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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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Author: Michael Frayn
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
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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Jeff Peters As A Personal Magnet.
Author: O. Henry
Author O. Henry
Narrator Nigel Hawthorne
Duration 16m
This story of a quack con-man with healing ideas above his station is told in a wonderful dialectal style, which adds much to the tall tales Mr. Jeff Peters, or doctor 'Waugh-hoo' relates regarding a certain run-in with a town mayor who appears to be sickening for something. A funny story which also gives some small insight into the life of an old-...
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Author: Oscar Wilde
Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 14m
Worthy but penniless Hughey Erskine is horrified by his painter friend's heartless attitude to the tramp posing for a portrait. Hughey gives the tramp money, only to learn there has been a mixup which may set Hughey back further from marrying his adoring fianc‚e.
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Best of Second World War Poetry
Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Cliff Michelmore
Duration 3h 3m
A sensitive and enlightening collection of war poetry. Released to celebrate the 60th anniversaries of both VE and VJ days, this collection of powerful and moving poetry, read by a star cast of readers including Spike Milligan and Phil Collins, is a feast of a listen. Containing over 100 poems, it charts the war from beginning to end, through the e...
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Author: A.S. Byatt
Author A.S. Byatt
Narrator Rosalind Ayres
Duration 11m
"Baglady" is a surprising, and brilliant short story. Here, Byatt presents a horror story in which a woman gets trapped in a mall. Although the messages may not be original, Byatt's short but effective look at narcissism and capitalism is wittily told.
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Author: Alan Sillitoe
Author Alan Sillitoe
Narrator Janet Mcteer
Duration 13m
A woman aged 70 whose husband had died recently decides to go on holiday in the car to the battlefields of Northern France as she had done so many times before with Victor. She visits a restaurant and sits very close to an elderly Britsh couple. The man becomes very abusive towards his wife and she feels very embarrassed to be English. However, she...
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Author: Oscar Wilde
Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator Rupert Graves
Duration 2h 52m
Haunting and poignant, the great Oscar Wilde's famous supernatural story of youth and age is narrated brilliantly by Rupert Graves. Wilde's only novel combines sparkling wit, social satire and luxurious description. Full of many of his most famous witticisms, it is essentially a novel about the lust for eternal youth versus the inevitable reality o...
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Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 19m
When Bertie's indomitable Aunt Agatha asks him to chaperone a visitor to New York, Jeeves and Wooster dare not disobey, and have to step up to the plate. Unfortunately, their charge is a rather ill-behaved scoundrel called Bassington-Bassington, who finds himself in a whole bally lot of trouble almost as soon as his feet touch American soil. Add to...
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Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Series: Blandings, Book 9
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesBlandings, Book 9
Duration 5h 15m
Galahad is writing his memoirs, but will he upset all of his high-society friends in the process? The setting is the glorious Blandings castle, where Galahad Threepwood is trying to write his memoirs, which may well upset a few of his friends, whose youthful indiscretions he plans on exposing. A host of colourful and relatively ridiculous character...
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Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 4h 50m
Right Ho, Jeeves sees Bertie Wooster blithely attempting to assume the role of Jeeves himself as a matters-of-the-heart adviser. Very unwise: from Gussie Fink-Nottle's romance with Madeline Bassett, to Tuppy Glossop and his stop/go engagement to Angela Travers, the young master succeeds only in making a bally mess of everyone's love-lives. Toss int...
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Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Series: Uncle Fred, Book 4
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesUncle Fred, Book 4
Duration 4h 54m
The debonair Uncle Fred makes a welcome return to Blandings, where plotting and confusion is rife. Blackmail, sabotage, jilted lovers and pigs under threat of kidnap all feature largely, making this hilarious instalment in the Blandings series irresistible to fans and newcomers alike. The story sees lovely debutante Myra Schoonmaker unhappily ensco...
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