Author: James Joyce
Format: Online
Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 12m
Eveline is short story from James Joyce's celebrated short story collection 'Dubliners'. It begins with Eveline, a nineteen-year-old girl, who has met a sailor, Frank, who has convinced her to run away to Buenos Aires with him. Should she go with Frank, or remain in Ireland, her homeland? This beautiful story gives great insight into the predicamen...
View BookAuthor: James Joyce
Format: Online
Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 49m
After a Dublin 'tea taster', salesman Tom Kernan loses consciousness while drunk and takes a nasty fall down the stairs. His friends, who want to help rescue Kernan from inevitable consequences of his flawed ways, gather in his bedroom and talk about a catholic retreat, which is taking place for the benefit of businessmen. They persuade him to atte...
View BookAuthor: Ted Kavanagh
Format: Online
Author Ted Kavanagh
Narrator Various
SeriesIt's That Man Again, Book 1
Duration 1h 26m
It's That Man Again is a giant in the history of radio comedy. Mat Coward's book Classic Radio Comedy says, "Surely the most written-about radio series in history, it was successful to an extent which is hard to imagine today. Its international audience was measured in the tens of millions. Its star, Tommy Handley, was undoubtedly the most popular...
View BookJapan: Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off
Author: Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby
Format: Online
Author Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby
Narrator Marcus Brigstocke
SeriesGiles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off Series 3, Book 2
Duration 27m
Giles Wemmbley Hogg 2m's, 2g's world traveller and proud graduate in Canadian Studies goes for broke, quite literally, as he tries his hand at being a Bond Trader in Japan. Note: This is part two of a series of six parts.
View BookJeremy Hardy Speaks To the Nation
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
SeriesJeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation Series 2, Book 1
Duration 29m
"How to be a popular figure around town" Note: This is part one of a series of six parts.
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Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
SeriesJeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation Series 2, Book 2
Duration 29m
"How to have a Baby" Note: This is part two of a series of six parts.
View BookJeremy Hardy Speaks To the Nation
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
SeriesJeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation Series 2, Book 3
Duration 29m
"How to be a leader of men" Note: This is part three of a series of six parts.
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Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
SeriesJeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation Series 2, Book 4
Duration 28m
"How to be a father - part one" Note: This is part four of a series of six parts.
View BookJeremy Hardy Speaks To the Nation
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
SeriesJeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation Series 2, Book 5
Duration 29m
"How to be a father - part two" Note: This is part five of a series of six parts.
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Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
SeriesJeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation Series 2, Book 6
Duration 28m
"How to meet the Challenge of the 21st Century" Note: This is part six of a series of six parts.
View BookJohn Arlott's Cricketing Wides, Byes and Slips!
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator John Arlott
Duration 1h 9m
John Arlott was BBC's Voice of Cricket for more than 30 summers and reported on all the key cricket matches from the 40's to his final commentary in 1980 at Lords. The imagery and wit of an uncomparable broadcaster is captured here in a unique collection of historic moments. From the 40's we hear about Bradman's last test, from the 50's Compton's h...
View BookAuthor: Rev W Awdry
Format: Online
Author Rev W Awdry
Narrator Michael Angelis
Duration 1h 16m
Three original stories from the Reverend W. Awdry's bestselling Railway Series, read by Michael Angelis, narrator of TV's Thomas & Friends. Branch Line Engines Cinders and ashes! Thomas crashes into the Stationmaster's house at breakfast time, and Daisy the Diesel Rail-car comes to help while Thomas is repaired. Toby shows Daisy how to deal w...
View BookRhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs
Author: Rhod Gilbert
Format: Online
Author Rhod Gilbert
Narrator Various
Duration 55m
Welsh stand-up comedian Rhod Gilbert hosts a brand new audience comedy show featuring comedy regulars Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies (We Are Klang), along with Sarah Millican who takes a weekly look at The Six Stages of Woman. This final episode features live music from The Hoosiers, including the hit Worried About Ray, and the guest comedian is Jo...
View BookRhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrell of Laughs
Author: Rhod Gilbert
Format: Online
Author Rhod Gilbert
Narrator Various
Duration 56m
Welsh stand-up comedian Rhod Gilbert hosts a brand new audience comedy show for Radio 2 featuring regulars Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies (We Are Klang), along with Sarah Millican who takes a weekly look at The Six Stages of Woman. Episode four features live music from Goldheart Assembly, including hits King of Rome, Engraver's Daughter and new sin...
View BookAuthor: Rhod Gilbert
Format: Online
Author Rhod Gilbert
Narrator The Cast
Duration 55m
Welsh stand-up comedian Rhod Gilbert hosts a brand new audience comedy show featuring regulars Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies (We Are Klang), along with Sarah Millican who takes a weekly look at The Six Stages of Woman. This second episode features live music from Athlete, including hits Superhuman Touch and Half Light, and the guest comedian is tr...
View BookAuthor: Rhod Gilbert
Format: Online
Author Rhod Gilbert
Narrator The Cast
Duration 55m
Welsh stand-up comedian Rhod Gilbert hosts a brand new audience comedy show featuring comedy regulars Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies (We Are Klang), along with Sarah Millican who takes a weekly look at The Six Stages of Woman. This fifth episode features live music from Divine Comedy, including the hit National Express, and the guest comedian is Sh...
View BookAuthor: Richard Hughes
Format: Online
Author Richard Hughes
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 6h 13m
Set in the nineteenth century against a backdrop of island life and the vast surrounding seas, A High Wind in Jamaica is the gripping story of the Bas-Thornton children, whose parents send them back to England following a hurricane in the postcolonial Caribbean they call home. Having set sail, the children quickly fall into the hands of pirates.
View BookAuthor: S. J. Watson
Format: Online
Author S. J. Watson
Narrator Susannah Harker
Duration 12h 14m
"As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I'm still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me ..." Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overn...
View BookSarah Millican: Keep Your Chins Up, Series 1
Author: Sarah Millican
Format: Online
Author Sarah Millican
Narrator Sarah Millican
Duration 27m
The hilarious one-off special that inspired the acclaimed series Sarah Millican's Support Group. A relationship breakdown leads Sarah Millican to consider the question of counsellors-how some are great, and others terrible-and inspires her to create Jean, a relationship counsellor who is so good that most people don't come back after one appointmen...
View BookSarah Millican's Support Group: Complete Series 1
Author: Sarah Millican
Format: Online
Author Sarah Millican
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 51m
Sarah Millican plays Sarah, life counsellor and modern day agony aunt, in this BBC Radio 4 comedy series. She wants you to live life to the utmost, and she's got tons of ideas of how to help in the same way as the busybody at the end of your street who knows everything and dishes out advice whether you want to hear it or not. Assisted or hindered b...
View BookAuthor: Sean Gray
Format: Online
Author Sean Gray
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 23m
David Soul (Starsky and Hutch) narrates and Simon Day (The Fast Show) stars in this fantastical BBC Radio 4 comedy series looking at the most entertaining apocalypses on parallel Earths. Originally broadcast from 15 December 2010 - 19 January 2011. We all worry about the end of the world, as economists and environmentalists speak in apocalyptic...
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