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  1. Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre: Omnibus

    Amanda Hale stars in an adaptation of the classic Bronte novel

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  2. F Scott Fitzgerald - The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

    F Scott Fitzgerald's novella set in Montana where a family secret is starting to slip out

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  3. Thomas Hardy Short Stories - More Tales of Village Life

    Thomas Hardy's inimitable Wessex characters recount tales of Longpuddle life

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  4. Graham Swift - Mothering Sunday: Omnibus

    Eileen Atkins reads the tale of a maid who embarks on a secret affair with a wealthy lover

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  5. Kenneth Williams Reads: Cold Comfort Farm

    Kenneth Williams reads Stella Gibbons's 1932 classic tale

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  6. The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth

    Stephen Rea and Anna Healy star in the classic Anglo-Irish drama about class pretensions

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  7. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

    An unmarried governess is sent by her agency to the wrong booking. Stars Maureen Lipman.

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  8. Love, Nina

    Drama set in 1982. Nina moves to north London from Leicester to care for two young boys.

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  9. AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet

    John Harvey's 30-part dramatisation of AS Byatt's novels about the Potter family

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  10. Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

    George Bernard Shaw's classic tale of privilege and a battle of wills

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  11. AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (Omnibus)

    Omnibus edition of a dramatisation of AS Byatt's novels about the Potter family

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  12. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

    John Moffatt reads the classic tale of a butler's devoted service at a stately home

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  13. Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky

    Patrick Hamilton's tale of working-class emotions set between the wars in London

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  14. Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

    The haunting story of a terrible family secret begins in the 1930s

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  15. The Secret Agent

    London, 1886: A spy drags his family into a terror plot in this Joseph Conrad thriller

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  16. Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene (Omnibus)

    Comic take on a classic novel, with Bernard Cribbins

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  17. Crown House

    Family saga set in the early part of the 20th century

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  18. New Grub Street

    Christopher Douglas adapts George Gissing's 1891 novel.

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  19. Jezebel by Irene Nemirovsky

    Drama set in 1900s France adapted from Irene Nemirovsky's novella about Gladys Eysenach.

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  20. Close to the Enemy

    It is the end of WWII and Captain Callum Ferguson is assigned one final task for the Army.

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  21. My Mother and Other Strangers

    Drama series following the aftermath of a US military base being set up in a rural parish.

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  22. Rillington Place

    Three-part drama series based on the true story of serial killer John Christie.

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  23. Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen

    Sylvestra Le Touzel reads Karen Blixen's classic story.

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  24. Disneyfied

    Phill Jupitus on the effect Disney had turning classic children's stories into films

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  25. Jane Austen - Persuasion: Omnibus

    Jane Austen's tale about the changing fortunes of the Elliot family

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  26. Elizabeth Bowen - The House in Paris

    Two young children meet after the First World War in the home of elderly Madame Fisher.

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  27. Hearts of Gold

    Love story set in the South Wales valleys during the 1930s.

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  28. Jane Eyre

    Six-part television serial adapted from Charlotte Bronte's classic novel.

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  29. David Copperfield

    Star-studded adaptation of the Dickens classic. With Bob Hoskins and Daniel Radcliffe.

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  30. The Forsyte Saga

    Adaptation of John Galsworthy's novels of a prosperous English family from 1879 to 1926.

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  31. Gormenghast

    Based on Mervyn Peake's novel, Gormenghast focuses on life in the eponymous castle.

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  32. Jane Eyre

    Dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte's romantic novel.

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  33. Middlemarch

    George Eliot鈥檚 epic story of rural life, social change and the complexities of marriage.

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  34. Our Mutual Friend

    Epic Charles Dickens tale of passion, greed and betrayal.

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  35. The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

    Adaptation of the classic novel by Henry Fielding.

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  36. Wuthering Heights

    Dramatisation of Emily Bronte's haunting classic about doomed love and violent obsession.

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  37. Lorna Doone

    A tale of love, rivalry and revenge set in 17th century England.

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  38. Love in a Cold Climate

    Dramatisation of Nancy Mitford's novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate.

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  39. Crime and Punishment

    Tony Marchant's gripping version of one of the world's great crime thrillers.

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  40. The Moonstone

    1990s adaptation by Kevin Elyot of the classic detective novel by Wilkie Collins.

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  41. Portrait Of A Marriage

    Drama set in 1918 about Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson.

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  42. Vanity Fair

    William Thackeray's satire of English society during the Napoleonic wars.

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  43. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Three-part adaptation of Anne Bronte's novel.

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  44. War and Peace

    Dramatisation of Leo Tolstoy's epic story of love and loss.

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  45. Victoria Wood

    Six one-off situation comedies written by and starring Victoria Wood.

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  46. Penmarric

    The compelling story of the passionate loves and hatreds of a Cornish family.

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  47. A Horseman Riding By

    Drama following the life of Paul Craddock, who was severely injured during the Boer War.

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  48. Sense and Sensibility

    The story of two sisters with very different approaches to life and love, by Jane Austen.

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  49. The Pickwick Papers

    Mr Pickwick, Tupman, Winkle, Snodgrass and Sam Weller begin their travels through England.

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  50. Oliver Twist

    The 1985 adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens.

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