AuthorJeremy Front
NarratorFull Cast
Duration27m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Humour and Comedy, Plays and Dramatisations
PublisherAudio Go Ltd
VersionUnabridged
Beth just wants what's best for her 11 year old son; a solid secondary education at the kind of school that recognises his genius, as well as his aptitude for baroque music. A school like Folgate. But when the family is edged out of Folgate's catchment area, a battle begins. Beth takes on the might of the council with a mixture of community action, ancient by-laws and sheep. Starring Darren Boyd as Jake, Emma Fryer as Ruth Willith, Alex Tregear as the Journalist, Sally Orroc as Helen and Brian Bowles as the Farmer/Hughes.
Nursery Crimes Series Book 1: The Big Over Easy
Author: Jasper Fforde
Author Jasper Fforde
Narrator Luke Thompson
SeriesNursery Crime, Book 1
Duration 11h 6m
It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Following the pathologist's careful reconstruction of Humpty's shell, Detective Inspector Jac...
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A Charles Paris Mystery: A Doubtful Death
Author: Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
Author Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
Narrator Bill Nighy, Full Cast
Duration 2h 10m
Bill Nighy returns as the loveably louche actor-cum-amateur detective Charles ParisCharles Paris is in Oxford, appearing in a re-imagining of Hamlet by a high-concept drama company. No fan of immersive theatre, he's unimpressed with the director's vision and less than thrilled to be rehearsing alongside puppeteers and mime artists.But he soon finds...
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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: Nick Warburton
Author Nick Warburton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
First episode to kick-off the BBC Radio 4 comedy-drama series, 'Turf Wars' by Nick Warburton, originally broadcast on the 9 March 2011. This delicious comedy, 'Losing the Plot', stars James Fleet as Edward, a bashful man who, passing a local allotment, speaks to an attractive female allotee (Joanna Monro). He decides there and then that he must app...
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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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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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Turf Wars-an Incident At the Border
Author: Simon Brett
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
Episode 2 of 4 of the BBC Radio 4 comedy-drama series 'Turf Wars', Nigel Planner stars in 'An Incident at the Border', Kieran Lynn's comedy about boundaries that are both territorial and personal. Directed by Peter Kavanagh and originally broadcast 16 October 2011. Arthur (Joe Kloska) and Olivia (Leah Brotherhead), take in the sun in their local pa...
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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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Nursery Crime Series Book 2: The Fourth Bear
Author: Jasper Fforde
Author Jasper Fforde
Narrator Luke Thompson
SeriesNursery Crime, Book 2
Duration 11h 5m
The Gingerbreadman: Psychopath, murderer, and biscuit is loose in the streets of Reading. He and Mary Mary have been reassigned due to falling levels of nursery crime. That is, until a chance encounter during the Armitage Shanks literary awards at the oddly familiar Deja-Vu Club lead Jack and Mary on the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta 'Goldi...
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Author: Tony Kushner
Author Tony Kushner
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 6h 53m
In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their acclaimed performances from the 2018 Tony Award-winning National Theatre revival of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. With narration by Bobby Cannavale and Edie Falco, and a musical score by Adria...
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