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Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 6m
Another helping of inspired ad-libbery from the multi award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. 'The funniest comedy quiz show of them all.' Sue Arnold, Observer. Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton presides over regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden in another four shows from the antidote to panel games. Accept no substitutes.
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Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 7m
A seventh helping of inspired ad-libbery from the multi award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton presides over regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden in four shows from the the 2001/2002 series of the antidote to panel games. Accept no substitutes.
View BookBeyond Westminster: Lessons Learnt From Coalitions Past
Author: Andrew Rawnsley
Format: Online
Author Andrew Rawnsley
Narrator Various
Duration 27m
The special New Year's Day 2011 edition of BBC Radio 4's Beyond Westminster, in which Andrew Rawnsley considers the lessons of history for Britain's coalition government-and its opponents. Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers are busily advancing their ambitious political and economic agenda-albeit amid parliamentary revolts and embarrassin...
View BookAuthor: Angus Deayton
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Author Angus Deayton
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 47m
The complete first series of the panel show, hosted by Angus Deayton and devised by the panellists. 'It's Your Round' is the comedy panel game where the format is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the panellists has brought along their own round for the others to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and unpredictable. Angus D...
View BookJohnners' A View From the Boundary
Author: Barry Johnston
Format: Online
Author Barry Johnston
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 34m
During the lunch interval on the Saturday of every Test in England, BBC Radio's Test Match Special used to invite a well-known guest into the commentary box for a chat with Brian Johnston about themselves and their passion for cricket. Some turned out to be able cricketers, but they all had stories to tell about matches they had seen and cricketers...
View BookCricketing Tales From the Dressing Room
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Jonathan Agnew, Various
Duration 1h 45m
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew introduces a new collection of anecdotes and reflections from some of the Best-loved characters of international cricket. JACK RUSSELL, DEREK PRINGLE, GRAHAM GOOCHE, IAN BOTHAM, DEREK UNDERWOOD, GEOFF LAWSON and many more. From the glory days when players regularly smoked 20 a day and fended off over-eager f...
View BookThe Poetry Society: Hancock's Half Hour
Author: Alan Simpson
Format: Online
Author Alan Simpson
Narrator Various
Duration 29m
One of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's favourite radio episodes. In The Poetry Society, an evening with a group of Hancock's new avant-garde friends produces gems of abstract poetry, not only from the group but also from Sid and Bill. Featuring a star cast that includes Sid James, Bill Kerr, Warren Mitchell, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Fenel...
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
Format: Online
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 6m
Terry Deary and Martin Brown's brilliant books about the nastiest periods in history have now - with the help of some astounding actors and directed by Dirk Maggs - been transformed into a series of audio extravaganzas. Featuring new, extra material not found anywhere in the books, these sound spectaculars are just as thrilling and spilling, funny...
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 12m
An extraordinary eighth helping of inspired ad-libbery from the multi award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton presides over regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden in four shows from the recent series of the antidote to panel games. This time round the guest players include Harry Hill, Sandi Toksvig, Jeremy H...
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Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 28m
An extraordinary ninth helping of inspired ad-libbery from the multi award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton presides over regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden in four shows from the recent series of the antidote to panel games.
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 36m
Four compilations of the hugely popular and award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. "Risky, rude, brilliantly written and superbly performed." - The Judges, Sony Radio Academy Awards. Inspired nonsense and pointless revelry - it's time for another helping of the antidote to panel games, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
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Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 26m
Four more compilations of the funniest puns, songs and one-liners from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. And this will be the last Clue release to feature Humphrey Lyttelton as host as he presides over regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden. Often imitated but never bettered, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is the only authentic a...
View BookI'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: Hamish & Dougal, You'll Have Had Your Tea, Series 2
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 25m
Hamish and Dougal, two elderly Scotsmen played by Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden, have for many years been a popular feature of the the hit BBC Radio 4 comedy show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Now they've got their own series. Regular characters appearing with Hamish and Dougal include Mrs Naughtie, a cleaning lady-cum-housekeeper played by Alison St...
View BookI'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: In Search of Mornington Crescent
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 59m
Mornington Crescent is a game whose rules and history are shrouded in myth and mystery. Now, in this extended version of a spoof documentary first aired on BBC Radio 4, the team from I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue research shine a light in the dark. As if that wasn't enough, Humphrey Lyttelton, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Barry Cryer also prov...
View BookI'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Live: Volume 2
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 36m
A second volume of two specially compiled, extended-length shows from Jon Naismith's production archive, featuring out-takes, ad libs and audience interaction from the Clue team. Taken from the early 1990s, these shows (edition dates t.b.c.) feature the classic Clue line up of Humphrey Lyttelton, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jerem...
View BookI'm Sorry I'll Read That Again 3
Author: Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
Format: Online
Author Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
Narrator Various
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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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 30m
Tom Forrest brother to Doris and uncle to Jack, Phil and Christine. Tom like his father before him worked as gamekeeper. Purveyor of folk lore, Tom was born, married and died in Ambridge.
View BookAuthor: Kenneth Grahame
Format: Online
Author Kenneth Grahame
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 17m
Many of the original cast from Alan Bennett's acclaimed National Theatre production appear in this special dramatisation for BBC Radio 4 including Richard Briers as Rat, Adrian Scarborough as Mole and Terence Rigby as Albert with Alan Bennett as the narrator. A wonderful, highly-acclaimed dramatic performance of a classic novel.
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
Format: Online
Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 15m
Performed by the author and five of Britain's leading actresses, Alan Bennett's tales are full of quirky, insightful detail and wry observation. This audiobook contains the following monologues: 'A Chip in the Sugar' with Alan Bennett; 'A Lady of Letters' with Patricia Routledge; 'Bed Among the Lentils' with Anna Massey; 'Soldiering On' with Stepha...
View BookThe Withered Arm and Other Wessex Tales
Author: Thomas Hardy
Format: Online
Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Various
Duration 7h
Hardy's first collection of short stories was written between 1879-1888, with many of the tales set before Hardy's birth in 1840. These humorous and affectionate observations of rustic life include the following tales: 'An Imaginative Woman', 'The Three Strangers', 'The Withered Arm', 'Fellow-Townsmen', 'Interlopers at the Knap' and 'The Distracted...
View BookAuthor: R C Sherriff
Format: Online
Author R C Sherriff
Narrator Various
Duration 2h
Set in British trenches during the First World War, this play deals with the horror and futility of trench warfare, as Captain Stanhope and his officers await attack in their dugout. Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London on behalf of the Estate of R.C. Sherriff. Copyright R.C. Sherriff 1929.
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