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Author: Henry James
Author Henry James
Narrator William Roberts
Duration 2h 23m
The young and innocent Isabel Archer has a choice to make when she comes to England from America: dignity and duty or her happiness? A familiar theme in James' writing is the meeting of Europe and America. Isabel Archer is determined to make the most of her new-found freedom when she arrives in England, but other expatriate Americans manipulate he...
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Author: Henry James
Author Henry James
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 2h 23m
More than just a simple tale of the supernatural, James poses questions about childhood innocence, corruption and hysteria. The story focuses on a na‹ve governess who takes charge of two children at the lonely house of Bly. When she begins to see ghosts, she believes that the children do too, with devastating consequences.
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Author: Herman Melville
Author Herman Melville
Narrator Bob Sessions
Duration 2h 10m
A nautical yarn that encompasses adventure, thrills and spills on the high seas. Not to foget a certain massive whale! Captain Nemo is hell-bent on catching the famous gargantuan whale, who cost him one of his legs on a previous voyage. With disregard for his safety or that of his crew, he persues the beast with an obsession tantamount to madness.
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Author: James Joyce
Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 35m
Little Chandler, the story's protagonist, is unhappy in his family life as a father and husband. The arrival of a successful friend further amplifies his feelings of inadequacy and despair, making him think about what he would have liked to do, and why it is that he lacks the courage to make the career that he dreams of. A train-of-consciousness st...
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Author: Jane Austen
Author Jane Austen
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 2h 22m
Catherine Moorland is a tomboy who yearns for dark and dangerous adventure. Her first outing in society does not quite fit this specification, although she does fall decidedly in love, which is an adventure in itself. Young and susceptible, Catherine Morland expects dark secrets and many dangers to be lurking in the hidden recesses of Northanger A...
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Author: Jane Austen
Author Jane Austen
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 2h 21m
Anne Elliot is thrown back into the company of Captain Wentworth, a past love. Things didn't work out the last time they met, so it looks like it might be another bumpy ride in store for the pair... Partly autobiographical, Persuasion possesses a gentle sense of humour, and has rather a more serious tone than most of Austen's other works. Anne Eli...
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Author: Jane Austen
Author Jane Austen
Narrator Joanna Lumley
Duration 2h 12m
Elizabeth Bennett is an intelligent unmarried woman in a patriarchal and aspirational society. She has numerous proud and prejudiced run-ins with the seemingly surly and aloof Mr. Darcy, who she initially feels is a man whom she would not desire to spend more time than she might have to. However, can they start to understand each other a little bet...
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Author: Jane Austen
Author Jane Austen
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 2h 13m
Elinor and Marianne are the main protagonists in this tale of stayed passion and the mission of courtship. The story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, whose lives are turned upside-down following the death of their father. Left almost penniless, they are forced to move out of their home, suffering loss of position and many shattered dreams. Res...
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 46m
CSA Word continues its ever-popular series of classic short stories, featuring writers such as Jerome K. Jerome, Louisa May Alcott and Saki, read by such respected and revered readers as Derek Jacobi, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.
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Author: Jerome K Jerome
Author Jerome K Jerome
Narrator Hugh Laurie
Duration 2h 20m
CSA WORD's award winning production, which follows an ill-equipped bunch of fellows on a jaunt down the Thames. This award-winning story follows the symbolic progress of 3 friends and an unruly dog as they make their way on a supposedly relaxing trip down the river, surrounded by the beautiful Thames Valley. Laugh as they try to open cans of beans...
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Author: John Braine
Author John Braine
Narrator Kevin Whately
Duration 2h 58m
Joe Lampton is 25. He lost his parents during WW2 when their house was bombed and moves to Warley, where he meets the high-society set through the local ameteur dramatics society. He sets off on his quest to join them with a vengeance, hoping to achieve it through his choice of women and affected new persona.
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Author: John Buchan
Author John Buchan
Narrator Iain Cuthbertson
Duration 30m
A soldier becomes obsessed with his enemy equivalent in wartime - the German soldier who has his same serial/conscription number as himself. As he drives himself mad with contemplation, through the soldier's thoughts Buchan presents the human reality of war - young men killing young men, who share similarities, interests, characteristics and dreams...
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Author: John Wyndham
Author John Wyndham
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 26m
John Wyndham's classic tale of monsters from the deep, alien invasion and ecological disaster comes alive in this full-cast BBC radio dramatisation. At first, the fireballs seemed to be nothing more than a dazzling display of lights in the sky, plunging into the deepest oceans and disappearing without trace. But when ships started sinking inexplica...
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Author: John Wyndham
Author John Wyndham
Narrator Jeremy Clyde
Duration 3h 3m
Midwich Cuckoos is one of the more scary and realistic sci fi stories of all time, filmed on at least two occasions as Village of the Damned. Set in a village in Gloucester England all the local young women become pregnant at exactly the same time and give birth to these evil blonde blue-eyed babies. THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS is one of John Wyndham's bes...
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Author: Kate Chopin
Author Kate Chopin
Narrator Rupert Degas
Duration 6m
A woman sits in a dusky room with a man from whom she hopes to illicit a marriage proposal. However, an uninvited interloper comes and disrupts her well-laid plans, and throws the potential arrangement into uncertainty...in a very unexpected and even amusing fashion!
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Author: Kate Chopin
Author Kate Chopin
Narrator Rupert Degas
Duration 14m
A young woman gives her true love, a soldier, her locket before he goes away to war. Promising he will always keep it safe, when the locket returns but the young man does not, the young woman's world falls apart...but the twist in the tale will move even the steeliest listener's heart.
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Author: Leo Tolstoy
Author Leo Tolstoy
Narrator Edward Petherbridge
Duration 4h 47m
Set against the epic backdrop of the Napoleonic wars and inspired by Tolstoy's own family history, War and Peace is expertly interpreted by Edward Petherbridge who brilliantly defines the varied and different characters that people this celebrated classic.
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Author: M.R. James
Author M.R. James
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 26m
When the orphaned Stephen moves to with his wealthy Uncle Abney, he finds himself haunted by a pair of ghostly children. It seems that the ghosts, a gypsy boy and an orphaned girl, had been staying at Abney's house when they met their untimely ends. Is Abney responsible, and if so what could it have to do with his obsession with immortality?
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Author: M.R. James
Author M.R. James
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 43m
Martin's Close is a classic ghost story by M R James, about a young woman infatuated, who seems to reappear when all believe she has been brutally murdered.
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Author: M.R. James
Author M.R. James
Narrator Robin Bailey
Duration 23m
A classic ghost tale by M R James. A ghoulish revenge is enacted within a work of art, before the helpless eyes of a museum curator in Oxford.
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Author: Various
Series: Murder Most Foul, Book 1
Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesMurder Most Foul, Book 1
Duration 2h 25m
Horrible, gruesome, strange and fantastic, some of the best murder stories ever written. Some of the greatest crime stories ever written are brought together on a superb collection that will have listeners on the edge of their seats... wondering if they might be next!!! Who's that outside the door... or is it just the wind??
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