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Author: John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
Format: Online
Author John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Good Life, Book 1
Duration 1h 50m
Four original BBC television episodes of the much-loved classic sitcom starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith.
View BookAuthor: Dick Clements, Ian La Frenais
Format: Online
Author Dick Clements, Ian La Frenais
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 17m
Everyone's favourite prisoner is making the most of his stay at Her Majesty's Pleasure. Never a man to shrink from a challenge, even from behind bars, Fletch could manage anything from organising a win on the horses to buying a council flat in Mayfair. Brian Wilde, Richard Beckinsale and Fulton Mackay star alongside the incomparable Ronnie Barker i...
View BookAuthor: Annie Caulfield
Format: Online
Author Annie Caulfield
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 14m
A BBC Radio 3 full-cast dramatisation by Annie Caulfield, starring Lenny Henry as singer and political activist Paul Robeson. Originally broadcast Sunday 21 February 2010. As an outspoken apologist for Stalin and agitator for civil rights Paul Robeson had many enemies, including the CIA. His passport was taken away, his career curtailed and his...
View BookThe Red Planet: The Complete Series
Author: Charles Chilton
Format: Online
Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 54m
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects and atmospheric music engaged the listener as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
Format: Online
Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 53m
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects and atmospheric music engaged the listener as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger...
View BookSherlock Holmes His Last Bow, Volume 2
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Format: Online
Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Various
SeriesSherlock Holmes: His Last Bow, Book 2
Duration 2h 55m
Includes: The Dying Detective, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, The Devil's Foot and His Last Bow.
View BookAuthor: Keith Richards
Format: Online
Author Keith Richards
Narrator Various
Duration 23h
With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world. Over four decades, he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done. Now, at last, the man himself tells us the story of life in the...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 37m
It's back, the show they didn't dare call King Stupid Series 2! A new presenter, new panellists, new title, new timeslot, new silly games and more jokes than ever in the show Robert Hanks in The Independent called "a brilliant panel game" and Tracey MacLeod in Night & Day called "genuinely brilliant". The producers are David Tyler and Sarah Smi...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 38m
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. Here are some quotes from last year's series: "The laughter that's worth every penny" Simon Garfield in The Mail On Sunday. "A hugely enjoyable addition to the comedy panel game genre" Heat magaz...
View BookAuthor: Valentine Dyall
Format: Online
Author Valentine Dyall
Narrator Various, Full Cast
Duration 1h 57m
Four chilling episodes from the famous 1940s BBC radio series, introduced by Valentine Dyall, aka "The Man in Black". These are the four sole surviving episodes from the BBC archive: The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (18/9/1943); The Speaking Clock by John Dickson Carr (13/4/1944); The Clock Strikes Eight by John Dickson Carr(18/5/1944);...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 14m
First-hand accounts featuring the RAF pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain - one of the chief turning points of World War Two. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" - Winston Churchill The "Few" were the nearly 3,000 RAF pilots who fought against the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, which rag...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Douglas, Nicola Sanderson
Format: Online
Author Christopher Douglas, Nicola Sanderson
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 19m
A BBC Radio 4 comedy by Christopher Douglas (Ed Reardon's Week) and Nicola Sanderson originally broadcast in October and November 2009. Beauty Olonga works as a carer for the Featherdown Agency and sees herself as an inspiration to other African girls hoping to achieve their goals in the land of semi-skimmed milk. We see Britain through her eyes-it...
View BookJohn Betjeman; A First Class Collection
Author: John Betjeman
Format: Online
Author John Betjeman
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 23m
Sir John Betjeman, poet, broadcaster, journalist, prose writer and critic, was one of the best-loved figures of the twentieth century. Betjeman was a prolific writer and his poems still resonate today. This release celebrates the centenary of Betjeman's birth
View BookAuthor: Ken Dodd
Format: Online
Author Ken Dodd
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 47m
The Squire of Knotty Ash waves his tickling stickin these four inimitable BBC radio episodes. Welcome to Doddy's world of whimsy, where the puns fly thick and fast, and the quips are as surreal as they are saucy. With mirth-quaking jokes and a juggernaut of japes, Ken Dodd gives us his own unique take on topics as diverse as the European Union, spo...
View BookAuthor: Lee Mack
Format: Online
Author Lee Mack
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 54m
Lee Mack, Bafta award winner, stars in the complete second BBC Radio 2 series. Taking part in the manic mix of sketches and stand-up are special musical guests former Spice Girl Melanie C, ABC's Martin Fry, Erasure's Andy Bell, Jamelia, Alison Moyet and Level 42's Mark King. Lee is also joined by comedians Andrew Maxwell, Phil Nichol, Jason Byrne,...
View BookLittle Britain; Best of Tv Series 3
Author: David Walliams, Matt Lucas
Format: Online
Author David Walliams, Matt Lucas
Narrator David Walliams, Matt Lucas, Tom Baker, Various
Duration 2h 9m
This work includes the very best sketches from the brilliant third television series, written by and starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams. Bubbles is back! But has she met her match with arch-enemy Desiree? In this battle of the bulge, who'll come out on top? Dudley's Thai mail-order bride arrives, but can he get to grips with Ting Tong? Anne app...
View BookAuthor: Brian Johnston
Format: Online
Author Brian Johnston
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 56m
Brian Johnston - aka "Johnners" - the BBC's long-time cricket commentator, is the umpire in this test of wit and general knowledge, as two teams try to score the highest number of runs under his watchful eye. In these four episodes, team captains Tim Rice and Willie Rushton are joined by Stephen Fry, Paul Merton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Bil...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 4m
The TARDIS lands in the Wild West in this classic BBC TV soundtrack starring William Hartnell, with linking narration by Peter Purves. It's 1881 and, in the Wild West settlement of Tombstone, there are three strangers in town: 'Doctor Caligari', 'Steven Regret', and 'Miss Dodo Dupont'. They've arrived in a 20th Century blue police box, and they're...
View BookI'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Two
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesI'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Book 8
Duration 1h 48m
A compilation of hare-brained games including the legendary `Mornington Crescent' from the much-loved `antidote to panel games' chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton. With Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Willie Rushton.
View BookI'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Three
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 57m
A compilation of hare-brained games including the legendary `Mornington Crescent' from the much-loved `antidote to panel games' chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton. With Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Willie Rushton.
View BookI'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Anniversary Special
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 53m
To celebrate thirty years of the extremely popular BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game, this release brings together two special editions - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Anniversary Special and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Desert Island - alongside the first ever edition of the programme, originally broadcast on 11 April 1972. Whilst the anniversary special featur...
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