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Author: Pam Ayres
Author Pam Ayres
Narrator The Author
Duration 1h 55m
Writer, poet, entertainer and broadcaster, Pam Ayres has been delighting the nation with her mix of comic poetry, prose and droll observations on life for more than twenty years. This live recording of Pam's overwhelmingly popular stage show is the entertainer at her best. Pam Ayres' stage show has been a sell-out success throughout the world. With...
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Rugby Union: Wit, Wisdom & Mud
Author: Cliff Morgan
Author Cliff Morgan
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 8m
No game generates more passion, or stirs the emotions, like Rugby Union. No game enjoys itself more when the final whistle blows. And none has produced quite such a line of good talkers, on or off the subject. Here, from the BBC's unique Sound Archives, are memories of great teams, matches and tries, the wit and wisdom of some of the legendary char...
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Author: Andrew Cunningham
Author Andrew Cunningham
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 47m
The Making of Modern Medicine covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original sources from diaries, medical journals and stage satires to shed light on the experiences of physicians, surgeons, nurses and patients. From classical beliefs about illness that would dominate medical thinking for centuries, through to the...
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Author: BBC Audiobooks
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Hoggart Simon
Duration 2h 4m
A fourth volume of highlights from recent series of The News Quiz, presented by chairman Simon Hoggart. Since 1977, BBC Radio 4's funniest and quirkiest game show has been answering questions and offering wit and wisdom on global happenings, national news and quite frankly pathetic parochial events
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 56m
The Now Show is a topical comedy show recorded in front of a live audience and scripted up to the last minute. It stars Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis in a collection of sketches and routines based around recent news items and issues. Comedians Marcus Brigstock and Midge Benn provide additional support.
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Adam Hart-davis Presents the Eureka Years
Author: Adam Hart-Davis
Author Adam Hart-Davis
Narrator Adam Hart-Davis
Duration 1h 47m
Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the long history of science.
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Author: Al Read
Author Al Read
Narrator Al Read
Duration 1h 23m
Described by the Radio Times as 'a brilliant observer of the domestic scene, a master reporter of life as we know it', Al Read's weekly show drew audiences of 35 million during the 1950s and '60s. Born in Salford in 1909, Al started life as a sausage manufacturer, having inherited the family's meat-processing factory. His comedy developed from his...
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Be Creative: Essential Steps To Revitalise Your Work and Life
Author: Guy Claxton, Bill Lucas
Author Guy Claxton, Bill Lucas
Narrator The Authors
Duration 1h 11m
Creativity is a major economic force of the 21st century. In concise steps, Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas explain what `creativity' is and how creative thinking can be learned. Making use of exercises and case studies, the authors demonstrate essential skills for the workplace and show how developing creative ability can help us achieve harmony, balan...
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Author: Tony Benn
Series: The Benn Tapes, Book 1
Author Tony Benn
Narrator Tony Benn
SeriesThe Benn Tapes, Book 1
Duration 1h 54m
Now issued for the first time on audio, this is the first series of Labour MP Tony Benn's behind-the-scenes revelations from the highly acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series. Late each night for over twenty-five years the Labour MP and former Secretary of State Tony Benn sat alone and dictated onto audio his account of the daily events at the heart of gover...
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Author: Bob Monkhouse
Author Bob Monkhouse
Narrator Bob Monkhouse
Duration 1h 29m
Enjoy Bob's genius as a writer, stand-up comedian, chat-show host and compere as he looks back on a lifetime of laughs in a selecton from his most famous radio and television shows.
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Author: Sarah Litvinoff
Author Sarah Litvinoff
Narrator Sarah Litvinoff
Duration 1h 15m
Confidence is a much sought after, but often elusive, quality. Too often, when self-doubt creeps in we start to question every aspect of ourselves. In clear steps, through exercises and case studies, Sarah Litvinoff helps the listener develop their self-perception, both professionally and personally. She provides confidence-building techniques to p...
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Author: Dave Gorman
Author Dave Gorman
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 20m
Genius is the comedy series broadcasted on Radio 4, which sees Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest chew over ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions from the public. Genius invites listeners to air those incredible concepts that strike after one-too-many drinks at the pub - not necessarily ideas that are worthy or even very well though...
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 6m
This impressions show arrived on television in 2002, having made waves and become an incredible success as a BBC Radio 4 series. BBC Radio Collection's volumes of episodes from the radio series have been incredibly successful, and now this volume collects the best moments from the first BBC1 TV series.
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Author: Judith Holder
Author Judith Holder
Narrator Alison Steadman
Duration 2h 30m
We all know what it means these days to be a 'grumpy old man', because part of that role is to be outspoken. Well, we've heard just about enough out of the men, thank you very much. 'Grumpy Old Women' gives us the other perspective - the female take - on the million irritations of today's world. So what's the difference? Surely what is irritating t...
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Author: Alan Bennett
Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 1h 42m
The humorous and moving tale of Miss Shepherd, an eccentric old lady who, by a bizarre series of twists and turns, lived in the author's garden for many years.
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Author: Mark Tully
Author Mark Tully
Narrator Mark Tully
Duration 2h 33m
A compilation of Mark Tully's acclaimed reports from India includes his specially recorded observations. Sir Mark Tully was the BBC's Foreign Correspondent in India from 1972 to 1994. He has become familiar to listeners around the world for his incisive and thought-provoking reports. On this special recording, he looks back at his career that coinc...
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Author: Toby Hadoke
Author Toby Hadoke
Narrator Various
Duration 55m
A two-part BBC 7 adaptation of Toby Hadoke's sensational stand-up show about Doctor Who, fandom and one man's lifelong obsession.
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Author: Ross Noble
Author Ross Noble
Narrator Ross Noble
Duration 1h 51m
Perrier Award nominee Ross Noble has received huge critical acclaim and become known as an exciting and original talent in the UK. Now he takes his show worldwide, to destinations as diverse as Shanghai, South Africa, Ireland and Singapore. In Shanghai he marvels at the wonders of a thousand pensioners exercising in a park, visits a Buddhist temple...
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Author: Ross Noble
Author Ross Noble
Narrator Ross Noble
Duration 1h 52m
Perrier Award nominee Ross Noble has received huge critical acclaim and become known as an exciting and original talent in the UK. Now he takes his show worldwide, to destinations as diverse as Australia, Italy, Egypt and Belgium by day and entertaining the locals with his microphone by night. In the first episode, Ross travels to Brussels.... A Ci...
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Author: Dr. Jonathan Bardon
Author Dr. Jonathan Bardon
Narrator Dr. Jonathan Bardon
Duration 22h 49m
In the wake of its 30th birthday celebrations in 2006, BBC Radio Ulster marked the beginning of a new broadcasting era by embarking on the station's most ambitious project to date, the recounting of the history of Ireland! For easy digestion, and across the course of a year, the story of the island is told in a series of 240 short documentaries - s...
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Spike Milligan: The Parkinson Interviews
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Michael Parkinson
Duration 1h 8m
Presented by Michael Parkinson, this collection of interviews is taken from Spike Milligan's numerous appearances on Parkinson between 1972 and 1982. The subjects which Spike covers include his early years, his poetry and books, 'The Goons', and his relationship with the BBC.
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