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Author: Charles Dickens
Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 50m
A tale of comical misadventure with Mister Pickwick and his companions - the amorous Tupman, the 'poetic' Snodgrass and the `sporty' Winkle - all battling to extricate themselves from a seemingly endless succession of comic trials and tribulations.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Miss Marple, Book 10
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 10
Duration 2h 30m
When Miss Marple comes up from the countryside for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakeable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 14
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 14
Duration 2h 20m
The brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot becomes involved in an unusual case after a member of an archaeological expedition is murdered at an ancient site in the Iraqi desert.
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Author: Dylan Thomas
Author Dylan Thomas
Narrator Richard Burton
Duration 1h 40m
The 1963 radio dramatisation, with Richard Burton as the narrator, of Dylan Thomas's play for voices, about the inhabitants of a small Welsh village.
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Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 3h
Written for Esquire magazine late in Fitzgerald's career, 'The Pat Hobby Stories' are a bittersweet, humorous recollection of a down-and-out Hollywood screenwriter trying to break back into show business, whose career has started to flag since the emergence of 'upstarts' such as Orson Welles.
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Author: Jane Asher
Author Jane Asher
Narrator Eileen Mills
Duration 8h 7m
John Hamilton didn't want children with his wife, but that was because he had led a secret life for 20 years, in the shape of a mistress and a 19 year-old daughter. Now, following a car crash which has left him in a vegetative state, the three women that he deceived decide his fate.
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Author: Jane Gardam
Author Jane Gardam
Narrator Caroline John
Duration 5h
A collection of short stories, including the long, three-part story, 'Telegony', which is a depiction of three generations of women and the clash of two very different cultures, English and Italian. The collection includes two ghost stories, 'Dead Children' and 'The Meeting House'.
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Author: George Eliot
Author George Eliot
Narrator Lucy Briars
Duration 7h
After he is wrongly accused of a crime and expelled from his community, weaver Silas Marner becomes a miser and a recluse. A strange sequence of events, and the appearance of a small child, transforms his life and awakens him to the redemptive power of love.
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Author: Jill Paton Walsh
Author Jill Paton Walsh
Narrator Maureen O'Reilly
Duration 7h 30m
When her mother dies, Marian realises she has left it too late to ask the crucial questions about the identity of her own father, 'lost in the War'. Marian's search takes her to the remote and close-knit community of St. Ives, where fisherfolk and artists have coexisted for many years, and where she learns of a tragedy involving her father.
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The Withered Arm and Other Wessex Tales
Author: Thomas Hardy
Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Various
Duration 7h
Hardy's first collection of short stories was written between 1879-1888, with many of the tales set before Hardy's birth in 1840. These humorous and affectionate observations of rustic life include the following tales: 'An Imaginative Woman', 'The Three Strangers', 'The Withered Arm', 'Fellow-Townsmen', 'Interlopers at the Knap' and 'The Distracted...
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Author: Carol Shields
Author Carol Shields
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 12h
Floral designer Larry and his feisty young wife, Dorrie, spend their honeymoon in England. At Hampton Court Larry discovers a new passion for mazes. Perhaps his ever-growing obsession with their secrets will help him find a way through the bewilderment deepening about him as, through twenty years and two failed marriages, he endeavours to understan...
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The Great Automatic Grammatizator
Author: Roald Dahl
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Nicholas Courtney
Duration 10h
Bizarre, amusing and grotesque, these tales enter the unexpected world of Dahl. They illustrate the different lives that people lead: a life of chance, of risk and of plain bad luck. The stories are specially chosen for teenagers to introduce them to Dahl's work for adults. The stories included are: 'Katina', 'Man from the South', 'Mrs Bixby and th...
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A Charles Paris Mystery Book 13: A Series of Murders
Author: Simon Brett
Series: Charles Paris Mysteries, Book 13
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Simon Brett
SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 13
Duration 57m
Charles Paris, actor and amateur sleuth, is working in television as the brainless bobby sidekick to a suave detective. The accidental death of an unpromising actress causes little suspicion, except in Charles' mind. He decides to investigate.
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Author: Raymond Chandler
Author Raymond Chandler
Narrator Ed Bishop
Duration 8h
Philip Marlowe is the centre of a succession of curious and increasingly violent happenings when he agrees to take on a case for Little Sister. He is swept into a series of collisions with movie stars, gangsters, small town girls and the police.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Miss Marple, Book 4
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Rosemary Leach
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 4
Duration 8h 43m
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm. Is it a hoax? As the time approaches a crowd gathers, and then the lights go out. Miss Marple investigates.
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Author: Malcolm Bradbury
Author Malcolm Bradbury
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 10h 30m
Howard Kirk is the trendiest of radical tutors at a fashionable university. Timid Vice-Chancellors pale before his threats of disruption and reactionary colleagues are crushed beneath his merciless Marxist logic. Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London on behalf of the Estate of Malcolm Bradbury. Copyright Malcolm Bradbury 1975...
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Author: Emile Zola
Author Emile Zola
Narrator Christoper Oxford
Duration 7h 30m
In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin Camille. The tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on an affair with her husband's friend Laurent, and their passion for each other soon causes the lovers to commit a shocking crime that will haunt the...
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Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
Author Penelope Fitzgerald
Narrator Ruth Sillars
Duration 5h
The human voices of the story are those of the BBC in the first years of the Second World War when the Concert Hall was turned into a dormitory for both sexes. The whole building became a target for enemy bombers, and in the BBC as elsewhere, some had to fail and some had to die.
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Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
Author Penelope Fitzgerald
Narrator Ruth Sillars
Duration 8h
Set in Russia 1913, Frank Reid arrives home from work on a day just like any other to find that his wife has left him. How should he cope? 'The Beginning of Spring' tells the story of how the family copes with this unexpected event, set against a turbulent political backdrop.
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Author: Tony Parsons
Author Tony Parsons
Narrator Simon Meacock
Duration 7h 15m
Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. And in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away. This is the story of how he comes to terms with his mistakes and achieves a degree of self-respect whilst bringing up his son alone. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE.
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Author: Virginia Woolf
Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Eileen Mills
Duration 6h
Set in the summer of 1939 on the day of the annual village pageant at Pointz Hall, the novel weaves together the musings of several disparate characters and their reactions to the imminence of the Second World War, which provides the novel with its dark undercurrent. Before the book was published in the spring of 1941, Virginia Woolf had taken her...
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