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Author: M.R. James
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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.
View BookAuthor: Charles Lamb
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Author Charles Lamb
Narrator Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres
Duration 25m
This story makes Shakespeare's world-famous play accessible to everyone in Charles and Mary Lamb's acclaimed prose form. Ideal as a study aid for students, or as an introduction to the play's plot for any listener. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plot to seat Macbeth as the king of Scotland, both of them knowing that they will have to get their hands very...
View BookAuthor: Graham Greene
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Author Graham Greene
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 9h 9m
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'.
View BookAuthor: Anthea Fraser
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Author Anthea Fraser
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 12h 2m
James Markham's family are shocked when he jilts his fiancee for a woman he met only days earlier and about whom he appears to know very little. Callum Firbank is successful, with a loving family and a comfortable home, but he has always been evasive about his childhood. Jill Irving runs a hotel in Dorset and has everything she could wish for; she...
View BookAuthor: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 2h 56m
This six-part comedy series was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1988. Hosted by Stephen Fry, accompanied each week by Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Emma Thompson and a selection of guests including Phyllida Law, Robert Bathurst, Julia Hills and Alison Steadman, the show takes the form of a round table discussion, interspersed with sketches which ve...
View BookAuthor: Colin Cotterill
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Author Colin Cotterill
Narrator Gareth Armstrong
SeriesDr. Siri Paibon, Book 1
Duration 7h 58m
Laos, 1976. The monarchy has been deposed, the Communist Pathet Lao have taken over. Most of the educated class has fled, but Dr Siri Paiboun, a Paris-trained doctor remains. And so this seventy-two-year-old physician is appointed state coroner, despite having no training, equipment, experience or even inclination for the job. But the job's not tha...
View BookAuthor: Douglas Reeman
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Author Douglas Reeman
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 10h 42m
From captured bases and makeshift harbours in North Africa, the Royal Navy's Special Force was to be the probe and spearhead of the Allied advance into enemy territory in 1943. To this unorthodox war came the corvette HMS Thistle and her commander, John Crispin - both veterans.
View BookAuthor: Dilly Court
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Author Dilly Court
Narrator Penelope Freeman
Duration 13h 28m
On a bitter winter's day, an unnamed girl lies dangerously ill in hospital. When two coarse, rough-speaking individuals come to claim her, she can remember nothing of the events that brought her to her present state, not even her name. According to the men, she is their young sister, Lucy. As her health improves and her memory gradually returns, sh...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Simon Brett
Duration 7h 25m
It wasn't the rain that upset Carole Seddon during her walk on the West Sussex Downs. It wasn't the dilapidated barn in which she was forced to seek shelter. No, what upset her most was the human skeleton she discovered there.... So begins the second investigation for strait-laced Carole and her more laid-back neighbour Jude. This time their enquir...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Egan
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Author Elizabeth Egan
Narrator Julia Whelan
Duration 11h 32m
In A Window Opens, beloved books editor at Glamour magazine Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our social-media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out) age. Like her fictional forebears Kate Reddy and Bridget Jones, Alice plays many roles (which she never refers to as "wearin...
View BookLet's Explore Diabetes With Owls
Author: David Sedaris
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Author David Sedaris
Narrator David Sedaris
Duration 6h 25m
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his listeners on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and...
View BookAuthor: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Inspector McLevy Mysteries Series 2, Book 3
Duration 43m
Brian Cox stars as McLevy with Siobh n Redmond as Jean Brash and Michael Perceval-Maxwell as Mulholland in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulh...
View BookSarah Millican's Support Group, Series 1, Episode 3
Author: Sarah Millican
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Author Sarah Millican
Narrator Various
SeriesSarah Millican's Support Group Series 1, Book 3
Duration 27m
Sarah Millican plays Sarah, life counsellor and modern-day agony aunt, in this BBC Radio 4 comedy series. Together with her team of 'experts', Sarah tackles the nation's problems head on, dishing out real advice for real people. In this episode, Sarah tackles the problems, 'I'm a clown with a secret' and 'Do age-gap relationships work: is 65 in sli...
View BookAuthor: J B Priestley
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Author J B Priestley
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h
This classic of British theatre opens with the engagement party of Sheila Birling and Gerald Croft, son of a prosperous businessman, in the imaginary city of Brumley. Into these celebrations enters Inspector Goole, who announces an unpleasant suicide: a young woman named Eva Smith has swallowed disinfectant and died. One by one he implicates all of...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 6h
This classic collection includes the following stories written by women: 'The Wronged Woman' by Winifred Holtby; 'The Violet Car' by E. Nesbit; 'The Legacy' by Virginia Woolf; 'Bliss' by Katherine Mansfield; 'Atrophy' by Edith Wharton; 'The Half-Brothers' by Elizabeth Gaskell; 'Marriage a la Mode' by Katherine Mansfield; 'Lappin and Lapinova' by Vi...
View BookAuthor: M.R. James
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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.
View BookHancock's Half Hour: A Sunday Afternoon At Home
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
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Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 30m
23 Railway Cuttings is a scene of boredom and inactivity as the occupants try to while away a British Sabbath in 'Sunday Afternoon at Home'. Featuring a star cast that includes Sid James, Bill Kerr, Warren Mitchell, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Fenella Fielding.
View BookAgatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden
Author: M. C. Beaton
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Author M. C. Beaton
Narrator Penelope Keith
Duration 6h
Left with bald patches thanks to the wicked doings of a murderer from a previous investigation, Agatha flees to the coastal resort of Wyckhadden to grow her tresses back in privacy. When a local witch provides her with hair tonic, Agatha's hair begins to flow - but the witch is found bludgeoned to death. The odd elderly residents who inhabit Agatha...
View BookTony Hill and Carol Jordan Book 6: Fever of the Bone
Author: Val Mcdermid
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Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesTony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 6
Duration 15h 3m
Meet Tony Hill's most twisted adversary - a killer with a shopping list of victims, driven by the most perverted of desires. The murder and mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own. But it's not long before Tony realises it's just the start of a brutal and ruthless campaign that's targeting an apparently unconnected gr...
View BookAuthor: Sharon Bolton
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Author Sharon Bolton
Narrator Lisa Coleman
SeriesLacey Flint, Book 3
Duration 11h 51m
A serial killer is being closely watched by one young boy. Barney knows the killer will strike again soon. The victim will be another boy, just like him. He will drain the body of blood, and leave it on a Thames beach. There will be no clues for detectives Dana Tulloch and Mark Joesbury to find. There will be no warning about who will be next. Ther...
View BookJack Reacher Series Book 8: The Enemy
Author: Lee Child
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Author Lee Child
Narrator Jeff Harding
SeriesJack Reacher, Book 8
Duration 14h 21m
New Year's Day, 1990. A soldier is found dead in a sleazy motel bed. Jack Reacher is the officer on duty. The soldier turns out to be a two-star general. The situation is bad enough, then Reacher finds the general's wife. This stomach-churning thriller turns back the clock to a younger Reacher, in dogtags. A Reacher who still believes in the servic...
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