Amelia Peabody Book 5: The Deeds of the Disturber
Author: Elizabeth Peters
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Author Elizabeth Peters
Narrator Barbara Rosenblat
SeriesAmelia Peabody, Book 5
Duration 14h 1m
Amelia and Emerson settle in for a quiet summer in England. When a night watchman mysteriously dies in the British Museum, Amelia is on the scene with her trusty parasol, ready to do battle with a malignant mummy and a ghost from Emerson's past.
View BookAuthor: Crossland Glenice
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Author Crossland Glenice
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 12h 5m
In the small Yorkshire town of Cottenly - dominated by the steel works and surrounded by beautiful countryside - Isaac Stanford lives with his wife Emily and their three lovely daughters, known locally as the Stanford lasses. Alice, the eldest, lives only for her work as a secretary and chapel on Sunday. Fair and loving Lizzie is content with her j...
View BookThe Moomins Book 2: Comet In Moominland
Author: Tove Jansson
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Author Tove Jansson
Narrator Hugh Dennis
Duration 3h 26m
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, Comet in Moominland, read with warmth (and some lively character voices) by the comedian Hugh Dennis. A comet is speeding towards Earth and nobody knows what to do!Will it destroy everything and ev...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Christopher Evan Welsh
Duration 8h 24m
More than twenty New York Times bestselling authors team up to create a first-rate serial novel- a collaboration among some of the most popular mystery and thriller writers in the English-speaking world today, producing a " well-told mystery that stands on its own two (or 40) feet" (Booklist). Readers will enjoy an introduction by Lee Child, an aft...
View BookBarbara Holloway Series Book 13: By Stone, By Blade, By Fire
Author: Kate Wilhelm
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Author Kate Wilhelm
Narrator Carrington Macduffie
SeriesBarbara Holloway, Book 13
Duration 14h 18m
Travis Morgan's case seems open and shut: a plot to kill his estranged father, fundamentalist preacher Arlie Morgan, goes awry and his bullet slays an innocent bookkeeper. Two eyewitnesses seal Travis' fate. But despite damning evidence and an admitted hatred of his father, Travis staunchly maintains his innocence. Beseeched by his anguished mother...
View BookMclevy: Christmas Special 2006
Author: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 25m
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 3
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes of English Series 4, Book 3
Duration 27m
Here we take up the story of Caribbean English where the Brixton Routes left off. For the poet Edward Kamau Braithwaite the legacy of the English language is something from which he, in his tropical landscape, must break free because, as he wrote, "the hurricane does not roar in pentameters". Melvyn Bragg heads off to the Caribbean where he meets a...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 38m
Another hilarious selection of mirth-filled minutes from BBC Radio 4's popular long-running panel game. Suave but embattled chairman Nicholas Parsons attempts to control prattling panellists Clement Freud, Derek Nimmo and Paul Merton as they pit their wits - and their words - against the clock. Join them and their guests as they attempt to speak fo...
View BookTravels With A Donkey In the Cervennes
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator Denis Lawson
Duration 3h
On 23rd September 1878, Stevenson set out on an 11 day tour of the Cervennes with his recalcitrant donkey, Modestine, following completion of his writings in the French town of Monastier. His natural affinity for France, his appreciation of its landscape, and his enthusiasm for the French way of life as well as his account of the conflict between t...
View BookThe Navy Lark: Going On Leave To Croydon
Author: Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
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Author Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
Narrator The Cast
SeriesThe Navy Lark, Book 15
Duration 1h 48m
Features: Making a Right Pig's Breakfast, Admiral Pertwee's Fleet, The Mysterious Pudding Mine and Going On Leave To Croydon. Four more classic episodes of nautical mayhem on board HMS Troutbridge. One of radio's longest running laughter-makers, The Navy Lark kept the nation on the crest of a comic wave from 1959 to 1977. All at sea in the Senior S...
View BookAuthor: John Wyndham
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Author John Wyndham
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 26m
John Wyndham's classic tale of monsters from the deep, alien invasion and ecological disaster comes alive in this full-cast BBC radio dramatisation. At first, the fireballs seemed to be nothing more than a dazzling display of lights in the sky, plunging into the deepest oceans and disappearing without trace. But when ships started sinking inexplica...
View BookAuthor: Brian Moore
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Author Brian Moore
Narrator James D'Arcy
Duration 4h 56m
The Statement is the exciting and thrilling story of Pierre Brossard, a man condemned to death by French courts for crimes against humanity in WWII, but 40 years later, he is being pursued by a number of enemies, and which are the crimes that he actually committed? Sheltered by the Catholic Church for over 40 years, Pierre Brossard suddenly finds h...
View BookTrevor's World of Sport Series 2
Author: Andy Hamilton
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Author Andy Hamilton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 48m
The second in the series. Trevor and Sammy are the movers and shakers at agency TS Sports Stars. Yet although friends for 20 years and business partners for nine, they are chalk and cheese
View BookAuthor: Dirk Maggs
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Author Dirk Maggs
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 44m
"This is the Batman. Treat what you are about to hear in the strictest confidence - my associates must be protected at all costs. By night in Gotham City you knew me as the Batman. What you never knew was..." The Batman is dead. Police Commissioner Gordon has received a recording by the Batman which reveals his real identity. But who is the occupan...
View BookThe Private World of Kenneth Williams
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator David Benson
Duration 2h 5m
In this documentary portrait of Kenneth Williams, who died in 1988, the much-loved comedy actor's diaries are drawn upon to illustrate his life and career. David Benson, who won acclaim for his one-man show in which he portrayed Kenneth Williams, reads extracts from the diaries, whilst archive clips from such programmes as Round the Horne and Beyon...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 5m
In this BBC full-cast production, Othello is drawn further and further into jealous rage by the manipulative Iago.In this story of evil cunning perverting a once noble mind, radio captures Iago's sly hints and boasts to the audience with shocking clarity. The listener is led along an emotional path that grips with fascinating horror until the play'...
View BookAuthor: Yasmeen Ismail
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Author Yasmeen Ismail
Narrator Sophie Thompson
Duration 5m
I'm supposed to be made of sugar and spice and all things nice. But I'm sweet and sour and not a little flower. I am a girl! I am a girl! I am a girl! The girl in this book likes to win, she likes to be spontaneous, fast and strong, and because she also likes to dress in t-shirt and shorts, she is forever getting mistaken for a boy. And when she me...
View BookAuthor: Sam Wilson
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Author Sam Wilson
Narrator John Chancer
Duration 11h 41m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Zodiac by Sam Wilson, read by John Chancer. EVERY MURDER IS A SIGN. In a society divided along Zodiac lines, status is cast at birth - and binding for life. Who you are can be determined by a matter of days, hours, even minutes. Even for the most experienced detectives, every once...
View BookThe Archers: Brian and Jennifer
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 45m
After Jennifer's marriage to Roger Travers-Macy ran into trouble, she returned to Ambridge to await divorce proceedings to run their course. During this period she met Brian Aldridge, new owner of Home Farm, and when the divorce finally came through they were able to make wedding plans.
View BookRivers of London Book 5: Foxglove Summer
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
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Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
SeriesRivers of London, Book 5
Duration 10h 50m
In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and takes him out of London - to a small village in Herefordshire where the local police are reluctant to admit that there might be a supernatural element to the disappearance of some local children. But while you can take the L...
View BookDaisy Dalrymple Book 6: Dead In the Water
Author: Carola Dunn
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Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Mia Chiaromonte
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 6
Duration 7h 23m
May the best man die! In July of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple travels to Henley-on-Thames to visit her aunt and uncle, as well as to work on her latest writing assignment: covering the Henley Royal Regatta for an American magazine. Daisy plans a simple trip researching her article, enjoying the races, and, come the weekend, having a pleasant...
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