Author: Daphne Du Maurier
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Author Daphne Du Maurier
Narrator Various
Duration 56m
Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of horror. The idea for this famous story came to du Maurier one day when she was walking across to Menabilly Barton farm from the house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field whilst above him the seagulls were diving and wheeling. She developed an idea about the birds becoming...
View BookAuthor: Summer Rayne Oakes
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Author Summer Rayne Oakes
Narrator Various
Duration 5h 1m
Summer Rayne Oakes, an urban houseplant expert and environmental scientist, is the icon of wellness-minded millennials who want to bring nature indoors, according to a New York Times profile. Summer has managed to grow 1,000 houseplants in her Brooklyn apartment (and they're thriving!) Her secret? She approaches her relationships with plants as int...
View BookAuthor: Gerald Seymour
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Author Gerald Seymour
Narrator Paul Thornley
Duration 18h 31m
Eighteen years after the barbarous war with the Serbs that tore their communities apart, a group of Croatian villagers discover the identity of the Englishman who they believe betrayed them by reneging on a deal to supply arms. With revenge in sight at last, they hire a professional killer from London to track him down...but is the story as simple...
View BookAuthor: Naomi Klein
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Author Naomi Klein
Narrator Liza Ross
Duration 21h 55m
We seem to have given up on any serious effort to prevent catastrophic climate change. Exposing the work of ideologues on the right who know the challenge this poses to the free market all too well, Naomi Klein also challenges the failing strategies of environmental groups. It's time to stop running from the full implications of the crisis and begi...
View BookAuthor: Tommy Orange
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Author Tommy Orange
Narrator Various
Duration 8h
Random House presents the audiobook edition of There There by Tommy Orange, read by Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo and Kyla Garcia. Jacquie Red Feather and her sister Opal grew up together, relying on each other during their unsettled childhood. As adults they were driven apart, but Jacquie is newly sober and trying to make it ba...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 8: Guards! Guards!
Author: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 8
Duration 10h 10m
An aura of mean-minded resentfulness is thick in the streets of Ankh-Morpork. Insurrection is in the air. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to fall out all over again. The Have-Nots want some of their own magic. But magic in the hands of amateurs is a dangerous thing. The City Watch is the last line of defence against such unnatural goings-on. But...
View BookDork Diaries Book 4: Tales From A Not-so-graceful Ice Princess
Author: Rachel Renée Russell
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Author Rachel Renée Russell
Narrator Jenni Barber
SeriesDork Diaries, Book 4
Duration 3h 38m
Nikki Maxwell isn't at all surprised to find out that her crush Brandon volunteers at a local animal shelter. He's such a sweet guy--of course he wants to help those adorable puppies! Then Brandon tells her that the shelter is in danger of closing, and Nikki knows she can't let that happen. Especially when she discovers a shocking secret about Bran...
View BookAuthor: Robin Stevens
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Author Robin Stevens
Narrator Gemma Chan
SeriesMurder Most Unladylike, Book 1
Duration 5h 48m
When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they struggle to find any truly exciting mysteries to investigate. (Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. Which they don't.) Then Hazel discovers the Science Mistress, Miss Bell, lying dead in the Gym. She assumes it was a terri...
View BookAuthor: William Faulkner
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Author William Faulkner
Narrator Grover Gardner
Duration 8h 54m
"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory i...
View BookBarbara Holloway Series Book 1: Death Qualified
Author: Kate Wilhelm
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Author Kate Wilhelm
Narrator Anna Fields
SeriesBarbara Holloway, Book 1
Duration 15h 21m
Five years ago Barbara Holloway gave up practicing law, disillusioned with a profession that put politics before justice. Then she receives a phone call, with a simple message: "I need you". Nell Kendricks's husband Lucas disappeared seven years earlier, abandoning his young family. Nell hasn't seen him since - until the day Lucas Kendricks arrives...
View BookAuthor: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Inspector McLevy Mysteries Series 4, Book 1
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: Noel Coward
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Author Noel Coward
Narrator Full Cast, John Moffatt, Rosemary Leach
Duration 1h 26m
John Moffatt and Rosemary Leach star in this BBC Radio 4 production of Noel Coward's patriotic play about the ups and downs of a working-class family between 1919 and 1939 'This Happy Breed' opens in 1919, when the Gibbons family have just moved to their smart new home in the suburbs of South London. Against a background of social change and nation...
View BookThe Navy Lark: Larking Around Loch Ness
Author: Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
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Author Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
Narrator The Cast
SeriesThe Navy Lark, Book 5
Duration 2h 26m
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 Great Automatic Grammatizator
Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Nicholas Courtney
Duration 10h
Bizarre, amusing and grotesque, these tales enter the unexpected world of Dahl. They illustrate the different lives that people lead: a life of chance, of risk and of plain bad luck. The stories are specially chosen for teenagers to introduce them to Dahl's work for adults. The stories included are: 'Katina', 'Man from the South', 'Mrs Bixby and th...
View BookAuthor: H E Bates
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Author H E Bates
Narrator Philip Franks
SeriesPop Larkin, Book 1
Duration 4h 21m
Introducing the Larkins, a family with a place in popular mythology. Here they come, crashing their way through the English countryside in the wake of Pa, the quick-eyed, golden-hearted junk-dealer, and Ma, with a mouthful of crisps and a laugh like a jelly.
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 6m
Another helping of inspired ad-libbery from the multi award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. 'The funniest comedy quiz show of them all.' Sue Arnold, Observer. Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton presides over regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden in another four shows from the antidote to panel games. Accept no substitutes.
View BookAuthor: Gustave Flaubert
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Author Gustave Flaubert
Narrator Jenny Agutter
Duration 2h 24m
Madame Bovary is one of Europe's most famous pieces of literature causing a huge scandal when first published in 1856 as a serial in La Revue de Paris and then, after being acquitted at a trial, as a book in 1857. Ahead of its time, Madame Bovary shocked its readers when first published, with its candid themes of adultery and betrayal. Emma Bovary...
View BookThe Very World of Milton Jones, Series 1, Part 5
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Very World of Milton Jones Series 1, Book 5
Duration 24m
"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: Jaroslav Hasek
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Author Jaroslav Hasek
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 53m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged by Christopher Reason of the satirical Czech novel by Jaroslav Hasek. This tale charts the exploits during the First World War of "European Forrest Gump", Svejk, in his progress through the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian army. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier wh...
View BookAuthor: Andy Hamilton
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Author Andy Hamilton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 48m
Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses' script for Revolting People, about the American War of Independence, winningly mixes the `boom boom' school of jokes, literary silliness (jeopardy means `like a jeopard') and anachronisms which make deft political points. Hamilton and Tarses, who has written for the Muppets and the Bob Newhart Show, appear alongside Ja...
View BookAuthor: John Grisham
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Author John Grisham
Narrator Vincent Marzello
Duration 13h 27m
It's a deadly game of blackmail. And they're making him play. Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation with a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career and, possibly, his entire life. One night that secret catches up with him in the form of some bad men in a dark...
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