Author: James Hilton
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Author James Hilton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 30m
The life and times of 'Mr Chips', a much-loved classics master at Brookfield school since 1870. Full of the jokes and eccentricities of school life, Mr Chipping's journey starts as a diffident young master taking prep for the first time, progressing through middle-age and his encounters with Katherine, whose 'new woman' opinions create far-reaching...
View BookHancock's Half Hour: The Lost Episodes
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
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Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Tony Hancock
Duration 1h 55m
The Blackboard Jungle sees Hancock playing a young English master, attempting to tame a class of unruly pupils. Can he win their respect - or will he be distracted by an attractive female teacher? In The New Secretary, Hancock decides his life is in a mess, so Sid suggests he get a secretary to organise him: ideally a blonde, Anita Ekberg lookalike...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 9m
Spanking New on 7 is BBC7's first original comedy series. Compered by Robin Ince (from BBC2's The Office, E4's The Pilot Show and Radio 4's The In-Crowd) it showcases new or unknown stand-up comedians. This release features the best of the first series, including material not featured in the original BBC7 broadcasts. Spanking New on 7 has an edgier...
View BookAuthor: Dick Francis
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Author Dick Francis
Narrator Nigel Havers
Duration 3h 9m
A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Dick Francis' pacey thriller starring Nigel Havers. At the annual party celebrating the success of the racing season, everything is running well to form - until a runaway horsebox ploughs into the marquee, causing terrible death and destruction. A witness to the tragedy, wine merchant Tony Beach presumes it is just on...
View BookTemperance Brennan 15: Bones Are Forever
Author: Kathy Reichs
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Author Kathy Reichs
Narrator Linda Emond
SeriesTemperance Brennan, Book 15
Duration 9h 41m
A gripping Temperance Brennan novel from the world-class forensic anthropologist and #1 bestselling author Kathy Reichs. A newborn baby is found wedged in a vanity cabinet in a rundown apartment near Montreal. Dr Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec, is brought in to investigate. While there, she discovers the mummi...
View BookAuthor: Salina Yoon
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Author Salina Yoon
Narrator Lenny Henry
Duration 5m
When curious Penguin finds a lost pinecone in the snow, their friendship grows into something extraordinary! A heart-warming tale with a delightfully positive message. Brilliantly read by Lenny Henry. Please note that audio is not supported by all devices, please consult your user manual for confirmation.
View BookAuthor: Basma Abdel Aziz
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Author Basma Abdel Aziz
Narrator Mark Bramhall
Duration 6h 9m
In a surreal, but familiar, vision of modern day Egypt, a centralized authority known as 'the Gate' has risen to power in the aftermath of the 'Disgraceful Events,' a failed popular uprising. Citizens are required to obtain permission from the Gate in order to take care of even the most basic of their daily affairs, yet the Gate never opens, and th...
View BookAuthor: Ben Willbond
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Author Ben Willbond
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 48m
All six episodes of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom written by and starring Ben Willbond and Justin Edwards about two incompetent science teachers who work at a college that specialises in drama, and whose world is turned upside down by the arrival of a new boss. Forresters Sixth Form College has a highly successful drama department run by the odious Danny...
View BookAuthor: Victoria Derbyshire
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Author Victoria Derbyshire
Narrator Victoria Derbyshire
Duration 7h 17m
Renowned as a much-loved and highly respected BBC journalist, Victoria Derbyshire has spent 20 years finding the human story behind the headlines. In 2015 she found herself at the heart of the news, with a devastating breast cancer diagnosis. With honesty and openness, she decided to live out her treatment and recovery in the spotlight in a series...
View BookDaisy Dalrymple Book 12: Die Laughing
Author: Carola Dunn
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Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Lucy Rayner
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 12
Duration 8h 29m
One morning in April 1924, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher finds herself in a most unenviable position. Despite her best attempts to elude the inevitable, she must face her darkest fears and with all strength and courage she can muster, must confront the one person she has tried hardest to avoid-the dentist. But upon arriving for her appoint...
View BookThe Moomins Book 4: The Exploits of Moominpappa
Author: Tove Jansson
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Author Tove Jansson
Narrator Hugh Dennis
Duration 3h 12m
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, The Exploits of Moominpappa, read with warmth (and some lively character voices) by the comedian Hugh Dennis. 'I decided to run away. There simply wasn't anything else to do.' Here at last is Moomi...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 39: Snuff
Author: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 39
Duration 11h 29m
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an anci...
View BookThe Camel Club Series Book 1: The Camel Club
Author: David Baldacci
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Author David Baldacci
Narrator James Naughton
SeriesCamel Club, Book 1
Duration 5h 39m
It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. Their simple goal is to find the "truth" behind their country's actions.One man leads this aging, ragtag crew. He has no known past and has taken the name "Oliver Stone." Day and night, Stone and his...
View BookAuthor: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Inspector McLevy Mysteries Series 1, 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 BookRoutes of English, Series 4, Programme 6
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes of English Series 4, Book 6
Duration 27m
With English now hailed on all sides as the world's first "global" language and the preferred medium of expression from United Biscuits to the United Nations, Melvyn Bragg meets people-like former Dome supremo P.Y. Gerbeau-for whom talking English is the most natural way to speak, yet who didn't absorb it with their mother's milk. Also taking part...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 52m
This selection of four more editions of Just a Minute includes the Sony award-winning programme from 2002, plus three from the first series of 2003. Nicholas Parsons once again attempts to keep control over the proceedings, as well as over panellists Clement Freud, Paul Merton, Tony Hawks, Julian Clary, Pam Ayres (making her debut on the show), Gra...
View BookAuthor: Henri Stendhal
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Author Henri Stendhal
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
The story of a handsome and ambitious carpenter's son, Julian Sorel, and of his life torn between the military (the scarlet) and the church (the black). Sorel is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life. To do this, he realises he must adopt the code of hypocrisy by which early 19th-century French Resoratio...
View BookHancock: The Missing Page, Son & Heir, & Two Other Tv Episodes
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
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Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Tony Hancock
Duration 1h 55m
Featuring: The Missing Page, Poison Pen Letters, Lord Byron Lived Here, and The Succession - Son and Heir. Here are a further four original television soundtracks from the BBC's Hancock series. Once again Tony Hancock stars as the loveable curmudgeon, in four instalments written by the character's creators, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The episodes...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 45m
Sid Perks came from Birmingham and ran the village shop with Polly. After that, he became the landlord of the Bull pub at the heart of the village, where he remained for the rest of his life.
View BookAuthor: J. M Barrie
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Author J. M Barrie
Narrator Full Cast, Toyah Wilcox
Duration 2h 3m
When Peter Pan flies into the night nursery of Wendy, John and Michael Darling, he takes them on the journey - and the adventure - of a lifetime. Mermaids, wolves and Indians weave their spell in the magical Never Never Land - where also lurks the wicked Captain Hook...Toyah Willcox stars as Peter Pan, with Ron Moody as Captain Hook, Roy Hudd as Sm...
View BookTemperance Brennan Book 16: Bones of the Lost
Author: Kathy Reichs
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Author Kathy Reichs
Narrator Linda Emond
SeriesTemperance Brennan, Book 16
Duration 11h 35m
A gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international no. 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones. The body of a teenage girl is discovered along a desolate highway on the outskirts of Charlotte. Inside her purse is the ID card of a local businessm...
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