Woman's Hour Drama
Classic and contemporary original drama and book dramatisations
Woman's Hour Drama - 43 Years in the Third Form
A celebration of the great girls' comics from the 50s to the 80s, by Jane Purcell
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Woman's Hour Drama - 5 Days in July
Short plays by Mike Walker focusing on a London family during the first week of July 2005
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Woman's Hour Drama - A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Xiaolu Guo's romantic comedy about two lovers who don't speak each other's language, adapted by Sarah LeFanu
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Woman's Hour Drama - A Confidential Agent (Retired)
The further adventures of Nick McCarty's former private investigator Liz Parker, now retired in France
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Woman's Hour Drama - A Kind Of Loving
Dramatisation of Stan Barstow's classic novel set in 1950s and 60s Yorkshire about 20-year-old Vic Brown's infatuation for Ingrid, which develops into an emotional crisis
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Woman's Hour Drama - A Life of Chekhov
Michael Hastings' adaptation of Irene Nemirovsky's biography of Anton Chekhov, dramatising crucial points in his life
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Woman's Hour Drama - A Nightingale Sang in Fernhurst Road
Christopher Matthew's gently comic tale of life in postwar suburban Surrey
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Woman's Hour Drama - A Pin to See the Peep Show
Scott Cherry's dramatisation of F Tennyson Jesse's novel inspired by a highly controversial murder trial of the 1920s
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Woman's Hour Drama - A Short History of Longing
Shelagh Stephenson's comic study of loneliness through the authors of personal ads in newspapers and magazines
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Woman's Hour Drama - A Small Town Murder
Crime mystery by Scott Cherry, featuring police family liaison officer Sue Hartwell
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Woman's Hour Drama - A Small Town Murder, series 2
Crime mystery by Scott Cherry, featuring police family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell
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Woman's Hour Drama - A Small Town Murder, series 3
Crime mystery featuring police family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell
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Woman's Hour Drama - A Taste For Death
Dramatisation of PD James's mystery. Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates when a tramp and an ex-government minister are found murdered in a church vestry
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Woman's Hour Drama - About Love
Series five short stories by Anton Chekhov on the subject of marriage, dramatised by Martyn Wade
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Woman's Hour Drama - Absent
By Mark Davies Markham. A Liverpudlian ex-squaddie learns how to be a father when he's separated from his children
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Woman's Hour Drama - All Passion Spent
Adaptation of the 1931 novel by Vita Sackville-West about an old widow who defies her children to embark on an independent life after her husband dies
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Woman's Hour Drama - Amazing Grace
Drama by Michelle Lipton, inspired by a true story. A Sudanese refugee mother's fight to find and bring home her children
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Woman's Hour Drama - An Expert in Murder
1930s murder mystery blanding fact with fiction, featuring Scottish crime writer Josephine Tey
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Woman's Hour Drama - An Unsuitable Attachment
Dramatisation by Jennie Howarth of Barbara Pym's story of love in unfashionable north London in 1960
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Woman's Hour Drama - And Is There Honey Still For Tea?
Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence
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Woman's Hour Drama - Au Pairs
Comedy by David and Caroline Stafford following the fortunes of two au pairs, Alvy from Ireland and Dorkia from Hungary, who bond over their mutual condemnation of modern parenting
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Woman's Hour Drama - Aubrey's Brief Lives
By Nick Warburton. Collection of anecdotes by genial eccentric John Aubrey about the great and good of the 16th and 17th century, set against the story of his friendship with antiquarian Anthony Wood
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Woman's Hour Drama - Balance of Power
Deborah Davis's tale of power struggles in the court of Queen Anne
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Woman's Hour Drama - Beyond Black
Dramatisation of Hilary Mantel's blackly comic novel about a professional medium with a troubled past
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Woman's Hour Drama - Black Narcissus
Rumer Godden's tale of a group of nuns who establish a remote mission in the Himalayas
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Woman's Hour Drama - Blood in the Bridal Shop
Comedy by Nancy Harris and Louise Ramsden, set just a week before Lydia and Trevor's wedding. Each episode sees the events from a different point of view
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Woman's Hour Drama - Bollywood Jane
Amanda Whittington's story of a young woman who discovers the magic of Indian cinema
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Woman's Hour Drama - Celluloid Extras
Series of short plays exploring the secret world of a minor character in a classic film
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Woman's Hour Drama - Cheri
Colette's tale of a love affair between a Parisian courtesan and a man half her age, set in Paris before WW1
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Woman's Hour Drama - Daunt and Dervish
Another adventure for Guy Meredith's female private eyes, set in 1953
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Woman's Hour Drama - Daunt and Dervish
Another adventure for Guy Meredith's female private eyes, set in 1956
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Woman's Hour Drama - Dear Mr Spectator
By Elizabeth Kuti, adapted from and inspired by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele's 18th century 'Spectator' essays
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Woman's Hour Drama - Dear Mr Spectator, series 2
By Elizabeth Kuti, adapted from and inspired by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele's 18th century 'Spectator' essays
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Woman's Hour Drama - Degrees Of Separation
Series of linked stories by Katie Hims on the theme of separation, based on experiences sent in by Woman's Hour listeners
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Woman's Hour Drama - Diary of an On-Call Girl
Yvonne Antrobus's dramatisation of the blogs and book by 'WPC Ellie Bloggs', the anonymous blogger who is also a serving police officer
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Woman's Hour Drama - Dombey and Son
Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships
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Woman's Hour Drama - Dusty Answer
Dramatisation by Lavinia Greenlaw of the debut novel by Rosamond Lehmann, about the education of Judith Earle, the only child of an academic father and socialite mother
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Woman's Hour Drama - Falco: Poseidons Gold
Dramatisation of the novel by Lindsey Davis, featuring her Roman detective, Falco. Back in Rome after his adventures in Germania, Falco finds himself accused of murder
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Woman's Hour Drama - Faust
A reworking of the fable about a man who sells his soul to the devil, adapted by Martin Jenkins and dramatised by Jonathan Holloway
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Woman's Hour Drama - Five Wedding Dresses
Series of dramas by Katie Hims about brides dressing for wedding ceremonies and the significance and symbolism of the dress itself
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Woman's Hour Drama - Flesh
Tilly Black's darkly funny tale of a journalist who takes on an assignment to write about the booming cosmetic surgery industry and becomes seduced by its promises of rejuvenation and reinvention
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Woman's Hour Drama - Gifted
Nikita Lalwani's story of a talented mathematician who wins a place at Oxford at 15 but struggles to grow up and escape the excessive strictures of family life
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Woman's Hour Drama - Heartburn
Satire on the world of the American East Coast smart set by Nora Ephron
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Woman's Hour Drama - How Does That Make You Feel? (Ordinary's Not Enough)
By Shelagh Stephenson. Following psychotherapist Martha and her dealings with a series of patients
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Woman's Hour Drama - How I Live Now
Meg Rosoff's award-winning story of teenage love set in the near future, adapted by Elizabeth Burke
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Woman's Hour Drama - How Shall I Tell the Dog?
Miles Kington died of cancer in January 2008. Given little time to live by his doctors he decided to make his cancer 'pay its way' by suggesting absurd ideas for a book to his agent, Gill
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Woman's Hour Drama - Hysteria
Steve Chambers' drama about rising hysteria in Middlesbrough over the murders of prostitutes
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Woman's Hour Drama - India and Pakistan 07: Q and A
By Ayeesha Menon, from the novel by Vikas Swarup. An Indian street kid wins a place on a TV quiz. With Anand Tiwari, Sohrab Ardeshir, Henry Goodman, Caran Arora. Directed by John Dryden
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Woman's Hour Drama - Inside the Whale
Jennie Roonie's tragi-comic tale of two lovers as they look back on their lives that should have been spent together
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Woman's Hour Drama - Island Blue
Gerda Stevenson's tale of family relationships and deception, set on a remote Scottish island
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Woman's Hour Drama - Jane and Prudence
Barbara Pym's delightful comedy of rural relationships, set in 1950, about two women in pursuit of happiness
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Woman's Hour Drama - Ladies of Letters Crunch Credit
By Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman, featuring comic heroines Irene and Vera
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Woman's Hour Drama - Ladies of Letters Go Crackers
Prunella Scales and Anne Reid star in this fractious festive 11th series of Ladies of Letters
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Woman's Hour Drama - Ladies of Letters Go Green
Comedy by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman. Irene and Vera turn their hand to saving the planet
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Woman's Hour Drama - Ladies of Letters Say No
By Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman, featuring comic heroines Irene and Vera
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Woman's Hour Drama - Lady Audley's Secret
Dramatisation of the classic Victorian thriller by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Woman's Hour Drama - Leaving Normal
Comedy by Ian Iqbal Rashid about a gay couple, Sammi and Luke, who inherit two orphaned kids
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Woman's Hour Drama - Liam
By Mike Bartlett. Charting the search for a ten-year-old boy who goes missing in Sussex
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Woman's Hour Drama - Life Class
Pat Barker's poignant study of three young artists trying to find their way in a world ravaged by the Great War
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Woman's Hour Drama - Love my Rifle More than You
Kayla Williams's memoirs of a young female American soldier in Iraq
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Woman's Hour Drama - Lucia's Progress
Mapp and Lucia renew their rivalry for social supremacy in E F Benson's classic comedy
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Woman's Hour Drama - M R James at Christmas
Derek Jacobi as the voice of M R James introduces classic ghost stories
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Woman's Hour Drama - Mapp and Lucia
Dramatisation of E F Benson's classic comedy of manners, adapted by Ned Sherrin and directed by Celia de Wolff
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Woman's Hour Drama - Marriage a la Mode
Mr and Mrs William Hogarth return in another scandalous romp through a famous series of Hogarth paintings, bringing to life the story in – and behind – each canvas. By Jonathan Myerson
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Woman's Hour Drama - Minimum Wages
Series of plays exploring the consequences of life on the minimum wage
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Woman's Hour Drama - Mr Moonlight
Robert Forrest's tale of a day in the life of a man who goes spectacularly off the rails when he hears about the death of John Lennon
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Woman's Hour Drama - Mrs Tolstoy
Stephen Wakelam's portrait of the tempestuous marriage between Leo and Sofya Tolstoy
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Woman's Hour Drama - My Mad Grandad
By Mike Scott. Touching and funny tale of family quarrels and misspent old age, drawing on Scott's own childhood in Lancashire
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Woman's Hour Drama - My Place
A woman searches for her family's Aboriginal heritage in Australia. By Sally Morgan
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Woman's Hour Drama - No Nightingales, No Snakes
Five short stories by Maeve Binchy. Dramatised by Jessica Dromgoole
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Woman's Hour Drama - Normal Life
Jackie Pavlenko's story of a young mother's attempts to form a relationship with her son following her release from prison
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Woman's Hour Drama - Old Peter's Russian Tales
Magical folk tales from Russia by Arthur Ransome, as told by Old Peter the forester to his grandchildren, Vanya and Maroosia
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Woman's Hour Drama - On the Cusp
Five women reveal their intimate thoughts as they face turning-points in their lives.
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Woman's Hour Drama - One Down
Drama by Alison Joseph. A mystery crossword appearing in a local newspaper is more than it seems
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Woman's Hour Drama - Our Mutual Friend
Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens's classic novel
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Woman's Hour Drama - Paid Servant
ER Braithwaite's novel, set in London in 1958, is based on his experiences as a black social worker in a racist society
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Woman's Hour Drama - Paradise Place
Amanda Whittington's linked plays inspired by listeners' stories of desire
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Woman's Hour Drama - Picnic at Hanging Rock
Dramatisation of Joan Lindsay's classic mystery novel about a group of Edwardian schoolgirls who take a trip to an Australian beauty spot
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Woman's Hour Drama - Reading Between the Lines
Murder mystery by Mark Lawson. When a celebrated writer leaves clues in his final novel implying that his recently-deceased wife was murdered, DCI Kate Duncan investigates
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Woman's Hour Drama - Restless
Dramatisation of William Boyd's thriller. In the summer of 1976, Ruth discovers that her very English mother is in fact a Russian emigre and one-time British secret service spy
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Woman's Hour Drama - Sacred Hearts
Dramatisation of the novel by Sarah Dunant, set in a convent in Renaissance Italy, where a young woman has been placed against her will
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Woman's Hour Drama - Sarah Siddons: Life in Five Sittings
David Pownall's story of the tempestuous relationship between the great actress Sarah Siddons and the artist Tom Lawrence, who first painted her aged 13
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Woman's Hour Drama - Scumdog Millionaires
Financial thriller by Mike Walker. FSA fraud investigator Angela Chapman works to expose the existence of a secret bank whose debts threaten the entire the world financial system
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Woman's Hour Drama - Seeing is Believing
By Sian Evans. A man is forced to re-examine everything when he sees a UFO one Saturday night in a pub car park
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Woman's Hour Drama - Seventy Odd
Rachel Joyce's story of a group of five seventy-something friends on holiday in Damascus
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Woman's Hour Drama - Shattered
Monologues by Richard Monks, inspired by the 2007 Cumbrian train crash, examining the profound effects on the lives of local residents one year on from the accident
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Woman's Hour Drama - Singleparentpals.com
Sue Teddern's story of the developing friendship between two single parents who correspond via a parenting advice website
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Woman's Hour Drama - Six Suspects
Dramatisation of the novel by Vikas Swarup. The notorious son of a prominent Indian politician shoots dead a waitress at a trendy Delhi restaurant, before being murdered himself
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Woman's Hour Drama - Snobs
Satire on English snobbery, adapted from his own novel by Julian Fellowes
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Woman's Hour Drama - So Much For That
A dramatisation of Lionel Shriver's unflinching new novel which portrays the economic fall-out of illness.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Soloparentpals.com
Sue Teddern's story of the developing friendship between two single parents who correspond via a parenting advice website
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Woman's Hour Drama - Someone Like You
Dramatisation by Stephen Sheridan of five darkly comic tales by Roald Dahl
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Woman's Hour Drama - Stories for Another Day
Series of anecdotes by Alan Plater, reflecting on the plays, books and movies he has never finished writing
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Art of Deception
Detective drama by Philip Palmer. Notorious art forger Daniel Ballantyne, newly released from prison but now dying, agrees to help art critic Jessica Brown to write a book about forgery
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Art of Deception, series 2
Detective drama by Philip Palmer. Two years after faking his own death, notorious art forger Daniel Ballantyne re-emerges to resume his cat and mouse game with biographer Jessica Brown
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Beacon
Dramatisation of the novel by Susan Hill examining the effect of the publication of a 'misery memoir' on the family who are its subject
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Beginning of Spring
Penny Leicester's adaption of Penelope Lively's novel of an English family in Moscow, set in 1913
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Child in Time
Dramatisation of the novel by Ian McEwan. Exploring the devastating effect on a married couple when their 3 year old daughter disappears
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Cloths Of Heaven
Sue Eckstein's dramatisation of her own novel, set in West Africa
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Color Purple
Dramatisation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Crowded Street
Diana Griffiths's dramatisation of Winifred Holtby's tale of a woman's journey into self-fulfilment
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Dead Hour
Dramatisation of the novel by Denise Mina, set in Glasgow in 1984. Plucky young journalist Paddy Meehan investigates the death of a lawyer in one of the city's most exclusive suburbs
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Death of Grass
Dramatisation of the science fiction novel by John Christopher, narrated by David Mitchell
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Dig
John Preston's account of a major archaeological excavation at Sutton Hoo in 1939
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Donor Trail
Series of five monologues by Richard Monks charting the journey of a donor heart
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Draw
Brian B Thompson's cautionary tale about the perils of online gambling
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
By Muriel Barbery. In a Parisian apartment building, lonely concierge Renee and 12-year-old Paloma are brought together by the death of one of their wealthy neighbours and the arrival of a new owner
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Family Man
Political family drama by Mike Bartlett. With Jade Williams, Nicholas Farrell, Henry Pettigrew, Liza Sadovy. Directed by Claire Grove
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Girl at the Lion D'Or
Rachel Wagstaff's dramatisation of the novel by Sebastian Faulks, set in France during the interwar years
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing's twentieth-century classic, dramatised by Sarah Daniels
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Help
Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson, Mississippi in 1962, about three brave women who dare to cross the racial lines
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Woman's Hour Drama - The House of Mercy
Victorian murder mystery set in London in 1860, dramatised by Chris Dolan from a story by Bruce Young
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Interpreter II
Series of stories about a freelance translator, written by Anjum Malik
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Lady of the Camellias
By Alexandre Dumas. The story of Marguerite Gauthier, a Parisian courtesan who goes on a journey through worldliness, love, renunciation and atonement, thanks to the love of young Armand Duval
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Lover
Linda Marshall Griffiths's dramatisation of Marguerite Duras's semi-autobiographical novel set in 1930s Vietnam
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Man in the Wooden Hat
By Jane Gardam. Barrister Edward Feathers and his wife Elizabeth's lives are intertwined with that of his hated rival, Terry Veneering, from late-1940s Hong Kong to present-day Dorset
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Observations
In 1863, a young Irish prostitute escapes her former life when she's hired as a maid in a house near Edinburgh, but her new employer has secrets of her own, and both woman enter a game of deception
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Pillow Book
Robert Forrest's thriller and love story set in the court of the Empress Sadako in 10th-century Japan
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Pillow Book, series 2 - Fire
Robert Forrest's thriller and love story set in the court of the Empress Sadako in 10th-century Japan
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Pillow Book, series 3
Robert Forrest's thriller set in the Palace of the Sun Goddess in 10th-century Japan
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Postman of Good Hope
By Al Smith, inspired by a true story. When Nicholas returns to his village after fighting in the civil war he discovers that none of the post has been delivered
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Power of Life and Death
Mark Lawson's murder mystery about the suspicious deaths of government committee members
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Private Patient
Dramatisation by Neville Teller of PD James's latest Inspector Dalgliesh mystery. Famous journalist Rhoda Gradwyn books an appointment with an exclusive cosmetic surgeon and is told a dark secret
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles
By Esther Wilson. A week in the life of Darleen Fyles, a young woman with learning disabilities
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Quest
By Jonathan Holloway. Loosely based on the works of Sir Thomas Malory and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Rabbit House
Dramatisation by Sheila Yeger of Laura Alcoba's moving account of her childhood in Argentina during the 'Dirty War' of the 1970s
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Shooting Party
Dramatisation by DJ Britton of the novel by Isabel Colegate, set in the autumn of 1913
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Song House
Dramatisation of Trezza Azzopardi's psychological thriller about an older man who hires Maggie, a young woman with a dark secret, as a musical ghostwriter
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Tenderness of Wolves
Chris Dolan's dramatisation of Stef Penney's tale of love, mystery and murder set in 1860s Canada
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Walnut Bureau
Story following the lives and secrets of one family from Victorian times to the present day, with Paul Ritter, Charlie Brooks and Francesca Dymond. Written and directed by Ellen Dryden
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Way we Live Right Now
Anthony Trollope's satirical novel about money, greed and dishonesty, adapted by Jonathan Myerson
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Year They Invented Sex
Caroline and David Stafford's drama focusing on three very different women who find their lives transformed by taking part in the 1960 trials of the contraceptive pill
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Woman's Hour Drama - This Book Will Save Your Life
By AM Homes. Wealthy LA trader Richard Novak has it all. Then things begin to go wrong
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Woman's Hour Drama - To The North
Deborah Paige's dramatisation of Elizabeth Bowen's romantic novel, set in London and Paris in the inter-war years
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Woman's Hour Drama - TwilightBaby.com
By Julie Balloo and Jenny Éclair. Cass and Ken find themselves tackling pregnancy and parenthood in their late forties
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Woman's Hour Drama - TwilightBaby.com: Series 2
By Jenny Eclair and Julie Balloo. Jenny stars as Cass, embracing motherhood again at 47 whilst trying to keep the rest of her family either in work or out of trouble
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Woman's Hour Drama - Uncle Gwyn's Posthumous Curse
Lynne Truss's comedy drama set on a rainy golf course in Wales
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Woman's Hour Drama - Villette
Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte Bronte
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Woman's Hour Drama - Wax Fruit: Antimacassar City
Clara Glynn's dramatisation of Guy McCrone's novel. Phoebe Moorhouse, aged 10, lives on a farm in 1870s Ayrshire. But when tragedy strikes the future becomes uncertain
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Woman's Hour Drama - We Need to Talk about Kevin
Anita Sullivan's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's award-winning novel about family tragedy and its aftermath
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Woman's Hour Drama - What I Think of my Husband
Stephen Wakelam's account of the relationship between Thomas Hardy and his second wife Florence
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Woman's Hour Drama - What Is She Doing Here?
Kate Clanchy's account of her relationship with a Kosovan refugee
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Woman's Hour Drama - Whose Sari Now
Rani Moorthy's tale of human relationships, set in a sari shop
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Woman's Hour Drama - Wide Open Spaces
Five writers explore our attitudes towards race, environment and identity
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Woman's Hour Drama - Wives and Daughters
A new dramatisation by Theresa Heskins of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel of provincial life
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Woman's Hour Drama - Woman's Hour: The Sixth Column Has Better Legs
Drama set in a theatre in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, by Sam Boardman-Jacobs
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Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room
Dramatisation of Marilyn French's seminal novel celebrating its 30-year anniversary of publication. Adapted for radio by Sarah Daniels
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Woman's Hour Drama - Writing the Century
Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence
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Woman's Hour Drama - Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella
Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa Rosenthal
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Woman's Hour Drama - Writing the Century 11: 1963-1966 - All My Trials
Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and correspondence of real people, dramatised by Pat Cumper from documents held at the Black Cultural Archives
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Woman's Hour Drama - Writing the Century 12: 1966-1969 - Pleidiol Wyf I'm Gwlad/True To My Land
A young history student, Sharon Morgan, and the eminent historian Sir Glanmor Williams share the same passion for Wales and the Welsh language
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Woman's Hour Drama - Writing the Century 13: Once Upon A Time
Coming-of-age drama dramatised by Amanda Whittington, set in 1979 and based on the diary of a gay teenager living in a Nottinghamshire mining town
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Woman's Hour Drama - Writing the Century 14: A Burden to Strangers
Steve Gough's drama based on the diaries of Rachel Minshall, a spirited elderly lady living in the Welsh valleys in the 1980s
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Woman's Hour Drama - Writing the Century 15: A Desolate Bravery
Lavinia Murray's drama inspired by the diaries of military artist David Rowlands, who spent time in Bosnia during the civil war in 1993
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Woman's Hour Drama - Writing the Century 16: Three Women Across the Century
The distinctive voices of a middle England family, perceptively aware of their place in the jigsaw of the 20th century, writing in diaries, letters and memoirs. Dramatised by Vanessa Rosenthal
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Woman's Hour Drama - Writing the Century: 1918-1930: A Land Fit for Heroes?
Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence. 1918-1930: A Land Fit For Heroes?
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Woman's Hour Drama - Writing the Century 1933-1938: A Darkening Sky
Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence. A Darkening Sky
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Woman's Hour Drama - Writing the Century 1939-1944: Hostages to Fortune
Series exploring the twentieth century through diaries and correspondence of real people, dramatised by Mick Martin
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Woman's Hour Drama - Writing the Century: 1946-1948 - Out of the Ashes
Series exploring the twentieth century through diaries and correspondence of real people, dramatised by Margaret Wilkinson
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Woman's Hour Drama - Writing the Century 1948-1953: Starting From Scratch
Series exploring the twentieth century through diaries and correspondence of real people, dramatised by Peter Roberts
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Woman's Hour Drama - Writing the Century 9
Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa Rosenthal
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Woman's Hour Drama - Writing the Century: A Paintbrush Reporter
Series exploring the twentieth century through diaries and correspondence of real people, dramatised by Hattie Naylor
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