Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesKing Stupid Series 1, Book 6
Duration 27m
King Stupid is a new Radio Four panel game where four panellists are funny. It's not the News, sport, adverts, other panel games or anything! King Stupid is also a show where you will not hear any of the following phrases: 1."Now into our mercifully brief second round ..." 2."This weeks winners of the keys to the executive washroom are ..." 3."Tony...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 58m
Another two hours of inspired rib-cracking ad-libbery. Spectacularly clueless as ever are Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton and panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Willie Rushton (not forgetting the scorer, the lovely Samantha). It's the authentic antidote to panel games. This compilation includes Willie Rushton's last two shows.
View BookAuthor: George Orwell
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Author George Orwell
Narrator Richard E Grant
Duration 9h 1m
Orwell's darkly comic novel centres around the life of Gordon Comstock, onetime advertising copywriter turned bookshop employee and struggling poet. Gordon's disdain for money and artistic compromise preclude his earning enough of a living to escape constant public embarrassment. On top of this, it gives him terrible trouble holding on to his girlf...
View BookThe Very World of Milton Jones, Series 1, Part 3
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Very World of Milton Jones Series 1, Book 3
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: James Goss
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Author James Goss
Narrator David Tennant
Duration 1h 11m
'Hello, I'm the Doctor. And, if you can hear this, then one of us is going to die.' At the bottom of the sea, in the wreck of a floating radio station, a lost recording has been discovered. After careful restoration, it is played for the first time - to reveal something incredible. It is the voice of the Doctor, broadcasting from Radio Bravo in 196...
View BookAuthor: Frank Richards
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Author Frank Richards
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
Billy Bunter makes a surprising appearance in the Remove soccer team when Smithy the Bounder is sacked for the remainder of the term by the captain, Harry Wharton. Cripes! Following the usual order of chaos, this leads to the resignation of many members of the team in protest. Meanwhile, the Fat Owl of the Remove plots to booby trap Smithy in his s...
View BookCousins Quartet Series Book 4: Tangled Fortune
Author: Margaret Mahy
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Author Margaret Mahy
Narrator Richard Mitchley
SeriesCousins Quartet, Book 4
Duration 1h 39m
Being a Fortune isn't just being called a Fortune,' Tracey declared. 'You get to be a Fortune by going through the TEST...' When his parents move to the small town in New Zealand where his father grew up, ten-year-old Pete can hardly wait to meet all his relatives who live there - especially the four cousins his own age. Will he like them? And, mor...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
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Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesOperation Luna, Book 1
Duration 30m
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects and atmospheric music engaged the listener as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger...
View BookMagical Cats Mystery 5: Final Catcall
Author: Sofie Kelly
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Author Sofie Kelly
Narrator Cassandra Campbell
SeriesMagical Cats Mystery, Book 5
Duration 8h 47m
Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson gets plenty of entertainment from her extraordinary cats, Owen and Hercules. But when a theater troupe stumbles into more tragedy than it bargained for, it's up to Kathleen to play detective...With her sort-of boyfriend Marcus calling it quits and her ex-boyfriend Andrew showing up out of the blue, Kathleen has...
View BookAuthor: Stephen King
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Author Stephen King
Narrator Josh Hamilton
Duration 1h 36m
From international bestseller Stephen King the first ebook ever published-a novella about a young man who hitches a ride with a driver from the other side.
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Adler
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Author Elizabeth Adler
Narrator Bernadette Dunne
Duration 8h 48m
Fen Dexter's quiet life on the idyllic California coast is interrupted one stormy night when a blood-covered man shows up on her doorstep claiming to have had a car accident. He tells her that he is on his way to San Francisco to help the police solve the murder of his fianc‚e. Unable to make it to the hospital because of the storm, he spends...
View BookAuthor: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Inspector McLevy Mysteries Series 3, 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 BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesKing Stupid Series 1, Book 5
Duration 27m
King Stupid is a new Radio Four panel game where four panellists are funny. It's not the News, sport, adverts, other panel games or anything! King Stupid is also a show where you will not hear any of the following phrases: 1."Now into our mercifully brief second round ..." 2."This weeks winners of the keys to the executive washroom are ..." 3."Tony...
View BookAuthor: Carol Shields
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Author Carol Shields
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 12h
Floral designer Larry and his feisty young wife, Dorrie, spend their honeymoon in England. At Hampton Court Larry discovers a new passion for mazes. Perhaps his ever-growing obsession with their secrets will help him find a way through the bewilderment deepening about him as, through twenty years and two failed marriages, he endeavours to understan...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 3h
A rich selection of Irish stories comprising: 'The Model Millionaire' by Oscar Wilde; 'Rosanna' by Agnes Castle; 'The Brown Man' by Gerald Griffin; 'Bob Pentland, or the Ganger Outwitted' by William Carleton; 'Araby' by James Joyce; 'Adventures of a Strolling Player' by Oliver Goldsmith and 'Sir Dominic Sarsfield' by Sheridan Le Fanu.
View BookI'm Sorry I Haven't A Christmas Clue
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 14m
Features the Christmas Special, called I'm Sorry I Haven't a Christmas Carol, broadcast on Christmas Day 2003. Rather than being the normal quiz show, the regulars will be telling the story of Ebenezer Scrumph and his poor assistant Crotchet with the help of the regular guests - Jeremy Hardy, Sandi Toksvig, Tony Hawks, Andy Hamilton, Linda Smith, a...
View BookAuthor: George Eliot
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Author George Eliot
Narrator Geraldine James
Duration 2h 24m
A touching tale of companionship and redemption, that challenges the age-old 'blood is thicker than water' adage. Silas Marner, a weaver, is cast out from his religious community and arrives in Raveloe, where he is feared because of his mysterious nature and brooding manner. When he is left an unwanted child to care for, his love for the child grow...
View BookThe Very World of Milton Jones, Series 1, Part 2
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Very World of Milton Jones Series 1, Book 2
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: James Cary
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Author James Cary
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 48m
BBC Radio 4 sitcom by James Cary, set in Bletchley Park in 1941. Originally broadcast May - June 2009. Three code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden hut as they try to break German ciphers. Unfortunately, they hate each other. Includes the following episodes: Royal Visit-A royal visitor is coming to inspect Bletchley Park, but the top b...
View BookThe Friday Night Knitting Club
Author: Kate Jacobs
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Author Kate Jacobs
Narrator Regina Reagan
SeriesThe Friday Night Knitting Club, Book 1
Duration 12h 8m
Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday night knitting club. Her friends are happy to escape their lives too, even for just a few hours. But when Georgia's ex suddenly reappears, demanding a role in their daughter's life, her whole world is shattered. Lucki...
View BookHow the Incredible Human Body Works
Author: Brainwaves The
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Author Brainwaves The
Narrator Zoe Bond
Duration 2h 36m
What defeats food eating fungi? How does the brain tell you you're hungry? Where's there an acid bath in your body? Get ready for a rollicking rip roaring romp around the human body. Including a fight against an invasion of horrible toxic bacteria, dodge squirting digestive juices, and a white knuckle ride on red rapids of gushing blood.
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