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Author: James Joyce
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Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 16m
After an automobile race outside Dublin, a 26-year-old Irishman named Jimmy, the son of a wealthy former butcher, accompanies the French team back into the city. Then follows an evening of eating, drinking, yachting and gambling, which Jimmy, or more likely his wallet, may live to rue.
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Author: Graham Greene
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Author Graham Greene
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 7m
Legal loopholes, mistaken identity and unreliable evidence all feature in this story of a murder trial where all is not as 'cut and dried' as it seems. An old woman has been murdered, but who did it, and will retribution be forthcoming?
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Author: Gerald Griffin
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Author Gerald Griffin
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 15m
This chilling classic Irish short story is one of the best in the genre and is read in a fitting Irish brogue by T.P. McKenna. The very beautiful Nora Guare and her Mother live in the lonesome district of West Munster in Ireland. Their cabin is the only one within a three mile radius. One day along comes the Brown man on his Brown horse wearing Bro...
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The Bottom Line and the Sharp End
Author: Fay Weldon
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Author Fay Weldon
Narrator Julie Christie
Duration 21m
Written with biting satire, much humor and a pervading melancholy, this story is a fine example of Fay Weldon's exquisite and accomplished talent for short story writing.
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Author: Fay Weldon
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Author Fay Weldon
Narrator Julie Christie
Duration 28m
Mark and Molly, a married couple, share the same birthday although occupy different positions on the astrological chart. Molly is fastidious, devoted and frugal and hopes that Mark can appreciate her approach to life and adopt it for the sake of their growing family. A poignant story about the innate power of nature over nurture and the pointlessne...
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Author: E F Benson
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Author E F Benson
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 22m
This ghost story recounts in vivid detail the experiences of a man's stay in a 'haunted' villa, terrorized by strange and hideous apparitions.
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Author: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 32m
The Bagman's Story is an uncharacteristically happy story taken from 'The Pickwick Papers'. Dealing with themes of marriage and having an overall positive tone, this tale is uplifting and gentle, with a reassuring and welcome direction.
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Author: William Locke
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Author William Locke
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 47m
A gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, Andrea is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the co...
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Author: W W Jacobs
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Author W W Jacobs
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 25m
An old soldier visiting the Whites gives Mr White a monkey's paw, fabled to grant three wishes to three different men, but warns of the misery it can bring on the lives of those who use it.
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Author: We Aytoun
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Author We Aytoun
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 15m
This truly perturbing story starts from harmless enough beginnings to give a blow-by-blow account of a terrifying encounter between one young man and and the cause of his many nightmares thenceforth. A bell-ringer climbs up to remove a muffler from a bell, so that practice can resume. However, his partner is called off on urgent business, and our h...
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The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion
Author: Thomas Hardy
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 42m
A tale by Hardy, master of human tragedy, about a girl's sacrifice for her long-engagement and her doomed love for a visiting soldier.
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Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
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Author Sabine Baring-Gould
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 33m
A young man's suicide doesn't put paid to a young lady's ideas of going to a dance, despite the derision of her chaperone, who suspects that she is, at least in part, to blame. On the journey, a great breeze whips up in the ladies' carriage, and the young lady suffers a mishap, and auditory hallucinations...what is happening, and can it be explaine...
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Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 11m
Lispeth is an Indian girl, orphaned when her Christian-convert parents succumb to Cholera. Taken on as a chaplain's wife's servant/companion, Lispeth grows into a handsome young lady. One day whilst out on a walk, she rescues an unconscious young Englishman, who she determines will be her future husband. However, racial prejudices and caste systems...
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Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly
Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 11m
A well-crafted piece of writing about schadenfreude - sheer pleasure, in this case, at seeing someone 'get his comeuppance' - with an element of slapstick. Lieutenant Golightly is a young officer in the British Army in India who prides himself on "looking like 'an Officer and a Gentleman'" and it is clear he puts a little too much emphasis on his a...
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Author: Robert Barr
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Author Robert Barr
Narrator Brian Cox
Duration 13m
This shady tale takes a listener into the unhappy marriage life of Mr. and Mrs. Bodman, holidaying in snowier climes. Whilst each may have their motives, which party may find that they are driven to the edge and are staring into the abyss? An atmospheric thriller, this story examines two people with extreme personalities who unfortunately do not co...
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Author: P C Wren
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Author P C Wren
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 1h 22m
This truly spooky story leaves a listener chilled and unsure which characters to pity. An abusive and cruel husband wears down his wife to the degree that she never argues or complains but lives an existence of quiet misery. When circumstances change drastically, the man's servants start to hear her voice when he cannot - is he going insane or is s...
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Adventures of A Strolling Player
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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Author Oliver Goldsmith
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 25m
Oliver Goldsmith's "Adventures of a Strolling Player" explores the fickleness of fame. This rollicking, exuberant tale flows effortlessly from the pen of the great 18th century master storyteller and from the lips of T. P. McKenna, whose Irish brogue suits the story perfectly. It is the uproarious story of a travelling player who likes to embellish...
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Author: Muriel Spark
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Author Muriel Spark
Narrator Bill Nighy
Duration 13m
A very clever story which will keep you guessing right up until the twist in the tale. Dame Muriel Spark's talent for crime fiction abounds here and her hitherto undiscovered detective has surprises and answers in store for sleuthing listeners.
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Author: Alan Bennett
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 3h 52m
Two unexpected tales written and read by the bestselling author of 'The Uncommon Reader', 'Untold Stories' and 'The History Boys'. In 'The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson', Mrs. Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory a...
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Bedtime Stories With Johnny Morris
Author: Johnny Morris
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Author Johnny Morris
Narrator Johnny Morris
Duration 45m
As part of the popular Vintage Beeb range, this is a reissue of the classic 1970s vinyl LP. First published by BBC Records & Cassettes in 1972, it features 14 stories written and read by Johnny Morris, who became enduringly popular in the TV series Animal Magic. Based on the residents of a zoo, the stories include: Charlie and Gladys the Warthog...
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Author: Frances Hegarty
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Author Frances Hegarty
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 18m
An angry mother plots retribution against the driver who injured her daughter. A compelling look at the frustration endured in response to the various foibles and failings of any legal system, our protagonist vows to take matters into her own hands, though soon realizes that events are spiraling out of her control, and that she is powerless to stop...
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