Drama: - All Programmes
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Bartleby the Scrivener
A law firm's copyist 'prefers' not to do parts of his job.
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The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelly's fantastical tale explores man's fascination with eternal life and elixirs.
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The Legend of Robin Hood
The great English hero's adventures take him from Sherwood to the Holy Land and back.
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Johanna Spyri - Heidi
A Swiss mountain girl must leave her grandfather to move to Frankfurt with her aunt.
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The Tomb by HP Lovecraft
The obsessive Jervas Dudley reveals how he came to be incarcerated in an asylum.
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Bernard Pomerance - The Elephant Man
A disfigured man is rescued from a Victorian freak show. But what is 'normality'?
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Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
Costume drama inspired by the life and loves of East End music hall legend Marie Lloyd.
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The Cider House Rules
Tobey Maguire plays a doctor who wants to experience life beyond his orphanage.
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A Cock and Bull Story
Tristram Shandy guides viewers through the epic tale of his life.
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Henry V
Shakespearean drama about the king's invasion of France and the Battle of Agincourt.
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Macbeth
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 7 pays tribute to Paul Scofield with this 1960s production of The Scottish Play.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 7
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Romeo and Juliet
The Royal Ballet, Fonteyn and Nureyev dance Shakespeare's tragedy of star-crossed lovers.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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She
Palestine 1918. An expedition sets out to find a lost city and the flame of eternal life.
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Orson Welles - War of the Worlds
The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast that caused panic in America on Halloween in 1938
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A View from a Hill
An archaeologist is sent to authenticate a collection and finds a gruesome local legend.
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Finding Neverland
Fact-based drama about events that inspired JM Barrie (Johnny Depp) to write Peter Pan.
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Mrs Henderson Presents
Judi Dench stars as a theatre owner whose idea of using on-stage nudity raises eyebrows.
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Adaptation of Tracy Chevalier's hit novel, starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson.
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Ballet Shoes
When their adoptive father goes missing, three young girls must take to the stage.
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The Story of an African Farm
Drama about three children who are brought up on a South African farm in the 1870s.
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Persuasion
Adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel about the enduring power of love.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen's story of a girl whose head is full of romantic notions about the world.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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The English Patient
A badly burned pilot recounts a doomed love affair to the nurse tending him.
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Miss Austen Regrets
Jane appears happily unmarried, until she reflects on previous suitors and life choices.
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Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey
A young woman dismays her family by choosing to earn her own living as a governess.
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The Name of the Rose
Thriller set in an Italian monastery in the Middle Ages, based on Umberto Eco's novel.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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The Merchant of Venice
A Jewish moneylender seeks to forfeit a literal pound of flesh from his Christian nemesis.
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Einstein and Eddington
British astronomer Arthur Eddington supports Albert Einstein's theories.
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Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
Mole, Ratty, Toad and Badger's famous adventure dramatised and narrated by Alan Bennett.
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The Leopard
Epic drama which details the slow fall from power of a Sicilian aristocrat.
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Marie Lloyd, Queen of the Halls
Three husbands, but thousands coming out for the funeral of the great music hall star.
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas' magical poem, set in a small Welsh town. Read by singer Cerys Matthews.
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The Gift of The Magi
Cherrie McIlwaine reads the classic tale of a down at heel young couple at Christmas.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Ulster
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Nicholas Nickleby
Adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel starring Jamie Bell and Jim Broadbent.
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The Man Who Would Be King
Colourful epic in which two British soldiers become godlike rulers in colonial India.
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Honeydripper
Drama. Ageing Tyrone Purvis tries to save his nightclub from being taken over by the mob.
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JM Barrie - The Admirable Crichton
Adaptation of JM Barrie's satire about the fortunes of Crichton, the perfect butler.
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Noel Coward - The Better Half
A wife's selflessness may conceal a hidden agenda. Surprisingly modern comedy.
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Alick Rowe - Odysseus on an Iceberg
A comic re-telling of the legendary figure's protracted journey home from the Trojan War.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Halle Berry plays a free-spirited woman, challenging her small-town in 1920s America.
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Breaking the Mould: The Story of Penicillin
Drama uncovering the forgotten team involved in the development of penicillin.
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Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
A well-bred horse hits hard times and poor health due to overwork.
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Becoming Jane
Anne Hathaway stars as the young Jane Austen, chronicling her romance with an Irishman.
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Murder Rooms: the Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Drama inspired by the real-life relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Bell.
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Richard III
Celebrating Maida Vale at 75, William Shakespeare's play about the tyrant's rise to power.
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George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying
In 1930's London, would-be poet Gordon Comstock tries not to conform.
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Enid
Surprising and illuminating drama about the life of children's storyteller Enid Blyton.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum
When a tornado lands Dorothy in Oz, she must battle her way to get back home...
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4