Hardy’s powerful tale set in mid-19th century Dorset tells the tragic story of Michael Henchard, a man who cannot escape his past.Drunk on rum at a country fair, Henchard sells his wife to a...

‘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...

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a...

A new dramatisation of the Thomas Hardy classic, 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles', to be transmitted as the Radio 4 Classic Serial in four hour-long episodes. John Durbeyfield learns that he is...

Eustacia Vye is cut off from the world in her grandfather’s lonely cottage. Clym Yeobright seems to offer everything she dreams of: passion, excitement and the opportunity to escape. However,...

By Thomas Hardy, adapted by Graham White. In Three Parts. Part 1- Young farmer Gabriel Oak sees an ideal wife in Bathsheba Everdene, but she turns him down, believing in true romance. As she...