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Author: Emily Bronte
Format: MP3 CD
Author Emily Bronte
Narrator Patricia Routledge
Duration 14h 15m
The new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before, the intense passion between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him. A classic tale of obses...
View BookAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
SeriesAdventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 2
Duration 202h 52m
Arthur Conan Doyle delivers crime mysteries of the most thrilling kind as sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson look for suspects in three stories: The Adventure of the Bruce Partington Plans / The Man with the Twisted Lip / The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
View BookAuthor: Frank L Baum
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Author Frank L Baum
Narrator Maureen Lipman
Duration 2h 3m
Dorothy and her little dog Toto befriend the Tinman, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion as they travel down the yellow brick road to the City of Emeralds. Maureen Lipman cackles splendidly as the Wicked Witch of the West in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of L. Frank Baum's famous and much-loved tale.
View BookAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
SeriesAdventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1
Duration 2h 50m
Arthur Conan Doyle delivers crime mysteries of the most thrilling kind as sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson look for suspects in three stories: The Adventure of the Empty House / The Adventure of the Devil's Foot / The Adventure of the Abbey Grange.
View BookAnna of the Five Towns, Complete Series
Author: Arnold Bennett
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Author Arnold Bennett
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 53m
A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Arnold Bennett's tale of love, tyranny and rebellion, 'Anna of the Five Towns'. Originally broadcast as the 'Classic Serial' in two parts on 6 and 13 March 2011. Brought up in the repressive tradition of Methodism by her miserly father, Anna Tellwright dreams of independence and freedom. On coming of age she learns th...
View BookAuthor: Frank L Baum
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Author Frank L Baum
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
Linda Marshall's BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of L. Frank Baum's children's classic, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Originally broadcast as part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season. When a tornado strikes her farmhouse in Kansas, young Dorothy and her dog Toto are lifted to the magical world of Oz, the strange land of the Munchkins. There she emba...
View BookAuthor: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
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Duration 1h 43m
Lady Windermere is jealous of her husband's interest in an older woman. The fact that the older woman just happens to be Lady Windermere's long-presumed-dead mother is just the beginning of this divinely funny comedy.
View BookAuthor: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator Rupert Graves
Duration 2h 52m
Haunting and poignant, the great Oscar Wilde's famous supernatural story of youth and age is narrated brilliantly by Rupert Graves. Wilde's only novel combines sparkling wit, social satire and luxurious description. Full of many of his most famous witticisms, it is essentially a novel about the lust for eternal youth versus the inevitable reality o...
View BookAuthor: Bram Stoker
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Author Bram Stoker
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 19m
Frederick Jaeger stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged of the legend that has haunted the imagination of millions for over a hundred years! Summoned to the forbidden heart of the Carpathian mountains, in the depths of Transylvania, Jonathan Harker journeys to Castle Dracula. There he becomes the unwitting prisoner of the mysterious nobleman w...
View BookThe Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
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Duration 1h 49m
Wilde's `trivial comedy for serious people' makes fun of the English upper classes with light-hearted satire and humour. The plot centres on the lives of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff who have both taken to bending the truth in order to add a dash of excitement to their lives. It all seems harmless enough but their deception is eventually di...
View BookAuthor: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Author Geoffrey Chaucer
Narrator Maxine Peake
Duration 1h 53m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde by poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw. One of the great works of English literature, this powerful, compelling story explores love from its first tentative beginnings through to passionate sensuality and eventual tragic disillusionment. Lavinia Greenlaw's new version for radio bring...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bronte
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Author Charlotte Bronte
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 9h 30m
Working as a Professor in Brussels, William Crimsworth meets the fascinating Directrice of the neighbouring school, Mlle Zoraide Reuter, and recognising her as an intellectual equal, becomes powerfully attracted to her. Despite the fact that she is betrothed to another, Zoraide cannot release her hold over William, and tries to stand in the way of...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 5h 45m
A workhouse orphan, Oliver escapes by running away to London. He gets drawn into the treacherous underworld of pickpockets and thieves headed by Fagin. His companions are ultimately destined for gruesome ends. Will Oliver emerge unscathed from the darkness of the underworld?
View BookAuthor: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator Jeff Bellamy
Duration 2h 20m
The well-intentioned, wealthy physician Dr Jekyll is fascinated by the duality of human nature. He discovers a drug which can separate the good and evil sides of his character. But can he stop his dark side, the hideous Mr Hyde, from taking control?
View BookAuthor: Emile Zola
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Author Emile Zola
Narrator Christoper Oxford
Duration 7h 30m
In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin Camille. The tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on an affair with her husband's friend Laurent, and their passion for each other soon causes the lovers to commit a shocking crime that will haunt the...
View BookRebecca: The Woman's Hour Serial
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
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Author Daphne Du Maurier
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 3h 14m
When Maxim de Winter brings his shy new bride to his beautiful stately home on the Cornwall coast, it seems like all her dreams have come true. But she soon finds that Manderley is haunted by the shadow of Maxim's first wife, Rebecca, who died the year before. As the hot summer fades, the mystery of Rebecca's death grows, weaving a spell of fear an...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Geoffrey Palmer
Duration 3h
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.
View BookAuthor: Christopher Marlowe
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Author Christopher Marlowe
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 59m
Edward, preoccupied by the banishment of his lover, Gaveston, barely acknowledges the nascent crises that threaten his realm. Chief among his critics is the morally righteous Mortimer, horrified by the king's criminal lapse of duty and yet able to countenance the further crime of taking arms against his king. As their enmity develops, and Mortimer'...
View BookPsammead Series Book 2: The Phoenix and the Carpet
Author: Edith Nesbit
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Author Edith Nesbit
Narrator Pam Ferris
SeriesPsammead, Book 1
Duration 2h 45m
Five children discover a mysterious egg in an old carpet. When it hatches a golden phoenix is brought to life. The phoenix explains that the carpet possesses magic qualities, and so the children embark on a series of fantastic adventures as the carpet transports them to many magical places.
View BookSherlock Holmes His Last Bow, Volume 2
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Various
SeriesSherlock Holmes: His Last Bow, Book 2
Duration 2h 55m
Includes: The Dying Detective, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, The Devil's Foot and His Last Bow.
View BookPride and Prejudice: The Woman's Hour Serial
Author: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Patricia Hodge
Duration 4h 1m
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." When Mr Darcy comes to stay with his friend Bingley at Netherfield, Lizzie Bennet is as repulsed by his arrogance and pride as he is by her younger sisters and her mother. Their unusual and antagonistic courtship foems a warmly pe...
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