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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Volume Two
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Michael Williams, Clive Merrison
SeriesThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 2
Duration 2h 53m
Includes: The Five Orange Pips, The Man With the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of Blue Carbuncle and The Adventure of the Speckled Band. Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in these adventures, part of the unique fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.
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The Garden Party and Other Stories
Author: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Various
Duration 57m
A collection of short stories from the Archives read for Radio 4, by bestselling author Maeve Binchy. Stories included are: The Garden Party read by Niamh Cusack - Helen looked down at Mrs Kennedy's garden. It was cheerfully coloured yet ordered like Mrs Kennedy. But first impressions are not always reliable. The Special Sale read by Dervla Kirwan...
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Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
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Author Penelope Fitzgerald
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 3h 15m
This collection of short stories, previously published in anthologies and newspapers, consists of miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behaviour. It includes 'Our Lives Are Only Lent To Us', discovered amongst the author's papers after her death.
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Author: Graham Greene
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Author Graham Greene
Narrator Oliver Clement
Duration 10h 10m
These stories, all written between 1929 and 1954, all share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels: humour and violence, pity and hatred, betrayal and pursuit. Comic, sad, shocking and tragic, they recount the tales of Mr Maling's loud stomach, destructive gangs of children, indiscretions revealed and secrets uncovered. CONTA...
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Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Jack Shepherd
Duration 45m
A classic and puzzling Father Brown mystery to amaze and delight with twists and turns galore and wonderful characterization by Edward Hardwicke - TV's Dr. Watson from The Adventures of Sherock Holmes. Hardwicke's gravelly low tones are a perfect suit to any detective story and a reader will be totally captured after his first few words.
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Author: K.J Orr
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Author K.J Orr
Narrator Indira Varma
Duration 27m
Following a lengthy mission into space, a newly returned astronaut readjusts to daily life and his wife struggles to negotiate his changed and shifting rhythms. The BBC National Short Story Award 2011 is managed in partnership with Booktrust.
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Author: Edgar Wallace
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Author Edgar Wallace
Narrator Jack Shepherd
Duration 21m
Short story featuring Wallace's amateur female thief Four Square Jane and the remarkable disappearance of a heavily guarded painting.
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Author: Colin Dexter
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Author Colin Dexter
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 14m
Neighborly concern about a suspicious stranger sets a new puzzle for Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse.
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Author: Paul Finch
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Author Paul Finch
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 7h 30m
A collection of short stories by an award-winning master of horror and suspense. In The Poppet a faceless wooden doll holds the secret to a chilling curse . In Hell in the Cathedral, a bunch of tourists are marooned at the mercy of a voracious sea-beast . In The Baleful Dead an ageing heavy metal band reunite at a lonely mansion, unaware of the blo...
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Short Stories: The Thinking Man's Collection
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 20m
Following the success of its 'Best of Women's Short Stories' collections, CSA Word now compliments its oeuvre of critically-acclaimed short stories with a collection that celebrates and studies MEN in all their forms. Inspirational, weird, wonderful, intriguing and even extraordinary men feature in this collection.
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Author: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 20m
In "The Legacy," Gilbert Clandon is a widower whose wife has left him the collection of diaries she has kept since their marriage began. The diaries reveal that the wife he thought was completely devoted to him has been in love with another man. With this discovery also comes the realization that her death may not have been accidental, as he previo...
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Author: Mark Twain, F Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker, Various
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Author Mark Twain, F Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker, Various
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 52m
A wonderful selection of stories to make you laugh, cry and shiver! Featuring stories from Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saki amongst a great many famous others, this collection is a must for anyone who enjoys listening to a wide variety of stories from a diverse range of voices.
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Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 13m
Kipling story which appeared as part of Plain Tales from the Hills - Strickland, a police officer with a deep knowledge of the local Indian people falls in love with Miss Youghal but her parents don't approve of the match.
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Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis, Richard Pasco, Liza Goddard
Duration 5h
This audiobook celebrates Kipling's truly prolific career. Sit back, relax and enjoy his poetry and stories including 'India and Empire', 'The Three Musketeers' and 'Mowgli's Brothers'.
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Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
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Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 11m
A popular story in the acclaimed 'Pat Hobby' series. Poor Pat Hobby's fates go from bad to worse when he gets the wrong impression of a heated situation. Amusing and delightfully cringeworthy at times, Pat Hobby is a stubborn anti-hero who you won't be able to resist.
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Author: Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, Various
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Author Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, Various
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 17m
This collection comprises the best of classic horror writing, with the atmospheric genius of Edgar Allen Poe, the invention and eeriness of Bram Stoker, and the suspense of Wilkie Collins amongst the terrifying gems contained. A veritable schooling in the origins of modern-day horror and fantasy, some of the best minds in the history of English lit...
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Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 6h 42m
A collection of short stories to startle, surprise and satisfy. How would you get rid of a murder weapon without causing suspicion? Where would you hide a diamond where no else would think of looking? What if you found out that the tattoo on your back was worth over a million pounds? A recommended text for GCSE English.
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Author: BBC Radio 4
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Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 51m
Eight seasonal stories from BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. Everyone loves a bedtime story. And here are eight of the best, each with a Christmas theme, written by an array of literature's best-known names: Laurie Lee, Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen are just some of the storytellers included in this collection. Amongst those giving voic...
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Father Brown Series 2 Episode 1: The Absence of Mr Glass
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Wisdom of Father Brown, Book 1
Duration 29m
Andrew Sachs stars as the famous clerical sleuth in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, h...
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Death By Drowning and Other Stories
Author: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Joan Hickson
Duration 2h 6m
Here are four stories by the most popular mystery writer of all time; stories told by Miss Marple and her friends and solved by that elderly white-haired lady with the faded blue eyes and quiet nature. They are read by Joan Hickson, who played Miss Marple in the television series based on the works of Agatha Christie. In The Thumbmark of St Peter M...
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Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country
Author: Mark Twain
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Author Mark Twain
Narrator Nigel Hawthorne
Duration 15m
Our narrator is sent on an errand to visit an old man, Simon Wheeler by a friend to find an old acquaintance of his. This is clearly a joke, because once our narrator gets there and asks about the acquaintance, Wheeler immediately begins to tell a long, boring, droll story about Jim Smiley. Jim Smiley is addicted to gambling. He bets on anything fr...
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