Classic Serial

Sunday 3.00-4.00pm, repeated Saturday 9.00-10.00pm

Works which have achieved classic status - or are on their way to achieving it.

  • Some of the serials only have one episode, and these are occasionally (and understandably) listed elsewhere as "Sunday Play" - I know I've added details, sometimes from the writers themselves, where this is the case.
  • Both broadcasts, the Sunday orignal and the Saturday repeat, used to be on "Listen Again", so if you timed it right you could listen to them in a row - but now it's only the original broadcast.
 
 
 

See Also

  • Radio 4  Radio 4
  • Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, The
  • Aeneid, The
  • African Queen, The [drama]
  • Age Of Innocence, The [serial]
  • Agnes Grey
  • Amerika
  • Anatomy Of Melancholy, The
  • And Quiet Flows The Don
  • Armadale
  • As I Lay Dying
  • As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
  • Aspern Papers, The
  • Awakening, The
  • A-z Of Dr Johnson - Boswell's Life Of Johnson, The
  • Back
  • Barry Lyndon
  • Bartleby The Scrivener
  • Basil
  • Bayeux Tapestry, The
  • Beau Geste
  • Bel Ami
  • Bell, The
  • Berlin
  • Birds Fall Down, The
  • Black Beauty
  • Black Sheep, The
  • Bleak House
  • Bonjour Tristesse
  • Book Of Love, The [liber Amoris]
  • Brideshead Revisited
  • Brothers Karamazov, The
  • Cairo Trilogy, The
  • Card, The
  • Certain Smile, A
  • Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator
  • Charterhouse Of Parma, The
  • Childhood's End
  • Cider With Rosie
  • City Of Spades
  • Clarissa
  • Classic Serial
  • Code Of The Woosters, The [classic Serial]
  • Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy - Book 1 - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Part 1, The
  • Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy - Book 1 - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Part 2, The
  • Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy - Book 1 - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Part 3, The
  • Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy - Book 2 - The Honourable Schoolboy - Part 1, The
  • Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy - Book 2 - The Honourable Schoolboy - Part 2, The
  • Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy - Book 2 - The Honourable Schoolboy - Part 3, The
  • Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Part 1, The
  • Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Part 2, The
  • Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Book 2, The
  • Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Part 1, The
  • Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The
  • Complete Smiley - The Looking Glass War, The
  • Complete Smiley - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The
  • Complete Smiley, The
  • Confessions Of A Justified Sinner [serial]
  • Confessions Of An English Opium-eater
  • Coram Boy
  • Cornish Trilogy, The
  • Couples
  • Cousin Bette, The Poor Relation
  • Crime And Punishment
  • Custom Of The Country, The
  • Cyrano De Bergerac
  • Dance To The Music Of Time, A
  • Daniel Deronda
  • Daughters Of The Vicar
  • Dead Souls
  • Decameron
  • December Bride
  • Diary Of A Nobody, The
  • Diary Of Adam And Eve, The
  • Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands
  • Don't Look Now
  • Down And Out In Paris And London
  • Dr Zhivago [drama]
  • Dragon Can't Dance, The
  • Dutch Mariner, The
  • Earthly Powers
  • East Of Eden
  • Effi Briest
  • Egoist, The
  • Emma
  • Erewhon
  • Esmond In India
  • Expedition Of Humphry Clinker, The
  • Experiences Of An Irish Rm, The
  • Faerie Queene, The
  • Fair Stood The Wind For France
  • Father And Son
  • Felix Holt, The Radical
  • Fish Can Sing, The
  • Flash For Freedom
  • Flashman At The Charge
  • Fontamara
  • Fortunes Of War
  • Fountain Overflows, The
  • French Lieutenant's Woman, The
  • From Here To Eternity
  • Germinal
  • Glittering Prizes, The
  • Good Behaviour
  • Good Companions, The
  • Good Soldier Svejk, The
  • Grand Babylon Hotel, The
  • Grand Hotel
  • Grapes Of Wrath, The
  • Grass Is Singing, The
  • Great Expectations
  • Greenmantle
  • Group, The
  • Hadji Murat
  • Handmaid's Tale, The
  • Hard Times
  • Hawksmoor
  • Headlong Hall
  • Heart Of Midlothian, The
  • Heart Of The Matter, The
  • Hemlock And After
  • High Wind In Jamaica, A
  • His Natural Life
  • Hound Of The Baskervilles, The [drama]
  • House For Mr Biswas, A
  • Howards End
  • Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The
  • Idiot, The
  • Iliad, The
  • In A Grove
  • In A Summer Season
  • In Search Of Lost Time
  • Indiana
  • Inn, The
  • Inside Mr Enderby
  • Invasion - Arab Chronicles Of The First Crusade, The
  • Invitation To The Waltz
  • Joseph Andrews
  • Just So Stories, The
  • Justine
  • Kipps
  • Ladies' Paradise, The
  • Lady Audley's Secret
  • Lady Chatterley's Lover
  • L'assommoir
  • Last Chronicle Of Barset, The
  • Le Grand Meaulnes
  • Le Grand Meaulnes [drama]
  • Learning To Swim
  • Leopard, The
  • Lifted Veil, The
  • Little Dorrit
  • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime [serial]
  • Lorna Doone [serial]
  • Lost Empires
  • Loving
  • Lucinda Brayford
  • Mahabharata, The
  • Making Of A Marchioness, The
  • Master Of Ballantrae, The
  • Matilda
  • Maurice
  • Mayor Of Casterbridge, The
  • Memento Mori
  • Memoirs Of Miss Sidney Bidulph
  • Midnight Folk, The
  • Midwich Cuckoos, The
  • Ministry Of Fear, The
  • Moby Dick
  • Mother And Son
  • Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour
  • Mr Standfast
  • Mrs Lirriper
  • Mugsborough
  • My Cousin Rachel
  • My Family And Other Animals
  • My Last Duchess
  • My Name Is Red
  • Name Of The Rose, The
  • Nana
  • New Grub Street
  • Night And Day
  • No Name
  • No One Writes To The Colonel
  • North And South
  • Northanger Abbey
  • Oblomov
  • Of Mice And Men
  • On The Beach
  • One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
  • Orley Farm
  • Painful Case, A
  • Pallisers, The
  • Pamela
  • Passing
  • Piano, The
  • Pickwick Papers, The
  • Picture Of Dorian Gray, The
  • Pilgrim's Progress, The
  • Plantagenet
  • Plantagenet, Lionheart
  • Plantagenet, What Is A Man?
  • Plutocrat, The
  • Portrait Of A Lady, The
  • Precious Bane
  • Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, The
  • Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, The
  • Raj Quartet, The
  • Razor's Edge, The [serial]
  • Real Charlotte, The
  • Red Badge Of Courage, The
  • Remains Of The Day, The
  • Rendezvous With Rama
  • Resurrection
  • Return Of The Native, The
  • Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, The
  • Ring And The Book, The
  • Rites Of Passage [drama]
  • Rites Of Passage Drama]
  • Rob Roy [drama]
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • Robinson Crusoe And His Farther Adventures
  • Room At The Top
  • Rose And The Ring, The
  • Ruth
  • Scoop
  • Seafarer, The
  • Secret Agent, The
  • Shadow Of The Sickle
  • She
  • Shirley
  • Siege Of Krishnapur, The
  • Silver Fox, The
  • Singapore Grip, The
  • Small House At Allington, The
  • Solaris
  • Something Fresh
  • Song Of Hiawatha, The
  • Sons And Lovers
  • Spire, The
  • Story Of An African Farm, The
  • Strangers And Brothers
  • Suitable Boy, A
  • Summoned By Bells
  • Sunset Song
  • Sunset Touch, A
  • Swallows And Amazons
  • Tender Is The Night
  • Tennyson's Maud
  • Tenth Man, The
  • Tess Of The D'urbervilles
  • Therese Raquin
  • Things Fall Apart
  • Thirty-nine Steps, The
  • This Sporting Life
  • Three Hostages, The
  • Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There
  • Tin Drum, The
  • To Sir With Love
  • To The Lighthouse [drama]
  • Tom Brown's Schooldays
  • Tom Jones
  • Torquemada
  • Towards The End Of The Morning
  • Tradition, The
  • Troilus And Criseyde
  • Turn Of The Screw, The [dramatised By Neville Teller]
  • Two On A Tower
  • Two-part Prelude, The
  • Under The Net
  • Vicar Of Wakefield, The
  • Vicissitudes Of Evangeline, The
  • Villette
  • Voss
  • War And Peace
  • Warden, The
  • Water Babies, The
  • Watership Down, The
  • Waves, The
  • We
  • Weather In The Streets, The
  • Well Of Loneliness, The
  • West Pier, The
  • Westwood [drama]
  • What Maisie Knew
  • Whistle Down The Wind
  • White Guard, The
  • Witches, The
  • Woman In White, The [serial]
  • Worst Journey In The World, The [drama]
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