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Author: Oli Smith
Format: Online
Author Oli Smith
Narrator Nicholas Briggs
Duration 4h 48m
"My watch is running backwards." Colorado, 1981. The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in Appletown-an idyllic village in the remote American desert where the townsfolk go peacefully about their suburban routines. But when two more strangers arrive, things begin to change. The first is a mad scientist-whose warnings are cut short by an untimely and bruta...
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Doctor Who and the Green Death
Author: Malcolm Hulke
Format: Online
Author Malcolm Hulke
Narrator Katy Manning
Duration 4h
'The Green Death' begins slowly. In a small Welsh mining village a man emerges from the disused colliery covered in a green fungus. Minutes later he is dead. UNIT, Jo Grant and Doctor Who arrive on the scene to investigate, but strangely reluctant to assist their inquiries is Dr. Stevens, director of the local refinery, Panorama Chemicals. Are they...
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Pre-twentieth Century Poetry - Smartpass Study Guide
Format: Online
Author Smartpass, Various
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 30m
This audio drama leads the listener into the world of classical poetry, to experience and explore the work of poets with guidance from experts. The fully integrated commentary and analysis gives a student everything they need to understand, enjoy and appreciate classical poetry and to maximise their potential in coursework and exams. Poems include:...
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Julius Caesar - Smartpass Study Guide
Author: William Shakespeare, Smartpass
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare, Smartpass
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 7h 50m
The real Julius Caesar famously said `experience is the teacher of all things'. Experience Shakespeare's masterful moral drama with teaching notes to consider whether his assassins were freedom fighters or cold-blooded killers - a question as pertinent in today's world as in ancient Rome.
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Hamlet - Smartpass Study Guide
Author: William Shakespeare, Smartpass
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare, Smartpass
Narrator Various
Duration 12h 11m
`There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so'. Discover why generations of actors dream of playing Hamlet, the intellectual prince at war with himself, in this powerful tragedy of revenge, remorse, madness and murder.
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Author: Oli Smith
Format: Online
Author Oli Smith
Narrator Matt Smith
Duration 1h 4m
Arriving on Earth in the midst of the American Civil War, the Doctor and Amy must get a posse together to help them retrieve an alien artefact that has fallen into the clutches of the Confederate Army. The terraforming device belongs to the Cei, a race of invaders who plan to use it to turn the planet into a new home world. But neither the Army nor...
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Author: Peter R Newman
Format: Online
Author Peter R Newman
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 38m
The TARDIS travellers discover that the crew of an Earth spaceship have been hijacked by the Sensorites, and they in turn are transported to the alien's planet. Humans and Sensorites alike are stricken by a deadly illness, for which the Doctor struggles to find a cure.
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The Museum of Curiosity: The Complete Gallery 2
Author: BBC Radio 4
Format: Online
Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator Sean Lock, John Lloyd
Duration 2h 46m
The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It allows nothing inside unless it makes you scratch your head, stroke your chin or, at the very least, go 'Hmm'. Secondly, it is almost completely empty. Fortunately, helping to fill its vacant plinths is a gathering of the world's mos...
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Author: Sue Teddern
Format: Online
Author Sue Teddern
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 8m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama about two single parents who meet on an internet chat site and strike up a friendship. Originally broadcast in the "Woman's Hour Drama" slots from 2 November 2009 - 6 November 2009 under the series name of "singleparentpals.com". The complete series 1 contains the following episodes: You Are Not Alone - When a nervous...
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Author: Sue Teddern
Format: Online
Author Sue Teddern
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 7m
The complete second series of the BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama about two single parents who met on an internet chat site and developed a friendship. First broadcast in the "Woman's Hour Drama" slots from 23 August - 27 August 2010, this follows on from the first series which was originally transmitted in 2009 under the name of "singleparentpals.com"...
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Author: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Paul Scofield, Dame Peggy Ashcroft
Duration 4m
"If it were done when 'tis done..." From the BBC Sound Archives, one of Shakespeare's most famous and memorable speeches, with Paul Scofield and Peggy Ashcroft as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, bringing these ominous words vividly to life
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Author: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Denis Quilley
Duration 2m
"Is this a dagger which I see before me....." With Denis Quilley as Macbeth, this recording from the BBC Sound Archives brings Shakespeare's memorable words to life..
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Merchant of Venice: Act 4 Scene 1
Author: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Hannah Gordon
Duration 1m
"The quality of mercy is not strained...." In this recording from the BBC Sound Archives, Hannah Gordon is Shakespeare's wise Portia.
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Author: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 39m
Shakespeare's romantic adventure full of tyrants, incest, murder, knights, teenagers, pirates, brothels, sublime poetry, young love, a great hero and the goddess Diana.
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Author: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Ian Holm
Duration 2m
"Now is the winter of our discontent...." Ian Holm delivers King Richard IIIs soliloquy, bringing Shakespeare's wonderful lines, full of pyschological insight, vividly to life.
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Author: Stephen Fry
Format: Online
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 27m
Stephen looks to the future with some predictions. Will robots be able to read novels? How much will our computers be able to understand us? Will English rule - or change? And then there's a question about a duck...
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Hancock: The "lost" Radio Episodes: Sid James' Dad & the Diet
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Format: Online
Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Tony Hancock Et Al
Duration 1h 1m
Tony Hancock stars in two long-lost episodes from the classic BBC Radio series 'Hancock's Half Hour': Sid James's Dad (28 October 1956) & The Diet (7 December 1955). In Sid James's Dad, Sid is expecting a visit from his father. Being ashamed to admit his true profession, he has explained his regular appearances in court by telling the old man h...
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Hancock: The "lost" TV Episodes: The Wrong Man
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Format: Online
Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Tony Hancock
Duration 28m
First broadcast live in 1959 as part of Tony Hancock's 4th BBC TV Series, these rare recordings are made available for the first time in over fifty years. The Wrong Man sees Hancock and Sid called in to take part in a police identity parade. However, when a witness picks Hancock out for the burglary of a high street tobacconist, he has only days to...
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Fry's English Delight Series 3: He Said, She Said
Author: Stephen Fry
Format: Online
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 26m
Do men and women really say what they mean? Also Stephen investigates sex, domination, gender, power, and sex changes (as only he can).
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Author: Nigel Williams
Format: Online
Author Nigel Williams
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 46m
All six episodes of series one of the BBC Radio 4 Comedy drama series by Emmy Award-winning writer Nigel Williams, charting the misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague. Includes the following episodes: An Appraisal / An Away-Day / A Commute / A Role Play / A Leaving Party / A Bus Pass Starring Nicholas le Prevost as...
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Hunt For the Nightingale's Song
Author: Chris Watson
Format: Online
Author Chris Watson
Narrator Rob Thomas
Duration 27m
When he was fourteen years old, some friends of his parents gave wildlife sound recordist, Chris Watson, The Observer's Book of Birds. Flicking through the pages, Chris was captivated by the description of a bird which sang at night. The bird was a Nightingale; and since first reading about it, Chris has been fortunate enough to hear Nightingales b...
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