AuthorBob Larbey, John Esmonde
NarratorFelicity Kendal, Paul Eddington, Penelope Keith, Richard Briers
SeriesThe Good Life, Book 8
Duration1h 55m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Humour and Comedy
PublisherBBC Audio
VersionUnabridged
Tom, Barbara, Jerry and Margo return in the last four episodes of the final series. The Weaver's Tale (1 May 1977): Barbara isn't happy when Tom spends all their money on a second-hand loom, and Jerry bravely decides to rein in Margo's spending - just after she's been shopping. Suit Yourself (8 May 1977): Tom and Barbara are making a suit for Tom using sheeps' wool and dye from stinging nettles, while Margo and Jerry are invited to a dinner where 'Sir' announces his retirement. But who will take over the company? Sweet and Sour Charity (15 May 1977): Margo is outraged that the Music Society has chosen Sweet Charity for its next production. Meanwhile, Tom and Barbara plan to siphon off the oil from their neighbour's tank... Anniversary (22 May 1977): Here's to the good life! In the last programme it's Tom's birthday and the second anniversary since he and Barbara went self-sufficient. However, they have the only oil slick in Surbiton and receive a major shock after hearing Jerry's good news.
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 28m
Bertie Wooster looks pretty stylish in his new Tyrolean hat - or so he thinks: others, notably Jeeves, disagree. But when Bertie embarks on an errand of mercy to Totleigh Towers, things get quickly out of control and he's going to need all the help Jeeves can provide. There are good eggs present, such as Gussie Fink-Nottle and the Rev. 'Stinker' Pi...
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Author: Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
Author Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Good Life, Book 2
Duration 1h 51m
Includes: 'The Thing in the Cellar', 'The Pagan Rite', 'Backs to the Wall', 'Just my Bill'. Four more original BBC television episodes of the much-loved classic sitcom starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith.
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Author: John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
Author John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Good Life, Book 1
Duration 1h 50m
Four original BBC television episodes of the much-loved classic sitcom starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith.
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The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year
Author: Sue Townsend
Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Caroline Quentin
Duration 10h 26m
The day her children leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. She's had enough-of her kids' carelessness, her husband's thoughtlessness and of the world's general indifference. Brian can't believe his wife is doing this. Who is going to make dinner? But Eva won't budge; and soon she realises to her horror that everyone has been taking her f...
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The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
Author: Sue Townsend
Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Nicholas Barnes
SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 2
Duration 5h 36m
The troubled teenager continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life. In between the ups and downs of his relationship with the divine Pandora and worrying that his genius is going unrecognized, Adrian Mole chronicles the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence.
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Author: Sue Townsend
Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Angela Thorne
Duration 7h 24m
When a Republican party wins the General Election, they strip the royal family of everything and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. Is their breeding sufficient to allow t...
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The Vinyl Detective Mysteries Book 2: The Run Out Groove
Author: Andrew Cartmel
Author Andrew Cartmel
Narrator Finlay Robertson
SeriesThe Vinyl Detective Mysteries, Book 2
Duration 10h 7m
When a mint copy of the final album by Valerian - England's great lost rock band of the 1960s, surfaces, all hell breaks loose. Finding this record triggers a chain of events culminating in our hero learning the true fate of the singer Valerian, who died under equivocal circumstances just after... or was it just before the abduction of her two-year...
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Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
Author: Sue Townsend
Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Nicholas Barnes
SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 4
Duration 5h 38m
Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from deskbound civil servant in Oxford to part-time washer-upper in Soho, he finds that critical reception for his epic novel, Lo! The Fla...
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Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 11m
A popular story in the acclaimed 'Pat Hobby' series. Poor Pat Hobby's fates go from bad to worse when he gets the wrong impression of a heated situation. Amusing and delightfully cringeworthy at times, Pat Hobby is a stubborn anti-hero who you won't be able to resist.
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The Good Life: The Wind-break War
Author: Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
Author Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Good Life, Book 4
Duration 1h 56m
Four classic episodes of the popular BBC TV series starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington. The episodes are A Tug of the Forelock, I Talk to the Trees, The Wind-Break War and Whose Fleas Are These?
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