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Drama series, exploring the 20th century through real correspondence and diaries
BBC Radio 4 Extra
No-holds-barred dramas written by women, featuring extraordinary female characters.
BBC Radio 4
Adaptation of George and Weedon Grossmith's novel about 'little man' Charles Pooter
BBC Four
Dirk Bogarde reads extracts from his book of childhood reminiscences
Historical docudrama series about the life of the revolutionary 16th-century German monk.
BBC Two
Dramatisation of the colourful memoirs of the late Conservative MP.
Six pivotal stories in the history of the women's suffrage movement.
Robert Louis Stevenson and a stubborn donkey go on a 12-day trek through French mountains
Extracts of letters by Evelyn Waugh
BBC Radio 7
More letters written by the great Evelyn Waugh, charting his adventures and musings
Charting the rise and fall of one of the most significant political figures in history
Robert Glenister reads Dennis Potter's 1961 personal study of the Forest of Dean
Readings of former Genesis drummer Chris Stewart's book about peasant farming in Spain
Liza Ross and Michael Williams read from Robin Marantz Henig's biography
The acclaimed actor reads from his memoirs
Dirk Bogarde reads his memoirs
Selected letters of the English poet which cover different periods from his life
Playwright and novelist John Mortimer reads from his book
Meera Syal's story about a young girl growing up in the Midlands during the 1970s
Meera Syal's story about a young girl growing up in the Black Country during the 1970s
The late Spike Milligan reads from his own idiosyncratic military memoir
Giacomo Casvanova in his own words, read by Jack Klaff
Lindy Woodhead's biography read by Lindsay Duncan
The late Jack Rosenthal's memoirs, written in the form of a screenplay
Stephen Greenblatt's reconstruction of Shakespeare's life and era. Read by Toby Stephens
Miranda Seymour's biography of Helene Delangle, who became a racing driver in 1930s
Two-part historical drama telling the little known story of Prince John
Series of wry and touching monologues by playwright and humorist Alan Bennett
Biographical dramatisation of the life of the famous Russian writer
Ian Kelly's biography read by Benedict Cumberbatch
Series of stories marking Elvis Presley's only trip to Britain.
Factually-based drama telling the stories of five young women tragically murdered in 2006.
BBC One
London's voices heard from Henry Mayhew's Victorian oral history and from the present day
Barbara Flynn reads from Colette Rossant's culinary recollections of 1940s Egypt
Judith Kerr's semi-autobiographical story set in Berlin in 1933
Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes star as President John F Kennedy and his wife, Jackie
Ian McKellen in the story of Hamer Shawcross from boyhood to his pursuit of power and fame
The author and her family embark on a three-month holiday in Italy
Biography of the charismatic playwright who became an overnight success aged 25.
The reflections of an ordinary housewife from Barrow-in-Furness in August 1945
Michael Holroyd's biography of Victorian stage greats Henry Irving and Ellen Terry
Adaptation of the former head of MI5's intriguing memoir, read by Jenny Howe.
Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the seventeenth-century diaries. With Kris Marshall.
Julian Clary plays camp cabaret star, drag artiste and finest of panto dames
Readings based on the autobiography and journals of Kathleen Scott, widow of Captain Scott
The most sensational publishing fraud in history - the forging of Adolf Hitler's diaries
Lisa French-Blaker recounts her tough time as an aid worker in the civil war in Darfur.
Memoir of what happened between the screen legend and the author, read by Samuel Barnett.
Kate Williams' biography of the prostitute who became the mistress of Lord Nelson.
Biographer Michael Holroyd reads his moving of his own extraordinary family
