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The 99p Challenge, Series 4, Part 5
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
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SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 4, Book 5
Duration 27m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas. The line up for this show is Peter Baynham, Jack Docherty, Armando Iannucci and Sean Lock and was broadcast on 4th March 2003.
View BookThe Garden Party and Other Stories
Author: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
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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...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 4, Part 4
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
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SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 4, Book 4
Duration 27m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas. The line up for this show is Peter Baynham, Marcus Brigstocke, Nick Frost and Armando Iannucci and was broadcast on 25th February 2003.
View BookAuthor: Dorothy L Sayers
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Author Dorothy L Sayers
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Duration 3h 18m
This was the second Lord Peter Wimsey story to be adapted for radio in the mid-seventies. Broadcast May 5 to June 16 1975, it was adapted by Chris Miller and produced by Simon Brett. The case on Agatha Dawson is closed, but Lord Peter Wimsey is not satisfied. With no clues to work on, he begins his own investigation. Then Agatha's maid is suddenly...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 4, Part 3
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Author BBC Audiobooks
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SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 4, Book 3
Duration 26m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas.The line up for this show is Jon Holmes, Armando Iannucci, Simon Pegg and Peter Serafinowicz and was broadcast on 18th February 2003.
View BookThe Unpleasantness At the Bellona Club
Author: Dorothy L Sayers
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Author Dorothy L Sayers
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Duration 2h 28m
The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature's most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers' charming investigator in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. The dignified calm of the Bellona Club is shattered when Lord Wimsey finds General Fentiman dead in his favo...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 4, Part 2
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Author BBC Audiobooks
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SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 4, Book 2
Duration 27m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas. The line up for this show is Marcus Brigstocke, Armando Iannucci, Simon Pegg and Peter Serafinowicz and was broadcast on 11th February 2003.
View BookAuthor: Dorothy L Sayers
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Author Dorothy L Sayers
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Duration 3h 8m
In a shocking scandal, the likes of which has not been seen in the English aristocracy since the 18th century, the Duke of Denver stands accused of the foul murder or his sister's fiance, shot through the heart on a cold, lonely night at Riddlesdale Hall in Yorkshire. The Duke's brother, Lord Peter Wimsey, attempts to prove Denver's innocence, but...
View BookAuthor: John Steinbeck
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Author John Steinbeck
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Duration 2h 46m
Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in search of work, only to discover thousands like them are also on the move. Following a violent altercation with some locals, they head back on the road with their dream of a promised land in tatters. And life is set to get much worse...
View BookJust A Minute, Series 58, Episode 6
Author: Ian Messiter, Nicholas Parsons
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Author Ian Messiter, Nicholas Parsons
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SeriesJust a Minute Series 58, Book 6
Duration 27m
Nicholas Parsons chairs the panel game that rewards those who can talk the hind leg off a donkey. The panellists on today's show are Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock, Gyles Brandreth and Barnsley poet Ian McMillan. The aim of the game is to speak on a given subject for sixty seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. A task much harder than it...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 4, Part 1
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
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SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 4, Book 1
Duration 23m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas. The line up for this show is Bill Bailey, Armando Iannucci, Simon Pegg and David Quantick and was broadcast on 4th February 2003.
View BookAuthor: Dick Clements, Ian La Frenais
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Author Dick Clements, Ian La Frenais
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Duration 2h 35m
Four more episodes from the classic prison sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker as Fletcher, with Richard Beckinsale and Fulton Mackay in support.
View BookAuthor: Dorothy L Sayers
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Author Dorothy L Sayers
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Duration 3h 33m
The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature's most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers' charming investigator in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. When Sandy Campbell's body is found at the foot of a cliff near the small town of Kircdubright, the local co...
View BookJust A Minute, Series 58, Episode 5
Author: Ian Messiter, Nicholas Parsons
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Author Ian Messiter, Nicholas Parsons
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SeriesJust a Minute Series 58, Book 5
Duration 27m
Nicholas Parsons chairs the grandaddy of all panel games with Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Julian Clary and Kevin Eldon as the panellists. The aim of the game is to speak on a subject without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Much, much harder than it sounds... On today's show Julian Clary talks about Building Bridges, Paul Merton reveals all about...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 3, Part 6
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
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SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 3, Book 6
Duration 27m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas. The line up for this show is Tom Binns, Nick Frost, Ben Moor and Peter Serafinowicz and was broadcast on 23rd August 2001.
View BookJust A Minute, Series 58, Episode 4
Author: Ian Messiter, Nicholas Parsons
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Author Ian Messiter, Nicholas Parsons
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SeriesJust a Minute Series 58, Book 4
Duration 27m
The grandaddy of all panel games with Nicholas Parsons in the chair. This time Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock and Ian MacMillan are panellists and the the programme is a guest of the British Library as part of its Evolving English Exhibition.
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 3, Part 4
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
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SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 3, Book 4
Duration 23m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas. The line up for this show is Tom Binns, Nick Frost, Marcus Brigstocke and Peter Serafinowicz and was broadcast on 9th August 2001.
View BookAuthor: Pam Jenoff
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Author Pam Jenoff
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Duration 11h 42m
From the internationally best-selling author Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris is an emotional and powerful journey through friendship and betrayal during the Second World War, inspired by true events. 1940s. With the world at war, Eleanor Trigg leads a mysterious ring of female secret agents in London. Twelve of these women are sent to aid the r...
View BookAuthor: Jojo Moyes
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Author Jojo Moyes
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Duration 16h 45m
Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motor...
View BookJust A Minute, Series 58, Episode 2
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
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SeriesJust a Minute Series 58, Book 2
Duration 27m
The well-loved, long-running panel game with Nicholas Parsons at the helm. This week's panellists are Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Kevin Eldon and Julian Clary. The panellists are asked to speak on subjects given to them for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Much more difficult than it sounds... This week Sue Perkins describes he...
View BookI'm Sorry I'll Read That Again 3
Author: Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
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Author Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
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Duration 1h 53m
An extravageanza specially written for the wireless by several persons, featuring a number of performers' was how an early edition of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again described itself, and how nobly the programme lived up to that demanding ideal! Described by Barry Took as 'A kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrase and innuendo revolving at breakn...
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