By Oliver Goldsmith, adapted in three parts by Christopher Denys. The humorous adventures of the ever optimistic Rev Charles Primrose, who loses his fortune. He sets off with his despairing family through storms and floods to embrace a life of povert
"The trilogy recounts, with Tolstoyan assurance, the lives, marriages and disruptive extramarital passions of a Muslim family of the middling merchant class.(...) For the American reader, Mahfouz's writing pro
Woman's Hour Drama - Chronicles of Ait - Echo Beach
Written by Michael Butt.
The remote east coast settlement of Ait is reckoned to have siren-like powers to entrap and enthral its visitors - and that, at least, is how it appears to disaffected writer
M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy Catherine. Following the 1857 Mutiny, Ashton, a young English orphan, is disguised by his ayah (maid) as her Indian son, Ashok. And so, as he forgets his true identity, his de
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole Dramatized by Michelene Wandor Directed by Chris Wallace BBC Radio 4 1997 Length 1hr 28mins Coded from tape at 128/44.1
Published in 1765 and acknowleged as the first "Gothic" novel.
Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederi
Julia and Fred and Willy and Jane are happily married and the best of friends, until a postcard arrives with news of the imminent arrival of a certain handsome Frenchman. Gay, debonair, and utterly sophisticated.
This enchanting Coward comedy is set in the charming country home of Charles Condomine, a re-married widower. A witty and convivial evening party among friends is transformed when a seance conjures the ghost of Elvira, Charles first wife, who deli
Two classic Moliere farces of marriage and misunderstanding, one set in Paris and the other in the provinces. In The School for Husbands, a tyrannical husband-to-be seeks to isolate his ward, while uRead more…
James Marsters and Joanne Whalley lead an all-star cast in She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith's classic and uproarious comedy of manners. Strangethings are afoot at an idyllic country mansion in rural England: Young
Kate Hardcastle and her cous
The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Celie is a poor uneducated young black woman in 1930s Georgia who, aged only fourteen, is raped and impregnated twice by the man she calls Pa. Her children both disappear; Celie assumes their father has murdered the
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On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and decides to stay. Furious, her dead husband's family sen
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Love for Lydia Omnibus By H.E.Bates In HE Bates' story of first love, a local reporter is sent to interview a young woman who has come to live with her two aunts.
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or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of
David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (which he never
meant to publish on any account)
Of all Charles Dickens' novels, this is perhaps the most revealing, both
of Dicke
Lorna Doone is one of the greatest love stories ever written, and for a long time, it was the most popular. Written in the heyday of the great Victorian novelists in 1869, it proved to be an enduring tale and made its author rich and famous. This is
