BBC Literary Archive

The Woman in White (2018)

The Woman in White | BBC One | 2018 | 55'40''

Five part television series, adapated from Wilke Collnis' novel. The lives of two half-sisters and their drawing master get caught up in a deadly c...

Front Row | White Teeth the musical

White Teeth | BBC Radio 4 | 2018 | 6'43''

Zadie Smith's White Teeth gets a musical makeover, we review the new theatrical production put on in the same district of north London wh...

Newsnight Review | White Teeth

White Teeth | BBC Four | 2002 | 12'43''

Mark Lawson and guests Bonnie Greer, Tim Lott and William Feaver discuss the Channel 4 adaption of Zadie Smith's ''White Teeth''.

Big Cook Little Cook | Snow White

Snow White | CBeebies | 2007 | 18'57''

Snow White visits the cafe and the cooks make her some Seven Dwarf custard tarts. She leaves them a bow.

The White Bird Passes

The White Bird Passes | BBC Two | 1980 | 1'04'55''

'I don't want to dust and polish. And I don't want to work on a farm. I want to write poetry, great poetry, as great as Shakespeare''. Those are the wo...

White Fang (1991)

White Fang | BBC Two | 2007 | 1'42'00''

Classic adventure starring Ethan Hawke. The son of a gold miner goes to Alaska seeking his dead father's claim and befriends an orphaned wolf-dog that he c...

The Woman in White (1982)

The Woman in White | BBC Two | 1982 | 54'17''

First of five of this adaptation of the novel by Wilkie Collins. On the eve of his departure to Limmeridge, Walter Hartright encounters a mysteriou...

The Woman in White (1997)

The Woman in White | BBC One | 1997 | 1'03'33''

Adaptation of Wilkie Collins' mystery drama, starring Tara Fitzgerald; James Wilby; Simon Callow and Ian Richardson.

The Big Read: Battle of the Books | Touching the Void v White Spider

Touching the Void | BBC Four | 2004 | 28'46''

John Sergeant presides as Jack Klaff and Marielle Frostrup battle to convince the audience which book to...

The White Queen | Episode 1

The White Queen | BBC One | 2013 | 59'11''

After meeting beautiful widow Elizabeth Woodville, young King Edward IV must choose between love and loyalty. Will a country divided by war and a...

Front Row | Zadie Smith

White Teeth | BBC Radio 4 | 2016 | 9'27''

Novelist and essayist, Zadie Smith (White Teeth, On Beauty, NW) talks to Kirsty about black and white musicals, childhood friendships, and dancing, a...

Night Waves | Zadie Smith

White Teeth | BBC Radio 3 | 2009 | 43'42''

Philip Dodd talks to writer Zadie Smith about her new collection of essays as well as her work since she shot to fame with White Teeth, her portray...

The Verb | In the North

White Teeth | BBC Radio 3 | 2012 | 43'21''

Zadie Smith talks about representing the suburb of Willesden in her new novel NW. White Teeth was her first novel. She's also written The Autograph M...

David Copperfield (1974)

David Copperfield | BBC One | 1974 | 53'24''

Part-autobiography, part-fiction, David Copperfield displays a narrative power and wealth of characterisation that he never surpassed. Dramatised in...

The War of the Worlds (1967)

The War of the Worlds | BBC Home Service | 1967 | 26'53''

Sci-fi novel by HG Wells first published in 1898, dramatised in six parts by Jon Manchip White and starring Paul Daneman and Martin Jarvis. Scie...

My Name Is Leon

My Name Is Leon | BBC Two | 2022 | 1'28'43''

Leon, a mixed-race boy, and Jake, his white baby brother, are separated after their mother has a breakdown. Leon is determined to find him and gets unexpecte...

Revolting Rhymes | 1

Revolting Rhymes | BBC One | 2016 | 28'08''

The first of two animations based on Roald Dahl's rhymes. Snow White takes on the wicked Queen, while Red Riding Hood must deal with a pair of hungry wo...

To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

To Kill A Mockingbird | BBC Four | 2010 | 2'03'37''

Award-winning adaptation of Harper Lee's novel set in 1930s Alabama. Lawyer Atticus Finch defends a black man accused of raping a white woman. H...

James Joyce – Blind Date With Bloomsday

Ulysses | BBC Radio 4 Extra | 2011 | 27'26''

A literary landmark and it's effect on a city; an examination of how Dublin has embraced Ulysses. With Peter White.

Front Row | Noughts + Crosses

Noughts + Crosses | BBC Radio 4 | 2020 | 9'19''

Koby Adom on directing Malorie Blackman's best-selling young adult novel Noughts and Crosses for BBC1, creating an alternative world where Euro...

Passing

Passing | BBC Radio 4 | 2022 | 13'43''

Two African American women meet one hot afternoon in Chicago, 1925. Both are light skinned and able to pass for white, but only one has chosen to spend her life on t...