Series 3

4 episodes · 17th November 2024

Rediscover the books you thought you knew. Acclaimed actors combine with classic literature, breathing new life into iconic stories.

Episodes

Episode 1

1984

A bleak dystopian future plays out before us as Royal Television Society award-winning actor Sacha Dhawan narrates George Orwell’s profoundly impactful and thought-provoking classic.

Episode 2

A Christmas Carol

Anne-Marie Duff performs an intimate reading of Charles Dickens’s timeless classic. Can the ghostly interventions salvage Scrooge’s soul?

Episode 3

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë’s timeless classic set against the haunting backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors and narrated by award-winning actor Vinette Robinson.

Episode 4

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Reece Shearsmith

Who is the real monster? Robert Louis Stevenson’s defining gothic horror explores alter egos in this captivating narration that reimagines the 19th-century classic.