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Author: Hugh Cunningham
Format: Online
Author Hugh Cunningham
Narrator Michael Morpurgo
Duration 6h 48m
Presented by award-winning children's writer Michael Morpurgo, this genuinely ground-breaking history of British childhood from the year 1000 to the present explores, through a wide and colourful range of primary sources, how the idea of childhood has been constantly reinvented down the centuries and why the role of children in society continues to...
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Author: Terry Wogan
Format: Online
Author Terry Wogan
Narrator The Author
Duration 2h 55m
Terry Wogan is one of Britain's most popular and successful broadcasters. Witty, charming and relaxed, he has undoubtedly captured the nation's heart. Here, for the first time, he tells his story, from his beginnings in Limerick to incredible success as a national celebrity, in his own delightfully laconic fashion.
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Author: Dawna Walters
Format: Online
Author Dawna Walters
Narrator The Author
Duration 1h 9m
An inspirational guide to fighting clutter and sorting out your space, based on the bestselling BBC book and TV series. Clutter can be a huge problem for many of us. We yearn to live in a perfectly-ordered home, but more often than not we find ourselves drowning in a sea of `stuff.' Not only is it depressing to live in a mess, but accumulating too...
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Author: Jb Priestly
Format: Online
Author Jb Priestly
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 59m
Marcia Warren and Stella Gonet star in J. B. Priestley's classic family drama about the nature of time. Time and the Conways follows the fortunes of one family over a period of years, and offers a moving perspective on the abstract nature of the past, present and future. It is 1919, the War is over and the Conway family are celebrating their daught...
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The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 44m
In this delightful tale, an Eastern Prince arrives in England with some family jewels which he's having reset as a gift for his fianc‚e. However, the Prince also has a mistress; she asks to wear one particularly enchanting piece that features a huge ruby, and then promptly disappears with it. Poirot discovers a connection with a house party a...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator John Moffatt
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 19
Duration 1h 27m
Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: "You see, don't you,...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 46m
With World War II at an end, Charles Hayward is finally free to marry the woman he loves, Sophia Leonides. However, she refuses - the unexplained death of her grandfather, wealthy businessman Aristide Leonides, draws her back to the suffocating environment of her family home. Charles follows, but his arrival coincides with the discovery that Aristi...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 28m
Octavia's triumphant new dress designs are the only thing on her mind - but is it safe to ignore the ominous dressmaker's doll which appears in her workshop? Today's cut-throat fashion industry provides this story's backdrop.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
A group of adventurers set out from Damascus to visit the legendary "Gate of Baghdad", also known as the "Gate of Death". When one of the party is found dead, the others look to the seemingly unimpeachable Mr. Parker Pyne.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
War-wounded sailor Dickie Carpenter is haunted by strange visitations from a ghostly woman. When his friend Robert tries to solve the mystery, though, he ultimately has to fight his own terrifying battle between love and death.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 28m
A man witnesses a murderous attack on a young woman in a mirror - yet when he turns round there is nothing there. Can he prevent a premonition coming true? Basic human loyalty and jealousy are at the fore in this chilling tale.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 2
Duration 4h 44m
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. When Poirot arrives in France, following an urgent appeal for help, he finds he is too late. His client, a South American millionaire, has been stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Meanwhile the millio...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
When Alex and Terry set up their own e-commerce company in Philomel Cottage, everything looks rosy until money goes missing from Alex's account. Soon she is questioning her partner - and, indeed, the cottage itself...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 28m
Polina Nazarova is a soprano whose past is dangerously entangled with the present. Given the opportunity to sing her Tosca opposite the arrogant and cruel Andre Breon, it seems that her desire for revenge may prove irresistible.
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Author: Angus Deayton
Format: Online
Author Angus Deayton
Narrator Angus Deayton, Helen Atkinson Wood, Michael Fenton Stevens
Duration 2h 41m
Welcome to Radio Active - "Britain's first national local station" - as presenters Mike Channel, Anna Daptor, Mike Flex, roving reporter Nigel Pry, and Mike Stand take the hiss out of the airwaves with a hilarious parody of our radio times. Featuring the HeeBeeGeeBees, Status Quid and Kenny Rogered, this unique radio station also has some royal vis...
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Author: Annie Caulfield
Format: Online
Author Annie Caulfield
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 14m
A BBC Radio 3 full-cast dramatisation by Annie Caulfield, starring Lenny Henry as singer and political activist Paul Robeson. Originally broadcast Sunday 21 February 2010. As an outspoken apologist for Stalin and agitator for civil rights Paul Robeson had many enemies, including the CIA. His passport was taken away, his career curtailed and his...
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Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 44m
Separated from his wife and children, gamekeeper George Barford took to drink and even attempted suicide. The woman who vowed to turn his life around was-curiously-the local barmaid Nora.
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I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: The Doings of Hamish and Dougal: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: The Doings
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 21m
Gambling Fever sees Hamish becoming addicted to gambling after winning a Sporran Cosy in the Glen MacLottery, while in There's Something About Mrs Naughtie, the lady comes into an inheritance and attracts the advances of Hamish, Dougal and the Laird. In The Subsidence Adventure, Hamish & Dougal advertise as 'builders to the gentry', while in In...
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Miss Lonelyhearts and the Emerald Style
Author: Barry Devlin
Format: Online
Author Barry Devlin
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 28m
In the first of this murder mystery series set in Dublin, Paolo Baldi, Franciscan priest and philosophy lecturer, accidentally becomes involved in solving a murder at an Italian chip shop.
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Author: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Ross Noble Et Al
Duration 55m
Global funny man Ross Noble hosts an evening of stand-out stand-up comedians from London's Comedy Store. These two programmes, first heard on BBC Radio 4, feature comedians including Richard Ayoade, Ronnie Golden, Milton Jones, Reginald D Hunter, Boothby Graffoe and Giorgio Serci and Dara O'Briain. Ross Noble has received a Perrier Award nomination...
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Parkinson Interviews: The Goons and Peter Sellers
Author: Michael Parkinson
Format: Online
Author Michael Parkinson
Narrator Michael Parkinson Et Al
Duration 2h 30m
Includes: Two Interviews from The Parkinson Show. Between and 1971 and 1982, Michael Parkinson interviewed some of the greatest show business talents in more than 500 episodes of Parkinson.
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