Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 54m
An early morning awakening leads to a discovery much more shocking than a few rifled drawers at a grand house. A suspected bungled robbery that it seems has gone horribly wrong calls our heroes Holmes and Watson to The Abbey Grange, where their super-sleuthing may be able to shed some light on the mystery.
View BookAuthor: Mark Wheatley
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Author Mark Wheatley
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
Fraser once tracked clients who jumped bail. Then he added a little twist to the business by helping people disappear instead, which is why Kathryn gives him a call. Starring Lia Williams as Kathryn and Neil Pearson as Fraser. Also includes Tessa Nicholson, Michael Shelford and Miche Doherty in the cast. Produced by Eoin O'Callaghan.
View BookThe Night Tried To Kidnap the Prime Minster
Author: Martin Jameson
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Author Martin Jameson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
This full-cast dramatisation by Martin Jameson for BBC Radio 4 is a fictionalised account of the incident in 1964 when a group of students attempted to kidnap the then-Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in Scotland. Originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 15 July 2009, this dramatisation stars Tim McInnerny as Sir Alec, Chris Starkie as R...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator John Moffatt
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 30
Duration 1h 27m
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective. When Richard Abernethie, last master of Enderby Hall, dies suddenly in his sleep, the family are eager to discover how his riches have been divided. However, the reading of the will is rudely interrupted by his youngest sister Cora - "he was murdered, wasn't h...
View BookThere Is No Such Thing As Free Food & the Best Profession For A Blackmailer
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 7
Duration 1h 27m
'There is No Such Thing as Free Food' finds Precious Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, preoccupied both professionally and personally by the subject of food. 'The Best Profession for a Blackmailer' sees Mr Polopetsi, part-time mechanic and would-be assistant detective, taking on a case of his own; while Mma Makutsi f...
View BookKey Stage Three Shakespeare: The Tempest
Author: CGP Publications
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Author CGP Publications
Narrator Paul Vates, Henry Douthwaite
Duration 2h 30m
Packed with easy-to-revise notes on what happens in 'The Tempest' by William Shakespeare, this audiobook also describes the key themes, characters and language. It will help you with your SATS questions.
View BookAuthor: Maureen Johnson
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Author Maureen Johnson
Narrator Maureen Johnson
Duration 3h 49m
Now, more than ever, young people are motivated to make a difference in a world they're bound to inherit. They're ready to stand up and be heard - but with much to shout about, where they do they begin? What can I do? How can I help? How I Resist is the response, and a way to start the conversation. To show listeners that they are not helpless, and...
View BookAuthor: Henning Mankell
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Author Henning Mankell
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 11h 15m
Crestfallen, dejected and spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance, a solicitor, seeks Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious circumstances in which his father has died, Kurt doesn't want to...
View BookAuthor: Stella Gibbons
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Author Stella Gibbons
Narrator Patricia Gallimore
Duration 3h 24m
Strong of will and slender of ankle, twenty-year-old orphan Flora Poste is blessed with every virtue save that of being able to earn her own living. Casting around for suitable relatives with whom she can make her home, Flora alights on the mysterious Starkadders and, ignoring the horrified shrieks of her friends, heads down to darkest Sussex. Ther...
View BookThis Is Cancer: Everything You Need To Know, From the Waiting Room To the Bedroom
Author: Laura Holmes Haddad
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Author Laura Holmes Haddad
Narrator Rachel Fulginiti
Duration 7h 10m
Cancer is indiscriminate. It cares little for class, creed, or color. Its victims and their caregivers are everywhere. When Laura Holmes Haddad was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer at age thirty-seven, she discovered shelf upon shelf of overly earnest, somber, gray survival books instead of the straight talk she needed. She knew there had to b...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 31: Monstrous Regiment
Author: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 31
Duration 11h 37m
It begun as a sudden strange fancy . . . Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time . . .And now she's enlisted in the army, and searching for her lost brother. But there's a war on. There's always a war on. And Polly and he...
View BookThe Misadventures of An Awkward Black Girl
Author: Issa Rae
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Author Issa Rae
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 49m
In the bestselling tradition of Sloan Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake and Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, a collection of humorous essays on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits, and black as cool. My name is "J" and I'm awkward-and black. Someone once told me those...
View BookAuthor: Fern Britton
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Author Fern Britton
Narrator Fern Britton
Duration 9h 48m
When Christie Lynch, journalist and single mother of two, appears as a guest on a daytime TV talk show, she could never have imagined that it would lead to a new career as presenter of a daily chat show. Christie is immediately thrust into the limelight and starts to enjoy her new-found wealth and fame. But as her career soars to new heights, her h...
View BookThe Bumper Book of London: Everything You Need To Know About London and More
Author: Becky Jones, Clare Lewis
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Author Becky Jones, Clare Lewis
Narrator Jan Boyd
Duration 10h 26m
This entertaining and informative book includes every fact, figure, statistic and hidden secret of London that will be of interest to children. Mixing history with literature, listings with trivia, it opens windows on all areas of London's rich past and present. Here children will learn about London's art and architecture, landmarks, hidden places,...
View BookAuthor: Barry Devlin
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Author Barry Devlin
Narrator Various
SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 5, Book 1
Duration 43m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. In The Million Dollar Question, Franciscan priest Paolo Baldi investigates the mysterious deaths of members of a rockabilly band, exploring patterns...
View BookAuthor: Ian Marter
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Author Ian Marter
Narrator Peter Davison
Duration 3h 41m
A group of palaeontologists have been savagely attacked while carrying out a study of fossilised dinosaur remains in an underground cave system on twenty-fifth century Earth. A party of troopers and Professor Kyle, the only survivor of the attack, are investigating the deaths of her colleagues when they discover the Doctor and his companions at the...
View BookElephants To Catch Eels, Series 1, Episode 3
Author: Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
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Author Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
Narrator Lucy Speed
SeriesElephants to Catch Eels Series 1, Book 3
Duration 28m
The BBC Radio comedy set in an 18th century Cornish village-written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain and produced by Jan Ravens. A hairy folk band helps Tamsyn Trelawny and the Cornish smugglers to escape the law. Stars Lucy Speed. From February 2003.
View BookJeremy Hardy Speaks To the Nation
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
SeriesJeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation Series 2, Book 1
Duration 29m
"How to be a popular figure around town" Note: This is part one of a series of six parts.
View BookA Charles Paris Mystery Book 1: Cast In Order of Disappearance
Author: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Bill Nighy
SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 1
Duration 1h 52m
Bill Nighy stars as Charles Paris with Martine McCutcheon as Jodie Ricks in this BBC Radio 4 comedy detective drama. Charles finds himself uncharacteristically employed in a film, having landed the part of Szabec, a middle management vampire in The Wreathing. His co-star is swimwear model turned actress Jodie Ricks and before long, Jodie is using C...
View BookAuthor: Mark Twain
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Author Mark Twain
Narrator Stuart Milligan
Duration 40m
Three of Mark Twain's classic short stories, originally broadcast in the Afternoon Reading slot on BBC Radio 4 from 9-11 November 2010, to accompany the Autobiography of Mark Twain (aired on Book of the Week). Read by Stuart Milligan. Twain's classic short stories, with their familiar trademarks of high farce and droll insight, bring us eccentric b...
View BookNoughts and Crosses Series Book 1: Noughts and Crosses
Author: Malorie Blackman
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Author Malorie Blackman
Narrator Syan Blake, Paul Chequer
SeriesNoughts and Crosses, Book 1
Duration 10h 39m
Sephy is a Cross, a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought, a 'colourless' member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood. But that's as far as it can go. Until the first steps are taken towards more social equality and a limited number of Noughts are allowed into C...
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