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Author: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
SeriesInspector Adam Dalgliesh, Book 11
Duration 13h 52m
When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of coast in East Anglia, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to pay a visit to the young man's theological college, St Anselm's, a place he knew as a boy, expecting no more than a nostalgic...
View BookWhere On Earth?: Geography Without the Boring Bits
Author: James Doyle
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Author James Doyle
Narrator Lynsey Murrell
Duration 2h 22m
Where on Earth? is jam-packed with all of gegraphy's greatest hits, with all the boring bits taken out. From how to make raindrops to cool ways to remember the world's wonderful waterfalls, longest rivers and most desolate deserts - plus all the countries and continents in which these fantastic features are found. The perfect learning companion to...
View BookAuthor: Jojo Moyes
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Author Jojo Moyes
Narrator Julia Franklin
Duration 17h 34m
Sarah's grandfather was a horseman of rare talent-only the exceptional are allowed into France's elite riding academy, Le Cadre Noir. But life took an unexpected turn, and now from a council estate in east London, the Captain hopes to train his granddaughter towards a better life. Natasha is a lawyer whose job is to represent the best interests of...
View BookThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Author: J R R Tolkien
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Author J R R Tolkien
Narrator Rob Inglis
Duration 14h 32m
Concluding the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, available as a complete and unabridged audiobook. The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle agains the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sa...
View BookAuthor: Pamela Butchart
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Author Pamela Butchart
Narrator Lenny Henry
Duration 5m
Izzy is always shuffling, jiggling, squirming and twitching. She just can't keep still! So when Izzy's school go on a trip to the zoo, her teacher warns her to behave. She must never wriggle, she must never fidget and she must certainly NEVER TICKLE A TIGER! But does Izzy listen? She does NOT - and what happens next throws the zoo into complete cha...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 15h 50m
The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's haunting tale about a naive young woman's sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast. Told in symbolic, lyrical and intoxicating prose, her outward journey begins to mirror her internal voyage into adulthood as she searches for her personal identity, grapples with love, and learns how to...
View BookFather Brown Series 1 Episode 5: The Honour of Israel Gow
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Innocence of Father Brown, Book 5
Duration 27m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, he has entertained generations. In 'The Honour of Israel Gow', Father Brown and Flambeau invest...
View BookAuthor: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 44m
A full-cast dramatisation starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon The world's best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about one of his most intriguing cases in this full-cast dramatisation that has been specially adapted for radio from the original novel....
View BookIt's Your Round, Series 1, Episode 4
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesIt's Your Round Series 1, Book 4
Duration 27m
'It's Your Round' is the comedy panel game where the format is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the panellists has brought along their own round for the others to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and unpredictable. Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to make sure everyone comes out of it with their reputations int...
View BookAuthor: Terenece Rattigan
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Author Terenece Rattigan
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 27m
A BBC Radio 4 production of Terence Rattigan's famous play about an innocent boy unjustly accused 'It is easy to do justice - very hard to do right.' When he is accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order, fourteen-year-old Ronnie Winslow is expelled from naval college. But his father believes his claim of innocence and, determined to clear hi...
View BookAuthor: Geraldine Brooks
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Author Geraldine Brooks
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 10h
In 1666, The Great Plague scorched London whilst the north of England remained untouched until, in a small community of leadminers and hill farmers, a bolt of cloth arrived from the capital. The tailor who cut the cloth had no way of knowing that the damp fabric carried with it bubonic infection. So begins the 'Year of Wonders', based on real-life...
View BookAuthor: Ali Taylor
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Author Ali Taylor
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama starring James Alexandrou (Martin Fowler, EastEnders), originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 7 December 2010. A touchingly real and comically disingenuous story about the awkwardness of being misshapen, and the misery of not fitting in. Starring James Alexandrou as Liam, Candassaie Liburd as Ethel and Marcella R...
View BookAuthor: Anthony Trollope
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Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 50m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged by Martyn Wade of Anthony Trollope's classic novel, Orley Farm. This novel, described as a "... brilliantly choreographed legal thriller" (Mail on Sunday), centres on the pathos of the main character, Lady Mason. Youthful marriage choices, middle-aged marital crisis, love and loss revolve around the legal action a...
View BookAuthor: Evelyn Waugh
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Author Evelyn Waugh
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 47m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's tragi-comic novel of the lives and loves of the English aristocracy. The action moves between 1944 and 1923, to tell the story of Charles Ryder and his infatuation with the decadent Sebastian Flyte.
View BookAuthor: Laurie Lee
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Author Laurie Lee
Narrator Wehltman Brian
Duration 4h 5m
At the age of 19 Laurie Lee had left home, walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain. Here he describes a return journey to Spain in which he crossed the Pyrenees during the time of the Spanish Civil War. This audiobook is on the Edexcel reading list for GCSE.
View BookRory Branagan Detective Book 5: The Leap of Death
Author: Andrew Clover
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Author Andrew Clover
Narrator Andrew Clover
SeriesRory Branagan (Detective), Book 5
Duration 1h 13m
Meet Rory Branagan - he eats bad guys for breakfast. Well, not actually. But he is the best detective in town. Fifth in a hilarious comedy-crime series for listeners of 8+. Hello. I am Rory Branagan. I am actually a detective. Me and Cat are at the most awesome event ever - Car Bonanza, where people are doing epic car stunts, jumping out of planes...
View BookLadybird Tales of Adventurous Girls
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Author Various
Narrator Vanessa Kirby
Duration 53m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Ladybird Tales of Adventurous Girls retold by Julia Bruce, read by Jacqueline Wilson and Vanessa Kirby. Girls can save the day too, and they always have . . . Join six adventurous girls from around the world as they use their wits, courage and strength to overcome the odds. With an introduction from award-w...
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Katie Scarfe
Duration 10h 27m
Two great literary minds-master of suspense P.D. James and literary icon Jane Austen-come together in Death Comes to Pemberley, a bestselling historical crime fiction tribute to Pride and Prejudice. Conjuring the world of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy and combining the trappings of Regency British society with a classic murder mystery...
View BookAuthor: Lisa Williamson
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Author Lisa Williamson
Narrator Tigger Blaize, Jenet Le Lacheur
Duration 8h 5m
Two boys. Two secrets. David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he's gay. The school bully thinks he's a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth - David wants to be a girl. On the first day at his new school Leo Denton has one goal - to be invisible. Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in year 11 is de...
View BookAuthor: Jojo Moyes
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Author Jojo Moyes
Narrator Clare Corbett
Duration 12h 1m
The Spanish House is a mixture of designs, Georgian, Gothic and Moorish, as if whoever started it had simply got bored. It has long been known as an architectural folly to locals, and is now nearly derelict to boot. When its reclusive owner dies intestate, the Spanish House is left to his city-dwelling niece. For Isabel, recently widowed, the house...
View BookThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Author: J R R Tolkien
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Author J R R Tolkien
Narrator Rob Inglis
Duration 16h 42m
Building on the story begun in The Fellowship of the Ring, this is the second part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the...
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