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Author: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 5h 2m
Virginia Woolf's pioneering work on women in literature. An accessible yet fiercely astute essay, it is a crystallisation of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austen's pandering to a male writing style, to imagining the dreadful fate of Sh...
View BookActing On Impulse and Other Short Stories
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 50m
A selection of 11 light-hearted stories and a corner shop trilogy: 'Simpson' by Ian Mallender; 'Thirty Something' by Lynda Wakeling; 'Bubble Tennis'; 'Sixth Sense' and 'Acting on Impulse' by Pam Weaver; 'A Fitting Tale' and 'I've Got a Little Shop' by Joan Stanley; 'Do Computers Improve a Man's Image?' by Mike Stanley and 'Junk'; 'Number's Up'; 'Fu...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 3h
The following spooky vampire stories are given a spine-tingling read by Richard Pasco: 'The Mark of the Beast' by Rudyard Kipling; 'Aurelia' by E.T.A Hoffman; 'Ligeia' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'Mrs Amsworth' by E. F Benson and 'Dracula's Guest' by Bram Stoker.
View BookThe Drowned Church; the Lost Hotel; the Lady In the Lake; Hope Springs. Series: Pilgrim
Author: Sebastian Bacziewicz
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Author Sebastian Bacziewicz
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 54m
A series of four BBC Radio 4 modern-day fantasy adventures written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and starring Paul Hilton as Pilgrim. Pilgrim Series 2 was originally a weekly broadcast in the Afternoon Play slots from 31 August-21 September 2010. The plays in Pilgrim Series 2 are thrilling, dark and contemporary. They're set in a very recognisable, very...
View BookSaint Overboard & the Saint Plays With Fire
Author: Leslie Charteris
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Author Leslie Charteris
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 55m
Leslie Charteris' square-jawed, blue-eyed hero loved, fought and stole his way through Europe in the 1930s, endlessly pursuing blondes, baddies and boodle. Adored by women and feared by his foes, he was known as 'The Saint' after the calling card he left at the scenes of his crimes - a sketch of a stick figure with a halo.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 28m
When the Cowley sisters employ a carer to look after the ailing Carmela, Morag appears to suit their needs perfectly. But after a spectacular jewel theft on the night of the Hunt Ball, it appears that the perfect carer might be implicated...
View BookMuriel Spark: The Complete Short Stories
Author: Muriel Spark
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Author Muriel Spark
Narrator Various
Duration 17h 33m
From the cruel irony of A Member of the Family to the fateful echoes of The Go-Away Bird and the unexpectedly sinister The Girl I Left Behind Me, in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark coolly probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectability, displaying the acerbic wit and wisdom t...
View BookLogan Mcrae Book 4: Flesh House
Author: Stuart Macbride
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Author Stuart Macbride
Narrator Steve Worsley
SeriesLogan McRae, Book 4
Duration 12h 50m
The fourth thriller in the number one best-selling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. Panic grips the Granite City as DS Logan McRae heads up a manhunt for 'The Flesher' - one of the UK's most notorious serial killers. Twenty years ago 'The Flesher' was butchering people all over the UK - turning victims into oven-ready joints - u...
View BookAuthor: Jessica Knoll
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Author Jessica Knoll
Narrator Madeleine Maby
Duration 11h 47m
Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: a glamorous job at a glossy magazine; an enviable figure with the wardrobe to match; and a handsome fianc‚ from a distinguished blue blood family. But Ani FaNelli is an invention, that veneer of perfection carefully assembled in an attempt to distance herself from a shocking, sordid past. As her wedding draws...
View BookFather Brown Series 2 Episode 2: The Perishiing of the Pendragons
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Wisdom of Father Brown, Book 2
Duration 27m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, he has entertained generations. In 'The Perishing of the Pendragons', Father Brown learns to si...
View BookAuthor: Simon Passmore
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Author Simon Passmore
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
A fast-paced psychological thriller from BBC Radio 4's 'Saturday Play' slot, originally broadcast 26 March 2011. A city banker is found dead in an opulent apartment. At the funeral, his former girlfriend Helen is unexpectedly questioned about when she last saw him. Did he mention computer files, or give her anything as a keepsake? Helen's suspicion...
View BookAuthor: Esther Freud
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Author Esther Freud
Narrator Esther Freud
Duration 3h
Written through the eyes of a six-year-old girl, this semi-autobiographical novel tells the story of two sisters taken on the trail to Marrakesh during the late sixties by their well-meaning but impulsive hippy mother.
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 3h
A collection of eight classic horror stories: 'The Monkey's Paw' by W.W Jacobs; 'Timber' by John Galsworthy; 'The Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'The Squaw' by Bram Stoker; 'Martin's Close' by M.R James; 'The Man in the Bell' by W.E Aytoun; ' Caterpillars' by E. F Benson and 'A Tale of Terror' by Thomas Hood.
View BookI Will Finish With the Story of A Good Cat
Author: Anonymous
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Author Anonymous
Narrator Liza Goddard
Duration 1m
A short overture to the value of trusty animal friends, that also incorporates some historical interest and is a warming closer and thinking-point taken from CSA Word's 'Cats' collection'.
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Bacziewicz
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Author Sebastian Bacziewicz
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesPilgrim Series 2, Book 1
Duration 43m
The first play in Pilgrim Series 2, a collection of four BBC Radio 4 modern-day fantasy adventures written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and starring Paul Hilton as Pilgrim. The Drowned Church was originally broadcast in the Afternoon Play slot on 31 August 2010. What if all the myths and folktales of these islands were true? And what if they were not o...
View BookAuthor: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
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Author Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 26m
Wine shop owner Gerald desperately needs money: his business is failing and the landlord has raised the cost of the lease. When he inherits a watch that used to belong to wartime Nazi Joachim Von Ribbentrop he believes that his financial troubles are over. But it sparks conflict with his wife and brother, who question the ethics of the potential sa...
View BookThe Goon Show: The Case of the Missing Heir
Author: Spike Milligan
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Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 24
Duration 2h
Four previously unreleased episodes of the archive radio comedy, selected by Norma Farnes, Spike Milligan's biographer. The episodes are: The Case of the Missing Heir (11/1/55), The Secret Escritoire (27/9/55), The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy (24/11/58), The Dreaded Piano Clubber (26/12/86). Goon but not forgotten! From 1952 to 1960 the Goons rule...
View BookAuthor: Robert Harris
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Author Robert Harris
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 9h 43m
Set in Martha's Vineyard, 'The Ghost' tells the story of a writer who accepts the request to ghost-write the memoirs of Britain's former Prime Minister. He soon realises he has made a mistake. The ex-Prime Minister turns out to be a man with many secrets.
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Julian Glover
Duration 9h 47m
The year is 2021. No child has been born for a quarter of a century. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiatt, Warden of England, the old are despairing, the young beautiful but cruel.
View BookCousins' War Series Book 1: The White Queen
Author: Philippa Gregory
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Author Philippa Gregory
Narrator Susan Lyons
SeriesCousin's War, Book 1
Duration 15h 2m
Philippa Gregory-the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Parker Pen Novel of the Year The Other Boleyn Girl-delivers the first in a series of historical novels set during the tumultuous War of the Roses. This compelling tale of romance, rivalry, and revenge unfolds through the eyes of Elizabeth Woodville, the woman whose renowned beauty catapu...
View BookAuthor: Andy Mcnab
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Author Andy Mcnab
Narrator Paul Thornley
Duration 10h 30m
When a young trooper is shot in the head at the Regiment's renowned Killing House, Nick Stone is perfectly qualified to investigate the mysterious circumstances more deeply. He has just returned from Moscow - still trying to come to terms with the fact that his girlfriend and baby son are safer there without him - so combines an unrivalled understa...
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