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Author: Andy Hamilton
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Author Andy Hamilton
Narrator Jimmy Mulville
Duration 2h 47m
Andy Hamilton's hell-ariously entertaining complete 3rd series of this most excellent Radio 4 award winning comedy. Satan may rule the roost, but he's beset by the poor unfortunates condemned to sit out Eternity with him. Amongst them is the Professor, who is convinced that societies evolve and mature until Satan introduces him to Bill Clinton. The...
View BookAuthor: Richard Curtis
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Author Richard Curtis
Narrator Various
Duration 57m
Dickens' classic tale of kindness, truth and virtue completely ruined by having a member of the Blackadder family involved. Stuffed with deeply horrible people and groaning with cartloads of seasonal bottom jokes, it manages to squeeze a Victorian Blackadder and his Elizabethan, Regency and Space Age relatives into a huge pie of entertainment which...
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 9h 40m
The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads h...
View BookAuthor: Jeffery Deaver
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Author Jeffery Deaver
Narrator Various
Duration 17h 22m
This collection of short stories from king of suspense Jeffery Deaver grips with every page. An aging actor attempts to revive his career by entering a celebrity poker game for a reality TV show. A successful crime writer dies under seemingly natural circumstances, but for one cop, doubts are lingering. Lincoln Rhyme is at the end of the line, or i...
View BookThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Author: J R R Tolkien
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Author J R R Tolkien
Narrator Rob Inglis
Duration 20h 1m
Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power - the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring - the ring that rules them all - which has fallen into t...
View BookA History of the World In 10 1/2 Chapters
Author: Julian Barnes
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Author Julian Barnes
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 10h 54m
A History of the World in 10 and 1/2 Chapters tells a series of apparently unconnected stories ranging from a woodworm's-eye-view of the journey on Noah's Ark to an astronaut's quest for its final resting place. There is pastiche and learned disquisition; there is heart-stopping documentary and heart-lifting revelation. But these stories are not se...
View BookAuthor: Katie Fforde
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Author Katie Fforde
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 9h 15m
Emily is happy with her life just as it is. But she also feels it's time for a change. So when her best friend Rebecca asks whether she'd like to spend the summer cooking on a "puffer" boat just off the Scottish coast, she jumps at the chance. But she finds herself with a lot on her plate. Rebecca is heavily pregnant and is thrilled to have her fri...
View BookAuthor: S. J. Watson
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Author S. J. Watson
Narrator Imogen Church
Duration 14h 30m
She loves her husband. She's obsessed by a stranger. She's a devoted mother. She's prepared to lose everything. She knows what she's doing. She's out of control. She's innocent. She's guilty as sin. She's living two lives. She might lose both . . .
View BookFather Brown Series 1 Episode 3: The Eye of Apollo
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Innocence of Father Brown, Book 3
Duration 26m
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 Eye of Apollo', a villain turns detective, a new religi...
View BookAuthor: Tom Basden
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Author Tom Basden
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesParty Series 2, Book 3
Duration 27m
Series 2 of the satirical BBC Radio 4 comedy written by Tom Basden In this third episode, 'Prison Ain't All That Bad', the student politicians use prison-based TV shows as inspiration for forming their policy on crime and punishment. Starring Tom Basden, Tim Key, Jonny Sweet, Ann Crilly and Katy Wix. Produced by Julia McKenzie.
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 20m
The brave warrior Macbeth allows himself to be persuaded by his wife, Lady Macbeth, to slay good King Duncan and seize the throne of Scotland for himself. Macbeth achieves his ambition, but one murder proves not to be enough. Sinister supernatural forces are at work in this tragedy of guilt and retribution.
View BookAuthor: Jane Green
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Author Jane Green
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 12h 7m
Step inside the home of Holly Mac and meet her successful, distinguished husband Marcus, notice how beautiful her home is and how gorgeous her children Daisy and Oliver are. You might say they are the perfect family, but you would be very wrong. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE/ ADULT THEMES
View BookAuthor: Andy Hamilton
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Author Andy Hamilton
Narrator Jimmy Mulville
Duration 2h 48m
Satan's got the health inspector in and it seems that the lighting in hell isn't up to scratch but that's the least of his worries, with bad Feng-Shui, no sleep and some atrocious poetry not even Helen of Troy can perk up his day. Another hex-allent series from one of the writers of Revolting People and Trevor's World of Sport.
View BookA Classical Education: The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught At School
Author: Caroline Taggart
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Author Caroline Taggart
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 4h 56m
Is the Greek alphabet all Greek to you? Is geometry your Achilles heel and does your knowledge of Homer have more to do with The Simpsons than the Sirens? From engineering and architecture to drama and democracy, the world around us is founded on the principles and discoveries of the Ancient World, yet our understanding of it is episodic at best. S...
View BookAuthor: Richard Curtis
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Author Richard Curtis
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 50m
In Blackadder the Third, the fortunes of the family have plummeted rather with Blackadder employed as butler to the Prince Regent. With such an imbecilic Lord and master, however, there's plenty of scope for deviousness and manipulation.
View BookAuthor: Flann O'Brien
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Author Flann O'Brien
Narrator Jim Norton
Duration 6h 43m
A thriller, a comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt, this audiobook is comparable only to 'Alice in Wonderland' as an allegory of the absurd.
View BookAuthor: Dick Francis
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Author Dick Francis
Narrator Tony Britton
Duration 10h 4m
'Sadly, death at the races is not uncommon. However, three in a single afternoon was sufficiently unusual to raise more than an eyebrow.' It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion jockey Halley knows the perils of racing all too well - but in his day, jockeys didn't usually reach t...
View BookAuthor: Neil Gaiman
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Author Neil Gaiman
Narrator Sanjeev Bhaskar
Duration 2h 32m
Matthew Beard and Sophie Rundle star in a brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the bestselling novel by Neil Gaiman, narrated by Eleanor Bron. Challenged to retrieve a fallen star, Tristran Thorn leaves the sleepy English village of Wall and crosses into the land of Faerie and the realm of Stormhold. Locating the star, he discovers it i...
View BookAuthor: Harlan Coben
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Author Harlan Coben
Narrator Ed Sala
Duration 10h 44m
Doctor David Beck's wife, Elizabeth, was murdered, each year they met at the same deserted lake to rediscover their love-until the terrible year when Elizabeth was kidnapped and David was knocked unconscious. She was found dead, and horribly mutilated. Eight years later David receives an e-mail telling him to visit a website and use a password that...
View BookAuthor: Gill Sims
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Author Gill Sims
Narrator Gabrielle Glaister
Duration 11h 7m
Why Mummy Drinks is the brilliant novel from Gill Sims, the author of the online sensation Peter and Jane. It is Mummy's 39th birthday. She is staring down the barrel of a future of people asking if she wants to come to their advanced yoga classes, and polite book clubs where everyone claims to be tiddly after a glass of Pinot Grigio and says thing...
View BookAuthor: William Peter Blatty
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Author William Peter Blatty
Narrator Robert Glenister
Duration 1h 54m
Robert Glenister and Ian McDiarmid star in a gripping BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of William Peter Blatty's classic horror novel. 'When a radio play is this good, the devil really is in the details' Radio Times Summoned to a case of apparent possession, Father Karras is at first sceptical, then horrified. The victim -a 12-year-old girl named Regan -...
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