Author: Stacey Roderick
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Author Stacey Roderick
Narrator Unknown
Duration 5m
Dig into Dinosaurs from Head to Tail for colourful close-ups of weird and wondrous prehistoric parts. Take a guess which dino they belong to and then turn the page for fun facts about each creature. Which one had a crested head? Who sported claws as long as baseball bats? Stomping through the pages are familiar favourites like the Tyrannosaurus and...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Richard Armitage
Duration 4h 51m
When Sylvester, the Duke of Salford, first meets Phoebe Marlow, he finds her dull and insipid. She finds him insufferably arrogant. But when a series of unforeseen events leads them to be stranded together in a lonely country inn, they are both forced to reassess their hastily formed opinions, and begin a new-found liking and respect for each other...
View BookAuthor: Dan Brown
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Author Dan Brown
Narrator Paul Michael
Duration 17h
Florence: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings. A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city. Only Langdon's know...
View BookFather Brown Series 1 Episode 2: The Queer Feet
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Innocence of Father Brown, Book 2
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. 'The Queer Feet' finds Father Brown investigating a death in a...
View BookAuthor: Tom Basden
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Author Tom Basden
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesParty Series 2, Book 2
Duration 27m
Series 2 of the satirical BBC Radio 4 comedy written by Tom Basden In this second episode, 'It's Technology, Stupid', the aspiring politicians get to grips with technology and whether it is making people stupid. Meanwhile, they launch a recruiting campaign on the internet. Starring Tom Basden, Tim Key, Jonny Sweet, Ann Crilly and Katy Wix. Produced...
View BookIt's Your Round, Series 1, Episode 1
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesIt's Your Round Series 1, Book 1
Duration 27m
'It's Your Round' is the comedy panel game where the format is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the panellists has brought along their own round for the others to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and unpredictable. Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to make sure everyone comes out of it with their reputations int...
View BookFry's English Delight, Series 4
Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 1h 50m
Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4. 'The Mouth': Why is the human food processor and word processor in the same unit? Stephen Fry takes you inside 'this hole we call cake' - the most important part of speech. 'Brevity': A celebration of the miniature in English. Tim...
View BookAuthor: Martin Jarvis
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Author Martin Jarvis
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 30m
An elegantly observed journal of a year in the life of the musical play 'By Jeeves', written and directed by two theatre geniuses, Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Beginning in January 2001, the production travels from Pittsburgh to Toronto - but will it make it to Broadway?
View BookTwelfth Night - Smartpass Study Guide
Author: Smartpass
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Author Smartpass
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 50m
The full text is presented as an accessible, rip-roaring, full-cast drama that really brings the comedy to life. The comprehensive commentary and analysis opens the doorways into Shakespeare's world.
View BookAuthor: Josie Long
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Author Josie Long
Narrator Josie Long
Duration 14m
The first episode, Astronomy for Dummies, of the BBC Radio 4 comedy series, All of the Planet's Wonders, in which award-winning comedian Josie Long attempts to better herself through learning from reference books, with help from Irish comedian Maeve Higgins. Originally broadcast 18 February 2009 and repeated on 28 December 2010. In this episode Jos...
View BookThe Misunderstanding of Glencoe
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
An Edinburgh couple on holiday in the Highlands discover that centuries-old tensions are still very near the surface. Starring John Buick, Kenny Blyth, Monica Gibb and Paul Young.
View BookAuthor: Chris Addison
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Author Chris Addison
Narrator Chris Addison
Duration 1h 52m
Based on his Perrier-nominated Edinburgh hit show of 2004, Chris Addison's Civilization is a comedy lecture series for Radio 4. It neatly follows on from Chris's first Radio 4 series, The Ape That Got Lucky. Western Civilization, like many very old things, is pretty much on its last legs. And if Western Civilization as we know it is dying sooner ra...
View BookAuthor: Richard Curtis
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Author Richard Curtis
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 52m
In Blackadder II, England's Golden Age is treated to the schemes and strategems of Edmund, Lord Blackadder as he curries grace and favour from the stark raving mad Queen Bess.
View BookKid Normal and the Rogue Heroes
Author: Chris Smith, Greg James
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Author Chris Smith, Greg James
Narrator The Authors
Duration 6h 20m
The second, epically funny adventure starring Murph Cooper and the Super Zeroes from Greg James and Chris Smith Not all heroes have superpowers. Don't believe us? Well, Murph Cooper is living proof. Since becoming Kid Normal, he and the Super Zeroes have been catching baddies all over the place. But being a hero is about to get a whole lot harder.....
View BookAuthor: Emily Arnold McCully
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Author Emily Arnold McCully
Narrator The Author
Duration 3h
This illuminating biography reveals how the daughter of Lord Byron, Britain's most infamous Romantic poet, became the world's first computer programmer. Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raisi...
View BookCold Case Quartet Book 1: The Katharina Code
Author: Jorn Lier Horst
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Author Jorn Lier Horst
Narrator Tim Mcinnerny
SeriesCold Case Quartet, Book 1
Duration 11h 11m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Katharina Code by J›rn Lier Horst, read by Tim Mcinnerny. Twenty-four years ago Katharina Haugen went missing. All she left behind was her husband Martin and a mysterious string of numbers scribbled on a piece of paper. Every year on October 9th Chief Inspector William Wisting takes out the files...
View BookAuthor: Brene Brown
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Author Brene Brown
Narrator Brene Brown
Duration 8h 10m
Leadership is not about titles, status and power over people. Leaders are people who hold themselves accountable for recognising the potential in people and ideas, and developing that potential. This is a book for everyone who is ready to choose courage over comfort, make a difference and lead. When we dare to lead, we don't pretend to have the rig...
View BookAuthor: C.J. Sansom
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Author C.J. Sansom
Narrator Justin Salinger
Duration 2h 15m
A thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on the third novel in C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime series featuring hunchback lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake. Autumn, 1541. Henry VIII, accompanied by his young bride Catherine Howard, has embarked on a Great Progress from London to York, to establish his power and authority with h...
View BookAuthor: Erica James
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Author Erica James
Narrator Julia Franklin
Duration 14h 57m
Dan and Sally Oliver and their friend Chloe Hennessey are lucky to be alive. Three years on, after surviving one of the world's biggest natural disasters-the Boxing Day tsunami-their lives have changed dramatically. Dan and Sally are now parents. Dan is enjoying being a stay-at-home father taking care of their young son, and Sally is the bread winn...
View BookAuthor: Faye Kellerman
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Author Faye Kellerman
Narrator Charlie Thurston
Duration 19h 13m
Three years ago, fifteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing in the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger brother, Ben, could imagine nothing worse than never knowing what happened to her--until, on the first anniversary of her death, he found her body in a shallow grave by the river's...
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