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Author: Francis Spufford
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Author Francis Spufford
Narrator Sarah Borges
Duration 10h 45m
New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One evening, a handsome young stranger off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a compelling proposition - he has an order for 1,000 pounds in his pocket that he wishes to cash. But can he be trusted? New York is a place where a young man with a...
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Author: Philippa Gregory
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Author Philippa Gregory
Narrator Bianca Amato
Duration 18h
Why would a woman marry a serial killer? Because she cannot refuse.. Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, has no choice when a man old enough to be her father who has buried four wives - King Henry VIII - commands her to marry him. Kateryn has no doubt about the danger she faces: the previous queen lasted sixte...
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Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage
Author: M. C. Beaton
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Author M. C. Beaton
Narrator Penelope Keith
SeriesAgatha Raisin Mystery, Book 5
Duration 5h 56m
Almost bigamy and absolute murder - Agatha's life is never dull . . . The morning of Agatha's longed-for marriage to James Lacey dawns bright and clear. But her luck runs out in the church when Jimmy, the husband she had believed long dead, turns up large as life and twice as ugly. Agatha has a go at strangling him. It's all too much for James, who...
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Author: John Wilson
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Author John Wilson
Narrator The Author
Duration 27m
In Top of the Class, John Wilson meets leading figures in their fields and takes them back to the places and people they left behind. This third series sees him accompanying novelist Andrea Levy as she goes back to her adult education writing class, and taking Michael Portillo back to his old grammar school to meet his former teacher.
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Author: Mark Morris
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Author Mark Morris
Narrator Alexander Armstrong
Duration 1h 14m
When the TARDIS is buffeted by 'time slippage', the Doctor experiences a terrible vision of the end of everything. Tracking the source of the disruption, he takes Rory and Amy to what appears to be an English public school in the 1950s. But the friends discover that there are some very unusual things about Darkstar Academy. For a start the prefects...
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Comrade Bingo: Jeeves and Wooster
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 21m
Richard "Bingo" Little falls in love with the daughter of a left-wing (probably communist or socialist) leader called Charlotte Corday Rowbotham. In an attempt to get close to her, Little joins the group, called the Heralds of the Red Dawn, whose aims are to "massacre the bourgeoisie, sack Park Lane and disembowel the hereditary aristocracy". This...
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Author: David Attenborough
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Author David Attenborough
Narrator David Attenborough
Duration 17h 52m
At the age of 26, David Attenborough applied for a job at the BBC - which then meant radio - and was turned down. It was suggested that he tried television, and fifty years later he is still one of British television's most well-loved figures. This audiobook covers both his hectic half-century in television, as well as expeditions to some very wild...
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Author: Harper Lee
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Author Harper Lee
Narrator Benedikte Faulkner
Duration 11h
Scout is a young girl whose father, Atticus, is a small-town lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white girl. The book is set in Alabama in the 1930s and although one of the major themes of the book is racism, it also tackles the issue of how children view the world and how their understanding of the society they live in changes and dev...
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Stone Series: The Deserved Dead and Other Episodes
Author: Danny Brocklehurst
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Author Danny Brocklehurst
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 54m
In the first episode, The Deserved Dead, DCI John Stone and his team shake up the Bridgeton Estate when they embark upon an investigation into the brutal murder of a known sex offender. In episode 2, Collateral Damage, DCI John Stone is forced to open up an investigation into the death of Gary Taylor, a veteran of the Iraq War suffering from Post T...
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Author: Charles Chilton
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Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesOperation Luna, Book 4
Duration 30m
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects and atmospheric music engaged the listener as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger...
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Just A Minute: The Best of 2007
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Nicholas Parsons Et Al
Duration 1h 51m
Four of the very best recent editions of the comedy panel game, hosted by Nicholas Parsons and featuring Paul Merton, Clement Freud and a host of guest players.
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That Mitchell & Webb Sound, Series 2
Author: David Mitchell, Robert Webb
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Author David Mitchell, Robert Webb
Narrator The Authors
Duration 2h 44m
David Mitchell and Robert Webb star in the complete second series of their critically-acclaimed BBC Radio 4 show. Starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, from Channel 4's 'Peep Show', 'That Mitchell and Webb Sound' is a mix of satirical sketches and surreal characters that provides a fantastically skewed perspective on everyday life. Meet soporifi...
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