Death In Paradise Series Book 1: A Meditation On Murder
Author: Robert Thorogood
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Author Robert Thorogood
Narrator Phil Fox
SeriesDeath in Paradise, Book 1
Duration 9h 59m
An original story from the creator and writer of the hit BBC One TV series, Death in Paradise, featuring on-screen favourite detective, DI Richard Poole. Enhance your enjoyment of the series as, for the first time, Robert Thorogood brings the characters to life on the page in an all-new locked-room mystery. Aslan Kennedy has an idyllic life: leader...
View BookFather Brown Series 2 Episode 4 : The Mistake of the Machine
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Wisdom of Father Brown, Book 4
Duration 27m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, he has entertained generations. In 'The Mistake of the Machine', Father Brown visits his friend...
View BookAuthor: David Eldridge
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Author David Eldridge
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
This BBC Radio 4 'Friday Play' is a heady mix of marriage, class and politics as Gillian and Ray attempt to keep their relationship alive over 25 years of social change. Starring Ruth Wilson and Tom Brooke, Like Minded People was originally broadcast on 4 February 2011. Gillian and Ray meet at University. She's from a privileged background whilst h...
View BookAuthor: John Wyndham
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Author John Wyndham
Narrator Nathaniel Parker
Duration 6h 39m
The quiet English village of Midwich is the very last place that anything unusual ever happens. But one night in September something very strange occurs. The next day, no-one who lives there can remember anything about the day before. So what really went on, and why do all the women in the village suddenly find themselves in the same condition? Joh...
View BookAuthor: Michael Palin
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Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 6h
Michael Palin is off to the Sahara Desert. From a starting point in Gibralter, he makes his way to Morocco, then over the Atlas Mountains to the little-known countries of Mauritiana, Mali and Chad. He journies on the longest train in the world and travels with nomadic herders, finally returning to the classical remains of Tunisia - where the Monty...
View BookClassic Tales of the Paranormal
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Robin Bailey
Duration 3h
A collection of the following mysterious and chilling stories: 'The Man of the Night' by Edgar Wallace; 'No 1 Branch Line: 'A Terribly Strange Bed' by Wilkie Collins; 'Sredni Vashtar' by Saki; 'The Werewolf' by Frederick Marryat; 'The Mezzotint' by M.R. James and 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe. This audiobook also includes 'The Signalman' by Ch...
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Bacziewicz
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Author Sebastian Bacziewicz
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesPilgrim Series 2, Book 4
Duration 43m
The last play of four in Pilgrim Series 2, a collection of BBC Radio 4 modern-day fantasy adventures written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and starring Paul Hilton as Pilgrim. Hope Springs was originally broadcast in the Afternoon Play slot on 21 September 2010. What if all the myths and folktales of these islands were true? And what if they were not on...
View BookAuthor: Dawna Walters
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Author Dawna Walters
Narrator The Author
Duration 1h 9m
An inspirational guide to fighting clutter and sorting out your space, based on the bestselling BBC book and TV series. Clutter can be a huge problem for many of us. We yearn to live in a perfectly-ordered home, but more often than not we find ourselves drowning in a sea of `stuff.' Not only is it depressing to live in a mess, but accumulating too...
View BookLondon On Fire: A Great City At the Time of the Great Fire
Author: John C. Miles
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Author John C. Miles
Narrator Johnathan Wheatley
Duration 57m
Welcome to London in the late 17th century. After years of Civil War and repressive Puritan rule, King Charles II is back in town and his restoration has brought new life to this great city. The theatres are open again, markets and shops are thriving and the streets are crowded. People are talking about new ideas in science and architecture and exp...
View BookAuthor: Nadine Dorries
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Author Nadine Dorries
Narrator Emma Gregory
Duration 8h 38m
1950s Liverpool. In the tight-knit community of the Four Streets, two girls are growing up. One is motherless and hated by the cold woman determined to take her dead mother's place. The other is hiding a dreadful secret which she dare not tell to anyone. The people of Four Streets laugh, grieve and hope together. But what can they do when a betraya...
View BookLogan Mcrae Book 3: Broken Skin
Author: Stuart Macbride
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Author Stuart Macbride
Narrator Steve Worsley
SeriesLogan McRae, Book 3
Duration 13h 1m
The number one best-selling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. In this third DS Logan McRae thriller, the Granite City's seedy side is about to be exposed....A serial rapist is leaving a string of tortured women behind him, but while DS Logan McRae's girlfriend, PC Jackie 'Ball Breaker' Watson, is out acting as bait, he's trying t...
View BookMe/chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness
Author: Of Excellence Centre
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Author Of Excellence Centre
Narrator Jane Branch
Duration 3h 46m
We live in a world of stressors and many people go into a state of burnout at some point. If the stress that the individual must deal with on a long-term basis outweighs their chance and ability to rest; ME or CFS may very well be the result. This course aims to help with the understanding of these conditions. The first and third modules focus on k...
View BookAuthor: Steven D. Levitt
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Author Steven D. Levitt
Narrator Stephen J. Dubner
Duration 6h 25m
Modern life can be baffling and chaotic. Is there any way of making sense of it? The answer, explains groundbreaking thinker Steven Levitt, lies in economics. Not ordinary economics, but freakonomics. It is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, f...
View BookThe History Detectives: Mayan Civilisation
Author: Clare Hibbert
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Author Clare Hibbert
Narrator Joyce Greenaway
Duration 47m
Who were the Maya? Why did the Maya build temples? What was Mayan writing like? How did the Maya dress? This book helps children at Key Stage 2 discover the answers to these and other fascinating questions. It also recommends sites on the Internet and sources in your local library where you can find out more about Mayan civilisation. The detective...
View BookAuthor: Yann Martel
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Author Yann Martel
Narrator Jeff Woodman
Duration 11h 41m
Martel's novel tells the story of Pi--short for Piscine--an unusual boy raised in a zoo in India. Pi's father decides to move the family to live in Canada and sell the animals to the great zoos of America. The ship taking them across the Pacific sinks and Pi finds himself the sole human survivor on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra wit...
View BookAuthor: David Walliams
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Author David Walliams
Narrator David Walliams
Duration 3h 6m
A hilarious, touching and extraordinary new fable from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children's author in the country. Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. You see, Joe's rich. Really, really rich. Joe's got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orang...
View BookFather Brown Series 2 Episode 3: The Arrow of Heaven
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Wisdom of Father Brown, Book 3
Duration 26m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, he has entertained generations. In 'The Arrow of Heaven', a trip to New York leads to a murky t...
View BookLike An Angel Passing Through My Room
Author: Christopher Green
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Author Christopher Green
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 'Afternoon Play' about the unconditional love of a devoted ABBA fan, from Olivier award-winning writer Christopher Green; starring the writer as himself, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (aka Frida from ABBA). Originally broadcast 16 February 2011.
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 5h 2m
Virginia Woolf's pioneering work on women in literature. An accessible yet fiercely astute essay, it is a crystallisation of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austen's pandering to a male writing style, to imagining the dreadful fate of Sh...
View BookAuthor: Michael Palin
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Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 10h 15m
Join the intrepid Michael Palin as he embarks on a comic race against time, travelling from the North Pole to the South Pole. As he crosses 16 countries by train, truck, raft, Ski-Doo, barge, balloon and bicycle, he experiences a fascinating range of characters and landscapes whilst his own endurance is tested to the limit.
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 3h
The following spooky vampire stories are given a spine-tingling read by Richard Pasco: 'The Mark of the Beast' by Rudyard Kipling; 'Aurelia' by E.T.A Hoffman; 'Ligeia' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'Mrs Amsworth' by E. F Benson and 'Dracula's Guest' by Bram Stoker.
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