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  1. Chrissie Gittins - Life Assurance

    The Black Widows of Liverpool caused a national sensation in 1884.

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  2. Jonathan Cash - The First Domino

    Jonathan Cash's play was inspired by his survival of the 1999 Admiral Duncan pub bombing.

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  3. Young Victoria by Juliet Ace (Omnibus)

    A portrait of the extraordinary Queen's life, marriage and achievements.

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  4. You Will Be Safe Here (Omnibus)

    Written by Damian Barr. 100 years of South Africa's dark past and present.

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  5. Peter Wolf - Red Star Belgrade

    Bill Nighy plays Vratar - a Yugoslav goalkeeper in the Second World War.

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  6. Moon

    Apollo 11's five-day journey to the moon. A verbatim drama using original NASA transcripts

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  7. Renaissance Man: The Last Judgement of Giorgio Vasari

    Tom Conti stars as Medici court artist Giorgio Vasari in a story of pride, love and legacy

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  8. Moon (Omnibus)

    Apollo 11's five-day journey to the moon. A verbatim drama using original Nasa transcripts

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  9. Ulverton

    Two dramas bookend a multi-voice reading of Adam Thorpe's fictional historical novel.

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  10. Mr Lowry's Loves

    A dramatic imagining of the painter鈥檚 inner life and the friendships he formed.

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  11. Betsy and Napoleon

    The story of the relationship between Napoleon and Betsy Balcombe

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  12. David Goodland - The Voice of Angels

    Did Florence Maybrick poison her husband? True story of a miscarriage of justice.

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  13. Betsy and Napoleon (Omnibus)

    1815: Betsy Balcombe was 13 when Napoleon came to live in her garden on St Helena.

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  14. Romesh Gunesekera - Reef

    Romesh Gunesekera's first novel about a young chef employed by a marine scientist.

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  15. Gwyn Thomas - All Things Betray Thee

    When a harpist arrives in the iron town of Moonlea, he finds unrest.

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  16. Laurence Housman - Happy and Glorious

    1839: It's time for a young Queen Victoria to consider marriage 鈥� but who will she choose?

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  17. The Seventh Seal

    A knight returning from the crusades finds himself confronted by Death himself.

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  18. The King's Choice

    When Germany invades Norway on 9 April 1940, Norway's king faces a difficult choice.

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  19. The Confession by Jessie Burton (Omnibus)

    The new novel by Jessie Burton, bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse.

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  20. The Age of Shadows

    In Japanese-occupied 1920s Seoul, the police try to infiltrate the Korean resistance.

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  21. Pippa Gladhill - Maudie

    Elizabeth Bell reads a short story about the memories of a Victorian ship's figurehead.

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  22. The Vikings

    When Ragnar Lothbrok brings home a Saxon spy, it starts a brutal confrontation.

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  23. Silence

    Two Jesuit priests travel to 17th-century Japan to look for their missing mentor.

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  24. Isaac Newton: Nemesis

    By David Ashton. A counterfeiting gang steal Isaac Newton's supply of silver.

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  25. Marcy Kahan - Victorville

    Los Angeles, 1940, the most crucial collaboration in the history of cinema took place.

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  26. Mair

    Drama Nadolig gan Manon Steffan Ros.

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  27. The Greatest Story Ever Told

    Cinematic retelling of the life of Jesus Christ, with Max Von Sydow and Charlton Heston.

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  28. The Tree of Liberty

    Lt Gen Lacroix battles to police Amiens during the French Revolution. Stars David Calder.

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  29. Exile (Omnibus)

    One family's journey into the unknown aboard the Mayflower. Marking the 400th anniversary.

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  30. The Windermere Children

    The moving story of how the friendships forged at Windermere became a lifeline.

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  31. The Secret Guests by BW Black

    As bombs fall on London, plans are made for the safety of the two young princesses.

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  32. It鈥檚 True, It鈥檚 True, It's True: Artemisia on Trial

    Acclaimed play about Artemisia Gentileschi and the 1612 rape trial that gripped Rome.

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  33. The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus)

    As bombs fall on London, plans are made for the safety of the two young princesses.

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  34. Betrayal - The Trial of William Davidson

    A play by Tanika Gupta based on the Cato Street conspiracy of 1820 and the ensuing trial.

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  35. The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel

    Anton Lesser reads the final part of Hilary Mantel's award-winning Thomas Cromwell series.

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  36. The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel (Omnibus)

    The eagerly-awaited finale to Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell saga. Read by Anton Lesser.

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  37. Malory Towers

    Darrell and friends enjoy school life at Malory Towers, with adventure around every corner

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  38. Len Deighton - XPD

    Did Churchill meet Hitler in 1940? 40 years later, British 'SIS' is tasked to find out....

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  39. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

    An author (Lily James) makes some life-changing friends at a farmer's literary society.

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  40. Chappaquiddick

    Presidential hopeful Edward Kennedy chooses to leave the scene of a fatal car accident.

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  41. Poldark: The Miller's Dance by Winston Graham

    Richard Goulding reads the ninth book in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series.

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  42. The Order of the Day by Eric Vuillard

    脡ric Vuillard's novel is a chilling account of the Nazis' build-up to war in the 1930s.

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  43. Eleanor Rising

    Dramatic account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Based on fact, legend - and rumour.

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  44. Amundsen

    Film drama that tells the life story of Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen.

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  45. Balloon

    A family attempts to escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.

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  46. Na Tuinichean Mi-thoilichte

    Two freshly arrived Scottish settlers in 1780s Nova Scotia are in for a big surprise.

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  47. Phantom Thread

    1950s London. A dressmaker meets his match in new muse Alma, who resists being discarded.

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  48. Faith, Hope and Glory

    A century-spanning drama series tracing the emergence of modern Britain.

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  49. Tsar

    Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the Russian tsars.

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  50. Gudrun

    Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and faith inspired by the Icelandic sagas.

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