Doctor Who At the BBC, the Plays
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 4m
Tom Baker and Sophie Aldred appear in one of three full-cast BBC radio dramas based around the real-life worlds of Doctor Who. Doctor Who, the TV series which millions adore, is the inspiration for these three original radio plays. Presented in their entirety, they each focus on the effect which the programme has had on the lives of ordinary - and...
View BookScott and Amundsen: Their Race To the South Pole
Author: Roland Huntford
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Author Roland Huntford
Narrator Tim Piggott-Smith
Duration 7h 30m
Scott and Amundsen is a controversial double biography of the first and second to reach the South pole. This audiobook has been described as the 'case against Scott' and it does not hold back on criticism of him. Plus it looks at evidence that Scott's failure was not just because of his personality but examines problems that existed out of his cont...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 28m
Polina Nazarova is a soprano whose past is dangerously entangled with the present. Given the opportunity to sing her Tosca opposite the arrogant and cruel Andre Breon, it seems that her desire for revenge may prove irresistible.
View BookPatrik Hedstrom Book 9: The Ice Child
Author: Camilla Lackberg
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Author Camilla Lackberg
Narrator Robin Bowerman
SeriesPatrik Hedstrom, Book 9
Duration 11h 2m
January, Fj„llbacka. A seminaked girl wanders through the woods in freezing cold weather. When she finally reaches the road, a car comes out of nowhere. It doesn't manage to stop. By the time Detective Patrik Hedstr”m receives word of the accident, the girl has already been identified. Four months ago she disappeared on her way home fro...
View BookAuthor: Hilary Mantel
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Author Hilary Mantel
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 3h 6m
The collection begins in the 1950s in an insular northern village 'scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues.' For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out. The title story sees our narrator ironing out her northern vowels with the help of an ex-actress with one lung and a Manchester accent. In Third Floor Ri...
View BookAn Interview With Robert Winston
Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Robert Winston
Duration 10m
Robert Winston is a scientist, author and broadcaster. We have several of his science books for children available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD library.
View BookAuthor: Francis Duncan
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Author Francis Duncan
Narrator Geoffrey Beevers
Duration 9h 28m
Adrian Carthallow, enfant terrible of the art world, is no stranger to controversy. But this time it's not his paintings that have provoked a blaze of publicity - it's the fact that his career has been suddenly terminated by a bullet to the head. Not only that, but his wife has confessed to firing the fatal shot. Inspector Penross of the town const...
View BookAuthor: Katori Hall
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Author Katori Hall
Narrator Aja Naomi King, Larry Powell
Duration 1h 4m
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 on the evening of April 3 is the subject of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop. Hours after King's final speech, punctuated by his immortal line, "I've been to the mountaintop," the celebrated Reverend forms an un...
View BookAuthor: Frederick Forsyth
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Author Frederick Forsyth
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 13h 39m
An astonishing discovery is made in the remote African republic of Zangaro, one which could change the course of a nation's history forever. But such a discovery cannot be kept secret for long and Sir James Manson will stop at nothing to protect this find. A ruthless and bloody-minded tycoon, Manson immediately hires an army of mercenaries and with...
View BookAuthor: Daniel Smith
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Author Daniel Smith
Narrator Paul Michael Garcia
Duration 7h 15m
In the insightful narrative tradition of Oliver Sacks, Monkey Mind is an uplifting, smart, and very funny memoir of life with anxiety-America's most common psychological complaint. We all think we know what being anxious feels like-it is the instinct that made us run from wolves in the prehistoric age and pushes us to perform in the modern one-but...
View BookJust A Minute, Series 61: Episode 4
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Nicholas Parsons Et Al
SeriesJust a Minute Series 61, Book 4
Duration 27m
The popular panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons. With Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Shappi Khorsandi and first timer Russell Kane. Subjects include 'My Tartan Underwear' and 'Call Centres'. Recorded at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
View BookSurvivors In Space. Doctor Who Serpent Crest Series Book 3
Author: Paul Magrs
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Author Paul Magrs
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDoctor Who Serpent Crest, Book 5
Duration 1h 1m
Tom Baker stars as the Fourth Doctor in the fifth of five thrilling brand new adventures, with Susan Jameson as Mrs Wibbsey, Richard Franklin as Mike Yates, and David Troughton as the Visitor. It has been three months since the Hexford catastrophe, and Mike Yates is trying to show strength of leadership to the villagers. But with morale low and sup...
View BookAuthor: Nick Mohammed
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Author Nick Mohammed
Narrator Nick Mohammed
Duration 27m
The second play from 'Nick Mohammed in Bits', the BBC Radio 4 series of comic plays showcasing the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters. Originally broadcast 7 September 2010. It's the start of term time in 'Lila', and second year student Lila is going to teach the freshers everything she knows. Featuring Nick Mohammed as Lila, with Col...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 5h
Jimmy Crocker, aka Piccadilly Jim, is a lively young American ex-newspaper man who meets Ann Chester, the girl of his dreams, in London. As they set sail together for New York, Jim struggles with a secret - he once wrote a bad review of her first book of poetry, and Ann has no idea, yet.
View BookAuthor: Ian Davidson, Peter Vincent
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Author Ian Davidson, Peter Vincent
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Duration 2h 47m
Sandy Hopper (Ronnie Corbett) is growing old happily along with his dog Henry. His grown up children-both married to people Sandy doesn't approve of at all-would like him to move out of the family home so they can get their hands on their money earlier. But Sandy's not having this-he's not moving until the dog dies. And anyway, how can he move if h...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Lynn
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Author Jonathan Lynn
Narrator Various
SeriesYes Minister, Book 1
Duration 1h 49m
Four episodes of machinations and manipulation from the classic BBC political satire. The Compassionate Society/The Greasy Pole/The Skeleton in the Cupboard/A Question of Loyalty. The sustained dry wit of the dialogue and the wonderful interplay between the three main characters - Jim Hacker, Sir Humphrey and Bernard Wooley - made Jonathan Lynn and...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
When Alex and Terry set up their own e-commerce company in Philomel Cottage, everything looks rosy until money goes missing from Alex's account. Soon she is questioning her partner - and, indeed, the cottage itself...
View BookPatrik Hedstrom Book 8: Buried Angels
Author: Camilla Lackberg
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Author Camilla Lackberg
Narrator Robin Bowerman
SeriesPatrik Hedstrom, Book 8
Duration 13h 16m
YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE PAST Easter 1974. A family vanishes from their home on an idyllic island off the Swedish coast. They have left everything behind - including their one-year-old daughter, Ebba. Now, years later, Ebba has returned to the island. She and her husband have suffered the loss of their only child and are looking to make a fresh start....
View BookAuthor: Bren Brown
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Author Bren Brown
Narrator Bren Brown
Duration 6h 30m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Daring Greatly written and read by Bren‚ Brown. Every time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk. We feel uncertain and exposed. We feel vulnerable. Most of us try to fight those feelings - we strive to appear perfect. In a powerful new...
View BookAuthor: Rio Bianca Del
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Author Rio Bianca Del
Narrator Bianca Del Rio
Duration 4h 46m
The cheeky, larger-than-life drag queen and outrageous comic - 'The Joan Rivers of the Drag World' (New York Times) - who isn't afraid to shock or offend, shares her trademark acerbic wit and sharp commentary in this uproarious collection of advice. When it comes to insult comics, Bianca Del Rio is in a class by herself. Fierce, funny, and fabulous...
View BookAn Interview With Melvyn Bragg
Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 12m
Melvyn Bragg is an author and broadcaster. We have a number of his radio documentaries, including the Routes of English series, available to borrow from our online library.
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