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Author: Charles Dickens
Format: Online
Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 10h 33m
The story of a family overshadowed by the Marshalsea, London's debtors' Prison. The Father of the Marshalsea is William Dorrit. He is tended by his daughter Amy, Little Dorrit, to whom the prison is home. She becomes the novel's liberator in her selfless devotion to her father and her redeeming love for Arthur Clennam.
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Author: Dava Sobel
Format: Online
Author Dava Sobel
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 6h
Anyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the longitude problem' was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day - and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. As the scientific establishment throughout Europe struggled, from Gali...
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Author: Alec Guinness
Format: Online
Author Alec Guinness
Narrator John Casson
Duration 7h 30m
Having filled roles in films as varied as 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Star Wars', Guinness is one of the most distinguished and beloved movie actors of his generation. His charmingly sincere diary entries offer a glimpse of the private side of his often very public life. What makes Guinness a fine and versatile actor is precisely what also makes him...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator David Suchet
Duration 6h 2m
Young, beautiful Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison.
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Author: Jules Verne
Format: Online
Author Jules Verne
Narrator John Carlisle
SeriesVoyages Extraordinaires, Book 6
Duration 2h 37m
Professor Aromax and his friends have a mission: to rid the sea of a terrible beast. When they are taken captive by the mysterious creature they discover that it is in fact a man-made vessel, and the three men suddenly find themselves the helpless prisoners of Captain Nemo. Resigned to their fate, they begin a miraculous journey on a submarine ship...
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Author: John Milton
Format: Online
Author John Milton
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 3h 55m
A poem of epic scale, which conjures up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranges across huge tracts of space and time. Milton tells the story of man's creation, fall and redemption, the plight of Adam and Eve and the ambition and vengefulness of Satan and his cohorts.
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Author: John Le Carre
Format: Online
Author Carre John Le
Narrator John Le Carre
Duration 11h 15m
The missing man: Harting, a Junior Something in the British Embassy in Bonn. The missing files: forty-three of them, all confidential. The timing: appalling and probably not accidental. London's security officer Alan Turner is sent to Bonn to find the missing man and files, as Germany's past, present and future threaten to collide in a nightmare of...
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Author: Saki
Format: Online
Author Saki
Narrator Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Duration 3h
From one of the masters of wit, this collection of off-beat and unusual short stories all feature animals and includes 'The She-Wolf'; 'The Mouse'; 'The Broag'; 'The Boar Pig'; 'The Remoulding of Groby Lington'; 'The Wolves of Cernogratz'; 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger'; 'The Lull'; 'Laura'; 'The Stalled Ox'; 'Tobermory'; 'The Bull' and 'The Elk'.
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Author: Ronnie Barker
Format: Online
Author Ronnie Barker
Narrator The Cast
Duration 44m
A selection of sketches, gags and monologues from 'The Two Ronnies', the television comedy series of the 1970s and 1980s which starred Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett as a wide range of characters.
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Author: Jonathan Lynn
Format: Online
Author Jonathan Lynn
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesYes Minister, Book 1
Duration 3h
Political satire at its sharpest as amiable opportunist Jim Hacker clashes with his scheming Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby. This volume contains the following classic episodes: 'Open Government', 'Big Brother', 'The Economy', and 'The Writing on the Wall'.
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Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Format: Online
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Sir Michael Hordern, Richard Briers
Duration 3h
Who would have thought that an 18th-century cow-creamer could cause so much trouble? Add to the mix Madeleine Bassett, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Stiffy Byng and Harold 'Stinker' Pinker and there's only one thing to say - What Ho, Jeeves!
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesColonel Race, Book 2
Duration 2h 20m
The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful - a girl who had everything. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger - 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger'.
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Author: Alistair Maclean
Format: Online
Author Alistair Maclean
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 30m
A Radio 2 dramatisation of the Second World War novel. Set during the Second World War over a period of four days in Yugoslavia, this classic thriller tells of the daring efforts made by a small group of specialists to silence the German guns at the Greek fortress of Navarone, to facilitate a planned invasion.
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Author: Leo Tolstoy
Format: Online
Author Leo Tolstoy
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 38h
The aristocratic Anna Karenina is a sophisticated woman who seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. Yet she becomes increasingly aware of the emptiness of her life and exchanges her privilaged existence as the wife of Karenin for a passionate affair with the impetuous Count Vronsky - with tragic consequences.
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Author: Leo Tolstoy
Format: Online
Author Leo Tolstoy
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 9h 20m
Tolstoy's epic story of a Russian family torn apart and rejuvenated by love and war. The war in question is Napoleon's Russian campaign in the early 19th century, which provides the background to the personal and public lives of Tolstoy's characters.
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Dad's Army Volume 2: Command Decision
Author: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Format: Online
Author David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDad's Army, Book 2
Duration 3h
More tales from the Walming-on-Sea Home Guard, especially adapted for radio from the original TV series. Captain Mainwaring does his best with his rag-tag platoon in the episodes 'The Man and the Hour', 'Museum Piece', 'Command Decision' and 'The Enemy Within the Gates'.
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Author: Connie Booth, John Cleese
Format: Online
Author Connie Booth, John Cleese
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h
The original soundtrack of one of Britains best loved comedy series, with Andrew 'Manuel' Sachs providing additional commentary. The episodes 'Communication Problems', 'The Hotel Inspectors', 'Basil the Rat' and 'The Builders', plus an interview with John Cleese are also included.
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Author: Connie Booth, John Cleese
Format: Online
Author Connie Booth, John Cleese
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h
It's business as (un)usual at Fawlty Towers, which means madness and mayhem are guaranteed. The original soundtrack of 'The Kipper and the Corpse', 'The Germans', 'Waldorf Salad' and 'Gourmet Night', with additional commentary by Andrew Sachs and an interview with John Cleese.
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Author: John Cleese, Connie Booth
Format: Online
Author John Cleese, Connie Booth
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h
Basil, Sybil and Spanish waiter Manuel continue their antics on the original soundtrack with added narration from Andrew Sachs. The following episodes are included: 'A Touch of Class', 'The Anniversary', 'The Psychiatrist', and 'The Wedding Party', plus an interview with writer and star John Cleese.
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Author: P. D. James
Format: Online
Author P. D. James
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 15h 34m
Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. Four weeks after agreeing to defend Gerry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, Miss Aldridge is found dead. Adam Dalgliesh investigates, only to find that her many enemies include colleagues, criminals, family - and even her lover.
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Author: John Le Carre
Format: Online
Author Carre John Le
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 6h
A murder in one of England's leading private schools leaves everybody asking, why? One of the school masters finds that his wife has been killed in their home. But before she died, the victim wrote a letter in which she predicts her own murder - at the hand of her husband. George Smiley investigates.
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