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Author: Elizabeth Aston
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Author Elizabeth Aston
Narrator Phyllida Nash
Duration 11h 54m
A richly entertaining recreation of Regency London, as the next generation of Darcy girls have to make their way in a society that doesn't always appreciate their wit, determination and sense of fun. This is the story of Cassandra, a young cousin to the children of Mr and Mrs Darcy of 'Pride and Prejudice'. She's a worthy heir to them in every way...
View BookPatrik Hedstrom Book 8: Buried Angels
Author: Camilla Lackberg
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Author Camilla Lackberg
Narrator Robin Bowerman
SeriesPatrik Hedstrom, Book 8
Duration 13h 16m
YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE PAST Easter 1974. A family vanishes from their home on an idyllic island off the Swedish coast. They have left everything behind - including their one-year-old daughter, Ebba. Now, years later, Ebba has returned to the island. She and her husband have suffered the loss of their only child and are looking to make a fresh start....
View BookDiamond Rings Are Deadly Things
Author: Rachelle J Christensen
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Author Rachelle J Christensen
Narrator Kirsten Potter
SeriesWedding Planner Mystery, Book 1
Duration 9h 29m
Adrielle Pyper knows how to plan a wedding, and she is especially good at pleasing "bridezillas." But when her biggest client and best friend is murdered just three days before the wedding, Adri's world falls apart. She moves to the resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho, and starts from scratch. Thanks to Adri's impeccable taste and unique style, she la...
View BookAuthor: Frances Fyfield
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Author Frances Fyfield
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 7h 35m
A year after her husband's death, young widow and art collector Diana Porteous listlessly roams the beach near her home. Her friend and agent Saul takes action, introducing her to his stylish, anarchic sister, Sarah, to pep her up. They plan that Di should rediscover her talents as a thief, as well as art expert, to recover stolen paintings - and b...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 1
Duration 2h 17m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple, the sharp-witted spinster sleuth. In the sleepy little English country village of St Mary Mead, all is not as it seems. Under a seemingly peaceful exterior lurks intrigue, guilt, deception - and murder. Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing landowner, is the...
View BookAuthor: Nick Mohammed
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Author Nick Mohammed
Narrator Nick Mohammed
Duration 28m
The fourth play from 'Nick Mohammed in Bits', the BBC Radio 4 series of comic plays showcasing the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters. Originally broadcast 21 September 2010. In this final play, lifestyle guru 'Mr Swallow' presents his memory technique to a live studio audience.
View BookA Brief Misunderstanding and Other Short Stories
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 52m
Fourteen amusing stories involving a brief misunderstanding: 'A Friendly Holiday' by Nina Tucknott; 'A Chip off the Old Block' by Pat Hope; 'The Only Girl for Me' by Lynda Wakeling, 'A Home Improvement Loan' by Nina Tucknott; 'A Brief Misunderstanding' by Elizabeth Carr, 'A Day Trip to Paris' by Joan Stanley, 'The Orange Bandanna' and 'Birthday Blu...
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 2h 35m
These seven stories are about mysterious events from real life. What happened to the woman who checked into a Paris hotel and then disappeared? Why did flight 19 never return? And will the ghosts of Borley Rectory ever rest in peace?
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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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.
View BookAuthor: Rosemary Sutcliff
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Author Rosemary Sutcliff
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Eagle of the Ninth, Book 1
Duration 1h 53m
Around 117 AD the Roman Ninth Legion was ordered to put down an uprising among the Caledonian tribes. Four thousand men vanished without a trace into the swirling mists of the north of Roman Britain. Many years after their disappearance, a young centurion, Marcus Aquila, sets out to discover the truth about what happened to the legion and to its Fi...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Lynn
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Author Jonathan Lynn
Narrator Various
SeriesYes Minister, Book 2
Duration 1h 47m
Four episodes of machinations and manipulation from the classic BBC political satire. Jobs for the Boys/The Right to Know/Doing the Honours/The Devil You Know The sustained dry wit of the dialogue and the wonderful interplay between the three main characters; Jim Hacker, Sir Humphrey and Bernard Wooley; made Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay's satirical...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 2
Duration 4h 44m
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. When Poirot arrives in France, following an urgent appeal for help, he finds he is too late. His client, a South American millionaire, has been stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Meanwhile the millio...
View BookDoctor Who: The Resurrection Casket
Author: Justin Richards
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Author Justin Richards
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 25m
Starfall - a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come - for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining. O...
View BookThe Deportees and Other Stories
Author: Roddy Doyle
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Author Roddy Doyle
Narrator Hugh Lee
Duration 7h 21m
For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for 'Metro Eireann', a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in today's Ireland. The stories range from 'Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner', where a father...
View BookAuthor: Robert Harris
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Author Robert Harris
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 13h 54m
When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The sen...
View BookAuthor: Belinda Bauer
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Author Belinda Bauer
Narrator Andrew Wincott
Duration 9h 50m
Jack's in charge, said his mother as she disappeared up the road to get help. I won't be long. So eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters wait on the hard shoulder in their stifling, broken-down car, bickering and whining and playing I-Spy until she comes back. But their mother doesn't come back. She never comes back. And after that long hot summe...
View BookAuthor: Sue Townsend
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Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Rob Crossan
Duration 5h 54m
Sue Townsend, creator of the much-loved Adrian Mole series, tells a compassionate and gritty story of love and loss in Ghost Children. Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The child's father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by the loss and retreated from the world. However, when he makes a horrifying discovery on the heath,...
View BookAuthor: Patrick Suskind
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Author Patrick Suskind
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 8h 42m
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odour he cannot capture. It...
View BookAuthor: Carola Dunn
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Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Bernadette Dunne
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 1
Duration 6h 38m
This first installment of a cozy mystery series transports listeners back to the bygone era of 1923 Britain, where unflappable flapper and fledgling journalist Daisy Dalrymple daringly embarks on her first writing assignment-and promptly stumbles across a corpse. No stranger to sprawling country estates, wealthy Daisy Dalrymple is breaking new grou...
View BookAuthor: Frances Fyfield
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Author Frances Fyfield
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 9h 10m
In a huge old school house by the sea, full of precious paintings, Thomas Porteous is dying. His much younger wife Di holds him and mourns. She knows that soon, despite her being his sole inheritor, Thomas's relatives will descend on the collection that was the passion of both of their lives.And descend they do. The two needy daughters, who were po...
View BookAuthor: Bettina Gracias
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Author Bettina Gracias
Narrator Sagar Radia
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama about a young Pakistani boy forced into bonded labour in a carpet factory at the age of four, and who became a figurehead for the Bonded Liberation Movement aged eleven. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 25 February 2009, and repeated on 18 January 2011. Despite the valiant efforts of many, there are stil...
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