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Portrait of a Lady
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Isabel Archer thinks she is in control of her fate, but others are pulling the strings.
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Alan Le May - The Searchers
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Adaptation of the classic western novel by Alan Le May. Dramatised by Adrian Bean.
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Ian Rankin - Rebus: Set in Darkness
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Crime thriller by Ian Rankin, featuring maverick detective Inspector Rebus.
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Honoré de Balzac - Eugenie Grandet
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Rose Tremain dramatises Balzac's tragic novel.
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By a Young Officer: Churchill on the North West Frontier
Churchill's 1897 adventure as a war correspondent in the hostile Afghan-Pakistani border.
Ring for Jeeves
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Dramatisation by Archie Scottney of PG Wodehouse's horse-racing comedy thriller
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Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
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Dante's extraordinary poem tells of his journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.
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Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen's famous novel of manners is dramatised by Charlotte Jones.
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The World According to Garp
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John Irving's audacious and darkly comic bestseller about the life and times of TS Garp
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Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Set in Cuba, the thrilling epic battle between an old man and a large marlin.
Dostoyevsky - The Russian Gambler
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Dolya Gavanski's lively modern-day take on Dostoevsky's The Gambler
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Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour
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Evelyn Waugh's satire on the futility of war and one man's quest for spiritual fulfilment
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Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat
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Jerome K Jerome's comic classic about an eventful rowing holiday on the Thames
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The Aeneid
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Hattie Naylor dramatises Virgil's epic poem, using Robert Fagles' translation
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Eric Ambler - The Mask of Dimitrios
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Eric Ambler's 1939 crime thriller is dramatised by Stephen Sheridan
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JB Priestley - Angel Pavement
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JB Priestley's comedy of greed and redemption in the City, dramatised by Martin Jameson
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A Larkin Double
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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.
Janet Frame - An Angel at My Table
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Dramatisation by Anita Sullivan of the autobiography of New Zealand author Janet Frame
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The Eustace Diamonds
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Anthony Trollope's enthralling novel about beautiful but deceitful widow Lizzie Eustace
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Rebus: The Black Book
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Ian Rankin's maverick detective, Inspector Rebus, investigates an unsolved murder
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John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck's Pulitzer-winning novel set in 1930s USA, starring Robert Sheehan
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Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
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A German merchant family fight to keep their supremacy in the world of 1840s Europe
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The Graduate
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Charles Webb's 1963 novel, adapted by Polly Thomas
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G&W Grossmith - The Diary of a Nobody
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Dramatisation by Andrew Lynch of the 1892 comic novel by George and Weedon Grossmith
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Songs and Lamentations
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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
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Dramatisation of the scandalous memoirs of a 19th-century courtesan
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F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
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The decadence and excess of the Jazz Age and the fallibility of the American dream
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Plantagenet: Series 3
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Series of plays by Mike Walker chronicling the Plantagenet dynasty
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Out of the Hitler Time
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Dramatisation of Judith Kerr's short wartime stories
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