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  28. Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

    Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens star in Tolstoy's love story set in 19th-century Russia

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  29. Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    Victor Hugo's gothic classic stars David Bower

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  30. Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls

    Michael Palin stars in Nikolai Gogol's satirical tale

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  31. The Nutcracker and The Mouse King

    ETA Hoffman's classic Christmas tale stars Tony Robinson

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 7

  32. Peter Pan and Wendy

    Alan Bennett reads the tale of the little boy who would not grow up

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  33. A House to Let

    Marcia Warren stars in a tale of a woman who notes signs of life in a derelict house

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  34. Jane Harris - Gillespie and I

    Victorian gothic mystery, set in Glasgow during the International Exhibition in 1888.

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  35. Jeeves in Manhattan

    One-man performances by Martin Jarvis from the Cheltenham Literature Festival

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  36. MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions

    Epic story of love and war in 19th-century India, starring Blake Ritson.

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  37. Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov

    The unpredictable Fyodor Karamazov and his sons reunite to discuss Dmitry's inheritance

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  38. Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

    Arnold Bennett's tale of love, tyranny and rebellion dramatised by Helen Edmundson

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  39. Olivia Manning - Fortunes of War

    Young newlywed Harriet Pringle arrives in Bucharest in 1939

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  40. 32 Brinkburn Street

    Drama moving between the lives, loves and lies of two generations of the same family.

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  41. EM Forster - Howard's End

    When Helen Schlegel stays at the Wilcox's family country home, her life is changed forever

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  42. Room at the Top

    Adaptation of John Braine's novel about a young man on the make in 1940s Yorkshire

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  43. Michelle Magorian - Back 蜜芽传媒

    Wartime evacuee Rusty returns to Britain, and meets a mother she doesn't recognise

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  44. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

    In 1920s America, Nick Carraway moves in next door to the mysterious Gatsby.

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  45. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

    Molly Gibson is the only daughter of a widowed doctor who must spend time away from him.

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  46. Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky

    Adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's classic trilogy of unrequited love, set in 1930s London.

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  47. Stella Gibbons - Westwood

    In 1943 London, Margaret Steggles falls under the spell of the wealthy Challis family.

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  48. Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities

    Dickens's classic story, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution

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  49. Great Expectations (2011)

    Orphan Pip becomes a gentleman when his life is transformed by a mystery benefactor.

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  50. The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    A two-part period drama adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens

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