Classic Serial Episode guide
The Mask of Dimitrios
Eric Ambler's 1939 crime thriller is dramatised by Stephen Sheridan
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Angel Pavement
JB Priestley's comedy of greed and redemption in the City, dramatised by Martin Jameson
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The Great Scott
Three of Walter Scott's novels are dramatised for radio
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A Larkin Double
Dramatisations of Philip Larkin's only two novels
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The Water Babies: A Modern Fairy Tale
Paul Farley updates Charles Kingsley's tale of a child labourer's underwater adventures.
First broadcast: 24 Mar 2013
Esther Waters
By George Moore. Stirring tale of how a servant girl makes her way in Victorian England
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Pather Panchali - Song of the Road
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's classic of Bengali literature, dramatised by Tanika Gupta
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An Angel at My Table
Dramatisation by Anita Sullivan of the autobiography of New Zealand author Janet Frame
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The Eustace Diamonds
Anthony Trollope's enthralling novel about beautiful but deceitful widow Lizzie Eustace
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Swashbuckling tale of revenge by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
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Rebus: The Black Book
Ian Rankin's maverick detective, Inspector Rebus, investigates an unsolved murder
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The Gothic Imagination
Two seminal gothic horror stories, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy's novel, adapted by Graham White
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck's Pulitzer-winning novel set in 1930s USA, starring Robert Sheehan
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Buddenbrooks
By Thomas Mann. A German merchant family fight to keep their supremacy in 1840s Europe
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The Chrysalids
John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic science fiction classic, dramatised by Jane Rogers
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The Graduate
Charles Webb's 1963 novel, adapted by Polly Thomas
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The Diary of a Nobody
Dramatisation by Andrew Lynch of the 1892 comic novel by George and Weedon Grossmith
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Songs and Lamentations
Drama by Michael Symmons Roberts looking at the last days of Jerusalem
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Publish and Be Damn'd: The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson
Dramatisation of the scandalous memoirs of a 19th-century courtesan
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Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf's classic novel set on a single day in June
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The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel, dramatised by Robert Forrest
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Uncle Fred in the Springtime
Dramatisation by Archie Scottney of PG Wodehouse's pig-napping romantic thriller
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Plantagenet: Series 3
Series of plays by Mike Walker chronicling the Plantagenet dynasty
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Out of the Hitler Time
Dramatisation of Judith Kerr's short wartime stories
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The Cruel Sea
Nicholas Monsarrat's novel about a Royal Navy crew fighting during World War II
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Gulliver's Travels
Dramatisation of Jonathan Swift's classic satire
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The Spy
By James Fenimore Cooper. A family are torn apart by the American War of Independence
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The Mumbai Chuzzlewits
Ayeesha Menon's reworking of Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit set in India
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England Their England
A Scot, invalided in 1918, writes a book about the eccentricities of the English.
First broadcast: 25 Dec 2011
Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Fowey in Cornwall.