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Producer and writer John Yorke has worked in television and radio for 30 years, and he shares his experience with Radio 4 listeners as he unpacks the themes and impact behind the books, plays and stories that are being dramatised in Radio 4's weekend afternoon dramas.

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Episodes

142 episodes

  1. Gulliver's Travels - Episode Two 14:21
  2. Gulliver's Travels - Episode One 14:23
  3. Celtic Christie: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? 14:17
  4. The Things They Carried 14:20
  5. Midnight Cowboy 14:11
  6. Libra - Episode Two 14:24
  7. Libra - Episode One 14:12
  8. Trouble in Mind 14:17
  9. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 14:10
  10. Anna Christie - Episode 2 13:54
  11. Anna Christie - Episode 1 13:54
  12. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 14:17
  13. Moon Tiger 14:20
  14. Don Quixote - Episode Two 14:20
  15. Don Quixote - Episode One 14:42
  16. Transcription 14:23
  17. Celebrating Stoppard 14:37
  18. Flight - Episode Two 13:37
  19. Flight - Episode One 14:24
  20. My Antonia 14:14
  21. The Virginian 14:31
  22. Gone with the Wind - Episode 3 14:23
  23. Gone with the Wind - Episode 2 14:22
  24. Gone with the Wind - Episode 1 14:26
  25. Walden 14:27
  26. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 14:24
  27. The Last of the Mohicans - Episode Two 14:09
  28. The Last of the Mohicans - Episode 1 14:15
  29. Joy in the Morning 14:31
  30. Sense and Sensibility - Episode Two 14:24
  31. Sense and Sensibility - Episode One 14:24
  32. Pride and Prejudice - Episode Two 14:28
  33. Pride and Prejudice - Episode One 14:29
  34. The Princess Bride 14:03
  35. The Wind in the Willows 14:20
  36. Northanger Abbey - Episode Two 14:12
  37. Northanger Abbey - Episode One 14:15
  38. The Castle of Otranto 14:33
  39. Star of the Sea 14:17
  40. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian 14:34
  41. The Cherry Orchard - Episode Two 14:09
  42. The Cherry Orchard - Episode One 14:42
  43. On the Origin of Species 14:38
  44. Treasure Island 14:03
  45. Hiroshima 14:30
  46. The Girls of Slender Means 14:49
  47. King Lear - Episode Two 14:24
  48. King Lear - Episode One 14:11
  49. Next Season 14:41
  50. Underfoot in Show Business 14:45