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Categories: Drama: Biographical

  1. Enid

    Surprising and illuminating drama about the life of children's storyteller Enid Blyton.

    91福利社 Four

  2. Gracie!

    Drama based around the relationship between singer Gracie Fields and director Monty Banks.

    91福利社 Four

  3. Margot

    Drama based around the relationship between dancers Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.

    91福利社 Four

  4. The Return Room

    A colourful account of WR Rodgers' childhood in Belfast, produced by Sam Hanna Bell.

    91福利社 Radio Foyle

  5. La Vie en Rose

    Biopic of French singer Edith Piaf, who became one of the country's biggest stars.

    91福利社 Two

  6. Mrs Mandela

    How Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to a fighter against apartheid.

    91福利社 Four

  7. A Life of Chekhov Omnibus

    Dramatisation of Irene Nemirovsky's biography with Andrew Scott.

    91福利社 Radio 7

  8. Road to Sunset: A Life of Lewis Grassic Gibbon

    A dramatisation of the life of author Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

    91福利社 Radio Scotland

  9. La Bamba

    The life story of Mexican-American singer Ritchie Valens, whose life was cut short at 17.

    91福利社 Four

  10. JM Barrie - The Little White Bird

    A young boy becomes the 'son' a retired bachelor never had.

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

  11. Worried About the Boy

    Drama about Boy George's years before his Top of the Pops debut in 1982.

    91福利社 Two

  12. The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

    The story of Anne Lister, a 19th-century Yorkshire landowner, industrialist and lesbian.

    91福利社 Two

  13. Lennon Naked

    Drama which charts John Lennon's transition from Beatle to icon from 1967 to 1971.

    91福利社 Four

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    The Damned United

    Michael Sheen stars as Brian Clough in the story of his 44 days in charge of Leeds United.

    91福利社 Two

  15. Nick Warburton - Every Book in the World

    Sir Thomas Phillipps aimed to own a copy of every book in the world.

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

  16. Taken in Broad Daylight

    True-life drama about the kidnapping of a teenage girl at a Nebraska shopping mall.

    91福利社 One

  17. Toast

    Adaptation of chef Nigel Slater's autobiography, chronicling his bittersweet childhood.

    91福利社 One

  18. Eric and Ernie

    One-off drama telling the story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's formative years.

    91福利社 Two

  19. Hattie Naylor - Ivan and the Dogs

    The extraordinary story of a young boy adopted by wild dogs on the streets of Moscow.

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

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    Hattie

    How actress Hattie Jacques's home life was blown apart by a secret sexual liaison.

    91福利社 Four

  21. Michael Hastings - Tom and Viv

    The turbulent marriage of young poet TS Eliot and the charismatic Vivienne Haigh-Wood.

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

  22. Blood and Ice by Liz Lochhead

    How the creation of Frankenstein was sparked by an elopement.

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

  23. The Hoax

    Drama based on the true story of novelist Clifford Irving.

    91福利社 One

  24. A Bronx Tale

    A father feels powerless when his son becomes increasingly corrupted by a local gangster.

    91福利社 One

  25. Poisoned Angel - The Story of Alma Rose

    The life and death of a woman who led a women's orchestra in Auschwitz.

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

  26. The Killing Fields

    A reporter attempts to find his translator, who has been captured by the Khmer Rouge.

    91福利社 One

  27. Amadeus

    Biographical drama recounting composer Salieri's meetings with the young Mozart.

    91福利社 One

  28. Christopher and His Kind

    One-off drama chronicling the formative years of novelist Christopher Isherwood.

    91福利社 Two

  29. Infamous

    American writer Truman Capote forms a bond with a murder suspect.

    91福利社 Two

  30. The Last Station

    Biographical drama telling the tale of Tolstoy as his wife fights for his love and money.

    91福利社 Two

  31. Arthur Smith's Last Hangover

    How the comedian quit booze in 2002 and entered the world of the chronically sober.

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

  32. The Great Gatsby Letters

    F Scott Fitzgerald tells his editor Maxwell Perkins about his hopes for his new novel

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

  33. Alan Bennett - The Lady in the Van

    Autobiographical play about the woman who took refuge in the author's Camden garden.

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

  34. Creation

    Darwin's inner struggle over the decision to publish his findings on evolution.

    91福利社 Four

  35. The Two Mr Kissels

    Drama based on the true story of the Kissel brothers, whose secrets were their undoing.

    91福利社 One

  36. Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad (Omnibus)

    An email friendship between a 91福利社 journalist and an Iraq-based academic.

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

  37. Shirley

    Drama charting the rise to fame of singer Dame Shirley Bassey.

    91福利社 Two

  38. Milk

    The story of Harvey Milk, first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the US.

    91福利社 Two

  39. Il Divo

    Biographical Italian drama telling the story of former prime minister Giulio Andreotti.

    91福利社 Four

  40. The Strange Case of the Man in the Velvet Jacket by Robert Forrest

    At 22 the writer Robert Louis Stevenson is driven by ambition and haunted by demons.

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

  41. The Duchess

    The tumultuous life story of the 18th-century Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley).

    91福利社 One

  42. Burning Both Ends: When Oliver Reed Met Keith Moon

    When legendary hell-raiser Oliver Reed met Keith Moon, nothing was the same ever again.

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

  43. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan

    Historical epic about the rise of Genghis Khan, from nine-year-old orphan to Mongol leader

    91福利社 Four

  44. The Young Victoria

    After a controlled childhood, Victoria (Emily Blunt) faces a fight to become queen.

    91福利社 Two

  45. Bright Star

    In 19th-century London, poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne begin a doomed love affair.

    91福利社 Two

  46. Michael Collins

    Biopic charting the rise and fall of the Irish republican leader.

    91福利社 Two

  47. Heathcote Williams - Hancock's Last Half Hour

    Alone, far from home and his only audience by 1968 is press clippings and bottles of vodka

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

  48. Bruce Bedford - Black Ice

    A gripping account of a 1911 expedition prior to Scott's doomed Antarctic trip.

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

  49. Never Mind, I Stopped My Train

    The heroism of railwaymen in a horrific explosion in 1898. Recreation of a real event.

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

  50. Julia Blackburn - The Need for Nonsense

    The sad, contradictory tale of Edward Lear, famed Victorian artist and scribe.

    91福利社 Radio 4 Extra

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