Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off: Ireland
Author: Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby
Format: Online
Author Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby
Narrator Marcus Brigstocke
SeriesGiles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off Series 3, Book 6
Duration 27m
Intrepid traveller Giles Wemmbley Hogg 2m's, 2g's goes to Ireland to look up an old flame, stuff a big fish and tussle with a ghillie.
View BookSid's Mystery Tours: Hancock's Half Hour
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Format: Online
Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 29m
One of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's favourite radio episodes. In Sid's Mystery Tours Sid talks Hancock into becoming the director of his guided tours company - but it doesn't even possess a coach. Featuring a star cast that includes Sid James, Bill Kerr, Warren Mitchell, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Fenella Fielding.
View BookAuthor: Mike Tucker
Format: Online
Author Mike Tucker
Narrator Georgia Moffett
Duration 2h 21m
Set on Earth in 2099, when global warming is devastating the planet. In a desperate attempt at preservation, the governments of the world have removed vast sections of the Arctic and Antarctic and set them inside huge domes. But a hidden threat has been preserved beneath Snowglobe 7...
View BookTamburlaine: Shadow of God, BBC Radio 3: Drama On 3
Author: John Fletcher
Format: Online
Author John Fletcher
Narrator Stephen Critchlow
Duration 25m
John Fletcher's BBC Radio 3 full-cast play explores the dramatic clash between three key historical figures: a warlord, a historian and a poet. Originally broadcast in Radio 3's "Drama on 3" slot on 16 November 2008. As war swirls around them, three of the most important figures in the history of the Middle and Near East are brought together in fi...
View BookThat Mitchell and Webb Sound:series 4
Author: Robert Webb
Format: Online
Author Robert Webb
Narrator Robert Webb
Duration 2h 48m
The fourth BBC 4 radio series starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The pair have also starred in Channel 4's Peep Show and won numerous BAFTAS, national comedy awards and Chortle awards. Sketches and biting satire with a cast of four, including David and Robert, performing in front of a live audience. Topics covered in previous series have incl...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 30m
Tom Forrest brother to Doris and uncle to Jack, Phil and Christine. Tom like his father before him worked as gamekeeper. Purveyor of folk lore, Tom was born, married and died in Ambridge.
View BookThe Trial of Qwerty: Fry's English Delight, Series 3
Author: Stephen Fry
Format: Online
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 28m
The "Qwerty" keyboard faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct the English language. But who was Mr. Qwerty?
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
Format: Online
Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 12m
Three classic Alan Bennett adaptations, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and released on CD for the first time.
View BookThe Navy Lark: Troutbridge Joins the Fleet
Author: Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
Format: Online
Author Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
Narrator The Cast
SeriesThe Navy Lark, Book 11
Duration 2h
Four early episodes, including the first-ever broadcast, of hilarious antics aboard HMS Troutbridge. The Navy Lark, one of radio's longest running laughter-makers, kept the nation on the crest of a comic wave from 1959 to 1977. All at sea in the Senior Service were conniving Petty Officer Jon Pertwee, silly-ass Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Phillips and th...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 58m
A foggy night...a lonely country house...and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looked like a straightforward case of murder. Or was it? As the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge from the past, the case begins to look anything but straightforward... First staged at the Duchess Theatre in London in...
View BookKilling Orders: A V.i. Warshawski Mystery
Author: Sara Paretsky
Format: Online
Author Sara Paretsky
Narrator Martin Shaw
Duration 2h 54m
Feisty Chicago private eye Vic 'V. I.' Warshawski is used to getting mixed up in complicated cases. But when three million dollars in share certificates are stolen from a Dominican priory, she really doesn't want to get involved. Because agreeing to investigate would mean doing a favour for Aunt Rosa, the priory's treasurer, and Vic has never forgi...
View BookAuthor: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 33m
Walter was everyone's "Old pal" and loveable rogue. An unsuccessful farmer who turned to haulage. A carver of cribs and love spoons who took 17 years to propose-only to be turned down. And of course father to the world weary Nelson.
View BookAuthor: John O'Farrell
Format: Online
Author John O'Farrell
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 5m
A loyal tribute to ten glorious years from BBC Radio 4's Week Ending team. From the archives of the legendary satirical radio comedy series Week Ending comes this compilation of satirical and sardonic sketches based on Margaret Thatcher's first ten years as Prime Minister. First released on cassette as Ten Years With Maggie, this has now been reiss...
View BookThe Wild Man of the Woods: Hancock's Half Hour
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Format: Online
Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 30m
One of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's favourite radio episodes. The Wild Man of the Woods shows Hancock's desire to get away from it all. It leads him to camp first in a bus shelter on Clapham Common, and then in a bit of forest rented from Sid. Featuring a star cast that includes Sid James, Bill Kerr, Warren Mitchell, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacqu...
View BookAuthor: Kenneth Grahame
Format: Online
Author Kenneth Grahame
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 17m
Many of the original cast from Alan Bennett's acclaimed National Theatre production appear in this special dramatisation for BBC Radio 4 including Richard Briers as Rat, Adrian Scarborough as Mole and Terence Rigby as Albert with Alan Bennett as the narrator. A wonderful, highly-acclaimed dramatic performance of a classic novel.
View BookAuthor: Nick Warburton
Format: Online
Author Nick Warburton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 4h 39m
The Gospel story as you've never heard it before. Everyone knows the story of Jesus' life as told in the Gospels - and perhaps because it is so familiar, we have forgotten what an extraordinary life it was. Through these five plays, the story is pieced together as if from the memories of those who were there and saw events for themselves: Jesus' mo...
View BookAuthor: Lawrie Wyman
Format: Online
Author Lawrie Wyman
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Navy Lark, Book 21
Duration 1h 48m
The Navy Lark, one of radio's longest running laughter-makers, kept the nation on the crest of a wave from 1959 to 1977. All at sea in the Senior Service were conniving Chief Petty Officer Jon Pertwee, silly-ass Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Phillips, and the constantly bemused Stephen Murray as 'Number One', while Tenniel Evans made mischief as Leading Se...
View BookAuthor: Carlo Collodi
Format: Online
Author Carlo Collodi
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
Gepetto's creation, the wooden puppet Pinocchio, longs to be a real boy. This is the story of all the mischief he makes and his incredible nose which grows whenever he tells a lie!
View BookAuthor: Stephen Crane
Format: Online
Author Stephen Crane
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 5h
Henry Fleming, a new recruit in the American Civil War, is desperate to prove his courage but is unprepared for the horror he must witness. A powerful story of fear and duty.
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
Format: Online
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Ian Craig
Duration 3h
A memoir of Roald Dahl's childhood containing some hilariously true stories, such as the great mouse plot of 1924, when an eight year old Dahl and his gobstopper-loving friends took a just revenge on the disgusting sweetshop owner Mrs Pratchett. Dahl also recounts the deaths of his father and his sister within the space of a few short weeks, the ca...
View BookThe Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Author: Roald Dahl
Format: Online
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Hugh Laurie
Duration 45m
What else could a giraffe with an extending neck, a pelican with an expanding Beak, and an athletic little monkey be but `The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company?' When this trio are invited to clean all 677 windows belonging to the Duke of Hampshire, it is no wonder that they have adventures.
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