Miriam Margolyes reads ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens.

Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to accept that Christmas is a time for peace and goodwill to all men. Whilst those less...

Virginia Woolf started to write a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s spaniel after finishing 'The Waves', tracing the life of the spaniel from his country origins, his puppyhood spent...

‘A small miracle... endlessly surprising and suspenseful... a dazzling first novel’ - Sunday Telegraph.

When attractive, impulsive, English widow Lilia takes a holiday in Italy,...

The first of Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, ’The Warden' concerns the moral dilemma of the Reverend Septimus Harding, who finds himself at the centre of a bitter conflict between defenders of...

Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of the Roman World, has become the thrall of the fascinating Cleopatra. Affairs of state call him to Rome, but the attractions of the Queen of Egypt prove...

Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young office clerks and wayward friends, not to...

Rome is a city divided, nobility and common-people locked in mutual suspicion. The patrician Caius Marcius, later called Coriolanus, is Rome's greatest soldier, but his proud refusal to...

Paul Manning is working away from home as the assistant to Mr Holdsworth, a managing railroad engineer. He makes contact with his distant relatives, the Holmans, who live nearby and welcome him...

A Radio 4 Classic Serial dramatisation of one of the most popular and influential books of the 19th Century. The novel has been adapted by Martyn Wade, whose previous Radio 4 successes have...

Robert Lindsay stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic novel by Charles Dickens.From the echo of the first line ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’...

‘Under the Greenwood Tree’ is Hardy’s most charming novel using, as it does, the four seasons of the Wessex year as a backdrop for the delightful romance of the young tranter Dick Dewy and...

Troy is beseiged by the invading Greeks, but the young Trojan prince Troilus can think only of his love for Cressida. Her uncle Pandarus brings the two together, but after only one night news...

There were four of us: George, William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency (the dog). We were in need of some rest, and it was George who first suggested a trip up the river. He said it...

Lear, King of Britain, has three daughters: the hard-hearted Goneril and Regan and the good and gentle Cordelia. Wishing to ease himself of the burden of rule, he determines to divide his kingdom...

In the rural hamlet of Lark Rise and the market town of Candleford, life is marked by the pattern of the seasons and the customs of the countryside.Seen through the eyes of a young girl, Laura...