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Author: Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
Format: Online
Author Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
Narrator Penelope Keith
SeriesThe Good Life, Book 8
Duration 55m
Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington star as the Goods and the Leadbeaters, Surbiton neighbours whose conflicts arise from Tom and Barbara's self-sufficient lifestyle. This volume features the last two episodes ever made: the Christmas special 'Silly, But It's Fun' and the Royal Command Performance episode 'When I'm 65...
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The Good Life: The Wind-break War
Author: Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
Format: Online
Author Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Good Life, Book 4
Duration 1h 56m
Four classic episodes of the popular BBC TV series starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington. The episodes are A Tug of the Forelock, I Talk to the Trees, The Wind-Break War and Whose Fleas Are These?
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Author: Kenneth Grahame
Format: Online
Author Kenneth Grahame
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 3h 13m
Portraying each character in his own inimitable fashion, Alan Bennett reads the original story of Ratty, Mole, Badger and, of course, Toad.
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Author: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
Format: Online
Author Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 26m
Wine shop owner Gerald desperately needs money: his business is failing and the landlord has raised the cost of the lease. When he inherits a watch that used to belong to wartime Nazi Joachim Von Ribbentrop he believes that his financial troubles are over. But it sparks conflict with his wife and brother, who question the ethics of the potential sa...
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Saint Overboard & the Saint Plays With Fire
Author: Leslie Charteris
Format: Online
Author Leslie Charteris
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 55m
Leslie Charteris' square-jawed, blue-eyed hero loved, fought and stole his way through Europe in the 1930s, endlessly pursuing blondes, baddies and boodle. Adored by women and feared by his foes, he was known as 'The Saint' after the calling card he left at the scenes of his crimes - a sketch of a stick figure with a halo.
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Author: Mark Michalowski
Format: Online
Author Mark Michalowski
Narrator Debbie Chazen
Duration 2h 28m
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). For Donna Noble, the Andromeda galaxy is a long, long way from home. But even two-and-a-half-million light years from Earth, danger lurks around every corner...A visit to an art gallery turns into a r...
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Author: Mark Michalowski
Format: Online
Author Mark Michalowski
Narrator Freema Agyeman
Duration 2h 22m
Freema Agyeman reads this thrilling story about a waterlogged planet, struggling colonists and dangerous creatures. When the TARDIS makes a disastrous landing in the swamps of the planet Sunday, the Doctor has no choice but to abandon Martha and try to find help. But the tranquillity of Sunday's swamps is deceptive, and even the TARDIS can't protec...
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Author: Martin Day
Format: Online
Author Martin Day
Narrator Adjoa Andoh
Duration 2h 32m
The Castor, a vast starship, seemingly deserted, spinning slowly in the void of deep space. Martha and the Doctor explore the drifting tomb, and discover that they may not be alone after all...Who survived the disaster that overcame the rest of the crew? What continues to power the vessel? And why has a stretch of wooded countryside suddenly appear...
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Doctor Who Hornets' Nest Series Episode 4: A Sting In the Tale
Author: Paul Magrs
Format: Online
Author Paul Magrs
Narrator Tom Baker
SeriesDoctor Who Hornet's Nest, Book 4
Duration 1h 1m
Tom Baker reprises the role of the Fourth Doctor in the fourth of five thrilling brand new audio adventures, with Richard Franklin as Mike Yates. In a bleak midwinter, an order of nuns protect their Mother Superior from ravaging dogs. But something is very wrong here indeed and the Doctor is about to get badly stung.
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Author: Paul Gallico
Format: Online
Author Paul Gallico
Narrator Various
Duration 57m
In The Snow Goose, a wounded bird brings together a disfigured artist and a young girl on the eve of World War II.
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Doctor Who Demon Quest Series Book 5: Sepulchre
Author: Paul Magrs
Format: Online
Author Paul Magrs
Narrator Tom Baker
SeriesDoctor Who Demon Quest, Book 5
Duration 1h 10m
The fifth exciting adventure in a brand new series of linked multi-voice adventures for the Doctor and friends, based on characters from the classic TV series. Written by the acclaimed novelist Paul Magrs.
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Doctor Who Demon Quest Series Book 3: A Shard of Ice
Author: Paul Magrs
Format: Online
Author Paul Magrs
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDoctor Who Demon Quest, Book 3
Duration 1h 6m
The third exciting adventure in a brand new series of linked multi-voice adventures for the Doctor and friends, based on characters from the classic TV series.
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Author: Paul Magrs
Format: Online
Author Paul Magrs
Narrator Will Thorp
Duration 2h 10m
Will Thorp reads this suspenseful story about a sentient house, a ravenous beast and a family in danger. Tiermann's World: a planet covered in wintry woods and roamed by sabre-toothed tigers and other savage beasts. The Doctor is here to warn Professor Tiermann, his wife and their son that a terrible danger is on its way. The Tiermanns live in luxu...
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Doctor Who Demon Quest Series Book 4: Starfall
Author: Paul Magrs
Format: Online
Author Paul Magrs
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDoctor Who Demon Quest, Book 4
Duration 1h 13m
Tom Baker reprises the role of the Fourth Doctor, with Susan Jameson as Mrs. Wibbsey and Richard Franklin as Mike Yates. Two things arrive on the same night in Central Park, New York, 1976. The first is a fireball from space, bringing with it a new identity for one Alice Trefusis. The second is the TARDIS, carrying the Doctor and his friends on the...
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Doctor Who Hornets' Nest Series Book 1: The Stuff of Nightmares
Author: Paul Magrs
Format: Online
Author Paul Magrs
Narrator Various
SeriesDoctor Who Hornet's Nest, Book 1
Duration 1h 11m
'Wanted: retired army Captain for light household duties and fireside companionship. Must tolerate mild eccentricity and strong scientific advice. Knowledge of Giant Maggots, Super Intelligent Spiders and Prehistoric Monsters a positive boon.' Responding to an advert apparently worded for him alone, Captain Mike Yates (retired) is reunited with a...
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Author: Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Format: Online
Author Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 28m
A desperate love story, and a beautiful history of the treatment of mental health, written by one of Britain's foremost playwrights for the two lead actors. Sarah and Ken met as foster siblings, and fell in love. While he has married a good wife and fathered beautiful children, she has spent her whole life in institutions, and they have maintained...
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The Scientist and the Romantic
Author: Richard Mabey
Format: Online
Author Richard Mabey
Narrator Richard Mabey
Duration 1h 10m
Nature writer Richard Mabey reflects on his lifelong relationship with science and the natural world, in this collection of episodes originally broadcast on Radio 4 in September 2009 and repeated as part of The Essay series on Radio 3 in April 2010.
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Author: Rosie Harris
Format: Online
Author Rosie Harris
Narrator Nerys Hughes
Duration 8h 38m
Crippled by polio, Winnie has little to look forward to. She's sent to an orphanage after her father is reported 'missing presumed dead', and her mother dies while on a drinking spree. Will her life improve at last or will she always be alone?
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Author: Mcmanus Chris
Format: Online
Author Mcmanus Chris
Narrator Chris Mcmanus
Duration 27m
Chris McManus uncovers the secrets of a collection of six thousand dusty old postcards which turned up in a forgotten cupboard in the Psychology Department of University College London. It started with two medium-sized cardboard boxes. When Richard Rawles of the Department of Psychology of University College London opened them, he found 6000 postca...
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Author: Simon Passmore
Format: Online
Author Simon Passmore
Narrator Claudia Harrison
Duration 43m
This BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation is a captivating thriller written by Simon Passmore, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 29 June 2009. What would you be prepared to do to escape the grind of a life going relentlessly downhill? For former City lawyer Alice, the price is getting higher by the minute. Stars Claudia Harrison in the l...
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The Adventures of Inspector Steine
Author: Lynne Truss
Format: Online
Author Lynne Truss
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 46m
Constable Twitten takes over the narrative in this third series of Lynne Truss's seaside comedy about celebrity policeman Inspector Steine. Back from an attachment at Scotland Yard, Twitten finds Brunswick more depressed than ever about villainy in Brighton. To cheer him up, Twitten persuades Brunswick's favourite writer Harry Jupiter, crime report...
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