Grace's life starts to change the day she catches a glimpse through a telescope of a ghostly-looking knight, but her search for the knight seems impossible. Over-protected by her family, she can't go off the estate alone. The only answer is to break the rules and in doing so she finds herself on a quest that will lead her to a guardian angel, a ban...

Heralded by an instantly memorable signature tune, the adventures of special agent Dick Barton and his friends, Jock and Snowey, originally ran on the BBC Light Programme between 1946 and 1951. Set in an exciting world of criminal masterminds, espionage and adventure, the series was essential listening for an entire generation. Sadly very few of th...

Haunting and poignant, the great Oscar Wilde's famous supernatural story of youth and age is narrated brilliantly by Rupert Graves. Wilde's only novel combines sparkling wit, social satire and luxurious description. Full of many of his most famous witticisms, it is essentially a novel about the lust for eternal youth versus the inevitable reality o...

In 1958 Phil and Jill's first children were born-the couple were blessed with twins, daughter Shula and son Kenton.

It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Written by Kevin Cecil & Andy Riley who won a BAFTA for writing Robbie The Reindeer for Aardman Animations the show is hosted by the glorious Sue Perkins (of Mel & Sue fame). The regulars are Simon Pegg ( of Spaced and Big...

Cordelia Russell has been living on the French Riviera for twenty-five years, passing herself off as an English socialite. But her luck, and the kindness of strangers, have run out. The arrival of a visitor from her distant past shocks Cordelia. She reacts violently to the intrusion and flees her flat to spend a drunken night at a glittering party....

Dr Ruth Galloway is flattered when she receives a letter from Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli, asking for her help. He's discovered a group of bones in a tiny hilltop village near Rome but doesn't know what to make of them. It's years since Ruth has had a holiday, and even a working holiday to Italy is very welcome! So Ruth travels to Caste...

Welcome to Westmorland. Perhaps the most scenic county in England! Home of the poets! Land of the great artists! District of the Great lakes! And the scene of a mysterious crime.... Swanton Morley, the People's Professor, once again sets off in his Lagonda to continue his history of England, The County Guides. Stranded in the market town of Appleby...

Agatha Christie's shocking courtroom drama, read on audio by her grandson, Mathew Prichard. When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls to Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger, can provide them with an alibi. Howeve...

When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike c...

Liam Scott has joined Recce Platoon, and it looks like he will be heading for Somalia. His mission is to gather intelligence from behind enemy lines, carrying out top-secret surveillance and dead-letter drops. But he's new to the game and there's a lot to learn. Soon Liam is monitoring a den of Al Shabaab militants and hunting a key terrorist targe...

To amuse his house guests, Sir Hubert Handelsley devises a new form of murder game. But when the lights go up there is a real corpse, with a real dagger in its back. Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn has to try and find the murderer.

Jack Henderson, estranged from his ex-wife and grown-up daughters, is involved in a horrific accident. His younger brother Douglas begins an affair with a woman he barely knows, risking everything. And Angus, the eldest of the Henderson boys, finds himself suddenly in freefall having unexpectedly been laid off from his job. As the three brothers he...

The remote resort of Fjallbacka has seen its share of tragedy, though perhaps none worse than that of the little girl found in a fisherman's net. But the post-mortem reveals that this is no accidental drowning. Local detective Patrik Hedstrom has just become a father. It is his grim task to discover who could be behind the methodical murder of a ch...

Marion Chesney has written over 100 historical romance novels but she is most well known as M C Beaton for her crime novels and her characters Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth. If you are new to her novels, try Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death, available to download, number 02386. Image c Constable and Robinson

A laugh-out-loud romance from the bestselling author of the Shopaholic series. Meet Audrey: an ordinary teenage girl with not so ordinary problems. Aside from her completely crazy and chaotic family, she suffers from an anxiety disorder which makes talking to her brother's hot new best friend a bit of a challenge. But Audrey has a plan to help her...

When her mother dies from a snakebite, Comity's life in the Australian outback changes forever. As her father retreats into his work, Comity turns to Fred, the Aboriginal yard boy, who becomes her only friend. But then a new assistant arrives who delights in playing cruel games. As Fred becomes his target, events spiral dangerously out of control.

Tom is finding it hard to come to terms with the death of his father and life just gets worse as Mum meets a new man and a bully joins his class at school. Unkind people say that his firefighter father ought not to have risked his life in a blaze when he had a family to support, but Tom knows that his father was a true hero. Will he find the same c...

The complete BBC Radio series from Irish stand-up comedian Jason Byrne. In three hours of fast-paced comedy, with speedy sketches, audience banter, and lightning-quick improvisation, Jason Byrne shares his experiences across the giant areas of Education, Law, Relationships, Religion, Sport and Medicine. From going on a first date to the birth of hi...

Frederick Jaeger stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged of the legend that has haunted the imagination of millions for over a hundred years! Summoned to the forbidden heart of the Carpathian mountains, in the depths of Transylvania, Jonathan Harker journeys to Castle Dracula. There he becomes the unwitting prisoner of the mysterious nobleman w...

The second book in the 'Search for Karla' trilogy which follows 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'. George Smiley is chief of the battered British Secret Service at a time when the betrayals of a Soviet double agent have riddled the spy network. Smiley wants revenge. His method is attack, the quarry Karla, Soviet Chief of Espionage, the battleground Ho...