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AuthorBBC Radio 4
NarratorVarious
Duration1h 51m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Short Stories
PublisherAudio Go Ltd
VersionAbridged
Eight seasonal stories from BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. Everyone loves a bedtime story. And here are eight of the best, each with a Christmas theme, written by an array of literature's best-known names: Laurie Lee, Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen are just some of the storytellers included in this collection. Amongst those giving voice to these stories are Patricia Routledge, Joss Ackland, Miriam Margolyes, Dame Judi Dench and Richard Briers. Intriguing, funny, poignant and above all entertaining, these eight Christmas stories are the best of BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime.
Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 11m
A popular story in the acclaimed 'Pat Hobby' series. Poor Pat Hobby's fates go from bad to worse when he gets the wrong impression of a heated situation. Amusing and delightfully cringeworthy at times, Pat Hobby is a stubborn anti-hero who you won't be able to resist.
View BookAuthor: Homer, BBC Radio 4
Author Homer, BBC Radio 4
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 49m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer's epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by poet Simon Armitage. In a twenty-year journey, fabulous fantasy mixes with extraordinary reality as Odysseus encounters enchantresses, nymphs, monsters, prophets and ghosts. From the temptations of the lotus flowers and the Sirens' song to the horrors of the Cyclo...
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Murphy Cillian
Duration 55m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Katina by Roald Dahl, read by Cillian Murphy. In Katina, Roald Dahl tells of a young Greek girl fascinated by the British planes and airbase that have come to her village. Katina is taken from the short story collection Over to You, which includes nine other dramatic and terrifying tales of life as a wartim...
View BookAuthor: BBC Radio 4
Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 24m
The complete third series of musical comedies - as heard on BBC Radio 4. These musical comedies contain some of the most foot-tapping satire you'll ever hear...
View BookGalloping Foxley (a Roald Dahl Story)
Author: Roald Dahl
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Richard Griffiths
Duration 37m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Galloping Foxley by Roald Dahl, read by Richard Griffiths. In Galloping Foxley, Roald Dahl tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a commuter is disturbed by an encounter with a man he vividly remembers from school . . . Galloping Foxley is taken from the short story collection S...
View BookChain Reaction Complete Series 8
Author: BBC Radio 4
Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 51m
Chain Reaction' is the entertaining BBC Radio 4 tag talk show where this week's guest is next week's interviewer. Famous names from the world of showbusiness choose who they would like to chat to, and must submit to being questioned in their turn the week after. In this eighth series, guests (and hosts) include Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Richar...
View BookAuthor: Nnedi Okorafor
Author Nnedi Okorafor
Narrator Yetide Badaki
Duration 10h 55m
Kabu kabu-unregistered illegal Nigerian taxis-generally get you where you need to go. Nnedi Okorafor's Kabu Kabu, however, takes the listener to exciting, fantastic, magical, occasionally dangerous, and always imaginative locations you didn't know you needed. This debut short story collection by an award-winning author includes notable previously p...
View BookAuthor: BBC Radio 4
Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 24m
The complete fourth series of brief musical comedies - as heard on BBC Radio 4. These musical comedies contain some of the most foot-tapping satire you'll ever hear...
View BookAuthor: Edgar Allan Poe
Author Edgar Allan Poe
Narrator Richard Griffiths
Duration 25m
Be cruel to animals at your peril - this story extols the virtues of being kind to all creatures to achieve happiness in life, a lesson that our unhappy protagonist is far from learning, whether in regards to human or animal life. A shocking story told with a dry dark humor, this tale is to be heard to be believed and is a true classic from the mas...
View BookHumphrey Lyttleton's Autobiography In Conversation: 'play As I Please'
Author: BBC Radio 4
Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator June Knox-Mawer
Duration 1h 54m
Humphrey Lyttleton - Bandleader, cartoonist, writer, chairman of BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, president of the Society for Italic Handwriting and doyen of jazz trumpeters. In conversation with June Knox-Mawer, Humphrey Lyttleton reflects on his extraordinary life; from schooldays at Eton and playing out Roll Out the Barrel outside B...
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