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Anton Lesser stars as Roman detective, Falco. Written by Lindsey Davis.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
Historical drama series
BBC Two
Series of plays about the rulers of Rome
The diary of Reverend William Holland about West Country life in the early 19th century
Drama about the rivalry between a communist mayor and a priest in a postwar Italian town
Before writing his novels, Charles Dickens worked as editor on a newspaper...
Elizabeth Jane Howard's saga follows three generations of the Cazalet family over 10 years
Series of plays by Mike Walker about the early years of the Plantagenet dynasty
Mike Walker's epic chronicle of Britain's most mutable dynasty
BBC Radio 4
Fresh 'witness' insights into history.
Drama serial charting life on the home front during the First World War.
The story of 20th Century England is played out through a family in a Derbyshire village.
BBC One
Drama series following the lives of those on and behind the battlefront of World War I.
Dan Snow tells the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588.
Hetty Feather and her little brother live at the Foundling Hospital in 1800s London.
CBBC
Brooding drama set in 18th century Cornwall. Adapted from Winston Graham's novels
Series set in a bustling Midlands railway station in the Victorian era
A specially commissioned drama based on the classic radio drama series.
BBC Radio Solent
Drama about a covert group helping allied airmen shot down in 1940s occupied Europe.
Dramatised from the James Fennimore Cooper novel set in 18th century upstate New York.
Drama about allied prisoners of war imprisoned at the escape-proof Colditz Castle.
Raising the curtain on performances of The Bard’s plays countrywide.
BBC
Historical drama series examining the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius
The battles of two sisters in 19th-century Victorian England.
Trilogy of plays by Andrew Rissik telling the story of the Trojan War
Adaptation of George and Weedon Grossmith's novel about 'little man' Charles Pooter
BBC Four
Historical docudrama series about the life of the revolutionary 16th-century German monk.
Dramatic re-telling of the story of Jesus's final days on Earth.
Drama series based on the lives of hospital doctors, nurses and patients in 1907.
Michelle Magorian's wartime tale of a young evacuee sent to stay with an old man
Walter Lord's retelling of the fatal voyage of the Titanic, read by Martin Jarvis
Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain, from the Roman invasion to the Boer War
Drama based on the true story of the Black Widow poisoner in 1940s .
Five cousins and their friends stay at a house with a lawn leading to the Cornish cliffs
Elizabethan playwright Kit Marlowe investigates a mystery in his own unique way
The story of Alexander the Great, with a distinguished cast list
Dramatisation of the famous novel charting the strange story of Oskar Matzerath
Adapted from the novel by Sebastian Faulks, set before and during the First World War
The novel by James Fenimore Cooper, written in 1826 and set in the Seven Years' War
Drama based on the life of Jesus
Wartime drama series about America's elite paratroop regiment
Dramatisation of Lew Wallace's epic novel. Starring Jamie Glover
Anton Lesser reads from the unabridged version of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost
BBC Radio 3
Tales from the reign of biblical King David
Our national poet
BBC Two Scotland
John Hurt is The Narrator in John Fowles' tale of forbidden ions in Victorian Dorset
Virginia Nicholson's true story of the women left without husbands after the Great War
BBC Radio 7
Drama series based on the lives of hospital doctors, nurses and patients in 1909.
Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain in the last century
Christopher Lee's vivid of the impact of Britain's most powerful families
