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  1. Bonnie Greer - Rosa Parks

    Arrested in Alabama over bus segregation, Rosa Park symbolised American Civil Rights.

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  2. Anthony Hope - The Prisoner Of Zenda

    Epic historical tale of subterfuge and doppelgangers, set in an East European province.

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  3. Anthony Hope - Rupert of Hentzau

    Queen Flavia writes a fateful letter. Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda with Julian Glover.

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  4. Wodehouse in Exile

    The story of how quintessential English author PG Wodehouse was exiled from his country.

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  5. Pepys: Fire of London

    The Great Fire of London, as witnessed by the diarist, Samuel Pepys, 350 years ago.

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  6. Joseph Roth - Rebellion

    In Berlin after World War I, anti-hero Andreas Pum attempts to woo the widow Blumich.

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  7. A Royal Affair

    Alicia Vikander plays a young queen who begins an affair that starts a revolution.

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  8. Mary of Scotland

    Katharine Hepburn portrays Mary Queen of Scots in this lavish depiction of her life.

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    Tessa Hadley - Deeds Not Words

    Spurred on by the Suffragettes, a tale of radicalism, lust and teenage fervour.

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  10. Hamlet

    Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, learns of his father's murder by his uncle and plots revenge.

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  11. Legacy

    Cold War drama. A trainee spy is asked to 'turn' a Russian diplomat he knew at university.

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  12. Topaz

    Comic drama starring Brian Cox as poet William Topaz McGonagall, written by Lucy Gannon.

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  13. Lindsay Ashford - The Mysterious Death of Jane Austen (Omnibus)

    Anne Sharp thinks that her lifelong friend Jane Austen may have been murdered.

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  14. Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas

    Wronged by a corrupt baron, a horse trader (Mads Mikkelsen) begins a revolt.

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  15. The Big Picnic

    Theatre drama recounting the experiences of young Glaswegian men in the First World War.

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  16. Kate Chopin - The Awakening (Omnibus)

    Adaptation of the novel that shocked America in 1899.

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  17. Voices from World War One

    Mark Stephen narrates a dramatized history of WWI drawn from diaries and memoirs.

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  18. Castles in the Sky

    Drama chronicling the invention of radar, which proved pivotal in the Battle of Britain.

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  19. The German Doctor

    In Patagonia, Nazi war criminal Joseph Mengele befriends the family of a 12-year-old girl.

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  20. Martyn Wade - Burn the Aeneid!

    After his death, author Virgil wants his magnum opus destroyed.

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  21. The Eichmann Show

    Drama telling the story of how the 1961 trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann came to be televised.

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  22. The Silver Darlings

    The wife of a fisherman who is press-ganged into the Navy must bring up their son alone.

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    The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald (Omnibus)

    Winter 1913 finds Frank Reid, owner of a Moscow printing company, abandoned.

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  24. Wellington: The Iron Duke Unmasked

    A personal portrait of the victor of Waterloo, drawing on his own vast correspondence.

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  25. The Scandalous Lady W

    The amazing true story of Lady Worsley, whose elopement sparked a great scandal.

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  26. Lady Chatterley's Lover

    A beautiful young aristocrat embarks on a forbidden affair with a servant.

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  27. The Go-Between

    An adaptation of LP Hartley's novel about lost innocence at the turn of the 20th century.

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  28. Scott of the Antarctic

    Film drama depicting the ill-fated 1911 expedition to the South Pole. Starring John Mills.

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  29. Curtmantle

    Can Henry II rule his kingdom wisely and keep faith with his friends like Thomas Becket?

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  30. Greater Love (Omnibus)

    The impact of the Plague of 1665-66 on the Derbyshire village of Eyam.

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  31. Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary

    The story of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots's rivalry, in their own words.

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  32. The Other Paris by Luc Sante (Omnibus)

    Luc Sante's journey through the Paris of yesteryear. Read by Simon Russell Beale.

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  33. Bruadar a' Bhais/A Dream of Death

    The story of Hugh Macleod, convicted of murder in a trial using 'dream testimony'.

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  34. Seamus Heaney's Aeneid VI: Omnibus

    Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the spirit of his father. Read by Ian McKellen.

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  35. Charlotte Bront毛 in Babylon (Omnibus)

    Drama charting five momentous visits Charlotte made to London as a published author.

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  36. Quicksand: Omnibus

    Henning Mankell copes with illness by recalling his childhood and an early secret.

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  37. Tony Bagley - The Machine

    A man invents a machine to record the voice, but fears he'll be accused of stealing souls.

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  38. Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story (Omnibus)

    One of the biggest mysteries of the art world is explored in Bernadette Murphy's book.

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  39. Pepys: After the Fire - Omnibus

    As the Great Fire of London in 1666 smoulders, Samuel Pepys remembers the homeless.

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  40. Writing the Century: Land's End to John O'Groats (Omnibus)

    George Allen's 1904 diary of his record-attempting walk.

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  41. Roderick Graham - Melford's Axe

    The usual hangman refuses to execute Charles I, but his chosen replacement faces torment.

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  42. Bert and Dickie

    The story of how Bert Bushnell and Dickie Burnell defied all the odds and achieved gold.

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  43. The Last Days of Anne Boleyn

    Documentary exploring the dramatic downfall and execution of Anne Boleyn in 1536.

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  44. The Whale

    Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex.

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  45. An Inspector Calls

    A mysterious inspector interrupts a wealthy family's party with shocking news.

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  46. Cider with Rosie

    Adaptation of Laurie Lee's memoir of growing up in the Slad Valley during and after WWI.

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  47. The Other Boleyn Girl

    The story of Mary Boleyn, who was Henry VIII鈥檚 mistress before he married her sister.

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  48. David Gooderson - Death of a Village

    The underlying causes of a Devon fishing village being washed into the sea by a storm.

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  49. JR Planche - The Garrick Fever

    Excited locals expect great actor David Garrick as Hamlet, but a drunk scruff appears.

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  50. Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad: Omnibus

    The tale of two Georgia plantation slaves bidding for freedom, read by Clarke Peters

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