With Slean and Thane Scorann missing, Beowulf and Rate, Thane of the Varni, charge out into the forest in search of them. But with the Gathering fast approaching and Rheda's bid for leadership depending on the hope of ever-loyal Scorann's vote, Beowulf questions whether their disappearance might be more than a simple coincidence.

The lives of two half-sisters and their drawing master get caught up in a deadly conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed all in white. In this first episode of the five part series, Walter Hartright encounters a woman in the woods before arriving at Limmeridge. He falls in love with Laura Fairlie who is engaged to marry Sir Percival Glyde. Glyde's reputation is called into question by a mysterious letter.

Landmark Emmy-winning production of the 9 hour Royal Shakespeare Company's worldwide stage event based on the Charles Dickens novel, starring Roger Rees. Kate and Mrs. Nickleby move out of their temporary lodgings with the kind portrait artist, Miss La Creevy. Kate begins her employment with Madame Mantalini and her crew of milliners. Young and pretty, Kate is assigned to work with Miss Knag in the shop, awkwardly helping rich, spoiled, women try...

In this episode, Nell Trent and her Grandfather depart their home in the middle of the night to avoid letting Daniel Quilp know of their location. Based upon the serial publication written by Charles Dickens for Master's Humphrey's Clock. This film adaptation stars Natalie Ogle, Trevor Peacock, and Sebastian Shaw.

Start to cheer and have no fear, because you'll hear the tale of the late King Lear. It may even bring a tear to your eye, as the Standard Deviants fly into the lies, spies, and family ties of one Shakespeare's most important tragedies. You'll learn the plot and whatnot, meet the king and other things, and greet the amazing feats of Lear and his buddies.

This series dramatizes Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children’s novel about an orphaned girl sent to live in her uncle's lonely house on the Yorkshire moors. In Episode Seven, Colin uses the power of magic and positive thinking to improve his strength, while pretending to still be an invalid. Archibald Craven dreams of his wife in the garden and Mrs. Sowerby sends him a letter requesting his return home. He arrives to find Colin, Mary, and Dickon...

This BBC television production is a serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's satire of English society during the Napoleonic wars. In the first episode, destitute orphan Becky Sharp moves to London to stay with her firm friend Amelia Sedley. She soon finds employment and opportunity as a governess for Sir Pitt Crawley.

The Burren is a wild and rugged land that is unlike anywhere else in Ireland. Lyndey Milan joins walking historian and naturalist Tony Kirby on a journey to learn of the tragic history of the famine roads, and taste the region's wild foods, before taking shelter in Cassidy's Pub to cook a restorative Irish goat stew. Then we'll sneak a peak into the kitchen of Finnish-born chef Mickael Viljanen, named Chef of the Year 2011 by Food & Wine magazine,...

In "Julius Caesar," Brutus upholds liberty against tyranny. But what is tyranny? Presenter Brian Cox examines how William Shakespeare's play challenges all political systems and all definitions of tyranny, challenging us to wonder how well we even know ourselves.

The first in a four part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's feisty and passionate love story, set across the social divides in the changing world of Victorian industrial society. In this episode, 19-year-old Margaret Hale and her parents are forced to leave their idyllic life in the south when Mr. Hale resigns from the clergy and the family moves to the northern town of Milton. Starring Daniela Denby-Ashe, Lesley Manville, Tim Pigott-Smith, Richard...