Warhorses of Letters, Episode 1
Author: Robert Hudson
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Author Robert Hudson
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesWarhorses of Letters, Book 1
Duration 13m
Two horses divided by war, united by love. Comedy starring Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby. Episode 1 charts the early days of a romance and the early days of the Napoleonic Wars. As their love blossoms the shadow of impending combat looms over our two heroes.
View BookAuthor: Melissa Murray
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Author Melissa Murray
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 28m
A BBC Radio 3 Sci-Fi drama by Melissa Murray set in the very-near future. When William Hellier dies, his wife creates an avatar of him and has it uploaded onto a cyberspace memorial site. But is he software? Or is his soul trapped in the machine? Perpetual Light was originally broadcast in the Drama on 3 slot on 5 December 2010. A new way to rememb...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Nicky Henson
Duration 2h 56m
Six Sci Fi stories from the past depicting the future which is NOW.some frightening and believable predictions that may well still come true. A great listen. This is science fiction at its literate best with every story a little gem. They include a clock that reverses the order of history, a potion that prolongs youth, a machine that disintegrates...
View BookArmando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
Author: Armando Iannucci
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Author Armando Iannucci
Narrator The Author
Duration 2h 46m
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive is a topical, events-driven radio comedy hosted by comedy guru Iannucci, recorded in front of a live audience. With the sketchability of The Now Show, combined with the going-off-on-a-mad-streak of a maverick News Quiz round, Iannucci and his comedian guests pull apart the week's news, in an effortlessly original...
View BookThe Goon Show: The Fear of Wages
Author: Spike Milligan
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Author Spike Milligan
Narrator The Cast
SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 20
Duration 2h 3m
From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. This latest release features four more episodes of classic Goonery, starring the inimitable Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan.
View BookI'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: The Doings of Hamish and Dougal: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: The Doings
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 21m
Gambling Fever sees Hamish becoming addicted to gambling after winning a Sporran Cosy in the Glen MacLottery, while in There's Something About Mrs Naughtie, the lady comes into an inheritance and attracts the advances of Hamish, Dougal and the Laird. In The Subsidence Adventure, Hamish & Dougal advertise as 'builders to the gentry', while in In...
View BookAuthor: Robin Diangelo
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Author Robin Diangelo
Narrator Amy Landon
Duration 6h 22m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo. Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person ca...
View BookDavid Raker Series Book 4: Never Coming Back
Author: Tim Weaver
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Author Tim Weaver
Narrator Joe Coen, Adam James
SeriesDavid Raker, Book 4
Duration 14h 14m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Never Coming Back by Tim Weaver, read by Joe Coen and Adam James. A secret that will change lives forever . . . It was supposed to be the start of a big night out. But when Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house, she finds the front door unlocked and no one inside. Dinner's cooking, the TV's on. Ca...
View BookConfessions of Georgia Nicholson Series Book 4: Dancing In My Nuddy Pants!
Author: Louise Rennison
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Author Louise Rennison
Narrator Louise Rennison
SeriesConfessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 4
Duration 3h 35m
Brilliantly funny, Louise Rennison's reads her fourth book 'Dancing in my nuddy pants'. "Yeah. a snogging fest.""Sacr‚ bleu!"Jas looked like she was thinking which is a) unusual and b) scary. I said, "But then this weird thing happened. He had his hands on my waist, standing behind me.""Oo-er." "D-accord. Anyway, I turned round and he sort of...
View BookAuthor: Claudia Carroll
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Author Claudia Carroll
Narrator Claudia Carroll
Duration 11h 18m
Eloise Elliot is one of the youngest newspaper editors in the country. But, on the eve of her 30th birthday, Eloise is hit buy a long sharp pang of loneliness. Suddenly she realises what she wants is a baby. One successful trip to the sperm bank and she is the adoring mother of a gorgeous little girl, Lily. Yet when Lily starts asking about her 'da...
View BookPatrik Hedstrom Book 5: The Hidden Child
Author: Camilla Lackberg
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Author Camilla Lackberg
Narrator Eamonn Riley
SeriesPatrik Hedstrom, Book 5
Duration 17h 30m
Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother's possessions. Haunted by a childhood of neglect, she resolves to dig into her family's past to discover why. Her enquiries lead her to a retired history teacher, but her questions are met with evasive answers. Two days later he meets a violent death. Detective Patri...
View BookAuthor: Stephen King
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Author Stephen King
Narrator John Glover
Duration 3h 24m
Consummate master of his craft, Stephen King has kept millions awake past midnight shivering at tales that probe the shadows and reveal the dark side. Now listeners can chill to this second dramatic unabridged production of short stories from his best selling book, Night Shift. It brings Stephen King's demonic stories fully to life - and the terror...
View BookWarhorses of Letters-complete Series
Author: Robert Hudson
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Author Robert Hudson
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 54m
Deep in the British Library tucked into the slipcover of a book on the history of Blenheim Palace a packet of extraordinary letters has been discovered. "Dear Marengo brackets Napoleon's horse close brackets, I've never written a letter like this before...." Thus begins the first passionate letter from Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington's horse, to...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Myerson
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Author Jonathan Myerson
Narrator Full-Cast
Duration 56m
A BBC Radio 4 'Saturday Play' investigating how domestic and international politics were about to combine in 1973, to change the Middle East forever. Starring Henry Goodman and Peter Marinker, Payback was originally broadcast on 22 January 2011. 6th October 1973. Golda Meir has become Prime Minister of Israel in her seventies. Syrian and Egyptian t...
View BookFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries: Death Cap & Devil Take the Hindmost
Author: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 27m
David Threlfall stars as Father Paolo Baldi in two full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations. On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. Death Cap sees Paolo attending a monastic retreat far out i...
View BookAuthor: F Scott Fitzgerald
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Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 3h
Written for Esquire magazine late in Fitzgerald's career, 'The Pat Hobby Stories' are a bittersweet, humorous recollection of a down-and-out Hollywood screenwriter trying to break back into show business, whose career has started to flag since the emergence of 'upstarts' such as Orson Welles.
View BookAuthor: Wilkie Collins
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Author Wilkie Collins
Narrator Ian Holm
Duration 24h 45m
Late one night on his way to Limmeridge House in Cumberland, drawing teacher Walter Hartright meets a mysterious woman dressed in white. Who is she, and what is her connection to the teacher's new pupil, a beautiful heiress?
View BookAnother Case of Milton Jones, Series 4
Author: Milton Jones
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Author Milton Jones
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 47m
The man they call 'Britain's Funniest Milton', Milton Jones, stars in his smash-hit Sony Award-winning BBC Radio 4's daftest comedy show, Another Case of Milton Jones, co-starring Tom Goodman-Hill ('The Office', 'Spamalot'), Lucy Montgomery (Bellamy's People) and the inimitable tones of Come Dine with Me's Dave Lamb. In each episode, Milton is a co...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 25m
Patrick Troughton plays the second Doctor in this classic six-part tale of `bodysnatching' from 1967. The TARDIS makes a hazardous return to contemporary Earth - materialising at Gatwick Airport in the path of an oncoming aeroplane! The travellers split up in order to evade airport security, but in doing so they become embroiled in a plot to steal...
View BookThe Adventures of Sexton Blake
Author: Jonathan Nash, Mil Millington
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Author Jonathan Nash, Mil Millington
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 10m
BBC Radio 2's action-packed deafening romp - with 40 minutes of previously unbroadcast peril. Sexton Blake! The name that spells hurtling adventure! The name that spells doom for villainy! In a series of thrilling adventures packed with incident and hilarity, Sexton Blake, (Simon Jones, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) and his plucky assistant...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 44m
Separated from his wife and children, gamekeeper George Barford took to drink and even attempted suicide. The woman who vowed to turn his life around was-curiously-the local barmaid Nora.
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