Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters, Series 1, Episode 2
Author: Tom Wrigglesworth
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Author Tom Wrigglesworth
Narrator Tom Wrigglesworth
SeriesTom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters Series 1, Book 2
Duration 27m
n this second episode from his fantastically funny BBC Radio 4 series that investigates the myriad examples of corporate lunacy and maddening jobsworths in modern Britain, comedian Tom Wrigglesworth is bemused by the peculiar practices of utilities companies.
View BookThe Navy Lark: Left Hand Down A Bit
Author: Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
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Author Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
Narrator The Cast
SeriesThe Navy Lark, Book 7
Duration 2h 1m
The Navy Lark, one of radio's longest running laughter-makers, kept the nation on the crest of a comic wave from 1959 to 1977. All at sea in the Senior Service were conniving Petty Officer Jon Pertwee, silly-ass Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Phillips and the constantly bemused Dennis Price as 'Number One'. Below decks Ronnie Barker was just about working h...
View BookThe Very World of Milton Jones Series 2
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 42m
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: John Le Carre
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Author Carre John Le
Narrator Simon Russell Beale Et Al
Duration 2h 49m
George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'. The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over, but the world's second oldest professio...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Ronnie Barker
Duration 2h 37m
To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh.well, it's the best job in the world,' says Ronnie Barker. And few are better at it, as this compilation of highlights from over three decades in radio and television shows. From his early radio career in shows such as The Navy Lark and Lines From My Grandfather...
View BookAuthor: R.M. Ballantyne
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Author R.M. Ballantyne
Narrator Peter Joyce
Duration 10h 22m
Heroes Ralph, Jack and Peterkin... set sail on the Arrow and are the only three survivors of a fearful shipwreck. They are washed ashore on a seemingly idyllic coral island. This tranquillity is violently disturbed, first by a tribe of bloodthirsty cannibals and then by the invasion of a vicious pirate and his gang of cut-throats. Will the boys thw...
View BookTony Hill and Carol Jordan Book 4: The Torment of Others
Author: Val Mcdermid
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Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesTony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 4
Duration 14h 29m
A dead girl lies on a blood-soaked mattress, her limbs spread in a parody of ecstasy. The scene matches a series of murders which ended with the conviction of Derek Tyler. But Tyler's been locked up in a mental institution for two years, barely speaking a word. Criminal psychologist Dr Tony Hill thinks this is not a copycat murder but something muc...
View BookGirl Online Series Book 3: Going Solo
Author: Zoe Sugg
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Author Zoe Sugg
Narrator Hannah Tointon
SeriesGirl Online, Book 3
Duration 8h 41m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Girl Online Going Solo by Zoe Sugg, read by Hannah Tointon. Penny's life is back to normal. As Penny starts the school year she's ready to face the world - alone. Noah has gone off the radar after ending his world tour early and no one, including Penny, knows where he is. So when s...
View BookAuthor: Noel Streatfeild
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Author Noel Streatfeild
Narrator Janet Streatfeild
Duration 6h 20m
Penguin presents the audio download edition of Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild, read by Janet Streatfeild. 'I wonder . . . if other girls had to be one of us, which of us they'd choose to be?' Pauline longs to be an actress. Petrova is happiest playing with cars and engines. And if she could . . . Posy would dance all day! But when their benefacto...
View BookDaisy Dalrymple Book 15: Gunpowder Plot
Author: Carola Dunn
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Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Lucy Rayner
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 15
Duration 8h 56m
In the winter of 1924, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher travels to a school friend's house to witness the estate's famous Guy Fawkes celebration. But she gets more than the quiet weekend at the quaint family manse that she was originally hoping for.The home is the site of some severe family tension. The Viscount and head of the family is a strict and unyie...
View BookDork Diaries Book 6: Tales From A Not-so-happy Heartbreaker
Author: Rachel Renée Russell
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Author Rachel Renée Russell
Narrator Jenni Barber
SeriesDork Diaries, Book 6
Duration 3h 48m
It's the biggest dance of the year and Nikki Maxwell is hoping her crush, Brandon, wants to be her date. But time is running out. What if he doesn't ask her? Or worse.what if he asks Mackenzie?!! In the sixth book in the blockbuster Dork Diaries series--now with more than 8 million copies in print--join Nikki, Chloe and Zoe as they tackle the topic...
View BookGirl Online Series Book 2: On Tour
Author: Zoe Sugg
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Author Zoe Sugg
Narrator Hannah Tointon
SeriesGirl Online, Book 2
Duration 8h 51m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Girl Online: On Tour by Zoe Sugg, the sequel to the number-one bestseller Girl Online. Read by Hannah Tointon. Penny's bags are packed. When Noah invites Penny on his European music tour, she can't wait to spend time with her rock-god-tastic boyfriend. But, between Noah's jam-packe...
View BookAuthor: John Lawton
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Author John Lawton
Narrator Lewis Hancock
Duration 11h 33m
Turner Raines is Mr Heartbreak. Everybody leaves him. They walk out, they run away...they die. When his oldest friend Mel Kissing dies with an ice pick through his skull, Raines picks up the thread and sets out to ask 'who?' and 'why?' But this is America in 1969 and one death is just a drop in the ocean. The Vietnam War is ripping the country to p...
View BookAuthor: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Inspector McLevy Mysteries Series 4, 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 BookTom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters, Series 1, Episode 1
Author: Tom Wrigglesworth
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Author Tom Wrigglesworth
Narrator Tom Wrigglesworth
SeriesTom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters Series 1, Book 1
Duration 27m
In this first episode from his fantastically funny BBC Radio 4 series that investigates the myriad examples of corporate lunacy and maddening jobsworths in modern Britain, comedian Tom Wrigglesworth finds himself baffled by the weird world of parking enforcement.
View BookAuthor: Spike Milligan
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Author Spike Milligan
Narrator The Cast
Duration 2h 7m
The historic reunion of radio's greatest comedy team to celebrate 50 years of the BBC was their farewell performance and proved so momentous it was broadcast complete with the pre-show warm-up! In what became almost a Royal Command Performance, Neddie Seagoon, Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, the famous Eccles and Bluebottle were among the much-loved char...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 7m
A seventh helping of inspired ad-libbery from the multi award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton presides over regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden in four shows from the the 2001/2002 series of the antidote to panel games. Accept no substitutes.
View BookBest of Second World War Poetry
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Cliff Michelmore
Duration 3h 3m
A sensitive and enlightening collection of war poetry. Released to celebrate the 60th anniversaries of both VE and VJ days, this collection of powerful and moving poetry, read by a star cast of readers including Spike Milligan and Phil Collins, is a feast of a listen. Containing over 100 poems, it charts the war from beginning to end, through the e...
View BookAuthor: Guy De Maupassant
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Author Guy De Maupassant
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 9m
Our narrator begins by asking a listener if they think that he is 'mad'...then goes on to relate a story of passion and drastic action that may lead a listener to begin so. A tale of jealousy, seemingly unreasonable competitiveness and obsession, this story of love-rivals is definitely not your usual...for the love rival may emerge as being rather...
View BookThe Very World of Milton Jones, Series 1, Part 6
Author: Various
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Author Various
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SeriesThe Very World of Milton Jones Series 1, Book 6
Duration 26m
"Milton Jones, Milton Jones - so good, they named him". No-one knows where he's from - "As a child, I always remember my father saying to me 'Son, to pay for your education your mother and I had to make a lot of sacrifices.' Because they were both druids." No-one can predict what he gets up to -"I'm not getting on with my yoga teacher at the moment...
View BookAuthor: John Galsworthy
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Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 1
Duration 8h 27m
Galsworthy's epic story chronicles the decline and fall of the Forsytes through almost fifty years of material triumph, emotional disaster and a terrible feud that splits them asunder. Beginning in 1886, The Man of Property starts with the family wealthy, successful and united. But the actions of the arrogant Soames Forsyte and his beautiful wife I...
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