Author: David Adam
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Author David Adam
Narrator David Thorpe
Duration 9h 15m
Award-winning science writer David Adam reveals how frontier neuroscience can enhance your intelligence.What if the route to better brain power is not hard work or thousands of hours of practice but to simply swallow a pill? In The Genius Within, best-selling author David Adam explores the groundbreaking neuroscience of cognitive enhancement. Shari...
View BookAuthor: Sandi Toksvig
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Author Sandi Toksvig
Narrator Lisa Dwan
SeriesSlice of the Moon, Book 1
Duration 8h 37m
Slim Hannigan and her family are poor but happy. Theirs is a life filled with love and laughter - and a pet pig called Hamlet. But things change overnight, and suddenly they find themselves facing hunger and danger like they have never known . . . So they leave their village in Ireland to journey to America where, they hope, family and fortune awai...
View BookAuthor: Michael Griesbach
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Author Michael Griesbach
Narrator Johnny Heller
Duration 8h 16m
The story of one of America's most notorious wrongful convictions, that of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit and now the subject of the hit series Making a Murderer. But two years after he was exonerated of that crime and poised to reap millions in his wrongful conviction lawsuit, Steven...
View BookAuthor: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Inspector McLevy Mysteries Series 7, Book 3
Duration 43m
Brian Cox stars as McLevy with Siobh n Redmond as Jean Brash and Michael Perceval-Maxwell as Mulholland in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulh...
View BookAuthor: Doris Lessing
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Author Doris Lessing
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 29h 46m
In London in the 1950s, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records her experiences in four coloured notebooks: black for her writing life, red for political views, yellow for emotions, blue for everyday events. But it is a fifth notebook-the golden notebook -that finally pul...
View BookAuthor: Philip Mould
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Author Philip Mould
Narrator Philip Mould
Duration 13m
Art historian Philip Mould discusses the art chosen by Government ministers in this BBC Radio 4 broadcast from 26 January 2011. Becoming a Minister has many perks, but one they can see every day is the art hanging in their office, often borrowed from the Government Art Collection. Art historian Philip Mould speaks to new ministers about what they c...
View BookAuthor: R C Sherriff
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Author R C Sherriff
Narrator Various
Duration 2h
Set in British trenches during the First World War, this play deals with the horror and futility of trench warfare, as Captain Stanhope and his officers await attack in their dugout. Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London on behalf of the Estate of R.C. Sherriff. Copyright R.C. Sherriff 1929.
View BookAuthor: Miranda Hart
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Author Miranda Hart
Narrator Miranda Hart
Duration 1h 56m
A comedy for BBC Radio 2 starring Miranda Hart (Hyperdrive, Absolutely Fabulous, Jack Dee's Lead Balloon) and written by Miranda Hart and Tony Roche, with additional material by Richard Hurst and Leisa Rea. Miranda (Miranda Hart) is an unconventional woman: a very tall, life-embracing, self-effacing clown, who is at her happiest amongst the whoopey...
View BookThe Very World of Milton Jones, Series 2, Part 6
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Very World of Milton Jones Series 2, Book 6
Duration 26m
In 1998, BBC Radio 4 found it had a new star on its hands. From the opening monologue - "You see when the boys in the playground found out that I had a potentially fatal allergy to peanuts they used to shove me up against a wall and make me play Russian roulette with a bag of Revels." to the closing number -"Milton Jones, Milton Jones, so good they...
View BookAuthor: Phillip Palmer
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Author Phillip Palmer
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 8m
All five episodes of the Radio 4 full-cast detective drama written by Philip Palmer. Originally broadcast as the Woman's Hour drama during the week commencing 22 June 2009. The story takes place in the present day, and centres on notorious art forger Daniel Ballantyne, newly released from prison but now dying, who is telling his life's story to an...
View BookDad's Army: The Very Best Episodes
Author: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
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Author David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDad's Army: The Very Best Episodes, Book 2
Duration 1h 51m
Diehard Dad's Army fan Phill Jupitus has chosen four of his favourite episodes of the sitcom that captured the heart of the nation. In addition, he has written an introductory note explaining just what makes these four episodes great. As he says, `There are episodes here you will be familiar with and some you may never have heard, but what I can pr...
View BookAuthor: Ian Rankin
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Author Ian Rankin
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 53m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the novel by Ian Rankin. A wealthy banker's daughter goes missing from Edinburgh University. Has she run away, or has something more sinister occurred? Rebus finds a six-inch coffin in her home village, a clue which leads to his discovery that she was involved in an internet game. DC Siobhan Clarke is drafte...
View BookAuthor: Anna Smith
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Author Anna Smith
Narrator Sarah Barron
SeriesRosie Gilmour, Book 9
Duration 9h 29m
A money-laundering accountant disappears in Romania. The hitman hired to disappear him is found dead in a Glasgow flat. And the owner of the flat, the accountant's widow, claims she knows nothing about it. Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour isn't convinced by Helen Lewis' innocent facade - she is convinced Helen was the one who ordered the hit on her hus...
View BookThe Last Kingdom Book 6: The Death of Kings
Author: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Matt Bates
SeriesThe Last Kingdom, Book 6
Duration 10h 22m
As the ninth century wanes, England appears about to be plunged into chaos once more. For the Viking-raised but Saxon-born warrior, Uhtred, whose life seems to shadow the making of England, this presents him with difficult choices. King Alfred is dying and his passing threatens the island of Britain to renewed warfare. Alfred wants his son, Edward,...
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Katie Scarfe
Duration 8h 48m
Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Cordelia is required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender fam...
View BookAuthor: Phillips Katia Narain
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Author Phillips Katia Narain
Narrator The Authors
Duration 4h 30m
Wellness pioneers Nadia Narain and Katia Narain Phillips have spent decades helping others to feel their best. But it took them a bit longer to learn to care for themselves. Here they share the small, achievable steps they picked up on a lifetime's journey towards self-care, and how you can apply them to your life, wherever you are.
View BookJack Reacher Series Book 18: High Heat
Author: Lee Child
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Author Lee Child
Narrator Kerry Shale
SeriesJack Reacher, Book 18
Duration 2h 1m
July 1977. Jack Reacher is almost seventeen, and he stops in New York on his way from South Korea to visit his brother at West Point. The summer heat is suffocating, fires are raging in the Bronx, the city is bankrupt, and the mad gunman known as Son of Sam is still on the loose. Reacher meets a woman with a problem, and agrees to help her . . . an...
View BookAuthor: Maggie O'Farrell
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Author Maggie O'Farrell
Narrator Patricia Leventon
Duration 9h 25m
It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back. The search for Robert brings Gretta's children - two estranged sisters and a brother on the brink of divorce - back...
View BookAuthor: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Inspector McLevy Mysteries Series 7, Book 2
Duration 43m
Brian Cox stars as McLevy with Siobh n Redmond as Jean Brash and Michael Perceval-Maxwell as Mulholland in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulh...
View BookThe Goon Show: The Missing Battleship
Author: Spike Milligan
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Author Spike Milligan
Narrator The Cast
SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 21
Duration 2h 1m
Featuring: The Junk Affair, The Burning Embassy, The Missing Battleship and Ten Snowballs That Shook the World. From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. This latest release features four more episodes of classic Goonery, starring the inimitable Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers a...
View BookAuthor: Barack Obama
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Author Barack Obama
Narrator Barack Obama
Duration 6h 10m
Senator Barack Obama reflects on the American ideals that led him into politics. Barack Obama has been hailed by voters of all stripes as a man of uncommon gifts and far-reaching vision. In THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, he draws on his personal experience as a senator and lawyer, professor and father, Christian and skeptic, and finds a shared language abou...
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