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Mark Twain's the Mcwilliamses and the Burglar Alarm
Author: Mark Twain
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Author Mark Twain
Narrator Stuart Milligan
Duration 13m
A classic short story by Mark Twain, originally broadcast in the Afternoon Reading slot on BBC Radio 4 on 9 November 2010, to accompany the Autobiography of Mark Twain (aired on Book of the Week). Read by Stuart Millligan. This is the first of three of Twain's classic short story broadcasts featuring the McWilliamses, with his familiar trademarks...
View BookMark Twain's the Experience of the Mcwilliamses With Mark Twain's the Experience of the Mcwilliamse
Author: Mark Twain
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Author Mark Twain
Narrator Stuart Milligan
Duration 13m
A classic short story by Mark Twain, originally broadcast in the Afternoon Reading slot on BBC Radio 4 on 10 November 2010, to accompany the Autobiography of Mark Twain (aired on Book of the Week). Read by Stuart Millligan. This is the second of three of Twain's classic short story broadcasts featuring the McWilliamses, with his familiar trademark...
View BookAuthor: D. W. Wilson
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Author D. W. Wilson
Narrator Trevor White
Duration 27m
Simmering tensions come to a head as three friends take a road trip across Canada. Animal Brooks wants Vic, but Vic and Duncan are an item. Violence threatens when a playful dig from a stranger pushes Duncan to react... The BBC National Short Story Award 2011 is managed in partnership with Booktrust.
View BookAuthor: Alison Macleod
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Author Alison Macleod
Narrator Tim Piggot-Smith
Duration 27m
The fictionalised recreation of Denis Noble's 'eureka moment': the point at which the pioneering biologist came to understand the machinations of the human heart. The BBC National Short Story Award 2011 is managed in partnership with Booktrust.
View BookAuthor: M J Hyland
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Author M J Hyland
Narrator Mike Sengelow
Duration 24m
Set in 1960s Sydney, the presence of a luxurious liner seems to offer Trudy and her young husband, James, a tantalising opportunity to fulfil their dreams... The BBC National Short Story Award 2011 is managed in partnership with Booktrust.
View BookAuthor: James Joyce
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Author James Joyce
Narrator Stephen Rea
Duration 7h 25m
The young poet Stephen has been recalled from Paris to Dublin to be at his mother's deathbed. But he refuses her dying wishes: to kneel and pray for her. Now, holed up in his Martello tower outside the city walls, he has to suffer the taunts of Buck Mulligan by day and, by night, the vision of 'her eyes, shaking out of death to shake and bend my so...
View BookAuthor: John Grisham
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Author John Grisham
Narrator John Grisham
Duration 8h 41m
In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A TIME TO KILL. Featuring a cast of characters you'll never forget, these stories bring Ford County to vivid and colourful life.
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 12h 30m
'The Irish do love telling stories, and we are suspicious of people who don't have long, complicated conversations. There used to be a rule in etiquette books that you should invite four talkers and four listeners to a dinner party. That doesn't work in Ireland, because nobody knows four listeners' Maeve Binchy. Maeve Binchy's bestselling novels n...
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 1h 4m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of William and Mary, a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. Read by Juliet Stevenson and Adrian Scarborough. In William and Mary, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wrong...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Stephanie Beacham
Duration 32m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Way Up to Heaven, a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. read by the actress Stephanie Beacham. In The Way Up to Heaven, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a woman o...
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Adrian Scarborough
Duration 1h 8m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Royal Jelly, a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. Read by Oliver-award-winning actor Adrian Scarborough. In Royal Jelly, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a husband a...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Coe
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Author Jonathan Coe
Narrator Jonathan Coe
Duration 33m
Pentatonic, written and read by Jonathan Coe, is a daring and original story about family and memory, originally inspired by the accompanying music from Danny Manners. When a family celebrates the prize-giving day at their daughter's secondary school, thoughts turn to their own childhoods. The father remembers his living room piano recital, recorde...
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 55m
From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected audiobook of his darkest stories, read by Juliet Stevenson, Cillian Murphy, Adrian Scarborough, Tamsin Greig, Stephanie Beacham and Andrew Scott. 'There is a pleasure sure in being mad, which none but madmen know' Our greatest fear is of losing control - of our lives, but, most...
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Various
Duration 10h 13m
From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected audiobook of his darkest stories, read by Mark Heap, Derek Jacobi, Richard E Grant, Gillian Anderson, Shane Rimmer, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Jessica Hynes. We fall not in love but in lust . . . Lust, in all its myriad forms, consumes us. What won't we do to achieve our heart's des...
View BookAuthor: Giovanna Fletcher
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Author Giovanna Fletcher
Narrator Giovanna Fletcher
Duration 3h 10m
A bundle edition of two fabulously festive Christmas stories- Dream a Little Christmas Dream: Sarah's doing great. Okay, her dreams might still be totally bananas but real life is definitely back on track. She's got a fantastic job, amazing friends and plans to spend all Christmas wrapped up with Brett, her handsome boyfriend. But after another nig...
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Sophie Okonedo
Duration 17h 55m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Only This, a short, gripping story of life in wartime from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale. Read by the actress Sophie Okonedo. In Only This, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells of a mother restlessly waiting for her bomber crewman son to return form a raid...
View BookAuthor: John Updike
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Author John Updike
Narrator John Updike
Duration 2h 49m
John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the hundred-odd he has published. "A&P", recounting a moral crisis on the checkout counter, is his most anthologized story. "Pigeon Feathers," the longest story included, tells of a fourteen-year-old boy's fear of death and the answer he finds. "The Family Meadow" describes a piece of America, a...
View BookA Cat, A Hat and A Piece of String
Author: Joanne Harris
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Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Thomas Judd
Duration 8h 1m
Stories are like Russian dolls; open them up, and in each one you'll find another story.' Conjured from a wickedly imaginative pen, here is a new collection of short stories that showcases Joanne Harris's exceptional storytelling art.Sensuous, wicked, mischievous, uproarious and wry, here are tales that combine the everyday with the unexpected;wil...
View BookAuthor: John Buchan
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Author John Buchan
Narrator Iain Cuthbertson
Duration 10m
A short and dark story about three men, a father and two brothers, who make their living by poaching and other such illegal activities and are 'hard drinkers and quick fighters'. When tragedy strikes, the reaction of their community is not necessarily what they may have expected. An intense and brief study of a moody setting and unsettling characte...
View BookAuthor: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 10m
The Kipling story Kidnapped was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on March 21st 1887, in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection.
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 18m
Two sisters, Edith and Maud, are both in love with Saumarez. They have "a strong likeness between them in look and voice", and it is only a matter of time before they are mistaken for each other by the unlucky man. This was one of Rudyard Kipling's earlier tales, and made its first appearance in 'Plain Tales From the Hills', one of his celebrated c...
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