Sir David Jason reads Charles Dickens' magical, much-loved Christmas story. Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, unpleasant man who dislikes people generally and Christmas especially. But one Christmas...

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...

Thracia, AD30. Vespasian's patrons in Rome have charged him with the clandestine extraction of an old enemy from a fortress on the banks of the Danube before it falls to the Roman legion besieging...

Pip is an orphan, brought up by his sister and her husband, the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery. One evening, while visiting his parents' graves, he has a shocking encounter with an escaped convict...

Four spine-tingling short stories from masters of the genre, read by Michael Maloney, Eleanor Bron and Andrew Sachs.'The Phantom Coach' by Amelia B. Edwards; 'The Judge's House' by Bram Stoker;...

The first fascinating part of Joanna Toye's delightful trilogy about life in Ambridge. Covering the years 1951-1967, Family Ties introduces the main characters: Dan, Doris, Phil, Christine, Jack...

One of Aesop's best-known fables is brought to life by Richard E. Grant in this adaptation for children aged 5 to 9. The leader of the wild goats persuades the rest of the herd to join with the...

One of Aesop's best-known fables is brought to life by Richard E. Grant in this adaptation for children aged 5 to 9. The Rat thinks he's the most frightening animal ever. But then he meets the...

One of Aesop's best-known fables is brought to life by Richard Briers in this adaptation for children aged 5 to 9. Lion is too old and slow to hunt properly, so he needs to think of an easy way to...

One of Aesop's best-known fables is brought to life by Jonathan Pryce in this adaptation for children aged 5 to 9. The Heron puts on airs and graces, and thinks he is better than all the other...

One of Aesop's best-known fables is brought to life by Jane Horrocks in this adaptation for children aged 5 to 9. Dog persuades Cockerel to leave the farm and go off on an adventure. But in the...

One of Aesop's best-known fables is brought to life by Jonathan Pryce in this adaptation for children aged 5 to 9. Once there was a slave called Androcles who belonged to a very cruel master. He...

One of Aesop's best-known fables is brought to life by Jane Horrocks in this adaptation for children aged 5 to 9. It is a freezing winter, and Fox is starving. Then he suddenly smells food......

One of Aesop's best-known fables is brought to life by Lindsay Duncan in this adaptation for children aged 5 to 9. The little billy goat kid is enjoying eating the luscious long grass in the...

One of Aesop's best-known fables is brought to life by Alison Steadman in this adaptation for children aged 5 to 9. Tod the tortoise is always the last animal to get to the leftover food that Old...