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A Level English Literature Resource Pack

Below is a collection of curriculum specific broadcast material, sorted by exam board and then study

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Shakespeare –

Coriolanus;

Hamlet;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yj7dz - BBC Two - Hamlet

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jqtfs - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Hamlet

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0pjz - BBC World Service – Hamlet Special –

Features interviews with John Gielgud and Derek Jacobi about the role

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pk71s/clips - BBC Two - Hamlet – Clips

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k7blq/clips - BBc Four - Shakespeare Uncovered –

Clips

Measure for Measure;

Richard III;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfxlnb - BBC World Service – Shakespeare’s Richard

III

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0pbr BBC World Service - The RSC’s Richard III

The Tempest;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfy9r - BBC World Service – The Tempest

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0n9d - BBC World Service – The Tempest by Paul

Mazursky

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0my1 - BBC World Service – Meridian – The

Tempest with Mark Rylance

Twelfth Night

Drama and Peotry pre-1900 - Drama –

Christopher Marlowe - Edward II;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9d6 - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Marlowe

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0tms - BBC World Service – Jarman’s Edward II

John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b044yrgg/clips - BBC Four - The Duchess of Malfi: BBC

Arts at the Globe – Clips

Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer;

Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House;

Oscar Wilde - An Ideal Husband

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074l4n - BBC Omnibus - Oscar

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00547m3 - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Oscar Wilde

Poetry –

Geoffrey Chaucer - The Merchant's Prologue and Tale;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003hycq - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Chaucer

John Milton - Paradise Lost Books 9 and 10;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548bg - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Milton

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094f9p2 - BBC Radio 3 – Colin Burrow – Paradise Lost

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x3hl/clips - BBC Radio 3 – Clips

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Aeolian Harp, Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement; This

Lime-Tree Bower My Prison; Kubla Khan; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts; Christbel;

The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem April 1798, Fears in Solitude, Frost as Midnight, Dejection: An

Ode, The Pains of Sleep, To William Wordsworth, The Knight's Tomb, Youth and Age, Constancy to

an Ideal Object;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvsfl - Kubla Khan: A Vision in A Dream

Christina Rossetti - Selected Poems - Song: When I am dead, my dearest; Remember; From the

Antique; Echo; Shut Out; In the Round Tower at Jhansi; A birthday; Maude Clare; Up-Hill; No, thank

you, John; Good Friday; Goblin Market; Twice; Winter: My Secret; Soeur Louise de la Misericode

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m10nd - BBC World Service – Meridian –

Adventures in Poetry – Remember Christina Rossetti

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017mvwy - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time - Christina

Rossetti

Close reading in Chosen Topic Area and Comparative Essay - War through time - Wilfred Owen -

Selected Poems; Steven Berkoff – Agammemnon; Chimamanda Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z3cgh - BBC Radio 4 – Woman’s Hour – Award-

winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b45s0 - BBC Radio 4 – Bookclub – Chimamanda

Ngozi Adichie – Discussion of Half of a Yellow Sun

Religion in Literature - Elizabeth Jennings - Selected Poems; David Hare - Racing Demon; Phillip

Pullman - The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel, Disillusions in America; EE Cummings - Selected

Poems; Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman; Joseph O'Neil - Netherland;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0tmt - BBC World Service – David Hare – Meridian

– interview with David Hare

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0680jh4 - BBC Radio 4 – Front Row – David Hare –

David Hare discusses his career

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00x20lr - BBC Two - English File – ‘Death of a

Salesman’ – Linda Loman – Clips

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03js7ly - BBC World Service – Close Up – Arthur Miller

Tribute

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0376jkm - BBC World Service – Omnibus – Arthur

Miller talks about his life and work

Youth in Time - Simon Armitage - Book of Matches; Alan Bennett - The History Boys; Graham Swift -

Waterland; Reworking the classics - Seamus Heaney - Beowulf, Owen Mccafferty – Antigone;

Jeanette Winterson - Boating for Beginners;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01d7m18/clips - BBC Two - Simon Armitage: Writing

Poems

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034nldf - BBC Four - In Conversation – Timer – Tony

Harrison talks to Simon Armitage about his poetry.

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0nt9 - BBC World Service – Meridian – Waterland

by Graham Swift

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fpvpj - BBC Radio 4 – Bookclub -Graham Swift in

discussion

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0wk5 - BBC World Service – Meridian – Seamus

Heaney

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m1113 - BBC World Service – Meridian – Seamus

Heaney and Irish Literature

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01j10t7 - BBC Radio 4 – Book of the Week – Seamus

Heaney discusses his translation of Beowulf

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00nw1xh - BBC - The Late Show – Face to Face:

Jeanette Winterson

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0x8b - BBC World Service – Meridian – Jeanette

Winterson

Irish Literature - WB Yeats - Selected Poems; Conor Macpherson - The Weir; William Trevor - Love

and Summer; Derek Walcott - Caribbean Experience, Omeros; Polly Teale - After Mrs Rochester;

Richard Hughes - A High Wind in Jamaica;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0ry2 - BBC World Service – Meridian - William

Butler Yeats

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p051jfm3 - BBC World Service – World Book Club –

Derek Walcott – Omeros

The Contemporary World - Seamus Heaney - District and Circle; Jez Butterworth - Jerusalem; Ian

McEwan - Saturday;

Relationships and Change - Jo Shapcott - Of Mutability; Edward Albee - Whos Afraid of Virginia

Woolf, Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0065n55 - BBC Radio 4 – Front Row – Edward Albee –

Albee discusses teasing audiences in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Time - Thomas Hardy - Poems of 1912-13; Tom Stoppard – Arcadia; Ian Mcewan – Atonement.

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0sqq - BBC World Service – Meridian – Thomas

Hardy

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0vgw - BBC World Service – Meridian – Tom

Stoppard and Arcadia

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m119b - BBC World Service – Meridian - Ian

McEwan on ‘Atonement’

Young Women - Sylvia Plath – Ariel; Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie; Chimamanda

Adichie - Purple Hibsicus;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p8dkb - BBC Radio 4 – Great Lives – Tennessee

Williams

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfxz4 - BBC World Service - Spotlight – The Glass

Menagerie

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z3cgh - BBC Radio 4 – Woman’s Hour – Award-

winning Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00d3wzx - BBC Radio 4 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Young Men - Owen Sheers - The Blue Book; John Osbourne - Look Back in Anger; James Joyce -

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Invasion; Seamus Heaney – North; David Greig – Dunsinane;

Owen Sheers - Resistance;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06k9f26 - BBC Radio 3 – Private Passions – Owen

Sheers

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nyxvr - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Joyce’s A

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

East/West - Daljit Nagra - Look We Have Coming to Dover, Tom Stoppard - India Ink, E M Forster - A

Passage to India; The City - TS Eliot - The Waste Land and Other Poems; Caryl Churchill - Serious

Money, Jeet Thayil - Narcopolis.

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0rb6 - BBC World Service – Meridian – Tom

Stoppard Interview

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0vnv - BBC World Service – Meridian – Talking

with Tom Stoppard

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfxys - BBC World Service – Spotlight – Caryl

Churchill

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0xw4 - BBC World Service – Meridian – Caryl

Churchill

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Comparative and Contextual Study from Chosen Topic Area - American Literature 1880-1940 - F.

Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby, John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0181q3j - BBC Witness - The Great Gatsby

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Gothic Literature

- Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; Bram Stoker - Dracula;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv0rt - BBC World Service – The Forum – Bram Stoker’s

Dracula

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0sxp - BBC World Service – Meridian - Bram Stoker’s

Dracula

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0376k1y - BBC World Service – Omnibus – Count Dracula

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0tqy - BBC World Service – Meridian – The Vampire

Legend Explored

Dystopia - Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale, George Orwell - 1984;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07yqsby - BBC News - HARDtalk – Margaret Atwood,

Author

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0x2k - BBC World Service – Meridian – Margaret

Atwood

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0szt - BBC World Service – Meridian – Margaret

Atwood and the Handmaid’s Tale

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ndcg7 - BBC Radio 3 – Free Thinking – Margaret

Atwood

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pz054/clips - BBC Radio 4 Extra – George Orwell –

Nineteen Eighty-Four – Clips

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0zrd - BBC World Service – Meridian – George

Orwell

- http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-handmaids-tale - Channel 4 - The Handmaid’s Tale

Women in Literature - Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility, Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08sqxk1/clips - BBC Two - Jane Austen: Behind Closed

Doors – Clips

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b085hs07 - BBC Radio 4 – Front Row – Jane Austen

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03ng3ds - BBC World Service – Witness – Virginia

Woolf

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07npxx3 - BBC Radio 4 – Great Lives – Sara Pascoe on

Virginia Woolf

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048033q - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Mrs Dalloway

The Immigrant Experience - Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Henry Roth - Call it

Sleep.

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0144ybj - BBC Radio 4 – Mohsin Hamid – The

Reluctant Fundamentalist

AQA

Love through the Ages - Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, the Winter's Tale

and

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfxt2 - BBC World Service – Spotlight –

Shakespeare’s Othello

Two texts from: Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre; Jane Austen – Persuasion; Emily Bronte - Wuthering

Heights; Kate Chopin - The Awakening; Jonathan Coe - The Rotters' Club; George Eliot - The Mill on

the Floss; Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'urbervilles; F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby; E.M

Forster - A Room With a View; L.P. Hartley - The Go-Between; Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca, Ian

McEwan – Atonement

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0376jkn - BBC World Service – Omnibus – Jane Eyre

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-handmaids-tale

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfy26 - BBC World Service – Polly Teale’s

adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s classic novel Jane Eyre.

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03sqwl4 - BBC World Service – World Book Club –

Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05y11v8 - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Jane Eyre

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b085hs07 - BBC Radio 4 – Front Row – Jane Austen

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b075dwrd - BBC Four - The Brontes at the BBC – Bronte

stories and characters reimagined in the modern day.

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0t2n - BBC World Service – Meridian – Emily

Bronte – Biography

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095ptt5 - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Wuthering

Heights

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b076b15h - BBC Radio 3 – Jonathon Coe and Richard

Cameron on Stage

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0sqq - BBC World Service – Meridian – Thomas

Hardy

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0sq5 - BBC World Service – Meridian – Thomas

Hardy’s England

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0ybl - BBC World Service – The life of Thomas

Hardy

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007d9k6 - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Victorian

Pessimism

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b078zcrr - BBC Radio 4 – Tess of the d’Urbervilles

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0181q3j - BBC World Service – Witness – The Great

Gatsby

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0q12 - BBC World Service – Meridian – A Room

with a View

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06cwkf5/clips - BBC One - Clips

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00nw1z9 - BBC - Daphne du Maurier

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0s1j - BBC World Service – Remembering Daphne

du Maurier

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m119b - BBC World Service – Ian McEwan on

‘Atonement’

WW1 and its Aftermath - Set Texts - Pat Barker – Regeneration; Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong; Joan

Littlewood - Oh! What A Lovely War; R.C. Sherriff - Journey's End; Brian Gardner - Up The Line to

Death; Catherine Reilly - Scars Upon my Heart.

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b067xcy8 - BBC Radio 4 – Pat Barker – Open Book

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p025qhlv - BBC World Service – World Book Club – Pat

Barker – Regeneration

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00frhy2 - BBC Radio 4 – Bookclub – Sebastien Faulks

talks about Birdsong

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nrn9m - BBC Radio 4 – Archive on 4 – The Long,

Long Trail

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03cnr02 - BBC Radio 3 – Night Waves – Landmarks: Oh

What a Lovely War

WW1 and its Aftermath - Chosen Texts- Rebecca West - The Return of the Soldier; Erich Maria

Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front; Susan Hill - Strange Meeting; Ernest Hemingway - A

Farewell to Arms; Robert Graves - Goodbye to All That; Sebastian Barry - A Long, Long Way; Ben

Elton - The First Casualty; Pat Barker - Life Class;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00nxqp4 - BBC - Tonight – Dame Rebecca West

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0mgy - BBC World Service – Dame Rebecca West

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0q0v - BBC World Service – Meridian – The Life of

Rebecca West

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0zbs - BBC World Service – Ernest Hemingway –

Centenary

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b044h6nq - BBC Radio 4 – Great Lives – Ernest

Hemingway

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0n4p - BBC World Service – Meridian – Robert

Graves Special

Drama - Peter Whelan - The Accrington Pals, Richard Curtis and Ben Elton - Blackadder Goes Forth;

David Haig - My Boy Jack; Poetry - George Walker - The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry; Jon

Stallworthy - The Oxford Book of War Poetry; Jon Stallworthy - The War Poems of Wilfred Owen.

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03z2zlp - BBC World Service – The Documentary – The

Accrington Pals

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hhr1f - BBC Two - Baldrick’s Revolution – Clips from

Blackadder goes Fourth

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfy2b - BBC World Service – Spotlight – My Boy Jack

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Modern Times: Literature from 1945 - present day - Set Texts - Prose - Margaret Atwood - The

Handmaid's Tale, Graham Swift - Waterland;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07yqsby - BBC News - Hardtalk – Margaret Atwood –

Author

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ndcg7 - BBC Radio 3 – Free Thinking – Margaret

Atwood

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0szt - BBC World Service – Meridian – Margaret

Atwood and the Handmaid’s Tale

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0nt9 - BBC World Service – Meridian – Waterland

by Graham Swift

- http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-handmaids-tale - Channel 4 - The Handmaid’s Tale

Drama - Caryll Churchill - Top Girls; Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire; poetry - Carol

Ann Duffy - Feminine Gospels, Owen Sheers - Skirrid Hill

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0xw4 - BBC World Service – Caryl Churchill

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfxys - BBC World Service – Spotlight – Caryll

Churchill

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p8dkb - BBC Radio 4 – Great Lives – Tennessee

Williams

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0x70 - BBC World Service – Meridian – A Streetcar

Named Desire

Modern Times:

Literature from 1945 - present day - Chosen Texts - Michael Frayn - Spies; Ken Kesey - One Flew

Over the Cuckoos Nest; Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things; Kathryn Stockett - The Help; Alice

Walker - The Color Purple; Jeanette Winterson - Oranges are not the Only Fruit; Richard Yates -

Revolutionary Road;

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0qw1 - BBC World Service – Michael Frayn Special

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03cgd74 - BBC World Service

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04grlrn - BBC Radio 4 – Witness – Ken Kesey and the

Merry Pranksters

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-handmaids-tale

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r79l8 - BBC World Service – World Book Club –

Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08slx9t - BBC Radio 3 – Free Thinking – Arundhati Roy

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0554kw6 - BBC Radio 3 – Free Thinking – Arundhati

Roy

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0xm6 - BBC World Service – Meridian - Arundhati

Roy

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m1268 - BBC World Service – Meridian – World

Book Club: Arundhati Roy

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0q6p - BBC World Service – Meridian – Alice

Walker and the Color Purple

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0376jcg - BBC World Service – Alice Walker – Profile.

Readings and analysis of her themes

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0scw - BBC World Service – Talking to Alice

Walker

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0ysm - BBC World Service – Meridian – The

Colour Purple

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00nw1xh - BBC - The Late Show – Face to Face:

Jeanette Winterson

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0x8b - BBC World Service – Meridian – Jeanette

Winterson

Drama - Brian Friel – Translations; Arthur Miller - All My Sons; Timberlake Wertenbaker - Our

Country's Good, Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Poetry - Tony Harrison - Selected

Poems, Seamus Heaney - New Selected Poems, Ted Hughes - Birthday Letters, Sylvia Plath - Ariel.

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03js7ly - BBC World Service – Close Up – Arthur Miller

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0vhq - BBC World Service – Meridian – talking to

Arthur Miller

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0m7t - BBC World Service – Arthur Miller – All My

Sons

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0yhf - BBC World Service – Timberlake

Wertenbaker interview

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0rpw - BBC World Service – Meridian – Our

Country’s Good

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p8dkb - BBC Radio 4 – Great Lives – Tennessee

Williams

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0v7p - BBC World Service – Tony Harrison

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03wtkz8 - BBC Radio 4 – Bookclub – Tony Harrison’s

Poem V

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0wk5 - BBC World Service – Meridian – Seamus

Heaney

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m1113 - BBC World Service – Meridian – Seamus

Heaney and Irish Literature

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0141tfv - BBC World Service – Witness – The Last

Days of Sylvia Plath

Independent Critical Study -Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park; Anne Bronte - The

Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone, The Woman In White; Charles Dickens - Hard

Times; George Eliot - Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss; Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South;

Charlotte Perkin Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper; Mary Shelley - Frankenstein; William Makepeace

Thackeray - Vanity Fair; Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray; William Congreve - The Way of the

World; Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler; Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer;

George Bernard Shaw - any pre1900 play by this writer; Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The School for

Scandal; Oscar Wilde - any pre 1900 play; William Wycherley - The Country Wife; Geoffrey Chaucer -

The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Miller's Tale; Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Matter;

John Keats - Lamia, Isabella or the Pot of Basil, the Eve of St Agnes.

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b157dw - BBC One - The Woman in White – Episode

1

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfybx - BBC World Service – Spotlight - Wilkie

Collins

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0824cbr/clips - BBC One - The Moonstone – Clips

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0yqx - BBC World Service – Charles Dickens –

Hard Times

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09z1dd7 - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Middlemarch

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p035v33p - BBC Radio 4 – The Secret Life of Books –

Clips – Fiona Shaw looks at some of George Eliot’s themes.

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04b9gfy - BBC Radio 4 – Great Lives - George Eliot

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h0654 - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – North and

South

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0w66 - BBC World Service – Meridian – Mary

Shelley’s Frankenstein

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09m1dvh - BBC Radio 3 – Free Thinking –

Frankenstein and AI Now

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007c55c/clips - BBC Four - Frankenstein: Birth of a

Monster – Clips

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074l4n - BBC - Omnibus – Oscar

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfygp - BBC World Service – Spotlight – The Picture

of Dorian Gray

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0t4x - BBC World Service – Meridian – Hedda

Gabler

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03njyc2 - BBC World Service – George Bernard Shaw

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007llg0 - BBC Radio 4 – Great Lives – George Bernard

Shaw

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0yps - BBC World Service – Meridian – George

Bernard’s Pygmalion

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003hycq - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Chaucer

Drama - One text from Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, A

Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0ypx - BBC World Service – Antony and

Cleopatra Analysed

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yj7dz - BBC Two - Hamlet

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jqtfs - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Hamlet

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0pjz - BBC World Service – Meridian - Hamlet

Special

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pk71s/clips - BBC Two - Clips

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b086kg3n/clips - BBC Four - King Lear – Clips

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0vxf - BBC World Service – Meridian –

Shakespeare’s King Lear

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfxm7 - BBC World Service – Shakespeare’s King

Lear

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfy09 - BBC World Service – Spotlight – A

Midsummer Night’s Dream

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0w6j - BBC World Service – Meridian – A

Midsummer Night’s Dream

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dx7lt/clips - BBC One - A Midsummer Night’s

Dream – Clips

Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe; The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster; The Home Place - Brian

Friel; A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams; The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar

Wilde; The Rover - Aphra Behn; The Pitman Painters - Lee Hall; Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett.

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b044yrgg/clips - BBC Four - The Duchess of Amalfi –

Clips – Gemma Arterton at the Duchess of Malfi

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0v83 - BBC World Service – Christopher Marlowe

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9d6 - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Marlowe

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0x70 - BBC World Service – Meridian – A

Streetcar Named Desire


Williams

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0w86 - BBC World Service – Meridian - The

Importance of Being Earnest

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m127f - BBC World Service – Meridian – Waiting

for Godot

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012kzcs - BBC World Service – Witness - Waiting for

Godot

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04km4g4 - BBC World Service – Witness – Samuel

Beckett

Prose - What Maisie Knew - Henry James; Atonement - Ian Mcewan; Hard Times - Charles Dickens;

The Color Purple - Alice Walker; Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad; The Adventures of Huckleberry

Finn - Mark Twain; A Passage to India - EM Forster; The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon; Lady

Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon; In Cold Blood - Truman Capote; The Moonstone - Wilkie

Collins; The Murder Room - PD James; Frankenstein - Mary Shelley; The War of the Worlds - HG

Wells; Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro; The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood; The Picture of

Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde; Dracula - Bram Stoker; The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters; Beloved - Toni

Morrison; Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte; Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy; Mrs Dalloway

- Virginia Woolf; A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini.

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08yq93l - BBC Radio 4 – Love Henry James: The

Master

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0yh7 - BBC World Service – Henry James –

Meridian

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m119b - BBC World Service – Meridian - Ian

McEwan on ‘Atonement’

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0q6p - BBC World Service – Meridian – Alice

Walker and The Color Purple

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m11ny - BBC World Service – Joseph Conrad’s

Heart of Darkness

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0077474 - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Heart of

Darkness

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04y9rt4 - BBC Radio 3 – The Essay – Steve Earle on In

Cold Blood – The Book That Changed Me




Frankenstein and AI Now

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007c55c/clips - BBC Four - Frankenstein: Birth of a

Monster – Clips

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0yt1 - BBC World Service – Meridian – The War

of the Worlds

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09r4k4j - BBC Radio 4 – Short Cuts – Never Let Me Go

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0543b0x - BBC Radio 4 – Front Row – Kazuo Ishiguro

in Conversation with John Wilson

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07yqsby - BBC News - Hardtalk – Margaret Atwood,

Author

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0szt - BBC World Service – Margaret Atwood and

the Handmaid’s Tale

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv0rt - BBC World Service – The Forum – Bram

Stoker’s Dracula

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0sxp - BBC World Service – Meridian – Bram

Stoker’s Dracula

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g4xy9 - BBC Radio 3 – Colm Toibin explores the

origins of the Irish author’s gothic horror

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0tqy - BBC World Service – Meridian – The

Vampire Legend Explored

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03cgd8x - BBC World Service – Masterpiece – Toni

Morrison

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00d3wc9 - BBC Radio 4 – Toni Morrison – Beloved

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0v23 - BBC World Service – Meridian – Toni

Morrison Interview

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095ptt5 - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Wuthering

Heights

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048033q - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Mrs Dalloway

Poetry - Post-2000 poetry - Poems of the decade: An anthropology of the forward books of poetry

2002 - 2011 and Geoffrey Chaucer; John Donne; John Keats; Christina Rossetti; TS Eliot; Philip Larkin

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fpvpn - BBC Radio 4 – Bookclub – Geoffrey Chaucer


- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m10ns - BBC World Service – Meridian –

Adventures in Poetry – John Donne

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m10l7 - BBC World Service – Meridian – The Lyrics

– John Keats and Andrew Motion

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017mvwy - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Christina

Rossetti

Non-Assignment- Conflict: Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks and The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini;

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008hyk7 - BBC Radio 4 – Open Book – Khaled

Hosseini

Relationships - The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan, Brick Lane - Monica Ali;

Cultural Perspectives - Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe and The Heart of Darkness - Joseph

Conrad;

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p041dldb - BBC World Service – Witness – Chinua

Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033xdp7 - BBC World Service – My Century – Chinua

Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0ww8 - BBC World Service – Meridian – How

Things Came Together for Chinua Achebe

Literary Reportage - Dispatches - Michael Kerr and Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell.

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013yghw - BBC Radio 4 – The Real George Orwell –

Preview Clip

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qdr2y - BBC Radio 4 – Bookclub – George Orwell’s

Homage to Catalonia

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zdfjb - BBC Radio 3 – The Essay – Homage to

Catalonia – The Book That Changed Me

Prose Fiction pre-1900 - Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility; Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre; Elizabeth

Gaskell - North and South; Charles Dickens - David Copperfield; Thomas Hardy - the Mayor of

Casterbridge.

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dlcp2 - BBC Radio 4 – Classic Serial – Sense and

Sensibility: Marianne meets Willoughby – Clips

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfy26 - BBC World Service – Spotlight – Jane Eyre

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0376jkn - BBC World Service – Omnibus – Jane Eyre

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03sqwl4 - World Book Club – Charlotte Bronte – Jane

Eyre

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05y11v8 - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Jane Eyre

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h0654 - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – North and

South

Drama - Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus; Oscar Wilde - Lady Windemere's Fan; Tennessee

Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire; Caryl Churchill - Top Girls; Joe Orton – Loot


Williams



- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0xw4 - BBC World Service – Meridian – Caryl

Churchill

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfxys - BBC World Service – Spotlight – Caryl

Churchill

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zzly6 - BBC Radio 4 – Front Row – Joe Orton

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nr01k - BBC Witness - Joe Orton

Poetry Post -1900 - Edward Thomas - Selected Poems; D H Lawrence - Selected Poems; Gillian Clarke

- Making the Beds for the Dead; Ted Hughes - Poems Selected by Simon Armitage; Sylvia Plath -

Poems selected by Ted Hughes; Philip Larkin - The Whitsun Weddings; Carol Ann Duffy - Mean Time;

Seamus Heaney - Field Work; Owen Sheers - Skirrd Hill.

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kxyks - BBC Radio 4 – In Pursuit of Edward Thomas

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rgm2t - BBC Radio 4 – In Pursuit of Spring – 3

episodes on Edward Thomas

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0141tfv - BBC World Service – Witness – The Last

Days of Sylvia Plath


Heaney

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m1113 - BBC World Service – Seamus Heaney and

Irish Literature

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06k9f26 - BBC Radio 3 – Private Passions – Owen

Sheers

Poetry Pre-1900 - Geoffrey Chaucer - The Merchant's Prologue and Tale; John Donne - Selected

Poems; John Milton - Paradise Lost Book IX; John Keats - Selected Poems; Christina Rossetti -

Selected Poems.

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081tb1d - BBC Radio 3 – The Essay – Dear Geoffrey

Chaucer – Letters to Writers





- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548bg - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Milton

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017mvwy - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Christina

Rossetti

Shakespeare - King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; Henry IV Part 1; The Tempest.

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b086kg3n/clips - BBC Four - Clips



- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfxm7 - BBC World Service – Spotlight –


- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0090s0l - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Lear

The Study of Poetry 1900 - Present and Drama 1900-Present - Robert Frost and Seamus Heaney; Ted

Hughes and Sylvia Plath; Elizabeth Jennings and Philip Larkin; Eavan Boland and Jean Bleakney.


Heaney

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m1113 - BBC World Service – Seamus Heaney and

Irish Literature

Drama - Brian Friel - Translations; Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot; Tennessee Williams - A

Streetcar Named Desire; Arthur Miller - The Crucible; Ena Lamont Stewart - Men Should Weep;

Robert Bolt - A Man for All Seasons.

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wqbjq - BBC Radio 4 – Great Lives – Samuel

Beckett

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04km4g4 - BBC World Service – Witness – Samuel

Beckett

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0wy0 - BBC World Service – Meridian – Samuel

Beckett

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m127f - BBC World Service – Meridian – Waiting

for Godot

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012kzcs - BBC World Service – Waiting for Godot

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0w1w BBC World Service - Meridian – Godot

Was Here




Williams

The Study of Prose Pre 1900 - Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlett Letter; Mary Shelley -

Frankenstein; George Eliot - Silas Marner; Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights; Jane Austen - Emma;

Bram Stoker – Dracula

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p027w85f - The Strange Affair of … Frankenstein – BBC




Frankenstein and AI now

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04b9gfy - BBC Radio 4 – Great Lives – George Eliot

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00q4310 - BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – Silas Marner

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095ptt5 - BBC Radio 4 – IN Our Time – Wuthering

Heights

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b085hs07 - BBC Radio 4 – Front Row – Jane Austen

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0xyj - BBC World Service – Meridian – Jane

Austen – A life of pride and prejudice

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfxtg - BBC World Service – Spotlight -Jane Austen

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv0rt - BBC World Service – The Forum – Bram

Stoker’s Dracula

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m0sxp - BBC World Service – Bram Stoker’s

Dracula

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0376k1y - BBC World Service – Omnibus – Count

Dracula

Shakespearean Genres - Othello, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Measure for

Measure, The Winter's Tale

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfxt2 - BBC World Service – Spotlight –

Shakespeare’s Othello

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b086kg3n/clips - BBC Four - King Lear – Clips



- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sfxm7 - BBC World Service – Shakespeare’s King

Lear

The Study of Poetry Pre 1900 and Unseen Poetry - Geoffrey Chaucer (The Wife of Bath's Prologue

and Tale); John Donne; William Blake; John Keats; Emily Dickinson; Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Unseen poetry.

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081tb1d - BBC Radio 3 – The Essay – Dear Geoffrey

Chaucer – Letters to Writers





- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m10l7 - BBC World Service – Meridian – The Lyrics

– John Keats and Andrew Motion

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