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Author: Marc Platt
Format: Online
Author Marc Platt
Narrator Ian Hogg
Duration 6h 52m
Perivale, 1983. A column of smoke rises from the blazing ruins of a forgotten, decaying mansion. Perivale, 1883. In the sleepy village of Greenford Parva, Gabriel Chase is by far the most imposing edifice. The villagers shun the grim house, but the owner, the reclusive and controversial naturalist Josiah Samuel Smith, receives occasional visitors....
View BookAuthor: Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Format: Online
Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
SeriesPlanet B Series 3, Book 1
Duration 28m
The first episode of series three of Planet B, the BBC Radio 4 Extra sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 30 January 2011. As the rogues face their biggest threat yet, a familiar face returns. Dawn King's Haunted stars Lloyd Thomas.
View BookAuthor: Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Format: Online
Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
Duration 2h 22m
The complete third series of Planet B, the BBC Radio 4 Extra sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast from 30 January 2011 - 27 February 2011. This virtual reality saga sees the return of a familiar face whilst the rogues face their biggest threat yet. Medley and Kip battle to save Planet B and Kip ends up se...
View BookAuthor: David Mitchell
Format: Online
Author David Mitchell
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 21h 27m
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies.Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us.
View BookDiscworld Series Book 15: Men At Arms
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 15
Duration 9h 48m
Fate is a word that springs to the lips when to call something coincidence seems mealy mouthed. Destiny is another such. But the problem with destiny is, of course, that she is not always careful where she points her finger. One minute you might be minding your own business on a normal if not spectacular career path, the next you might be in the fr...
View BookAuthor: Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Format: Online
Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
Duration 2h 22m
The complete second series of the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast from 29 November - 27 December 2009. This virtual reality saga sees Lioba (Tessa Nicholson) struggling to escape the grip of the corporation behind Planet B.
View BookAuthor: Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Format: Online
Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
Duration 4h 40m
The complete first series of the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast from 2 - 13 March 2009. John (Gunnar Cauthery) is grieving for his girlfriend, Lioba, and convinced she is still alive in the virtual game 'Planet B'. He moves through bizarre and exciting worlds in search of Lioba, and his...
View BookAuthor: Marie Brennan
Format: Online
Author Marie Brennan
Narrator Kate Reading
Duration 11h 34m
Wonders terrestrial and aquatic, ancient ruins, near drownings, and more kinds of dragon than you can shake a wing at... Six years after her perilous exploits in Eriga, Lady Trent embarks on her most ambitious expedition yet: a two-year trip around the world aboard the Royal Survey Ship Basilisk, to study all manner of dragons. She must cope with s...
View BookAuthor: Richard Matheson
Format: Online
Author Richard Matheson
Narrator Robertson Dean
Duration 8h 32m
What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death. But even Heaven is not complete without Annie, and the divided soul mates will do anything to reach each other across the boundaries be...
View BookAuthor: Neil Spring
Format: Online
Author Neil Spring
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 13h
At the height of the Cold War, officials at the Ministry of Defence conducted a highly secret investigation into unusual events that occurred along a strip of rugged Pembrokeshire coastline. The events made national headlines: objects hovering in the sky, ghostly figures peering into windows and poltergeists plaguing a terrified family. Thirty year...
View BookAuthor: Marie Brennan
Format: Online
Author Marie Brennan
Narrator Kate Reading
Duration 10h 38m
Three years after her journey through Vystrana, the illustrious (and occasionally scandalous) Lady Trent defies convention to embark on an expedition to the war-torn continent of Eriga, home of the legendary swamp-wyrm. Accompanied by an old associate and a runaway heiress, Isabella must brave oppressive heat and other hazards in order to satisfy h...
View BookAuthor: Richard Matheson
Format: Online
Author Richard Matheson
Narrator Yuri Rasovsky
Duration 7h 53m
Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sight, the result of exposure to a radioactive cloud. He becomes a national spectacle, a freak that is bullied by teenagers and disrespected by everyone. His wife and family turn into unreachable giants, th...
View BookDoctor Who: Touched By An Angel
Author: Jonathan Morris
Format: Online
Author Jonathan Morris
Narrator Clare Corbett
Duration 5h 13m
'The past is like a foreign country. Nice to visit, but you really wouldn't want to live there.' In 2003, Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident. Her husband Mark is still grieving. He receives a battered envelope, posted eight years ago, containing a set of instructions with a simple message: 'You can save her.' As Mark is given the chance to sa...
View BookAuthor: George Orwell
Format: Online
Author George Orwell
Narrator Philip Glenister
Duration 5h 52m
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic dystopian novel by English author George Orwell. Published in 1949, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a repressive, totalitarian regime. The story follows the life of one seemingly insignificant man, Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of falsifying records and political literature, thus e...
View BookAuthor: 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...
View BookAuthor: Mike Tucker
Format: Online
Author Mike Tucker
Narrator Georgia Moffett
Duration 2h 21m
Set on Earth in 2099, when global warming is devastating the planet. In a desperate attempt at preservation, the governments of the world have removed vast sections of the Arctic and Antarctic and set them inside huge domes. But a hidden threat has been preserved beneath Snowglobe 7...
View BookAuthor: A.J. Hackwith
Format: Online
Author A.J. Hackwith
Narrator Lisa Flanagan
SeriesHell's Library, Book 1
Duration 14h 5m
Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian of the Unwritten Wing- a neutral space in Hell where all the stories unfinished by their authors reside. Her job consists mainly of repairing and organizing books, but also of keeping an eye on restless stories that risk materializing as characters and escaping the library. When a Hero escapes from hi...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Frazer Hines
Duration 3h 31m
Patrick Troughton's Doctor encounters the Cybermen in London in this classic soundtrack adventure, narrated by Frazer Hines. Arriving on Earth in 1975, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover that the component manufacturers International Electromagnetics has a vice-like grip on the world's technology. When he encounters the firm's company director, the...
View BookAuthor: Philip Pullman
Format: Online
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Michael Sheen
SeriesThe Book of Dust, Book 2
Duration 19h 45m
The second volume of Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust sees Lyra, now twenty years old, and her daemon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined, and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world that they had no idea existed. Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a boy with...
View BookDoctor Who At the BBC: A Legend Reborn
Author: BBC
Format: Online
Author BBC
Narrator Elisabeth Sladen
Duration 1h 35m
An all-new volume of interviews and behind-the-scenes features from the worlds of Doctor Who, presented by Elisabeth Sladen In 2005, after sixteen years off-air, Doctor Who returned to BBC Television - and soon became more popular than ever before. In this special anthology of clips and interviews, featuring newly-released material, Elisabeth Slade...
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