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Series 3

Season 3 · 2024 · 4 episodes

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

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11984A 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.
2A Christmas CarolAnne-Marie Duff performs an intimate reading of Charles Dickens’s timeless classic. Can the ghostly interventions salvage Scrooge’s soul?
3Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë’s timeless classic set against the haunting backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors and narrated by award-winning actor Vinette Robinson.
4Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Reece ShearsmithWho is the real monster? Robert Louis Stevenson’s defining gothic horror explores alter egos in this captivating narration that reimagines the 19th-century classic.