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Surprising and illuminating drama about the life of children's storyteller Enid Blyton.
BBC Four
Drama based around the relationship between singer Gracie Fields and director Monty Banks.
Drama based around the relationship between dancers Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.
A colourful of WR Rodgers' childhood in Belfast, produced by Sam Hanna Bell.
BBC Radio Foyle
Biopic of French singer Edith Piaf, who became one of the country's biggest stars.
BBC Two
How Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to a fighter against apartheid.
Dramatisation of Irene Nemirovsky's biography with Andrew Scott.
BBC Radio 7
A dramatisation of the life of author Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
BBC Radio Scotland
The life story of Mexican-American singer Ritchie Valens, whose life was cut short at 17.
A young boy becomes the 'son' a retired bachelor never had.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
Drama about Boy George's years before his Top of the Pops debut in 1982.
The story of Anne Lister, a 19th-century Yorkshire landowner, industrialist and lesbian.
Drama which charts John Lennon's transition from Beatle to icon from 1967 to 1971.
Michael Sheen stars as Brian Clough in the story of his 44 days in charge of Leeds United.
Sir Thomas Phillipps aimed to own a copy of every book in the world.
True-life drama about the kidnapping of a teenage girl at a Nebraska shopping mall.
BBC One
Adaptation of chef Nigel Slater's autobiography, chronicling his bittersweet childhood.
One-off drama telling the story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's formative years.
The extraordinary story of a young boy adopted by wild dogs on the streets of Moscow.
How actress Hattie Jacques's home life was blown apart by a secret sexual liaison.
The turbulent marriage of young poet TS Eliot and the charismatic Vivienne Haigh-Wood.
How the creation of Frankenstein was sparked by an elopement.
Drama based on the true story of novelist Clifford Irving.
A father feels powerless when his son becomes increasingly corrupted by a local gangster.
The life and death of a woman who led a women's orchestra in Auschwitz.
A reporter attempts to find his translator, who has been captured by the Khmer Rouge.
Biographical drama recounting composer Salieri's meetings with the young Mozart.
One-off drama chronicling the formative years of novelist Christopher Isherwood.
American writer Truman Capote forms a bond with a murder suspect.
Biographical drama telling the tale of Tolstoy as his wife fights for his love and money.
How the comedian quit booze in 2002 and entered the world of the chronically sober.
F Scott Fitzgerald tells his editor Maxwell Perkins about his hopes for his new novel
Autobiographical play about the woman who took refuge in the author's Camden garden.
Darwin's inner struggle over the decision to publish his findings on evolution.
Drama based on the true story of the Kissel brothers, whose secrets were their undoing.
An email friendship between a BBC journalist and an Iraq-based academic.
Drama charting the rise to fame of singer Dame Shirley Bassey.
The story of Harvey Milk, first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the US.
Biographical Italian drama telling the story of former prime minister Giulio Andreotti.
The tumultuous life story of the 18th-century Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley).
When legendary hell-raiser Oliver Reed met Keith Moon, nothing was the same ever again.
Historical epic about the rise of Genghis Khan, from nine-year-old orphan to Mongol leader
After a controlled childhood, Victoria (Emily Blunt) faces a fight to become queen.
In 19th-century London, poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne begin a doomed love affair.
Biopic charting the rise and fall of the Irish republican leader.
Alone, far from home and his only audience by 1968 is press clippings and bottles of vodka
A gripping of a 1911 expedition prior to Scott's doomed Antarctic trip.
The heroism of railwaymen in a horrific explosion in 1898. Recreation of a real event.
The sad, contradictory tale of Edward Lear, famed Victorian artist and scribe.
19-year-old Vincent van Gogh's life-changing stay in London. Stars Dexter Fletcher.
