The Sarah Jane Adventures: Deadly Download
Author: Jason Arnopp
Format: Online
Author Jason Arnopp
Narrator Elisabeth Sladen
Duration 1h 15m
Sarah Jane and friends battle a deadly computer virus in this exclusive audio story, read by Elisabeth Sladen. Sarah Jane is in a Christmassy mood, but her cosy afternoon listening to carols is interrupted when Mr. Smith suddenly announces that danger is imminent. The supercomputer has detected abnormal internet activity in the vicinity of Bannerma...
View BookEyewitness: A History of the Twentieth Century In Sound 1950-1959
Author: Joanna Bourke
Format: Online
Author Joanna Bourke
Narrator Tim Piggott-Smith
Duration 4h 37m
Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the twentieth century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith. Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of the century described by those who saw them happen. A wealth of BBC archive recordings, some never previously broadcast, is i...
View BookEyewitness: A History of the Twentieth Century In Sound 1960-1969
Author: Joanna Bourke
Format: Online
Author Joanna Bourke
Narrator Tim Piggott-Smith
Duration 4h 35m
Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the twentieth century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith. Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of the century described by those who saw them happen. A wealth of BBC archive recordings, some never previously broadcast, is i...
View BookEyewitness: A History of the Twentieth Century In Sound 1980-1989
Author: Joanna Bourke
Format: Online
Author Joanna Bourke
Narrator Tim Piggott-Smith
Duration 4h 58m
Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith. Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of the century described by those who saw them happen. A wealth of BBC archive recordings, some never previously broadcast, is i...
View BookEyewitness: A History of the Twentieth Century In Sound - the BBC At War 1938-1945
Author: Joanna Bourke
Format: Online
Author Joanna Bourke
Narrator Tim Piggott-Smith
Duration 58m
A special compliation from Eyewitness, a unique history of Britain in the 20th Century, wirtten by Joanna Bourke and narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith. Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of the century described by those who saw them happen. Published in ten volumes, Eyewitness examines the life of the British peop...
View BookBetjeman's Britain: Poems From the BBC Archives
Author: John Betjeman
Format: Online
Author John Betjeman
Narrator John Betjeman
Duration 2h 3m
Sir John Betjeman was one of the best-known and loved Poet Laureates. Even after his death, his popularity continues to garner acclaim and new admirers. Fortunately, he left behind a legacy of poetry readings and performances in the BBC archives that can be enjoyed in this comprehensive collection. Selected from over 30 years of radio and televisio...
View BookMonty Python's Flying Circus: Buying A Bed
Author: John Cleese
Format: Online
Author John Cleese
Narrator Eric Idle
Duration 3m
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 BookMonty Python's Flying Circus: Children's Stories
Author: John Cleese
Format: Online
Author John Cleese
Narrator Eric Idle
Duration 1m
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: John Finnemore
Format: Online
Author John Finnemore
Narrator Stephanie Cole
Duration 2h 48m
John Finnemore (Dead Ringers & Mitchell & Webb) has written this brilliant new sitcom starring Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam & Benedict Cumberbatch. "Cabin Pressure" is set in a small airline business. The flipside of the glamorous world of international air travel is hilariously mundane; small cargo runs, stag nights, shifting a panther...
View BookAuthor: John Finnemore
Format: Online
Author John Finnemore
Narrator Stephanie Cole
Duration 2h 47m
Stephanie Cole ("Doc Martin"), Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam ("The Thick Of It") star in the complete second series of the hit sitcom about the pilots of a tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. Written by John Finnemore, writer for The News Quiz, and That Mitchell & Webb Sound. Run by t...
View BookAuthor: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 13m
The complete third series of the hit BBC Radio 4 comedy series, in which impressionists Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Kevin Connelly and others mercilessly lampoon the celebrities and politicians of today
View BookAuthor: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 46m
Six episodes from the fourth series of the wickedly funny radio comedy show. Once again Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens and fellow impersonators ransack the worlds of politics and broadcasting in the name of comedy. Popular favourites such as 'Brian Perkins', 'The Doctor', 'Alan Bennett' and the cast of the Archers feature
View BookDead Ringers: The Best of the Radio Series
Author: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 54m
This colourful collection of hilarious sketches from the acclaimed radio series includes gems such as Tom Baker telephone conversations with Directory Inquiries, David Dickinson and many more. It also includes favourites such as Tony Blair and George Bush. Hyacinth Bucket makes an appearance as well as the Beckhams and shows such as The Weakest Lin...
View BookAuthor: Kim Fuller, Matt Kirshen
Format: Online
Author Kim Fuller, Matt Kirshen
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 47m
Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, starring James Fleet (The Vicar of Dibley, Four Weddings & A Funeral) and Neil Dudgeon (Life of Riley). In the first episode, De Warenne is in trouble as an official enquiry into the Crusades gets mixed up with a Talent Competition and a Dragon of Mass Destruction. Plus embroidery get...
View BookAuthor: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 47m
Series 2 of the rollickingly funny sitcom set whay back when...Estate Agents, mail-order lingerie and the invention of central heating: this is medieval England seen from a 21st century comedy perspective. A roisteringly funny sitcom from the pen of Kim Fuller, who's CV is as long as a really long arm, and includes Spitting Image, Red Dwarf, Badly...
View BookAlice Through the Looking Glass
Author: Lewis Carroll
Format: Online
Author Lewis Carroll
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 49m
Ken Campbell, Windsor Davies, John bird and John Fortune star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. When Alice's wish to visit the Looking Glass world comes true, she can't resist delving deeper and deeper into a land of caustic characters and twisted logic. So begins a game of chess on a grand scale, where the inhabitants of each square hav...
View BookAgatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death & Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
Author: M. C. Beaton
Format: Online
Author M. C. Beaton
Narrator Penelope Keith
Duration 1h 39m
Penelope Keith stars as Agatha Raisin in three full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramas After a lifetime spent in public relations, the drinking and smoking one-woman dynamo that is Agatha Raisin struggles to adapt to life in a quiet Cotswold village. Penelope Keith stars as Agatha Raisin, Miss Marple with attitude, in three full-cast dramas based on the bests...
View BookGiles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off: Series 3
Author: Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby
Format: Online
Author Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby
Narrator Marcus Brigstocke
Duration 2h 19m
He's back! Budleigh Salterton's most famous citizen is off round the world on another five adventures. Meet Giles Wemmbley Hogg. 2m's, 2g's. Traveller, backpacker, ethnologist, fearless investigator of cultural diversity, and upper middle-class student ponce from Budleigh Salterton. And this time, Giles has graduated from University, with a first!...
View BookGiles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off: Series 4
Author: Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby
Format: Online
Author Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby
Narrator Marcus Brigstocke
Duration 1h 51m
Giles has been grounded! Budleigh Salterton's most famous citizen has been forced to stay at home by the Home Office - and his father. But something minor like that won't dent Giles's enthusiasm, so in this fourth series of Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, he sets up GWH Travvel ("two 'm's, two 'g's, two 'v's - bit of a mix up at the printers"). Run f...
View BookAuthor: Mark Morris
Format: Online
Author Mark Morris
Narrator David Troughton
Duration 2h 29m
An abridged reading of a BBC Books novel featuring the Doctor and Donna (as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit BBC One TV series). India in 1947 is a country in the grip of chaos - a country torn apart by internal strife. When the Doctor and Donna arrive in Calcutta, they are instantly swept up in violent events. Barely escaping...
View BookAuthor: Neil Edmond
Format: Online
Author Neil Edmond
Narrator Neil Edmond, James Rawlings, Justin Edwards
Duration 55m
In August 2002 three young, largely unknown, comedians took their show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and promptly won the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. This is their first series on BBC Radio 4. Written and performed by Neil Edmond, Justin Edwards and James Rawlings, the series is produced by Will Saunders. The Consultants look set to follow the...
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