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Author: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
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Duration 2h 43m
In this BBC full-cast production of Coriolanus, allies and enemies become blurred just as Rome is in sight...Coriolanus tells of a proud Roman general who captures the town Corioli but subsequently falls from favour with the Roman people. He allies himself with the Volscians and leads an attack on Rome, but allegiances are won and lost be...
View BookIt's Morecambe and Wise: Vintage Beeb
Author: Eddie Braben
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Author Eddie Braben
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Duration 48m
As part of the popular Vintage Beeb range, this is a reissue of the classic 1970s vinyl LP. First published by BBC Records & Cassettes. Selected items from the Morecambe & Wise Television Show. Bringing us sunshine on this recording are "Ern's magnificent body", "A visit from the police" and Ernie's going to be "Bob Hope's chief scriptwrite...
View BookChief Justice of Beauty & Confession
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
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SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 3
Duration 1h 28m
'The Chief Justice of Beauty' finds the ladies hired by a beauty contest judge to check up on the integrity of the finalists in a forthcoming competition, following the embarrassing arrest for shoplifting of a previous winner. Meanwhile, Mma Ramotsweis worried about her fianc‚, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. 'The Confession' sees Mma Ramotswe consulti...
View BookAuthor: Dawn French
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Author Dawn French
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Duration 9h
Everyone knows the real Silvia, don't they? Silvia Shute lies in hospital in a coma. Family and friends gather at her bedside, each thinking they know the real Silvia. But do they? For Silvia hides a secret. One she can never tell. And as her visitors congregate so the truth about Silvia is slowly revealed. Again, and again and again . . .
View BookAuthor: James Rye
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Author James Rye
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Duration 43m
In the final episode of the series, The Night, DCI John Stone investigates the sexual assault of the wife of one of his team. DI Tanner's wife Karen finds herself in a dodgy hotel after a night out remembering nothing of the night before; she has been assaulted and Stone suspects she has been given Rohypnol. It would seem that this is just the begi...
View BookThe Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul
Author: Douglas Adams
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Author Douglas Adams
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Duration 3h 17m
Harry Enfield stars once again in a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Douglas Adams's second Dirk Gently novel, directed by the award-winning Dirk Maggs Harry Enfield exuberantly returns as Dirk Gently, who, fallen on hard times and dressed as a gypsy woman, is using his irritatingly accurate clairvoyant powers to read palms. He is saved when a...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
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Duration 1h 59m
In this BBC full-cast production of As You Like It, Rosalind is banished from the Royal court, heartbroken over Orlando. Will the two find a way to reunite?A comedy of wit, disguise and love, Shakespeare's tale about the enchanted world of the Forest of Arden remains as moving as it is funny.Helena Bonham Carter stars as Rosalind, with&nb...
View BookThe Hundred and One Dalmatians
Author: Dodie Smith
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Author Dodie Smith
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Duration 1h 45m
Cruella de Vil is determined to have a beautiful new coat made from the fur of 101 Dalmatians. Can Pongo and Missis save their beloved puppies from her evil clutches?
View BookAuthor: Gary Mitchell
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Author Gary Mitchell
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Duration 1h 28m
Hugh, a music teacher, has had an accident and is visited in hospital by his talented pupil Charlie and his wife Sharon. He looks back on how their relationships evolved over the years as working-class Protestants feel increasingly marginalised by political change.
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
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Duration 2h 6m
In this BBC full-cast production of Twelfth Night, Malvolio is looking for trouble - and revenge...Michael Maloney, Josette Simon and Anne-Marie Duff star in this fast and funny production of Shakespeare's most sparkling and optimistic comedy, when all the world is turned on its head and authority is usurped, when by civil...
View BookAuthor: Fin Kennedy
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Author Fin Kennedy
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Duration 43m
In a near-future London, society is in distress. In the midst of climate chaos, people are seeking solace in the promises of new strains of religion. Illusionist Caesar Price has already walked on water; resurrected people from the dead and fed thousands from one tin of sardines. When he announces that his next "miracle" will be the Crucifixion and...
View BookAuthor: Csaba Szekely
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Author Csaba Szekely
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Duration 43m
It's difficult being young and in love when your Dad is a high ranking official in Ceausescu's communist machine, your mother weeps all the time and your brother is trying to kill you. This wild and sideways look at life behind the Iron Curtain during Ceausescu's regime is a first play by a young Hungarian writer living in Romania and was shortlist...
View BookAuthor: Dennis Kelly
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Author Dennis Kelly
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Duration 1h 38m
A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that the cover up unites them and brings harmony to their once fractious lives, where's the incentive to put things right? A play that is often featured on the GCSE syllabus. CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE.
View BookAuthor: Edith Wharton
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Author Edith Wharton
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Duration 2h 49m
The play follows the beautiful Undine Spragg as she arrives in New York and sets her sights on Ralph Marvell, then travels to Paris where she meets a charming French aristocrat. Will Undine ever find real happiness?
View BookTrevor's World of Sport, Series 1
Author: Andy Hamilton
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Author Andy Hamilton
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Duration 2h 46m
The first series of Andy Hamilton's BBC Radio 4 comedy about sports PR agent Trevor. Trevor and Sammy are the movers and shakers at TS Sports Stars agency. Friends for twenty years, and business partners for nine, they are chalk and cheese: Trevor is thoughtful, honest and sensitive while Sammy is a rapacious dealmaker with the morals of a hyena. I...
View BookAuthor: H.G. Wells
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Author H.G. Wells
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Duration 1h 40m
A BBC Radio 3 full-cast dramatisation of H. G. Wells' pioneering science fiction adventure. Wells' story of an inventor who travels in time and discovers a nightmarish dystopian future has been adapted several times for TV and film. This first ever UK radio adaptation, starring Robert Glenister as the Time Traveller and William Gaunt as H. G. Wells...
View BookAuthor: D J Britton
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Author D J Britton
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Duration 43m
As Chief Executive of her local council, Robyn has just days to stop recycling being wiped from her ambitious environmental plans. But the credit crunch continues to put pressure on other priorities. Meanwhile, her daughter Afrah provides a safe house for a fiercely committed environmentalist from Eastern Europe.
View BookAuthor: E. Nesbit
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Author E. Nesbit
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Duration 1h 47m
When father mysteriously has to go away for a time, three children and their mother leave their comfortable home in London for the country. The children seek solace in the nearby railway station, making friends with Perks the porter and with the station master himself. But will their father ever return?
View BookWe Just Happened To Be Passing
Author: David Nobbs
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Author David Nobbs
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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...
View BookAuthor: Glenn Patterson
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Author Glenn Patterson
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Duration 43m
Northern Ireland was a very dark place in the 1980s. A hunger strike was looming, street violence and tit for tat murders were an everyday occurrence, but in a small corner of West Belfast something extraordinary was happening. In a factory in Dunmurry a unique new sports car was being built, a DMC 12, a style icon for the late 20th century. For 2...
View BookAuthor: David Hare
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Author David Hare
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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...
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