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Author: Mark Twain
Author Mark Twain
Narrator Stuart Milligan
Duration 40m
Three of Mark Twain's classic short stories, originally broadcast in the Afternoon Reading slot on BBC Radio 4 from 9-11 November 2010, to accompany the Autobiography of Mark Twain (aired on Book of the Week). Read by Stuart Milligan. Twain's classic short stories, with their familiar trademarks of high farce and droll insight, bring us eccentric b...
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Author: Edith Wharton
Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 45m
Edith Wharton displays typical expertise in this portrayal of high society tensions. Jane Lethbury surprises and confounds her husband in asking him to let her adopt a baby.
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Author: Fay Weldon
Author Fay Weldon
Narrator Julie Christie
Duration 3h 8m
These UNABRIDGED short stories largely depict middle-class human relationships within and outside the family written with biting satire, irony, much humour and a pervading sadness.
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Author: G K Chesterton
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...
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Alice Hanging In There: Episode 2 of the Greengrocer's Apostrophe Series
Author: Ronald Frame
Series: The GreenGrocer's Apostrophe Series, Book 2
Author Ronald Frame
Narrator Tracy Wiles
SeriesThe GreenGrocer's Apostrophe Series, Book 2
Duration 13m
Alice, Hanging in There is the second of three comic tales from BBC Radio 4's The Greengrocer's Apostrophe, inspired by those hand-written signs offering "Apple's and Banana's" which can be found in every town in Britain. Originally broadcast in the Afternoon Reading slot on 29 September 2010. When Alice's high-flying career stalls, she finds a nov...
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Author: James Joyce
Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 35m
Little Chandler, the story's protagonist, is unhappy in his family life as a father and husband. The arrival of a successful friend further amplifies his feelings of inadequacy and despair, making him think about what he would have liked to do, and why it is that he lacks the courage to make the career that he dreams of. A train-of-consciousness st...
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 46m
CSA Word continues its ever-popular series of classic short stories, featuring writers such as Jerome K. Jerome, Louisa May Alcott and Saki, read by such respected and revered readers as Derek Jacobi, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.
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Author: John Buchan
Author John Buchan
Narrator Iain Cuthbertson
Duration 30m
A soldier becomes obsessed with his enemy equivalent in wartime - the German soldier who has his same serial/conscription number as himself. As he drives himself mad with contemplation, through the soldier's thoughts Buchan presents the human reality of war - young men killing young men, who share similarities, interests, characteristics and dreams...
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Author: Kate Chopin
Author Kate Chopin
Narrator Rupert Degas
Duration 6m
A woman sits in a dusky room with a man from whom she hopes to illicit a marriage proposal. However, an uninvited interloper comes and disrupts her well-laid plans, and throws the potential arrangement into uncertainty...in a very unexpected and even amusing fashion!
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Author: Kate Chopin
Author Kate Chopin
Narrator Rupert Degas
Duration 14m
A young woman gives her true love, a soldier, her locket before he goes away to war. Promising he will always keep it safe, when the locket returns but the young man does not, the young woman's world falls apart...but the twist in the tale will move even the steeliest listener's heart.
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Author: M.R. James
Author M.R. James
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 26m
When the orphaned Stephen moves to with his wealthy Uncle Abney, he finds himself haunted by a pair of ghostly children. It seems that the ghosts, a gypsy boy and an orphaned girl, had been staying at Abney's house when they met their untimely ends. Is Abney responsible, and if so what could it have to do with his obsession with immortality?
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Author: M.R. James
Author M.R. James
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 43m
Martin's Close is a classic ghost story by M R James, about a young woman infatuated, who seems to reappear when all believe she has been brutally murdered.
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Author: M.R. James
Author M.R. James
Narrator Robin Bailey
Duration 23m
A classic ghost tale by M R James. A ghoulish revenge is enacted within a work of art, before the helpless eyes of a museum curator in Oxford.
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Author: Various
Series: Murder Most Foul, Book 1
Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesMurder Most Foul, Book 1
Duration 2h 25m
Horrible, gruesome, strange and fantastic, some of the best murder stories ever written. Some of the greatest crime stories ever written are brought together on a superb collection that will have listeners on the edge of their seats... wondering if they might be next!!! Who's that outside the door... or is it just the wind??
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Author: Oscar Wilde
Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 14m
Worthy but penniless Hughey Erskine is horrified by his painter friend's heartless attitude to the tramp posing for a portrait. Hughey gives the tramp money, only to learn there has been a mixup which may set Hughey back further from marrying his adoring fianc‚e.
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Author: Alan Sillitoe
Author Alan Sillitoe
Narrator Janet Mcteer
Duration 13m
A woman aged 70 whose husband had died recently decides to go on holiday in the car to the battlefields of Northern France as she had done so many times before with Victor. She visits a restaurant and sits very close to an elderly Britsh couple. The man becomes very abusive towards his wife and she feels very embarrassed to be English. However, she...
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Author: Rudyard Kipling
Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 11m
Lispeth is an Indian girl, orphaned when her Christian-convert parents succumb to Cholera. Taken on as a chaplain's wife's servant/companion, Lispeth grows into a handsome young lady. One day whilst out on a walk, she rescues an unconscious young Englishman, who she determines will be her future husband. However, racial prejudices and caste systems...
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Author: Rudyard Kipling
Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 13m
Kipling story which appeared as part of Plain Tales from the Hills - Strickland, a police officer with a deep knowledge of the local Indian people falls in love with Miss Youghal but her parents don't approve of the match.
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Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
Author Sabine Baring-Gould
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 33m
A young man's suicide doesn't put paid to a young lady's ideas of going to a dance, despite the derision of her chaperone, who suspects that she is, at least in part, to blame. On the journey, a great breeze whips up in the ladies' carriage, and the young lady suffers a mishap, and auditory hallucinations...what is happening, and can it be explaine...
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The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion
Author: Thomas Hardy
Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 42m
A tale by Hardy, master of human tragedy, about a girl's sacrifice for her long-engagement and her doomed love for a visiting soldier.
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Author: Mark Twain, F Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker, Various
Author Mark Twain, F Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker, Various
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 52m
A wonderful selection of stories to make you laugh, cry and shiver! Featuring stories from Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saki amongst a great many famous others, this collection is a must for anyone who enjoys listening to a wide variety of stories from a diverse range of voices.
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