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.

In this BBC full-cast production of The Taming of the Shrew, the freedom and virility of women is frowned upon. Will Petruchio's quest to 'tame' his new wife succeed?Layers of assumed identity, elaborate role-playing, and acerbic exchanges of wit reveal the real relationship between men and women in this exuberant production of one of Shakespe...

You're not to disturb, annoy or offend. They're walking on a knife edge out there, anything could tilt the balance.' Missing: one junior diplomat and 43 of the British Embassy's most confidential files. The timing is alarmingly significant: with neo-Nazi riots and radical student demonstrations, the threat to Germany's security is all too apparent....

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-...

William Franklyn stars as paperback hero Sexton Blake, with David Gregory as his assistant Tinker, in the original BBC Radio dramatisations from 1967. Lost from the BBC archives for over 40 years, these rediscovered episodes are presented on CD for the very first time. In The Sin Eaters an old friend of Blake's receives a series of cryptic messages...

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...

This is the very best sketches from the superb second television series of "Little Britain", written by and starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams.

Jack and Liz are in Blackpool for one last time. John Godber's classic stage play tells the touching and funny story of a marriage through a lifetime of holidays together.

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...

Little Britain is without doubt the biggest contemporary audio series in the UK this year. To tie in with the new TV Series, sell out tour and the Christmas gift market, this release will be a best of TV soundtrack featuring sketches and other material not used on the Complete Radio series.

Four episodes from the much-loved radio show starring Dick Bentley, Jimmy Edwards, June Whitfield and Wallas Eaton, 'Take It From Here' was one of the most influential radio shows of all time, sweeping in a new era of comedy and introducing an enduring pair of writers - bright young things Frank Muir and Denis Norden. Their literate scripts, and th...

The third series of the award-winning comedy starring Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. The third series of the BAFTA Award-winning comedy finds a bizarre accident bringing together yet more of the extraordinary inhabitants of Royston Vasey. Pauline is released from HMP Clitclink and harbours dreams of running her own pen shop; jok...

Following on from the radio series On the Town with The League of Gentlemen, this release is a compilation of moments from the second BBC television series starring Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.

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...

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.

Featuring: The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea, The Histories of Pliny the Elder, The Jet Propelled Guided Naafi, The Evils of Bushey Spon. Anarchic, ground-breaking and hilariously inventive, The Goon Show re-shaped comedy and set new standards in the genre. The mix of brilliant wordplay, mental slapstick and surreal clowning ensur...

Four hilarious episodes from the classic BBC comedy series starring Ronnie Barker, Brian Wilde, Richard Beckinsale and Fulton Mackay . 'A Night In' (19 September 1974) Godber is moved into Fletch's cell, and confides that he finds it tough each time the door bangs shut. Fletch advises him to think of it as `a quiet night in': but the trouble is, Go...

Patrick Troughton's Doctor gets involved in galactic intrigue and piracy in this exclusive recording of a `lost' television adventure, with linking narration by Frazer Hines. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe become victims of piracy when they materialise on a space beacon, minutes before it is literally blown to pieces. So begins their quest to be reunite...

The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature's most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers' charming investigator, with Maria Aitken as his companion Harriet Vane, in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Two years after the trial for the murder of her lover, the...

`Hello, I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy.' From the ever-popular Round the Horne the outrageously camp actors from Carnaby Street, played by Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick, were always game on for a variety of entrepreneurial endeavours from Bona Pets to Bijou Tourettes

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...