Curated category
British novels adapted for radio
- The Pickwick PapersThe first issue of The Pickwick Papers appeared in March 1836. It contained two chapters and cost one shilling. Each subsequent number followed a strict…
- The Lord of the RingsIn the quiet village of Hobbiton, a hobbit named Frodo Baggins inherits a simple gold ring from his uncle Bilbo. This object is not merely jewelry but the…
- FrankensteinMary Shelley stood at the edge of a waking dream on the night of the 16th of June 1816. The air inside Villa Diodati felt heavy with damp and the smell of…
- The War of the WorldsIn the summer of 1894, a strange object thought to be a meteor crashed onto Horsell Common near Woking. The narrator watched from his home as the cylinder…
- The HobbitIn the early 1930s, J. R. R. Tolkien sat at his desk as a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University. He was marking School Certificate papers when he…
- Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryRoald Dahl sat at his desk in 1964 and began writing a story about a boy named Charlie Bucket. The idea came from his time as a student at Repton School in…
- To the LighthouseMrs Ramsay stands in the Ramsays' summer home on the Isle of Skye and tells her six-year-old son James that they will visit the lighthouse tomorrow.
- Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift began writing Gulliver's Travels in 1720, completing the manuscript by August 1725. The work emerged from a circle of writers known as the…
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson wrote Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in the southern English seaside town of Bournemouth during 1886.
- The Lost World (Doyle novel)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stood before the Royal Geographical Society on the 13th of February 1911. He listened intently as his friend Percy Harrison Fawcett…