麻豆约拍 - Programmes categorised as Drama: Historical

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The Edwardians

Drama series examining the turning points in the careers of nine Edwardian subjects.

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Rhodes

Part biographical drama charting the life of Cecil Rhodes.

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Sunday Night Theatre

A long-running series of plays.

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Orde Wingate

Drama series exploring the life of General Orde Wingate.

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The Portrait of a Lady

The classic story by Henry James.

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Charles II: The Power and the Passion

Rufus Sewell stars in a four-part dramatisation of the life of the charismatic monarch.

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Daniel Deronda

Andrew Davies dramatisation of George Eliot novel.

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Quirke

Noir crime series set in 1950s Dublin, based on the novels by Benjamin Black

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The White Queen

Drama set during the War of the Roses, one of the bloodiest wars in English history.

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37 Days

Three-part factual drama of the final weeks before the outbreak of World War I.

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Our World War

Tense combat drama series revealing experiences of British soldiers in World War One.

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Banished

Banished is set in the reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788.

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An Age of Kings

An adaptation of Shakespeare鈥檚 fifteen sequential history plays.

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The Hanging Gale

A family's struggle to save their land during the trials of the 1846 Irish Famine.

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Eleanor Marx

Three part dramatisation of the life of Karl Marx鈥檚 daughter Eleanor.

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Rob Roy

Lavish, romantic adventure story about the 18th-century Scottish hero Rob Roy MacGregor.

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Blind Flight

Drama exploring the relationship between hostages Brian Keenan and John McCarthy.

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Philby, Burgess and Maclean

Dramatisation about three Russian spies who penetrated the British Foreign Service.

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Wilde

Poignant dramatisation of the life of Oscar Wilde.

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The Falklands Play

Dramatisation of how the Thatcher government went to war against Argentina.

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La Reine Margot

A politically motivated marriage fails to reconcile warring factions in C16th France.

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Copenhagen

Two physicists behind the atomic bomb, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, meet in 1941.

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Russian Ark

A journey through Russian history through the eyes of a 19th-century French aristocrat.

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Aguirre, Wrath of God

After sacking the Inca Empire, a group of Spanish adventurers sets out to find El Dorado.

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Gohatto

Japanese period drama. Violence that erupts when newcomers join a Samurai militia group.

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Our Hidden Lives

Four ordinary people confront uncertainties that lie ahead at the end of World War Two.

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Beau Brummell - This Charming Man

Drama chronicling the rise and fall of the 18th-century dandy and man-about-town.

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The Last Duel

Drama-documentary telling the story of one of the last trials by battle fought in Europe.

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Saint Joan

The story of 15th-century French heroine Joan of Arc, based on the play by GB Shaw.

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Moonbeam and Mrs Pat

Celebrated actress Mrs Patrick Campbell had one constant companion, her dog, Moonbeam.

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Alan Plater - Only a Matter of Time

When time was standardised in the 19th century, not everyone was convinced by the idea.

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Howard Brenton - Nasser's Eden

1956: Eden and Nasser battle over Egypt nationalising the Suez Canal.

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John Pilkington - Apostle of Light

Blinded by an accident, Louis Braille aspires to improve blind people's status.

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David Constantine - The Listening Heart

Summer 1802: Beethoven's life is at crisis point with his impending deafness.

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Philip Palmer - The King's Coiner

Royal Mint warden Isaac Newton goes to any length to pursue a notorious counterfeiter.

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Treating Strictly Prohibited

Allan Beswick recalls the circumstances of the nationalisation of Carlisle's pubs in 1916.

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Nick Warburton - Every Book in the World

Sir Thomas Phillipps aimed to own a copy of every book, but his mania came at a price.

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Mrs Miniver

Oscar-winning drama following life in a small English village during World War II.

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The Long Duel

Historical action drama set on the Raj's north-western frontier.

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The Black Shield of Falworth

The son of the disgraced Earl of Falworth must fight to redeem his family name.

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The Horse Soldiers

American Civil War adventure. A small cavalry unit embark on a sabotage mission.

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Quo Vadis

Lavish epic of power, passion and intrigue set in Imperial Rome. Starring Deborah Kerr.

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El Cid

The epic story of the 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar - known as El Cid.

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Taras Bulba

A Cossack chief sends his son to Polish schools to learn from their sworn adversaries.

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Henry VIII and His Six Wives

On his deathbed, King Henry VIII recalls how he wooed and wed his six wives.

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Amistad

A shipload of slaves overpower their captors at sea and land on the shores of America.

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The Fall of the Roman Empire

After Marcus Aurelius is poisoned, his cruel son Commodus becomes emperor.

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The Black Rose

Saga following the fortunes of a Saxon nobleman and his Robin Hood-type retainer.

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Solomon and Sheba

Adaptation of the Biblical tale of Solomon and the temptress Queen of Sheba.

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Mrs Brown

A grieving Queen Victoria finds herself drawn to an unconventional Highlander.

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