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Author: Rachel Bright
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Author Rachel Bright
Narrator Bill Nighy
Duration 6m
A funny rhyming story about a reluctant Koala who finds change just a little bit worrisome. In a wonderful place, at the breaking of dawn, where the breezes were soft and the sunshine was warm, a place where the creatures ran wild and played free...a koala called Kevin clung to a tree. Kevin likes to keep things the same. Exactly the same. But when...
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Author: Rachel Bright
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Author Rachel Bright
Narrator Bill Nighy
Duration 7m
A funny rhyming story about a meek little Mouse who sets out on a journey to find his roar. In a dry dusty place where the sand sparkled gold, stood a mighty flat rock—all craggy and old. And under that rock in a tinyful house, lived the littlest, quietest, meekest brown mouse. Fed up of being ignored by the other animals, Mouse wishes he cou...
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Author: Rachel Bright
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Author Rachel Bright
Narrator Bill Nighy
Duration 7m
A funny rhyming story about two greedy squirrels. Cyril and Bruce both have their sights on a very special prize: The Very Last Nut of the Season. As the nut bounces crazily though the forest, the squirrels race after it. Between trees, over boulders, down the river and—ARGH!—right to the edge of a waterfall! Working together might be t...
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Author: Rachel Bright
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Author Rachel Bright
Narrator Bill Nighy
Duration 8m
A feel-good tale of friendship set in the snowy Arctic from the writer of the bestselling, multi-award-winning The Lion Inside and The Koala Who Could. Wilf is as strong and independent as a wolf cub can be. He doesn't need help from his friends and family—whatever it is, he can do it ALL BY HIMSELF. But when Wilf finds himself lost and alone...
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Author: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Indira Varma, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy, Steven Cree
SeriesDiscworld, Book 41
Duration 9h 22m
Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook of The Shepherd's Crown is narrated by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones; Luther; This Way Up). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy (Love Actually; Pirates of the Caribbean; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Mena...
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Discworld Series Book 40: Raising Steam
Author: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Richard Coyle, Bill Nighy, Peter Serafinowicz
SeriesDiscworld, Book 40
Duration 13h 57m
Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook of Raising Steam is narrated by Richard Coyle, who starred as Moist von Lipwig in the television adaptation of Going Postal. BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy (Love Actually; Pirates of the Caribbean; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz (Star W...
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A Charles Paris Mystery: A Doubtful Death
Author: Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
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Author Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
Narrator Bill Nighy, Full Cast
Duration 2h 10m
Bill Nighy returns as the loveably louche actor-cum-amateur detective Charles ParisCharles Paris is in Oxford, appearing in a re-imagining of Hamlet by a high-concept drama company. No fan of immersive theatre, he's unimpressed with the director's vision and less than thrilled to be rehearsing alongside puppeteers and mime artists.But he soon finds...
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A Charles Paris Mystery Book 4: An Amateur Corpse
Author: Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
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Author Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
Narrator Bill Nighy, Full Cast
SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 4
Duration 1h 52m
Charles is out of work again, and to make matters worse his mother has come to stay and he's no way of escaping her. So when he's offered some voiceover work by old friend, Hugo, he's delighted to get out of the house. But Hugo's marriage is in trouble: his much younger wife, Ellie, spends all her time at her Amateur Dramatic Group, and Hugo is dri...
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A Charles Paris Mystery Book 17: Dead Room Farce
Author: Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
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Author Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
Narrator Bill Nighy, BBC Full-Cast
SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 17
Duration 1h 51m
Bill Nighy stars as actor and amateur sleuth Charles Paris in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Simon Brett's novelCharles' career is on the up. He's starring in a revival of a popular (though hackneyed) 70's farce – and while his fellow actors aren't exactly who you'd want to find yourself in bed with, he's happy to be in work.But...
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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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A Charles Paris Mystery Book 9: Murder In the Title
Author: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Bill Nighy
SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 9
Duration 1h 50m
Charles Paris is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation - especially in the form of women and alcohol. He's been out of work so long now he feels he may never get a job and he's driving Frances, his semi-ex-wife, mad. So when he's offered a small role in a play, she nearly pushes him out of the door. But it see...
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A Charles Paris Mystery Book 15: A Reconstructed Corpse
Author: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Bill Nighy
SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 15
Duration 1h 52m
Bill Nighy returns as Charles Paris: unsuccessful actor, bad husband and dipsomaniac. Desperately in need of work, having been kicked out of the marital home, Charles jumps at playing a missing property developer in a crime reconstruction programme. But the missing person case soon turns to murder when severed body parts begin to appear. Television...
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A Charles Paris Mystery Book 1: Cast In Order of Disappearance
Author: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Bill Nighy
SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 1
Duration 1h 52m
Bill Nighy stars as Charles Paris with Martine McCutcheon as Jodie Ricks in this BBC Radio 4 comedy detective drama. Charles finds himself uncharacteristically employed in a film, having landed the part of Szabec, a middle management vampire in The Wreathing. His co-star is swimwear model turned actress Jodie Ricks and before long, Jodie is using C...
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