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Author: Rosie Harris
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Author Rosie Harris
Narrator Nerys Hughes
Duration 8h 38m
Crippled by polio, Winnie has little to look forward to. She's sent to an orphanage after her father is reported 'missing presumed dead', and her mother dies while on a drinking spree. Will her life improve at last or will she always be alone?
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Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 1h 43m
Stephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4. Current Puns Why does our language groan with the weight of puns? What exactly is a pun? And who, or what, is the Thief of Bad Gags? Metaphor The English language is chock-full of maritime metaphors: cock up, taken aback, chip on your shoulder and show...
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Author: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Samantha Womack
Duration 13h 19m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Till We Meet Again by Lesley Pearse, read by Samantha Womack. Susan walks into a busy doctor's surgery and guns down two members of staff. Then she calmly waits for the police. Beth is the lawyer assigned to defend Susan. But her client is uncooperative until both women realise that twenty-nine years earlie...
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Author: Joe Moran
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Author Joe Moran
Narrator Roy Mcmillan
Duration 8h 13m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition if First You Write a Sentence by Joe Moran, read by Roy McMillan. The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A poet writes in sentences, but so does the unsung author who came up with Items trapped in doors cause delays. A good sentence can be written (and read) by anyone if we simply give it...
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Author: Ruth Rendell
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Author Ruth Rendell
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 39m
Loopy follows an unnamed man who is struggling to grow up and move beyond the confines of his mother's home. Indifferent to his fianc‚e and bored with his 9 to 5 job, his only outlet is with his local drama group. Following a performance as the wolf in Red Riding Hood, he gradually becomes obsessed with his wolf alter-ego, spending more and m...
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An Interview With Sarah Millican
Author: Listening Books, Sarah Millican
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Author Listening Books, Sarah Millican
Narrator Sarah Millican
Duration 9m
Sarah Millican is a comedian and writer, we have her radio series Sarah Millican's Support Group available to borrow from our online library. Image © Matt Crockett.
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Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator James Langton
SeriesInspector Banks, Book 3
Duration 10h 8m
When a peaceful demonstration ends with fifty arrests and the death of a young constable, Superintendent "Dirty Dick" assumes the investigation, forcing Inspector Banks to undertake his own hunt for the killer before his superior's misguided obsession results in further bloodshed. A peaceful demonstration in the normally quiet town of Eastvale ende...
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Patrik Hedstrom Book 6: The Drowning
Author: Camilla Lackberg
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Author Camilla Lackberg
Narrator Eamonn Riley
SeriesPatrik Hedstrom, Book 6
Duration 15h 30m
Christian Thydell has been receiving anonymous threats since he began writing his novel The Mermaid. When one message, secreted within a bouquet of flowers, causes him to collapse at the launch party, crime writer Erica Falck is compelled to investigate. Erica's husband detective Patrik Hedstrom, meanwhile, is puzzled by the disappearance of Christ...
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Author: Maggie Stiefvater
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Author Maggie Stiefvater
Narrator David Ledoux, Jenna Lamia
SeriesThe Wolves of Mercy Falls, Book 1
Duration 10h 43m
Every summer Sam spends a few precious months being human, until the cold causes him to shift to a wolf once again. Discover what happens when he meets Grace in this chilling romance.
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Just A Minute, Series 61: Episode 5
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Nicholas Parsons Et Al
SeriesJust a Minute Series 61, Book 5
Duration 27m
The popular panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons, with panellists Tony Hawks, Gyles Brandreth, Pam Ayres and newcomer Miles Jupp. Recorded at the Lichfield Festival.
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Author: Terence Rattigan
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Author Terence Rattigan
Narrator Terrence Rattigan
Duration 1h 29m
This fascinating collection of archive interviews with the acclaimed playwright, whose centenary was celebrated in 2011, begins in 1969 with a radio appearance on Out This Week. It culminates with an interview for Kaleidoscope in 1977, recorded a few months before his death. Inbetween are several major radio features on Rattigan's life and work, in...
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Nick Mohammed In Bits - Daniel Thornthwaite
Author: Nick Mohammed
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Author Nick Mohammed
Narrator Nick Mohammed
Duration 28m
The third 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 14 September 2010. In 'Daniel Thornthwaite', Nick plays a wildlife expert on the edge of sanity in this fly-on-the-wall look at the making of a major new documentary series. Anna Cr...
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Author: Giacomo Casanova
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Author Giacomo Casanova
Narrator Benedict Cumberbatch
Duration 5h
Born in 1725 to Italian and Spanish parents, Giacomo Casanova was a scholar and adventurer, not to mention a notorious seducer of women, who lived a long and exciting life. This first volume of his memoirs charts his childhood and life as a young man in Venice and Italy.
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Author: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 10
Duration 2h 30m
When Miss Marple comes up from the countryside for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakeable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer.
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The Witness For the Prosecution
Author: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Various
Duration 27m
When Leonard Vole finds himself accused of murder, his predicament is made even worse when he discovers his wife to be the chief witness against him. The trial proceeds with a number of unexpected twists...
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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...
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Scott 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...
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Author: 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.
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Patrik 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...
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Author: 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...
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An 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.
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