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Author: Michael Frayn
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Author Michael Frayn
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 34m
Michael Frayn is the bestselling author of Headlong and Spies. His 1990 novel The Trick Of It is a comical look at an odd couple. Original and witty, Frayn tells a complete story through one-sided letters. Compact, light and entertaining, The Trick Of It is a clever tale. A nameless college professor writes letters to an esteemed friend living in A...
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Author Michael Frayn
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 17m
Jarvis and Frayn are a truly inimitable pairing - frequent collaborators on-stage, screen and audiobook, they are an eternally popular duo. Michael Frayn began his career as a reporter on UK newspaper The Guardian before becoming a columnist for the same newspaper. Martin Jarvis is a renowned audiobook narrator and his many acting accolades include...
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Author: Michael Frayn
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Author Michael Frayn
Narrator Christopher Oxford
Duration 7h
Frayn's 1967 novel about Fleet Street portrays a newspaper world long since gone. Stuck in a sleepy newspaper department, covering nature notes and crosswords, Dyson dreams of liberation and recognition. When a chance occurs to appear on TV, he eagerly prepares to embrace a celebrity lifestyle.
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Author Michael Frayn
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
Michael Frayn's superbly crafted sketches are mostly timeless skits on middle class social mores of the 1960s, originally published as newspaper columns and brought marvellously to life by the versatile Martin Jarvis, who plays 100 characters in the course of a two hour programme!
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Author Michael Frayn
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 7h 28m
An old man returns to the scene of his ordinary suburban childhood. Stephen Wheatley is unsure of what he is seeking but, as he walks once-familiar streets he hasn't seen in 50 years, he unfolds a story of childish games colliding cruelly with adult realities. It is wartime and Stephen's friend Keith makes the momentous announcement that his mother...
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Author Michael Frayn
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 11h 47m
Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has found one of the world's long-lost treasures. But at once the difficulties begin: the treasure he has found is in someone else's possession and to get his hands on it he needs to set up a classic sting. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Author Michael Frayn
Narrator Stephen Kemble
Duration 4h
When Howard Baker dies in a car crash, he finds himself transported to heaven, where he soon starts to become a very important person and a good friend of God.
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