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A Study in Scarlet: Part One
We go back to the beginning, to the first meeting between Holmes and Watson.
15 Oct 2026,·48 mins
The Red-Headed League - Part Two
The Adventure of the Red-Headed League continues...
16 Oct 2026,·27 mins
Frankenstein. Part Three.
Victor throws himself into his studies with relentless determination.
19 Oct 2026,·43 mins
The Birds
The natural world turns on mankind as a war veteran's family are attacked.
26 May 2007,·60 mins
2. Spiders
What is the secret at the heart of Rama?
08 Mar 2009,·60 mins
To Be Read at Dusk
Five couriers on a mountaintop in Switzerland trade ghost stories into the night.
19 Jan 2026,·43 mins
Chapter 9
The party is over.
08 Jul 2021,·35 mins
Pride and Prejudice
Part 25
Will it be third-time lucky for Lizzy, as she receives yet another proposal?
23 Dec 2025,·72 mins
Chapter Ten
John Buchan’s thrilling tale of derring-do, secrets and spies set in the shadows of war.
01 Nov 2019,·33 mins
Chapter 47
Jane Austen’s universally acknowledged romance about Elizabeth Bennett’s search for love.
24 Aug 2019,·22 mins
Episode 2
Elinor and Marianne are invited to stay at Mrs Jennings' house in London.
11 Aug 2013,·60 mins
Chapter 34
Emily Brontë's tempestuous tale of passions, betrayal and retribution on the wild moors.
24 Aug 2019,·30 mins
6: 'Do it to Julia!'
Tom Hollander ends a day of readings from Orwell's great dystopian masterpiece.
08 Jun 2024,·57 mins
400 Strangers
When 400 asylum-seeking men are housed in two East Midlands hotels, a community fractures.
28 Mar 2026,·86 mins
Chapter 10
The landmark allegory about hypocrisy and corruption of power.
08 Jul 2021,·24 mins
Chapter 12
Kenneth Grahame’s jolly riverside romp with the eccentric Mr. Toad and his animal chums.
01 Nov 2019,·26 mins
Chapter 24
Reconciliations, rewards, and just deserts.
04 Dec 2025,·9 mins
Chapter 1
Charles Dickens' timeless classic about a bitter old man who has a Christmas epiphany.
17 Dec 2019,·49 mins
Northanger Abbey
10. Return
Catherine's visit has ended in disaster, but does she deserve a happy ending?
30 Dec 2016,·15 mins
Chapter 37
Charlotte Brontë’s intimate and disquieting coming of age classic about secrets and lies.
24 Aug 2019,·49 mins
Chapter Four
Mrs Gaskell’s much-loved portrait of life in a small town and its female inhabitants.
01 Nov 2019,·25 mins
Book 2 - Chapter 4
HG Wells’ iconic sci-fi story about the battle to save Earth from a Martian invasion.
23 Aug 2019,·10 mins
Chapter 7
Arthur Conan Doyle's classic locked-room mystery following Holmes and Watson.
22 Aug 2019,·27 mins
Chapter 23
Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece about a young scientist’s quest to create new life.
24 Aug 2019,·15 mins
5. The Substance and the Shadow
Will it be possible to save Charles Darnay's life?
30 Dec 2011,·45 mins
Part Three
Virginia Woolf’s comic biography of a time-travelling hero who transforms into a heroine.
01 Nov 2019,·51 mins
E Nesbit’s heart-warming story of three siblings hoping to be reunited with their father.
01 Nov 2019,·23 mins
10: For there she was
The final part of Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel, set over one day in 1923.
04 Feb 2022,·14 mins
Chapter 6
A doctor experiments with the duality of human nature, and in doing so creates a monster.
22 Aug 2019,·10 mins
Lewis Carroll’s curiouser and curiouser tale of a girl discovering a strange new world.
01 Nov 2019,·17 mins
