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Categories: Drama: Historical

  1. Operation Rex by Damian Barr

    A young boy goes to extraordinary lengths to save his dog as the Second World War looms.

    BBC Radio 4

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  2. Virginia and Katherine by Alison MacLeod

    A story about the friendship and rivalry between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield.

    BBC Radio 4

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  3. Rye by Alex Preston

    Rye, Sussex, 1804. Zeke is determined to free his father from a prison hulk at Sheeerness.

    BBC Radio 4

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  4. The Green & The Black by Kit de Waal

    New fiction about the changing face of modern Ireland, as told through one family.

    BBC Radio 4

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  5. The Promised Land

    Retired captain Ludvig Kahlen fights to settle on a remote heathland.

    BBC Four

  6. The Buckingham Palace Connection

    Writer Ted Willis's drama about what might have happened in Ekaterinburg in 1918.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  7. The Famous Five

    Four children and their dog solve mysteries and battle sinister forces.

    CBBC

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  8. The Tomb

    Original drama based on true events. Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz.

    BBC Radio 4

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  9. Dodger

    Hold onto your top hats, Dodger and the gang are in for one heck of a ride!

    CBBC

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  10. All Is True

    Semi-fictionalised account of the last chapter of William Shakespeare's life.

    BBC Two

  11. Faith, Hope and Glory

    A century-spanning drama series tracing the emergence of modern Britain.

    BBC Radio 4

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  12. Dramas

    Immersive storytelling from the BBC World Service. The home of original drama

    BBC World Service

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  13. The Republicans

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

    BBC Radio 4

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  14. Wired Love

    Wired Love, published in 1879, is a story of long-distance love over the telegraph wire.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  15. Gudrun

    Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and faith inspired by the Icelandic sagas.

    BBC Radio 4

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  16. Love Letters from the Front

    Drama series telling the story of a WWI soldier and his sweetheart thorough love letters.

    BBC Radio Ulster

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  17. Hetty Feather

    Hetty Feather and her little brother live at the Foundling Hospital in 1800s London.

    CBBC

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  18. Home Front - Omnibus

    Epic drama series charting the lives of a group of characters on the home front during WWI

    BBC Radio 4

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  19. Home Front

    Drama serial charting life on the home front during the First World War.

    BBC Radio 4

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  20. Tessa Hadley - Deeds Not Words

    Spurred on by the Suffragettes, a tale of radicalism, lust and teenage fervour.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  21. Spotlight

    Take a deep dive into long-form drama from Radio 4.

    BBC Radio 4

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  22. The Strange Case of the Man in the Velvet Jacket by Robert Forrest

    At 22, writer Robert Louis Stevenson is driven by ambition and haunted by demons.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  23. Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

    The life and exploits of 18th-century Irish adventurer Redmond Barry

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  24. El Cid

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

    BBC Two

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    The Fall of the Roman Empire

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

    BBC Two

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    The Falklands Play

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

    BBC Four

  27. Mabinogi: Lost Legends and Dark Magic

    Fantasy audio drama, based on the ancient myths of Wales

    BBC Radio Wales

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  28. Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals

    The story of the trial of Nazi war criminals following Germany's surrender in 1945.

    BBC Radio 4

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