Because she’s too busy bringing home the bacon to cook it.

On the surface, Alex Hill is every inch the polished high-flying marketing executive of a global sportswear company. But...

‘Moby Dick’ was first published in Britain as 'The Whale' in 1851. It is an extraordinary book, made up of 135 chapters, all written in a variety of styles - from sailors’ slang to biblical...

Lucy spends her days making flamboyant clothes that express all the passion and flair that she cannot, and at night sits alone, fretting over her struggling business. Then a beguiling...

Nicholas Nickleby' combines comedy and tragedy in a tale of triumph over adversity, where Nickleby succeeds despite social injustice, in a story that mirrors Dickens' own rise from poverty to...

It's 24 December, 1999. Byron Easy, a poverty-stricken poet, half-cut and suicidal, sits on a stationary train at King's Cross waiting to depart. He has in his lap a bin-liner containing his...

The mystery deepens in the final part of Susie Maguire's trilogy of stories that examine a portrait from three perspectives. 'The Voyeur's Story' is read by Bill Paterson. Andrew is being roundly...

In 1923 the beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to Douglas and his career in the Indian Civil Service, outrages the English and Indian communities by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty...

Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with...

Widely regarded as a broadcasting landmark, this thrilling dramatization by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell boasts a truly outstanding cast including Ian Holm, Michael Hordern, Robert...

As the self-loathing Nicola leads her two suitors towards death's precipice, London—and, indeed, the whole world—seems to shamble after them in a corrosively funny novel of complexity and...

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. Its use of stream...

Once Upon A Time There Was A Beatrix, by Lavinia Murray. Combining fact with fantasy, we imagine a day in the life of the young Beatrix Potter as a child and glimpse the roots of her creativity....

Unemployed Frank starts fiddling the dole. He has to find someone to sign on in his place, so he creates a doppelganger. But will his double, Frankie, want a life of his own? This comedy by poet...

The normality of a sunny London afternoon is brutally shattered when a man is killed in the street. Screams fill the air as passers-by try to help or helplessly observe the drama. Their lives will...

Young Antipholus of Syracuse is seaching the world for his identical twin brother, separated from him at birth. With him is his servant Dromio, who lost his twin brother at the same time. The pair...