The North Minehead By-election: Monty Python's Flying Circus
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 BookNudge Nudge Wink Wink: Monty Python's Flying Circus
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 BookPatricia Hodge Is Mattie, A Liberated Woman
Author: Juliet Ace
Format: Online
Author Juliet Ace
Narrator Patricia Hodge
Duration 4h 55m
Patricia Hodge stars as Mattie in Juliet Ace's four linked dramas, written especially for Patricia's voice, in which Mattie reflects on her life as a naval wife, an actress and as a mother and daughter. In these funny and beautifully observed performances we come to meet Mattie as she shares her hard-earned understanding of her life, in all its int...
View BookNoughts and Crosses Series Book 1: Noughts and Crosses
Author: Malorie Blackman
Format: Online
Author Malorie Blackman
Narrator Syan Blake, Paul Chequer
SeriesNoughts and Crosses, Book 1
Duration 10h 39m
Sephy is a Cross, a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought, a 'colourless' member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood. But that's as far as it can go. Until the first steps are taken towards more social equality and a limited number of Noughts are allowed into C...
View BookThe Night Tried To Kidnap the Prime Minster
Author: Martin Jameson
Format: Online
Author Martin Jameson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
This full-cast dramatisation by Martin Jameson for BBC Radio 4 is a fictionalised account of the incident in 1964 when a group of students attempted to kidnap the then-Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in Scotland. Originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 15 July 2009, this dramatisation stars Tim McInnerny as Sir Alec, Chris Starkie as R...
View BookAuthor: Eddie Braben
Format: Online
Author Eddie Braben
Narrator The Cast
SeriesMorcambe and Wise, Book 3
Duration 2h 36m
The greatest double act of all time, Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise delighted fans for forty years in music hall revues, on television and radio. Their hilarious fast-paced cross-talk with Ernie as straight man set a comic standard that will always be remembered. Enjoy the sketches once more in this third classic compilation. Even more sunshine from...
View BookThe Goon Show: You Have Deaded Me Again
Author: Spike Milligan
Format: Online
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 8
Duration 2h 2m
Featuring: The Greatest Mountain in the World, The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (Solved), The Last Train (from Clapham) and The Spanish Suitcase. Anarchic, ground-breaking and hilariously inventive, The Goon Show re-shaped comedy and set new standards in the genre. The mix of brilliant wordplay, mental slapstick and surreal clowning ensures the pop...
View BookAuthor: Bill Dare
Format: Online
Author Bill Dare
Narrator Jon Culshaw
Duration 2h 42m
Eavesdrop on the bizarre, surprising and very secret lives of public people who have been caught unaware by the microphone. An excellent impressionist show with Jon Culshaw and other masters of the art, all about politicians and celebs caught unawares. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES
View BookAuthor: Brian Minchin
Format: Online
Author Brian Minchin
Narrator David-Lloyd Gareth
Duration 2h 11m
Alien larvae in a baptismal font mark the beginnings of a terrifying adventure for the Torchwood team in this exclusive audio adventure, read by Gareth David-Lloyd. Searching for the source of a bizarre Rift reading, Gwen, Jack and Ianto find a corpse on the beach, his face covered in hundreds of tiny cuts. Watching from the shadows is a man in bla...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
Format: Online
Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesThe World in Peril, Book 1
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...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
Format: Online
Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesThe World in Peril, Book 2
Duration 29m
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...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
Format: Online
Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesThe World in Peril, Book 3
Duration 29m
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...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
Format: Online
Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesThe World in Peril, Book 4
Duration 29m
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...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
Format: Online
Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesThe World in Peril, Book 6
Duration 29m
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...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
Format: Online
Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesThe World in Peril, Book 7
Duration 29m
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...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
Format: Online
Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesThe World in Peril, Book 8
Duration 29m
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...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
Format: Online
Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesThe World in Peril, Book 9
Duration 29m
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...
View BookDoctor Who: The Taking of Chelsea 426
Author: David Llewellyn
Format: Online
Author David Llewellyn
Narrator Christopher Ryan
Duration 5h 2m
The Chelsea Flower Show - hardly the most exciting or dangerous event in the calendar, or so Doctor thinks. But this is Chelsea 426, a city-sized future colony floating on the clouds of Saturn, and the flowers are much more than they seem. As the Doctor investigates, a familiar foe arrives, and the stakes suddenly get much higher. The Sontarans hav...
View BookAuthor: Glyn Jones
Format: Online
Author Glyn Jones
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 3m
When the Doctor and his companions Ian, Barbara and Vicki enter a museum on the planet Xeros, they are astonished to find themselves displayed as exhibits! The TARDIS has jumped a 'time track' and offered them a glimpse of what the future could hold. The native Xerons are planning a rebellion against the occupying force of the Moroks who have inva...
View BookMonty Python's Flying Circus: Visitors
Author: John Cleese
Format: Online
Author John Cleese
Narrator Eric Idle
Duration 55m
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 Dryden
Format: Online
Author John Dryden
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 11m
Three lives on three continents connected by one event...A young British schoolboy obsessed with school massacres, a radio journalist in India on the trail of a scoop for the BBC and the boss of an American church-owned clothing firm are the threads that run through this intricate, suspenseful three-part thriller from award-winning writer-director...
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