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The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Glittering Storm
Author: Stephen Cole
Format: Online
Author Stephen Cole
Narrator Elisabeth Sladen
Duration 1h 11m
When Sarah Jane disturbs a burglar in the night, she is surprised to find a middle-aged woman, her pockets stuffed with jewellery, demanding gold. And then Maria reports that a woman has been stealing rings and necklaces from the girls' changing room at school. The women had recently attended the Auriga Clinic. Is there a link between the clinic an...
View BookAuthor: Jean M Auel
Format: Online
Author Jean M Auel
Narrator Rowena Cooper
SeriesEarth's Children® Series, Book 3
Duration 28h 26m
Leaving the valley that has become her home with Jondalar, the handsome man she has nursed back to health and come to love, Ayla embarks on a journey that will lead her to the Mamutoi - the Mammoth Hunters. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
View BookQ & A (filmed As Slumdog Millionaire)
Author: Vikas Swarup
Format: Online
Author Vikas Swarup
Narrator Christopher Simpson
Duration 11h 45m
When Ram Mohammad Thomas, an orphaned, uneducated street kid from Mumbai, wins a billion rupees on a live TV quiz show, he finds himself beaten up and thrown in jail by the programme's producers. During his interrogation he explains, through a series of flashbacks, how he knew the answers to all the show's questions. What he describes about his lif...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
Format: Online
Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Maureen O'Brien
Duration 14h 30m
Clara Casey, senior cardiologist and mother of two, already has a new job to cope with - and now her ex-husband wants something from her too. For Ania, meeting Clara is a miracle. She never intended to leave Poland, but hopes a new job in a new country will mend her broken heart. Declan is looking forward to joining the clinic - but what should hav...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 13m
In this BBC full-cast production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius and Helena run to the woods and stumble into a life separate from time itself.Fairy magic wreaks havoc and midsummer madness takes over as lovers tread the delicate line between fantasy and reality.Sylvestra le Touzel stars as Titania in this deligh...
View BookAuthor: Peter Anghelides
Format: Online
Author Peter Anghelides
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 26m
A storm is brewing - the water levels of the Bristol Channel are inexplicably rising, and Cardiff Bay is under threat from the worst flooding in years. In the midst of the climate chaos, Torchwood is called to investigate a series of gruesome murders - vagrants found dead around Cardiff with their heads partially eaten. When Owen goes missing fo...
View BookAuthor: Anita Sullivan
Format: Online
Author Anita Sullivan
Narrator David-Lloyd Gareth
Duration 44m
When PC Andy Davidson arrests a young girl for shoplifting, he thinks it's going to be a routine case. That is, until he sees that she is carrying a gun. The girl is soaking wet, covered in mud, and the weapon is like nothing he's ever seen before. He knows that this is a case for Torchwood... The team discovers that the girl is called Freda, but c...
View BookAuthor: Gary Russell
Format: Online
Author Gary Russell
Narrator Cribbins Bernard
Duration 2h 35m
Bernard Cribbins reads this gripping story of a new star and an ancient alien threat. Donna Noble is back home in London, catching up with her family and generally giving them all the gossip about her journeys. Her grandfather is especially overjoyed - he's discovered a new star and had it named after him. He takes the Doctor, as his special guest,...
View BookAuthor: Margaret Atwood
Format: Online
Author Margaret Atwood
Narrator Lorelei King
Duration 18h 26m
Even now, at the age of 82, Iris lives in the shadow cast by her younger sister Laura. Now poor and trying to cope with a failing body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death.
View BookAuthor: Dylan Thomas
Format: Online
Author Dylan Thomas
Narrator Thomas Dylan
Duration 2h 5m
Dylan Thomas is one of the 20th century's most celebrated poets. His rich rhetoric created poems of magical imagery - nowhere is language more rich and fantastic than in his best-known work, Under Milk Wood. He was also a popular radio entertainer and the BBC Archives contain a wealth of material featuring Dylan Thomas - not only readings of his ow...
View BookAuthor: Marilynne Robinson
Format: Online
Author Marilynne Robinson
Narrator Kim Jerome
Duration 8h 54m
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father - an ardent pacifist - and his grandfather who came west to Kansas to fight for abolition and 'preached men into the Civil War'. And he...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 20m
In this BBC full-cast production, Julius Caesar is triumphant after his victory over the sons of Pompey. But as bad omens and weather plague Rome, even his most loyal friends are starting to see the signs...Political intrigue and fierce battle rage in this tense and dynamic production in which a country is torn apart under the legacy of Julius Caes...
View BookAuthor: Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Patrick Marber
Format: Online
Author Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Patrick Marber
Narrator Steve Coogan
Duration 58m
Starring Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge. The complete Award winning BBC TV series starring the man who gives new meaning to leisure wear. And on that bombshell......What is Knowing Me, Knowing You, with Alan Partridge? Well, how long is a piece of string? How many people can you fit in a mini? - four, possibly five. The second question, the string...
View BookAuthor: Lou Wakefield, Carole Hayman
Format: Online
Author Lou Wakefield, Carole Hayman
Narrator Patricia Routledge, Prunella Scales
Duration 1h 8m
Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge take on the world in another hilarious series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy hit. The caustic correspondence between Irene Spencer and Vera Small is always richly entertaining, and these latest letters are no exception. Catty and competitive as ever, the pensioner pen-pals find themselves in yet more trouble in thi...
View BookAuthor: Louisa May Alcott
Format: Online
Author Louisa May Alcott
Narrator Lorelei King
SeriesLittle Women, Book 1
Duration 8h 6m
Little Women begins the much-loved story of the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. The girls grow up amidst the turmoil, adventures and hardships of the American Civil War. The household is presided over by Mrs. March, 'Marmee', who tries to rule with kindness and to create harmony amongst her four little women.
View BookAuthor: John Cleese
Format: Online
Author John Cleese
Narrator Eric Idle
Duration 2m
Perhaps the ultimate in TV comedy madness and absurdity, this cult series, which began in 1969, was conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. It was innovative and ground-breaking comedy which inspired many of today's writers and performers. Its sketches, songs and catchphrases are...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 49m
Richard Eyre directs Ken Stott as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's dramatic tale of greed and destiny. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of makin...
View BookMitchell & Webb In Daydream Believers
Author: David Mitchell, Robert Webb
Format: Online
Author David Mitchell, Robert Webb
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
Daydream Believers, written by and starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, follows the parallel stories of two flatmates, Ray and Colin, and the mighty alien empire of Baron Amstrad and Info, his retro-looking android. Ray (Mitchell) writes popular science fiction stories when he doesn't get writer's block. He does, however, get many interruptions...
View BookMorecambe and Wise Christmas Special
Author: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise
Format: Online
Author Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 29m
At one time Morecambe & Wise were as much a part of Christmas television as the Queen's speech. This compilation of their best festive sketches, songs and playlets covers the years 1969 to 1975, when the BBC shows regularly achieved huge audience ratings.
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 13m
In this BBC full-cast production of Much Ado About Nothing, some handsome soldiers return from battle. Yet one soldier finds himself locked in a merry war of his own...In Shakespeare's comedy of wit, love and miscommunication, Beatrice and Benedick and Hero and Claudio are pushed into and pulled out of love, their friends playing cupid with li...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 5m
In this BBC full-cast production, Othello is drawn further and further into jealous rage by the manipulative Iago.In this story of evil cunning perverting a once noble mind, radio captures Iago's sly hints and boasts to the audience with shocking clarity. The listener is led along an emotional path that grips with fascinating horror until the play'...
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