The History of the Brain, Episode 3
Author: Geoff Bunn
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Author Geoff Bunn
Narrator The Author, Paul Bhattacharjee, Jonathan Forbes
SeriesA History of the Brain, Book 3
Duration 13m
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. In Episode 3, 'The Origin of Common Sense', the focus is on Ancient Rome with Galen's 'animal spirits' gently inflating the ventricles and making thought possible, and on ho...
View BookAuthor: Alfred Chaston Chapman
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Author Alfred Chaston Chapman
Narrator Mary Ann S
Duration 2h 52m
Everything needed to brew beer right the first time. Presented in a light-hearted style without frivolous interruptions, this authoritative text introduces brewing in a easy step-by-step review. Beer is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world. It is available nearly everywhere, from gas stations to specialty liquor stores. A new brew...
View BookThe Early Stories of Truman Capote
Author: Truman Capote
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Author Truman Capote
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 44m
Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and In Cold Blood. This collection of more than a dozen pieces showcases the young Capot...
View BookAuthor: Ferdinand Von Schirach
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Author Ferdinand Von Schirach
Narrator David Thorp
Duration 4h 30m
Ferdinand von Schirach's The Collini Case has been at the top of the German charts since publication and will be loved by all fans of Bernhard Schlink and John le Carre. A murder. A murderer. No motive. For thirty-four years Fabrizio Collini has worked diligently for Mercedes Benz. He is a quiet and respectable person until the day he visits one of...
View BookThe Code of the Woosters: Abridged
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 4h 58m
The sinister affair of the eighteenth century cow-creamer and the small, brown, leather-covered notebook tests the Wooster soul as it has never been tested before. Friends and relations, in urgent need, queue up to beg for assistance in a variety of troublesome situations, and ruthless enemies stop at nothing in their determination to bring Bertie...
View BookAuthor: Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Author Alfred Lord Tennyson
Narrator Joseph Millson
Duration 56m
Joseph Millson reads Alfred Lord Tennyson's 1855 dark and lyrical poem Maud in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the poet's birth in 2009. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the 'Classic Serial' slot on 26 July 2009 and repeated on 1 August 2009. A disturbed young man roams the windswept hills, haunted by his father's suicide and his moth...
View BookThe First Day of the Rest of My Life
Author: Martin Jameson
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Author Martin Jameson
Narrator Various
Duration 57m
A contemporary BBC Radio 3 drama about the events that occur to a man after he snaps one day at work. The First Day of the Rest of My Life stars Jonathan Keeble as the protagonist, and was originally broadcast as part of The Wire collection of dramas on 10 October 2009, and repeated on 2 October 2010. Toby has a bad day at work on the phones for Ca...
View BookAuthor: Rhod Gilbert
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Author Rhod Gilbert
Narrator The Cast
Duration 55m
Welsh stand-up comedian Rhod Gilbert hosts a brand new audience comedy show featuring regulars Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies (We Are Klang), along with Sarah Millican who takes a weekly look at The Six Stages of Woman. This second episode features live music from Athlete, including hits Superhuman Touch and Half Light, and the guest comedian is tr...
View BookAuthor: John Casson
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Author John Casson
Narrator John Casson
Duration 13h
In 1909, actress Sybil Thorndike wed Welsh-born actor/director Lewis Casson. This is the story of their great theatre partnership as told by their son John.
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Edward Fox, Joanna David
Duration 2h 35m
On the theme of love a second great collection of romantic short stories from yesteryear read by another husband and wife team Edward Fox and Joanna David. LOVE is a staple theme of many short stories and in this second off-beat selection from CSA it comes in many guises. There is love tragically thwarted by duty in Thomas Hardy's The Son's Veto; t...
View BookRonnie Barker's Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
Author: Ronnie Barker
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Author Ronnie Barker
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 58m
Here's a cornucopia of clever comedy, featuring sketches, monologues, poems and songs in this "sequential entertainment for radio". Among the sketches, Mr. Serpent, a sales rep in the Garden of Eden, tries to flog a knowledge course to Eve ("one bite and you're a Ph.D."). A doctor has to give some bad news, but gets more emotional than the patient,...
View BookBadgers In My Vest: Portrait of An Artist As A Young Dog
Author: John Fletcher
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Author John Fletcher
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
Badgers in my vest is a new, darkly funny play by an acclaimed contemporary playwright, based on a true incident in Dylan Thomas' life. Deemed unfit to fight in World War II, Dylan Thomas spends his time in Newquay in the local pub, cadging drinks, laughing at the Welsh behind their back and being outrageous. Privately, he is terrified, suffering n...
View BookAuthor: Chris Morris, Peter Cook
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Author Chris Morris, Peter Cook
Narrator Chris Morris, Peter Cook
Duration 49m
1994 saw one of Peter Cooks most acclaimed performances since his 1960's heyday. Chris Morris' surreal and inventive questions brought out the very best of eccentric aristocrat Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling - a character whom Cook had carried with him through Beyond the Fringe and Not Only.But Also.to his latter years. These five interviews recall St...
View BookAuthor: Janet Gurtler
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Author Janet Gurtler
Narrator Allyson Ryan
Duration 7h 15m
A timely and heartfelt collection of essays inspired by the #MeToo movement, edited by acclaimed young adult and middle-grade author Janet Gurtler. Featuring Beth Revis, Mackenzi Lee, Ellen Hopkins, Saundra Mitchell, Jennifer Brown, Cheryl Rainfield, and many more. When #MeToo went viral, Janet Gurtler was among the millions of people who began to...
View BookAuthor: Henning Mankell
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Author Henning Mankell
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 15h 34m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The White Lioness by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett. In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation and no motive. Inspector Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. As Inspe...
View BookMaggie Hope Series Book 8: The Prisoner In the Castle
Author: Susan Elia MacNeal
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Author Susan Elia MacNeal
Narrator Susan Duerden
SeriesMaggie Hope, Book 8
Duration 10h 10m
World War II is raging, and former spy Maggie Hope knows too much. She knows what the British government is willing to do to keep its secrets. She knows the real location of the planned invasion of France. She knows who's lying. She knows who the double-crossers are. She knows exactly who is sending agents to their deaths.These are the reasons Magg...
View BookThe Infinite Monkey Cage --the Complete Series 14-17
Author: Robin Ince
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Author Robin Ince
Narrator Various
Duration 10h 10m
Brian Cox and Robin Ince present a witty, irreverent look at the world according to science. The Infinite Monkey Cage has become one of BBC Radio 4's most popular science-based programmes. In each episode physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince delve into a particular field of science, with the help of guests from the worlds of science, academi...
View BookAuthor: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 25h 51m
The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married and produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title. Alone in her chamber at the Tower of London, Catherine hears ghostly voices; echoes, she thinks, of a crime committed in the same room...
View BookAuthor: Sjon
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Author Sjon
Narrator Daniel Pirrie
Duration 2h 40m
The year is 1883. The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop. We follow the priest, Skugga-Baldur, on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox. We're then transported to the world of the naturalist Friethrik B. Friethriksson and his charge, Abba, who suffers from Down's syndrome, and who came to his rescue when he was on the verge of disaster....
View BookAuthor: CGP Publications
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Author CGP Publications
Narrator Jan Boyd
Duration 5h 51m
This book is full of detailed revision notes for GCSE ICT students. It covers every topic for the AQA, CCEA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC exam boards. The whole thing's designed to make revision straightforward - each section is split into topics with questions to check what you've learnt at the end. It's all explained simply and thoroughly in CGP's chatt...
View BookA Man's Head (inspector Maigret)
Author: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 2h 56m
Nicholas Le Prevost stars as the French detective in four new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatizations These new adaptations of classic stories find Maigret recreating four memorable cases for his creator Georges Simenon. In 'Maigret: A Man's Head', a convicted man is allowed to escape, then followed by police investigating a double murder. Maigret fin...
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