Author: Daniel Defoe
Format: Online
Author Daniel Defoe
Narrator Roy Marsden
Duration 1h 51m
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of one of the most famous adventure stories of all time, starring Roy Marsden as Robinson Crusoe. Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor. Paying no attention to his parents' warnings, he runs away to sea to embark on an extraordinary series of adventures: struggles with Barbary pirates, a shi...
View BookAuthor: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Ronnie Barker
Duration 2h 37m
To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh.well, it's the best job in the world,' says Ronnie Barker. And few are better at it, as this compilation of highlights from over three decades in radio and television shows. From his early radio career in shows such as The Navy Lark and Lines From My Grandfather...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 14m
In this BBC full-cast production of All's Well That Ends Well, the trials of marriage are hilariously explored. Will Helena complete the Herculean tasks to win Bertram's love?All's Well That Ends Well finds Helena rewarded for her ministries to the sick with the choice of any husband she wishes. Her choice, Bertram, is unwilling to have h...
View BookThe Big Sleep & the High Window
Author: Raymond Chandler
Format: Online
Author Raymond Chandler
Narrator Ed Bishop
Duration 2h 57m
Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in these atmospheric BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's novels about the cynical, world-weary, wise-cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice. 'THE BIG SLEEP': General Sternwood's daughters came in both the colou...
View BookDad's Army: The Very Best Episodes
Author: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Format: Online
Author David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDad's Army: The Very Best Episodes, Book 2
Duration 1h 51m
Diehard Dad's Army fan Phill Jupitus has chosen four of his favourite episodes of the sitcom that captured the heart of the nation. In addition, he has written an introductory note explaining just what makes these four episodes great. As he says, `There are episodes here you will be familiar with and some you may never have heard, but what I can pr...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 24m
Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and his son Hal in this powerful production which also stars Timothy West and Prunella Scales. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perf...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 17m
In this BBC full-cast production of Henry IV Part 2, civil war is ravaging England. Rebels are rallying together, unified against Henry. Will Henry and his son, Hal, emerge victorious - or alive?Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and his son Hal in the powerful production which also stars Timothy West and Prunella Scales...
View BookAuthor: Stephenie Meyer
Format: Online
Author Stephenie Meyer
Narrator Matt Walters
SeriesTwilight Saga, Book 4
Duration 20h 30m
'Twilight' tempted the imagination. 'New Moon' made readers thirsty for more. 'Eclipse' turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon. And now, the book that everyone has been waiting for...
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
Format: Online
Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Thora Hird, Imelda Staunton, Brian Wilde
Duration 29m
Taken from Alan Bennett: Triple Bill, April 2007 Release. A naive, inexperienced social worker calls on an elderly couple - but does she need more help than they do?
View BookAuthor: David Renwick
Format: Online
Author David Renwick
Narrator Annette Crosbie, Richard Wilson
SeriesOne Foot in the Grave, Book 1
Duration 1h 49m
Crabby, crusty and curmudgeonly he may be, but Victor Meldrew - played brilliantly by Richard Wilson - voices the exasperation of the once silent majority. Accompanied by his long-suffering wife Margaret (Annette Crosbie), Victor's howlingly funny battles against what he perceives as modern-day ills have turned him into one of the great comic creat...
View BookAuthor: John Sullivan
Format: Online
Author John Sullivan
Narrator Various
SeriesOnly Fools and Horses, Book 2
Duration 1h 52m
Another four classic episodes from one of the funniest comedy programmes of all time are brought together on audio. The episodes featured are 'Yesterday Never Comes', 'May the Force be With You', 'Wanted' and 'Thicker Than Water'.
View BookPaul Temple and the Geneva Mystery
Author: Francis Durbridge
Format: Online
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 2h 41m
This is another six-part case for crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist Steve. First transmitted in 1965, it was the penultimate episode of the series, which on and off had spanned 30 years from 1938 to 1968.
View BookPaul Temple and the Vandyke Affair
Author: Francis Durbridge
Format: Online
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 4h 4m
In this adventure, Paul Temple is called in to investigate the disappearance of the Desmond baby, and the `Sitter-In' Miss Millicent. When they visit Mary Desmond she is, understandably, very upset - it's already been a week since her eighteenth-month-old daughter vanished. The only clue is a telephone message left in Miss Millicent's handwriting:...
View BookAuthor: Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
Format: Online
Author Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
Narrator Patricia Routledge, Prunella Scales
Duration 1h 4m
When Irene Spencer meets Vera Small at her daughter Lesley's wedding reception they embark upon a correspondence that is quite unlike any other in the history of letter-writing. Both Irene and Vera are happily widowed and endowed with errant offspring. They live in a world of church fetes and amateur dramatics, but love nothing more than dipping th...
View BookAuthor: John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
Format: Online
Author John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Good Life, Book 1
Duration 1h 50m
Four original BBC television episodes of the much-loved classic sitcom starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith.
View BookAuthor: Dick Clements, Ian La Frenais
Format: Online
Author Dick Clements, Ian La Frenais
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 17m
Everyone's favourite prisoner is making the most of his stay at Her Majesty's Pleasure. Never a man to shrink from a challenge, even from behind bars, Fletch could manage anything from organising a win on the horses to buying a council flat in Mayfair. Brian Wilde, Richard Beckinsale and Fulton Mackay star alongside the incomparable Ronnie Barker i...
View BookDoctor Who: Death Comes To Time
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 16m
Sylvester McCoy, Stephen Fry and John Sessions star in an action-packed adventure specially created for audio. The Doctor and Antimony arrive on the planet Santiny, just as it comes under attack by General Tannis and his Canisian battle fleet. Meanwhile his other companion, Ace, finds herself under the guidance of the mysterious Casmus - who seems...
View BookAuthor: Dave Gorman
Format: Online
Author Dave Gorman
Narrator Dave Gorman
Duration 2h 43m
Genius: Series 2 sees Dave Gorman and celebrity guests including Chris Addison, Armando Iannucci and Brian Sewell chew over ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions, schemes and policies of the public. Genius invites listeners to air those incredible concepts that strike you just before falling into a nice sleep or after one-too-many...
View BookThe Two Ronnies: It's Goodnight From Me
Author: Ronnie Barker
Format: Online
Author Ronnie Barker
Narrator The Cast
Duration 2h 2m
For nearly twenty-five years the two Ronnies were a TV institution, a much loved double-act but each with his own inimitable, individual appeal. Who could forget Ronnie Barker's hilarious pispronounciation, Mr Corbett's witty monologues, the risqu‚ limericks, the puns, the patter and the parody? So enjoy another fun-filled feast of verbal fir...
View BookMonty Pyton's Flying Circus: Albatross
Author: John Cleese
Format: Online
Author John Cleese
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 10m
Perhaps the ultimate in TV comedy madness and absurdity, this cult series, which began in 1969, was conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. It was innovative and ground-breaking comedy which inspired many of today's writers and performers. Its sketches, songs and catchphrases are...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Ely
Format: Online
Author Lesley Ely
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 10m
'There's a new boy at school called Louis. Louis sits next to me and I look after him. He's not quite like the rest of us. Sometimes I wonder what he's thinking about. He often just sits and stares at the wall. If I ask him what he's looking at he says, 'Looking at' and carries on looking.' This introduction to the issue of autism shows how - throu...
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