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  1. Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad: Omnibus

    The tale of two Georgia plantation slaves bidding for freedom, read by Clarke Peters

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  2. 1066: A Year to Conquer England

    Drama-documentary exploring the betrayals between the Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans.

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  3. The Last Kingdom

    Historical drama. A Saxon boy is taken by invading Danes. A quest for his homeland begins.

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  4. The Evacuees

    Maureen Lipman plays the mother of two Jewish boys evacuated to Blackpool in World War II.

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  5. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ from Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ: Chronicle of a Vision

    Historical drama set in the fictional village of Schabbach in Rhineland-Palatinate.

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  6. The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

    Sarah Perry's novel, set at the end of the 19th century and inspired by true events.

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  7. The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui

    A play about the rise to underworld eminence of the notorious Chicago gangster Arturo Ui.

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  8. Versailles

    Sumptuous period drama depicting the decadent and turbulent early reign of the Sun King.

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  9. Sgeulachd - CΓΉil Lodair le Fionnlagh MacleΓ²id

    Sgeulachd ghoirid le Fionnlagh MacleΓ²id mu BhlΓ r ChΓΉil Lodair.

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  10. Tumanbay

    Epic saga by John Dryden and Mike Walker, inspired by the Mamluk slave dynasty of Egypt.

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  11. Craig Warner - A Sense of Things Moving Forward

    Can Grand Admiral Colon’s discoveries in the New World satisfy Queen Isabella of Spain?

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  12. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford (Omnibus)

    The adventures of a newcomer to 18th-century New York when it was still a fledgling town

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  13. Against the Law

    When Peter Wildeblood fell in love with Edward McNally in 1952, homosexuality was a crime.

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  14. Svetlana Alexievich - The Unwomanly Face of War: Omnibus

    Svetlana Alexievich's extraordinary oral history of Russian women's experiences in WWII.

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  15. James Whyle - Dancing With the Dead

    Moving true story, based on James Whyle's family history through WW1 and apartheid.

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  16. Anthony Doerr - Afterworld Omnibus

    A woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her lost childhood friends.

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  17. Helen Dunmore - The Siege

    The story of one family caught up in the struggle to survive the Siege of Leningrad.

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  18. Alphonse Daudet - The Girl from Arles

    Country boy Frederi is besotted with a girl from Arles, but could love lead to disaster?

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  19. John Reed - Ten Days That Shook the World

    John Reed's classic eye-witness account of the Russian Revolution in October 1917.

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  20. Gunpowder

    Fast-paced thriller telling the story of the Gunpowder Plot.

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  21. John Reed - Ten Days That Shook the World (Omnibus)

    John Reed's classic eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution in October 1917

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  22. Reformation

    How a revolutionary priest named Martin Luther changed the face of Christendom.

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  23. Peter Wolf - Black Queen to King's Castle

    The ghost of Anne Boleyn tells the story of the events that led to her execution.

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  24. October: Ten Days That Shook the World

    An epic masterpiece filmed to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

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  25. Pat Barker - Regeneration

    First World War drama based on the lives of real people including Siegfried Sassoon.

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  26. David Buck - Conflict of Doves

    Athlete Jesse Owens’ dominance at 1936’s Berlin Olympics unsettled Hitler.

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  27. Lucy Catherine - Gudrun

    Lucy Catherine's historical drama set in 11th-century Iceland

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  28. Troy: Fall of a City

    An epic story of love and war, intrigue and betrayal.

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  29. Jean Binnie - Boudicca's Victory

    A theatre company puts on a brutal version of Queen Boudicca's war against the Roman.

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  30. Jean Binnie - Dr Barry

    How 'Dr Barry' made waves rising through the British Army in the 19th century.

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  31. Castle of the Hawk

    Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the Habsburg dynasty.

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  32. Isabel Colegate - The Shooting Party (Omnibus)

    1913: A Country House party and English society under the microscope. With Olivia Colman.

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  33. Free State of Jones

    A battlefield medic (Matthew McConaughey) leads a rebellion against the Confederacy.

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  34. The King's Speech

    The true story of a king who tried to overcome his stutter so he could address the nation.

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  35. The Plague

    Plague decimates the crowded city of Seville in the late 16th century.

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  36. Willoughby's Phoney War

    1938: Britain's on the brink of war, but men like are desperate for action.

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  37. Maggie Allen - Not Me, But Us

    Maggie Allen's story of Sophia-Jex Blake, a 19th-century campaigner for women's education.

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  38. Maggie Allen - Not Me, But Us (Omnibus)

    True story of Sophia Jex-Blake who campaigned for women doctors in the late 19th century.

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  39. Mary Baker - The American Dentist

    When Dr Thomas W Evans moves to France, the course of history changes.

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  40. The Flu That Killed 50 Million

    Christopher Eccleston narrates a docudrama about the 1918 flu pandemic.

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  41. The Republicans

    Entertaining new dramas following the political swings of the Republican Party.

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  42. Rhyfelgan

    Caneuon Cymraeg o'r Rhyfel Mawr, ynghyd ΓΆ monologau o waith Aled Jones Williams.

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  43. Sir Walter Raleigh - A Devon Man

    Historical docudrama on the life of Sir Walter Raleigh.

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  44. Roots

    A historical portrait of American slavery, recounting the journey of one family.

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  45. Kate Chopin - The Awakening (Omnibus)

    Adaptation of the novel that shocked America in 1899.

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  46. Stephen Sharkey - All of You on the Good Earth

    Space enthusiast Neil B O’Brien monitors Apollo 8, as it prepares to orbit the Moon.

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  47. Dramas

    Immersive storytelling from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service. The home of original drama

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  48. Good News Stories by Katie Hims (Omnibus)

    Five contemporary dramas inspired by stories from the old and new testaments.

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  49. Jerome Vincent - Teddy and Toad

    The story of how President Roosevelt got The Wind in the Willows published in America.

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  50. Tales From A Long Room by Peter Tinniswood

    Dramatisation of Peter Tinniswood's cricket-inspired Tales from a Long Room.

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