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Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 42m
The 'little cleric from Essex' Father Brown features in this intriguing detective story from master of twists and turns G. K. Chesterton. A man's body is found in a passage, and the suspect must be found. But what motive could have possessed someone to kill in such cold blood? A listener will find out...with a few unexpected surprises along the way...
View BookAuthor: Dick Francis
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Author Dick Francis
Narrator Tony Britton
Duration 9h 10m
Computer whizzkid Peter Keithley, asked to transfer a betting system onto computer tape, dies shortly afterwards. An old friend of his, Jonathan Derry, finds himself in possession of the tapes and discovers that there are greedy, desperate men who will do anything to get their hands on the lucrative software. The evil, bull-faced Angelo goes too fa...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 12m
Poirot has always hated visiting the dentist, but this time his check-up is painless and soon over. As he leaves Mr. Morley's surgery, he observes a woman wearing patent leather shoes with large buckles. She catches one of the buckles on the taxi door and wrenches it off, and as Poirot hands it back, he is reminded of the children's rhyme "One, two...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Trigell
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Author Jonathan Trigell
Narrator Russell Boulter
Duration 7h 50m
A is for Apple. A bad apple. Jack has spent most of his life in juvenile institutions, to be released with a new name, new job, new life. At 24, he is utterly innocent of the world, yet guilty of a monstrous childhood crime. To his new friends, he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexpected violence. To his new girlfriend, he is strangely i...
View BookAuthor: David Hewson
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Author David Hewson
Narrator Saul Reichlin
Duration 14h 7m
Kim and Mia Timmers were just eleven years old when they were imprisoned in a local psychiatric institution, accused of murdering the man they believed to be responsible for the death of their family. Now, ten years later, they are due for release.Detective Pieter Vos is given cause to re-open the case when the girls disappear. His investigation ta...
View BookAuthor: Alex Owen, Ben Ashenden
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Author Alex Owen, Ben Ashenden
Narrator The Authors
Duration 3h 43m
Join Alex and Ben - aka The Pin - in their weird twist on the double-act sketch show. The Pin are a multi-award-winning comedy duo with a unique brand of self-reflexive comedy. Performed in front of a live studio audience, their sketches exist somewhere between razor-sharp smartness and joyous silliness. Expect sketches, commentary on the sketches,...
View BookAuthor: David Mitchell
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Author David Mitchell
Narrator William Rycroft
Duration 15h 15m
An apocalyptic cult member, a jazz buff in Tokyo, a woman on a holy mountain, a burnt-out lawyer, a Mongolian gangster, a redundant spy, a despondent 'zookeeper', a nuclear scientist, a ghostwriter, a ghost, and a New York DJ are all tenuously connected. All of them have tales to tell, and all must play their part as they are caught up in the inesc...
View BookFather Brown: The Blue Cross and Other Stories
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 1h 49m
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. Here, the High Priest of detection becomes involved in four int...
View BookParty: Series 2: Complete Series
Author: Tom Basden
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Author Tom Basden
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 50m
Series 2 of the satirical BBC Radio 4 comedy written by Tom Basden Simon, Jared, Duncan, Mel and Phoebe are idealistic students who want to change the world - so they decide to set up their own political party, meeting in their leader's garden shed. In this second series, they try to get recognition and publicity, get to grips with technology, use...
View BookAuthor: Spike Milligan
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Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 28
Duration 2h 2m
Four more classic episodes starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan. More surreal clowning from one of the greatest comedy teams on radio. Goon but not forgotten! In these episodes, Neddie attempts to swim across the Regent's Park Canal with the help of a bottle of green liquid, the Russians force a satellite into the ionosphere (fi...
View BookSarah Millican's Support Group: Complete Series 1
Author: Sarah Millican
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Author Sarah Millican
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 51m
Sarah Millican plays Sarah, life counsellor and modern day agony aunt, in this BBC Radio 4 comedy series. She wants you to live life to the utmost, and she's got tons of ideas of how to help in the same way as the busybody at the end of your street who knows everything and dishes out advice whether you want to hear it or not. Assisted or hindered b...
View BookAuthor: Henrik Ibsen
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Author Henrik Ibsen
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 2h 10m
Hedda Gabler, a deceased General's daughter, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of tedium ahead. Increasingly she is drawn into the clutches of her admirer, Judge Brack. Then a former flame arrives to rival her husband for an academic post. Stars Juliet Stevenson as the passionate Hedda.
View BookAuthor: Ian Mcewan
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Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 12h 33m
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will h...
View BookBest of Women's Short Stories 1
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Harriet Walter
SeriesBest of Women's Short Stories, Book 1
Duration 4h 43m
The first in CSA WORD's series of brilliant and strong women's stories. With stories from such female greats as Elizabeth Gaskell and Katherine Mansfield, this collection should appeal to women and men alike, with a strong and varied selection of stories by and about women.
View BookDoctor Who: The Taking of Chelsea 426
Author: David Llewellyn
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Author David Llewellyn
Narrator Christopher Ryan
Duration 5h 2m
The Chelsea Flower Show - hardly the most exciting or dangerous event in the calendar, or so Doctor thinks. But this is Chelsea 426, a city-sized future colony floating on the clouds of Saturn, and the flowers are much more than they seem. As the Doctor investigates, a familiar foe arrives, and the stakes suddenly get much higher. The Sontarans hav...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 12m
Miss Marple is totally shocked to receive a letter from the recently deceased Mr. Rafiel, an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. The letter leaves instructions for Miss Marple, whom Mr. Rafiel had recognised as a natural detective, to investigate a crime after his death. There are absolutely no details about the crime, however, nothing...
View BookAuthor: Gerald Seymour
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Author Gerald Seymour
Narrator Andrew Wincott
Duration 10h 57m
Barney Crispin, SAS Captain, is sent urgently to the Afghanistan border on the direct order of the Foreign Secretary. His mission is to organise the destruction of one of the new Soviet helicopters and to bring its secret parts back to Britain.
View BookDI Fawley Series Book 2: In the Dark
Author: Cara Hunter
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Author Cara Hunter
Narrator Lee Ingleby
SeriesDI Fawley, Book 2
Duration 11h 28m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of In the Dark by Cara Hunter, read by Lee Ingleby and Emma Cunniffe. A woman and child are found locked in a basement room, barely alive. No one knows who they are - the woman can't speak, and there are no missing persons reports that match their profile. The elderly man who owns the house claims he has never...
View BookHereward the Wake; Revolution; Guy Fawkes
Author: Thom Tuck
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Author Thom Tuck
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Penny Dreadfuls Collection, Book 2
Duration 2h 24m
Comedy trio The Penny Dreadfuls recount the story of the much-maligned Macbeth, revisit Odysseus' epic journey and reveal the truth behind Darwin's famous voyage The Penny Dreadfuls - Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck - are a comedy trio who specialise in retelling historical events in their own, inimitable way. In these riotous revisionist pl...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Brookmyre
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Author Christopher Brookmyre
Narrator Sarah Barron
Duration 11h 16m
From the award-winning author of Pandaemonium. In Glasgow, aspiring actress Jasmine Sharp is reluctantly-and incompetently-earning a crust working for her uncle Jim's private investigation business. When Jim goes missing, Jasmine has to take on the investigator mantle for real. Soon she stumbles into a web of corruption and decades-hidden secrets t...
View BookClare In the Community Series 8&9
Author: Harry Venning
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Author Harry Venning
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 7m
Sally Phillips stars as Clare in this sparkling collection of 13 comic episodes. Clare Barker, the social worker with all the politically correct jargon but none of the practical solutions, returns in these 13 episodes, which includes a special instalment recorded live at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. As if the upheaval of moving offices and embra...
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