Dork Diaries: Tales From A Not-so Fabulous-life
Author: Rachel-Renee Russell
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Author Rachel-Renee Russell
Narrator Lana Quintal
SeriesDork Diaries, Book 1
Duration 3h 36m
Dork Diaries follows eighth grader Nikki Maxwell as she chronicles through text and sketches her move to a snooty new school; her epic battle with her mom for an iPhone; her enthusiasm for drawing and art; and a love/hate fascination with the new school's queen bee, a girl named Mackenzie, who becomes Nikki's rival in a schoolwide art competition....
View BookWhen the Dog Dies, Series 2, Episode 5
Author: Ian Davidson, Peter Vincent
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Author Ian Davidson, Peter Vincent
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesWhen the Dog Dies Series 2, Book 5
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 fifth episode, 'Tangled Web', whenever people tell porkies, they seem to come to Sandy for help. But deceiving needs practice...
View BookRoutes of English, Series 3, Programme 3
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes to English Series 3, Book 3
Duration 27m
Melvyn travels west in search of the increasingly elusive Cornish dialect. Cornwall is an evocative place. A Celtic land with a rich mythology, a land of caves and coves, of cream teas and country lanes. At least that's the image that has long attracted travellers and settlers. Yet it's also a land that has, over the last century, faced dramatic so...
View BookClare In the Community, Series 3
Author: Harry Venning
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Author Harry Venning
Narrator The Cast
Duration 2h 45m
These six episodes find Clare Barker, the social worker with all the politically correct jargon but none of the practical solutions, struggling once again to control her professional and private life.
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Joanna Lumley
Duration 2h 12m
Elizabeth Bennett is an intelligent unmarried woman in a patriarchal and aspirational society. She has numerous proud and prejudiced run-ins with the seemingly surly and aloof Mr. Darcy, who she initially feels is a man whom she would not desire to spend more time than she might have to. However, can they start to understand each other a little bet...
View BookDoctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned
Author: Stephen Cole
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Author Stephen Cole
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 28m
When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast... the feast of the drowned. As the dead crew haunt loved ones all over Lond...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
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Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 53m
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects and atmospheric music engaged the listener as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger...
View BookAuthor: Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Patrick Marber
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Author Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Patrick Marber
Narrator Steve Coogan
Duration 58m
Starring Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge. The complete Award winning BBC TV series starring the man who gives new meaning to leisure wear. And on that bombshell......What is Knowing Me, Knowing You, with Alan Partridge? Well, how long is a piece of string? How many people can you fit in a mini? - four, possibly five. The second question, the string...
View BookAuthor: Dorothy L. Sayers
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Author Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 20m
Ian Carmichael is Lord Peter Wimsey, with Patricia Routledge as his mother, in this BBC radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Dorothy L. Sayers' first Lord Peter Wimsey tale introduces many of the author's best-known characters. Wimsey's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, rings her son with news of 'such a quaint thing'. She has heard through a frie...
View BookThe Murder Notebooks Book 3: Butterfly Grave
Author: Anne Cassidy
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Author Anne Cassidy
Narrator Julie Teal
SeriesThe Murder Notebooks, Book 3
Duration 7h 14m
Joshua's uncle has survived a near fatal accident and Rose and Joshua drive to Newcastle to visit him, along with their friend Skeggsie. Joshua is convinced they are being followed. Can it be true, or is it just his paranoia? And then the precious murder notebooks are stolen. Somebody out there really does not want Rose and Joshua to find their par...
View BookAuthor: Philip Reeve, Sarah McIntyre
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Author Philip Reeve, Sarah McIntyre
Narrator Charlie Sanderson
Duration 2h 11m
The Race to the Top of the World comes around once in a lifetime. The prize? Your heart's desire. Shen and Sika can't resist the chance to win. The path to victory is littered with snow trolls, sea monsters, and a gang of particularly hungry yetis. But Shen and Sika have something the other contestants don't have: 66 pugs. That's a 264 paw-powered...
View BookBeing Jazz: My Life As A (transgender) Teen
Author: Jazz Jennings
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Author Jazz Jennings
Narrator Jazz Jennings
Duration 4h
Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest and most prominent voices in the national discussion about gender identity. At the age of five, Jazz transitioned to life as a girl, with the support of her parents. A year later, her parents allowed her to share her incredible journey in her first Barbara Walters interview, aired at a time when the public was m...
View BookFrey & Mcgray Series Book 1: The Strings of Murder:
Author: Muriel Oscar De
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Author Muriel Oscar De
Narrator Andy Secombe
SeriesFrey & McGray, Book 1
Duration 11h 35m
Edinburgh, 1888. A virtuoso violinist is brutally killed in his home. But with no way in or out of the locked practice room, the murder makes no sense. Fearing a national panic over a copycat Ripper, Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Frey to investigate under the cover of a fake department specializing in the occult. However, Frey's new boss, Detec...
View BookLockwood & Co. Book 1: The Screaming Staircase
Author: Jonathan Stroud
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Author Jonathan Stroud
Narrator Miranda Raison
SeriesLockwood & Co, Book 1
Duration 10h 12m
When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . .For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy the dangerous apparitions. Lucy Carlyle, a talented young agent, arrives in London hoping for a notable career...
View BookOp-center Series Book 5: Balance of Power
Author: Tom Clancy
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Author Tom Clancy
Narrator Michael Kramer
SeriesOp-Center, Book 5
Duration 10h 31m
The Op-Center team heads for Spain, where ethnic conflicts threaten to break out into a conflagration. As the novel's intelligence chief Bob Herbert puts it, this clash "will make the Spanish Civil War look like a brawl." The intelligence team's efforts to defuse the crisis are foiled when an Op-Center representative is assassinated in Madrid on he...
View BookArtemis Fowl Series Book 3: Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code
Author: Eoin Colfer
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Author Eoin Colfer
Narrator Gerry O'Brien
SeriesArtemis Fowl, Book 3
Duration 7h 47m
Artemis Fowl is attempting to go straight. But there's always time for one last job. Artemis Fowl has created the most powerful new supercomputer known to man - using stolen technology from an elite race of underground fairies. And when the computer falls into the hands of an IT billionaire with a shady past and an alleged mob connection, Artemis i...
View BookTemperance Brennan Book 10: Bones To Ashes
Author: Kathy Reichs
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Author Kathy Reichs
Narrator Lorelei King
SeriesTemperance Brennan, Book 10
Duration 9h 37m
The skeleton is that of a young girl, no more than fourteen years old - and forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is struggling to keep her emotions in check. Coroner Yves Bradette is being evasive, insisting the bones are ancient and of no interest. But it doesn't quite add up, and a frustrated Tempe is convinced that Bradette is hiding so...
View BookDelilah Darling Is On the Stage
Author: Jeanne Willis
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Author Jeanne Willis
Narrator Charlotte Strevens
Duration 1h 12m
Delilah Darling - Queen Delilah from the Land of Far, Far Away to you - is desperate to play the part of the gingerbread man in the school play. So when Horrible Charlotte Griggs gets the part instead, Delilah is cross. But she soon discovers that there's lots of fun to be had playing the big, bad fox. And besides, in the Land of Far, Far Away, thi...
View BookWhen the Dogdies, Series 2, Episode 4
Author: Ian Davidson, Peter Vincent
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Author Ian Davidson, Peter Vincent
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesWhen the Dog Dies Series 2, Book 4
Duration 55m
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 fourth episode, 'The Never Ending Story', Dolores seems to be seeing a married man, but Sandy's grandfatherly duties come before his fatherly ones.
View BookRoutes of English,series 2, Programme 4
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes to English Series 2, Book 4
Duration 27m
Bad language is not new. We've been swearing for centuries, and those in power have been trying to censor us for just as long. Nowadays, many people are quite relaxed about swearing and will be careful about the context-although we still try to avoid bad language in front of the children, or in polite society.
View BookAuthor: Val Mcdermid
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Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Charlotte Coleman
Duration 57m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Val McDermid's bestselling Kate Brannigan mystery Clean Break, starring Charlotte Coleman. Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan is not amused when thieves steal a Monet from a stately home where she had arranged the security. She sets off on a chase that takes her across Europe bringing her head to he...
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