The 99p Challenge, Series 3, Part 2
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 3, Book 2
Duration 26m
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 Peter Baynham, Armando Iannucci, Simon Pegg and David Quantick and was broadcast on 26th July 2001.
View BookAlice Through the Looking Glass
Author: Lewis Carroll
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Author Lewis Carroll
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 49m
Ken Campbell, Windsor Davies, John bird and John Fortune star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. When Alice's wish to visit the Looking Glass world comes true, she can't resist delving deeper and deeper into a land of caustic characters and twisted logic. So begins a game of chess on a grand scale, where the inhabitants of each square hav...
View BookI'm Sorry I'll Read That Again
Author: Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
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Author Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 37m
A facsmile edition of the original 1978 LP of comedy sketches and songs, starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. Taken from the fondly-remembered BBC radio series of the early 1970s.
View BookPaul Temple and the Jonathan Mystery
Author: Francis Durbridge
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Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 3h 35m
This case involves the Fergusons, who Paul and Steve meet while on the way home from New York. They are flying to England to visit their son Richard, a student at Oxford University. But at the airport, there is shocking news: Richard has been murdered, found shot dead in his room. The only clues are a postcard from Harrogate signed `Jonathan', and...
View BookAuthor: Cathy Glass
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Author Cathy Glass
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 8h 55m
Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged three years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after suffering non-accidental injuries. Aneta and Filip, the children's parents, are distraught when their children are taken into care. Aneta maintains she is innocent of harming them, while Filip appear...
View BookSo You Want To Start A Podcast
Author: Kristen Meinzer
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Author Kristen Meinzer
Narrator Kristen Meinzer
Duration 4h 59m
A comprehensive step-by-step guide to creating a hit show, So You Want to Start a Podcast covers everything from hosting and guest booking to editing and marketing - while offering plenty of encouragement and insider stories along the way. Though they are the fastest-growing form of media, podcasts are actually difficult to create-and even harder t...
View BookAuthor: Pema Chodron, Carolyn Rose Gimian
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Author Pema Chodron, Carolyn Rose Gimian
Narrator Pema Chodron
Duration 4h 29m
We all have fears, but when we look closely at them, we discover that behind each fear resides a basic fear of ourselves. We're afraid to look at our habitual styles of thinking and behaving because we might not always like what we see. Ironically it is this fear of honest self-reflection that keeps us trapped in patterns of stress and discontentme...
View BookAuthor: Jane Costello
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Author Jane Costello
Narrator Alex Tregear
Duration 10h 2m
At 28, Lucy is doing well for herself. She's got a great job, her boss loves her, and her friends think she's great. The only problem is she does feel the need to lie outrageously on dates- often with hilarious results. But when Lucy decides that her flatmate, and oldest friend, Henry is in need of a makeover, but nothing can prepare them for the s...
View BookCousins' War Series Book 2: The Red Queen
Author: Philippa Gregory
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Author Philippa Gregory
Narrator Emily Watson
SeriesCousins' War, Book 2
Duration 12h 26m
The second book in Philippa's stunning new trilogy, The Cousins War, brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort, a shadowy and mysterious character in the first book of the series - The White Queen - but who now takes centre stage in the bitter struggle of The War of the Roses. The Red Queen tells the story of the child-bride of Edmund Tudor, wh...
View BookCaptivate: The Science of Succeeding With People
Author: Vanessa Van Edwards
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Author Vanessa Van Edwards
Narrator Vanessa Van Edwards
Duration 7h 28m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People written and read by Vanessa Van Edwards. Wish you knew exactly what to say in awkward social situations? Or that you had a formula for charisma? You need to know how people work. As a human behaviour investigator, Vanessa Van Edwards...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Nickolds
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Author Andrew Nickolds
Narrator Full Cast, Christopher Douglas
Duration 2h 48m
Ed Reardon - hack writer, pipe smoker, fare-dodger and master of the abusive email - returns in the radio sitcom, written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. In these six episodes, Ed finds himself enjoying 'weekend-ish things'; working with his son Jake on a piece of 'genuine' factutainment; writing a tribute for Jaz Milvane's 60th birthda...
View BookAuthor: Paula Hawkins
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Author Paula Hawkins
Narrator Various
Duration 11h 30m
In the last days before her death, Nel called her sister. Jules didn't pick up the phone, ignoring her plea for help. Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And Jules has been dragged back to the one place she hoped she had escaped for good, to care for the teenage girl her sister left behind. But Jules is afraid. So afraid. Of her long-buried memor...
View BookAuthor: Hilary Mantel
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Author Hilary Mantel
Narrator Simon Slater
SeriesThomas Cromwell Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 24h 30m
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both ideal...
View BookColin Cellars Series Book 3: Final Disposition
Author: Ken Goddard
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Author Ken Goddard
Narrator Kevin Kenerly
SeriesColin Cellars, Book 3
Duration 10h 33m
Ken Goddard's First Evidence series centers on what may prove to be evidence of extraterrestrial contact. In this third book, crime scene investigator Colin Cellars wakes up in the maw of a fMRI machine at a remote military hospital, having no memory of who he is or how he got there-but he quickly becomes aware that he is being hunted. His instinct...
View BookAuthor: Margaret Mahy
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Author Margaret Mahy
Narrator Tony Robinson
Duration 1h 16m
Tuck into this bean-feast of razzle-dazzle rhymes and tales of tomfoolery! Meet Anna, who decides to view the world upside down. Make the acquaintance of the cat who writes poems. And find out exactly what happens when Mr Delmonico offends the word witch...
View BookThe Jason Byrne Show, Series 2, Episode 6
Author: Jason Byrne
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Author Jason Byrne
Narrator Jason Byrne
SeriesJason Byrne Show Series 2, Book 6
Duration 26m
Series 2 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 food, travel, parents, money, ageing and animals. In Episode 6, Jason looks at animals. Find out why Emperor Penguins put the human male to shame when it comes to commitment in a relationship; how...
View BookJust A Minute, Series 57, Episode 8
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Various
SeriesJust a Minute Series 57, Book 8
Duration 27m
Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious BBC Radio 4 word game where the guests attempt to speak for a minute without repetition, hesitation or deviation.
View BookAuthor: Trevor Preston
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Author Trevor Preston
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 semi-autobiographical play by BAFTA award-winning writer Trevor Preston, telling the story of Charlie, who suddenly re-discovers the passion and energy of his youth. 'Small Acts of Kindness' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 15 March 2011. In the late 1950s Charlie was a violent and uncontrollable entrant to art scho...
View BookAuthor: Mary Shelley
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Author Mary Shelley
Narrator Jeff Bellamy
Duration 8h 30m
Obsessed by creating life itself, Doctor Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life using electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker...
View BookAuthor: Jacqueline Wilson
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Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Catherine Walker
Duration 1h
Mary can't see properly and is fed up with not being allowed to go anywhere by herself. She sets off to the shop but stumbles into a nightmare when a robbery goes wrong and she is held hostage.
View BookAuthor: Leo Tolstoy
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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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