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One of the greatest English authors of the 19th Century, George Eliot is renowned for her realistic storytelling and insight into the human psyche. This BBC Radio collection presents dramatisations of her five most famous novels, as well as an exploration of her life through her fictional...

Full-cast dramatisations of three insightful novels by Christopher Isherwood, plus a bonus interview Novelist and playwright Christopher Isherwood is best known for The Berlin Stories of pre-Hitler Germany, which inspired the musical Cabaret. Many of his works have been adapted for stage and...

A collection of four ghostly tales inspired by M. R. James: Casting the Runes, Lost Hearts, The Treasure of Abbott-Thomas and A View from the Hill.

Joe Orton was among the towering geniuses of 1960s theatre. His life was tragically cut short in 1967, but he left behind him a handful of shocking and scabrous black comedies that will live on in the public imagination for years to come. Featured here are two of his lesser-known works, The Erpingham Camp and The Ruffian on the Stair, collected together as a double bill.

Christopher Lee's highly-acclaimed and award-winning BBC Radio 4 history of the British Empire. Britain had the biggest empire the world has ever known. At one time a quarter of the global land mass was British. Over a third of the world was insured at Lloyds. At his coronation, more than 400...

Die Inka, jenes sagenumwobene Indianervolk, welches in seiner kurzen Herrschaft das größte südamerikanische Reich aller Zeiten schuf, fasziniert bis heute durch seine mystische Vergangenheit, die strahlende und machtvolle Kultur sowie den schnellen und tragischen Untergang durch die spanischen Eroberer.

In 1966, two authorities on LSD—Richard Alpert, PhD, AKA Ram Dass, and Sidney Cohen, MD—spoke out on the merits and dangers of the psychedelic drug as acclaimed photographer Lawrence Schiller documented the experiences as they were happening. This Commemorative Edition of LSD looks back at the public’s use of LSD in the 1960s and features a new introduction that explores the book’s relevance to today’s psychedelic renaissance.

A collection of dramas by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Mamet A novelist, playwright, filmmaker and director, David Mamet ranks among America’s most famous living writers. He has penned more than 40 stage plays and over 20 screenplays, won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize...

First published between 1870 and 1893, Émile Zola’s 20-book cycle chronicling four generations of the Rougon-Macquarts was a shocking exposé of the decadence, degradation and moral decay of 19th-century France. It included some of his greatest novels, among them his masterpiece, Germinal. These innovative, ambitious dramas, first broadcast on Radio 4 over 24 hours in 2015-16, are a radical reimagining of Zola’s classic series, introducing us to 104-year-old matriarch, Dide, imprisoned in an asylum in southern France.

In a grim, not-so-distant future, humanity is in crisis. A deadly pandemic has confined billions to their homes, leaving society completely isolated in their homes and utterly dependent on the mega-global Chum Corporation. For some lucky beta testers, the only escape is to log into New Arcadia—a real-as-life role-playing game set in a gleaming 1990s-inspired city. There, they can enjoy the freedoms denied to them in the real world—like Prime Beta Tester John Chambers, who has reinvented himself in New Arcadia as street-fighting hero Blaze.

An acclaimed novelist, short story writer and critic, Leslie Poles Hartley is best known for his 1953 novel The Go-Between, which won the W. H. Heinemann Award and was adapted as a BAFTA-winning film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates. Included here is a radio dramatisation of that classic tale, alongside adaptations of three further novels and five short stories.

Hoch im Nordwesten von Schottland geht das Grauen um. Auf der Insel mitten im See von Loch Montrose ragt wie ein Mahnmal des Bösen auf ihrem felsigen Gipfel ein kegelförmiger Turm empor. Dort soll ein schreckliches Ungeheuer hausen, das die Bewohner des kleinen Ortes seit Jahrhunderten in Angst und Schrecken versetzt. Von all dem ahnte ich, Rick Masters, nichts.

Jack Callum hatte schon viele riskante Reportagen für die Londoner Zeitung NEWS gemacht. Deshalb hatte er ihn auch nach Irland geschickt, um die aktuelle politische Situation auf der Grünen Insel zu analysieren. Doch nicht nur eine Untergrundbewegung sorgte für Unruhe, nein, auch die Mächte der Finsternis trieben ihr grausames Spiel und Jack Callum war mal wieder mittendrin in einem neuen unheimlichen Fall.

Der Gewaltverbrecher Aldo Tomasi nimmt bei einem Banküberfall die schwangere Elena Marano als Geisel. Commissario Maurizio Ferro und sein kauziger Kollege Toni Grimaldi stehen vor einem ihrer härtesten Fälle, denn Tomasis Rachedurst scheint unstillbar zu sein! Wie können sie die werdende Mutter aus den Klauen der menschlichen Bestie befreien? Ferro muss alles auf eine Karte setzen und trifft dafür einen folgenschweren Entschluss ...

A tender love story, a serpentine villainess, a glittering setting in London society, and a showering of Wildean witticism are only a few of the reasons why this play has enjoyed hugely successful revivals in London, in New York, and on the silver screen. This 1895 drama is eerily prescient, as it examines the plight of a promising politician, desperate to hide a secret in his past. With empathy and wit, Oscar Wilde explores the pitfalls of holding public figures to higher standards than the rest of us.

The American Senator By Anthony Trollope. Dramatised by Martyn Wade. Part One: Arabella is determined to keep her engagement to John Morton a secret. Perhaps, there is a more exciting and wealthy husband she might be able to catch. Part Two: Lord Rufford has kissed Arabella twice but she...

Ted Sorensen, JFK’s closest adviser, speech writer and friend, in his own words and final interview, brings us directly into the Oval Office as a member of Kennedy’s inner circle. This film reveals how essential Sorensen was to the administration, as Kennedy said: “My intellectual blood bank”. Not only with the epic speech “Ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country,” but as special counsel to the President.

Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce. Young and beautiful, Isabel Archer thinks that she is in control of her fate. Little does she know, however, that others behind the scenes are pulling the strings. The beautiful and free-spirited Isabel Archer is now a very rich woman. Two men...

The original version of LATW’s groundbreaking docudrama about the Pentagon Papers, the infamous classified documents about US involvement in the Vietnam War, and how The Washington Post fought the government to publish them. Includes a 1991 panel discussion with journalists Ben Bradlee, Peter Braestrup, Robert Maynard, Carla Robbins, Robert Scheer, and George Wilson.

Ein namenloser Gefangener darbt in den Kerkern der spanischen Inquisition. Nur eine Stimme im Dunkeln leistet ihm Gesellschaft und versucht, ihn vor dem Wahnsinn zu schützen. Doch auch dieser geheimnisvolle Freund ist machtlos gegen das berüchtigte Pendel des Todes. (Nach E. A.