Author: Ruth Hogan
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Author Ruth Hogan
Narrator Jane Collingwood
Duration 8h 39m
Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, Anthony Peardew has spent half his life collecting lost objects, trying to atone for a promise broken many years before. Realising he is running out of time, he leaves his house and all its lost treasures to his assistant Laura, the one person he can trust to fulfil his legacy and...
View BookAmelia Peabody Book 4: Lion In the Valley
Author: Elizabeth Peters
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Author Elizabeth Peters
Narrator Barbara Rosenblat
SeriesAmelia Peabody, Book 4
Duration 12h 33m
Amelia's investigation of some ancient pyramids throws her once again in the path of that arch villain, Sethos, the Master Criminal. But this time, it is not antiquities Sethos is after, but Amelia herself!
View BookInspector Sejer Book 2: He Who Fears the Wolf
Author: Karin Fossum
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Author Karin Fossum
Narrator David Rintoul
SeriesInspector Sejer, Book 3
Duration 8h 10m
A twelve-year-old boy runs wildly into his local police station claiming to have seen Halldis Horn's brutally murdered corpse. Errki Johrma, an escaped psychiatric patient and known town misfit, was sighted at the scene disappearing into the woods. The next morning the local bank is robbed at gunpoint. Making his escape the robber takes a hostage a...
View BookAuthor: Robert Scott
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Author Robert Scott
Narrator David Horovitch
Duration 7h 14m
Captain Robert Scott's final journey to the South Pole has been called one of history's greatest tales of adventure. And his journals are among the most dramatic and moving documents in the English language. Sensitively read by David Horovitch, this new audio adaptation starts in 1910 as Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, sets sail from New Zealand. The...
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 5
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 5
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today. This episode features Benjamin Disraeli, who turned his skills as a novelist to politics and became Britain's first Jewish-born pri...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Rosemary Leach
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 4
Duration 8h 43m
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm. Is it a hoax? As the time approaches a crowd gathers, and then the lights go out. Miss Marple investigates.
View BookMeanwhile With the Bearded Ladies
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 51m
Radio 4 sitcom about four women friends, written by and starring Susie Donkin, Charlotte McDougall, Oriane Messina and Fay Rusling. Four women friends cope with life, work and men. Mel is hunting for a man - any man, and Lucy wants Kevin to help her get rid of a rat. Jo and Kevin are trying for a baby so she can be a really Yummy Mummy, and Alex is...
View BookNoel Coward; An Audio Biography
Author: Sheridan Morley
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Author Sheridan Morley
Narrator Sheridan Morley
Duration 2h 33m
Playwright, actor, singer, songwriter, poet and scriptwriter, Sir No‰l Coward used his `talent to amuse' to spectacular effect for almost sixty years. Sir Laurence Olivier, Lord Mountbatten and Joyce Carey are just some of the voices heard paying tribute to the elegant star in this audio biography which is linked by the broadcaster and criti...
View BookAuthor: John Le Carre
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Author Carre John Le
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 54m
A cBBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John le Carr‚'s fourth novel, starring Simon Russell Beale as Smiley and Piotr Baumann as Fred Leiser. When word reaches 'The Department' - an ailing section of British intelligence - that Soviet missiles are being installed close to the West German border, it seems the perfect opportunity to show Control and S...
View BookAuthor: Victoria Wood
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Author Victoria Wood
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 51m
Victoria's irreverent pilgrimage takes her to key places around the world that also share her namesake, from Fort Victoria in Ghana, to Victoria, Nova Scotia, and finishing at Zambia's Victoria Falls. Victoria's adventure is fuelled by her fascination with the Queen Victoria - both her public and private persona. She explores how Victoria felt abou...
View BookThe Last Kingdom Book 10: The Flame Bearer
Author: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Matt Bates
SeriesThe Last Kingdom, Book 10
Duration 10h 27m
Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. Northumbria's Viking ruler, Sigtryggr, and Mercia's Saxon Queen, Aethelflaed, have agreed to a truce. And so England's greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the chance to take back the home of his traitorous uncle, which was stolen from him so many years ago - and which his scheming cousin still...
View BookAuthor: Jasper Fforde
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Author Jasper Fforde
Narrator Gabrielle Kruger
Duration 9h 11m
There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of 'Jane Eyre'. In this world there are no jet-liners or computers, but there are policemen who can travel across time, a Welsh republic, a great interest in all thi...
View BookHow To Win Friends and Influence People
Author: Dale Carnegie
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Author Dale Carnegie
Narrator Andrew Macmillan
Duration 7h 18m
Simon & Schuster Audio is proud to present one of the best-selling books of all time, Dale Carnegie's perennial classic How to Win Friends and Influence People -- presented here in its entirety on 8 cassettes. For over 60 years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this audiobook has carried thousands of now-famous people up the ladder of succe...
View BookAuthor: Matt Haig
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Author Matt Haig
Narrator Matt Haig
Duration 5h 11m
Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index. - How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? - How do we stay human in a technological world? - How do we...
View BookAuthor: Graham Norton
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Author Graham Norton
Narrator Graham Norton
Duration 7h 30m
Duneen is a quiet place, far enough from the big towns to have kept its own rhythms. Its residents include castdown policeman PJ who lives a lonely, uneventful life punctuated only by the next meal - until now; the beautiful and mysterious family of three spinster sisters each with their own secrets and sorrows; and of course, the town's gossip who...
View BookOp-center Series Book 8: Line of Control
Author: Tom Clancy
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Author Tom Clancy
Narrator Michael Kramer
SeriesOp-Center, Book 8
Duration 10h 50m
It's a mission that only Striker - the military arm of Op-Center - can handle: capture an Islamic cleric who is stirring up a rebellion against the Indian government. But when the border between India and Pakistan erupts, the Striker team gets caught in the crossfire. Now America's most proficient covert team is trapped in a full-fledged war. Their...
View BookWe're the Center of the Universe!
Author: Christine Zuchora-Walske
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Author Christine Zuchora-Walske
Narrator Intuitive
Duration 34m
Does the universe circle around Earth? Do creatures live on the sun? Can you tell the future by looking at the stars? At one time, science supported wild notions like these! But later studies proved these ideas were nonsense. Discover science's biggest mistakes and oddest assumptions about physics and astronomy, and see how scientific thought chang...
View BookAuthor: Margaret Atwood
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Author Margaret Atwood
Narrator Joanna David
Duration 10h 23m
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. . . .
View BookThe Prime Minister's, Series 1: Episode 2
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 2
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today. This episode features Lord North, who is remembered as the prime minister who lost America.
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 4
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 4
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today. This episode features Lord Palmerston, who cultivated a cavalier image and dominated mid-Victorian politics.
View BookGiles Wemmbley Hogg Goes off: Oilrig
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 1
Duration 27m
The return of Giles Wemmbley Hogg 2m's, 2g's sees our travelling hero (and proud owner of a degree in Canadian Studies) having graduated and looking for excitement in the world of work. Note: This is part one of a series of six parts.
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