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The Adventures of Sexton Blake
Author: Jonathan Nash, Mil Millington
Format: Online
Author Jonathan Nash, Mil Millington
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 10m
BBC Radio 2's action-packed deafening romp - with 40 minutes of previously unbroadcast peril. Sexton Blake! The name that spells hurtling adventure! The name that spells doom for villainy! In a series of thrilling adventures packed with incident and hilarity, Sexton Blake, (Simon Jones, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) and his plucky assistant...
View BookAnother Case of Milton Jones, Series 3, Episode 1
Author: Milton Jones
Format: Online
Author Milton Jones
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesAnother Case of Milton Jones Series 3, Book 1
Duration 28m
The glorious return of Milton Jones in the series, where each episode, he bestrides the globe as an expert in his field, with no ability whatsoever. In this episode, he's a world-famous photographer who travels from the catwalks of Milan to the jungles of Bolivia to find the perfect picture for a calendar.The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 7m
Ronald Pickup, Angela Pleasance and Maxine Audley star in this BBC Radio 4 1971 production of Shakespeare's famous tragedy of the Prince of Denmark. Written over four hundred years ago, Hamlet still remains one of the most powerful, influential and thrilling tragedies in the English language. The story of Prince Hamlet and his quest for vengeance...
View BookDoctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned
Author: Stephen Cole
Format: Online
Author Stephen Cole
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 28m
When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast... the feast of the drowned. As the dead crew haunt loved ones all over Lond...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 32m
King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most performed and celebrated plays - presented here in accessible story fom by brother and sister team Charles and Mary Lamb. An ideal story for newcomers to Shakespeare, young people and as an additional study aid for students.King Lear is to abdicate, and wants to divide his kingdom between his three daughters....
View BookAuthor: Micheal Butt
Format: Online
Author Micheal Butt
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the strange legal case of film star Peter Lorre, written and produced by Michael Butt and starring Stephen Greif. Originally broadcast as the "Afternoon Play" on 10 May 2010. Towards the end of his unique career, movie star Peter Lorre found himself at the centre of an unusual legal case. Incorporating verba...
View BookMeanwhile With the Bearded Ladies
Author: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 51m
Radio 4 sitcom about four women friends, written by and starring Susie Donkin, Charlotte McDougall, Oriane Messina and Fay Rusling. Four women friends cope with life, work and men. Mel is hunting for a man - any man, and Lucy wants Kevin to help her get rid of a rat. Jo and Kevin are trying for a baby so she can be a really Yummy Mummy, and Alex is...
View BookDoctor Who: The Nemonite Invasion
Author: David Roden
Format: Online
Author David Roden
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 22m
When the sky rips open somewhere over Dover, two objects hurtle out of the Vortex and crash-land in the sea. One is the TARDIS, out of control and freefalling - but the other, a mysterious crystalline sphere, is far more sinister . The Doctor and Donna are rescued and taken to a secret command centre in the Dover cliffs. It's May 1940, and Vice-Adm...
View BookAuthor: Dorothy L Sayers
Format: Online
Author Dorothy L Sayers
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesLord Peter Wimsey, Book 11
Duration 10h 35m
Lord Peter Wimsey, man about town and amateur sleuth, and his man Bunter, are drawn into a series of intreguing incidents after being stranded in the remote village of Fenchurch St. Paul. What is the identity of the grotesquely disfigured corpse found in the church-yard? Who murdered him and why? Perhaps the Fenchurch bells hold their own answers t...
View BookAuthor: Harold Brighouse
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Author Harold Brighouse
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 21m
'Hobson's Choice' (the title coming from the expression 'Hobson's choice' meaning no choice at all), set in Salford in 1880, is a comedy based around the battle of wills between a hard-headed cobbler and his defiant daughter. Henry Hobson has three daughters, good intentions and a fondness for the Moonraker's Inn. Maggie Hobson, the eldest daughter...
View BookAuthor: Dorothy L Sayers
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Author Dorothy L Sayers
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 49m
When mystery writer Harriet Vane is accused of the murder of her lover, the evidence seems pretty damning. But Lord Peter Wimsey is not convinced and when, five hours later, no verdict has been returned, it seems the jury may not be either. But if Harriet didn't murder Philip Boyes, who did?
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiogo
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiogo
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 42m
In 1958 Phil and Jill's first children were born-the couple were blessed with twins, daughter Shula and son Kenton.
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiogo
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiogo
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 42m
By 1967 Phil and Jill were the proud parents of the perfectly balanced family: Two girls and two boys. David and Elizabeth completed the family, but there were concerns about little Elizabeth's heart.
View BookJulius Caesar - Smartpass Study Guide
Author: William Shakespeare, Smartpass
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare, Smartpass
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 7h 50m
The real Julius Caesar famously said `experience is the teacher of all things'. Experience Shakespeare's masterful moral drama with teaching notes to consider whether his assassins were freedom fighters or cold-blooded killers - a question as pertinent in today's world as in ancient Rome.
View BookAuthor: Peter R Newman
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Author Peter R Newman
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 38m
The TARDIS travellers discover that the crew of an Earth spaceship have been hijacked by the Sensorites, and they in turn are transported to the alien's planet. Humans and Sensorites alike are stricken by a deadly illness, for which the Doctor struggles to find a cure.
View BookAuthor: Sue Teddern
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Author Sue Teddern
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 8m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama about two single parents who meet on an internet chat site and strike up a friendship. Originally broadcast in the "Woman's Hour Drama" slots from 2 November 2009 - 6 November 2009 under the series name of "singleparentpals.com". The complete series 1 contains the following episodes: You Are Not Alone - When a nervous...
View BookAuthor: Sue Teddern
Format: Online
Author Sue Teddern
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 7m
The complete second series of the BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama about two single parents who met on an internet chat site and developed a friendship. First broadcast in the "Woman's Hour Drama" slots from 23 August - 27 August 2010, this follows on from the first series which was originally transmitted in 2009 under the name of "singleparentpals.com"...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 39m
Shakespeare's romantic adventure full of tyrants, incest, murder, knights, teenagers, pirates, brothels, sublime poetry, young love, a great hero and the goddess Diana.
View BookAuthor: Nigel Williams
Format: Online
Author Nigel Williams
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 46m
All six episodes of series one of the BBC Radio 4 Comedy drama series by Emmy Award-winning writer Nigel Williams, charting the misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague. Includes the following episodes: An Appraisal / An Away-Day / A Commute / A Role Play / A Leaving Party / A Bus Pass Starring Nicholas le Prevost as...
View BookAuthor: Robert Graves
Format: Online
Author Robert Graves
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 5h 47m
A full-cast dramatisation of Robert Graves' brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, starring Tom Goodman Hill as Claudius and Derek Jacobi as Augustus. The wickedly entertaining inside story of the lives and deaths of the Imperial dynasty from Augustus to Caligula is told by their obscure relation, Claudius. In public...
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