Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Harry Potter Book 1
Author: J.K Rowling
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Author J.K Rowling
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesHarry Potter, Book 1
Duration 8h 29m
Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy. He lives with his Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia and cousin Dudley, who make him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. Then Harry starts receiving mysterious letters and his life is changed for ever. He is whisked away by a beetle-eyed giant of a man and enrolled in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry....
View BookRoutes of English, Series 3, Programme 6
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes of English Series 3, Book 6
Duration 27m
The final programme in the series considers the future of English dialects. In the last programme in the series Melvyn looks at Standard English. He is joined by Lynda Mugglestone, Fellow of English Language at Pembroke College, Oxford and John Wells, Professor of Phonetics at the University of London. Together they attempt to answer some of the qu...
View BookJust A Minute: The Best of 2008
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 51m
Four of the most sparkling editions from recent series of the ever-popular Radio 4 comedy panel game, chaired by Nicholas Parsons with regular players Paul Merton and Clement Freud joined by a host of guest players. Among the subjects hilariously tackled are: The Scottish Play, The A to Z, An Infinite Number of Monkeys, Leonardo da Vinci, The Famou...
View BookAuthor: Lawrence Durrell
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Author Lawrence Durrell
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 3h
'Bitter Lemons' is Durrell's paen to the beauty and mystery of Cyprus, from the romance of the characters living in Bellapaix where Durrell bought a house, to the beauty of the mountain ranges and the excitement of the slow but gradual uprising of the Greek Cypriots who are determined to achieve 'Enosis' - union with Greece and freedom from British...
View BookDoctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks & Exploration Earth
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 18m
Tom Baker stars as the fourth Doctor in this double-bill of adventures, in which he's ably assisted by Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah-Jane Smith. 'Exploration Earth: The Time Machine' was recorded and broadcast in 1976, the third of four instalments in a BBC Schools Radio programme. The TARDIS travels 4,500 years into Earth's past, and the Doctor and Sa...
View BookAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Julie Christie
Duration 1h 5m
Holmes and Watson mystery in which a man, apparently missing, is spotted by his own wife standing in the window of the home of a dirty, disfigured beggar.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Various
SeriesSuperintendent Battle Series, Book 5
Duration 1h 44m
Lady Tresselian invites several guests to stay at her seaside house at Gull's Point. Against her better judgment she has allowed her late husband's ward, handsome tennis ace Neville Strange, and his wife Kay to come at the same time as Neville's ex-wife Audrey. Other guests include Mary, Lady Tresselian's companion; Ted, Kay's ever-present friend;...
View BookDoctor Who: Night of the Humans
Author: David Llewellyn
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Author David Llewellyn
Narrator Arthur Darvill
Duration 5h 14m
"This is the Gyre - the most hostile environment in the Galaxy" 250,000 years' worth of junk floating in deep space, home to the shipwrecked Sittuun, the carnivorous Sollogs, and worst of all - the Humans. The Doctor and Amy arrive on this terrifying world in the middle of an all-out frontier war between Sittuun and Humans, and the countdown has al...
View BookSherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Clive Merrison, Michael Williams
Duration 1h 51m
What is the connection between a corpse with a missing face and a ruthless secret society which once terrorised a desolate region of the United States? With the aid of a local guidebook, a missing dumb-bell and Dr Watson's umbrella, Holmes unravels a tangled web which stretches over fifteen years and two continents; and in the centre of that web lu...
View BookMorecambe and Wise Christmas Special
Author: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise
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Author Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 29m
At one time Morecambe & Wise were as much a part of Christmas television as the Queen's speech. This compilation of their best festive sketches, songs and playlets covers the years 1969 to 1975, when the BBC shows regularly achieved huge audience ratings.
View Book11 Killer Exam Tips For...Maths
Author: CGP Publications
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Author CGP Publications
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 45m
This audiobook is designed to help students to do well at GCSE maths. It gives 11 tips to boost marks, covering the most common mistakes made in maths exams and how to avoid them. Suitable for Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level.
View BookA Beginner's Guide To Bearspotting
Author: Michelle Robinson
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Author Michelle Robinson
Narrator Lenny Henry
Duration 5m
Bearspotting is a dangerous business - you ought to take it seriously, you know. So here's what you need to know for starters - black bears are dangerous and black, brown bears are dangerous and brown. Although sometimes black bears can be a little brown, and brown bears can be a little black. Are you following? You really need to focus here. If yo...
View BookAuthor: Michael Palin
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Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 11h 5m
In September 2014 the wreck of a sailing vessel was discovered at the bottom of the sea in the frozen wastes of the Canadian Arctic. It was broken at the stern and covered in a woolly coat of underwater vegetation. Its whereabouts had been a mystery for over a century and a half. Its name was HMS Erebus. Now Michael Palin - former Monty Python stal...
View BookAuthor: Harlan Coben
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Author Harlan Coben
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 9h 20m
International bestseller Harlan Coben returns with a thriller that explores the depth and passion of a lost love, and the secrets and lies at its heart Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. But six years haven't extinguished his feelings, and when Jake comes across her husband's obituary,...
View BookMagical Cats Mystery Book 4: Cat Trick
Author: Sofie Kelly
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Author Sofie Kelly
Narrator Cassandra Campbell
SeriesMagical Cats Mystery, Book 4
Duration 9h 8m
Kathleen Paulson enjoys her life as a small-town librarian with two extraordinary cats, Owen and Hercules, who provide companionship during the quiet times and have a remarkable talent for sleuthing when murder disturbs the peace...The local businesses of Mayville Heights hope to convince Chicago-based company Legacy Tours to sell a vacation packag...
View BookAuthor: Brian P Cleary
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Author Brian P Cleary
Narrator Intuitive
Duration 3h 6m
Are you as clever as a fox? Or perhaps you're as sharp as any spike? If so, this book will be a piece of cake! Clever rhymes from Brian P. Cleary present similes and metaphors. Read it aloud and share in the delight of the sense-and nonsense-of words.
View BookAuthor: Frederick Forsyth
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Author Frederick Forsyth
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 10h 44m
The life-and-death hunt for a notorious Nazi criminal unfolds against a background of international arms deals. As the story leads to its final dramatic confrontation on a bleak winter's hill-top, the question every reader asked at the end of The Day of the Jackal will inevitably be asked again: Can this be fiction?
View BookAuthor: Mary Stanley
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Author Mary Stanley
Narrator Mary Stanley
Duration 12h 3m
Ireland 1944. In a violent storm a German plane heading for Britain is blown off course. The pilot, completely disorientated, plunges down an Irish hillside and shatters a young family. The children who survive that terrible night try to leave the past behind, but the past will not let them go. Rescued by their Aunt Lucy, Amelia and Mattie need to...
View BookSexton Blake: You Must Be Joking
Author: Donald Stuart
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Author Donald Stuart
Narrator William Franklyn
Duration 26m
William Franklyn stars as paperback hero Sexton Blake, with David Gregory as his assistant Tinker, in the original BBC Radio dramatisations from 1967. Lost from the BBC archives for over 40 years, these rediscovered episodes are presented on CD for the very first time. In You Must Be Joking a friend from Blake's club dies the day after receiving a...
View BookRoutes of English, Series 3, Programme 5
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes of English Series 3, Book 5
Duration 27m
Here, Melvyn visits Oswestry. Just five miles from the Welsh border, this is a frontier town whose name means "boundary". It's where Offa's Dyke and countless crumbling castles bear witness to centuries of shifting political allegiances. Language too, has been a battleground. Welsh and English have waxed and waned, woven and unravelled. Visit the t...
View BookJust A Minute: The Best of 2009
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 52m
Four specially selected episodes of Radio 4's much-loved panel game, hosted by Nicholas Parsons. Among the subjects hilariously tackled are tomboys, my secret vice, charisma, hot air, Speakers' Corner, cat lovers, agony aunts and bugs. First broadcast in 1968, Just a Minute is one of the longest-running radio comedy shows. A national institution, i...
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