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Author: James Rye
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Author James Rye
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
In the final episode of the series, The Night, DCI John Stone investigates the sexual assault of the wife of one of his team. DI Tanner's wife Karen finds herself in a dodgy hotel after a night out remembering nothing of the night before; she has been assaulted and Stone suspects she has been given Rohypnol. It would seem that this is just the begi...
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Author: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 59m
In this BBC full-cast production of As You Like It, Rosalind is banished from the Royal court, heartbroken over Orlando. Will the two find a way to reunite?A comedy of wit, disguise and love, Shakespeare's tale about the enchanted world of the Forest of Arden remains as moving as it is funny.Helena Bonham Carter stars as Rosalind, with&nb...
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Dick Barton and the Cabatolin Diamonds
Author: Geoffrey Webb
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Author Geoffrey Webb
Narrator Douglas Kelly
Duration 4h 2m
Douglas Kelly stars as Dick Barton-Special Agent in another thrilling adventure for radio's greatest hero. Heralded by an instantly memorable signature tune, the adventures of special agent Dick Barton and his friends Jock and Snowey, were essential listening for an entire generation. Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon Davies...
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Author: Gary Mitchell
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Author Gary Mitchell
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 28m
Hugh, a music teacher, has had an accident and is visited in hospital by his talented pupil Charlie and his wife Sharon. He looks back on how their relationships evolved over the years as working-class Protestants feel increasingly marginalised by political change.
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Author: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 6m
In this BBC full-cast production of Twelfth Night, Malvolio is looking for trouble - and revenge...Michael Maloney, Josette Simon and Anne-Marie Duff star in this fast and funny production of Shakespeare's most sparkling and optimistic comedy, when all the world is turned on its head and authority is usurped, when by civil...
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Author: Fin Kennedy
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Author Fin Kennedy
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
In a near-future London, society is in distress. In the midst of climate chaos, people are seeking solace in the promises of new strains of religion. Illusionist Caesar Price has already walked on water; resurrected people from the dead and fed thousands from one tin of sardines. When he announces that his next "miracle" will be the Crucifixion and...
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Author: Csaba Szekely
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Author Csaba Szekely
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
It's difficult being young and in love when your Dad is a high ranking official in Ceausescu's communist machine, your mother weeps all the time and your brother is trying to kill you. This wild and sideways look at life behind the Iron Curtain during Ceausescu's regime is a first play by a young Hungarian writer living in Romania and was shortlist...
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Dick Barton and the Paris Adventure
Author: Edward J Mason
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Author Edward J Mason
Narrator Douglas Kelly
Duration 4h 8m
Heralded by an instantly memorable signature tune, the adventures of special agent Dick Barton and his friends Jock and Snowey were essential listening for an entire generation. Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon Davies, in an exciting world of criminal masterminds, espionage and adventure, it ran on the BBC Light Programme b...
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Author: Roy Smiles
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Author Roy Smiles
Narrator Kai Owen, Toby Longworth, James Clyde
Duration 43m
Roy Smiles' play about Spike Milligan's last days with the Goons and his complex and often fractious relationship with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe. During the 1950s, 'The Goon Show' had England laughing week after week, greatly influencing Monty Python and the Beatles, among others - and paved the way for sketch comedy as we know it today.
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Dick Barton and the Li-chang Adventure
Author: Edward J Mason
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Author Edward J Mason
Narrator Douglas Kelly
Duration 3h 49m
Douglas Kelly stars in another adventure for radio's greatest hero. Heralded by an instantly memorable signature tune, the adventures of Dick Barton, Jock and Snowey originally ran on the BBC Light Programme between 1946 and 1951. Very few of the BBC's original recordings still survive, however, in 1949 some were re-recorded for transmission overse...
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Author: Edith Wharton
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Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 49m
The play follows the beautiful Undine Spragg as she arrives in New York and sets her sights on Ralph Marvell, then travels to Paris where she meets a charming French aristocrat. Will Undine ever find real happiness?
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We Just Happened To Be Passing
Author: David Nobbs
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Author David Nobbs
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
It is a quiet Saturday morning in the Hinchcliffe home. Tony and Sal, tired after a week of work, have time on their hands. But not for each other. Middle-aged and middle class, they haven't had kids and they still feel that emotional vacuum. The doorbell rings. It is an American couple-Monty and Janey-a rather loud duo they stayed with in Delaware...
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Author: David Hare
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Author David Hare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 2m
Esme Allen is a middle-aged West End actor and is in control of her life: she's financially secure and successful. However, Amy, her grown-up daughter is pregnant by Dominic, an ambitious media-man who believes that theatre is dead. Esme and Dominic, unsurpisingly, loathe each other. But this leaves Amy-whose "view" is that love conquers all-right...
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Author: Nick Payne
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Author Nick Payne
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
It's a big day for Sally, and she's been planning it for weeks. But when her mystery man finally arrives, she's left hopelessly unprepared. Intimate drama by award-winning playwright Nick Payne. Starring Olivia Colman, Ralph Ineson, Nishi Malde, Nishi Malde, Jane Whittenshaw, and Simon Bubb. Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.
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Author: David Cook
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Author David Cook
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
Walter is now a pensioner. Following the death of his mother, Walter spent many years living in a psychiatric hospital. When that was closed down he moved to hostel accommodation where he is isolated and lonely. When his support worker hears of a house share with three others, he suggests Walter. But Walter is twice the age of the rest. Will they a...
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Stone Series: The Deserved Dead and Other Episodes
Author: Danny Brocklehurst
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Author Danny Brocklehurst
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 54m
In the first episode, The Deserved Dead, DCI John Stone and his team shake up the Bridgeton Estate when they embark upon an investigation into the brutal murder of a known sex offender. In episode 2, Collateral Damage, DCI John Stone is forced to open up an investigation into the death of Gary Taylor, a veteran of the Iraq War suffering from Post T...
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