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Five part television series, adapated from Wilke Collnis' novel. The lives of two half-sisters and their drawing master get caught up in a deadly c...
Zadie Smith's White Teeth gets a musical makeover, we review the new theatrical production put on in the same district of north London wh...
Mark Lawson and guests Bonnie Greer, Tim Lott and William Feaver discuss the Channel 4 adaption of Zadie Smith's ''White Teeth''.
Snow White visits the cafe and the cooks make her some Seven Dwarf custard tarts. She leaves them a bow.
'I don't want to dust and polish. And I don't want to work on a farm. I want to write poetry, great poetry, as great as Shakespeare''. Those are the wo...
Classic adventure starring Ethan Hawke. The son of a gold miner goes to Alaska seeking his dead father's claim and befriends an orphaned wolf-dog that he c...
First of five of this adaptation of the novel by Wilkie Collins. On the eve of his departure to Limmeridge, Walter Hartright encounters a mysteriou...
Adaptation of Wilkie Collins' mystery drama, starring Tara Fitzgerald; James Wilby; Simon Callow and Ian Richardson.
John Sergeant presides as Jack Klaff and Marielle Frostrup battle to convince the audience which book to...
After meeting beautiful widow Elizabeth Woodville, young King Edward IV must choose between love and loyalty. Will a country divided by war and a...
Wilbur the piglet is rescued from an untimely death by farmer's daughter Fern, only to find that he is being fattened up for the dinner table. Joe Robi...
Novelist and essayist, Zadie Smith (White Teeth, On Beauty, NW) talks to Kirsty about black and white musicals, childhood friendships, and dancing, a...
Philip Dodd talks to writer Zadie Smith about her new collection of essays as well as her work since she shot to fame with White Teeth, her portray...
Zadie Smith talks about representing the suburb of Willesden in her new novel NW. White Teeth was her first novel. She's also written The Autograph M...
Charlotte's plan to save Wilbur seems to be working, but he may not win the blue ribbon if she doesn't go to the fair.
Malorie Blackman describes how all the protagonists in books were white when she was young, and never black like her.
An introduction to the history of white violence against black people in Southern America.
Part-autobiography, part-fiction, David Copperfield displays a narrative power and wealth of characterisation that he never surpassed. Dramatised in...
Sci-fi novel by HG Wells first published in 1898, dramatised in six parts by Jon Manchip White and starring Paul Daneman and Martin Jarvis. Scie...
Leon, a mixed-race boy, and Jake, his white baby brother, are separated after their mother has a breakdown. Leon is determined to find him and gets unexpecte...
The first of two animations based on Roald Dahl's rhymes. Snow White takes on the wicked Queen, while Red Riding Hood must deal with a pair of hungry wo...
Award-winning adaptation of Harper Lee's novel set in 1930s Alabama. Lawyer Atticus Finch defends a black man accused of raping a white woman. H...
A literary landmark and it's effect on a city; an examination of how Dublin has embraced Ulysses. With Peter White.
Koby Adom on directing Malorie Blackman's best-selling young adult novel Noughts and Crosses for BBC1, creating an alternative world where Euro...
Two African American women meet one hot afternoon in Chicago, 1925. Both are light skinned and able to pass for white, but only one has chosen to spend her life on t...
A celebration of the flamboyant writer Robert Graves, showing to mark his centenary year. Graves is famous as the...
Kirsty Young talks to novelist and critic Zadie Smith.
The multi-award-winning author reads extracts from a selection of her own writing and even sings, accompanied in concert...
Zadie Smith talks to Mariella Frostrup about her much-anticipated new novel, NW.
Four young war evacuees are transported to the magical land of Narnia, where they join the noble lion A...
Connie Booth tells story set in 19th century America of piglet Wilbur, runt of the litter, whose life is saved by farmer's daughter Fern an...
Filmed by celebrated filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, the program follows Billie Whitelaw as she prepares for her latest Beckett role.
Play by Samuel Beckett, starring Billie Whitelaw, his foremost interpreter. Introduced by Martin Esslin.
A rare opportunity to see Samuel Beckett interpret his own work. Starring Billie Whitelaw and Leonard Fenton, the play follows Winnie, buried to h...
From Susanna White’s four-part BBC serial adaptation, young Jane Eyre is trapped in the red room by her cruel Aunt Reed.
From Susanna White’s four-part BBC serial adaptation, Jane Eyre's time at Lowood School.
From Susanna White’s four-part BBC serial adaptation, Jane Eyre and Rochester's dramatic first meeting.
From Susanna White’s four-part BBC serial adaptation, the mysterious Mr Mason visits and there are strange sounds in the night.
From Susanna White’s four-part BBC serial adaptation, Jane goes back to visit her Aunt Reed, who is dying.
From Susanna White’s four-part BBC serial adaptation, Rochester proposes to Jane.
From Susanna White’s four-part BBC serial adaptation, Jane and Rochester's wedding is disrupted by unwanted visitors.
From Susanna White’s four-part BBC serial adaptation, Rochester introduces Jane to his wife Bertha, the 'mad woman in the attic'.
From Susanna White’s four-part BBC serial adaptation, John Rivers asks Jane to marry him and accompany him on his mission.
From Susanna White’s four-part BBC serial adaptation, Jane returns to Rochester.
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