Author: Barbara Cartland
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Author Barbara Cartland
Narrator James Elias
Duration 3h 23m
Edwina, the daughter of Lord Linley, is taken to London by her Aunt to be presented at Court and brought out as a debutante. Unfortunately her Aunt has an accident which kills her and Edwina realises she will have to go back to the county having attended none of the balls as she had hoped and expected. As her father is in France being treated for h...
View BookAuthor: Adam Johnson
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Author Adam Johnson
Narrator Various
Duration 19h 19m
An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother--a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang--and an influential father who runs Long Tomorro...
View BookAuthor: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 44m
A full-cast dramatisation starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon The world's best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about one of his most intriguing cases in this full-cast dramatisation that has been specially adapted for radio from the original novel....
View BookWhen the Dog Dies, Series 2, Episode 6
Author: Ian Davidson, Peter Vincent
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Author Ian Davidson, Peter Vincent
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesWhen the Dog Dies Series 2, Book 6
Duration 27m
Ronnie Corbett plays granddad Sandy Hopper in this sitcom which reunites him with the writers of his hit comedy 'Sorry' - Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. In the sixth episode, 'It was a Dark and Stormy Night', Dolores rashly plunges into an oral history project and reveals the yawning chasms dividing the Hoppers.
View BookRoutes of English, Series 3, Programme 4
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes to English Series 3, Book 4
Duration 27m
Melvyn visits Brixton to discover the most imitated, influential form of spoken English today. It's a dialect determined not by geography or profession, but by age, fashion and aspiration. Pulsing through music culture, spread by television and radio, it can be found throughout the UK. Sometimes subversive, often secretive, it is arguably the most...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 3h 11m
Woof! Woof! I am a spaniel called Flush and owned by Elizabeth Barret Browning and her husband Robert and this is my amusing but ultimately sad autiobiography. Virginia Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings spaniel was what she called "a little escapade", begun to "ease my brain" in the wake of The Waves (1931). The intensities of that m...
View BookAuthor: George Eliot
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Author George Eliot
Narrator Lucy Briars
Duration 7h
After he is wrongly accused of a crime and expelled from his community, weaver Silas Marner becomes a miser and a recluse. A strange sequence of events, and the appearance of a small child, transforms his life and awakens him to the redemptive power of love.
View BookClare In the Community, Series 4
Author: Harry Venning
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Author Harry Venning
Narrator The Cast
Duration 2h 47m
The fourth series of the Sony Award-winning comedy starring Sally Phillips as Clare Splendidly self-obsessed social worker Clare Barker is back in the community and as entertaining as ever in the fourth series of this acclaimed BBC Radio 4 comedy. In these six episodes, Clare's mother piles pressure onto her faltering relationship with Brian, Clare...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bingham
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Author Charlotte Bingham
Narrator Maggie Ollerenshaw
Duration 7h 36m
This tells the often hilarious story of two middle-aged women, Pat and Sam, intent on fleeing hearth and home for a blissful, family-free fortnight of drawing and cooking classes-only to end up at leaky old Hartley House. There the ever-resourceful Aunt Biddy is struggling to get her nephew Tom's life back on track by opening his only asset as an i...
View BookA Celebration: The Very Best of Hancock's Half Hour
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
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Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Tony Hancock
Duration 2h 15m
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson present, with personal recollections, a comic feast of Hancock's Half Hour. Yes, it's the very best of the lad himself - Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock the Third, radio immortal, late of 23, Railway Cuttings, East Cheam. This special compilation includes the first radio show, 'The First Night Party', and Hancock's last...
View BookAuthor: Lou Wakefield, Carole Hayman
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Author Lou Wakefield, Carole Hayman
Narrator Patricia Routledge, Prunella Scales
Duration 1h 8m
Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge take on the world in another hilarious series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy hit. The caustic correspondence between Irene Spencer and Vera Small is always richly entertaining, and these latest letters are no exception. Catty and competitive as ever, the pensioner pen-pals find themselves in yet more trouble in thi...
View BookAuthor: Benjamin Zephaniah
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Author Benjamin Zephaniah
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 24m
Cutting-edge performance poet Benjamin Zephaniah has written poems about 13 children from all over Britain who come from a whole range of different backgrounds. This is the rhyming, rapping, rhythmic way to learn about Britain in the 21st Century!
View BookAuthor: J. Meade Falkner
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Author J. Meade Falkner
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 32m
When fifteen-year-old John Trenchard discovers a secret passage into the vault of the powerful Mohune family, his peaceful life in the Dorset village of Moonfleet is at an end. It is said that Captain Mohune, the notorious Blackbeard, haunts the place with wild and bloodcurdling cries, forever seeking his hidden treasure. As John sets off in a sear...
View BookThe Murder Notebooks Book 2: Killing Rachel
Author: Anne Cassidy
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Author Anne Cassidy
Narrator Julie Teal
SeriesThe Murder Notebooks, Book 2
Duration 7h 48m
Rose's mother and Joshua's father have disappeared. Police inquiries have gone nowhere, but Rose and Joshua still believe that they are alive. Joshua is determined to work out the meaning of the cryptic 'murder' notebooks they have discovered. Rose receives some odd, desperate messages from Rachel, a former best friend, followed by the terrible new...
View BookAlex Cross Series Book 1: Along Came A Spider
Author: James Patterson
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Author James Patterson
Narrator Ako Mitchell
SeriesAlex Cross, Book 1
Duration 12h 1m
Two children have been kidnapped from an elite private school in Washington DC, and Alex Cross is charged with finding them. The kidnapper is their maths teacher, a man named Gary Soneji. As Cross gets pulled deeper into the strange world of the kidnapper, it becomes clear he is not what he seems...
View BookAuthor: Imran Mahmood
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Author Imran Mahmood
Narrator Adam Deacon
Duration 6h 55m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood, read by Adam Deacon. An unnamed defendant stands accused of murder. Just before the Closing Speeches, the young man sacks his lawyer, and decides to give his own defence speech. He tells us that his barrister told him to leave some things out. Som...
View BookLockwood & Co. Book 4: The Creeping Shadow
Author: Jonathan Stroud
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Author Jonathan Stroud
Narrator Emily Bevan
SeriesLockwood & Co, Book 4
Duration 12h 57m
Lucy has left Lockwood & Co. A freelance operative, she is hiring herself out to other agencies - agencies that might value her ever-improving skills. But now Lockwood needs her help. Penelope Fittes, leader of the well-renowned Fittes Agency wants Lockwood & Co. - and only them - to locate and remove the 'Source' for the legendary Brixton...
View BookChief Inspector Banks Book 9: Blood At the Root
Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator James Langton
SeriesInspector Banks, Book 9
Duration 9h 38m
Ordered to run an investigation from his desk without further incident-or find himself on traffic duty-Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks soon finds himself outside the investigation and his own department, following a trail whose end may lead to his own destruction.
View BookArtemis Fowl Series Book 8: Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian
Author: Eoin Colfer
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Author Eoin Colfer
Narrator Nathanial Parker
SeriesArtemis Fowl, Book 8
Duration 7h 39m
IS THIS ARMAGEDDON FOR ARTEMIS FOWL? Opal Koboi, power-crazed pixie, is plotting to exterminate mankind and become fairy queen. If she succeeds, the spirits of long-dead fairy warriors will rise from the earth, inhabit the nearest available bodies and wreak mass destruction. But what happens if those nearest bodies include crows, or deer, or badger...
View BookThe Mistress of the Art of Death
Author: Ariana Franklin
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Author Ariana Franklin
Narrator Diana Bishop
SeriesMistress of the Art of Death, Book 1
Duration 12h 52m
In Cambridge a child has been hideously murdered and other children have disappeared. The Jews, made scapegoats by the all-powerful Christian clergy, have been forced to retreat into the castle to avoid slaughter by angry townspeople. Henry, King of England, is displeased. The Jews provide a large part of his revenue and therefore the real killer m...
View BookAuthor: Karin Fossum
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Author Karin Fossum
Narrator David Rintoul
SeriesInspector Sejer, Book 10
Duration 7h 10m
One mild summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram beneath a maple tree. But when Lily steps outside she is paralysed with terror. The child is bathed in blood. Inspector Sejer is called to the hospital to meet the family. Mercifully, the baby is unharmed, but her parents are dee...
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