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Archers Ambridge Affairs: Heartache At Home Farm
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 33m
An extraordinary tale of desire, betrayal and death from Britain's longest running and best loved radio serial. Wealthy, philandering gentleman farmer Brian Aldridge embarked on a casual fling with freelance translator Siobhan Hathaway, but what ensued was the most explosive affair in the history of Ambridge.
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Tim Piggott-Smith
Duration 2h 32m
'We Churchills die at forty,' said Winston in 1908, 'and I want to put something more on the slate before then.' By the time he died in 1965, the slate was full. From his earliest days Churchill was an ambitious character, eager for action.He achieved fame and popularity through his dispatches from the Boer War, and in 1900 was elected MP for Oldha...
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 51m
This full-cast drama is based on the classic post-war 'science fantasy' novel which made John Wyndham famous, and whose appeal endures to this day. Giles Cooper's six-part adaptation stars Gary Watson, Barbara Shelley and Peter Sallis, with appearances from Doctor Who names Peter Pratt, Christopher Bidmead and David Brierley. Divided by blindness a...
View BookThe Archers: Farming Catastrophes In Ambridge
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Norman Painting
Duration 30m
In this compilation, Phil Archer and Tom Forrest lie in wait for a poacher-and Bob Larkin accidentally gets shot. Plans to run electricity pylons through Ambridge cause uproar, and Dan Archer discovers a case of fowl pest. Also, Walter Gabriel's sheep are attacked by stray dogs.
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Norman Painting
Duration 33m
The story of Phil and Grace's troubled courtship and all too brief marriage. Grace was the Fairbrothers' daughter, Phil their farm manager, and so they were on unequal footing from the start. Grace's money and social status continued to cast a shadow even after her death.
View BookThe News Quiz: Read All About It
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 52m
Four of the best editions from recent series of the popular BBC Radio 4 comedy news quiz, featuring Sandi Toksvig, Andy Hamilton, Alan Coren, Jeremy Hardy and a variety of guest players.
View BookThe News Quiz: The Very Best of 2004
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 14m
A third volume of highlights from recent series of The News Quiz, presented by chairman Simon Hoggart. Since 1977, BBC Radio 4's funniest and quirkiest game show has been answering questions and offering wit and wisdom on global happenings, national news and quite frankly pathetic parochial events. Regular panellists Alan Coren, Jeremy Hardy, Andy...
View BookRemembering...kenneth Williams
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Kenneth Williams
Duration 2h 9m
Wonderful highlights of Kenneth Williams' career in this classic compilation. For more than 30 years, Kenneth Williams kept the nation in stitches with his outrageous gallery of comic creations and an effortlessly brilliant barrage of repartee and innuendo on radio and television. In Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne, Kenneth Williams brought us t...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks, Kenny Everett
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks, Kenny Everett
Narrator Barry Cryer
Duration 1h 59m
A special compilation of highlights from cuddly Ken's television and radio shows. Kenny Everett was one of radio's great innovators, the funniest DJ of our time and a one-off whose madcap comedy burst the boundaries of broadcasting. Introduced and presented by Barry Cryer, this recording features the definitive Kenny Everett: the jokes, the jingles...
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Narrator Phil Jupitus
Duration 1h 59m
Phill Jupitus looks back at the career of one of our most remarkable funny men, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In the course of a career which spanned five decades, Peter Sellers rose from aspiring television mimicry to international fame and fortune. He was one of our biggest stars, loved for his role as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films...
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Narrator Spike Milligan
Duration 1h 54m
Comic icon Spike Milligan recollects highlights from his stellar career. The comic genius of Spike Milligan changed the face of radio comedy through The Goon Show. Here Milligan chooses and introduces classic clips from an astonishing career: readings from his books Puckoon and Adolf Hitler, My Part in his Downfall, poems, songs, sketches, extrac...
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Willie Rushton
Duration 1h 52m
Career highlights from one of this country's funniest satirists and comedy men. Willie Rushton's career spanned decades, from the cutting edge satire of television's That Was The Week That Was to the razor-sharp punnery and verbal wizardry of radio's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Actor, writer, lyricist and veteran satirist, this is Rushton at his...
View BookDoctor Who and Warriors of the Deep
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 50m
'Revive the warriors!' The TARDIS materialises inside Sea Base Four, which lies on one of Earth's ocean beds in the year 2184. The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough quickly run into trouble, as the base's personnel suspect them of belonging to an enemy power bloc. Nearby, a group of Silurian reptiles - who in habited Earth centuries before mankind - are r...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 2, Part 1
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 2, Book 1
Duration 26m
It's back, the show they didn't dare call King Stupid Series 2! A new presenter, new panellists, new title, new timeslot, new silly games and more jokes than ever in the show Robert Hanks in The Independent called "a brilliant panel game" and Tracey MacLeod in Night & Day called "genuinely brilliant". The line up for this show is Simon Pegg, Pe...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 2, Part 2
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 2, Book 2
Duration 26m
It's back, the show they didn't dare call King Stupid Series 2! A new presenter, new panellists, new title, new timeslot, new silly games and more jokes than ever in the show Robert Hanks in The Independent called "a brilliant panel game" and Tracey MacLeod in Night & Day called "genuinely brilliant". The line up for this show is: Peter Baynham...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 2, Part 3
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 2, Book 3
Duration 23m
It's back, the show they didn't dare call King Stupid Series 2! A new presenter, new panellists, new title, new timeslot, new silly games and more jokes than ever in the show Robert Hanks in The Independent called "a brilliant panel game" and Tracey MacLeod in Night & Day called "genuinely brilliant". The line up for this show is: Peter Baynham...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 2, Part 4
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 2, Book 4
Duration 25m
It's back, the show they didn't dare call King Stupid Series 2! A new presenter, new panellists, new title, new timeslot, new silly games and more jokes than ever in the show Robert Hanks in The Independent called "a brilliant panel game" and Tracey MacLeod in Night & Day called "genuinely brilliant". The line up for this show is: Peter Baynham...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 2, Part 5
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 2, Book 5
Duration 26m
It's back, the show they didn't dare call King Stupid Series 2! A new presenter, new panellists, new title, new timeslot, new silly games and more jokes than ever in the show Robert Hanks in The Independent called "a brilliant panel game" and Tracey MacLeod in Night & Day called "genuinely brilliant". The line up for this show is: Peter Baynham...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 2, Part 6
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 2, Book 6
Duration 27m
It's back, the show they didn't dare call King Stupid Series 2! A new presenter, new panellists, new title, new timeslot, new silly games and more jokes than ever in the show Robert Hanks in The Independent called "a brilliant panel game" and Tracey MacLeod in Night & Day called "genuinely brilliant". The line up for this show is: Peter Baynham...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 3, Part 1
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 3, Book 1
Duration 26m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas. The line up for this show is Bill Bailey, Armando Iannucci, Simon Pegg and Peter Serafinowicz and was broadcast on 19th July 2001.
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 3, Part 2
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 3, Book 2
Duration 26m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas. The line up for this show is Peter Baynham, Armando Iannucci, Simon Pegg and David Quantick and was broadcast on 26th July 2001.
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