A thirty-five strong cast including Leo McKern as Kutuzov, Simon Russell Beale as Pierre Bezuhov, Emily Mortimer as Natasha Rostov and Gerard Murphy as Andrei Bolkonsky, brings all the passion and...

Tobias Smollet's uproarious satire of 18th-century life, dramatised by Yvonne Antrobus. Squire Bramble and family embark on their whistle-stop tour of Great Britain. They encounter adventure,...

Strong of will and slender of ankle, twenty-year-old orphan Flora Poste is blessed with every virtue save that of being able to earn her own living. Casting around for suitable relatives with whom...

‘The Quatermass Memoirs’ mixes drama and documentary, in which Nigel Kneale reflects on the 1950s fearful atmosphere in which he wrote the classic ‘Quatermass’ TV serials, with a dramatic...

The Heart of Midlothian: Gerda Stevenson's dramatisation of Walter Scott's classic. Part One: A mob storms the Tolbooth Prison where young Effie Deans awaits trial for murder. Part 2: While her...

From John Wyndham, author of ‘The Day of the Triffids’, comes this chilling tale of a normal boy confronted with abnormal circumstances.Matthew had always been an ordinary boy. Even when he...

Tolstoy's story of one woman's fate is brought powerfully to life in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation starring Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens Anna Karenina enjoys a privileged and...

The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 production of J. R. R. Tolkien's famous saga Dwarves, elves, goblins, trolls, dragons and wizards - these are the ingredients of J.R.R. Tolkien's wonderful fantasy, the...

Adapted by Graham White from the Henry James novel which centres on the predicament of Lambert Strether, a fifty-something New Englander lately arrived in Paris. Henry Goodman stars as the hapless...

Michael Kitchen stars as John Jarndyce in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dickens’ classic tale of London and the law.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer’s epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by award-winning poet Simon Armitage and starring Tim McInnerny and Amanda Redman. ‘My fame is written in...

Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in search of work, only to discover thousands like them are also on the move....

The highly acclaimed BBC Radio 4 production starring Tom Baker, Jack Shepherd, Frank Windsor and Samuel West.It is 18 February 1943, and RAF Lancaster bomber WF 183 – call sign O-Orange – is...

Written by Mike Walker and inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. Young prince Hal will inherit an unstable throne, and a kingdom riven with heresy and rebellion. Victory over the rebel Hotspur, and...

The second instalment of Tolkien's epic tale, adapted from the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.Having fled the Shire in their escape from Sauron's Dark Riders, Frodo and the...