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I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again
Author: Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
Format: Online
Author Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesI'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, Book 4
Duration 1h 48m
Four more shows from the groundbreaking BBC Radio series. Described by Barry Took as 'A kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrase and innuendo revolving at breakneck speed and with a complete disregard for logic', I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again pre-dated I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and showcased the comic talents of Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese,...
View BookThe Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde
Format: Online
Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 22m
Martin Clunes and Michael Sheen star in this full-cast production of Oscar Wilde's well-known comedy. Oscar Wilde's dazzling comedy about mistaken identities and secret engagements still delights audiences over a century after its first performance in 1895. Algernon Moncrieff, a bachelor-about-town, has invented an invalid friend called Bunbury in...
View BookThe Inspector Mclevy Mysteries: The Second Shadow & the Burning Question
Author: David Ashton
Format: Online
Author David Ashton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 25m
Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulholland. Counterfeiters are at work in the city in The Second Shadow, and McLevy is under pressure to secure rapid convictions. But his mind is more on the...
View BookInspector Steine Series, Book 1: Inspector Steine
Author: Lynne Truss
Format: Online
Author Lynne Truss
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesInspector Steine, Book 1
Duration 2h 47m
The first series of Lynne Truss's hugely popular BBC Radio 4 comedy thriller set in 1950s Brighton. A place of knickerbocker glories, end-of-the pier shows...and an enormous amount of unsolved crime. Step forward Inspector Steine. Naive and innocent, he believes that he wiped out all the villains at a single stroke in the Middle Street Massacre whe...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 4m
Michael Hordern stars as Jeeves with Richard Briers as Bertie in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. The rural beauty of Steeple Bumpleigh holds no attractions for Bertie, containing (as it does) the appalling Aunt Agatha. But there is man's work to do and, with Jeeves at his side, how can Bertie fail?
View BookDoctor Who and Warriors of the Deep
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 50m
'Revive the warriors!' The TARDIS materialises inside Sea Base Four, which lies on one of Earth's ocean beds in the year 2184. The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough quickly run into trouble, as the base's personnel suspect them of belonging to an enemy power bloc. Nearby, a group of Silurian reptiles - who in habited Earth centuries before mankind - are r...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast, Peter Cushing, Vincent Prince
Duration 2h 45m
Launching a new range of Classic Radio Sci-Fi releases, this six-part BBC radio drama stars none other than Peter Cushing and Vincent Prince, who between them became two of the most famous horror film stars of the 1950s and 1960s. Aliens in the Mind is based on a story by the then-foremost Doctor Who script editor Robert Holmes. It centres around t...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 57m
Chrysalids: Ten-year-old David is a happy, ordinary boy, untroubled except for occasional strange dreams about a mysterious city - until he befriends Sophie, who is unlike anybodyhe has met before: she has six toes. But in the ultra-religious village of Waknut,all abnormality is abhorred as an offence against God, and he must keep her secret to him...
View BookThe Goon Show - The Collapse of the British Rail
Author: Spike Milligan
Format: Online
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 23
Duration 2h 5m
From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. This latest release features four more episodes of classic Goonery, starring the inimitable Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan.
View BookAuthor: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 19m
Further instalments from the tenth series of the wickedly funny BBC Radio 4 comedy which spawned the hit television show. The Dead Ringers are back with their skewed and scary take on the world of celebrity, politics and the mass media. Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Kevin Connelly, Mark Perry and Phil Cornwell give us their impressions of the people we...
View BookAuthor: Ali Taylor
Format: Online
Author Ali Taylor
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
When a heartbreaking memoir about life in war-torn Kabul lands on her desk, Emma thinks she's discovered a new literary sensation. Her colleagues, though, are deeply sceptical. Cinders is a new comedy about drawing the line.
View BookAuthor: Alison Kennedy
Format: Online
Author Alison Kennedy
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
Mr. Parker is a sincere and kind man who, in search of a higher meaning to life, has moved from conventional religion to s‚ances and spiritualism. He believes he has met his saviour in the guise of Mr. Thomson, a charming, erudite and utterly mesmerising medium. But, unbeknown to Parker, Thomson is a complete and utter fake. Features Bill Nig...
View BookAuthor: Annie Mccartney
Format: Online
Author Annie Mccartney
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
With two twenty-something children and a dubious boyfriend eating her out of house and home, Maggie (Annie McCartney) is beginning to lose the will to live. She feels she has no one to talk to or to listen. But all of that is about to change when she hears a voice speaking to her from the corner of the kitchen. It seems that the only one who unders...
View BookAuthor: Anton Chekhov
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Author Anton Chekhov
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 48m
Madame Ranyevskaya and her daughter Anya have returned home from Paris to discover that their family estate-which includes their beloved cherry orchard-has to be sold to cover the family's debts. They believe a miracle can save their orchard. But will their stubborn pride and fond, childhood memories be enough? Chekhov's tragic-comedy is about the...
View BookAuthor: Ben Elton
Format: Online
Author Ben Elton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
This is the story of a legend in the making. A nervous young man lives at the dead end of a dead-end town. On his eighteenth birthday he comes into his inheritance. With a little help from an old teacher, he finds it equips him to broadcast over the internet. Living in a house where rolling news is a constant presence, he does what comes naturally-...
View BookAuthor: Cath Staincliffe
Format: Online
Author Cath Staincliffe
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
When university student Matt falls to his death from a railway bridge in this episode, DCI Stone and his team embark on a murder investigation. Matt's best friend Liam and ex-girlfriend Holly are distraught. But when Liam's flat is set on fire and he subsequently goes missing, Stone is forced to consider whether these events might be linked.
View BookAuthor: Andrew Nickolds, Christopher Douglas
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Author Andrew Nickolds, Christopher Douglas
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 48m
Ed Reardon (Christopher Douglas) - author, pipe smoker, fare-dodger and master of the abusive email - returns for a fourth series. In these six episodes, Ed surprises the literary world by still being alive and finds romance. He also, finally, comes up with a once-in-a-lifetime idea - but then loses it. And in the last episode, Trimarans That Pass...
View BookAuthor: Dan Allum
Format: Online
Author Dan Allum
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 44m
Lovvie Arkley is torn. Does she marry childhood sweetheart Nelius and live a traditional yet isolated Traveller life? Or does she renounce her culture to pursue a career in the outside 'Gorgia' world? Drama teacher John threatens to tip the balance. Atching Tan first started life as a 15 minute radio drama pilot on BBC Three Counties, then went on...
View BookAuthor: David Cook
Format: Online
Author David Cook
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
Walter is now a pensioner. Following the death of his mother, Walter spent many years living in a psychiatric hospital. When that was closed down he moved to hostel accommodation where he is isolated and lonely. When his support worker hears of a house share with three others, he suggests Walter. But Walter is twice the age of the rest. Will they a...
View BookAuthor: David Hare
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Author David Hare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 2m
Esme Allen is a middle-aged West End actor and is in control of her life: she's financially secure and successful. However, Amy, her grown-up daughter is pregnant by Dominic, an ambitious media-man who believes that theatre is dead. Esme and Dominic, unsurpisingly, loathe each other. But this leaves Amy-whose "view" is that love conquers all-right...
View BookWe Just Happened To Be Passing
Author: David Nobbs
Format: Online
Author David Nobbs
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
It is a quiet Saturday morning in the Hinchcliffe home. Tony and Sal, tired after a week of work, have time on their hands. But not for each other. Middle-aged and middle class, they haven't had kids and they still feel that emotional vacuum. The doorbell rings. It is an American couple-Monty and Janey-a rather loud duo they stayed with in Delaware...
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