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Ladies of Letters Spring Clean
Author: Lou Wakefield, Carole Hayman
Format: Online
Author Lou Wakefield, Carole Hayman
Narrator Prunella Scales, Patricia Routledge
Duration 1h 9m
Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge make a clean sweep in a further series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy hit. The ladies are back, and this time they're full of Springtime recipes and tips for a long and healthy life. Once again, however, disaster is never very far away... Reunited at the bedside of a mutual old flame, Irene and Vera feel a sudden u...
View BookIt's Morecambe and Wise: Vintage Beeb
Author: Eddie Braben
Format: Online
Author Eddie Braben
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 48m
As part of the popular Vintage Beeb range, this is a reissue of the classic 1970s vinyl LP. First published by BBC Records & Cassettes. Selected items from the Morecambe & Wise Television Show. Bringing us sunshine on this recording are "Ern's magnificent body", "A visit from the police" and Ernie's going to be "Bob Hope's chief scriptwrite...
View BookBleak Expectations; the Complete Second Series
Author: Mark Evans
Format: Online
Author Mark Evans
Narrator Anthony Head Et Al
Duration 2h 48m
Bleak Expectations is the remarkable adventures of young Philip Bin as he struggles to rescue himself and his sisters from the plotting of his guardian, the scheming, evil and badly-named Mr. Gently Benevolent, and the blood-curdling Hardthrasher brothers. A Victorian epic of awful schools inc the aptly named St Bastards, worse prisons, nuns at St...
View BookBleak Expectations; the Complete Third Series
Author: Mark Evans
Format: Online
Author Mark Evans
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 18m
The third volume of this magnificent, award-winning Dickensian comic epic first transmitted by the British Broadcasting Club's Radio 4. It's a Victorian epic of shenanigans at awful schools, worse prisons, featuring giant rabbits, and long lost super-hero aunts - in the style of Charles Dickens after far too much gin. Winner of the 'British Comedy...
View BookBleak Expectations, Series 4; the Complete Series
Author: Mark Evans
Format: Online
Author Mark Evans
Narrator Anthony Head
Duration 1h 52m
The epic Victorian comedy is back with more of the remarkable adventures of Pip Bin as he battles his evil ex-guardian Mr Gently Benevolent (Anthony Head) in six more chapters of tragedies and triumphs in the style of Charles Dickens after too much gin. Mark Evans, Richard Johnson, Tom Allen, Anthony Head and Geoffrey Whitehead lead a magnificent c...
View BookAuthor: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Format: Online
Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 1m
Episodes Included: A Winter's Tale, Oh, What A Beautiful Mourning, And So To Bed, Porn Yesterday. Four classic episodes with the world's most famous rag and bone men. Two junk men and a junk-cart, bonded by blood, yoked by emotional blackmail and tied by the reins of Hercules the horse. Albert - a conniving old father clinging to an awesome jumble...
View BookRonnie Barker's Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
Author: Ronnie Barker
Format: Online
Author Ronnie Barker
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 58m
Here's a cornucopia of clever comedy, featuring sketches, monologues, poems and songs in this "sequential entertainment for radio". Among the sketches, Mr. Serpent, a sales rep in the Garden of Eden, tries to flog a knowledge course to Eve ("one bite and you're a Ph.D."). A doctor has to give some bad news, but gets more emotional than the patient,...
View BookRowan Atkinson's the Atkinson People
Author: Richard Curtis
Format: Online
Author Richard Curtis
Narrator Rowan Atkinson
Duration 1h 56m
Rowan Atkinson stars as many different characters in four episodes from the classic comedy series, written by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill), which investigates the lives of four great - but imaginary - men. We hear about the life and times of master orator, Sir Benjamin Fletcher: writer, statesman, No...
View BookAuthor: Andy Hamilton
Format: Online
Author Andy Hamilton
Narrator Jimmy Mulville
Duration 2h 48m
Satan's got the health inspector in and it seems that the lighting in hell isn't up to scratch but that's the least of his worries, with bad Feng-Shui, no sleep and some atrocious poetry not even Helen of Troy can perk up his day. Another hex-allent series from one of the writers of Revolting People and Trevor's World of Sport.
View BookAuthor: Andy Hamilton
Format: Online
Author Andy Hamilton
Narrator Jimmy Mulville
Duration 2h 47m
Andy Hamilton's hell-ariously entertaining complete 3rd series of this most excellent Radio 4 award winning comedy. Satan may rule the roost, but he's beset by the poor unfortunates condemned to sit out Eternity with him. Amongst them is the Professor, who is convinced that societies evolve and mature until Satan introduces him to Bill Clinton. The...
View BookThe Goon Show: The Case of the Missing Heir
Author: Spike Milligan
Format: Online
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 24
Duration 2h
Four previously unreleased episodes of the archive radio comedy, selected by Norma Farnes, Spike Milligan's biographer. The episodes are: The Case of the Missing Heir (11/1/55), The Secret Escritoire (27/9/55), The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy (24/11/58), The Dreaded Piano Clubber (26/12/86). Goon but not forgotten! From 1952 to 1960 the Goons rule...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Lynn
Format: Online
Author Jonathan Lynn
Narrator Various
SeriesYes Minister, Book 2
Duration 1h 47m
Four episodes of machinations and manipulation from the classic BBC political satire. Jobs for the Boys/The Right to Know/Doing the Honours/The Devil You Know The sustained dry wit of the dialogue and the wonderful interplay between the three main characters; Jim Hacker, Sir Humphrey and Bernard Wooley; made Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay's satirical...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Lynn
Format: Online
Author Jonathan Lynn
Narrator Various
SeriesYes Minister, Book 1
Duration 1h 49m
Four episodes of machinations and manipulation from the classic BBC political satire. The Compassionate Society/The Greasy Pole/The Skeleton in the Cupboard/A Question of Loyalty. The sustained dry wit of the dialogue and the wonderful interplay between the three main characters - Jim Hacker, Sir Humphrey and Bernard Wooley - made Jonathan Lynn and...
View BookTrevor's World of Sport Series 2
Author: Andy Hamilton
Format: Online
Author Andy Hamilton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 48m
The second in the series. Trevor and Sammy are the movers and shakers at agency TS Sports Stars. Yet although friends for 20 years and business partners for nine, they are chalk and cheese
View BookThe Very World of Milton Jones, Series 1, Part 1
Author: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Very World of Milton Jones Series 1, Book 1
Duration 26m
"Milton Jones, Milton Jones - so good, they named him". No-one knows where he's from - "As a child, I always remember my father saying to me 'Son, to pay for your education your mother and I had to make a lot of sacrifices.' Because they were both druids." No-one can predict what he gets up to -"I'm not getting on with my yoga teacher at the moment...
View BookThe Very World of Milton Jones, Series 1, Part 2
Author: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Very World of Milton Jones Series 1, Book 2
Duration 26m
"Milton Jones, Milton Jones - so good, they named him". No-one knows where he's from - "As a child, I always remember my father saying to me 'Son, to pay for your education your mother and I had to make a lot of sacrifices.' Because they were both druids." No-one can predict what he gets up to -"I'm not getting on with my yoga teacher at the moment...
View BookThe Very World of Milton Jones, Series 1, Part 3
Author: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Very World of Milton Jones Series 1, Book 3
Duration 26m
"Milton Jones, Milton Jones - so good, they named him". No-one knows where he's from - "As a child, I always remember my father saying to me 'Son, to pay for your education your mother and I had to make a lot of sacrifices.' Because they were both druids." No-one can predict what he gets up to -"I'm not getting on with my yoga teacher at the moment...
View BookThe Very World of Milton Jones, Series 1, Part 4
Author: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Very World of Milton Jones Series 1, Book 4
Duration 25m
Milton Jones, Milton Jones - so good, they named him". No-one knows where he's from - "As a child, I always remember my father saying to me 'Son, to pay for your education your mother and I had to make a lot of sacrifices.' Because they were both druids." No-one can predict what he gets up to -"I'm not getting on with my yoga teacher at the moment...
View BookThe Very World of Milton Jones, Series 1, Part 5
Author: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Very World of Milton Jones Series 1, Book 5
Duration 24m
"Milton Jones, Milton Jones - so good, they named him". No-one knows where he's from - "As a child, I always remember my father saying to me 'Son, to pay for your education your mother and I had to make a lot of sacrifices.' Because they were both druids." No-one can predict what he gets up to -"I'm not getting on with my yoga teacher at the moment...
View BookThe Very World of Milton Jones, Series 1, Part 6
Author: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Very World of Milton Jones Series 1, Book 6
Duration 26m
"Milton Jones, Milton Jones - so good, they named him". No-one knows where he's from - "As a child, I always remember my father saying to me 'Son, to pay for your education your mother and I had to make a lot of sacrifices.' Because they were both druids." No-one can predict what he gets up to -"I'm not getting on with my yoga teacher at the moment...
View BookThe Very World of Milton Jones Series 2
Author: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 42m
In 1998, BBC Radio 4 found it had a new star on its hands. From the opening monologue - "You see when the boys in the playground found out that I had a potentially fatal allergy to peanuts they used to shove me up against a wall and make me play Russian roulette with a bag of Revels." to the closing number -"Milton Jones, Milton Jones, so good they...
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