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Author: Kate Atkinson
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Author Kate Atkinson
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 16h 24m
Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life, one of the top selling adult books of 2014, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy - would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband an...
View BookAuthor: Ferdinand Von Schirach
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Author Ferdinand Von Schirach
Narrator David Thorp
Duration 4h 30m
Ferdinand von Schirach's The Collini Case has been at the top of the German charts since publication and will be loved by all fans of Bernhard Schlink and John le Carre. A murder. A murderer. No motive. For thirty-four years Fabrizio Collini has worked diligently for Mercedes Benz. He is a quiet and respectable person until the day he visits one of...
View BookThe Code of the Woosters: Abridged
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 4h 58m
The sinister affair of the eighteenth century cow-creamer and the small, brown, leather-covered notebook tests the Wooster soul as it has never been tested before. Friends and relations, in urgent need, queue up to beg for assistance in a variety of troublesome situations, and ruthless enemies stop at nothing in their determination to bring Bertie...
View BookAuthor: Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Author Alfred Lord Tennyson
Narrator Joseph Millson
Duration 56m
Joseph Millson reads Alfred Lord Tennyson's 1855 dark and lyrical poem Maud in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the poet's birth in 2009. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the 'Classic Serial' slot on 26 July 2009 and repeated on 1 August 2009. A disturbed young man roams the windswept hills, haunted by his father's suicide and his moth...
View BookThe First Day of the Rest of My Life
Author: Martin Jameson
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Author Martin Jameson
Narrator Various
Duration 57m
A contemporary BBC Radio 3 drama about the events that occur to a man after he snaps one day at work. The First Day of the Rest of My Life stars Jonathan Keeble as the protagonist, and was originally broadcast as part of The Wire collection of dramas on 10 October 2009, and repeated on 2 October 2010. Toby has a bad day at work on the phones for Ca...
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 13h 46m
When Commander Dalgliesh is persuaded to visit the Dupayne, a private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, he can have no idea that he will return to it one week later. One of the family trustees has been horribly murdered, and Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator John Moffatt
Duration 6h 40m
The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings. So he was shocked when Poirot declared that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was coping with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?
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Author Various
Narrator Edward Fox, Joanna David
Duration 2h 35m
On the theme of love a second great collection of romantic short stories from yesteryear read by another husband and wife team Edward Fox and Joanna David. LOVE is a staple theme of many short stories and in this second off-beat selection from CSA it comes in many guises. There is love tragically thwarted by duty in Thomas Hardy's The Son's Veto; t...
View BookRonnie Barker's Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
Author: Ronnie Barker
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Author Ronnie Barker
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 58m
Here's a cornucopia of clever comedy, featuring sketches, monologues, poems and songs in this "sequential entertainment for radio". Among the sketches, Mr. Serpent, a sales rep in the Garden of Eden, tries to flog a knowledge course to Eve ("one bite and you're a Ph.D."). A doctor has to give some bad news, but gets more emotional than the patient,...
View BookBadgers In My Vest: Portrait of An Artist As A Young Dog
Author: John Fletcher
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Author John Fletcher
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
Badgers in my vest is a new, darkly funny play by an acclaimed contemporary playwright, based on a true incident in Dylan Thomas' life. Deemed unfit to fight in World War II, Dylan Thomas spends his time in Newquay in the local pub, cadging drinks, laughing at the Welsh behind their back and being outrageous. Privately, he is terrified, suffering n...
View BookAuthor: Chris Morris, Peter Cook
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Author Chris Morris, Peter Cook
Narrator Chris Morris, Peter Cook
Duration 49m
1994 saw one of Peter Cooks most acclaimed performances since his 1960's heyday. Chris Morris' surreal and inventive questions brought out the very best of eccentric aristocrat Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling - a character whom Cook had carried with him through Beyond the Fringe and Not Only.But Also.to his latter years. These five interviews recall St...
View BookAuthor: Henning Mankell
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Author Henning Mankell
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 15h 34m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The White Lioness by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett. In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation and no motive. Inspector Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. As Inspe...
View BookMaggie Hope Series Book 8: The Prisoner In the Castle
Author: Susan Elia MacNeal
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Author Susan Elia MacNeal
Narrator Susan Duerden
SeriesMaggie Hope, Book 8
Duration 10h 10m
World War II is raging, and former spy Maggie Hope knows too much. She knows what the British government is willing to do to keep its secrets. She knows the real location of the planned invasion of France. She knows who's lying. She knows who the double-crossers are. She knows exactly who is sending agents to their deaths.These are the reasons Magg...
View BookAuthor: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 25h 51m
The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married and produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title. Alone in her chamber at the Tower of London, Catherine hears ghostly voices; echoes, she thinks, of a crime committed in the same room...
View BookAuthor: Sjon
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Author Sjon
Narrator Daniel Pirrie
Duration 2h 40m
The year is 1883. The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop. We follow the priest, Skugga-Baldur, on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox. We're then transported to the world of the naturalist Friethrik B. Friethriksson and his charge, Abba, who suffers from Down's syndrome, and who came to his rescue when he was on the verge of disaster....
View BookA Man's Head (inspector Maigret)
Author: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 2h 56m
Nicholas Le Prevost stars as the French detective in four new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatizations These new adaptations of classic stories find Maigret recreating four memorable cases for his creator Georges Simenon. In 'Maigret: A Man's Head', a convicted man is allowed to escape, then followed by police investigating a double murder. Maigret fin...
View BookElephants To Catch Eels, Series 2, Episode 6
Author: Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
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Author Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
Narrator Sheridan Smith
SeriesElephants to Catch Eels Series 2, Book 6
Duration 28m
The BBC Radio comedy set in an 18th century Cornish village-written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain and produced by Jan Ravens. In Mother, there's a surprise for smuggler Tamsyn-and confusion aboard a boat to France. Stars Sheridan Smith. From May 2004.
View BookAuthor: Margaret Atwood
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Author Margaret Atwood
Narrator John Chancer
Duration 12h 35m
This novel moves beyond the futuristic fantasy of 'The Handmaid's Tale' to an even more dystopian world, a world where language has almost entirely vanished. Snowman seems to be the last man on earth, the only survivor of an unnamed apocalypse. Gradually the reasons behind the disaster begin to unfold as Snowman undertakes a perilous journey to the...
View BookAuthor: Lynne Truss
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Author Lynne Truss
Narrator Lynn Fairleigh
Duration 8h
A pre-Bridget Jones collection of comic journalism in the form of a guide to the life of a cat-owning modern single woman in her 30s. Truss struggles with procrastination, single bananas, unclear cooking instructions and the ungrateful (and occasionally homicidal) nature of cats.
View BookAuthor: Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
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Author Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Good Life, Book 2
Duration 1h 51m
Includes: 'The Thing in the Cellar', 'The Pagan Rite', 'Backs to the Wall', 'Just my Bill'. Four more original BBC television episodes of the much-loved classic sitcom starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith.
View BookLeo Waterman Series Book 1: Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca?
Author: G. M. Ford
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Author G. M. Ford
Narrator Jeff Harding
SeriesLeo Waterman, Book 1
Duration 9h 20m
A soft hearted sleuth with a rebellious streak, Seattle P.I. Leo Waterman gets entangled in every oddball situation. So when he's hired to locate Caroline Nobel, an errant mob heiress and landscape-loving activist, Leo finds himself following her into the rain-soaked Washington woods. But Caroline is being dragged deeper into the murky waters of en...
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