Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Jack Shepherd
Duration 3h
This collection includes both vintage crime stories such as 'Loopy' by Ruth Rendell; 'Insufficient Evidence' by Frances Hegarty; 'Nine Points of the Law' by E. W Hornung; 'The Case for the Defence' by Graham Greene; 'Bluebeards Bathtub' by Margery Allingham and 'Hunted Down' by Charles Dickens as well the classic crime stories 'The Blue Cross' by G...
View BookAuthor: Spike Milligan
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Author Spike Milligan
Narrator The Cast
SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 6
Duration 2h 3m
Featuring: Rommel's Treasure, III Met by Goonlight, I was Monty's Treble, The Seagoon Memoirs. 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 Harry...
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
SeriesAlan Bennet's Untold Stories, Book 1
Duration 2h 32m
This is Alan Bennett's first major collection of prose since his bestselling 'Writing Home'. It is a poignant family memoir recalling the marriage of Alan's parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret. At times heartrending, and at others extremely funny, 'Untold Stories' is a matchless and unforgettab...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 56m
In this BBC full-cast production of Romeo And Juliet, the two star-crossed lovers fight for each other until their dying breath. Can their two feuding families reconcile?With the intimacy of radio, the full beauty and meaning of some of the most lyrical lines ever written can be truly heard: tenderness and passion, betrayal and bigotry are bri...
View Book11 Killer Exam Tips For...Chemistry
Author: CGP Publications
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Author CGP Publications
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 41m
This audiobook is designed to help students do well at GCSE chemistry. It gives 11 tips to boost marks and covers the most common mistakes made in chemistry exams and how to avoid them. It can also help improve revision skills fast!
View BookAuthor: Michael O'Malley
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Author Michael O'Malley
Narrator David Holt
Duration 5h 12m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Wisdom of Bees by Michael O'Malley, read by David Holt. 'It seemed to me that the bees were working on the very same kinds of problems we are trying to solve. How can large, diverse groups work together harmoniously and productively? Perhaps we could take what the bees do so well and apply it to our ins...
View BookAuthor: Smriti Prasadam-Halls
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Author Smriti Prasadam-Halls
Narrator Lenny Henry
Duration 5m
After finding two abandoned presents, Santa Baby and Roo embark on a race against time to deliver the gifts. But as they speed across the skies, they come across a few ... distractions. Well, Santa's job isn't as easy as it looks! And after a slight mis-hap involving their sleigh and a chimney, Santa Baby realises just how much he needs his dad. Lu...
View BookTony Hill and Carol Jordan Book 5: Beneath the Bleeding
Author: Val Mcdermid
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Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesTony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 5
Duration 14h 45m
When Robbie Bishop, star midfielder for the Bradfield Vics, is poisoned by a rare and deadly toxin, profiler Dr Tony Hill and trusted colleague DCI Carol Jordan have their work cut out for them. Then a bomb explodes in the football stadium, causing massive casualties - and another man dies from poisoning. Is there a link between the cases? What are...
View BookAlex Cross Series Book 2: Kiss the Girls
Author: James Patterson
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Author James Patterson
Narrator Ako Mitchell
SeriesAlex Cross, Book 2
Duration 12h 17m
Alex Cross's niece, Naomi, is missing. Cross fears the disappearance could be linked to a string of recent abductions and murders. Two brilliant and twisted killers, operating on opposite sides of the country, are collaborating and competing, encouraging each other to perpetrate increasingly horrific crimes. Cross must hunt down these two brutal ma...
View BookAuthor: Glenice Crossland
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Author Glenice Crossland
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 11h 26m
When seventeen-year-old Mary O'Connor collapses one Sunday in church she is taken to live with Dr Roberts and his wife in a beautiful Yorkshire village for her health. Though initially employed as a maid, Mary soon becomes the daughter the couple were never able to have. With Britain at war, unable to remain idle, Mary finds employment in the local...
View BookElephants To Catch Eels Series 2
Author: Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
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Author Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
Narrator Sheridan Smith
Duration 2h 48m
The BBC Radio comedy set in an 18th century Cornish village - written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain and produced by Jan Ravens. Starring Sheridan Smith. From April to May 2004. In the complete second series, smuggler Tamsyn Trelawny wants to win 'Peasants Personality of the Year', her head is turned by hunky new band of outlaws 'Boyz 2 Rob' and...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Millican
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Author Sarah Millican
Narrator Sarah Millican
Duration 7h 3m
Part autobiography, part self help, part confession, part celebration of being a common-or-garden woman, part collection of synonyms for nunny, Sarah Millican's debut book delves into her super normal life with daft stories, funny tales and proper advice on how to get past life's blips - like being good at school but not good at friends, the excite...
View BookAlfred Kropp Series Book 1: The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
Author: Rick Yancey
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Author Rick Yancey
Narrator Paul Michael
SeriesAlfred Kropp, Book 1
Duration 7h
Alfred Kropp was just trying to survive high school when his guardian uncle gets him roped into a suspicious get-rich-quick scheme that changes his life forever: stealing Excalibur-the legendary sword of King Arthur. But after Alfred unwittingly delivers the sword into the hands of a man with enormously evil intentions, he sets off on an unlikely q...
View BookThe Last Survivors 3: This World We Live In
Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
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Author Susan Beth Pfeffer
Narrator Emily Bauer
SeriesThe Last Survivors, Book 3
Duration 6h 53m
The heart-wrenching companion to the bestselling novels Life As We Knew It and The Dead & The Gone. It's been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earth's climate. Miranda and her two brothers spend their days scavenging for food and household items, while their mother stays at home and desperately tries t...
View BookAuthor: Patricia Cornwell
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Author Patricia Cornwell
Narrator C.J. Critt
SeriesKay Scarpetta, Book 7
Duration 8h 1m
It's New Year's Eve, the final night of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, and another poor soul has turned up dead. Ted Eddings, a scuba diver and investigative reporter who was a favorite at the Medical Examiner's Office, is found thirty feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the state...
View BookThe Curious Habits of Doctor Adams
Author: Jane Robins
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Author Jane Robins
Narrator Kate Lee
Duration 10h 31m
In July 1957, the press descended in droves on Eastbourne. An inquest had just been opened into the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs Bobbie Hullett. She died after months of apparent barbiturate abuse - drugs prescribed by Dr John Bodkin Adams. The inquest brought to the surface years of whispered suspicion that had swept throu...
View BookAuthor: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Inspector McLevy Mysteries Series 1, Book 3
Duration 42m
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
Duration 1h 52m
In this selection of four more editions of Just a Minute, Nicholas Parsons once again attempts to keep control over the proceedings, as well as over panellists Paul Merton, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, Liza Tarbuck, Charles Collingwood, Clement Freud, Linda Smith, Tony Hawks, Chris Neill, Graham Norton, Dara O'Briain and Greg Proops. As the players attempt...
View BookAuthor: Haruki Murakami
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Author Haruki Murakami
Narrator John Chancer
Duration 13h 28m
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in late 60s Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - and the two women he found himself torn between,...
View BookThe Chronicles of Narnia Series Book 2: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Author: C S Lewis
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Author C S Lewis
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2
Duration 3h 43m
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are sent to live in a rambling, old house, and in an empty, forgotten room they find an old wardrobe which leads them into the magical land of Narnia. Narnia is doomed to perpetual Darkness unless the children unite with Aslan the lion against the evil White Witch to restore joy and light to the land. This is the secon...
View BookAuthor: Jill Paton Walsh
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Author Jill Paton Walsh
Narrator Maureen O'Reilly
Duration 7h 30m
When her mother dies, Marian realises she has left it too late to ask the crucial questions about the identity of her own father, 'lost in the War'. Marian's search takes her to the remote and close-knit community of St. Ives, where fisherfolk and artists have coexisted for many years, and where she learns of a tragedy involving her father.
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