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Parade’s End & The Good Soldier

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Major BBC adaptations of Ford Madox Ford’s two most famous works, with stellar casts including Tom Goodman-Hill, Ruth Gemmell, Kyle Soller and Mark Bonnar

A forgotten great of British fiction, Ford Madox Ford wrote over 80 books, founded two trai

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Round The Horne

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Round the Horne is a BBC Radio comedy programme starring Kenneth Horne, first transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The show was created by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, who wrote the first three series. The fourth wa

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The Robe

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A full-cast dramatisation of the bestselling Biblical adventure story by Lloyd C. Douglas

Weary of governing, the half-crazed Emperor Tiberius retreats to Capri, leaving his loathsome stepson, Prince Gaius, in charge of an increasingly corrupt R

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Breaking Point

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"Breaking Point" is a six-part BBC Radio audio drama adapted from Dick Francis’s bestselling 1964 horse racing thriller novel, Nerve.The Radio AdaptationThe radio drama was dramatized by Roy Lomax (credited as Roy Lom) and originally broadcast on

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Voyage

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An alternative history of the US space programme, dramatised by Dirk Maggs.

After the moon, Mars… What if John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt and developed the space programme?

President Nixon, with the help of former president

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Sexton Blake

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The history of crime detection has produced no more famous name than that of SEXTON BLAKE…’

Sexton Blake is a fictional detective who has been featured in many British comic strips, novels and dramatic productions since 1893. His adventures have f

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Murder International

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Ten vintage dramas on the theme of murder, written by internationally recognised authors and set across the globe

‘Murder is murder, anywhere in the world. The taking of life, the most terrible crime a human being can commit, is the same in any l

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And The Wall Came Tumbling Down

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Full-Cast Dramatisation of the incredible D-Day story

The incredible true story of the French Resistance plot to destroy the Atlantic Wall in Normandy, dramatised in six parts.

Adapted from Richard Collier’s 1958 novel Ten Thousand Eyes, this riv

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Birkett

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Five tales of murder, mayhem and political intrigue from the casebook of Norman Birkett

Norman Birkett KC (1883-1962) was a real-life Rumpole - a distinguished and highly skilled lawyer who had numerous successes in the courtroom during his long c

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The Old Boys & other stories

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A collection of some of William Trevor’s most acclaimed works, as heard on BBC Radio

William Trevor was an Irish literary legend. In a 40-year career, he published a multiplicity of novels, plays, and short stories, and received numerous awards a

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