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Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

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For all you Jane Austen fans out there, a nice BBC production.

3 one hour episodes | 128/44

Catherine explores the high culture of Bath, where she meets two rival suitors.

Episode 1 of 3
Young, naive Catherine Morland is launched into the intriguing

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John Glenn Stole My Spacesuit

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Dramatisation of the story of the Mercury 13. Thirteen American women who, as part of a privately funded program, underwent some of the same physiological screening tests as the astronauts selected by NASA on April 9, 1

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Backwards and in High Heels

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Stories of women quietly outperforming the men in their lives. Commissioned to mark 100 years since the birth of Ginger Rogers, who famously did everything that Fred Astaire did - only backwards and in high heels.

'Fascinating Marion' by Joan Smit

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Fatherland

Anton Lesser stars as a Berlin Detective who stumbles upon the 20th century's most terrifying secret in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Robert Harris's Bestselling Novel. 'Riveting adaptation... the drama is compelling from its opening

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The Cloths Of Heaven

The Cloths Of Heaven Sue Eckstein's dramatisation of her own novel Broadcast Monday 15 to Friday 19 March 2010 (Woman's Hour Drama) British diplomat Daniel Maddison on his first posting to West Africa, finds himself rebelling against the traditiona

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