Author: M.R. James
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Author M.R. James
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 43m
Martin's Close is a classic ghost story by M R James, about a young woman infatuated, who seems to reappear when all believe she has been brutally murdered.
View BookAuthor: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
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Author Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
Narrator Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres
Duration 4h 54m
Charles and Mary Lamb revolutionized Shakespeare by re-writing the great Bard's plays into short stories, originally intended for children, in 1807. Since then, generations after generations of people have read and listened to their stories, which appeal just as much to adults as they do to children. Also good resources for students studying Shakes...
View BookHancock's Half Hour: A Sunday Afternoon At Home
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
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Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 30m
23 Railway Cuttings is a scene of boredom and inactivity as the occupants try to while away a British Sabbath in 'Sunday Afternoon at Home'. Featuring a star cast that includes Sid James, Bill Kerr, Warren Mitchell, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Fenella Fielding.
View BookAuthor: Smriti Prasadam-Halls
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Author Smriti Prasadam-Halls
Narrator Justin Fletcher
Duration 5m
You make me happy, you make me new. Together there's NOTHING that we cannot do. A special someone can make you happy in all sorts of ways. In this delightfully optimistic and feel-good book, Fox and Porcupine discover that blue skies or grey, EVERYTHING is better when they're together. Beautifully illustrated with a loose line, delicate touch and l...
View BookTony Hill and Carol Jordan Book 6: Fever of the Bone
Author: Val Mcdermid
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Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesTony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 6
Duration 15h 3m
Meet Tony Hill's most twisted adversary - a killer with a shopping list of victims, driven by the most perverted of desires. The murder and mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own. But it's not long before Tony realises it's just the start of a brutal and ruthless campaign that's targeting an apparently unconnected gr...
View BookAuthor: Sharon Bolton
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Author Sharon Bolton
Narrator Lisa Coleman
SeriesLacey Flint, Book 3
Duration 11h 51m
A serial killer is being closely watched by one young boy. Barney knows the killer will strike again soon. The victim will be another boy, just like him. He will drain the body of blood, and leave it on a Thames beach. There will be no clues for detectives Dana Tulloch and Mark Joesbury to find. There will be no warning about who will be next. Ther...
View BookAuthor: Fearne Cotton
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Author Fearne Cotton
Narrator Fearne Cotton
Duration 5h 29m
In today's always-on world, for many of us it seems impossible to relax, take time out or mute the encircling 'noise'. It is easy to feel trapped in this frenzied state of mind: we are surrounded by negative stories in the press, weighed down by pressures from work, family life or school and subject to constant scrutiny under the all-seeing eye of...
View BookJack Reacher Series Book 8: The Enemy
Author: Lee Child
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Author Lee Child
Narrator Jeff Harding
SeriesJack Reacher, Book 8
Duration 14h 21m
New Year's Day, 1990. A soldier is found dead in a sleazy motel bed. Jack Reacher is the officer on duty. The soldier turns out to be a two-star general. The situation is bad enough, then Reacher finds the general's wife. This stomach-churning thriller turns back the clock to a younger Reacher, in dogtags. A Reacher who still believes in the servic...
View BookAuthor: M. R. Carey
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Author M. R. Carey
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 13h 5m
Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite. But they don't laugh. Melanie is a very special girl.
View BookThe Moomins Book 3: Finn Family Moomintroll
Author: Tove Jansson
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Author Tove Jansson
Narrator Hugh Dennis
Duration 3h 33m
If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun! The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Tove Jansson's endearing classic, Finn Family Moomintroll, read with warmth (and some lively character voices) by the comedian Hugh Dennis. Moomintroll is cheerful and chubby and lives in the magical Moominvalley with his mother, M...
View BookLord Peter Whimsey Book 1: Whose Body?
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
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Author Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrator Frederick Davidson
SeriesLord Peter Wimsey, Book 1
Duration 12h 59m
Enter the 1920s' Golden Age of Detection with this first novel from Dorothy L. Sayers featuring the debut of a dashing gentleman detective, one of the great characters of mystery fiction - Lord Peter Wimsey. An unidentified corpse is found in a bathtub, and the police are jumping to conclusions about its identity and that of the murderer. Lord Pete...
View BookAuthor: Cecelia Ahern
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Author Cecelia Ahern
Narrator Amy Creighton
Duration 10h 57m
Journalist Kitty Logan's career has been destroyed by scandal, and she now faces losing the woman who guided her and taught her everything she knew. At her mentor's bedside, Kitty asks her - what is the one story she always wanted to write? The answer lies in a file buried in Constance's office: a list of one hundred names.There is no synopsis, no...
View BookAuthor: Deborah Hopkinson
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Author Deborah Hopkinson
Narrator Kimberley Farr, Matthew Frow
Duration 5h 57m
Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a "mudlark," he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. He's being hunted by Fisheye Bill Tyler, and a nastier man never walked the streets of London. And he's got a secret that costs him four precious shillings a week to keep safe. But even for Eel, things aren...
View BookColin Cellars Series Book 1: First Evidence
Author: Ken Goddard
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Author Ken Goddard
Narrator Kevin Kenerly
SeriesColin Cellars, Book 1
Duration 12h 17m
A down-to-earth forensics expert has just discovered a crime scene that is out of this world. In criminal forensics they train you to uncover evidence, no matter how brutal or bizarre the murder. But what if one night you encounter a crime scene so terrifying that no one on earth can explain it? It begins deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest,...
View BookAuthor: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Inspector McLevy Mysteries Series 2, 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 BookSarah Millican's Support Group, Series 1, Episode 2
Author: Sarah Millican
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Author Sarah Millican
Narrator Various
SeriesSarah Millican's Support Group Series 1, Book 2
Duration 28m
Sarah Millican plays Sarah, life counsellor and modern-day agony aunt, in this BBC Radio 4 comedy series. Together with her team of 'experts', Sarah tackles the nation's problems head on, dishing out real advice for real people. In this episode, Sarah tackles the problems, 'My mother is behaving like a teenager - she's 50 not 15!' and 'I'm a sensit...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 35m
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: John Keegan
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Author John Keegan
Narrator Derek Scott
Duration 16h
This audiobook looks at the military history of a battle scene by examining the experiences of individuals at the point of maximum danger. The author reassesses the three battles of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme and attempts to convey the reality of the battles as they were experienced by the participants.
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 3h
The four stories in this collection include Baroness Orczy's 'The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway', Maurice Leblanc's 'The Mysterious Railway Passenger,' Victor Whitechurch and E. Conway's 'A Warning in Red' and Freeman Wills Crofts's 'The Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express'.
View BookThe Goon Show: He's Fallen In the Water
Author: Spike Milligan
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Author Spike Milligan
Narrator The Cast
SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 11
Duration 2h 1m
Featuring: The String Robberies, The White Neddie Trade, The Spon Plague and The Mountain Eaters. Anarchic, ground-breaking and hilariously inventive, The Goon Show re-shaped comedy and set new standards in the genre. The mix of brilliant wordplay, mental slapstick and surreal clowning ensures the popularity of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Har...
View BookAuthor: M.R. James
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Author M.R. James
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 26m
When the orphaned Stephen moves to with his wealthy Uncle Abney, he finds himself haunted by a pair of ghostly children. It seems that the ghosts, a gypsy boy and an orphaned girl, had been staying at Abney's house when they met their untimely ends. Is Abney responsible, and if so what could it have to do with his obsession with immortality?
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