Classic Serial
Adaptations of works which have achieved classic status
Classic Serial - A Dance to the Music of Time
Michael Butt's dramatisation of Anthony Powell's epic series of novels
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Classic Serial - Alone in Berlin
Shelagh Stephenson's dramatisation of Hans Fallada's novel of Nazi Germany. When their son is killed "for Fuhrer and Fatherland", the Quangels begin to write anonymous postcards
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Classic Serial - Beau Geste
Dramatisation by Graeme Fife of PC Wren's classic story of honour, love and adventure. The Geste brothers run away from England, home and romance to join the French Foreign Legion
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Classic Serial - Bel Ami
Dramatisation of Guy de Maupassant's story of political corruption in the newspaper world of 19th-century France and the inexorable rise of the ambitious and ruthless Georges Duroy - 'Bel Ami'
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Classic Serial - Bright Day
Dramatisation by Diana Griffiths of the 1946 novel by JB Priestley. A chance encounter prompts disillusioned scriptwriter Gregory Dawson to rediscover his past
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Classic Serial - Cider with Rosie
Adaptation by Nick Darke of Laurie Lee's evergreen autobiography, which was recorded in and around the Slad Valley
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Classic Serial - Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady
Dramatisation by Hattie Naylor of the 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson
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Classic Serial - Classic Serial: No Name
John Fletcher's dramatisation of Wilkie Collins's tale of disguise, deception, and sacrifice. Directed by Kate McAll
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Classic Serial - Classic Serial: The Anatomy of Melancholy
Cock-and-bull story loosely based on Robert Burton's Jacobean tome. Dramatised by Lavinia Murray
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Classic Serial - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Dramatisation of Thomas De Quincey's 1821 autobiographical account of his consumption of the liquid opiate laudanum and his painful and surreal descent into addiction.
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Classic Serial - Coram Boy
Jamila Gavin's dramatisation of her own novel, which tells the story of two orphans at the Coram Hospital for Deserted Children in mid-18th century England
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Classic Serial - Down and out in Paris and London
Adaptation of George Orwell's classic semi-autobiographical account of living in both cities
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Classic Serial - Dr Zhivago
Jonathan Myerson's dramatisation of Boris Pasternak's epic tale spanning four decades of war, revolution, passion and terror
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Classic Serial - Fair Stood The Wind For France
Dramatisation by Maddy Fredericks of HE Bates's classic tale of danger, suspense and romance in WWII France
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Classic Serial - Felix Holt, the Radical
Michael Eaton's dramatisation of George Eliot's novel, a romance set in 1832 after the passing of the Great Reform Act. With Elliot Cowan, Susan Brown, Stephen Moore, Hayley Atwell
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Classic Serial - Flashman at the Charge
George MacDonald Fraser's dramatisation of his own novel, featuring adventurer, cad, lecher and coward Harry Flashman
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Classic Serial - Fortunes of War
Lin Coghlan's sweeping dramatisation of Olivia Manning's classic war novels
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Classic Serial - Germinal
Emile Zola's masterpiece brought vividly to life, dramatised by Diana Griffiths. Set in 1860s France, a struggling mining community takes refuge in the revolutionary young outsider, Étienne
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Classic Serial - Goodbye to Berlin
Tina Pepler's dramatisation of Christopher Isherwood's semi-autobiographical novel set in 1930s Germany
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Classic Serial - Howards End
Dramatisation of EM Forster's classic novel exploring the class structure and social upheavals of Edwardian England through the intertwined fortunes of three families
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Classic Serial - I, Claudius
Robin Brooks' dramatisation of Robert Graves' scandalous histories of Roman political vice
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Classic Serial - Loving
John Banville's two-part dramatisation of Henry Green's tale of life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during World War II
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Classic Serial - Mahabharata
Dramatisation of one of the most important literary and oral texts of South Asia, adapted by by Jatinder Verma and Claudia Mayer
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Classic Serial - Matilda
Dramatisation by Charlotte Jones of Roald Dahl's modern children's classic about a cool, calm, pint-size five-year-old genius
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Classic Serial - Maurice
EM Forster's story of a young man from the suburbs who embarks on a journey of self-understanding, dramatised by Philip Osment
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Classic Serial - Moby Dick
Stef Penney's adaptation of Herman Melville's classic American novel about the pursuit of a great whale
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Classic Serial - Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour
Scott Cherry's dramatisation of R S Surtees's picaresque romp following the fortunes of a man determined to better himself at the perpetual expense of others
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Classic Serial - Mrs Lirriper
Ellen Dryden's dramatisation of Charles Dickens's neglected classic
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Classic Serial - Mugsborough
Dramatisation by Andrew Lynch featuring the characters of Robert Tressell's novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, picking up the story 10 years on
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Classic Serial - My Cousin Rachel
Two-part dramatisation of Daphne Du Maurier's tale of obsession, paranoia and jealousy, adapted by Robin Brooks. With Carl Prekopp, Lia Williams, Damian Lewis, and Emily Wachter
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Classic Serial - My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell's classic comic tale, dramatised in two parts by Janys Chambers
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Classic Serial - My Name Is Red
Ayeesha Menon's dramatisation of Orhan Pamuk's murder mystery set in Istanbul in 1590
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Classic Serial - Neglected Classics - Miss Mackenzie
By Anthony Trollope. A story of money, relationships and love
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Classic Serial - Neglected Classics: The Snow Goose
Dramatisation by Nick Warburton of the novella by Paul Gallico. A wounded bird brings together a disfigured artist and a young girl and helps in a courageous act of bravery in WWII.
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Classic Serial - Now, Voyager
By Olive Higgins Prouty, dramatised by Neville Teller. A dowdy, frustrated spinster takes the psychiatric cure, voyages forth and embarks on a doomed love affair.
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Classic Serial - Of Mice and Men
Dramatisation of John Steinbeck's seminal 1937 novel about migrant workers in 1930s California whose dream of one day owning a place of their own is tragically destroyed.
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Classic Serial - On The Beach
Dramatisation of Nevil Shute's 1957 novel that imagines the aftermath of a nuclear war, as the fallout makes its way towards a group of survivors in Southern Australia
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Classic Serial - Plantagenet
Series of plays by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles, chronicling the early years of the Plantagenet dynasty
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Classic Serial - Portrait of a Lady
Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce, about a young American girl in England
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Classic Serial - Rendezvous with Rama
Dramatisation of the novel by Arthur C Clarke, set in the 22nd century. A mysterious object appears in the solar system and the crew of the space vessel Endeavour set out to investigate it
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Classic Serial - Resurrection
Dramatisation of Tolstoy's last major work, in which a man fights to overturn a woman's sentence, believing himself partly responsible for her predicament
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Classic Serial - Robinson Crusoe and his Farther Adventures
Adaptation of Daniel Defoe's less famous sequel to the classic adventure Robinson Crusoe
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Classic Serial - Solaris
Hattie Naylor's two-part dramatisation of Stansilaw Lem's modern sci-fi classic
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Classic Serial - Something Fresh
Dramatisation of PG Wodehouse's 1915 comic tale, the first in his series of Blandings novels
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Classic Serial - Summer Lightning
Dramatisation by Archie Scottney of PG Wodehouse's timeless comic classic
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Classic Serial - Sunset Song
Dramatisation of the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, set in a Scottish farming community before and during WWI. Chris Guthrie is torn between her love of the land and her ambition to become a teacher
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Classic Serial - Tennyson's Maud
Joseph Millson reads Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1855 dark and lyrical poem, Maud, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the poet's birth.
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Classic Serial - The A-Z of Dr Johnson - Boswell's Life of Johnson
Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of James Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson, to celebrate the 300th aniiversary of Johnson's birth
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Classic Serial - The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, dramatised by Jane Rogers, about a passionate love affair which breaks all the rules of the restrictive high society of 1870s New York
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Classic Serial - The Black Sheep
Chris Dolan's dramatisation of Honore de Balzac's tale of family rivalry and fortunes lost and won, set in 19th-century France
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Classic Serial - The Card
Jennifer Howarth's dramatisation of Arnold Bennett's exuberant and cheerful story charting the rise and rise of Denry Machin in nineteenth-century Bursley
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Classic Serial - The Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy
Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's classic novel. George Smiley is called out of retirement to seek out a mole believed to be at the heart of the Circus
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Classic Serial - The Complete Smiley - The Looking Glass War
Dramatisation of John le Carre's novel, the fourth to feature spymaster George Smiley
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Classic Serial - The Complete Smiley - The Secret Pilgrim
Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley
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Classic Serial - The Complete Smiley - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley, set in Berlin in the early 1960s
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Classic Serial - The Custom of the Country
Dramatisation by Jane Rogers of Edith Wharton's 1913 satire of marriage and money in early-20th century American society
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Classic Serial - The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Tobias Smollet's uproarious satire of 18th century life, dramatised by Yvonne Antrobus
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Classic Serial - The Experiences of an Irish RM
Christopher Fitz-Simon's two-part adaptation of the comic novels of Somerville and Ross, set in late-nineteenth century Ireland
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Classic Serial - The Glass Bead Game
Dramatisation by Lavinia Greenlaw of Hermann Hesse's classic 1943 novel set in a futuristic, utopian society
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Classic Serial - The Good Soldier Svejk
Dramatisation by Christopher Reason of the satirical Czech novel by Jaroslav Hasek that charts the exploits of a WWI soldier
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Classic Serial - The Grand Babylon Hotel
Murder mystery by Arnold Bennett, adapted in two parts by Chris Harrald
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Classic Serial - The Heart of Midlothian
Gerda Stevenson's two-part dramatisation of Walter Scott's classic tale of political revolt set in Edinburgh in 1737
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Classic Serial - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic tale set in 15th-century Paris, dramatised in a collaboration between the BBC and Graeae, the disabled-led theatre company
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Classic Serial - The Invasion - Arab Chronicles of the First Crusade
By Jonathan Myerson. The story of the First Crusade, re-imagined from the Arab point of view, using the chronicles of the period
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Classic Serial - The Ladies' Delight
Carine Adler's dramatisation of Emile Zola's love story, set in one of Paris' first department stores
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Classic Serial - The Making of a Machioness
Frances Hodgson Burnett's romance, dramatised by Michelene Wandor. Featuring Charles Dance, Miriam Margolyes, Lucy Briers and Joanna David. Directed by Chris Wallis
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Classic Serial - The Mayor Of Casterbridge
Helen Edmundson's dramatisation of Thomas Hardy's classic
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Classic Serial - The Moonstone
Doug Lucie's dramatisation of Wilkie Collins' detective masterpiece from 1868
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Classic Serial - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Andrew Lynch's dramatisation of Robert Tressell's celebrated socialist masterpiece following a group of exploited builders renovating a house in the early 1900s
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Classic Serial - The Ring and the Book
Robert Browning's poetic masterpiece of sex, lies and murder, adapted by Martyn Wade
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Classic Serial - The Siege of Krishnapur
Dramatisation by Shelagh Stephenson of the novel by JG Farrell. It is 1857 and British rule in India is under threat
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Classic Serial - The Silver Fox
By Somerville and Ross, dramatised by Christopher Fitz-Simon. Captain Hugh French, newly married and recently returned from India, has reopened his ancestral pile in West Cork
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Classic Serial - The Waves
Terence Davies's two-part dramatisation of Virginia Woolf's story of the lives of six friends from early childhood to middle age
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Classic Serial - The Wings of the Dove
Dramatisation by Linda Marshall Griffiths of Henry James's classic 1902 novel
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Classic Serial - The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard's gripping account of his experiences as the youngest member of Captain Scott's polar expedition team, adapted by Stef Penney
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Classic Serial - Therese Raquin
Dramatisation of the novel by Emile Zola, set in mid-19th century Paris
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Classic Serial - To Sir with Love
Roy Williams's dramatisation of E R Braithwaite's story set in a radical school in postwar London
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Classic Serial - Tom Jones
Stephen Wyatt's adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic comic adventure The Life of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Classic Serial - Troilus and Criseyde
Dramatisation of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde for radio by poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw
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Classic Serial - Two on a Tower
Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of star-crossed lovers in the West Country
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