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Author: Lance Armstrong Foundation The
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Author Lance Armstrong Foundation The
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Duration 8h 30m
Since the now ubiquitous LIVESTRONGT wristbands became available in May 2004, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has raised more than $50 million for cancer survivorship programs, and the signature phrase has become a battle cry for those who fight the disease every day. Now, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has compiled, from hours of videotaped intervi...
View BookSarah Millican's Support Group, Series 2
Author: Sarah Millican
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Author Sarah Millican
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Duration 2h 47m
Award-winning comedian Sarah Millican is back for a second series playing Sarah, a modern-day agony aunt dishing out real advice for real people. Solving the nation's problems with her Support Group, she wants you to live life to the upmost, and she's got tons of ideas of how to help. Together with her team of experts of the heart - local cabbie Te...
View BookAuthor: Frances Byrne
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Author Frances Byrne
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Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of an event in the life of ballerina Margot Fonteyn, written by Frances Byrne and starring Sophie Jerrold and Richard McCabe. Originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 22 May 2008 and repeated on 19 November 2010. An Unchoreographed World explores a dramatic formative event in the life of one of the truly g...
View BookAuthor: Gregory Evans
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Author Gregory Evans
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Duration 56m
A BBC Radio 4 tragic-comedy drama depicting the principal events of Shirley Porter's time as leader of Westminster city council in the 1980s. Originally broadcast as the 'Friday Play' on 27 November 2009, and starring Tracy-Ann Oberman as Shirley Porter. Also featured amongst the cast are Maggie Steed, Joseph Cohen-Cole, Piers Wehner, Stephen Hogan...
View BookAuthor: Spike Milligan
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Author Spike Milligan
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SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 15
Duration 2h
From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. It's the time of goodwill and custard so join the festive fun with Scrooge and Nellie Scratchit in 'A Christmas Carol' and follow the lost chords of 'The Mighty Wurlitzer' hot foot across the Sahara. Also includes: 'Ye Bandit Of Sherw...
View BookAuthor: Andy Hamilton
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Author Andy Hamilton
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Duration 2h 51m
It's not easy being Satan. Thrown out of heaven by a vengeful, white-haired God for daring to voice the concerns of middle management and condemned for all eternity to listen to Edith Piaf and Elvis Presley. Still, there are new arrivals to welcome: the Professor, an atheist whose unerring optimism is a nasty blow, and Thomas, chairman of a privati...
View BookAuthor: Matt Haig
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Author Matt Haig
Narrator Jane Collingwood, Thomas Judd, Various
Duration 10h 10m
In order to stay human, Audrey has built a moat around herself; a moat of books, music and dreams. It makes her different from the echoes: the sophisticated, emotionless machines, built to resemble and work for the humans. Daniel is an echo-but he's not like the others. He has feelings he was never designed to have, and cannot explain. And when Aud...
View BookRhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs, Series 1
Author: Rhod Gilbert
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Author Rhod Gilbert
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Duration 5h 38m
Welsh comedian Rhod Gilbert is one of the biggest names in UK stand-up, performing to sell-out audiences in Britain and abroad. Now he has his own radio series, recorded in front of a live audience and packed with laughs. Joining Rhod on stage are fellow comedians Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies ('We Are Klang'), along with Sarah Millican who takes...
View BookJosie Long's All of the Planet's Wonders
Author: Alison Kennedy
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Author Alison Kennedy
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Duration 55m
BBC Radio 4 comedy series in which award-winning comedian Josie Long attempts to better herself through learning from reference books, with help from Irish comedian Maeve Higgins. Each episode is anchored by Josie Long and Maeve Higgins in the studio, with Josie presenting her essay on the week's subject and Maeve helping with questions, illustrati...
View BookThe News Quiz: The Very Best of 2004
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 14m
A third volume of highlights from recent series of The News Quiz, presented by chairman Simon Hoggart. Since 1977, BBC Radio 4's funniest and quirkiest game show has been answering questions and offering wit and wisdom on global happenings, national news and quite frankly pathetic parochial events. Regular panellists Alan Coren, Jeremy Hardy, Andy...
View BookAuthor: G. B. Shaw
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Author G. B. Shaw
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Duration 1h 26m
Simon Cadell stars as Henry Higgins with Imelda Staunton as Eliza Doolittle in this BBC Radio 4 production of Shaw's famous play. When phonetics tutor and linguist Henry Higgins meets Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle, he makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can teach her to speak so well that she will be able to pass herself off...
View BookThe News Quiz: Read All About It
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 52m
Four of the best editions from recent series of the popular BBC Radio 4 comedy news quiz, featuring Sandi Toksvig, Andy Hamilton, Alan Coren, Jeremy Hardy and a variety of guest players.
View BookAuthor: Kazuo Ishiguro
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Author Kazuo Ishiguro
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Duration 6h 33m
In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the hush-hush floor of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle,...
View BookAuthor: Martin Meenan
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Author Martin Meenan
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SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 4, Book 4
Duration 43m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. In No Sin, Father Baldi looks into a death at the local gym. His investigation leads him to make an interesting connection between the fanatical pur...
View BookAuthor: Alan Pollock
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Author Alan Pollock
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Duration 43m
A witty and powerful BBC Radio 4 coming of age drama starring Tim McInnerny as Sydney Larkin and Pip Carter as Philip Larkin. Written by Alan Pollock and broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 11 June 2010.
View BookAuthor: Andrew Martin
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Author Andrew Martin
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SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 4, Book 3
Duration 43m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. In The Smoker Father Baldi solves the murder of a politically incorrect, larger-than-life individual in the worlds of Dublin's pubs and publishing....
View BookThe New Testament: Revised English Bible From BBC Radio 4
Author: BBC Audiogo
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Author BBC Audiogo
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Duration 15h 33m
These readings of the New Testament are taken from the 1989 Revised English Bible, which was translated directly from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek into modern English to produce a Bible that was at once accessible and authoritative. Part of BBC Radio 4's series of 341 daily episodes of the Bible, broadcast in 1991 and 1992, they are read...
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Author BBC Audiobooks
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SeriesJust a Minute, Book 2
Duration 2h 1m
This new Radio Collection series selects some of the best archive episodes from Just a Minute's past. Each volume, specially presented by Nicholas Parsons, contains an episode each from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. These releases are packed with some of the most hilarious moments in the series, and feature little-heard comedy turns by much-ch...
View BookAuthor: Bill Murphy
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Author Bill Murphy
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SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 4, Book 2
Duration 43m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. In The Devil's Eye, Paolo is confronted with old Gaelic, shipwrecks and a community's mysterious history on a remote island off the Atlantic coast....
View BookAuthor: Meera Syal
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Author Meera Syal
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Duration 1h 40m
Nothing escapes the satirical eye of Britain's successful first all-Asian sketch show in the compilation of the best of the first BBC Radio 4 series together with three shows from series two. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.
View BookThe Infinite Monkey Cage Series 1 Episode 4
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SeriesThe Infinite Monkey Cage Series 1, Book 4
Duration 27m
The fourth and final episode of the first series of BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage, in which physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince take a witty, irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world according to science. Robin and Brian are joined by Victor Stock, Dean of Guildford Cathedral, and science journalist Adam Rutherford for...
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