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I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again 1
Author: Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
Format: Online
Author Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
Narrator Various
SeriesI'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, Book 1
Duration 1h 59m
Described by Barry Took as 'A kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrase and innuendo revolving at breakneck speed and with a complete disregard for logic', 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again' pre-dates 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' and showcases the comic talents of Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
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Author: John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
Format: Online
Author John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Good Life, Book 4
Duration 1h 53m
Four original BBC television episodes of the much-loved classic sitcom starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith. Surbiton's most famous residents bring their endearingly funny mix of self-reliance and snobbery to audio.
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Author: Jacqueline Rayner
Format: Online
Author Jacqueline Rayner
Narrator Freema Agyeman
Duration 2h 15m
Civilisations rise and fall, time moves on - and species die out. Extinction is a fact of life in the universe. But extinction doesn't have to be for ever. The TARDIS arrives in the Museum of the Last Ones - a facility dedicated to preserving the final specimens of every species in the universe. But all is not well, and before long the Doctor and M...
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The Navy Lark: Laughs Ahoy Landlubbers
Author: Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
Format: Online
Author Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
Narrator The Cast
SeriesThe Navy Lark, Book 1
Duration 2h 6m
The Navy Lark, one of radio's longest running laughter-makers, kept the nation on the crest of a comic wave from 1959 to 1977. All at sea in the Senior Service were conniving Petty Officer Jon Pertwee, silly-ass Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Phillips and the constantly bemused Dennis Price as 'Number One'. Below decks Ronnie Barker was just about working h...
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Author: Spike Milligan
Format: Online
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Various, Spike Milligan
Duration 2h 6m
All six episodes from this one-off 1987 radio comedy series, written by John Antrobus and starring Spike Milligan, Chris Langham, John Antrobus and a jazz quartet.
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Author: Herman Melville
Format: Online
Author Herman Melville
Narrator F Murray Abraham
Duration 2h 46m
Ishmael, the narrator, tells of the adventures of Captain Ahab in his relentless quest to seek revenge on the white whale that bit off his leg. Full of allegory and symbolism, Moby Dick is an epic tragedy of tremendous dramatic power and narrative drive.
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Author: David Renwick
Format: Online
Author David Renwick
Narrator Annette Crosbie, Richard Wilson
SeriesOne Foot in the Grave, Book 2
Duration 1h 27m
Walking disaster area he may be, but the nation's favourite grumpy old man is in formidable form as he takes on the neighbours with a pile of radioactive horse manure, suffers a traumatic reunion with his long-lost brother, and reflects on life, wood lice and everything as he awaits the call of jury service.
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Author: John Sullivan
Format: Online
Author John Sullivan
Narrator Various, Nicholas Lyndhurst, David Jason
SeriesOnly Fools and Horses, Book 3
Duration 1h 46m
Brothers Derek 'Del Boy' and Rodney Trotter of 'Trotters Independent Traders PLC' entertain us through four classic episodes: Includes: 'Homesick', 'Healthy Competition', 'Strained Relations', and 'Hole in One'.
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Author: John Sullivan
Format: Online
Author John Sullivan
Narrator Various, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
SeriesOnly Fools and Horses, Book 4
Duration 1h 53m
Four more classic episodes full of Del's dodgy scams and Rodney's hilarious reactions.
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Paul Temple and the Alex Affair
Author: Francis Durbridge
Format: Online
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 3h 36m
Another adventure from the archives, once again featuring writer and detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve. In The Alex Affair, the latest mystery for Francis Durbridge's sophisticated sleuth begins with a body on a train, and the word 'ALEX' scrawled on the compartment window.
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Paul Temple and the Conrad Case
Author: Francis Durbridge
Format: Online
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 3h 44m
Radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife solve a case of international mystery. The case this time involves Dr Conrad's daughter Betty, who has disappeared from her finishing school in Bavaria. Paul is invited by the police to go over there to help trace the missing girl. Initially, though, even he is baffled, since the only clue to the myst...
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Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case
Author: Francis Durbridge
Format: Online
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 3h 31m
From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular serials. They inhabit a sophisticated, well-dressed world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women are chic and the men still wear cravats.
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Paul Temple and the Jonathan Mystery
Author: Francis Durbridge
Format: Online
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 3h 35m
This case involves the Fergusons, who Paul and Steve meet while on the way home from New York. They are flying to England to visit their son Richard, a student at Oxford University. But at the airport, there is shocking news: Richard has been murdered, found shot dead in his room. The only clues are a postcard from Harrogate signed `Jonathan', and...
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Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery
Author: Francis Durbridge
Format: Online
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 3h 38m
In a thrilling case that takes Paul and Steve to exotic Egypt, Paul Temple is called in to investigate a mysterious murder. The twisting trail takes them from London to the back streets and nightclubs of Cairo...
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Philip Marlowe: Farewell My Lovely
Author: Raymond Chandler
Format: Online
Author Raymond Chandler
Narrator Ed Bishop
Duration 1h 52m
BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation, starring Edward Bishop and featuring Robert Beatty and Don Fellows. At six feet five, Moose Malloy was as inconspicuous as a tarantula on angel food and about as dangerous. But Marlowe never was the kind of guy to walk away from trouble when it slapped him in the face, and Moose's girl had disappeared, a mere eight years...
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Author: Dick Clements, Ian La Frenais
Format: Online
Author Dick Clements, Ian La Frenais
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 35m
Four more episodes from the classic prison sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker as Fletcher, with Richard Beckinsale and Fulton Mackay in support.
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Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast, Patrick Troughton
Duration 2h 29m
The first Doctor becomes the second in this exclusive recording of Doctor Who's orginal regeneration story, starring Patrick Troughton with linking narration by Anneke Wills. Before the astonished eyes of his companions Ben and Polly, the Doctor's whole body has apparently been transformed. Now they are confronted by a stranger who claims to be the...
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Author: Ian Rankin
Format: Online
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 1h 51m
A new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Ian Rankin's novel. Rebus is ordered to join a team working on an old case, but someone on the team wants it to remain unsolved. Meanwhile, the murder of an art dealer draws Sergeant Clarke into an encounter with a notorious gangster - that Rebus is also investigating.
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Author: Andy Hamilton
Format: Online
Author Andy Hamilton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 48m
Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses' script for Revolting People, about the American War of Independence, winningly mixes the `boom boom' school of jokes, literary silliness (jeopardy means `like a jeopard') and anachronisms which make deft political points. Hamilton and Tarses, who has written for the Muppets and the Bob Newhart Show, appear alongside Ja...
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Author: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 57m
In this BBC full-cast production of Richard II, the male ego and narcissism of monarchs are hung out to dry...Written entirely in verse, the rhythms of the language in this epic tragedy encompass its themes of dignity and kingship with fitting grandeur and pathos, as the capricious and narcissistic Richard is brought to his own destruction.Sta...
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Author: Barry Took, Marty Feldman
Format: Online
Author Barry Took, Marty Feldman
Narrator Kenneth Horne
Duration 2h 10m
As one of the most consistently funny radio series of the 1960s, Round The Horne was always a favourite among listeners to the BBC Light Programme's comedy hour on Sundays. With its colourfully bizarre collection of characters and memorable catchphrases, its brilliantly inventive and sometimes outrageous scripts, Round The Horne was a unique chapte...
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