Author: John Cleese, Connie Booth
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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.
View BookSid's Mystery Tours: Hancock's Half Hour
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
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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 BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 4, Part 2
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 4, Book 2
Duration 27m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas. The line up for this show is Marcus Brigstocke, Armando Iannucci, Simon Pegg and Peter Serafinowicz and was broadcast on 11th February 2003.
View BookSummer At the Comfort Food Cafe
Author: Debbie Johnson
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Author Debbie Johnson
Narrator Dawn Murphy
Duration 9h 50m
The Comfort Food Cafe is perched on a windswept clifftop at what feels like the edge of the world, serving up the most delicious cream teas, beautifully baked breads and carefully crafted cupcakes. For tourists and locals alike, the ramshackle cafe overlooking the beach is a beacon of laughter, companionship and security - a place like no other, a...
View BookAuthor: Dan Jones
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Author Dan Jones
Narrator Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
Duration 5h 51m
Weakened by the loss of Normandy, King John faced insurrection by his disgruntled barons. With the assistance of the Archbishop of Canterbury, they drew up a list of their demands. Dan Jones' vivid account of the vicissitudes of feudal power politics and the workings of 13th century government is interwoven with an exploration of the lives of ordin...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Joan Hickson
Duration 6h 20m
A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman.Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his 'counting house' when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals. Yet, it was the incident in the parlour which confirmed Jane...
View BookAuthor: R.J. Palacio
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Author R.J. Palacio
Narrator Kivlighan De Montebello
Duration 5m
Penguin presents the audio edition of We're All Wonders by R J Palacio, read by Kivlighan de Montebello. I know I can't change the way I look. But maybe, just maybe, people can change the way they see ... In this short story listeners experience what it's like to live in Auggie's world - a world in which he feels like any other kid, but he's not al...
View BookAuthor: Katerina Diamond
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Author Katerina Diamond
Narrator Stevie Lacey
Duration 11h 18m
You think you know who to trust? You think you know the difference between good and evil? You're wrong ... The body of the head teacher of an exclusive Devon school is found hanging from the rafters in the assembly hall. Hours earlier he'd received a package, and only he could understand the silent message it conveyed. It meant the end. As Exeter s...
View BookAuthor: Dorothy L Sayers
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Author Dorothy L Sayers
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 8m
In a shocking scandal, the likes of which has not been seen in the English aristocracy since the 18th century, the Duke of Denver stands accused of the foul murder or his sister's fiance, shot through the heart on a cold, lonely night at Riddlesdale Hall in Yorkshire. The Duke's brother, Lord Peter Wimsey, attempts to prove Denver's innocence, but...
View BookSlow Burn Book 1: Keep Me Safe
Author: Maya Banks
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Author Maya Banks
Narrator Jeffrey Kafer
SeriesSlow Burn, Book 1
Duration 7h 16m
When Caleb Devereaux's younger sister is kidnapped, the scion of a powerful and wealthy family turns to an unlikely source for help: a beautiful and sensitive woman with a gift for finding answers others cannot. While Ramie can connect to victims and locate them by feeling their pain, her ability comes with a price. Every time she uses it, it costs...
View BookAuthor: Jude Welton
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Author Jude Welton
Narrator Christopher Dobson
Duration 1h 1m
Meet Tom - a young boy with autism. Tom invites readers to learn about autism from his perspective, helping them to understand what it is and explaining the challenges he faces with issues such as social communication, sensory overload and changes in his routine. Tom tells readers about all the ways he can be helped and supported by those around hi...
View BookAuthor: Robert Harris
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Author Robert Harris
Narrator Anton Lesser, Full Cast
Duration 1h 58m
This radio dramatisation of Robert Harris's thriller comes from John Dryden, the producer of award-winning Radio Collection releases The Handmaid's Tale and A Suitable Boy. Nazi Germany has won the war. Churchill is living in exile. King Edward and Queen Wallis are puppet monarchs of the United Kingdom. It is 1964, a week before Hitler's 75th birth...
View BookAuthor: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Julian Rhind-Tutt
Duration 4h
Dragons have invaded Crumbling Castle, and all of King Arthur's knights are either on holiday or visiting their grannies. It's a disaster! Luckily, there's a spare suit of armour and a very small boy called Ralph who's willing to fill it. Together with Fortnight the Friday knight and Fossfiddle the wizard, Ralph sets out to defeat the fearsome fire...
View BookAuthor: John Steinbeck
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Author John Steinbeck
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 46m
Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in search of work, only to discover thousands like them are also on the move. Following a violent altercation with some locals, they head back on the road with their dream of a promised land in tatters. And life is set to get much worse...
View BookThe Jason Byrne Show, Series 3, Episode 3
Author: Jason Byrne
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Author Jason Byrne
Narrator Jason Byrne
SeriesJason Byrne Show Series 3, Book 3
Duration 27m
Series 3 of the fast paced, lively stand-up comedy and sketch show, hosted by the energetic Irish comic Jason Byrne, in which he tackles themes including marriage, fashion, fears, work, technology and attitudes to happiness. In Episode 3, Jason looks at the subject of fears and phobias. He talks to members of the audience whose eccentric range of p...
View BookJust A Minute, Series 58, Episode 6
Author: Ian Messiter, Nicholas Parsons
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Author Ian Messiter, Nicholas Parsons
Narrator Various
SeriesJust a Minute Series 58, Book 6
Duration 27m
Nicholas Parsons chairs the panel game that rewards those who can talk the hind leg off a donkey. The panellists on today's show are Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock, Gyles Brandreth and Barnsley poet Ian McMillan. The aim of the game is to speak on a given subject for sixty seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. A task much harder than it...
View BookAuthor: Penelope Fitzgerald
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Author Penelope Fitzgerald
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 3h 15m
This collection of short stories, previously published in anthologies and newspapers, consists of miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behaviour. It includes 'Our Lives Are Only Lent To Us', discovered amongst the author's papers after her death.
View BookMary Warnock: A Memoir - People & Places
Author: Mary Warnock
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Author Mary Warnock
Narrator Mary Warnock
Duration 11h 9m
Mary Warnock entered the public eye when Margaret Thatcher made her Chairman of the highly charged Enquiry into Human Fertilization. In this audiobook she reflects on the places and people who have influenced her including the Oxford school of philosophy in the 1950s and 60s.
View BookAuthor: Connie Booth, John Cleese
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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.
View BookGiles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off: Ireland
Author: Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby
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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 BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 4, Part 1
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 4, Book 1
Duration 23m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas. The line up for this show is Bill Bailey, Armando Iannucci, Simon Pegg and David Quantick and was broadcast on 4th February 2003.
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