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Categories: Drama: Biographical

  1. Gracie!

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

    成人快手 Four

  2. Margot

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

    成人快手 Four

  3. The Return Room

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

    成人快手 Radio Foyle

  4. La Vie en Rose

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

    成人快手 Two

  5. Mrs Mandela

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

    成人快手 Four

  6. A Life of Chekhov Omnibus

    Dramatisation of Irene Nemirovsky's biography with Andrew Scott.

    成人快手 Radio 7

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

    A dramatisation of the life of author Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

    成人快手 Radio Scotland

  8. La Bamba

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

    成人快手 Four

  9. JM Barrie - The Little White Bird

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

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  10. Worried About the Boy

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

    成人快手 Two

  11. The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

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

    成人快手 Two

  12. Lennon Naked

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

    成人快手 Four

  13. The Damned United

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

    成人快手 Two

  14. Nick Warburton - Every Book in the World

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

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  15. Taken in Broad Daylight

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

    成人快手 One

  16. Toast

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

    成人快手 One

  17. Eric and Ernie

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

    成人快手 Two

  18. Hattie Naylor - Ivan and the Dogs

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

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  19. Michael Hastings - Tom and Viv

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

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  20. Liz Lochhead - Blood And Ice

    How Frankenstein was sparked by Mary Wollstonecraft's elopement with Percy Shelley.

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  21. The Hoax

    Drama based on the true story of novelist Clifford Irving.

    成人快手 One

  22. A Bronx Tale

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

    成人快手 One

  23. Poisoned Angel - The Story of Alma Rose

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

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  24. The Killing Fields

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

    成人快手 One

  25. Amadeus

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

    成人快手 One

  26. Christopher and His Kind

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

    成人快手 Two

  27. Infamous

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

    成人快手 Two

  28. The Last Station

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

    成人快手 Two

  29. Arthur Smith's Last Hangover

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

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  30. The Great Gatsby Letters

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

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  31. Alan Bennett - The Lady in the Van

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

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  32. Creation

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

    成人快手 Four

  33. The Two Mr Kissels

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

    成人快手 One

  34. Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad (Omnibus)

    An email friendship between a 成人快手 journalist and an Iraq-based academic.

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  35. Shirley

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

    成人快手 Two

  36. Milk

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

    成人快手 Two

  37. Il Divo

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

    成人快手 Four

  38. The Duchess

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

    成人快手 One

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

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

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  40. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan

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

    成人快手 Four

  41. The Young Victoria

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

    成人快手 Two

  42. Bright Star

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

    成人快手 Two

  43. Michael Collins

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

    成人快手 Two

  44. Heathcote Williams - Hancock's Last Half Hour

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

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  45. Bruce Bedford - Black Ice

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

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  46. Never Mind, I Stopped My Train

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

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  47. Julia Blackburn - The Need for Nonsense

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

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  48. Jo Anderson - Solstice

    19-year-old Vincent van Gogh's life-changing stay in London. Stars Dexter Fletcher.

    成人快手 Radio 4 Extra

  49. Howl

    The story of beat poet Allen Ginsberg and his controversial poem Howl.

    成人快手 Two

  50. Telstar: The Joe Meek Story

    Biopic. Drama based on the life of Joe Meek, the 60s songwriter-producer.

    成人快手 Two

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