Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 41m
A short story first published in the United States in The Saturday Evening Post on November 28, 1916, and in the United Kingdom in the April 1923 edition of Strand Magazine. Its first book publication. From 'Carry on, Jeeves'. Uncle Willoughby guest-stars in this story of engagement, surprise and of course, a whole lot of raucous comedy.
View BookAuthor: Philippa Pearce
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Author Philippa Pearce
Narrator Jan Francis
Duration 4h 45m
Tom has to stay with his uncle and aunt when his brother gets measles. Bored and lonely, he eventually finds what seems to be the ideal escape. Every night, after the clock strikes thirteen, he finds he can travel back in time to a mysterious Victorian garden just by walking out of the back door. None of the adults can believe that the garden exist...
View BookDick Barton and the Paris Adventure
Author: Edward J Mason
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Author Edward J Mason
Narrator Douglas Kelly
Duration 4h 8m
Heralded by an instantly memorable signature tune, the adventures of special agent Dick Barton and his friends Jock and Snowey were essential listening for an entire generation. Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon Davies, in an exciting world of criminal masterminds, espionage and adventure, it ran on the BBC Light Programme b...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
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Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Red Planet, Book 5
Duration 29m
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects and atmospheric music engaged the listener as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger...
View BookJourney Into Space: The Return From Mars
Author: Charles Chilton
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Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 27m
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction series, Journey Into Space, stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of six million adults and children attentively followed Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger to another as, together, they faced the unknown perils of space. Return From Mars is the fina...
View Book222 Ways To Trick Yourself To Sleep
Author: Kim Jones
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Author Kim Jones
Narrator Zara Ramm
Duration 4h 14m
When was the last time you had a proper night's sleep? In today's fast-paced, nonstop world, research by the UK's Sleep Council has found that almost a third of us don't get enough sleep most nights. Insomnia can wreak havoc on everyday life - leaving us feeling exhausted, irritable and unwell. Lack of sleep has also been linked to a whole host of...
View BookDirk Pitt Series Book 5: Vixen 03
Author: Clive Cussler
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Author Clive Cussler
Narrator Scott Brick
SeriesDirk Pitt, Book 5
Duration 11h 43m
The brilliant fifth Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler. Over 30 years ago, on an ultrasecret flight to the South Pacific, the transport plane Vixen 03 vanished. It was believed to be lost at sea. And carrying canisters of the most lethal substance known to man. Now Vixen 03 has returned to haunt the...
View BookDaisy Dalrymple Book 21: Heirs of the Body
Author: Carola Dunn
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Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Lucy Rayner
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 21
Duration 11h 27m
When one of four potential claimants to the title of Lord Dalrymple dies a sudden, nasty death, the question on everyone's mind is, "was it murder?" In the late 1920s in England, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is recruited to help her cousin Edgar-i.e. the Lord Dalrymple. About to turn fifty, Lord Dalrymple decides it is time to find out wh...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 1: The Colour of Magic
Author: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 1
Duration 6h 52m
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to s...
View BookAuthor: Patrick Ness
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Author Patrick Ness
Narrator Jamie Glover
Duration 9h 1m
One night, George Duncan is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly off, his life is transformed. The next day, a kind but enigmatic woman walks into George's shop. Suddenly a new world op...
View BookAuthor: Peter James
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Author Peter James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 13h 45m
They were marked for death. The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fianc‚e, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the block of flats where they live in Brighton. Then she screams and the phone goes dead. The police are on the scene within minutes, but Logan has vani...
View BookAuthor: Cecelia Ahern
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Author Cecelia Ahern
Narrator Aoife Mcmahon
Duration 12h 15m
In the south-west of Ireland, rugged mountains meet bright blue lakes and thick forests. Deep in the woods, a young woman lives alone, forever secluded from the world, her life a well-kept secret. She possesses an extraordinary talent, the likes of which no-one has seen before: a gift that will earn her the nickname Lyrebird. When Solomon stumbles...
View BookAuthor: Margaret Wise Brown
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Author Margaret Wise Brown
Narrator Unknown
Duration 5m
Over the city, high above the sea, into a storm, and through a sky full of aeroplanes, the Noon Balloon is off on a magical journey. Read along as the boy, girl, and little dog fly away for a truly magical adventure! Part of our fantastic, Read-along collection for younger readers, these are picture books which highlight the text in time with the n...
View BookThe Long Earth Series Book 4: The Long Utopia
Author: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
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Author Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Narrator Michael Fenton Stevens
SeriesLong Earth, Book 4
Duration 12h
2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve. Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He's convinced they're leading a norm...
View BookAuthor: Roy Smiles
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Author Roy Smiles
Narrator Kai Owen, Toby Longworth, James Clyde
Duration 43m
Roy Smiles' play about Spike Milligan's last days with the Goons and his complex and often fractious relationship with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe. During the 1950s, 'The Goon Show' had England laughing week after week, greatly influencing Monty Python and the Beatles, among others - and paved the way for sketch comedy as we know it today.
View BookDick Barton and the Li-chang Adventure
Author: Edward J Mason
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Author Edward J Mason
Narrator Douglas Kelly
Duration 3h 49m
Douglas Kelly stars in another adventure for radio's greatest hero. Heralded by an instantly memorable signature tune, the adventures of Dick Barton, Jock and Snowey originally ran on the BBC Light Programme between 1946 and 1951. Very few of the BBC's original recordings still survive, however, in 1949 some were re-recorded for transmission overse...
View BookAuthor: R. K. Narayan
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Author R. K. Narayan
Narrator Ike Khan
Duration 8h 5m
Krishna, an English teacher in the town of Malgudi, nagged by the feeling he's doing the wrong work, is nonetheless delighted by his domestic life, where his wife and young daughter wait for him outside the house every afternoon. Devastated by the death of his wife, Krishna comes to realise what he really wants to do, and makes a decision that will...
View BookJeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum: Jeeves
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 18m
Hapless and often hopeless romantic Bingo Little has fallen for yet another young lady in this Jeeves and Wooster story of terrible cravats, far-from-fine dining and love's perhaps-not-so-young dream. Bertie is rather confounded by Bingo's love for a girl below his rightful station, so long-suffering Jeeves is roped in to talk to Bingo's uncle, who...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator James Saxon
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 3
Duration 5h 54m
Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets - a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when Mrs Symmington commits suicide. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict.
View BookAuthor: Edith Wharton
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Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 49m
The play follows the beautiful Undine Spragg as she arrives in New York and sets her sights on Ralph Marvell, then travels to Paris where she meets a charming French aristocrat. Will Undine ever find real happiness?
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
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Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Red Planet, Book 4
Duration 29m
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects and atmospheric music engaged the listener as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger...
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